the source in the destination, creating and
deleting files and directories as necessary.
UTimes, hardlinks, softlinks, devices, permissions,
and flags are mirrored.
Flags are explicitely mentioned here. Maybe you can give
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an addition: In regards of what "sudo" does, see "super"
(it's in the ports, same category as sudo). It allows a fine
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current one is 8.2.
For details, see:
http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/CURRENT/relnotes/index.html
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d, the DVD #1 will be a
good tool (as a DVD-capable drive should be assumed as common
equipment today).
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work). You can also go the following road: Install 8.2-RELEASE,
do a source upgrade to 9.0-BETA and update your system
from source. You'll find details in the FreeBSD Handbook
and in /usr/src/Makefile's comment header.
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possible,
maybe just a bit complicated in special cases (e. g. as
the P1 server I mentioned does not even have USB, only
a CD-ROM drive), but _POSSIBLE_, which may be fully
sufficient in some cases. So "old iron" can still be
a valueable citizen of the IT infrastructure. :-
paper A4 test.pdf
and check the PS output.
See "man pdftops" for details. Maybe it's a dependency problem
of pdftops...
Note that the "normal" pdftops binary is provided by the
xpdf port. Maybe you can try to update this one too? I'm
not sure if CUPS's own binary i
ccess the share (with the proper
password).
See "man nsmb.conf" for details.
Parts of those information should then be reflected in /etc/fstab,
maybe like this:
//user@SERVERNAME/share /smb/share smbfs rw,noauto 0 0
This should allow you to use
# mount /s
ommend this one for beginners:
Introduction to FreeBSD.
An Absolute Beginners Guide to FreeBSD:
http://www.vmunix.com/fbsd-book/book.phtml
In your case, refer to
15.1. User Names and Passwords -- Logging In:
http://www.vmunix.com/fbsd-book/book.phtml#s1-15-1
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> old computers as long as they're in good condition.
I completely agree, as I'm following this philosophy myself.
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check in setpagedevice
> Operand stack:
>true --nostri
Do you get better results when printing to a file (PS) and
then sending it directly to the printer (via lpr)? Maybe
this problem is comparable to my Opera printing p
On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 07:21:40 -0400, Jerry wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 08:53:42 +0200
> Polytropon articulated:
>
> > Do you get better results when printing to a file (PS) and
> > then sending it directly to the printer (via lpr)? Maybe
> > this problem is comparable t
traditionally handled by the OS or by X. A LED indicator
next to the buttons on the device's front indicated which
system the console was connected to and if the system was
online.
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rough" the card), can easily be dealt
with by putting the proper settings into xorg.conf. This will
make X start even if no monitor is attached to the card.
> Also, going through the KVM can reduce video quality with VGA
> and high resolutions.
I've seen that with some cheap ca
On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 10:45:59 -0700, David Brodbeck wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Polytropon wrote:
> > On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 15:10:48 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote:
> >> On Sun, 11 Sep 2011, Daniel Feenberg wrote:
> >>
> >> > If you are asking, &
asis. In case that
causes a problem, try to leave this route and use the "old-
fashioned" tools dump and restore.
Make sure the file system isn't mounted, then use:
# cd /your/target/directory
# dump -0 -f - /dev/ | restore -r -f -
wheree refers to the device you
, /dev/da0s1d,
/dev/da0s1e, /dev/da0s1f...) should appear in
the device file system.
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solution described may be sufficient
if your system is the only (or at least primary) one you
deal with mail on.
PS. This message illustrates the proper use of top-posting.
appending replies to quotes, and trimming. :-)
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some very big files), as
well as mount options (e. g. noexec) which may be requirements
for performance or security. But this depends on your specific
setting.
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, I remember there is also a port called "eject",
not sure what it interacts with.
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_have_ those settings, no idea
where they came from and why they are still here). But it works,
so I don't question it. :-)
Step 5:
Profit. :-)
> In the beta 2 machine, the /dev/ttys has xterm instead of original
> cons25. Other than th
your script concept)
3. determine user's dialog shell
read /etc/passwd and start the user's dialog shell
by exec
You can write this in _any_ (shell) script language you want.
