On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 06:31:32PM -0300, Fernando de Oliveira wrote: > Em 18-06-2014 17:45, Ken Moffat escreveu: > > > Maybe it is imbued with the spirit of The Lady > > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lady_%28Discworld%29#The_Lady) and > > before I first used it I must have asked myself "Do ya feel lucky?" > > and decided that I did. > > > LOL. > > Please, give us the privilege of these spirited writings more often. > (more background than most people will want, but it is free!) :
It is a case of "laughing just to keep from crying" - I can remember that line from some blues song, but I cannot remember which. My first experience with 'nix was in the early '90s when I was briefly seconded to "Engineering Computer Applications" before I got called back to work on an upgraded payroll/HR system. Upgraded in the sense of a newer version of the package, with added HR - it was distinctly less good than the old (batch) package with our own IMS DB/DC front end and separate in-house personnel system, but all of that was tied to the National Agreements for the electricity industry,and we were going to be privatised : but then, I would say our own system was better, wouldn't I ?, and trying to make that #*!? work correctly in production overnight batch runs on IMS instead of CICS was "interesting", but only _after_ we went live :-( [ heh, good to finally vent about that ! ] Anyway, when I was seconded I had a Z80 CP/M system at home, and I simulated fortune with a small-C program and a file of messages and a second file of where each message started - that seemed the best option on a slow micro. So, when I eventually got the opportunity to run a linux system (only working part-time because of disability does sometimes have advantages!), fortune-mod was one of the things I was pleased to find. From the beginning I have noticed the references to Rincewind in fortune (and gabriele's reply reminded me that is the release name of current vlc). Last Xmas I got an ebook reader with the intention of reading the Discworld books (I haven't got space for even more paper books!). So now, I am about half-way through them, and they are starting to appear in my .sig and in other comments. Expect more of them in the future ;-) Oh, and I have enjoyed Clint Eastwood's screen roles, and was pleased to see the references in Discworld. I've even got some Dirty Harry .au files for testing alsa (as well as Python, Monty (I guess I ought to name-check Bruce at this point!) and Linus "this is Linus Torvalds and I pronounce linux as linux"). But do I still feel lucky ? No, not at all :-( ĸen -- Nanny Ogg usually went to bed early. After all, she was an old lady. Sometimes she went to bed as early as 6 a.m. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
