On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tuesday 19 January 2010 08:17:09 Xi Shen wrote:
hi,
my system is gentoo amd64, with kde 4.3. previously, i installed more
video drivers than i need, now i removed the unused ones. but each
time when i ran 'X
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:21:18 -0600, Dale wrote:
Even easier, hit e at the GRUB menu and add gentoo=nox to the kernel
options.
I usually just do softlevel=single or that other one I got wrote down
here somewhere.
That turns off almost everything, whereas gentoo=nox does a normal
startup
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 7:53 AM, James Ausmus james.aus...@gmail.comwrote:
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Alan E. Davis lngn...@gmail.com wrote:
It has happened that when emerging packages, the following message is
listed at the end of the emerge process:
Wrong number of fields in
Stroller wrote:
On 18 Jan 2010, at 21:50, James Ausmus wrote:
Very recent buyers of Lenovo laptops don't even *have* a SysRq key
anymore. I
reckon it won't be long before other makers follow suit. I can see
Lenovo's
point: there's probably less than 10,000 people in the whole world
that ever
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:21:18 -0600, Dale wrote:
Even easier, hit e at the GRUB menu and add gentoo=nox to the kernel
options.
I usually just do softlevel=single or that other one I got wrote down
here somewhere.
That turns off almost everything,
Iain Buchanan wrote:
On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 18:23 -0600, Dale wrote:
Iain Buchanan wrote:
On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 23:25 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Monday 18 January 2010 22:47:05 Dale wrote:
In that case, ctrl alt F1 does nothing. You also need to understand
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:18:16 -0600, Dale wrote:
Being my sometimes helpful self. lol
Password:
su: Authentication information cannot be recovered
That normal I guess?
Then I'm not! I get
$ su
Password: su: Authentication failure
I'm not normal so I
Hi guys,
I want to update my gentoo install to use the latest trunk version of the
smartmontools drive database.
Does anyone have any gentoo orientated guidance here? I have spoken to the
chaps there and they say to run configure with '--enable-drivedb' and then copy
over the the current SVN
Ok, after installing perl-core/Compress-Raw-Zlib no problems. Thanks ;)
2010/1/19 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
On Tuesday 19 January 2010 05:30:26 Yuri Ambrosio wrote:
checking the Perl version... checked (perl 5)
checking for required Perl modules... Can't locate
shouldn't perl-core/Compress-Raw-Zlib be listed as a dependency on the
openoffice ebuild?
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Yuri Ambrosio yuriambro...@gmail.comwrote:
Ok, after installing perl-core/Compress-Raw-Zlib no problems. Thanks ;)
2010/1/19 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
On
Am 04.01.2010 21:50, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger:
I wonder if /var and /home should be on the ssd or not. It is very nice
to have a silent machine ... but maybe this does more harm than good.
I had repeated I/O-errors while having /home on the ssd, with kernel
2.6.32-tuxonice and
On Tuesday 19 January 2010 09:03:57 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:21:18 -0600, Dale wrote:
I usually just do softlevel=single or that other one I got wrote down
here somewhere.
That turns off almost everything, whereas gentoo=nox does a normal
startup of everything but xdm.
Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Tuesday 19 January 2010 09:03:57 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:21:18 -0600, Dale wrote:
I usually just do softlevel=single or that other one I got wrote down
here somewhere.
That turns off almost everything, whereas gentoo=nox does a
/portage/net-dns:avahi-0.6.24-r2:20100119-114442.log'.
* The ebuild environment file is located at
'/var/tmp/portage/net-dns/avahi-0.6.24-r2/temp/environment'.
*
Failed to emerge net-dns/avahi-0.6.24-r2, Log file:
'/var/log/portage/net-dns:avahi-0.6.24-r2:20100119-114442.log'
* Messages
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 10:36 PM, Stroller
strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote:
On 19 Jan 2010, at 04:30, Mark Knecht wrote:
... Currently the disks are showing up as
/dev/hda and I thought with newer kernels they were supposed to be
/dev/sda. With my newest 2.6.32-gentoo-r1 it seems to be
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:17:09 +0800, Xi Shen wrote:
my system is gentoo amd64, with kde 4.3. previously, i installed more
video drivers than i need, now i removed the unused ones. but each
time when i ran 'X -configure', if can still find some of those video
drivers and try to load them, and
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 04:12:11 -0600, Dale wrote:
I usually just do softlevel=single or that other one I got wrote
down here somewhere.