I would suggest plain #!/bin/sh syntax.
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t;vol" is known to me.
I _intendedly_ use different setting mechanisms, i. e. "vol"
defines the maximum output level transmitted to the amplifier,
and "pcm" can be used to change the volume within the range
from zero up that "preset master value". I know that it's
On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 17:27:49 +, Alexander Best wrote:
> On Thu Sep 29 11, Polytropon wrote:
> > This is ANNOYING.
> >
> > Does anyone know a solution for this?
>
> try 'sysctl hw.snd.vpc_autoreset=0'.
Many thanks! This restored the default behaviour!
On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 18:17:50 -0400, Jerry wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 23:58:29 +0200
> Polytropon articulated:
>
> > On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 17:27:49 +, Alexander Best wrote:
> > > On Thu Sep 29 11, Polytropon wrote:
> > > > This is ANNOYING.
> > > &g
, at least from my few testing.
> If it does, do I add it to /boot/device.hints? and it is a done deal!
> or no deal! :(
I've added it to /etc/sysctl.conf.
> I have always wanted to ask but was not sure it it was freebsd or
> mplayer's configuration.
In ultraworst case,
Additionally to using rm, you can also use fsdb to "forcedly
delete files" under worst circumstances.
Removing files should be done after booting the system in
single user mode. This way you can make _sure_ nothing is
writing to those files. Before a removal attempt, you should
run fsck so th
e to _record_ from is handled
independently.
Refer to "man mixer" on how to set the levels as you
require.
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macros
assigned. You can find them in the header
file /usr/local/include/ncurses/ncurses.h
around line 1400.
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this (except this is nonsense):
int c;
c = getch();
if(c == KEY_F(1)) /* PF1 */
do_stuff();
if(c == KEY_UP) /* Cursor up */
do_more_stuff();
if(c == 27)
On Fri, 7 Oct 2011 02:36:49 -0500 (CDT), Robert Bonomi wrote:
>
> > Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 09:18:57 +0200
> > From: Polytropon
> > Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List
> > Subject: Re: OT: how to tell when i've hit a Fn key?
> >
> > On Thu, 6 Oct 2011 15:41:17 -0
e GUI editors
do not seem to cater the kind of users who _want_ those features,
they are not the primary target group. The result: Some GUI
editors even have limited keyboard support, expecting a
continuous "click & wait" flow.
Summary: Depends.
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just in case a user does not properly log out (e. g.
closes PuTTY right from the open session, maybe from within
the program or shell he currently runs), will this cause
~/.logout to be processed, or will it be a "stale connection"?
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ransfers 10 GB data in, and 10 GB data
out, he will be charged for that traffic, as well as
for the I/O.
The sessions in questions will be SSH sessions (text mode)
as well as SSH/X sessions (remote desktops).
Maybe someone already uses someth
On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 10:27:13 -0400 (EDT), Daniel Feenberg wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, 11 Oct 2011, Polytropon wrote:
>
> > I have some users who I want to "schedule" a specific job
> > for which gets executed on their user account. For some
> > of them, it wil
ent a software", "rent infrastructures", "guided dialogs"
and so on -- nothing new per se. It's just that some
customers re-"explore" those things and the payment models
related to them. And as it's my only wish to pleas
r speaker is currently set to 75:75
> Mixer rec is currently set to 75:75
> Recording source: monitor
>
> no sound and no drive activity.
Hmmm... I'm missing the CD in that listing.
Which mixer is your default mixer? Try -f /dev/mixer0 to
make sure the correct one is selected.
"CD audio" wire inside
the machine. This feature is obsolete, but still works.
It's typically not part of laptop designs.
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"mixer" command to check all the
possible audio settings to find the next thin in the signal
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What about /dev/acd0t[01,02,03,...] - aren't those supposed
to represent the individual audio tracks that could then be
interpreted as what they basically are, raw pcm (of cd-audio
specification)?
