my debian blunders v.97

[adavis@saipan.com]

Now I've gone and done it.  

I deleted /var/lib/dpkg/status.

So now I can't manipulate anything?  Is this a feature?
(What can I do?)  This hard disk has a manuscript on it that I cannot afford
to lose, using LaTeX, and the TeX system is set up just right.  I don't have
a cdrom or a drive

I am thinking of starting an FTP marathon, and installing everything.  

Alan Davis

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 scheme of life, an increase in an individual's ability to pay is
 likely to take the form of an expenditure for some accredited line of
 conspicuous consumption"          

"there is no class of the community that spends a larger proportion
 of its substance in conspicuous waste than (the scholarly classes)."

"if a close inspection should show that the supposed hand-wrought
 spoon were in reality only a clever imitation of hand-wrought goods,
 but an imitation so cleverly wrought as to give the same impression
 of line and surface to any but a minute examination by a trained eye,
 the utility of the article, including gratification which the user
 derives from its contemplation as an object of beauty, would
 immediately decline by some eighty or ninety percent, or even more"

     ------Thorsten Veblen, _The Theory of the Leisure Class_



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