Thomas H. George on 2006-07-14 11:47:30 -0400:
> Fetchmail is downloading messages but mutt is not displaying them? I
> have not changed any settings and I saw nothing in the latest
> dist-upgrade of testing which related to mutt. What can have gone
> wrong?
I don't know, but I can help you fin
Ben Lau on 2006-07-14 11:24:52 +0800:
> Packages like libopenlibraries , jahshaka are existed in
> ftp.nerim.net, but now was gone. I need them for video editing. Do
> anybody body know why they are removed from the repository?
http://www.debian-multimedia.org/
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Haines Brown on 2006-07-13 09:48:02 -0400:
> I tried:
>
> # tar xvf /dev/st0 *.xyz
> tar: /dev/st0: Cannot read: Input/output error
> tar: At beginning of tape, quitting now
> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
>
> When I tried the tvf options for tar, I get the same resul
Anonymous on 2006-07-11 17:00:56 -:
> I'd like to keep some of the data on my computer's hard drive
> encrypted, but not necessarily all of it. But I also need to be able
> to reboot the computer remotely and log into by SSH without the
> encrypted FS mounted, then mount the encrypted partitio
Redefined Horizons on 2006-07-11 08:22:28 -0700:
> I have created a little wiki to assist newbies to Debian with Java
> development on the operating system.
It would be great if that were integrated into the Debian wiki,
wiki.debian.org.
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Hans du Plooy on 2006-07-11 15:24:34 +0200:
> mercury:/home/www/web8/web# ps ax | grep ftp
> 3123 ?Ds 0:00 proftpd: (accepting connections)
> 18183 ?D 0:00 /usr/sbin/proftpd
> 19079 pts/0D 0:00 /usr/sbin/proftpd
>
> How do I kill this? I'm not exactly in a posi
Adam Funk on 2006-07-11 13:28:30 +0100:
> How good is the inverse function (ripping the CD tracks back to WAV)?
If your disks scratch, then you may lose information; also take into
consideration the expected life of your media.
> Is there any loss of information in burning the files to CD?
I do
Raphael Brunner on 2006-07-09 20:40:55 +0200:
> I want to redirect the mails from the system (from root) to my
> home-mail-system on the same machine. On my home I have fetchmail and
> procmail to receive the mails from the internet-provider and sort it
> into a lot of folders. I want to get the s
Andrew Malcolmson on 2006-07-09 13:53:41 -0400:
> Can anyone other than a package maintainer add comments to bug reports?
Yes, send an email to @bugs.debian.org. Additional useful
information is always welcome.
> Can I somehow 'vote' for a fix for a neglected bug?
In the Bugzilla sense of 'vot
Kamaraju Kusumanchi on 2006-07-06 13:07:41 -0400:
> Now whenever I am upgrading privoxy, I would like apt-get (or aptitude or
> whatever other software) to check if there any newer versions of the
> dependencies and update those as well. Is this possible? If so, How?
'apt-get upgrade' and 'apt-
Magnus Therning on 2006-04-19 23:10:58 +0100:
> AFAICS it would be possible to get mailing list managing software, like
> mailman, to add a header to email sent to lists indicating the senders
> preference. Then well-behaved mail clients can use that header as a hint
> when the user replies to a m
Anthony Campbell on 2006-04-17 15:35:13 +0100:
> All the vim packages I've tried (vim, vim-gtk, vim-full) don't install
> a help file. There does not seem to be any separate package which
> supplies this. Is this a bug?
vim-runtime:
This package contains the architecture independent runtime
fi
begin quotation of Thierry Michalowski on 2004-10-23 16:58:41 +0200:
> The question is : should I nevertheless proceed with a woody
> installation CD , manually change my sources.list and apt-get
> dist-upgrade at will ?
> Or should I use the sarge-rc1 CD install ?
You should use the new debia
begin quotation of John Fleming on 2004-10-13 07:50:53 -0500:
> What does it mean when update gets packages, but then upgrade
> doesn't do anything? Thanks!
None of the packages you have installed have candidates for update.
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begin quotation of Jouke Witteveen on 2004-10-11 15:48:26 +0200:
> Since lic6 is not yet available for debian stable in the right
> version for Gaim 1 I'm forced (I'm not interested in the testing
> distro) to use Gaim 0.58. This is no problem for AIM but most of my
> friends only have MSN so I
begin quotation of icebiker on 2004-10-09 18:24:56 -0400:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc$ hostname -i
> hostname: Unknown host
This (along with its omission in your email) leads me to believe
you've overlooked /etc/hosts. 'man hosts' for more information.
