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| Newer page: | version 18 | Last edited on Friday, April 1, 2005 10:26:55 am | by JohnMcPherson | Revert |
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@@ -9,9 +9,9 @@
The Linux lp# driver says this when your printer signals an error, but doesn't signal which error. Usually this means the printer is offline. (This message was copied from much earlier line printer daemons from unixes of old.)
__Update:__ [Kernel] 2.4.20 contains the following change from 2.4.19:
-
+<verbatim>
diff -urN linux-2.4.19/drivers/usb/printer.c
linux-2.4.20/drivers/usb/printer.c
--- linux-2.4.19/drivers/usb/printer.c Fri Aug 2 17:39:45 2002
+++ linux-2.4.20/drivers/usb/printer.c Thu Nov 28 15:53:14 2002
@@ -20,8 +20,9 @@
*/
-static char *usblp_messages[] = { "ok", "out of paper", "off-line", "on fire" };
+static char *usblp_messages[] = { "ok", "out of paper", "off-line", "unknown error" };
+</verbatim>
!! Q276304 - Error Message: Your Password Must Be at Least 18770 Characters and Cannot Repeat Any of Your Previous 30689 Passwords
A Microsoft Windows error message as reported by comp.risks 21.37
@@ -31,13 +32,23 @@
This message appears for certain unix programs when an entry can't be found for you in /etc/passwd (or these days, via [PAM]). This might be because you've not logged in via login(1) (this can happen if /etc/inittab specifies a program that doesn't log you in, instead of getty(8)), if your machine can't retrieve the data from the network (if you are using [NIS] or [LDAP] or some other network user administration system) or if you've made a mistake editing /etc/passwd (or friends).
!! Curse on you, wizard, before you recurse on me.
-bibtex(1) style files use an undocumented language called [BST] (or that's the file extenstion, which is the closest it has to a name). In this language recusion
is prohibited, and this is the message you get if you try it.
+bibtex(1) style files use an undocumented language called [BST] (or that's the file extenstion, which is the closest it has to a name). In this language recursion
is prohibited, and this is the message you get if you try it.
!! I refuse to debug myself!
If you tell gdb to try to attach to its own process. (It can't run it and breakpoint it and the same time).
+
+!! The devil is in the details: zero number of heads or sectors
+seen from the mdir(1) command.
+
+!! Windows MSI Installer:
+"Software Installation encountered an unexpected error while
+reading from the MSI file \\mlc1\deploy\~FireFox-1.0.1-enUS.msi. The
+error was not serious enough to justify halting the operation. The
+following error was encountered: The operation completed
+successfully."
!! sudo(1)
If the 'insults' flag is set in /etc/sudoers, sudo will return one of the following errors when an invalid password is entered:
@@ -91,23 +102,8 @@
* It's only your word against mine.
* I think ... err ... I think ... I think I'll go home
(Taken from ins_*.h in the source for sudo 1.6.6)
-
-!! Fun on the [Shell]
-
-If you go to a shell and type 'make love' it says
- make: *** No rule to make target `love'. Stop.
-
-Also, if you type 'man woman' in a shell, it says
- No manual entry for woman
-
-Try these two commands in the C-shell:
- % make fire
- make: Don't know how to make fire. Stop.
- % why not?
- why: no match.
-
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