On Tue, 12 Jan 2016 15:10:57 -0500 Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote:
>On Tuesday 12 January 2016 11:36:52 Brian wrote: > >> On Mon 11 Jan 2016 at 21:25:16 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> > On Monday 11 January 2016 13:30:41 Brian wrote: >> > > C'mon. At the very least you have >> > > >> > > https://packages.debian.org >> > > >> > > for what archives have and the wiki for telling you how to use >> > > backports. Help others to help you by helping yourself. >> > >> > Snotty attitudes don't cut it, and neither does that site. The >> > search engine is apparently set to scan for jessie(stable) only, or >> > at least it returns zero results for wheezy. And once you have used >> > the search, you >> >> We in the Snotty Brigade hand out fishing tackle, not fish. We are >> pleased to see the policy has appeared to work in your case. > >ROTFLMAO! And my apologies for my own attitude caused by all the >frustrations I've encountered the last week or so. > >I had that coming I guess, but that site is just different enough to >confuse this old fart. > >I did figure out how to make synaptic make use of wheezy-backports, so I >said to myself, I can't make it any worse, so I let it install over 300 >pkgs from backports. Other that tar, its running better than it has in >quite a spell, although I understand Lisi is holding her breath because >I've gone someplace that even angels don't. We'll see I guess, but like >the guy who said he was going to live forever, so far, so good. I can, >at 81, and despite a pulmonary embolism that came very close to punching >my ticket out of here at the end of May 2014, can also say so far so >good. Most of the time. > >If I had known at 20 that I was going to live this long, I sure would >have taken better care of me. > >This, from a guy who was a geek before the word was invented, I quit >school in 1948 to go see if I could fix these newfangled things called >televisions, and I "had the knack", and its incurable. I am glad it >wasn't, because of pure serendipity, I've left my fingerprints in some >unusual, one of a kind places over the last 67 years, like the tv >cameras that were on the Trieste in Feb, 1960 when it went down into the >mohole. > >But the combo of age, and hard to define aspects of the P-E with its >potential for mini-strokes, has me asking questions of you kind folks >that 30 years ago I would have written the code to find my own answers >to. And as you can imagine, its frustrating. > >The rest as they say is history. > >Cheers, Gene Heskett I am "only" 62, and run into many of the same things. I would only hope if I make 80, I can still function on my own. -- Charlie Kravetz Linux Registered User Number 425914 [http://linuxcounter.net/user/425914.html] Never let anyone steal your DREAM. [http://keepingdreams.com]
