ot return anything.
Try grep -i - it's officially spelled TiMidity++ because it was designed
to play MIDI files. (I see you're using BSD parameters to ps - that
should work, although since I was raised on SysV I say "ps -ef".)
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ll running a patched version of
Jessie; "cat /etc/debian_version" returns "jessie/sid". Both are 64-bit
systems.
Do I need to upgrade my laptop?
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If you have a self-cleaning oven, I think they get up to 900F during
their cycle. Don't tell your wife. :-)
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system (in my case ext4), and that gives it a performance edge.
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On Sun, 17 Jun 2018 04:44:45 +0100 Dominic Knight sent:
> On Sun, 2018-06-17 at 08:41 +1000, Charlie S wrote:
> >
> >
> > After contemplation, my reply is:
> > I suppose they still have a
> > twirling
> > thingy on the monitor while the machi
bose as well. However, it was hardly verbose. Very
secretive that O/S.
Startx works a treat. May it be long available. But may there also be
choice, for those who wish to go another way.
Be well,
Charlie
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ow these? It has been a long time since I put
anything but one Debian operating system on a disk. Also probably in
ways that are not necessarily correct or required.
Sorry I can't help you more.
Charlie
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, though.
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On Thu, 31 May 2018 10:42:17 +1200 Richard Hector sent:
> On 30/05/18 11:12, Charlie S wrote:
> > On Tue, 29 May 2018 14:22:08 + (UTC) Curt sent:
> >
> >> On 2018-05-29, Charlie S wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I wonder how one discovers what file m
On Wed, 30 May 2018 07:14:45 +1200 Ben Caradoc-Davies sent:
> On 29/05/18 13:46, Charlie S wrote:
> > On Tue, 29 May 2018 13:26:37 +1200 Ben Caradoc-Davies sent:
> >> On 29/05/18 13:08, Charlie S wrote:
> >>> Hello Everyone,
> >>> Suddenly my fil
Siard had the right way of it. My file manager window was too
small and the spin control hidden. The reason that this is,
because I have some files that have long names and there is a
huge gap between the Name - [huge gap] -Size - Type etc..
So thank you
On Tue, 29 May 2018 11:47:58 -0500 David Wright sent:
> On Tue 29 May 2018 at 22:27:43 (+1000), Charlie S wrote:
> > On Tue, 29 May 2018 11:51:31 +0200 Siard sent:
> >
> > > > But when I go Ctrl-O when in Kate or Lyx the order is
> > > > reversed.
On Tue, 29 May 2018 14:22:08 + (UTC) Curt sent:
> On 2018-05-29, Charlie S wrote:
> >
> > I wonder how one discovers what file managers there are installed on
> > this system. I suppose have to name each one and see which are
> > installed that way.
>
&
On Tue, 29 May 2018 15:14:35 +0200 Siard sent:
> Charlie S wrote:
> > It must be an idiosyncrasy of FVWM, that it doesn't show that little
> > spin control there?
> >
> > I just tried it again in both programs to be certain. There is
> > nothing there, and
gers are installed to see which one
might be being used and need configuring. All those requests come up
empty.
I wonder how one discovers what file managers there are installed on
this system. I suppose have to name each one and see which are installed
that way.
No joy yet.
Thank you for y
On Tue, 29 May 2018 13:26:37 +1200 Ben Caradoc-Davies sent:
> On 29/05/18 13:08, Charlie S wrote:
> > Hello Everyone,
> > Suddenly my file managers show the files in reverse order to
> > the norm, i.e directories on top and individual files
> > beneath. Don't k
is was
would be appreciated.
TIA
Charlie
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- Ralph Waldo Emerson
there is a separate /usr partition
that some things, with systemd, like my backlight on the monitor
receives an error message, which mine does?
Once the O/S is installed with all that is used, the configuration
files from home just kick in automagically? Or so it has been for
myself.
Charlie
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, there's always good old xpdf. A bit clunky perhaps,
but it comes with the distro and works reasonably well.
