On Fri, 02 Jan 2004, Sam Rosenfeld wrote: > Over several months I have tried to fix (or improve) sound, mail, X > windows, and much more. Now, each time I boot up it's an adventure. > For the most part I have tried to decipher whatever relevant docs I > could lay my hands on, but my fiddling has clearly made things worse. > I hardly know what's what in my single-user box, which contains Debian > 3.0, Linux 2.2.20, mutt, galeon, python2.1, tcl/tk8.3 and a host of > mathematical, analytical, and context-specific applications which may > not be problematic.
For future reference:
1) Never go outside of the package manager. It knows more then you.
2) RCS is your friend for configuration files.
3) Backups are your friend for massive screwups.
4) A test user account is your friend for testing changes to user
programs.
5) Only change one thing at a time. Fix it if it doesn't work, or
revert it to the previous version.
6) Keep a notebook of what you do!
~ Jesse Meyer
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