>I tried the 28 hour day
In 1973 I worked for Aetna Life and Casualty. The company's computers
ran 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
The operators there worked 12-hour shifts, so we only had two shifts of
operators, not three. In order to work (more or less) 40-hour weeks,
they really worked 3
On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 11:37:48PM -0400, Ben Scott wrote:
> On 10/11/07, Mark E. Mallett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > mm (I suppose we could just say xkcd.com/{`seq 1 327`})
>
> Doesn't work. You need the comma a separator within {...}. But even
Funny, right after I sent that (obviously s
On 10/15/07, Tom Buskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It'd be nice if --version wasn't so wordy or you could get just the version
> like uname -r
FYI, there is a BASH_VERSION internal variable that's useful for
this sort of thing. There's a bunch of others with similar good info,
too. They're n
On 10/14/07, Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On 10/13/07, John Abreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Of course, if you're using bash, then
> >> http://xkcd.com/{1..327}
> >
> > Depends on what version of bash.
>
> That's why we should be using
>
> #!/bin/bash-3.2.9
>
> at th
>On 10/13/07, John Abreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Of course, if you're using bash, then
>>> http://xkcd.com/{1..327}
>> Depends on what version of bash.
>That's why we should be using
> #!/bin/bash-3.2.9
>at the top of our shell scripts.
Unless you have Suse 10.1:
tux:~> ls
On 10/13/07, John Abreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Of course, if you're using bash, then
>> http://xkcd.com/{1..327}
>
> Depends on what version of bash.
That's why we should be using
#!/bin/bash-3.2.9
at the top of our shell scripts.
-- Ben
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On Thu, October 11, 2007 11:37 pm, Ben Scott said:
> Of course, if you're using bash, then
>
> http://xkcd.com/{1..327}
>
> will do the job without all the messy syntax or the external program.
>
Depends on what version of bash. The first time I tried that, it failed:
$ echo http://xk
"Ben Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Of course, if you're using bash, then
>
> http://xkcd.com/{1..327}
>
> will do the job without all the messy syntax or the external program.
And, as we've all recently witnessed, if you need to put this in a script,
start it out with:
#!/bin/bash
On 10/11/07, Mark E. Mallett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> mm (I suppose we could just say xkcd.com/{`seq 1 327`})
Doesn't work. You need the comma a separator within {...}. But even
http://xkcd.com{`seq -s, 1 327`}
doesn't work, because the output of Command Substitution is not
reev
On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 04:00:50PM -0400, Paul Lussier wrote:
>
> http://xkcd.com/224/
The LISP/perl ones are fun, this one especially:
http://xkcd.com/312/
with a NH connection, even (via Robert Frost).
it's probably been mentioned here before, my brain leaks like a sieve.
mm (I suppose
On 10/11/07, Paul Lussier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Nono. Really, the best one is:
>
> http://xkcd.com/224/
>
>
This one has to be WAY up there:
http://xkcd.com/202/
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"Ben Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I considered adding that, but the list was already long, and listing
> all the good ones would be ridiculous. Besides, the best one is:
>
> http://xkcd.com/240/
Nono. Really, the best one is:
http://xkcd.com/224/
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> To: Greater NH Linux User Group
> Subject: Re: [OT] xkcd
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> On 10/11/07, Flaherty, Patrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > You missed the best one.
> > http:
On 10/11/07, Flaherty, Patrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You missed the best one.
> http://xkcd.com/138/
I considered adding that, but the list was already long, and listing
all the good ones would be ridiculous. Besides, the best one is:
http://xkcd.com/240/
Why is that the best one? B
You missed the best one.
http://xkcd.com/138/
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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ben Scott
> Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 9:37 PM
> To: Greater NH Linux User Group
> Subject: Re: [OT] xkcd
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> On 10/10/
> If you know what a SQL injection attack is, you will love this:
> http://xkcd.com/327/
while xkcd++;
And if it doesn't make sense, you NEED to read this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL_injection_attack
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On 10/10/07, Kent Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If you know what a SQL injection attack is, you will love this:
> http://xkcd.com/327/
For those of you who hadn't already seen the above: xkcd is an
extremely excellent comic, and should be read by all geeks.
http://xkcd.com/149/
http://x
If you know what a SQL injection attack is, you will love this:
http://xkcd.com/327/
Kent
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