On Sunday 10 June 2018 22:48:53 William Morder wrote: > On Sunday 10 June 2018 10:32:55 Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Sunday 10 June 2018 11:23:37 William Morder wrote: > > > 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 > > > > They still roam the earth, Bill, except now we call them birds. :) > > I wonder if they tasted like chicken or turkey, or more gamey like > pheasant? > > Bill > I'd have to say that mere mortals like us will never know. Ostrich maybe?, its pretty ancient. Evolution has changed almost everything on this planet in the last 70 million years, including us. The singular exception might be Sharks which are pretty much as they existed even before that big hole in the planets crust was made that we found in the Yucatan, confirming Louise Alvarez's theory. That layer of iridium from that bolide is called the k-t boundary today. And its said to have been only 6 miles wide, yet its long winter caused 95% of this planets life to perish. Thats why we are now trying to keep track of the bigger stuff that might intersect our orbit, and designing means to pulverize and scatter most of it before it hits us, or at least alter its orbit enough to miss this wet rock we call home. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > trinity-users-unsubscribe@... For additional > commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@... Read > list messages on the web archive: > http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to > top-post: > http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>