Sunday, 9 March 2008, 00:01 CST
I decided to play with Debian again, can’t recall why - it just seemed like a good idea at the time. So I grabbed my netinstall CD and installed Debian Etch (or Debian version 4.0). As expected, it installed without a hitch and all hardware except my PCMCIA wireless adapter was found and set up. The whole system worked fine.
At this point, it is important to note that apt (and aptitude) worked fine and had no issues installing software for me. So I opened my sources.list file and changed all instances of “etch” to “lenny” (If you need an explanation of the naming conventions go here) and ran apt-get update followed by apt-get dist-upgrade and then apt-get -f dist-upgrade and I get the following:
apt-get -y -f dist-upgrade
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Sunday, 8 July 2007, 16:28 CDT
As those who know me will know, I tend to change distros a lot. One of the problems I have encountered with this is that you lose your internet browser bookmarks and tend to forget your passwords and this rapidly becomes a pain. One of the solutions to this is to use the Google Browser Sync Firefox addon.
The program itself (if we assume, as I did, that it works flawlessly) is a godsend. It saves your bookmark list to a Google server along with your passwords, your cookies and the tabs/windows you last looked at. It’s also configurable, in a very limited sense, so you don’t have to save everything. As I said, it’s useful if you reinstall a lot but even more so if you wish to keep things sync’d across multiple PCs. And, because it’s Google, you feel all safe and helped.
But. A couple of months ago I reinstalled a distro and reinstalled the addon and discovered that all my bookmarks had gone. My passwords appeared to have been saved and worked, but all my carefully gathered bookmarks had disappeared. It wasn’t a total loss - I’m a bit of a hoarder and tend to save things even after they cease to be useful, so it was a good time to clear out my bookmarks and start again. But it was perturbing and so I hit the search trail - Google, not unsurprisingly.
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