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rowser cache files when backing up /home.
But for now it works well enough, and is still much faster than cp.
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dumbs things down.
I also read the question, as referring to, why does a Desktop
Environment dumbs things down?
My error.
Charlie
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Debian GNU/Linux - Magic indeed.
-
know nothing of writing code and am
probably now to old to learn.
So yes, thank you for what you do. The difference it makes to my life
is huge. I do think about, and thank everyone for what I have on this
machine which is 10 years old now and s
legalizes marijuana. A police officer checks
whether people in a car are stoned:
Officer: You've been sitting here for a long time. What are you doing?
Driver: Uhhh... I'm waiting for the stop sign to turn green.
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their ally in that). Don't
help them, they are powerful enough as-is.
Now that Trump wants to execute drug dealers, why doesn't he go after
the operators of these sites? They're just as addictive as opioids - or
alcohol, or tobacco... wait, he should be going after them too!
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iginal look and
feel, as well as (for me) reliability.
https://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/
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t ISO 8601 is apparently beyond
what its feeble mind can handle, and Excel leaves it alone.
A lot of my programming effort goes toward "Excel-proofing" my data.
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of
something they really don't understand.
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..
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at the same point. Can't be forced on
from there.
The "intel" part might be a clue?
I have installed without doing anything with eufi or whatever, and also
forcing GRUB to make it's own eufi path.
No joy.
Any thoughts and help would be appreciated to attempt at the next
install.
T
it to scan using xsane, and after
setting it up in CUPS it prints with no problems. Dunno about Windows,
but my wife's Macbook accesses it just fine too.
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iate time
could read something like: if you wish to continue using a wifi
connection after reboot, please edit /etc/network/interfaces [give an
example] or install network manager or whatever helper to do this?
Just a thought
Charlie
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On Sat, 24 Feb 2018 15:28:37 -0500
m...@neidorff.com wrote:
> This may or may not be helpful to Charlie, but others might find it
> helpful
>
>
For the sake of others with a similar problem with the stock kmail
from within debi
"wlan0" for old times sake. [laughing]
Then used;
ifup wlp6s0
in a terminal, which is the way I always bring up the internet.
Hope that helps, though it might be a bit primitive.
Charlie
uration file.
After contemplation, my reply is:
Thank you,
Learnt something else. I was still using fvwm2rc.
Charlie
DuckDuckGo (https://duckduckgo.com), MapQuest
(https://www.mapquest.com), etc.
So do not think that we all here on the other side like google or facebook.
My machine is now a Google-free zone (and Facebook-free, etc.).
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: What's the difference between a sadist and a masochist?
A: A masochist says, "Beat me." A sadist says, "No."
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Apologies if this turns out to be a duplicate message. I tried to send
to the list using my problematic Kmail client (and a message appeared
in my sent mail folder) but so far I don't see it having posted when I
look at the web archives for
escaped now, so please feel free. Here's hoping it's not badly
needed too often.
I'm still chuckling about "the entomological leviathan that is Windows."
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x -B -O wav
I like ISO 9660 better than CD-DA. But it is always a good feeling when
the riddles get less and the insight grows.
My CD player, however, likes CD-DA much better. Insists on it,
actually. :-)
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>
> I've deleted just about everything in your post because I do not know
> whether it is redistributable. Would you please clarify?
>
> --
> Brian.
After contemplation, my reply is:
[quote] man xz can be quite educational ;-) [end quote]
Is there something wrong with that?
Charlie
On 17/01/18 11:38 AM, Darac Marjal wrote:
On 17/01/18 02:17, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>
On 16/01/18 12:15 PM, david...@freevolt.org wrote:
Is there a natural law or something, that every email message sent
must contain at least one distracting error that is totally beside the
point?
Anyw
y."
"Out" means "My transmission is finished; I do not expect a reply."
One more distracting error... :-)
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On 14/01/18 03:00 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> "I suspect most samba developers are already technically insane...
