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Aaaaarrrgh

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I had to reinstall my Linux and forgot to back up my Oolite. I was about two kills away from the Thargoid mission as well.

Grrrrr...
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Ah yes back ups, a truism, there frequency is directly proportional to the amount of data you lose.
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Backup? Wotza backup? :oops:
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I'm intrigued. What could make you need to reinstall Linux?
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Post by chaos syndrome »

Managed to make something go wrong by accidentally doing a make install / make uninstall when I actually had a different version of the same software installed by RPM. Tried reinstalling the relevant stuff but it was still busted.

Plus I had a load of stuff left over from when I changed desktop managers.

Not that I'm currently using Linux because it makes my laptop get far too hot, causing major slowdowns. E.g. Amarok stops when I scroll a Firefox window. I'm back on WinXP. Grrr.
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Post by davcefai »

Strange. I'd suggest a visit to www.linuxquestions.org.

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