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begin quotation of Adi Linden on 2004-10-04 16:57:02 -0500:
> How long can I expect to see security fixes for Woody? One year, two
> years, five years? What about Sarge?
Security updates for potato (the version before woody) were available
for approximately six months after woody's release. I w
begin quotation of Mr. Jan Hearthstone on 2004-09-27 21:22:40 -0700:
>I am geting a mesage from "apt-get" that: ...
>"Reading Package Lists... Error!
>E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
>E: Read error - read (14 Bad address)
>E: The package lists or status file could not be
> par
begin quotation of [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 2004-09-06 22:31:58 -0500:
> I would like to know if there is a way I can have this macine to
> identlify the network and the ip address. I have DSL Internet
> connection - I have a DSL Modem and a 4 port Linksys Router. I have
> 2 computer connecting to
begin quotation of Ed Sutherland on 2004-08-30 22:06:27 -0400:
> How do I start mysql in Debian? Thanks.
Assuming you have mysql-server installed, you should be able to type
(with root permissions) `/etc/init.d/mysql start`. It defaults to
automatically starting at boot.
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begin quotation of Jason D. Berg on 2004-08-20 14:12:33 -0700:
> Whenever I click a link in Thunderbird or Evolution, it opens up
> Epiphany as my browser. When I click a link in FirstClass, it opens up
> Konqueror. When I click a link in gaim, it opens up Firefox. I want
> every link I click
begin quotation of Scott Mohnkern on 2004-08-20 11:47:44 -0400:
> hmmm. I've never tried "apt-get search" before
Typo - `apt-cache search`. Sorry
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begin quotation of Scott Mohnkern on 2004-08-20 09:13:39 -0400:
> should apt-get being doing kernel updates? For some reason I'm
> still running 2.2.
apt-get will be doing updates to your kernel; problem is, I doubt
there are any. The kernel packages are generally version specific;
for exampl
begin quotation of Nori Heikkinen on 2004-08-16 15:57:03 -0400:
> 2. any advice on which dns server package i should use, if i'm to do
> it myself? i seem to recall hearing the praises of DJBDNS sung, and
> i don't want to start a religious war, but i'm curious if there is a
> recommended beginn
begin quotation of Tong on 2004-08-07 14:51:16 -0400:
> On Sat, 07 Aug 2004 15:15:17 -0400, Alec Berryman wrote:
>
> > begin quotation of Tong on 2004-08-07 14:20:53 -0400:
> >
> >> I'm new to Debian. Seems that Debian keeps all configuration data in
> >
begin quotation of Tong on 2004-08-07 14:20:53 -0400:
> I'm new to Debian. Seems that Debian keeps all configuration data in
> a DB. Is there a way to backup this configuration data, so that
> next time when I have to reinstall Debian, using apt-get install
> , I don't have to answer those hard
begin quotation of Adrian Bolzan on 2004-08-03 12:54:52 +1000:
> - On-board NICs, given on the HP site as "Two NC7760 PCI Gigabit Server
> Adapters (embedded)"
You'll need to select the 'tg3' module.
> Will woody with the standard bf2.4 kernel detect the NIC's and RAID
> controller?
> Will I n
begin quotation of dircha on 2004-07-29 22:45:05 -0500:
> Is there an advanced option in the new installer to install woody? I
> swear I remember seeing at least an advanced option to install sid directly.
If you boot into the 'expert' install and load the installer component
to select the mirr
begin quotation of Alvin Oga on 2004-07-28 15:41:22 -0700:
> > I've been setting up software RAID1 and am wondering what to do about
> > swap. According to the Software-RAID-HOWTO
> > (http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO-2.html), there's
> > apparently an 'ongoing debate' on the virtue
I've been setting up software RAID1 and am wondering what to do about
swap. According to the Software-RAID-HOWTO
(http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO-2.html), there's
apparently an 'ongoing debate' on the virtues of using software RAID1
with swap.
I currently have same-sized partitions
begin quotation of Hendrik Boom:
> This still leaves open which is the best way to go about it -- copy and
> upgrade, or new install.
New install. The new installer will recreate automatically most of
the config files you'd be moving, and you'll have a cleaner system to
start from.
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begin quotation of Stefaan Himpe:
> In case of a static ip address, don't use dhcp.
> Dhcp is for dynamic ip addresses only.
