On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 10:41 +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > * John Hasler > > | My last use of it was long ago, but I remember it clearly. Too clearly. > | I'd rather use dpkg directly. > > I'd rather use ar, tar, hack dpkg's status file and run the maintainer > scripts by hand. > > (Or flip the bits on the drive with a pair of tweezers and a small > magnet.) I'd rather use punch cards. Batch jobs written in FORTRAN II run really fast on my Athlon. But dropping the card boxes with the kernel in them was a *true* mess. Thank $DEITY the cards are numbered: I threw them in the card sorter that's in the middle of the living room and had the 2.6.9 kernel sorted in only 5 hours and 8 passes. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. "Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning, but without understanding." Justice Louis Brandeis, dissenting, Olmstead v US (1928)
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