[Nottingham] My fedora 9 experience (vent/rant included)

ForkBombFluf fluf at freeshell.org
Mon Jul 14 13:33:05 BST 2008


On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, Richard Smedley wrote:

> http://xkcd.com/149/

Neat-o.  I shall try it out now:

Sudo "Andy, get me a beer!"

>> I just *love* it when you guys out-geek each other with subsequently
>> shorter and shorter commands to do the same thing.  Makes me wonder why
>> there aren't more of you in politics...
>
> The nightmare vision this produces may be a
> good start next NaNoWriMo :-/
>
> http://www.nanowrimo.org/

*Cruel*, but yes, perhaps the best place for it!

(Love the bit about how to scramble the text to submit it-- I'm just 
wondering why they bother advising authors to "Save As" at all though) :-)

I'm actually further gobsmacked that no one has written in yet to point 
out how many keystrokes could be saved over the liftetime of the system by 
aliasing "sudo /bin/bash" to the letter "s".

> --
> When ForkBombFluf's geeks rule the world, this .sig
> will be first in the pixel discombobulator...

Cool!  :-)



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