Quoting Alessandro Selli (alessandrose...@linux.com):
> This was true in thousands of other people's experience.
You are a very amusing person. Thank you for that.
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> Is this a new thread about the top/bottom posting in soviet union by
> Volkswagen?
This makes no sense, but when I discovered this comedy gold message, I
had to laugh.
Three random responses on this thread in the past three days, and you
make them all... well done!
xD
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On Sat, 26 Aug 2017 at 12:41:49 -0400
Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 10:36:16AM +0200, Edward Bartolo wrote:
>> So, this is again an advice that should be obvious for anyone, bold
>> enough to delete parts of the file system, that can result in system
>> breakage.
>>
>> There is a
On Sat, 26 Aug 2017 at 13:11:36 -0400
Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 07:02:41PM +0200, Alessandro Selli wrote:
>> On Sat, 26 Aug 2017 at 17:19:48 +0200
>> Didier Kryn wrote:
>>
>>> AFAIR I fully agreed on that and then it jumped into my face that
>>> the renaming wasn't n
On Sat, 26 Aug 2017 at 19:57:34 +0200
Didier Kryn wrote:
> Le 26/08/2017 à 19:02, Alessandro Selli a écrit :
>> On Sat, 26 Aug 2017 at 17:19:48 +0200
>> Didier Kryn wrote:
>>
>>> AFAIR I fully agreed on that and then it jumped into my face that
>>> the renaming wasn't necessary at all, bec
I am grateful for this thread being on topic again.
Adam Borowski - 26.08.17, 20:54:
> On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 05:19:48PM +0200, Didier Kryn wrote:
> > AFAIR I fully agreed on that and then it jumped into my face that the
> > renaming wasn't necessary at all, because it is sufficient to know the M
On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 05:19:48PM +0200, Didier Kryn wrote:
> AFAIR I fully agreed on that and then it jumped into my face that the
> renaming wasn't necessary at all, because it is sufficient to know the MAC
> address and ignore completely the interface name. It is just enough for this
> to w
Le 26/08/2017 à 19:02, Alessandro Selli a écrit :
On Sat, 26 Aug 2017 at 17:19:48 +0200
Didier Kryn wrote:
AFAIR I fully agreed on that and then it jumped into my face that
the renaming wasn't necessary at all, because it is sufficient to know
the MAC address and ignore completely the in
Den 26/08/2017 18:41, skrev Hendrik Boom:
> On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 10:36:16AM +0200, Edward Bartolo wrote:
>> There is a betwitched command, tar, that can be used to create
>> archives of any directory. So, the obvious action to me is, make a
>> tar.gz archive before deleting any system directory
On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 01:01:10PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> > That's PS/2, not RS232.
>
> True, true. And there seem to be two different sizes of those
> round plugs in use. At least, I've seen adapters to connect between
> the two sizes.
>
> My system isn't as obsolete as I thought.
>
>
On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 07:02:41PM +0200, Alessandro Selli wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Aug 2017 at 17:19:48 +0200
> Didier Kryn wrote:
>
> > AFAIR I fully agreed on that and then it jumped into my face that
> > the renaming wasn't necessary at all, because it is sufficient to know
> > the MAC addr
On Sat, 26 Aug 2017 at 17:19:48 +0200
Didier Kryn wrote:
> AFAIR I fully agreed on that and then it jumped into my face that
> the renaming wasn't necessary at all, because it is sufficient to know
> the MAC address and ignore completely the interface name. It is just
> enough for this to
On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 06:54:11PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 12:45:27PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 02:34:36PM +0200, Alessandro Selli wrote:
> > > On Wed, 23 Aug 2017 at 23:23:47 +0200 (CEST)
> > > k...@aspodata.se wrote:
> > >
> > > > Manual
On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 12:45:27PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 02:34:36PM +0200, Alessandro Selli wrote:
> > On Wed, 23 Aug 2017 at 23:23:47 +0200 (CEST)
> > k...@aspodata.se wrote:
> >
> > > Manually creating xorg.conf is required if you e.g. has a serial
> > > (rs232) m
On Sat, 26 Aug 2017 at 09:03:04 -0700
Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Alessandro Selli (alessandrose...@linux.com):
>
>> 1) they did not work (a lot of the times);
>
> That was not true in my long and varied experience.
This was true in thousands of other people's experience.
> (I have run insta
On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 02:34:36PM +0200, Alessandro Selli wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Aug 2017 at 23:23:47 +0200 (CEST)
> k...@aspodata.se wrote:
>
> > Manually creating xorg.conf is required if you e.g. has a serial
> > (rs232) mouse.
