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

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Post by X6MW3aQrZU5VKkz » Thu, Nov 29, 2012, 8:32 PM UTC

zavulon wrote: post #20

BklynJay wrote: post #16

cat /usr/share/calendar/calendar.music also gives some notable dates in music-history.

Seems like biased towards some bands, while omitting some arguably greater or at least equally important bands of the same era. Not that there's anything wrong with Yes or Jethro Tull being mentioned, but if they are, seems like Genesis and King Crimson should be mentioned as well. $ cat /usr/share/calendar/calendar.music | grep Genesis $ cat /usr/share/calendar/calendar.music | grep "King Crimson" $ cat /usr/share/c…

Please remember that every time you cat a file and pipe it to grep an innocent process dies. Have you no compassion?

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

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Post by glhaynes » Thu, Nov 29, 2012, 8:33 PM UTC

sneak wrote: post #28

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

You expect me to go to all the extra trouble of typing a 4-letter command instead of a 3-letter command? This is Unix!

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

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Post by samspot » Thu, Nov 29, 2012, 8:42 PM UTC

sneak wrote: post #28

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

I use cat when I want it to still be there for use with another command (I have more aliased to less).

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

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Post by X6MW3aQrZU5VKkz » Thu, Nov 29, 2012, 8:45 PM UTC

glhaynes wrote: post #42

sneak wrote: post #28

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

You expect me to go to all the extra trouble of typing a 4-letter command instead of a 3-letter command? This is Unix!

Compromise: Vim!

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

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Post by anigbrowl » Thu, Nov 29, 2012, 9:10 PM UTC

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?

Likely a geektastic way of suggesting he likes to snort weed. Marijuana comes from the buds of female cannabis plants.

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

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Post by gnu8 » Thu, Nov 29, 2012, 11:51 PM UTC

davethenerd wrote: post #30

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. ;)

Those who are unfamiliar with the command line ought not be pasting commands from a blog into their terminal emulator without understanding what they are doing.

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

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Post by tankbot » Fri, Nov 30, 2012, 12:27 AM UTC

anigbrowl wrote: post #45

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?

Likely a geektastic way of suggesting he likes to snort weed. Marijuana comes from the buds of female cannabis plants.

Maybe cocaine? Who snorts weed?

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

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Post by GalacticDomin8r » Fri, Nov 30, 2012, 1:15 AM UTC

The source for this easter egg is from BSD, not Mac. Likely the import came from FreeBSD, but the LOTR calendar long predates FreeBSD:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=57623

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

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Post by anigbrowl » Fri, Nov 30, 2012, 1:26 AM UTC

tankbot wrote: post #47

anigbrowl wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Likely a geektastic way of suggesting he likes to snort weed. Marijuana comes from the buds of female cannabis plants.

Maybe cocaine? Who snorts weed?

While it is meant to be humor. Might be cocaine too, but coca is extracted from leaves rather than flowers, and that didn't seem a good fit. On a more innocuous note, he might just as easily have meant tobacco snuff. Or nothing at all. With RMS, all things are possible.

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

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Post by Evbn » Fri, Nov 30, 2012, 8:24 AM UTC

anigbrowl wrote: post #49

tankbot wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe cocaine? Who snorts weed?

While it is meant to be humor. Might be cocaine too, but coca is extracted from leaves rather than flowers, and that didn't seem a good fit. On a more innocuous note, he might just as easily have meant tobacco snuff. Or nothing at all. With RMS, all things are possible.

Or smelling dead/died flowers.