Text 8151, 61 rader
Skriven 2006-11-27 17:53:44 av Maurice Kinal (1:140/13.1)
   Kommentar till text 8143 av WAYNE CHIRNSIDE (1:123/140)
Ärende: Re: compress.cfg
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Hey WAYNE!

Nov 27 06:19 06, WAYNE CHIRNSIDE wrote to MAURICE KINAL:

 WC> Eleven years on my Canon bubble jet and still no rebate.

The neighbour took a load of those to the dump that had been abandoned at the
local computer dealer.

 WC> On principle I refuse to participate in this.

Same here.  I have yet to see a rebate on anything good.  It is ALWAYS on crap
which is probably why they require an incentive in the first place.  Even if
the rebate does work out it is still a ripoff.

 WC> On average I suppose they do come out ahead on those determined to 
 WC> spend out of compulsion.

Could be.

 MK>> far. I had problems with one and the dealer took it back.

 WC> They get a good price on this boxes as there's so little to them.
 WC> Interface circuit amounts to a parallel - serial shift register I 
 WC> gather,
 WC> nothing much more. 

Sounds about right.  Not much to them that is for sure.

 WC> The firewall script Martin Atkins provided that works so well in 
 WC> Debian 
 WC> fails on an error for every instance iptables is invoked from that 
 WC> script.

Could be the version as well as the kernel.  I had some problems with iptables
(forget which version) and a later 2.6 kernel.  Also the headers - kernel and
glibc - can cause serious problems.

 WC> I tried altering the path.
 WC> iptables -L -n returnes no command.

Probably the kernel.  Sometimes a modprobe fixes the issue.

 WC> IOWs the need to get something accomplished supercedes sometimes the 
 WC> desire
 WC> to do it in the cleanest possible manner.

Understood.

 WC> Linux is just too powerful to try stuff willy nilly.

Sometimes.  Depends which account you are using, root as opposed to a user. 
When I am unsure about the result I usually try whatever as a user first,
within a home account before committing anything to root.  It is the root
account in any Unice is just too powerful to try stuff willy nilly.

Life is good,
Maurice

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