Autarchy of the Private Cave » Humour

Unix sex and Linux command reference

Bogdan — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 13:17:06 +0000

Unix SEX :{ look; gawk; find; sed; talk; grep; touch; finger; find; flex; unzip; head; tail; mount; workbone; fsck; yes; gasp; fsck; more; yes; yes; eject; umount; makeclean; zip; split; done; exit:xargs!!;)} (source: someone’s signature in the Debian mailing lists).

download Unix/Linux command reference by Jacob Peddicord/FOSSwire.com

Vista Ultimate has a Linux benefit

Bogdan — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 08:24:32 +0000

One of the benefits, offered exclusively by the Windows Vista Ultimate (not even by the Windows Vista Business), is

running UNIX applications (via SUA, Subsystem for UNIX Applications) , which provides higher flexibility for Windows workstations.

Where is the world going?

And how soon will all the Windows users (not only Ultimate Users) benefit from the higher flexibility by running UNIX applications?

Developing reluctant (pessimal) algorithms

Bogdan — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 01:33:17 +0000

If you had some programming experience – read it here. Otherwise ignore, it’s targeted for a narrow group.

Need a computer science paper? Try SCIgen!

Bogdan — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 14:53:07 +0000

Quite an entertaining story:
SCIgen at wikipedia
SCIgen tool
SCIgen blog

Finally, just a useful resource if you need a shiny name for your brand-new 2.0-beta project: anagram server.

Is the force with you?

Bogdan — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 19:50:44 +0000

Today, after starting ./configure to make one of the programs, I noticed this in the logs:

I don’t know what is that intended to mean, but this is definitely funny: configure script, able to detect if the Force is with Skywalker…

Humorous criticism of web-development frameworks

Bogdan — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 18:36:57 +0000

Why I hate frameworks? by Benji Smith. Recommended to anybody involved in web-development and familiar with the concept of web-development frameworks. (For the serious stuff, see my post on Why Zope 3 is just great.)