Off topic: Humor from the Linux manpages
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From: Rahul on 23 Feb 2010 10:39 Rahul <nospam(a)invalid.invalid> wrote in news:Xns9D26B7E6342D56650A1FC0D7811DDBC81(a)188.40.43.245: >> Output of aptitude --help: This aptitude does not have Super Cow >> Powers. >> > > tar -czvf foo.tar.gz > tar: Cowardly refusing to create an empty archive > > Does "suicide linux" count? Apparantly every syntax error you make gets parsed as "rm -rf /" :) http://qntm.org/suicide -- Rahul
From: Nuno J. Silva on 23 Feb 2010 15:09 ibuprofin(a)painkiller.example.tld.invalid (Moe Trin) writes: > On Fri, 19 Feb 2010, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.misc, in article > <Xns9D23C464A87936650A1FC0D7811DDBC81(a)85.214.113.135>, Rahul wrote: > >>Got me thinking: Any other such classics that are hidden inside >>otherwise dreary manpages? Not only manpages. Some programs will also show you funny messages when something happen, etc. The rule behind this is that you can use humor when and where you want to do so, including library names (libiberty), or even during normal interaction (a recent example is M-x butterfly in Emacs, and an older one can be found in a transcript of some Apple compiler messages[0]). [0] http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/91q3/cerrors.html [...] > There certainly are others. I don't have a kernel source handy, but > in the 2.0.x kernels, there used to be a section in > /usr/src/linux/kernel/exit.c > > /* > * Determine if a process group is "orphaned", according to the POSIX > * definition in 2.2.2.52. Orphaned process groups are not to be affected > * by terminal-generated stop signals. Newly orphaned process groups are > * to receive a SIGHUP and a SIGCONT. > * > * "I ask you, have you ever known what it is to be an orphan?" > */ > > Old guy Another funny comment from linux: ,---- | /* | * [...] Note that 120 sec is defined in the protocol as the maximum | * possible RTT. I guess we'll have to use something other than TCP | * to talk to the University of Mars. | * PAWS allows us longer timeouts and large windows, so once implemented | * ftp to mars will work nicely. | */ | (from /usr/src/linux/net/inet/tcp.c, concerning RTT [round trip time]) `---- -- Nuno J. Silva gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg
From: Robert Heller on 23 Feb 2010 17:09 At Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:09:34 +0000 nunojsilva(a)invalid.invalid (Nuno J. Silva) wrote: > > ibuprofin(a)painkiller.example.tld.invalid (Moe Trin) writes: > > > On Fri, 19 Feb 2010, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.misc, in article > > <Xns9D23C464A87936650A1FC0D7811DDBC81(a)85.214.113.135>, Rahul wrote: > > > >>Got me thinking: Any other such classics that are hidden inside > >>otherwise dreary manpages? > > Not only manpages. Some programs will also show you funny messages when > something happen, etc. The rule behind this is that you can use humor > when and where you want to do so, including library names (libiberty), > or even during normal interaction (a recent example is M-x butterfly in > Emacs, and an older one can be found in a transcript of some Apple > compiler messages[0]). A truely acient bit of computer humor: Back in the days a Teco, one would create a new text file with the make command. Typing the command (to create a new file named 'love'): make love yielded the message: not war? -- Robert Heller -- Get the Deepwoods Software FireFox Toolbar! Deepwoods Software -- Linux Installation and Administration http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Web Hosting, with CGI and Database heller(a)deepsoft.com -- Contract Programming: C/C++, Tcl/Tk
From: Nuno J. Silva on 23 Feb 2010 17:24 Robert Heller <heller(a)deepsoft.com> writes: > At Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:09:34 +0000 nunojsilva(a)invalid.invalid (Nuno J. Silva) wrote: > >> >> ibuprofin(a)painkiller.example.tld.invalid (Moe Trin) writes: >> >> > On Fri, 19 Feb 2010, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.misc, in article >> > <Xns9D23C464A87936650A1FC0D7811DDBC81(a)85.214.113.135>, Rahul wrote: >> > >> >>Got me thinking: Any other such classics that are hidden inside >> >>otherwise dreary manpages? >> >> Not only manpages. Some programs will also show you funny messages when >> something happen, etc. The rule behind this is that you can use humor >> when and where you want to do so, including library names (libiberty), >> or even during normal interaction (a recent example is M-x butterfly in >> Emacs, and an older one can be found in a transcript of some Apple >> compiler messages[0]). > > A truely acient bit of computer humor: > > Back in the days a Teco, one would create a new text file with the make > command. Typing the command (to create a new file named 'love'): > > make love > > yielded the message: > > not war? I wiki-hear[0] this was put into FreeBSD, but here (GNU/linux) it only says there is no rule to make the target (which is still an appropriate message :-)). [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_love_not_war -- Nuno J. Silva gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg
From: Robert Heller on 23 Feb 2010 18:32
At Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:24:11 +0000 nunojsilva(a)invalid.invalid (Nuno J. Silva) wrote: > > Robert Heller <heller(a)deepsoft.com> writes: > > > At Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:09:34 +0000 nunojsilva(a)invalid.invalid (Nuno J. Silva) wrote: > > > >> > >> ibuprofin(a)painkiller.example.tld.invalid (Moe Trin) writes: > >> > >> > On Fri, 19 Feb 2010, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.misc, in article > >> > <Xns9D23C464A87936650A1FC0D7811DDBC81(a)85.214.113.135>, Rahul wrote: > >> > > >> >>Got me thinking: Any other such classics that are hidden inside > >> >>otherwise dreary manpages? > >> > >> Not only manpages. Some programs will also show you funny messages when > >> something happen, etc. The rule behind this is that you can use humor > >> when and where you want to do so, including library names (libiberty), > >> or even during normal interaction (a recent example is M-x butterfly in > >> Emacs, and an older one can be found in a transcript of some Apple > >> compiler messages[0]). > > > > A truely acient bit of computer humor: > > > > Back in the days a Teco, one would create a new text file with the make > > command. Typing the command (to create a new file named 'love'): > > > > make love > > > > yielded the message: > > > > not war? > > I wiki-hear[0] this was put into FreeBSD, but here (GNU/linux) it only > says there is no rule to make the target (which is still an appropriate > message :-)). Note that the 'make' command above is not UNIX make, but actually a *teco* command. Teco was a text editor. This was on machines that pre-dated UNIX: RT-11 and Tenex and Tops-10. > > [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_love_not_war > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Download the Model Railroad System http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows heller(a)deepsoft.com -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/ |