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On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 22:03:29 +, Alexander Best wrote:
> On Thu Oct 13 11, Polytropon wrote:
> > On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:25:24 +, Alexander Best wrote:
> > > ano ther thought might be to implement an audio cd filesystem, so one
> > > could do
> > >
On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 22:38:45 +, Alexander Best wrote:
> On Fri Oct 14 11, Polytropon wrote:
> > % ls /dev/acd0*
> > /dev/acd0 /dev/acd0t04 /dev/acd0t08 /dev/acd0t12 /dev/acd0t16
> > /dev/acd0t01 /dev/acd0t05 /dev/acd0t09 /dev/acd0t13 /dev/acd0t17
> > /dev/
y,
that's why my decision to use cdrecord and cdrdao with
the "SCSI command set".
Still I'm curious how things will develop on application
side with the new subsystem once it's established. At
least I see abandoning the differentiation "acd0 vs. cd0"
as a good th
ed, no matter if
you compare (int) or (char) to a numerical or character
value.
int i;
char c;
if(i == 32 || i == ' ') ...
if(c == 32 || c == ' ') ...
Functions or macros that deal with characters usually
do return (int), even though one would expect (char).
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(in this case: letters) do operate on (int) instead
of (char). For example getc() and getchar(), but also getch()
from NCurses do so. It's common to simply compare those (int)
value to character constants without casting them to (char)
before comparison.
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und"
in wget, but if you access http://www.clubrunner.ca/, it
works and you get index.html, of course in a wrong encoding
and with superfluous MS-DOS linebreaks.
If you examine index.html's source a bit, you can see a
typical desaster of "Cloud Computing". :-)
Seems to be a real configu
D) Learn to avoid non-ASCII characters in filenames (just
like whitespaces and "special" characters).
I'm following this rule for my entire "IT career" now and
I'm very pleased by the results. :-)
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inherited" that nonsense...
What if you use Gnome's CD playing application, or something
like XMMS with the CD audio plugin? I think your permissions
are okay so you could make the drive play from your (non-root)
user account.
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this library
would have been installed in the end.
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-S3G. Here
> is what a get when I cat /dev/sndstat:
>
> FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 64bit 2009061500/amd64)
> Installed devices:
> pcm0: (play/rec) default
> pcm1: (play/rec)
> pcm2: (play/rec)
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tion, what could be an argument
against this decision?
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On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 15:37:55 +0100, Bruce Cran wrote:
>
> On 22 Oct 2011, at 15:12, Polytropon wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 15:08:50 +0100, Bruce Cran wrote:
> >> I suspect that these sorts of attacks are fairly normal if you're
> >> running ssh on the
he IntarWebZ in general.
Oh, I was _not_ asking about anonymous access, that's what
the WebTuberZ'n'Stuff'Load is for. :-)
> If access is not anonymous
> there must be some admin config done previous to the access.
The only valid choice here.
> Providing
>
selves, or they sell
them to others who then use them (e. g. for further
exploration, SSH attacks, spamming, illegal data storage
and so on).
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causes the disk to spin up and read, but otherwise produces utter silence?
> >
> >CD audio subsystem has been "modernized". :-)
>
> I wouldn't know about that.
As far as I could understand, the track files /dev/acdXtYY
will be gone in the upcoming 9.0, as well as the
be "more selective" here.
An alternative is to use rsync or cpdup where you can
explicitely address a subtree to be copied instead of
the whole file system.
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In some cases, it helped to do "cdcontrol info" before
launching the program.
However, it's possible that some programs rely on the
presence of "track device files"
e
regarding the use of moused flags.
> This trick is especially useful to laptop users and should be in the
> handbook.
Fully agree. Maybe an additional hint on how to make
X work better on such limited hardware configuration
would be nice.
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Yes, I sometimes see this behaviour with gv too.
As I do not want to use heavyweight bloatware like
that "Acrobat" reader, I use the xpdf program for
the PDF files that don't work with gv. Maybe you
try this program?
And I also use xpdf -fullscreen
baud serial line.
>
> We have ls with color (and no problem with serial console, there is no
> color when using it). Why not a nice manual?
