t for the old-skool dselect system as well: It's kind of a
Apt Army Knife.
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You do, but I've yet to find someone who was authorized to nuke a
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the device is mounted to a file
> system such as UDF, there won't be any difference to read contents
> from the file system, is that correct?
DVD, whether it's a WORM or ROM disc, uses udf if it's a data DVD. If
it's a video DVD, it's more of a codec and media
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Is it on the network? If so, try visiting
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> packaged for Debian?
Nobody's packaged it yet? What's the licensing like on it?
> Should I just submit an RTP?
Couldn
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> > > On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 03:02:34 -0800, Angus Auld wrote:
> > >
> > > > It
i would like to use with it to work (so far
> windows media player 9, realplayer 10, and a few other
> programs that my wife wanted me to try and install for
> her).
Why are you trying to solve these the hard way instead of using the
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te a few browsers, but none keep up with opera
> for speed. Shame it's not Open Source, but you can't have everything.
You could boycott it for being proprietary. That's the morally correct answer.
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servers more than two concurrent times, and prefetches a tad too
aggressively for many webservers to keep up properly.
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> somebody can give ana advice how to unzip rar files, please?
> Ark does not work.
Rar files don't unzip. They unrar. You'll need unrar or
unrar-nonfree to get 'er done.
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> Please tell me good and free news servers, where can I read the
> debian lists. (linux.debian.user)
news.gmane.org also carries Debian User, though the newsgroup name
there eludes me at the moment.
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OSS tools that can be used to image/clone hard
> drives. Any suggestions? Anybody have any experiences with this?
Your best option is probably the one outlined in the Hard Disk Upgrade
HOWTO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Hard-Disk-Upgrade/index.html
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> On Thu December 27 2007, Paul Johnson wrote:
> > Stumped on this one... what can synch google apps contacts and
> > calendars to a palm pilot in Debian?
>
> Can this be done at all ? let alone in Debian..
Wel
Stumped on this one... what can synch google apps contacts and
calendars to a palm pilot in Debian?
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> On 11/16/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > I think OP is looking for aptitude clean or auto-clean. Check the man
> > page. It will remove debs that aren't current. or something like that.
>
> Actually, all that do
On Nov 17, 5:00 am, Bruno Costacurta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
> it appears that ext3 doesn't need a real defragmentation operation (by 'real'
> I mean a specific tool that need to be run sometimes related to disk usage).
>
> Is it correct ?
Right.
> If so how it works ?
It shoots for
On Nov 10, 10:30 am, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Darko wrote:
> > I'snt better to convince some one from debian.org to make news grop
> > debian.user on server debian.public.org rather then this overcapacity's
> > mailing list
>
> debian-user mailing list can be accessed as a
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> debian.user on server debian.public.org rather then this overcapacity's
> mailing list
Look at linux.debian.user or news.gmane.org
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On Oct 27, 10:10 am, Jeff Grossman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I was just reading the forums at forums.debian.org and came across a
> thread about apt-get and aptitude. I just installed Debian this week
> after moving over from Gentoo. I have only been using the apt-get
> method because that is
On Oct 23, 2:30 pm, "Russell L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> * H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071023 16:14]:
>
> > Hello,
>
> > Anybody have experience with this printer:
> > Brother HL-5250DN
> > (http://www.brother-usa.com/Printer/ModelDetail.aspx?ProductID=HL5250DN).
>
> > I have been asked t
On Oct 23, 2:10 pm, "H.S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Any comments on its functionality from Linux? linuxprinting.org says it
> works pefectly. What about its durability?
I (and my mother) have both had pretty poor luck with the utility or
long term durability of anything made by Brother that is
On Oct 13, 2:40 pm, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Hi
>
> I normally use knode for reading debian mailing lists via gmane. However
> there is one feature missing in this - reading the news offline. Normally
> this is not a problem. However recently my net speed has reduced t
On Oct 3, 6:20 am, Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What's up (or should I say down?) withhttp://debaday.debian.net/?The
> site won't come up and email is rejected.
Looks like it's up now.