> Of course, since many of them are Australians, you can't tell."
> -- Linus Torvalds
It's probably the exposure to Windows that does it.
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ver since.)
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meday Buster will be the stable release. A name is always
associated the the same release number. The one exception is "Sid",
which is always the unstable release. (Those of you who have seen _Toy
Story_ will know why.)
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sites will convert to MP4 and you can download the video.
One of my favourite sites has disappeared, but lots remain.
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On 19/12/17 09:45 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 09:36:11AM -0800, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>
Follow-up: I've just come across MP3 files in my collection for which the
new mplayer _does_ display the tags. Maybe it's just becoming more picky -
which isn't really a Good Th
On 19/12/17 09:15 AM, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
On 19/12/17 12:12 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 01:48:13PM -0800, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
I'm a heavy user of mplayer from the command line - it's a wonderful
utility that does what I want [...]
There are config files
On 19/12/17 12:12 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 01:48:13PM -0800, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
I'm a heavy user of mplayer from the command line - it's a wonderful
utility that does what I want [...]
There are config files for mplayer; the Debian mplayer puts them
in /etc
oes anyone know of a way to make
the new version behave like the old one?
aTdHvAaNnKcSe...
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it to get the desired
result. That could have been because my expectation was, it would be
straight forward. So probably my fault.
Charlie
it might be worth.
I didn't have to compile Seamonkey; I just downloaded the binary from
https://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/
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Hello,
Can somebody explain why packages for Nagios existed in Jessie but have gone
from Stretch?
Is weird as there are support packages just not Nagios itself.
Thanks
Bell & Clements
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On Wed, 9 Aug 2017 22:48:37 -0700
David Christensen <dpchr...@holgerdanske.com> wrote:
>On 08/09/17 21:47, Charlie Kravetz wrote:
>>
>> It almost sounds like the panel is too long for the monitor. The clock
>>
. Clock breaks.
>
>
>Looking in /var/log and dmesg, I don't see any clues.
>
>
>Any suggestions for figuring out why Clock is broken and how to fix it?
>
>
>David
>
It almost sounds like the panel is too long for the monitor. The clock
is disappearing off the end of
On Sat, 5 Aug 2017 08:58:39 + (UTC) Curt sent:
> On 2017-08-05, Charlie <taoques...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> but I'm an old cat, and you know what they say about that
> >> combination!
> >
> >
> >> JP
> >
> >
> but I'm an old cat, and you know what they say about that combination!
> JP
No, what do they say about that combination
a BIOS setting, but I hit F12 during the
startup process to choose the boot device.
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this,
>
>dan
>
Xfce pulls the menu from the .desktop files in /usr/share/applications
and ~/.local/share/applications .
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Never let anyone st
device name eth1 change to what?
>
>how to config network in strech?
>
Open a terminal, type
ip addr
hit ENTER
it will show you the device names. Normally, it starts with 1: lo . The
next one should be either eth1 or whatever name has replaced it now.
Good luck.
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L
gt;
>
When replying to the mailing list, hit reply. Do not use "Reply to
All", since that sends individual emails to the person you are
answering. Most people are members of the mailing list, and do not want
individual emails. If there is a "Reply to mailing list", it is o
er quit CM with Q, it's not too difficult to imagine
> accidentally hitting at the same time, causing the result you
> saw.
After contemplation, my reply is:
Brad that's how I quit the programs that obey that shortcut:
Ctrl + Q.
More knowledge. Thank you.
Charlie
On Fri, 26 May 2017 19:54:31 -0700 Joe Ennis sent:
> On Fri, 26 May 2017 20:27:46 -0500
> Michael Milliman <michael.e.milli...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > On 05/26/2017 08:22 PM, Charlie S wrote:
> > > On Fri, 26 May 2017 20:09:41 -0500 Micha
and
after that again.
I can't recall going there, but must have done so without watching and
as you have correctly stated, turned on "collapse quotes".