The Midnight Commander comes with a file viewer that can
display manpages in color:
% mcview /usr/share/man/man3/signal.3.gz
A very nice m
x27;t even need the original OEM CD
> to do this.
Some network printers even have their own printer spooler
included, so you just have to address them per IP and with
PS data from any "Windows" PC.
> The print jobs come out quickly and in all the years I've
> been using it
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 18:17:55 +0200, C. P. Ghost wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Polytropon wrote:
> > BUT: CUPS seems to be hardcoded into many applications
> > today. They stopped working with the non-CUPS default
> > system tools. An example is Opera. Another
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 17:41:38 +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 27/10/2011 16:29, Polytropon wrote:
> > In my opinion, CUPS is the "Windows" way of doing things,
> > not the UNIX way. Hate me for having that opinion, but I
> > feel to say it.
>
> Actually you
s. But this
surely does not apply in home settings where security is
traditionally regarded a no-topic.
I have a wireless adapter for parallel, USB and networked
printing myself, still it's not in use due to security
reasons. :-)
> However, here
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 17:46:21 -0400, Jerry wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 21:11:32 +0200
> Polytropon articulated:
>
> > On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:39:05 -0400, Jerry wrote:
> > > Printing under MS Windows is a breeze.
> >
> > > The *nix community has never
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 19:39:17 -0400, Jerry wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 00:52:49 +0200
> Polytropon articulated:
>
> > There isn't much you can invent on a hammer. :-)
>
> Absolutely true. However, as Abraham Maslow said in 1966, "It is
> tempting, if the only t
rectly to the parallel port
where a daisywheel printer is attached. It's easy
to combine this with the system's tools lpr / lpd /
lpq / lprm, in combination with the /etc/printcap file
and a shell script.
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"knowledge").
Also note that many (most?) users of Linux and BSD would
keep using those systems if they would have to pay for
them. At least *I* would...
So don't keep shouting "socialist!" when you don't know
what the term means. The word stem is "social", wh
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:04:19 -0400, Jerry wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 21:12:54 +0200
> Polytropon articulated:
>
> > So let me make this more clear: IF the hardware manufacturer
> > wants to allow developers to write drivers for their hardware
> > for free, THEN ever
ember: it's ALWAYS about a particular job getting
done, a requirement or a need that selects _which_
software gets purchased -- for $$$ or for 0.
That has NOTHING do do with socialism. Please try to
consolidate your terminology.
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even religion. This concept runs
the thing we currently call the "self-controlling market".
> BTW, I'd _love_ to see Microsoft "held legally respnsible" for _their_
> product shortcomings. They'd be out of business in a week at the outside.
Would benefit
e "pkgdb -aF" command will
properly store dependency informations.
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If there's a backup for professional work (i. e. payment),
_this_ is what keeps people at work. Only few exceptions
have the time and will to code for free. Their revenue is
the knowledge they gain, the popularity of their software,
and the idea that they actually have improved somethi
;t miss to read "man ports", it's very informative!
Regarding the ports collection's functionality: It's VERY
functional and works nearly flawlessly (until, of course,
a port is broken, but this happens only a very few times).
Maybe you should search things like working
helps
to keep an eye on dependencies when using the many possible
ways.
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nstallation media.
If you encounter problems, please post informative text
to this list, i. e. the command you've executed and the
relevant error messages, and maybe specific things you've
changed, e. g. global CFLAGS and other things one should
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are not part of the default settings (with which the
packages are made) can benefit _faster_ operations of
ports vs. packages.
An example is mplayer, when compiled for older systems:
Here flags depending on the CPU actually in use can help.
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you want a smartphone GUI on your desktop... :-)
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the package, there pretty much has to be something wrong with
> the local installation.
And in that case, exchanging a non-compiling port (for
whatever reason) with a binary package from the RELEASE
set of archives is a possible way to solve the problem.
in dmesg listed. But I have
those in the kernel configuration:
# System management bus
device smbus
device iicbus
device iicsmb
device iicbb
device iic
So I can read temperature values using xmbmon. With
the mb
GPU
fault, running FF freezes the machine), but it works
totally fine in Opera, as expected.
