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Old 29th July 2011
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Got this from fortune:

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At first, I just did it on weekends. With a few friends, you know...
We never wanted to hurt anyone. The girls loved it. We'd all sit
around the computer and do a little UNIX. It was just a kick. At
least that's what we thought. Then it got worse.

It got so I'd have to do some UNIX during the weekdays. After a
while, I couldn't even wake up in the morning without having that
crave to go do UNIX. Then it started affecting my job. I would just
have to do it during my break. Maybe a `grep' or two, maybe a little
`more'. I eventually started doing UNIX just to get through the day.
Of course, it screwed up my mind so much that I couldn't even
function as a normal person.

I'm lucky today, I've overcome my UNIX problem. It wasn't easy. If
you're smart, just don't start. Remember, if any weirdo offers you
some UNIX,

Just Say No!
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That's exactly my story
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I'm putting this on funny, just because.

Emacs has been violating the GPL since 2009
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Yeah, I read that. It just proves the GPL is so complicated that adhering by it (even with the best of intentions) is difficult at best.
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Yeah, I read that. It just proves the GPL is so complicated that adhering by it (even with the best of intentions) is difficult at best.
In fact so complicated, that even the GPL's founder main and most known contribution was violating it...

When I read news like that, I don't know if I have to laugh or cry for the turn they/we've taken...
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As I understood it (from h-online), Stallman already stepped down as EMacs maintainer when the GPL violation took place.
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I'm putting this on funny, just because.

Emacs has been violating the GPL since 2009
Man, that just hurts.
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Not a ginger yet it seems.
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Haha Yay, I knew there had to be at least one more Dr Who fanatic here

So here's something I found at http://www.bto.eu/

Now, this page is a complete mess, unreadable, and butt-ugly, but this one really tops it:
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PriceInclVAT = PriceExclVAT * (1+(19/100))
bbPrijsOptie = (aa_array[1] * 1) * (1-(20/100))
(Variable names translated from Dutch four your convenience)

They also sell notebooks with a Socket 1377 i7 CPU's, for those not up to snuff on the latest CPU's, they are 130W desktop CPU's.
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UNIX' Russian Roulette:
sudo [ $[ $RANDOM % 6 ] == 0 ] && rm -rf / || echo “You live”
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UNIX' Russian Roulette:
sudo [ $[ $RANDOM % 6 ] == 0 ] && rm -rf / || echo “You live”
That made my day
Good one...
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I think the echo might execute regardless, as it is a built-in shell command.
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Wouldn't that be a piss poor game of russian roulette? you always win, both rm and echo are executed as a normal user.. not as root.
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You're right, BSDfan!

I'm wrong, though, echo is indeed /bin/echo, not built-in.
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You're right, BSDfan!

I'm wrong, though, echo is indeed /bin/echo, not built-in.
It depends on the shell, but usually it's both.

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$ type echo
echo is a shell builtin
$ which echo
/bin/echo
Actually, pdksh's echo accepts [-Een] as options.. /bin/echo only accepts [-n].
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You know what's really funny? POSIX echo doesn't specify any options at all, so both are technically non-compliant..

Ironically pdksh's posix option makes the built-in echo identical to /bin/echo and accepts only [-n].. which as I mentioned isn't defined by POSIX.
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Isn't the syntax

$[ ... ]

for arithmetic expansion a no longer documented bash-ism? I think it's more readable than

$(( ... ))

but maybe it should be avoided if it's deprecated?
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$[...] certainly doesn't work in /bin/sh, and what is $RANDOM? Some special bash variable (?) Again, /bin/sh doesn't set this.

So I guess it's not a UNIX roulette, but a bash/Linux roulette.
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