Maybe when I wanted to view a All headers on a couple of emails last
night.
Thank you again,
Charlie
On Fri, 26 May 2017 20:09:41 -0500 Michael Milliman sent:
> On 05/26/2017 08:00 PM, Charlie S wrote:
> [...]
> This is interesting. The post that you are quoting is one of mine.
> On my system, the [...] do not appear. I do show some excerpting
> earlier in the email, but I'm
with these:
[...]
[...]
[...]
or is it some configuration in my Claws-Mail?
Anyone else seeing this?
TIA
Charlie
LTS team. It depends on the
repo, I think.
https://wiki.debian.org/LTS
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o 0. Windows and
>its download manager used to easily work with such erratic internet, but
>in linux it was not. Today its quite well managed internet service in
>India the erratic behavior is under acceptable level but still wget
>issue for me remains the same.
>
>Regards,
>Ashok
On 14/04/2017, deloptes <delop...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Charlie wrote:
>
>> It doesn't matter. This system needs to be reinstalled, so I won't
>> bother with updates and upgrades and when I reinstall it, I will
>> remove exim4 right from the word go and see how that
On 14/04/2017, deloptes <delop...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Charlie wrote:
>
>> /var/log/exim4/paniclog has non-zero size, mail system possibly broken
>
> This is common for exim .
> 1. check the paniclog
> 2. take actions if needed based on 1.
> 3. remove paniclog
>
On 14/04/2017, Joe <j...@jretrading.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Apr 2017 10:35:42 +1000
> Charlie <taoques...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Received this on attempted upgrade:
>>
>> systemctl status exim4.service
>> ● exim4.service - LSB: exim Mail Transport
On 14/04/2017, deloptes <delop...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Charlie wrote:
>
>> /var/log/exim4/paniclog has non-zero size, mail system possibly broken
>
> This is common for exim .
> 1. check the paniclog
> 2. take actions if needed based on 1.
> 3. remove paniclog
>
On 14/04/2017, songbird <songb...@anthive.com> wrote:
> Charlie wrote:
>> Received this on attempted upgrade:
>>
>> systemctl status exim4.service
>> ● exim4.service - LSB: exim Mail Transport Agent
>>Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/exim4; generated; vendo
: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
Process: 9436 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/exim4 start (code=exited,
status=0/SUCCESS)
Assume nothing I can do? Something that needs to be done higher up the scale?
Can't uninstall or purge exim4 either.
Be well,
Charlie
t.)
>
>2017-04-04 19:13:58 root@jesse ~
># ll /var/log/dmesg
>-rw-r- 1 root adm 31 2017/02/21 21:52:40 /var/log/dmesg
>
>
>Any suggestions for troubleshooting this?
>
>
>David
>
On my dual video Lenovo thinkpad T520, I had this same issue. I deleted
all the nvidia vide
fully
customized when wanted, yet does not need to run in a big window.
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On Wed, 11 Jan 2017 11:52:30 -0500 Ric Moore sent:
> On 01/11/2017 03:02 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Charlie wrote:
> >> mount: /dev/sr0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
> >> mount: special device /dev/sr0 does not exist
> >
l look at the BIOS and see what is to
be seen there.
Not using that drive hardly at all. I'm not too worried, but it just
seemed a strange thing to happen.
Thank you both for your help.
Charlie
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On Wed, 11 Jan 2017 13:09:59 +1100 Charlie sent:
> Hello,
>
> Debian testing 4.6.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.6.4-1 (2016-07-18) x86_64
> GNU/Linux
>
> Suddenly have a CDROM problem:
> $ mount /media/cdrom
> mount: /dev/sr0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
>
] unresponsive?
Obviously have done something wrong.
Any help to get this CDROM working again, appreciated.