That turns off almost everything, whereas gentoo=nox does a normal
startup of everything but xdm. Single mode has its uses but it's a bit
of a
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 11:55:20 +, Peter Humphrey wrote:
That turns off almost everything, whereas gentoo=nox does a normal
startup of everything but xdm. Single mode has its uses but it's a bit
of a sledgehammer for this particular nut.
Each of my machines has a no-x run level, which
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 04:09:37 -0600, Dale wrote:
I hope some manufacturers don't shoot themselves in the foot while
removing keys. o_O
They'd have to be using a pretty extreme method of key removal for that
to be a risk :P
--
Neil Bothwick
Always proofread carefully to see if you any
On 01/19/10 06:35, Stroller wrote:
On 19 Jan 2010, at 04:31, Joseph wrote:
I'm running xfce4 on two different machines (amd64) and on both
machine cupsd does not start at boot.
What to do about it?
It start manually just fine, and during booting CUPSD shows as OK
but when I login it is not
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 02:59:58 + (UTC), James wrote:
I've rebuilt these same packages over several times.
Are you rebuilding them with @preserved-rebuild or manually?
I think the @preserved-rebuild tool is bonkers
It's a good idea, and much better than the old break it then fix it
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:58:37 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
I wondered if anyone here knows of a linux tool that is similar to
webresearch:
http://www.macropool.de/en/products/webresearch/index.html
Its one of those clip and save from the internet (or whole pages) kind
of things that allows
This is not a gentoo-specific question but please bear with me. The
computer center I run has a fairly large beowulf cluster, a set of
database servers, and several other specific-purpose servers for a
total of around 175 systems. Currently there are a half-dozen servers
with local raid arrays
Joseph writes:
On 01/19/10 06:35, Stroller wrote:
On 19 Jan 2010, at 04:31, Joseph wrote:
I'm running xfce4 on two different machines (amd64) and on both
machine cupsd does not start at boot.
What to do about it?
It start manually just fine, and during booting CUPSD shows as OK
but when
Jon Hardcastle jd_hardcas...@yahoo.com writes:
Hi guys,
I want to update my gentoo install to use the latest trunk version
of the smartmontools drive database.
Does anyone have any gentoo orientated guidance here? I have spoken
to the chaps there and they say to run configure with
Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org writes:
On Tuesday 19 January 2010 09:03:57 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:21:18 -0600, Dale wrote:
I usually just do softlevel=single or that other one I got wrote down
here somewhere.
That turns off almost everything, whereas
100118 walt wrote:
On 01/18/2010 02:14 PM, Hilco Wijbenga wrote:
2010/1/18 waltw41...@gmail.com:
As an ordinary user, type 'su' at a bash prompt. Now, where you
would normally type your root password, just type Ctrl-d instead.
su: Authentication information cannot be recovered
Here is what
Harry Putnam wrote:
Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org writes:
On Tuesday 19 January 2010 09:03:57 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:21:18 -0600, Dale wrote:
I usually just do softlevel=single or that other one I got wrote down
here somewhere.
That
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 04:12:11 -0600, Dale wrote:
I usually just do softlevel=single or that other one I got wrote
down here somewhere.
That turns off almost everything, whereas gentoo=nox does a normal
startup of everything but xdm. Single mode has its
--- On Tue, 19/1/10, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote:
From: Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Smart Database
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Date: Tuesday, 19 January, 2010, 15:10
Jon Hardcastle jd_hardcas...@yahoo.com
writes:
Hi guys,
I want to
On 01/19/10 16:12, Alex Schuster wrote:
Joseph writes:
On 01/19/10 06:35, Stroller wrote:
On 19 Jan 2010, at 04:31, Joseph wrote:
I'm running xfce4 on two different machines (amd64) and on both
machine cupsd does not start at boot.
What to do about it?
It start manually just fine, and during
On 01/19/10 16:12, Alex Schuster wrote:
Joseph writes:
On 01/19/10 06:35, Stroller wrote:
On 19 Jan 2010, at 04:31, Joseph wrote:
I'm running xfce4 on two different machines (amd64) and on both
machine cupsd does not start at boot.
What to do about it?
It start manually just fine, and during
so you set VIDEO_CARDS=vesa? just that? and INPUT_DEVICES=keyboard
mouse? I'm using virtualbox on both variables and it's not working. I'll
try that as you said.