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> I called the citicards customer service website 1-800-347-4934 to inform them
> about the problem. The response is that they do not support firefox. They
> only support Internet explorer, netscape navigator. I asked them why th
On Aug 25, 8:10 pm, David Brodbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Aug 25, 2007, at 11:29 AM, Paul Johnson wrote:
>
> >> I am able to watch videos athttp://video.yahoo.combutthat might
> >> be because I changed general.useragent.extra.firefox to
> >> Fir
On Aug 25, 12:10 am, Mike Bird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Friday 24 August 2007 22:46, Ms Linuz wrote:
>
> >http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver/compare/default.mspx
>
> The first case study (Illinois) purportedly comparing Linux to
> Windows actually compares Notes+Groupwise+Windows to Wind
On Aug 25, 11:20 am, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > We have checked your operating system: It does not meet our
> > minimum requirements
> > If you are having difficulties, please upgrade or switch your
> > operating system.
>
> I am able to watch videos athttp://video.
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> Richard Lyons wrote:
> > It is amusing -- or not, depending on your viewpoint -- that clicking on a
> > video clip at yahoo.com from a standard etch install is met with a page of
> > error messages, starting:
>
> > We have
I have a Firewire external hard drive, and recently with the upgrade
to linux-image-2.6.22, my firewire block device has been detecting as
sda instead of sdc, causing my machine to hang at boot if it is turned
on. What can be done to resolve the detection order?
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Tyler Smith wrote:
> I am getting really frustrated with exchanging documents with
> colleagues who only use Word. I am quite happy now working with LaTeX
> and BibTex, but in the course of my work I have to deal with WYSIWYG
> documents where formating is critical. latex2rtf is mostly adequate
> f
On Jul 31, 9:30 am, Andrew Sackville-West
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> On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 10:55:45AM -0500, Anson Gardner wrote:
>
> > > > Change the preference general.useragent.extra.firefox from
> > > > "Iceweasel/2.0.0.5" (or whatever your version is to "Firefox/2.0.0.5".
>
> > > Worked li
On Jul 30, 8:30 pm, arijit sarkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> As far as I know, Iceweasel is Firefox without the "Talkback" component,
> which is not open and matches debian-philosophy.
The name and logo are also nonfree in Firefox.
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> On Jul 23, 2007, at 7:42 PM, Paul Johnson wrote:
>
>>> Hmm. In most places I've driven bicyclists are required to share a
>>> lane, and are *not* entitled to an e
by the (now
roadrashed and on foot) bicycle cop. I ended up slowing down to merge with
the standstill motor traffic to get around the pulled over moron, so I
don't know if that Californidouche got what he had coming or not.
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Probably not, but you should be aware that the practice has been outlawed
throughout North America since the 1970s, and in many jurisdictions, even
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se it was the only mode of transportation, not
> because I especially enjoyed riding. As an adult, I'm way too lazy to
> rely on a bike. (*burp* pass me those chips, would ya?)
Look at it this way: Bicycles are lazier than walking! :o) Seriously,
though, childhood ignorance is not
William Pursell wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to
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> David Brodbeck wrote:
>>
>> On Jul 14, 2007, at 7:43 PM, Paul Johnson wrote:
>>
>>> I've yet to collide with another cyclist who was following the rules.
>>
>> they will eventually be taken out by a city bus while attempting to
>> exit, thus removing them from the gene pool. ;)
>>
>>
>
> Unfortunately, not necessarily before they procreate, so natural
> selection may not occur. :-)
Borrowing from George Carlin, perhaps t
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> (When have you ever heard of one being ticketed for a traffic violation?)
If I can find where I filed them, I can send you copies of my traffic
tickets, all of them to date have been on a bicycle.
it for more than a few times a year.
Do you ride or are you just making an argument for the sake of it? Oregon
and Washington at the very least have well-built and reasonably maintained
bicycle lanes and greenways, and provide the proper enforcement. If your
jurisdiction doesn't, that&#x
in my craw. If they want to be treated
> with the same respect as other motorists they shouldn't be able to
> decide the law doesn't apply to them. Just sayin' it.
Or at least they should understand that only California recognizes a 'mob of
bicycles' as a single vehicle.
Carl Fink wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to
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> On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 12:04:25PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
>
>> Email isn't always synchronous and is rarely instant; it's possible that
>> replies get delivered before the or
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> Paul Johnson wrote:
>> If I accidentally tell KDE to automatically do the same thing when an
>> audio CD is inserted, but I no longer want it to do that action, how do I
>>
gh.
