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3:52 AM
Good evening everyone. I'm curious whether Arch Linux is always made available to download the 1st day of the month. (Since it's Jun 1 today) and I'm at the download page, but the latest available ISO is named after May 1
 
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@Marc.2377 don't think it's possible
 
 
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7:36 AM
@Marc.2377 It probably depends on the month but why would you care? Arch is a rolling distribution, just download last months ISO and then update it to the latest versions.
 
 
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12:31 PM
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Q: How can we add a "useful resources" to the help center?

PandyaI've visited the help-center of one the sites, and noticed a "useful resources" section: I'm surprised to see it, since I don't see it in the help center of other sites. So, how can we have such section in other site? Can a community (say Hinduism) decide and write such stuff (if worthy t...

 
 
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2:54 PM
@Pandya I had no idea mods could edit that bit!
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A: How to discontinue dd if the output file is /dev/sda?

Bharadwaj RajuAdd this to your ~/.bashrc (or if you use zsh, ~/.zshrc): function dd() { if [[ "$*" != *"of=/dev/sda"* ]]; then dd "$*" else echo "You are not allowed to set dd output to /dev/sda!" fi } NOTE: It will not work when run with sudo unless you also put it in /root/.bas...

^^^^ downvotes, please (if you can downvote on Ask Ubuntu) — this answer is dangerously wrong
 
3:26 PM
@Gilles He fixed it. Improved it, anyway.
 
 
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4:57 PM
@terdon Because I'll burn it do a DVD to install in a few machines. In any case, the answer seem to be yes... it's always "release" the first day of the month
 
@Marc.2377 Ah, presumably it's been updated now?
 
@terdon The download page is down for maintenance, I guess they are uploading the most up-to-date snapshot right now ^^ And sorry for the grammar mistakes in my last message. I just woke up haha
 
No worries :)
 
 
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6:36 PM
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Q: i can't open, ping,.. any domain after upgrade debian

Parazittafter upgrade debian i cannot open or ping any domain even in firefox (but i havnt any problem via proxy). for example wget: unable to resolve host address ‘google.com’ but i can work with ip (add in /etc/hosts) or dig any domian ; <<>> DiG 9.10.3-P4-Debian <<>> debian.org ;; global options: ...

.... that actually looks like an interesting problem, or a stupid typo somewhere.
 
> tanks for replay, but no problem not fixed
that should be indications to get the hell away of that question...
 
hmmm, I donno... its weird, dig seems to show the local dns cache is actually working fine. But glibc's resolver isn't, and it doesn't seem to be a broken nsswitch.conf. So I really have no idea what's going on.
OP's limited proofreading ability notwithstanding :-/
 

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