do
> this when you buy the disks; a Good Thing IMO.
Which is even more attractive (for US residents) now that SPI is a
registered non-profit organisation.
Every time I order Debian CDs I make at least a $10 donation to SPI.
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h, is that
the amanda package seemingly doesn't contain the dependency information
for these files.
Is this a configuration problem on my part? Do I need to source
/sbin/dump and create /var/lib/dumpdates? Is it something fixed in a
later version of amanda? Or something else?
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ross this one in a net search.
Been very happy with it ever since; in fact, typing "telnet" on my M$
box now brings this baby up instead :-)
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and completion can quickly become your
friend. You can get more information on the bash manpage (if your pager
can search, try searching for Completing), but it's far more intuitive
than a dry explanation can put across. Just try it out.
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enough. Can you give
an example of what reasonable presentation would be needed to convince
you on this matter?
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anyone has an onus to provide more.
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that key. Don't trust whatever
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rhkra...@gmail.com writes:
> On Wednesday, June 20, 2018 10:25:25 PM Ben Finney wrote:
> > In other words: Yes, it's inconvenient, but it's because *no one can
> > know* with confidence any more whether that key has been compromised.
>
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at is common to those, and absent for
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ntly bad for it to be replaced. Otherwise it stays,
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d.
You can read each news item at the above URL to find out more.
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ipated your wish to know, and provided a concrete example of
the hostility. Did you read the discussion at that URL?
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at ‘testdisk’ did the last time
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https://tuhdo.github.io/emacs-tutor.html>.
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> I, too, am interested in other peoples views on this.
Hope that helps.
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Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 09:22:28AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> > No, that quote was not made by Sir Stephen Henry Roberts. (If you
> > know differently, could you please provide a reference?)
>
> Uhm, why do you post in pu
in any Debian discussion forum. Please stop.
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cted.
There are likely others, but that seems enough to answer the question.
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a but you |
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o sell video cards – who tries to deny us that freedom.
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Doug writes:
> On 07/18/2017 07:18 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> >> Doug [2017-07-18 13:25:34-05] wrote:
> >>> My point is that most of the folks who complain about code not
> >>> being free to modify are not capable of modifying it, so why do
> >>> th
nt to the cinema, it said ‘Adults: $5.00, Children $2.50’. |
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nt that we should know?
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iling list,
nor individual posters, to second guess you on that.
This has all been hashed out here in the past many times, but it is good
to refresh the references and facts again.
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to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it |
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nything else.” —Winston Churchill, 1954-11-09 |
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re SMS messages as well, indeed.
SMS probably does not count as a decentralised system in the sense the
original poster is seeking.
> Google Voice
Google's services are highly centralised to a single vendor.
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themselves
EPub?
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Kushal Kumaran writes:
> Ben Finney writes:
>
> > Dan Ritter writes:
> >
> >> However, you probably don't need to go that far. EPUB is HTML
> >> in a ZIP file. Unzip it, then deal with HTML as you wish.
> >
> > Many EPub files that I find,
solution to mountains of waste is not more |
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e thread
of discussion :-)
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urrently who are also using non-free software.
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laugh |
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ld boy, and I'll bet he |
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Stephen Allen writes:
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 10:00:03AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> > Especially when patches are needed, you shouldn't expect those
> > patches to apply to anything except the exact upstream version. The
> > work of a Debian package maintainer inclu
ordered)
Does that proxy question suffice?
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a judgment after you have |
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task.
(Good sigmonster, have a cookie.)
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software
freedom generally.
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tails so we can know better
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Joe Pfeiffer writes:
> Ben Finney writes:
>
> > The policy for Python in Debian requires that “/usr/bin/python’ is
> > the default Python 2 interpreter, and ‘/usr/bin/python3’ is the
> > default Python 3 interpreter.
> >
> > There is no “default Python
hould I? He never reads any of mine.’” —Spike |
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ll read this email.
You know better now.
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and is ‘[’.
The corresponding “collapse all items within this one” command is ‘]’.
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g run, the utility of all non-Free software |
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rectly.
That's what determines which package should receive the bug report.
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pgrade!
See https://bugs.debian.org/819703> for the existing report, and
ensuing discussion.
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t recorded in a bug report :-)
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r to release, how can you claim surprise when they aren't fixed in
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Jessica Litwin writes:
> HAMMER TIME!
In the name of lve!
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r text editors make your life better.
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