You touched one of my pet peeves (was dpkg: syntax error)
On 03/27/2011 08:35 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote:
An apt-get update for Squeeze gives the following error message:-
dpkg: syntax error in file triggers file `/var/lib/dpkg/triggers//File'
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
The machine is a fairly standard KDE Squeeze i386 - the update is (I
believe) the last point release (92 upgraded packages), and
/var/lib/dpkg/triggers/File does exist, and has no obvious syntax errors
(or blank spaces.
Is the double backslashes a clue?
That's a double *slash*. The backslash (on my US "small <Enter>" kb)
is under the pipe.
We know this because typewriter keyboards only had one such key and so
Lower Left To Upper Right became the "slash" key. When IBM added
another key, that new key became the backslash.
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You touched one of my pet peeves (was dpkg: syntax error)
* On 2011 27 Mar 21:13 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> That's a double *slash*. The backslash (on my US "small <Enter>"
> kb) is under the pipe.
>
> We know this because typewriter keyboards only had one such key and
> so Lower Left To Upper Right became the "slash" key. When IBM added
> another key, that new key became the backslash.
Even more annoying are some local radio commercials where the voice
says, "aH Tee Tee Pea Colon Backslash Backslash Double-U Double-U
Double-U blah blah blah".
- Nate >>
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03-28-2011, 02:52 AM
Scott Ferguson
You touched one of my pet peeves (was dpkg: syntax error)
On 28/03/11 13:26, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> * On 2011 27 Mar 21:13 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
>
>> That's a double *slash*. The backslash (on my US "small <Enter>"
>> kb) is under the pipe.
>>
>> We know this because typewriter keyboards only had one such key and
>> so Lower Left To Upper Right became the "slash" key. When IBM added
>> another key, that new key became the backslash.
>
> Even more annoying are some local radio commercials where the voice
> says, "aH Tee Tee Pea Colon Backslash Backslash Double-U Double-U
> Double-U blah blah blah".
>
> - Nate >>
>
Blame Embrace Extend Extinguish...
And Double-U Double-U - I "know" that is how it's supposed to be, but
I've spent years (delighting in) saying "wuh" "wuh" "wuh" (as in the
Magyar "w").
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03-28-2011, 03:25 AM
Marc Shapiro
You touched one of my pet peeves (was dpkg: syntax error)
On 03/27/11 19:52, Scott Ferguson wrote:
And Double-U Double-U - I "know" that is how it's supposed to be, but
I've spent years (delighting in) saying "wuh" "wuh" "wuh" (as in the
Magyar "w").
How about combining all three of them into 'hexa-u"?
Marc
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You touched one of my pet peeves (was dpkg: syntax error)
On 03/27/2011 11:25 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote:
On 03/27/11 19:52, Scott Ferguson wrote:
And Double-U Double-U - I "know" that is how it's supposed to be, but
I've spent years (delighting in) saying "wuh" "wuh" "wuh" (as in the
Magyar "w").
How about combining all three of them into 'hexa-u"?
Marc
German has a common usage for something like that: they would say
"dreimal weh" where weh would be pronounced vay. I.e., "three times
double-you."
You hear it more often in "zweimal"--two times. Zweimal Kaffee, when
you're ordering
with another at breakfast, etc.
--doug
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You touched one of my pet peeves (was dpkg: syntax error)
On 2011-03-27 21:52:29 Scott Ferguson wrote:
>And Double-U Double-U - I "know" that is how it's supposed to be, but
>I've spent years (delighting in) saying "wuh" "wuh" "wuh" (as in the
>Magyar "w").
World Wide Web = 3 syllables.
www = double-u double-u double-u = 9 syllables.
Abbreviation FAIL!
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03-28-2011, 03:35 PM
Tony van der Hoff
You touched one of my pet peeves (was dpkg: syntax error)
On 28/03/11 16:11, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
On 2011-03-27 21:52:29 Scott Ferguson wrote:
And Double-U Double-U - I "know" that is how it's supposed to be, but
I've spent years (delighting in) saying "wuh" "wuh" "wuh" (as in the
Magyar "w").
World Wide Web = 3 syllables.
www = double-u double-u double-u = 9 syllables.
"dub-dub-dub" is becoming quite popular in my circles.
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You touched one of my pet peeves (was dpkg: syntax error)
On Mar 28, 2011, at 9:11 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> World Wide Web = 3 syllables.
> www = double-u double-u double-u = 9 syllables.
3dub works -- 2 syllables, and less work required from the mouth :-)
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