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, and the corresponding
databases have been rebuilt?
Obviously you are missing those required settings, so
/etc/rc cannot start dbus - to be expected.
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Maint: po...@freebsd.org
Moved:
Date: 2011-08-01
Reason: Has expired: Looks like an abandonware, no more public distfile
Planned obsolescence in action? :-)
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an well in Linux. CD-RW
> drive there is ATAPI.
I've been using cdrecord and cdrdao now since burncd
stopped working for me somewhere in v5. For DVDs,
growisofs should work.
While cdrecord and cdrdao address th "SCSI device"
by n:n:n, growisofs uses /dev/cdN.
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with VCD images, created by mkvcdfs, as far as I
remember.
By the way, I have symlinked /dev/dvd to /dev/cd0 so I
can access this "more easily". :-)
> I could also try to build cdrkit and see if that works.
Haven't tested this one yet, but it seems to conflict
with cdrtools, an
should be mounted rw. You
can check this using the "mount -v" command.
(Of course this depends on the partitioning
scheme you're using.)
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F).
10. `reboot'
11. `make delete-old-libs' (in case no 3rd party program uses them anymore)
Make sure you also do step 1 when calling mergemaster
and make:
# cd /usr/src
# mergemaster -p
# make installworld
# make delete-old
# mergemaster
Then re
be greatly appreciated, since I'm pretty much out of them
> at this point.
The articles should help you to deal with the problem,
as they present properly working solutions.
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y called directories. ;-)
PS. Please wrap your lines < 72. Some MUAs don't do
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http://wiki.freebsd.org/SynapticsTouchpad
The (missing) presence of the X authority file has
nothing to do with keyboard or mouse problems.
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But I'm kind of hoping anybody can point me to a readymade solution yet
> unknown to me.
You could look at how FreeSBIE does it - it contains
"autodetect magic" also for graphics and sound.
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re recorded the CD
properly.
> Do you have any free software suggestions for burning a CD
> in Windows XP if this is the issue?
Sorry, I'm not a "Windows" person and I don't use 10 years
old software, so I can't give you any suggestion here. :-)
-
drivers (x11/nvidia-driver*) are supposed to work quite
> well.
I'm using nvidia-driver here which works better than
nouveau and nv (the one that comes with X.org); I haven't
tested VESA as in most cases, it's _not_ what one wants.
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On Tue, 8 Nov 2011 13:33:55 -0700 (MST), Warren Block wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Nov 2011, Warren Block wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 8 Nov 2011, Polytropon wrote:
> >
> >> And according to the handbook, this does _not_ remove the
> >> need for a X configuration file (usuall
ions COMPAT_LINUX
options LINPROCFS
options LINSYSFS
in your kernel config, or load the corresponding kernel
modules. The line
linux_enable="YES"
in /etc/rc.conf should do that.
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Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
no real consensus
about what the different codings should mean. They
were meant to unify the representation of a very large
set of characters, but basically there are many inter-
pretations now, and how they show up to the user depends
on the font in use, _if_ it has this mapping or that,
or non
̣ĸ»¢.mp3, but they can
cause trouble you can't predict. You _never_ know...
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Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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e are only few "sz" that are
"real 'sz'", typically in word gaps, e. g. Reiszange. :-)
The "funny" things start when diacritic marks and other
non-US-ASCII representable elements change the meaning
of a word. In such cases, it's often justified to use
the p
ollowing set of packages and wrappers:
opera-11.50
opera-linuxplugins-11.50
nspluginwrapper-1.4.4
linux-f10-flashplugin-10.3r183.5
This was mainly because of following the handbook. So I
think the dependency to the Linux /proc comes from the
"Flash"
entification numbers...
This makes me assume the following: It's not possible to
determine the localized layout of a keyboard.
Just imagine I pop the german keycaps from my IBM model M
keyboard and put a set of swedish caps on, would the system
notice that change? :-)
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Polytropon
Magdeburg
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