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Re: Need The Lord Of The Rings Timeline? It's On Your Mac

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Post by vec »

ksmiley wrote: post #6
isleyaardvark wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a list of calendar dates, not an actual timeline.

That explains it. I was confused when I read "Destruction of the Ring" a third of the way through, and "Fellowship begins Quest" at the very end. I wonder whether the developers _could_ have put them in chronological order, ex. 12/13/3019 appearing before 03/18/3021; or if the format requires the ordering it has now.

It's probably out of order on purpose. I'm betting this was some of the test data that the developers used, and they just left it in when they finished.

Re: Need The Lord Of The Rings Timeline? It's On Your Mac

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Post by darkstalker »

tankbot wrote: post #18
msarnoff wrote: post #15

Since it includes what seems to be a full Emacs distribution, Mac OS X also contains a few "easter eggs" in /usr/share/emacs/22.1/etc:[1] - What is claimed to be the Mrs. Fields cookie recipe - How to say hello in many languages - An interview with Richard Stallman from 1986 - Several adult-themed man pages [1] 22.1 is the appropriate directory on 10.8.2, it may be different on older versions of OS X.

NAME sex - have sex SYNOPSIS sex [ options ] ... [ username ] ... DESCRIPTION sex allows the invoker to have sex with the user(s) speci- fied in the command line. If no users are specified, they are taken from the LOVERS environment variable. Options to make things more interesting are as follows: -F nasal sex with plants Wut?

The full content of the "man sex" page:

http://www.sanitarium.net/jokes/getjoke.cgi?180

Re: Need The Lord Of The Rings Timeline? It's On Your Mac

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Post by benregenspan »

lukeschlather wrote: post #12
bo1024 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I also recall seeing the date of the destruction of the ring given as 3/25, not 3/18.

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=bsdmainutil...

It would appear this was fixed upstream and OSX just hasn't pulled in the latest. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=224407

Re: Need The Lord Of The Rings Timeline? It's On Your Mac

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Post by graywh »

6ren wrote: post #11
williamjackson wrote: post #7

Use `man calendar` for details on the file format. It's more of an "on this day in history" type list than actual timeline. The data itself (LOTR dates) first appeared in 4.4BSD (though it was part of the file `calendar.history` [ http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/stable/2.0.5/usr.bin/calendar... ]), and has since passed to FreeBSD (where the LOTR dates were split off into a separate file [ http://svnweb.freebsd.org/bas…

man calendar says its month/day... http://www-sbras.nsc.ru/cgi-bin/www/unix_help/man-cgi?calend... oh, you mean the adventure took place over more than one calendar year, and so without the years, the high bit of the ordering is lost, and the dates wrap around.

About the format it says "Other lines should begin with a month and day. They may be entered in almost any format, either numeric or as character strings." So "month/day" isn't a requirement.

And there's no reason the dates can't be placed in their true order--calendar.ubuntu is ordered by version number and calendar.debian has multiple groups of dates ordered by year.

Re: Need The Lord Of The Rings Timeline? It's On Your Mac

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Post by graywh »

ksmiley wrote: post #6
isleyaardvark wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a list of calendar dates, not an actual timeline.

That explains it. I was confused when I read "Destruction of the Ring" a third of the way through, and "Fellowship begins Quest" at the very end. I wonder whether the developers _could_ have put them in chronological order, ex. 12/13/3019 appearing before 03/18/3021; or if the format requires the ordering it has now.

My system has calendar.ubuntu with dates ordered by version number and calendar.debian with multiple groups of dates ordered by year.

Re: Need The Lord Of The Rings Timeline? It's On Your Mac

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Post by graywh »

benregenspan wrote: post #23
lukeschlather wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=bsdmainutil...

It would appear this was fixed upstream and OSX just hasn't pulled in the latest. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=224407

The updated version listed there isn't present in the current version for Debian or Ubuntu.

Re: Need The Lord Of The Rings Timeline? It's On Your Mac

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Post by tankbot »

darkstalker wrote: post #22
tankbot wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

NAME sex - have sex SYNOPSIS sex [ options ] ... [ username ] ... DESCRIPTION sex allows the invoker to have sex with the user(s) speci- fied in the command line. If no users are specified, they are taken from the LOVERS environment variable. Options to make things more interesting are as follows: -F nasal sex with plants Wut?

The full content of the "man sex" page: http://www.sanitarium.net/jokes/getjoke.cgi?180

Thanks for posting this, I didn't want to spam the comments with the whole man entry (haha, "man entry").

I'm just super curious where the nasal/plants thing comes from or even how it works. Is this going to be on the next episode of Taboo[0]?

[0] http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/taboo/

Re: Need The Lord Of The Rings Timeline? It's On Your Mac

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Post by malkia »

msarnoff wrote: post #15

Since it includes what seems to be a full Emacs distribution, Mac OS X also contains a few "easter eggs" in /usr/share/emacs/22.1/etc:[1] - What is claimed to be the Mrs. Fields cookie recipe - How to say hello in many languages - An interview with Richard Stallman from 1986 - Several adult-themed man pages [1] 22.1 is the appropriate directory on 10.8.2, it may be different on older versions of OS X.

Another sorely missed feature from cygwin... Boo hoo hoo!

Re: Need The Lord Of The Rings Timeline? It's On Your Mac

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Post by davethenerd »

sneak wrote: post #28

Do people really still use "cat" for viewing files at the commandline?

Probably not... but I figured that was the easiest way to ensure those unfamiliar with the commandline wouldn't wind up in the middle of a 'less' pager and not know how to get out. ;)
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