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 3:01 AM, Xi Shen davidshe...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 6:27 AM, Crístian Viana
On 01/18/2010 04:41 PM, walt wrote:
Here is what I see on both machines:
$su
Password: = I type Ctrl-d here
Segmentation fault
I've traced this problem to the pam_ssh package, which is supposed
to return a charstring containing the typed password, but it instead
returns a null pointer
I need to update the BIOS on my Biostar motherboard, but the utility
is said to be Windows 2000 / XP / VISTA. I've flashed the BIOS in
other systems by booting a FreeDOS CD, but that won't work for a
Windows (not DOS) flashing utility, will it? I tried running the
utility via wine with no luck.
On 01/19/2010 04:13 AM, SpaceCake wrote:
Hi,
I have problem to compile Avahi. As far as I see there was several bugs related
to this package in the past, so I've tried to perform the steps in those bug
reports to fix this issue (recompile python, python packages, playing with
useflags etc).
Grant wrote:
I need to update the BIOS on my Biostar motherboard, but the utility
is said to be Windows 2000 / XP / VISTA. I've flashed the BIOS in
other systems by booting a FreeDOS CD, but that won't work for a
Windows (not DOS) flashing utility, will it? I tried running the
utility via
On 1/19/10, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote:
On 01/19/2010 04:13 AM, SpaceCake wrote:
Hi,
I have problem to compile Avahi. As far as I see there was several bugs
related to this package in the past, so I've tried to perform the steps in
those bug reports to fix this issue (recompile python,
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 8:26 AM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote:
I need to update the BIOS on my Biostar motherboard, but the utility
is said to be Windows 2000 / XP / VISTA. I've flashed the BIOS in
other systems by booting a FreeDOS CD, but that won't work for a
Windows (not DOS) flashing
Am Dienstag 19 Januar 2010 17:26:40 schrieb Grant:
I need to update the BIOS on my Biostar motherboard, but the utility
is said to be Windows 2000 / XP / VISTA. I've flashed the BIOS in
other systems by booting a FreeDOS CD, but that won't work for a
Windows (not DOS) flashing utility, will
On 01/19/2010 07:55 PM, walt wrote:
On 01/18/2010 04:41 PM, walt wrote:
Here is what I see on both machines:
$su
Password: = I type Ctrl-d here
Segmentation fault
I've traced this problem to the pam_ssh package, which is supposed
to return a charstring containing the typed password, but
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:18:16 -0600, Dale wrote:
Being my sometimes helpful self. lol
Password:
su: Authentication information cannot be recovered
That normal I guess?
Then I'm not! I get
$ su
Password: su: Authentication failure
Evil spirits? I get the
Stroller wrote:
Of course, I use Gentoo on my headless servers, so I am glad that server
software - Dovecot or Courier for IMAP, Apache, Samba - all have
plain-text configuration files I can edit with vim (which I have been
learning to utilise better recently). But even if these switched to
Dale wrote:
I think it is hal that does this. You can make up your own rules if you
want, and can, to force it to do what you want. Thing is, the config
file is a mess. It's xml and if you don't know xml, well, it ain't
pretty. The rules go into /etc/hal/ somewhere. I don't use hal here
I need to update the BIOS on my Biostar motherboard, but the utility
is said to be Windows 2000 / XP / VISTA. I've flashed the BIOS in
other systems by booting a FreeDOS CD, but that won't work for a
Windows (not DOS) flashing utility, will it? I tried running the
utility via wine with no
I need to update the BIOS on my Biostar motherboard, but the utility
is said to be Windows 2000 / XP / VISTA. I've flashed the BIOS in
other systems by booting a FreeDOS CD, but that won't work for a
Windows (not DOS) flashing utility, will it? I tried running the
utility via wine with no
I need to update the BIOS on my Biostar motherboard, but the utility
is said to be Windows 2000 / XP / VISTA. I've flashed the BIOS in
other systems by booting a FreeDOS CD, but that won't work for a
Windows (not DOS) flashing utility, will it? I tried running the
utility via wine with no
On Tuesday 19 January 2010 20:26:29 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
On 01/19/2010 07:55 PM, walt wrote:
On 01/18/2010 04:41 PM, walt wrote:
Here is what I see on both machines:
$su
Password: = I type Ctrl-d here
Segmentation fault
I've traced this problem to the pam_ssh package,
I have noticed for a long time, and continuing with KDE 4.4, that
kmail/kontact shows a bunch of small popup window boxes, each containing a
single letter, whenever it's displaying a message and the control key is
pressed and released. Another depression/release of the control key removes
the
On Tuesday 19 January 2010 22:12:09 Jim Cunning wrote:
I have noticed for a long time, and continuing with KDE 4.4, that
kmail/kontact shows a bunch of small popup window boxes, each containing a
single letter, whenever it's displaying a message and the control key is
pressed and released.
