[ale] dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

[Michael B. Trausch]

On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 23:18 -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:
> Even if you master emacs learn the basics of vi: open and close files,
> edit a simple line, copy and delete a line, basic movements around a
> file and basic search within a file.

Indeed, indeed.  Most embedded systems don't have an emacs installed.
(Well, it is a large program...)

I know how to use vi, but I don't use it every day.  Actually, I had a
hard drive fail last week---kernel remounted everything read-only.  What
saved me?  I could not login to a VT, couldn't open gnome-terminal or
xterm, but I had a running emacs session, and "/bin/bash", and a few of
the regular utilities, were still cached in RAM.  *Ta-da!*
Unfortunately, /bin/sudo was hosed, as was /bin/su, and Hardy doesn't
have that local root exploit that can be done (of course, _that_ program
read just fine to tell me that it couldn't do it, lol.  Only time in my
life I ever found myself going, "Please let me in, please let me in!"

Fortunately, all I lost was the last 2 hours of play time in my NES
emulator.  Oh, well.

    --- Mike

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