>
> Who does? Really, who today uses a mouse based on a technolo
On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 10:36:16AM +0200, Edward Bartolo wrote:
> So, this is again an advice that should be obvious for anyone, bold
> enough to delete parts of the file system, that can result in system
> breakage.
>
> There is a betwitched command, tar, that can be used to create
> archives of
Quoting Alessandro Selli (alessandrose...@linux.com):
> 1) they did not work (a lot of the times);
That was not true in my long and varied experience.
(I have run installfests for eight or nine Linux and BSD
user groups in the San Francisco Bay Area from the middle 1990s to the
present day.)
> 2
Le 26/08/2017 à 16:35, Alessandro Selli a écrit :
On Sat, 26 Aug 2017 at 15:04:51 +0200
Didier Kryn wrote:
Le 26/08/2017 à 14:14, Alessandro Selli a écrit :
My main subject was questionning the necessity of renaming network
interfaces (with my answer to the question). Since nobody argu
On Sat, 26 Aug 2017 at 15:04:51 +0200
Didier Kryn wrote:
> Le 26/08/2017 à 14:14, Alessandro Selli a écrit :
>>> My main subject was questionning the necessity of renaming network
>>> interfaces (with my answer to the question). Since nobody argumented
>>> that renaming was necessary, it is
On Thu, 24 Aug 2017 at 01:03:10 +0200
Adam Borowski wrote:
> Hi!
> I'd like to recommend another improvement: let's make the installer default
> to noatime for fstab it creates.
I agree.
Alessandro
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On Thu, 24 Aug 2017 at 03:59:17 +0200
Adam Borowski wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 06:13:30PM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
>> So, anyway, X11 somewhat sucks. (Will Wayland suck less? Don't hold
>> your breath waiting.)
>
> On one hand, X desperately needed a clean rewrite, at least 30 years ago.
Le 26/08/2017 à 14:14, Alessandro Selli a écrit :
My main subject was questionning the necessity of renaming network
interfaces (with my answer to the question). Since nobody argumented
that renaming was necessary, it is clear for me that renaming is a
feature invented to give more importan
On Thu, 24 Aug 2017 at 22:46:28 +0200
Antony Stone wrote:
[...]
> (and, for what it's worth, my preference is to stick with ethX as a
> default,
My favourite choice for the default behaviour, too.
Alessandro
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On Wed, 23 Aug 2017 at 23:23:47 +0200 (CEST)
k...@aspodata.se wrote:
> Manually creating xorg.conf is required if you e.g. has a serial
> (rs232) mouse.
Who does? Really, who today uses a mouse based on a technology that went
out of production some 15 years ago and uses a connector that is ab
On Wed, 23 Aug 2017 at 14:32:39 -0700
Rick Moen wrote:
> Red Hat's
> easy/GUI X configuration tool was called Xconfigurator.[1] I vaguely
> recall that SUSE and Debian, among many others, had various other ones
> with a variety of names.
They were all dropped for the same reasons:
1) they d
On Thu, 24 Aug 2017 at 15:13:40 +0200
Didier Kryn wrote:
[...]
> My main subject was questionning the necessity of renaming network
> interfaces (with my answer to the question). Since nobody argumented
> that renaming was necessary, it is clear for me that renaming is a
> feature invent
Edward Bartolo [2017-08-26 10:36]:
> So, this is again an advice that should be obvious for anyone, bold
> enough to delete parts of the file system, that can result in system
> breakage.
>
> There is a betwitched command, tar, that can be used to create
> archives of any directory. So, the obvio
On 26/08/17 09:05, Ralph Ronnquist wrote:
Svante Signell wrote on 26/08/17 16:57:
On Sat, 2017-08-26 at 06:51 +0100, Dave Turner wrote:
I have a working devuan ascii with no systemd no dbus no udev and no
pulseaudio on my old iMac. (no X11 either, but we'll come to that)
I installed eudev an
So, this is again an advice that should be obvious for anyone, bold
enough to delete parts of the file system, that can result in system
breakage.
There is a betwitched command, tar, that can be used to create
archives of any directory. So, the obvious action to me is, make a
tar.gz archive before
Svante Signell wrote on 26/08/17 16:57:
On Sat, 2017-08-26 at 06:51 +0100, Dave Turner wrote:
I have a working devuan ascii with no systemd no dbus no udev and no
pulseaudio on my old iMac. (no X11 either, but we'll come to that)
I installed eudev and then I deleted /etc/init.d/udev and reboo
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