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The Who used to be one of my favourite bands back in the days of "Anyway Anyhow Anywhere" and "My Generation". One of those was the theme music for Ready Steady Go too I think. (Anyone remember that TV programme? Cathy McGowan?)
"Hope I die before I get old" didn't work out for all the band, though Keith Moon passed away at quite an early age iirc. Afraid I lost contact around Tommy though, got into other stuff.

Pete Townshend's certainly a talented musician.

Re long-lived bands, I have to raise a glass to The Stones too. 50th anniversary last year wasn't it?

Hi BishopBlade welcome to #!

You need to add sublime to the Debian alternatives for gnome-text-editor, but it's in your personal home which might make it more complicated. You could try copying the executable to eg /usr/local/bin/sublimetext
then:

sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gnome-text-editor gnome-text-editor /usr/bin/local/sublimetext 50
sudo update-alternatives --config gnome-text-editor

You'll also want to change Thunar's default settings by right-clicking on a file, choose "Open with other application", enter the path to sublimetext and check the box to make it the default.

See here for more you could do.

That's shocking.
And a loss to the community.

There are two kinds of encryption:
symmetric, which uses the same key to encrypt and decrypt. This is simpler but less secure than
asymmetric which uses a public key to encrypt and an associated private key to decrypt.

To use asymmetric encryption you have to generate a pair of associated keys, one public and one private. Then people can send you messages encrypted with the public key which you can decrypt with your private key. It's a one-way process. To send an encrypted message to another person they need to generate a different public key which you use to encrypt messages to them and they can decrypt with the private key they generated together with their public key.

So for two-way communication there are four keys involved, two separate public/private pairs..

Hi km00 I'm also a gpg beginner, but my understanding of public and private keys is:

People A and B have both public and private keys, and have access to each other's public keys.
A encrypts messages for B with B's public key. Those messages can only be decrypted with B's private key, which only B has.

And vice versa.

If someone more knowledgeable can add a bit more I'm also interested in this topic...

They're actually &
For an xml file like menu.xml there are just five special characters that need escaping: & < > " and '
as &amp; &lt; &gt; &quot; and &apos; respectively. (You can also use numerical references.)

No other characters need escaping and escaping is not done by backslashes.

However, the argument you are passing to bash (in my example) needs to be wrapped in real quotes - double in this case, but single should work too - so that openbox will pass it untouched to bash. You might note that in my example I failed to escape a couple of single quotes as &apos; as I should have done. Openbox is slightly tolerant here because the whole thing is wrapped in double quotes, but if I had used single quotes outside then the internal single quotes would have had to be escaped properly, or else openbox would have mistaken them for the closing of the outside quote, as seems to have happened to you.

Hope that helps a bit!

You could also try the Netinstall script. It gives you a standard Waldorf setup.

So it comes down to what sort of things you're going to be doing. For example, running a web browser as root sounds like asking for trouble.

Everyone's experiences differ of course, and I haven't spent any great amount of time on the Debian forums, but my impression hasn't been as bad as that of some others here. Google searches have often led to some useful nugget of information, link to someone's patch or recompiled package, and I might add, in those limited visits I ran into some favourable mentions of Crunchbang and the people here...

Just now I went back for another look, and the first post I opened was this: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=47077

No complaints there, right?

Hi Super-Nathan - the installer is on github already:
https://github.com/johnraff/cb-netinstall
Feel free to fork, modify and send pull requests!

At the moment I can't use github as the d/l url for the installer though, because for some reason permissions on directories are not being preserved. ( One specific dir. needs r/w none none ) I've tried the zip d/l and tar.gz d/l but both mess up permissions, whereas the Dropbox tar.gz is fine.

If you'd like to continue this discussion, could we move over to the "dev" thread here:
http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=21266

This thread is really meant for solving users' problems (if possible)...

Hey Joe - great idea! A chance to finally get my teeth into Python a bit. Bash is lots of fun, but maybe it's time...

Please don't go too fast though, I've missed all the first 3 or 4 lessons and will have to catch up, later this evening maybe.

Thanks Doomicide! A full-blown, and useful, script like this might deserve its own thread in fact, so people can comment or make suggestions...

To be honest, I really envisaged this thread for handy scraps of code that don't really merit their own thread. That said, all contributions are welcome!