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Old 13th October 2008
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What 18Googol2 likely meant by 'console' was to press control+alt+F2 to switch to vtty1 and so on to reach a virtual console; which is more or less what gnome-terminal 'fakes'. Log in and attempt to run console capable programs (e.g. ping somehost, vi somefile, blah blah)
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Thou shalt check the array bounds of all strings (indeed, all arrays), for surely where thou typest ``foo'' someone someday shall type ``supercalifragilisticexpialidocious''.
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