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote:
I need to update the BIOS on my Biostar motherboard, but the utility
is said to be Windows 2000 / XP / VISTA. I've flashed the BIOS in
other systems by booting a FreeDOS CD, but that won't work for a
Windows (not DOS)
- Original Message
From: Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 01:09:16 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
XML is a machine-readable file format that just happens to use ASCII
characters, it is not meant to be modified by a text editor, so if
your program uses XML
pk wrote:
Dale wrote:
I think it is hal that does this. You can make up your own rules if you
want, and can, to force it to do what you want. Thing is, the config
file is a mess. It's xml and if you don't know xml, well, it ain't
pretty. The rules go into /etc/hal/ somewhere. I don't
On Tuesday 19 January 2010 22:36:45 BRM wrote:
Or a pretty GUI with clicky boxes to change the settings while never
letting the user see the contents of the XML.
Once the user interface is in place it doesn't matter whether it is XML or
something else. The key is that is has a user
On Tuesday 19 January 2010 22:37:14 Dale wrote:
You been around here long enough to know about me and hal? Surely not
or you wouldn't be asking for it. I have to admit, I'm not nearly as
pissed as I was tho.
nah, you just found a new target:
KDE-4
hehehehehehe
--
alan dot mckinnon
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:22:39 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Those are quick-link thingys that highlight clickable text in the mail.
IIRC the intent is so you can type Ctrl-D and the browser will take you
to the link labelled D
I used to have it, then I did something in System Settings or
Am Dienstag 19 Januar 2010 20:23:53 schrieb Grant:
I need to update the BIOS on my Biostar motherboard, but the utility
is said to be Windows 2000 / XP / VISTA. I've flashed the BIOS in
other systems by booting a FreeDOS CD, but that won't work for a
Windows (not DOS) flashing utility,
Jon Hardcastle jd_hardcas...@yahoo.com writes:
Thanks for your input! Wow that is alot more complicated that I had
hoped!
I am already using the masked version of Smartmontools but the 5.39
version does not include 1 of the HDD I use and as I have got a
whole load more of that exact model
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Tuesday 19 January 2010 22:37:14 Dale wrote:
You been around here long enough to know about me and hal? Surely not
or you wouldn't be asking for it. I have to admit, I'm not nearly as
pissed as I was tho.
nah, you just found a new target:
KDE-4
On 19 Jan 2010, at 18:24, Mark Knecht wrote:
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 8:26 AM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote:
I need to update the BIOS on my Biostar motherboard, but the utility
is said to be Windows 2000 / XP / VISTA. I've flashed the BIOS in
other systems by booting a FreeDOS CD, but
I need to update the BIOS on my Biostar motherboard, but the utility
is said to be Windows 2000 / XP / VISTA. I've flashed the BIOS in
other systems by booting a FreeDOS CD, but that won't work for a
Windows (not DOS) flashing utility, will it? I tried running the
utility via wine with no
On 19 Jan 2010, at 19:34, Grant wrote:
...
XP on a USB stick It sounds like a Windows machine is necessary
to build it, but once it's built it would be really handy.
I have found my attempts at building this or a CD-based PE very
frustrating indeed. It seems like an awful lot of aggro
I need to update the BIOS on my Biostar motherboard, but the utility
is said to be Windows 2000 / XP / VISTA. I've flashed the BIOS in
other systems by booting a FreeDOS CD, but that won't work for a
Windows (not DOS) flashing utility, will it? I tried running the
utility via wine with
On 19 Jan 2010, at 16:44, Jon Hardcastle wrote:
... the HDD I use and as I have got a whole load more of that exact
model of drive on the way I would like it to.
You know that using a whole load of the same disk increases the
likelihood of simultaneous failure, right?
I'm sure you do
I just got a Sansa Clip+ and when I plug it into my gentoo box, it sees
the device as mass-storage, creates /dev/sdc, and I can mount it as vfat
and put songs on it. That's all fine.