>
> Is the server a little slow or is it local to my machine? Anyone else
> experience anything like this?
Email isn't always synchronous and is rarely instant; it's possible that
replies get delivered before the original message.
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> On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 08:09:23AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
>>
>> I disagree: There's some people that really ought not be trusted with
>> bicycles to begin with, li
ther sites the
> advertisements get in the way and then it is slower again.
Have you considered setting up squid and adzapper for your network? No
matter how small, it's hard to not get some improvement from squid,
especially when using adzapper.
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> I think the arguments there make sense.
>
> I think people who decry reply-to-munging forfeit their right to
> complain when people reply directly instead of to the list, though. ;)
Why? Reply-to-mailing-list has been a feature of every mail client worth
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> On Jul 11, 2007, at 10:27 AM, Paul Johnson wrote:
>
>> ArcticFox wrote in Article
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>>
>>> Any
If I accidentally tell KDE to automatically do the same thing when an audio
CD is inserted, but I no longer want it to do that action, how do I go back
and change it again?
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> Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted
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>> Zach wrote:
>>
>>> There
>>> are millions and m
be a wash.
You mean being a proprietary alternative to something well-represented by
free software didn't make it a nonstarter?
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ority of other lists because the first part of the subject
> identifies these other lists. Also, and only from the Debian Lists, I get
> BLANK subjects -- lots of them.
man procmailex (and if you don't have that manpage, install procmail; it's
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portCrash (which did
> nothing, just complained about not being able to find a 'non-zero byte
> core file').
You might need to enable core dumps first and reproduce the problem before
their advice even applies.
$ help ulimit
The above should get you started on enabling corefiles
followed up on.
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Remember, reply and new message are exactly what they're for; you can't use
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it, it's good
> for them. But it is not a requirement.
I disagree. The way some people drive, perhaps it should be just to help
weed out those who really have no business on the road with anything more
powerful than a bicycle to begin with. Sometimes, the learning curve is
not onl
bian package. I've just installed it and I'm
trying it out now...
Kind of disappointed they went with GTK (it's fugly on a Motif scale IMO),
and it doesn't seem to support searching across PCs like the Windows
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Roberto C. Sánchez wrote in Article
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> On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 02:58:17PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
>> John Hasler wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to
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>>
>> >
require ports, too!
> Of course, since you are running Debian, there are no windows for
> things to climb through and open the door from the inside. ;)
Don't say things like that. What you just said there is like a Windows user
saying, "Why should I stay patched and run antiviru
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to
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> Paul Johnson wrote:
>> Mike McCarty wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to
>> gmane.linux.debian.user:
>>
>>> michael wrote:
>>>> I've trie
bt it will change
anything except with the five people who love football so much they
absolutely must have the latest Madden game every year...
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, right?" I wouldn't
trust any user-facing machine to be a firewall, regardless of what the
software (usually snake oil[1]) says. Use seperate hardware for your
firewall, even if it's just an old Linksys router that's had it's firmware
replaced with DD-WRT[2].
[1] http
ith their suggestion of
relatively inexperienced users using testing/unstable in any capacity.
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>
> The problem is that most Microsoft Windows users cannot deal with ODF.
> That doesn't matter to me but to some people it is critical.
I was unaware that openoffice.org was not freely available in win32 binary
form.
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> [2] http://archive.daniel-baumann.ch/debian/packages-other/qemu/
Browsing through the tree, I can't figure out how to make a sources.list
line from this... hing please?
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> number.
What's wrong with the thermometer supplied by the motherboard, usually in
contact with the underside of the die? So far, the ones I've come across
have been in proper working, calibrated order when tested against one of
those infrared thermometer gun deals.
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ally. You're better off going with something on IEEE1394 instead.
> Should I make an "dedicated" backup server out of an old
> computer and new disc(s)?
That's another possibility.
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into the proper locations in the tree.
> Is there documentation somewhere that I can read that explains how to do
> this? Thanks for your help in advance.
Which package?
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port. Treat it like a read-only serial modem and you'll be off to a good
start. 4800 bps, 8 bits, no parity, 1 stop bit.
