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Re: [trinity-users] Re: got a puzzle

From: William Morder <doctor_contendo@...>
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2018 06:29:59 -0700

On Sunday 10 June 2018 05:12:19 Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Sunday 10 June 2018 07:39:32 Pisini, John wrote:
> > Steven Pusser is one of the MX Linux Devs but I can't see him doing
> > that to your machine.
>
> In that event, neither can I. I must have added that repo because it had
> something I wanted and have forgotten both when and what.
>
> > Hopefully you have backups as the machine should
> > really be rebuilt.
>
> That I do, amanda runs every night.
>
> Rebuilt to debian amd64 stretch 9.4, iso coming in now. Next is firmware
> updates for seagate 2T drives and get another. Then burn a couple dvd's
> and a cd of the seagate firmware. And a fresh flash of my router's
> dd-wrt. Busy day ahead.
>
> > On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 7:32 AM, Gene Heskett <gheskett@...>
>
> wrote:
> > > On Sunday 10 June 2018 07:05:32 deloptes wrote:
> > > > Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > > > Call me puzzled. Or worse.
> > > >
> > > > this doesn't sound good - I would take the machine offline and
> > > > reinstall from scratch ... unless you are schizophrenic and your
> > > > other identity is this steven. Cause you won't know what was
> > > > replaced/installed from this site. Programs might be replaced with
> > > > compromised etc.
> > > >
> > > > this is my opinion.
> > > >
> > > > you wanted anyway to upgrade some time soon - what you can save
> > > > are the configurations you have there - but I would not keep this
> > > > machine online or at least not in my internal network.
> > > >
> > > > regards
> > >
> > > That will be difficult as there is not another machine to replace
> > > it, its the heart of my network. But the thought of upgrading to
> > > jessie has crossed my mind, maybe even stretch. I'm going to look
> > > through the logs, and I guess run up to staples and get me a couple
> > > 2T drives. My normal upgrade it always to a  new drive so I have the
> > > old drive available for the legacy stuffs, like my kmail cache that
> > > goes back to about 2007.
> > >
> > > And this time I think I'll go full 64 bit as some versions of
> > > linuxcnc will now run on a 64 bit install. Jessie, on an rpi3b is
> > > running my lathe pretty good.
> > >
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> > > Cheers, Gene Heskett

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. 

Bill