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That was great out-of-the-box thinking, and I wonder if that could be used as one of these job interview questions: Q: "Your email server for some reason is only working for addresses within 500 miles of the server. What may go wrong?" And let the candidate think logically and reach some sane answer, even if not 100% accurate (i.e. check routers first, connectivity, DNS, timeouts...)
I was so happy to discover that units command line program, then i realized that Google already does this, it just wasn't as fun.
Another of the 10,000 here - this is such a delightful story. Also just discovered the "units" conversion program and disappointed that the default Mac library has only 586 units. And shockingly there don't seem to be compatible libraries out there.
`brew install gnu-units` should do it :) Edit: You'll then want to run it with `gunits` rather than `units`
I was so happy to discover that units command line program, then i realized that Google already does this, it just wasn't as fun.
yeah and units on the mac terminal doesn't recognise "3 millilightseconds" whereas Google works for "0.003 light seconds to miles"
That was great out-of-the-box thinking, and I wonder if that could be used as one of these job interview questions: Q: "Your email server for some reason is only working for addresses within 500 miles of the server. What may go wrong?" And let the candidate think logically and reach some sane answer, even if not 100% accurate (i.e. check routers first, connectivity, DNS, timeouts...)
I didn't know about the units program. Is there any resource out there that lists these little *nix utility programs?
I didn't know about the units program. Is there any resource out there that lists these little *nix utility programs?
[1] http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2004/04/08/10962...