10 Jun
2018
10 Jun
'18
5:32 p.m.
On Sunday 10 June 2018 11:23:37 William Morder wrote:
On Sunday 10 June 2018 07:19:14 dep wrote:
They still roam the earth, Bill, except now we call them birds. :)
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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