displaying Japanese in the virtual consoles/terminals in squeeze

For reasons I don't care to debate, I have set my system's default language to Japanese. When I go to work in the virtual console windows (for instance, apt-get), I tend to get messages that should be in Japanese, but the Japanese is replaced by the ...

Message posted on the December 25th, 2011 - 7:20 AM ET

ZTE Unveils World’s First Smartphone Featuring Dolby Digital Plus With Next-Generation Processing Engine

ZTE consumers to enjoy rich, dynamic sound for their mobile devices.

Press published on the February 26th, 2013 - 2:00 AM ET

2012 International CES Exhibitor Profiles: A through L

The 2012 International CES, the world’s largest consumer technology trade show, takes place January 10 - 13, 2012 at the Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC), the Las Vegas Hilton, and The Venetian. Links to ...

Press published on the January 6th, 2012 - 4:33 PM ET

Bug#699013: git-sh-prompt: new git prompt stuff doesn't work on virtual consoles, only in terminals under X11

Package: git Version: 1:1.8.1.1-1 Severity: normal File: /usr/lib/git-core/git-sh-prompt I have this configuration (colours stripped for simplification): pabs@chianamo ~ $ cat ~/.bash.d/{git,z_prompt} export GIT_PS1_SHOWDIRTYSTATE=true export ...

Message posted on the January 26th, 2013 - 7:00 AM ET

Bug#702369: latest install report

I've had another attempt at installing Wheezy 64 bit from a template as PV. I attach my full script below. I've made much more progress this time, but there are still outstanding issues: - neither "xe console" or VNC seems to allow ...

Message posted on the March 8th, 2013 - 1:40 PM ET

Bug#527641: Package installation overwrites /etc/default/console-setup without warning

Package: console-setup Version: 1.34 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 10.7.3 My last upgrade of 'console-setup' caused /etc/default/console-setup to be overwritten without warning. The contents of the file before being overwritten were : ...

Message posted on the May 8th, 2009 - 1:20 PM ET

Microsoft "Fast Facts" for Best Buy

On Sep 24, 8:01 pm, Marti van Lin <ml2...@gmail.com> wrote: This is a pretty outdated article (2009), yet made me ROTFLMAO. Microsoft's Best Buy Lies about Linux debunked By Rami Taibah [quote] In an effort to thwart Linux sales on netbooks, ...

Message posted on the September 25th, 2010 - 5:43 AM ET

[RFC 00/10] fblog: framebuffer kernel log driver

Hi As some might know I am working on making CONFIG_VT obsolete. But as a developer it is often useful to have a kernel-log on the screen during boot to debug many common kernel(-config) errors. However, without CONFIG_VT we cannot use the ...

Message posted on the June 16th, 2012 - 6:10 PM ET

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