I now understand this 'dependency Hell' thing of which people occasionally speak. I have been there.
The package I wanted on my laptop wasn't in Debian Etch (Stable). I tried a site full of backports but although they had the package, they hadn't put it in their lists, so I couldn't resolve the dependencies. I tried to build it from source, but again got stuck somewhere along a huge chain of building dependencies. In the end, I decided to risk all and upgrade the distribution.
I'm now running Debian Sid (Unstable). After all, what's the worst that could happen?
The package I wanted on my laptop wasn't in Debian Etch (Stable). I tried a site full of backports but although they had the package, they hadn't put it in their lists, so I couldn't resolve the dependencies. I tried to build it from source, but again got stuck somewhere along a huge chain of building dependencies. In the end, I decided to risk all and upgrade the distribution.
I'm now running Debian Sid (Unstable). After all, what's the worst that could happen?
My mouse is playing up. It makes phantom left clicks every now and again. I've tried to open it to have a look at the switches (like that'll help), but some bugger glued it together and I think if I apply any more force I'll tear it to pieces. We don't have any spare optical mice in the office.
I don't want to go back to a ball mouse!
I don't want to go back to a ball mouse!
Anyone else finding that lower-case 'f's here are followed too closely by the subsequent two characters? It's something I only get on my laptop (Iceweasel on Debian Etch); to be honest I'm not even sure what font this is...
Having got the wireless networking on my laptop working (by the looks), at the beginning of the week I bought a couple of new interface cards for my router.
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