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Re: Debian glossary?

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On Monday 30 April 2018 12:03:31 David Wright wrote:

> On Mon 30 Apr 2018 at 10:44:58 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Monday 30 April 2018 09:24:12 Richard Owlett wrote:
> > > Sometimes automount and cousins are convenient. Other times
> > > %@%$^$!*() ;/
> >
> > Let me clarify that, to a right Pain In The Ass when trying to write
> > an armhf or arm64 systen to its boot u-sd card. They grab the card
> > the instant its plugged in and then dd has a hell of a time trying
> > to write to a mounted device.
>
> Yes, I seem to remember pointing out that the cause might be Package:
> usbmount, and being told that it wasn't there and I had an attitude
> problem.

My apologies David. It turned out to be hiding in plain sight and that is 
where I killed it.

> In the end I think you blamed the "few trillion gallons of 
> water [flowing] down the West Fork River" for a recollection problem.
>
That also is a definite possibility. My shorter term memory is suffering 
from oldtimers. Goes with both the 83 years, and I think from being a 
pulmonary embolism surviver 3 years back up the log.

> > > > On Monday, April 30, 2018 08:23:43 AM rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
> > > >> On Monday, April 30, 2018 07:46:01 AM Richard Owlett wrote:
> > > >>> Debian documentation NOT written for hoi polloi.
> >
> > And it needs to be.
>
> I can't understand why Debian would involve itself in writing
> tutorials for commands like mount, ls, and so on, or glossaries
> of terms like strictatime and device file.
>
> All this is standard linux/unix information, well catered for by
> libraries of books from several well-known publishers, O'Reilly
> being one of the best known. I spent 1997/8 immersing myself in such
> texts, at a time when these books had to be bought. (Public libraries
> only had Idiots' guides to W95, etc.) Now there are a wealth of
> free PDFs at every level of expertise on the web, there for the
> downloading.

> Cheers,
> David.

Thanks David.

-- 
Cheers, Gene Heskett
--
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
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Debian glossary? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-04-30 13:50 +0200
  Re: Debian glossary? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-04-30 14:30 +0200
    Re: Debian glossary? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-04-30 14:30 +0200
      Re: Debian glossary? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-04-30 15:30 +0200
        Re: Debian glossary? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-04-30 16:50 +0200
          Re: Debian glossary? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-04-30 18:10 +0200
            Re: Debian glossary? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-04-30 21:40 +0200
            Re: Debian glossary? Felix Dietrich <felix.dietrich@sperrhaken.name> - 2018-05-06 11:10 +0200
          Re: Debian glossary? songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2018-05-01 13:40 +0200
            Re: Debian glossary? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-05-01 14:00 +0200
              Re: Debian glossary? songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2018-05-01 14:20 +0200
    Re: Debian glossary? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-04-30 15:10 +0200
      Re: Debian glossary? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-04-30 15:50 +0200
        Re: Debian glossary? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-04-30 17:10 +0200
          Re: Debian glossary? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-04-30 19:20 +0200
            Re: Debian glossary? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-04-30 21:30 +0200
      Re: Debian glossary? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-04-30 16:40 +0200
        Re: Debian glossary? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-04-30 16:50 +0200
          Re: Debian glossary? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-04-30 17:00 +0200
            Re: Debian glossary? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-04-30 17:20 +0200
              Re: Debian glossary? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-04-30 17:40 +0200
                Re: Debian glossary? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-04-30 19:20 +0200
                Re: Debian glossary? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-04-30 19:30 +0200
                Re: Debian glossary? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-04-30 20:00 +0200
          Re: Debian glossary? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-04-30 18:10 +0200
            Re: Debian glossary? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-04-30 18:30 +0200
  Re: Debian glossary? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-04-30 15:30 +0200
    Re: Debian glossary? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-04-30 16:30 +0200
      Re: Debian glossary? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-04-30 19:00 +0200
        Re: Debian glossary? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-04-30 22:20 +0200
          Re: Debian glossary? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-05-01 02:30 +0200
            Debian mirror problem? was [Re: Debian glossary?] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-05-03 16:30 +0200
              Re: Debian mirror problem? was [Re: Debian glossary?] Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-05-03 19:30 +0200
                Re: Debian mirror problem? was [Re: Debian glossary?] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-05-03 21:20 +0200
              Re: Debian mirror problem? was [Re: Debian glossary?] David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-05-03 20:20 +0200
                Re: Debian mirror problem? was [Re: Debian glossary?] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-05-03 21:10 +0200
  Re: Debian glossary? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-04-30 17:10 +0200
    Re: Debian glossary? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-05-03 17:10 +0200
  Re: Debian glossary? Felix Dietrich <felix.dietrich@sperrhaken.name> - 2018-04-30 18:30 +0200
  Re: Debian glossary? Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2018-05-02 03:40 +0200

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