Off topic: Humor from the Linux manpages
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From: John Thompson on 23 Feb 2010 22:05 On 2010-02-23, Nuno J. Silva <nunojsilva(a)invalid.invalid> wrote: >> 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 Not anymore, apparently. On my FreeBSD machine: [john(a)atuin ~]$ make love make: don't know how to make love. Stop -- -John (john(a)os2.dhs.org)
From: Charlie Gibbs on 24 Feb 2010 11:47 In article <87hbp7ogsh.fsf(a)monolith.local.lan>, nunojsilva(a)invalid.invalid (Nuno J. Silva) writes: > 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]). The index of the original K&R C book contains an entry for "squirrel". It points to the following paragraph in section 6.5 (Self-referential Structures): The code for the whole program is surprisingly small, given a handful of supporting routines that we have already written. These are _getword_, to fetch each input word, and _alloc_, to provide space for squirreling the words away. > [0] http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/91q3/cerrors.html Aha - I forgot r.h.f was searchable now. Here's the one that this thread originally reminded me of: http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/old90/18951.html -- /~\ cgibbs(a)kltpzyxm.invalid (Charlie Gibbs) \ / I'm really at ac.dekanfrus if you read it the right way. X Top-posted messages will probably be ignored. See RFC1855. / \ HTML will DEFINITELY be ignored. Join the ASCII ribbon campaign!
From: Maxwell Lol on 24 Feb 2010 20:16 Grant Edwards <invalid(a)invalid.invalid> writes: > On 2010-02-20, Maxwell Lol <nospam(a)com.invalid> wrote: >> Rahul <nospam(a)nospam.invalid> writes: >> >>> Got me thinking: Any other such classics that are hidden inside otherwise >>> dreary manpages? Any pet favorites? Linux can be fun! :) >> >> I think the Solaris manual page for the sound driver (/dev/audio) had >> the comment that "cat /dev/random /dev/audio" may be noisy > > Reading /dev/audio won't produce noise, so one presumes that > was "cat /dev/random >/dev/audio"? Ah yes. (It was 10+ years ago. )
From: Maxwell Lol on 24 Feb 2010 20:19 Teemu Likonen <tlikonen(a)iki.fi> writes: > $ aptitude moo -vvvvv > All right, you win. > > /----\ > -------/ \ > / \ > / | > -----------------/ --------\ > ---------------------------------------------- > > $ aptitude moo -vvvvvv > What is it? It's an elephant being eaten by a snake, of course. This "horrific" diagram is from "The Little Prince"/"Le Petite Prince"
From: Nuno J. Silva on 25 Feb 2010 10:25
Maxwell Lol <nospam(a)com.invalid> writes: > Teemu Likonen <tlikonen(a)iki.fi> writes: > >> $ aptitude moo -vvvvv >> All right, you win. >> >> /----\ >> -------/ \ >> / \ >> / | >> -----------------/ --------\ >> ---------------------------------------------- >> >> $ aptitude moo -vvvvvv >> What is it? It's an elephant being eaten by a snake, of course. > > This "horrific" diagram is from "The Little Prince"/"Le Petite Prince" > Are you sure? It looks like a portrayal of a hat! -- Nuno J. Silva gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg |