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Re: Newbie wants Firefox and Tbird



Kent West wrote:
> I'm forever needing to know when I did something. Usually not to fix a
> problem, but to build a context from which I can remember something
> else. ("Let's see, I know I paid the electric bill online the same day I
> installed "starvoyager"; when was that?" as a trivial and hypothetical
> example.)

> So again, we're simply back to the idea that sudo provides no benefit to
> you, but it does to me.

    Something tells me that this isn't a universally held benefit nor, again,
is it one that is limited to sudo.  I don't use sudo and yet I could tell you
exactly when I installed starvoyager.

root@mania:/var/log# zgrep starvoyager * | grep INSTALL
aptitude.1.gz:[INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] starvoyager-data
aptitude.1.gz:[INSTALL] starvoyager
root@mania:/var/log# zless aptitude.1.gz
[ snip of output to relevant lines ]
Aptitude 0.2.15.9: log report
Wed Aug 31 15:05:23 2005
[ snip more lines ]
[INSTALL] starvoyager

    Yup, on Aug. 31st at 3:05pm I installed starvoyager.  Didn't need sudo to
tell me that.  ;P

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