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On Saturday 02 February 2008, Dale wrote: |
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> > on reflection, it would probably have been easier for maxim to just |
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> > reinstall the box. But then again he learned a heap of stuff that's |
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> > hard to learn any other way |
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> Yea, if it breaks again, he's going to have a lot more ammo to work |
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> with. |
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Or, in the tried and trusted Unix tradition of 37 years, when he breaks |
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it himself next time he gets to keep both pieces AND have the glue that |
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puts them back together :-) |
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Sometimes I find myself deliberately breaking stuff just to see if I can |
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fix it. Try this one, it's not as easy as it looks: |
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emerge busybox to / on a machine in use without making symlinks |
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Now emerge something. You get an impressive error message. |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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