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On Samstag 05 Dezember 2009, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> On 5/12/2009, "Philip Webb" <purslow@××××××××.net> wrote: |
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> >Anyway, don't do testing on the machine you use for everyday computing. |
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> >If you want to get into testing, use a dedicated machine for it. |
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> I've been using a separate partition on an existing machine to run a |
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> ~amd64 system for evaluation, and yesterday I got my comeuppance. I |
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> wanted to go back to an earlier backup of the test system*, so I took a |
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> backup of my home directory with its e-mail history, wiped the partition |
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> and restored the old backup followed by the home directory. Wrong. I'd |
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> mixed the home directories of the two systems and so I lost the last |
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> five weeks' worth of e-mails. |
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> And no, I hadn't been drinking or getting over-tired. Just goes to show |
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> - you can't be too careful. |
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> * The current test system had a series of KDE-4 problems, which I thought |
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> must have been caused by the patch bug, but simply remerging everything |
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> installed since then hadn't fixed them. |
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well, I had (1!) problem after updating to KDE 4.3.4. Konsole's fonts looked |
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ugly and the cursor was misplaced to the right by one 'space'. |
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Rebuilding everything emerged after patch-2.6 (which included kde, qt and a |
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lot of other stuff), solved that problem. |
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