It's also possible his ISP has assigned him a static IP through DHCP;
this does make configuration easier for most folks as you don't need
to specify any information.
si
begin quotation of David Purton:
> This is finally driven me nuts enough to try and fix it.
>
> I use dhcp to get an ip address from my dlink dsl 300+ modem.
>
> The problem is, that it wants to renew it every 5 seconds and syslog
> *fills* up with this sort of log message:
>
> Jul 23 22:41:29
I'm trying to do software raid on a fresh install of Woody with a
2.4.26 kernel. In order to load the software raid I need to make an
initrd image, so I installed initrd-tools. However, when I run
mkinitrd, I get the following message:
# mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd.img-2.4.26 2.4.26
/usr/sbin/mkini
I'd like to generate a SSL certificate for apache-ssl and have tried
using the tool 'ssl-certificate'. I have invoked it as
'ssl-certificate --force --days 1000', and it appears to generate a
valid certificate. However, when I restart apache and try to browse
the site (with both Firefox and Galeo
On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 11:28:44AM +0200, Markus Lindstr?m wrote:
> I'm trying to find a way to make bash use ls colors by default, on
> all virtual consoles. It seems my ~/.bashrc has this activated, but
> it only uses it on any virtual terminal I create in X.
>
> I searched around the disk a bit
On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 01:18:25PM +0800, Enrique Samson Jr. wrote:
> how do i know about what configure options were used in building a
> particular package? particularly mysql-server...
You'll want to find out what's in the debian/rules file. You can get to
that at least two ways:
Via package
On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 05:19:16PM -0500, Chris Metzler wrote:
> As others have noted, your system is loading the OSS drivers, rather
> than the ALSA drivers.
>
> What I suspect is happening (given that you're using a system based
> around the 2.4 kernel) is that you have the discover package inst
Hi list,
I've just installed Debian Testing from the new installer - very slick -
but am having problems getting my sound to work. I have ALSA modules
and utilities installed:
alsa-modules-2.4.25-1-686 (for kernel 2.4.25-1-686)
alsa-base-1.0.3-1
alsa-utils-1.0.3-1
When I boot up, however, ALSA
On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 07:04, Philip Ross wrote:
> Given Red Hat updates will end at the end of the year, I want to get up and
> running with Debian before that. If sarge doesn't become stable until next
> year, would it be better to install woody now and upgrade to sarge in a few
> months, or inst
On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 11:27, Paul William wrote:
> setup a vnc server on your desktop and then forward the vnc port (port
> forwarding) thought your router to your desktop. If this does not make
> sense search google from "vnc" and do another search for "port
> forwarding"
>
> On Sun, 2003-11-16 a
On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 20:08, James Hosken wrote:
> Hi
>
> I need to upgrade woody's kernel to 2.4.x so that I can run my Matrox G550
> graphics card.
>
> Please can some one point me in the right direction of some instructions or send
> me some. The Kernal howto has been removed from debian.org.
On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 20:08, James Hosken wrote:
> Please can some one point me in the right direction of some instructions or send
> me some. The Kernal howto has been removed from debian.org.
Sorry for hitting the trigger early last time. I'm doing this now -
check out http://www.holtmann.org/
On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 09:24, Kent West wrote:
> Otto Wyss wrote:
> > So far I've tested Knoppix from the newspaper ct (has no
> > root access)
>
> sudo will give you root access in Knoppix
You can grab a real root prompt with 'rootme'.
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e no recollection of ever being asked this question. I orignally had
Potato on the box with KDE2 (and ssh packages that came with it) and later
upgraded to Woody. Maybe that's why.
Thanks
Alec
e, it is a
security concern, since unintended net services are run. Wouldn't it be
better to break ssh and sshd into two separate packages? Right know, at least
in Woody, sshd is part of ssh.
Thanks
Alec
tter" (I think Dr.
Dobbs Journal had a piece on this): Timely initial delivery is more important
to the success of software than its quality.
Alec
ture).
Just goes to show that "worse is better".
Alec
Hi
I'm curious, what's keeping some KDE packages from becoming 2.2?
apt-cache show kmail
for example, still gives "4:2.1.1-7"
Thanks
Alec
in case I have it?
startx
> Cheers Al Newbie
Good luck! Configuring X is often the biggest pain, while installing Linux.
Alec
upports
Redhat <= 7.1
Thanks
Alec
On Thursday 24 January 2002 06:03 am, Alan Shrimpton wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Okay, now I installed it. How do I start it?