However, I put an expansion micro-SD card into it. The player sees it
fine. When I plug the player into my Mac,
Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes:
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 02:59:58 + (UTC), James wrote:
I've rebuilt these same packages over several times.
Are you rebuilding them with @preserved-rebuild or manually?
with this 'emerge @preserved-rebuild'
i.e. the tool.
I think the
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Michael George geo...@mutualdata.comwrote:
I just got a Sansa Clip+ and when I plug it into my gentoo box, it sees
the device as mass-storage, creates /dev/sdc, and I can mount it as vfat
and put songs on it. That's all fine.
However, I put an expansion
On Tuesday 19 January 2010 15:15:20 Harry Putnam wrote:
In fact, whatever way you do it, can you give some kind of example?
No trouble. Here's a section of my grub.conf:
-
title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.32-r1
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/kernel-x86_64-2.6.32-gentoo-r1 root=/dev/sda5
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:31:09 -0600, Dale wrote:
I like KDE 4. It just doesn't do what I need it to do just yet. I
believe it will once the devs get around to fixing or adding some more
code. They just expect to much out of it yet and dropped what was
working to soon.
If it was working,
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:43:35 -0500, Michael George wrote:
However, I put an expansion micro-SD card into it. The player sees it
fine. When I plug the player into my Mac, it puts two devices on the
desktop. When I plug it into my Linux box, /var/log/messages only lists
/dev/sdc (not
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Stroller
strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote:
On 19 Jan 2010, at 18:24, Mark Knecht wrote:
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 8:26 AM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote:
I need to update the BIOS on my Biostar motherboard, but the utility
is said to be Windows 2000 /
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote:
I need to update the BIOS on my Biostar motherboard, but the utility
is said to be Windows 2000 / XP / VISTA. I've flashed the BIOS in
other systems by booting a FreeDOS CD, but that won't work for a
Windows (not DOS) flashing
Hi Alan,
thanks for your reply and sorry for the late response (I was kind of offline).
Everything above this line is fascinating but completely unrelated to your
post. Please omit such in future
I just wanted to motivate that I didn't just install gentoo and then ask my
questions immediately
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 04:15:42PM -0800, James Ausmus wrote:
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Michael George geo...@mutualdata.comwrote:
I just got a Sansa Clip+ and when I plug it into my gentoo box, it sees
the device as mass-storage, creates /dev/sdc, and I can mount it as vfat
and
James wrote:
Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes:
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 02:59:58 + (UTC), James wrote:
I've rebuilt these same packages over several times.
Are you rebuilding them with @preserved-rebuild or manually?
with this 'emerge @preserved-rebuild'
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:31:09 -0600, Dale wrote:
I like KDE 4. It just doesn't do what I need it to do just yet. I
believe it will once the devs get around to fixing or adding some more
code. They just expect to much out of it yet and dropped what was
working to
Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org writes:
See? I don't have to remember any options, I just key up or down to the
config I want. Easy.
Nice... thanks
On Tuesday 19 January 2010 12:50:32 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:22:39 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Those are quick-link thingys that highlight clickable text in the mail.
IIRC the intent is so you can type Ctrl-D and the browser will take you
to the link labelled D
I used
I'm testing squid and want to allow only one domain but it is not working
(using iptable + squid)
iptable:
ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywheretcp dpt:http owner
UID match squid
ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywheretcp dpt:3128 owner
UID match
I've been using VirtualBox recently with 32-bit Ubuntu for a work
project. It seems that whenever my thumb drive is moved between host and
guest operating system, Gentoo is mounts it as a new device (see
below). Can these extra device mounts be avoided?
Regards,
David
osage relson # df -h
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 8:45 AM, Peter Humphrey
pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote:
On Tuesday 12 January 2010 14:50:40 bn wrote:
Seeing you're using (like me) an Intel HDA... have you selected the
correct *codec* in your kernel? I had trouble with my sound card until I
figured that out.
Ah,
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 1:10 AM, Crístian Viana
cristiandei...@gmail.com wrote:
so you set VIDEO_CARDS=vesa? just that? and INPUT_DEVICES=keyboard
mouse? I'm using virtualbox on both variables and it's not working. I'll
try that as you said.
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 3:01 AM, Xi Shen
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 10:19 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote:
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:17:09 +0800, Xi Shen wrote:
my system is gentoo amd64, with kde 4.3. previously, i installed more
video drivers than i need, now i removed the unused ones. but each
time when i ran 'X -configure',
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