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

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

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Post by 6ren »

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.

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

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Post by lukeschlather »

bo1024 wrote: post #9
NatW wrote: post #8

Where do I file a bug report? The date of "Frodo & Bilbo's birthday" was actually given in the book as September 22nd. In my file it's 09/14.

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...

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

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Post by msarnoff »

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.

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

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Post by irahul »

Aardwolf wrote: post #4

It's also on my Linux. So this is not an "Apple" article at all despite the "Mac" in the name. It's a FreeBSD article. How did FreeBSD stuff get into Linux though?

It's provided by bsdmailutils.

    $ dpkg -S /usr/share/calendar/calendar.lotr 
    bsdmainutils: /usr/share/calendar/calendar.lotr
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/quantal/i386/bsdmainutils

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

#18

Post by tankbot »

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.

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  SYNOPSIS
     sex [ options ] ...  [ username ] ...

  DESCRIPTION
     sex allows the invoker to have sex with the user(s) speci-
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     are taken from the LOVERS environment variable.  Options to
     make things more interesting are as follows:

     -F   nasal sex with plants
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Re: Need The Lord Of The Rings Timeline? It's On Your Mac

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Post by davethenerd »

w0utert wrote: post #10
Aardwolf wrote: post #4

It's also on my Linux. So this is not an "Apple" article at all despite the "Mac" in the name. It's a FreeBSD article. How did FreeBSD stuff get into Linux though?

>> So this is not an "Apple" article at all despite the "Mac" in the name. It's a FreeBSD article. The article is hosted on macobserver.com, which explains why it has 'Mac' in the title. Also, looking at the article itself it is clearly intended for casual/non-geek computer users. Seeing that OS X + Windows probably cover ~99% of this group, and the calender is not on windows (I suppose), it's not that strange that t…

Indeed. I realize this likely predates OS X entirely, but... you're right: casual audience and.. TMO's Mac focus. But yep, as many here have pointed out, it's certainly not limited to the Mac.

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

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Post by zavulon »

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/calendar/calendar.music | grep Yes

02/20 Yes sells out Madison Square Garden...without advertising, 1974

04/18 Yes breaks up after 13 years, 1981

10/25 Jon Anderson (Yes) is born in Lancashire, England, 1944

$ cat /usr/share/calendar/calendar.music | grep "Jethro Tull"

08/10 Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull) is born in Edinburgh, Scotland, 1947

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