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I have seen this happen earlier on my own machines (e.g. on a reinstall) and to remedy it I had removed the offending key from the known_hosts file. But I wanted to know what is the correct way to *update* the entry. A quick scan at the ssh man page didn't give me much light except the reasons why it happened. I confess I didn't read the man page 100% ;)
I don't think many people would be interested but still leaving a note. I got Debian/Lenny to run on a USB flash disk (1GB) with XFCE4 on my MacBook Pro. I know this has been done earlier and there is lots of documentation for it. But my only requirement was that the installation should not involve any changes on the MBP internal hard disk whatsoever.
I am documenting my procedure for the installation here. It is just a quick write and should be considered a first draft. You can leave suggestions to improve the document below.
PS: Steve, the CSS restyle went on hold in the last few weeks due to busy time in family. Will revive it in a couple of days.
This definitely gives me bragging rights ;) Now the questions is: does it reach me first or Etch releases?
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I was updating my Debian Unstable box a few minutes ago and during the pre-install configuration, it asked me if I wanted to install CA certicates for cacert.org and debconf.org. I didn't install them because it had asked me to install if I trusted them.
I had read Steve's recent article on SSH keys and hence wanted to know if there is a way to check the trustworthiness of these ca-certificates. Any help is welcome.
PS: The above said package ca-certificates was obtained from official debian repository by apt.
This week we started preparations for a project to do recording of the hymns recited every Sunday at our place of worship. The idea is to split the signal from the mixer and feed it to the computer's sound card in addition to the amplifier. From there on, we plan to use something simple as audacity to do the recording (other mixing softwares might be too complicated to use if we aren't there) and then convert them to a compressed format for archiving purposes.
The interesting part till now has been the PC which we are getting. It is an Acer PIV 2.6GHz 512MB desktop with Windows XP installed on it. We decided to give the plan a try without destroying the Windows installed .... yet. As usual the desktop had only one partition on a 160GB HDD. I booted it with a GParted - LiveCD and it gave me a nice little GUI for editing the hard disk partitions. I reduced the windows partition(NTGS) to around 30GB and the rest was for Linux. GParted reduced the windows partition without any trouble and I rebooted the machine in Windows just to make sure.
The machine boots, Windows XP notices something wrong, throws a hiccup and tells me that it needs to check the integrity of the disk. I smiled and let it do its job, didn't find anything wrong and finally it gave me the desktop. From there on, in went the Linux CD, a reboot was in order and the Linux installation started... Windows XP never had a clue what it went through!
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I'm a little confused about which type of new HDD to buy, so I thought I might get some help from the userbase. I'm looking in the range of 300GB to 500GB as the price comes down day by day. I saw a 500GB SATA II last week for $159.99!
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Couldn't find the old pictures of the swirls yet, so this one came to mind. It is not red, but still the swirl we love so much. Made in yogurt mixture using powdered roasted cumin seeds. Enjoy!
There was a talk about folding long planet entries yesterday on planet.debian.org. Erich started it and Daniel came up with a userContent.css hack. You can do the same with the bookmarklet I quickly cooked up and clicking on the bookmarklet again lets you unfold the the entries on the fly too. You can get the bookmarklet from here.
The pdoFoldToggle bookmarlet has a drawback that it does not automatically fold the entries. Another wayout can be another bookmarklet (will the there soon) to be used along with Daniel's userContent.css. The longer entries get folded by themselves and you will be able to unfold them via the new bookmarklet.
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Once in a while I have thought of collecting things/pictures from real life which remind me of Linux. Here are a couple:
I wonder if anyone has found debian in real life e.g. the swirl. I did, but don't remember where I put the images. On related note owing to my love for the swirl, I have asked a dear friend of mine to make a quilt/wall-hanging with the swirl on it. I can't wait till she finishes.