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> Hurray! Hopefully, he'll get put away for a while. Charged
> with SPAMming, money laundering, fraud, etc.
s/put away/executed/
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> On 05/29/07 14:56, Paul Johnson wrote:
>> KS wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to
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>>
>>> arnuld wrote:
>>>>> On 5/
Then there's Psi, which has a psi-jingle branch right now, and is built on
the open instant messaging standard. Why not support the open standard
instead of stupid stopgap measures that ultimately ensures continued IM
noninteroperability?
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away from Blizzard... the WoW
>> has shown people will use Windows to play it period. Why shoudl it
>> change and cater to 5% that will cause 80-90% of the problems (in their
>> eyes)
>
> Does Second Life counts?
Second Life isn't really a game so much as it's a si
e text that has changed since yesterday, not
> all the wizbang graphics unrelated to the forcast.
That's just not possible, it's gotta be the whole object for it to compare
against if you don't want to spend more time comparing than it would take
to download the newer HTML. You
Greg Folkert wrote in Article
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> On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 15:55 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
>> Andrei Popescu wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>>
>> > At least i
> Please learn how to quote properly (like I did above), or get a mail
> reader that does it automatically (which one doesn't, anyway?).
Mail clients known to reply funky:
Outlook, Outlook Express (top posted by default, no viable fix except
switching)
GMail (breaks threading, any worka
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> Then when my two licenses numbers became invalid for online play, I
> stopped playing twitch games all together.
How'd that happen?
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;
If you're really expecting to get help out of #debian, you need to play by
thier rules. I strongly suggest looking through this before the next time
you /join #debian. Odds are if you're getting ignored in #debian, it's
because you're way outside the guidelines and p
nnels in general are
poor venues to have poor netiquette in, as /ignore is easy use and hard to
avoid.
6. Are you asking questions the wrong way? Here are some pointers on how to
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http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
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to go about opening
> this document?
Might try saving it in the traditional Excel format and see if OpenOffice
can open that. Contrary to the name, OpenXML is not open. Nobody but
Microsoft supports it, and only in recent versions of MS Office.
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that happens when the
vendor tries to control the whole show without any consideration for
usability in a non-win(32|64) environment.
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rdware and has fewer applications than
Linux, and with next to nothing useful with Windows right out of the box,
I'm not sure how you're comparing Linux to be a partial OS by comparison.
(Remember, programs are programs, applications aren't programs but
categories. OpenOffice Writer is a
to messages in the digest, could you reply to the actual
message in the digest, instead of the digest? The former preserves
threading, the latter destroys it.
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The post you replied to never
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> but (at least some of) the intended readers would
> not get my message due to the said killfiles
Isn't that the choice they made by setting such a restrictive filter in the
first place?
r approaches 1:1."
http://wiki.ursine.ca/Godwin%27s_Law
> But they also appear to stroke the egos involved, so
> are perhaps a cost in keeping some frequent-and-otherwise-useful posters
> active on the list, and are in any case easily identified and ignorable
> by the "OT&qu
zzard games) then please sign.
Wouldn't it be more productive in convincing Blizzard there is a market for
their products among people who use Linux by buying the Linux versions of
other vendors games instead?
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> On 2007-05-17, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Serena Cantor wrote in Article
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ot;bug"? Hint: unless you can
provide a source-code patch that fixes the problem, or a regression test
against a previous version that demonstrates incorrect behavior, you are
probably not sure enough.
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e next person to fix the problem on
their reply. Top posting just compounds the problem in any situtaion.
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Ron Johnson wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to
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> Proper MUAs auto-snip everything under the "-- ".
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> (Web gmail is *not* a proper MUA.)
Do they support threads yet? Reply-to-list?
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> Which software is Linux's equivalence of M$'s PowerPoint?
Openoffice.org has Impress, which is probably what you're looking for.
It's deprecating Powerpoint at this point.
Karl E. Jorgensen wrote in Article
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> On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 07:49:55AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
>> Karl E. Jorgensen wrote in Article
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t do that, please. Munging is harmful at best. Why make it harder for
your audience to get your message?
http://www.interhack.net/pubs/munging-harmful
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