10 Jun
2018
10 Jun
'18
3:23 p.m.
On Sunday 10 June 2018 07:19:14 dep wrote:
said William Morder:
| This is just a wild guess ... but is there any chance that you have
| downloaded the Pale Moon browser recently?
|
| Steven Pusser's repo appears after you download Pale Moon. However, I
| don't allow that to happen. I copy the URL of that repo to my
| sources.list manually, then backup and maintain my sources.list on an
| external hard drive.
This reminds me of a DOS game I bought (for I think $5 at a computer show)
back in the late 1980s. It had a small install routine that copied the
program to the hard drive and overwrote autoexec.bat with the name of the
executable file. In those days autoexec.bat could run to a couple of
pages, with us all trying to make our machines a little faster and getting
use of memory above 640k, which was a delicate thing. To say nothing of
the TSR programs many of us ran. Setting comspec right after we copied
command.com to a RAM drive. That kind of thing. So autoexec.bat was a
nontrivial thing, and turning a well-tuned machine into a single-game
console was troublesome.
I swear, this mailing list is sort of like Jurassic Park: a place where
dinosaurs still roam the earth.
Bill