>
> Cheers Al
/usr/X11R6/bin/netscape & /usr/bin/mozilla &
echo Starting Netscape4, Mozilla;
echo Please wait...;
sleep 30
Hi
How can I match the same character repeated n times?
".{n}" matches any n characters.
Thanks
Alec
roduct. And let
> me tell you: upgrading Mandrake is a Perilous Journey.
>
> "apt-get upgrade" is the *absolute* best...
Isn't there an automatic tool like Drake-update or something on Mandrake?
Alec
r code) Firstly, Lindows is likely to be killed
to MS or the market. Secondly, scanners cost less. Thirdly, I would value
computing freedom a bit more than the price of a typical scanner.
Alec
tionally equivalent. RPM *is* a good packaging system, it's other
> things which make .rpm based systems suck (read my next post).
If RPM is good, why did Debian project feel compelled to create dpkg?
Alec
apt.
You can ftp updates for free from RH or mirrors and satisfy the dependencies
either by hand or with autorpm.
Alec
unified script. I prefer the former and, AFAIK, both RH and Debian use
SysV-style start-up scripts.
Alec
fix the problem, and no one
here helps you, try news://comp.text.tex . TeX community is very helpful.
Alec
On Thursday 03 January 2002 03:30 am, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> On 03-Jan-2002 Alec wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I noticed that (on woody) searching for a file with auto-apt will
> > sometimes produce no results, while dpkg -L may list the file. E.g.
> > $
Hi
Debian mailing lists are mirrored on (interfaced to) USENET under
linux.debian.*, and our email addresses aren't even scrambled! USENET is
probably the number one source for the email address snooping spammers. Can
they catch up with all of us one day?
Alec
Hi
I noticed that (on woody) searching for a file with auto-apt will sometimes
produce no results, while dpkg -L may list the file. E.g.
$ auto-apt search pa_sml
$ dpkg -L camlp4 | grep pa_sml
/usr/lib/camlp4/pa_sml.cmo
Why?
Thanks
Alec
Hi
I have the following script:
-
#!/bin/bash
echo $PWD
-
and I try to run it with
env PWD=/bin script
but it always prints the correct working directory instead of "/bin".
Why?
Thanks
Alec
the drop-down menu to appear. 9 seconds and less will not
try my patience :)
Regards,
Alec
P.S. I apologize for being OT. This is my last post in this thread.
t
include it.
If anyone who knows Haskell or O'Caml is intersted in collaborating on this
type of simple benchmark (Similar to http://www.bagley.org/~doug/shootout/).
let me know!
We might even create a *deb for it!
Alec
> > In my opinion you should even avoid 'plain' C because
FORTRAN, Haskell, O'Caml, SML,
Prolog, Java (for some people, but not for me).
Alec
P.S. A real BOFH would say "man cc" :)
> Cheers,
> Willem
>
> >You'll find loads of recommendations and other info on the web and on the
> >C/C++ newsgroups.
> >
> >A
M + GMake + G++-3.0)
The learning curve may be a bit steep, but you get to understand a lot of
things better.
Good luck
Alec
you something to read
until 2003. Otherwise, RTFM is sometimes accompanied by DAFS (Do a f*
search), which should be directing you to, say,
http://groups.google.com/groups?group=comp.os.linux.misc
with all google's search capabilities.
HTH
Alec
n me right now to look it up. However, I'd guess the problem
> is in your initialization of iter2 and eof.
They are initialized by default to represent the end of the input.
Don't know exactly what the OP wants to do, but he might try something like
this, which will print everything between the first line that starts with {
and the fist one that starts with } afterwards.
#include
#include
#include
using namespace std;
int main()
{
string s;
ifstream in("main.cc");
while(getline(in, s, '\n') && s[0] != '{');
while(getline(in, s, '\n') && s[0] != '}') cout << s << '\n';
}
HTH
Alec
How come `time a.out > /dev/null` prints "time" output,
while `time (a.out > /dev/null)` doesn't print anything at all.
Shouldn't it be the other way around?
Thanks
Alec
Hi
I want send all messages from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to /dev/null except for those
that contain (case insensitive) "keyword" in its subject. How can I do this?
Thanks
Alec
isfying my nagging curiousity.
Alec
>
> I got it, configured and compiled it and tried to run it to play a dvd
> disk.
>
> It complained about a missing codecs file - but I haven't seen such a file
> mentioned anywhere in the documentation. Anyone any ideas.
There's a separate downloadable *zip file with codecs on the web site.