Charlie
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and error. ;-)
After contemplation, my reply is:
Mistakes? Evolution is a gradual tweaking of adaptation. Revolution
makes mistakes. [laughing]
Charlie
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On Fri, 06 Jan 2017 20:39:38 +0100
solitone <solit...@mail.com> wrote:
>On Friday, January 6, 2017 5:48:18 AM CET Charlie Kravetz wrote:
>> If you suspend to RAM, then hibernate, what happens if you do not
>> suspend to RAM fir
ibernate rather than suspend, and resume the system in few seconds.
>
If you suspend to RAM, then hibernate, what happens if you do not
suspend to RAM first?
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;
> Oops! I just noticed a solution was already given and accepted. Sorry
> for the noise.
>
> Grx HdV
After contemplation, my reply is:
No noise, but helpfulness.
Thank you,
Charlie
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fan to run continuously at maximum speed.
>Noise &/or power consumption is not important.
>
>2. What/where is this "missing file"? Any diagnostic suggestions?
>
>TIA
>
ThinkWiki has been a great resource for me and my T520. It has sources
for special drivers as wel
t;
>Have you found any that aren't preloaded with Windows?
>
This company has a preloaded USB stick that is the entire computer -
http://www.fit-pc.com/web/
They will preload any OS, Linux, Mac, Windows.
I have not personally tried these.
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it can't use display 10:
>If pi tries to run synaptic-pkexec, it asks for the root pw, I enter it,
>and something in polkit-1 screams because I am not the logged in user.
>
>The paranoia about denying the user, root or otherwise, the ability to
>run a decent package manager is wearin
That is one network access point, yes. However, where I am, I get about
10 of those, and must then read down to
ESSID:
to find the name. Each access point grouping starts with
Cell 0?
so by skipping to each new Cell number, I can find the next access
point to verify if it is mine.
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key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
There is no closing bracket.
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oot directory. I thought the limit
was 128 files/directories, but I could be wrong. I believe the limit
was when using FAT 16. FAT 32 raised this limit, but I don't remember
the numbers, since by then I was using sub-directories to insure never
hitting the limit.
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re I go from there.
Thank you again for your help. It's very much appreciated.
Stay well,
Charlie
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o2
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Version '10:3.1.1-dmo2' for 'libavformat57' was not found
Thanks again for your help.
Charlie
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E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be
caused by held packages.
I assume that I might have missed a bug report on a update/upgrade? So
I will just have to purge libswresample2, and libavutil55 (>= 10:3.1.2)
Thank you for your help.
Charlie
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rent message, but it looks like "normal"
>Chromium console spam; I'm not sure I've ever had a nontrivial Chromium
>session with no console messages.)
>
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> The Wanderer
>
>The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
>persists in trying to adapt the
the proper place to reset something?
>
>Don MacDougall
>
It's a new version of Xfce. The missing boxes are located in :
Settings -> Desktop -> Menus
Desktop Menu -> Include applications menus on desktop right click
Window List Menu -> Show window list menu on desktop middle cli
;everything comes up normally into XFCE4 desktop. Synaptic menus still
>refuse to drop down. Thanks all, Ric
It sounds like GTK3 themes is taking over. I had a similar situation,
by removing all GTK3 themes, I was able to get GTK2 theme installed. It
gave me back those menus and the proper spa
ly is:
I use vi.
In my ~/.config/mc/mc.ext I have
include/editor
Open=%var{EDITOR:vi} %f
and
# Default target for anything not described above
default/*
Open=%var{EDITOR:vi} %f
View=%var{EDITOR:vi} %f
Maybe that will assist you.
Be well,
Charlie
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at it does but it does take a little of the mystery out of
> the name.
After contemplation, my reply is:
A little mystery is welcome.
Like in FVWM, not everything should be known, just named/labelled so we,
and others, know of what we speak or sign. The description is
ever
On Tue, 13 Sep 2016 19:18:50 -0400 Neal P. Murphy sent:
> On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 09:00:51 +1000
> Charlie <ariest...@ipstarmail.com.au> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 13 Sep 2016 09:31:36 -0600 Joe Pfeiffer sent:
> >
> > > > Kernel IP routing table
> > >
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