i thought y'all might enjoy this little tale concerning the
robustness of debian:
so the rains came and the water eeked into our office until it
was about six inches deep. two machines were on the floor; a
windo~1 xp e-machines box, and a debian/gnu linux (an old acer,
of all things).
rest assured, i realize that this must almost certainly be a
hardware issue, and yet-- six inches of water comes up to
waist-deep for most any floor-bound cpu, no?
this was a week ago wednesday -- after the receding tide
vanished, the windo~1 box when plugged in would light up its
optical mouse sensor, but NO other signs of life -- no cpu fan,
no hd spin-up, no LED under the power button... they've swapped
the motherboard but it apparently also has some borkedness in
the power supply. any day now...
but the debian box, and i swear the cpu fan was under water
acting as a mini boat-prop, was STILL OPERATING when saturated
with H2O.
we unplugged it unceremoniously, of course, as we were standing
in six inches of water with electrons running about.
but it's back up and serving quite nicely. both nic's are fine,
as well.
how about THEM apples? :)
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I use Debian/GNU Linux version 2.2;
Linux server 2.2.17 #1 Sun Jun 25 09:24:41 EST 2000 i586 unknown
DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #45 from Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Troubled by DOS-FORMAT TEXT FILES? There are many ways
to get rid of the extra ^M characters. In VIM, try
:set ff=unix
before saving the file (":opt" for more info); or, use perl:
perl -pi.dos -e 's/\cM//g' filename*pattern.txt
("perldoc perlrun" for more info.)
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