Alec
Why not put pine in non-free? Other distributions ship with pine...
Alec
ery well (unless you only use procmail to filter out unwanted mail) kmail
doesn't show mail sorted by procmail as new. So now I just use fetchmail (in
crontab) and kmail with its own built-in filters.
Thanks
Alec
Hi
How can I turn off the "You have mail in /var/mail/alec" notification in
bash, if that's possible?
Thanks
Alec
Hi
Is it possible to get fetchmail to dump messages from my yahoo account into,
say "~/yahoo", instead of mixing it with the other mail in "/var/mail/alec".
I tried the "expert" mode in fetchmailconf, but still didn't find this
option. It seems to offer addin
ll mention that, when accessing my mail.yahoo.com account, and
when the number of messages there is greater than usual (like around 100),
kmail says "Couldn't login. Internal error"
Alec
P.S. Hope people in CC: have something to do with kmail. Thanks.
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ready running,
dpkg-reconfigure sendmail
says that it's not installed (and I don't want to
install it, since last I heard, exim was a more secure
replacement)
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Alec
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cache search kde | grep -i html
produced nothing :(
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I make backups using a cron job and I set MAILTO=""
Can I configure cron to mail me
a) *only* when there were errors
b) email only STDERR (not STDOUT)
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>
> s/GNU\///
>
> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/browsers.html
Speaking of browsers, how does one "go back and forward" in w3m?
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On Sunday 09 December 2001 03:12 pm, dman wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 03:03:31PM -0500, Alec wrote:
> | I have 2 HDs, and I just had Win98 installed on the slave HD.
>
> ...
>
> | But when I try to boot into Windows, it says "Loading Windows" and gets
> | stuc
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On Saturday 08 December 2001 07:56 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 01:55:12PM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk
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> > * Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) spake thusly:
> > > on Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 12:34:25AM -0500, Alec ([EMAIL
On Saturday 08 December 2001 11:34 am, Paolo Falcone wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 12:34:25AM -0500, Alec wrote:
> >Is Netscape 6.2 any good? Is it worth installing? Any reason to >prefer it
> > to Netscape 4.77? How is it different from Mozilla?
>
> Compared with 4.7
What does it mean "the following packages have been kept back"?
When I do apt-get upgrade, I get:
The following packages have been kept back
libglib1.2 libglib1.2-dev
What's the meaning of this? They could not be upgraded for som
Is Netscape 6.2 any good? Is it worth installing? Any reason to prefer it to
Netscape 4.77? How is it different from Mozilla?
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On Friday 07 December 2001 02:05 pm, Craig Dickson wrote:
> The following procmail recipe can keep your inbox clear of it:
> :0
>
> * ^X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> /dev/null
>
>
> Craig
Craig, can't you do
On Thursday 06 December 2001 11:41 pm, dman wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 11:21:41PM -0500, Alec wrote:
> | Hi
> |
> | I have a program that produces output to STDOUT and will probably take
> | several days to run. I already figured that it's better to run it using
> | &
ing X, will not interrupt it.
I'm wondering if there's also a way to insure against shutting down of the
machine, i.e. enable saving of the session (RAM) at shutdown and restarting
from where it stopped when the computer is brought up?
Thanks
Alec
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Where do I report silly bugs like the one below? The package wouldn't even
get installed: Somebody wrote "cp * file" in a script?!
Alec
-
$ apt-get install crafty
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Don
with `plaympeg test.mpg` ?
Alec
On Monday 03 December 2001 10:31 pm, Peter Good wrote:
> Back before I upgraded, with an early version of Xine, early version of
> Captian Css's d4d, a celeron 433, riva tnt2 32mb agp, and 128mb ram, i used
> to get quite respectable performance watching
am movements like all the other players have (linux
> and windoze).
> May this be due to hardware? cos having a laptop, i only use stripped
> down hardware like: a mobile p3 850mhz w/ geforce2go,
How much RAM on the video card? I'm wondering what kind of hardware one needs
to play
n video being played on your screen, I'd really like to know what
shows up in your browser, when you type "about:plugins" as URL.
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can I configure Netscape for this?
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How does one connect two computers to the internet throught one ethernet
socket? Does one of them have to have two ethernet cards and run special
software?
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Is there an apt-get'able package containing Contents.tar.gz?
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Is there a utility that converts XF86Config into XF86Config-4?
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I don't know if this is POSIX-compliant behaviour or a bug, but xargs can
only pass 1024 arguments.
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