So long and thanks for all the /bin/fish
I wasn't exactly present during the holidays... I was too busy with getting well, relaxing, reading, installing xubuntuj at my parents' computer to blog. However since someone reminded me that I haven't blogged this year, I just want to present an innovation while I listen to MC Hawking's What we need more off is science. There is a new shell, called friendly input shell or 'fish' and I think it innovates a sector which was thought to be at the height of its innovation already: Shells. I do not want to link too much since here are a lot of spamblogs which do just that so I just c'n'p something;
Malfi@localhost ~> uname -
--all -a (Alle Informationen anzeigen)
--hardware-platform -i (Print hardware platform)
--help (Hilfe anzeigen und beenden)
--kernel-name -s (Kernel-Name anzeigen)
--kernel-release -r (Kernel-Release anzeigen)
--kernel-version -v (Kernel-Version anzeigen)
--machine -m (Maschinenname anzeigen)
--nodename -n (Rechnernamen des Netzwerkknotens anzeigen)
--operating-system -o (Betriebssystem anzeigen)
--processor -p (Prozessor anzeigen)
--verion (Version anzeigen und beenden)
-15pic.jpg (Datei, 4,6kB)
yes, it lists the options of uname and it lists them in my native language. the file-completion works as well and as expected, but it can also display information on programs if youuse tab-completion there.
In other news: Scolopendra is spineless and insane.
Happy Whatever
I don't like the holiday season. Mainly because I am a bit claustrophobic and christmas involves all too often groups of people in a too small space. I am a bit claustrophobic in these times. What I like is going to my parents on christmas eve because the city is nearly entirely empty. It is bliss to go into a metro which is completely empty. What I like even more is Christmas day (being German, this is the second day of the celebrations) because on this day, I meet all of the relatives, not only the close family, I meet on Christmas Eve. I like celebrations which involve lots of happy chatting and good food and normally can not stand those days when certain people spread their poison, but christmas Day is a day where even these people attempt to be friendly...
So yeah... the rest of the holiday season means a lot of activity and too few time for too much stuff.
Despite the swirl
I am not using Debian but Gentoo. Sorry to mislead you by the swirl on the Tux. Gentoo is a neat distro. Especially the fact that distros can be very small is something I like. Most other distros now seem bloated to me. And yeah, I linked you to hackles instead of the Gentoo homepage because I just love that comic :)
Law of Attraction?
Why do thoughts of bad things seem to provoce those... let's use an example: "I hope there's no traffic jam!" is what my father probably thinks every time he commutes to work. By the law of attraction his repeated thoughts of traffic jams (BTW: is there also traffic marmelade?) would cause the traffic jams to happen. I think this puts causality on its head instead of on its feet: My father drives via one of the most frequented autobahns to his workplace. He probably didn't realize that before he took that job so he expected lower probablity of traffic jams, thus he probably didn't see a reason to think of traffic jams when getting into his car and on the way. but since there were numerous times, he was stuck in traffic in the meanwwhile, he started expecting these. When he saw his expectations being met, it was another enforcing step. So, IMHO, we can not say that thoughts become things. It is more like things becoming words.
What was that supposed to test?
Normally, a test should test knowledge, or skills, or logical thinking... well, it is possible to make a test without doing anything test-like - and this is what I experienced today.
Of course, it was the teacher from one entry lower who made this glorious test. It was a test on HTML, we were allowed to use SelfHTML (so it couldn't test knowledge of tags), we were allowed to use a very GUI-ish editor (so it didn't test knowledge of tag use) and a structure was already out into the directory for us (so it didn't test knowledge of the structure) and he told us how to format things (so it didn't test the skill to determine that), last but not least: it gave me enough time to make it in a plain-text editor (joe, of course), so it was not a test on the skill to use Phase 5 (I even handed the test in first). Now I am left wondering 3 things:
- What was this test supposed to test
- Will everyone get a 1 (German equivalent to an A) now?
- Will I have to eat my words later?
"Equal" and "fair"
Okay, this will again be a rather weird entry, but hey, what do you expect from the Flock of Tuxen? Today, I first want to rant about someone... how can I formulate it that I will not make this guy look like an idiot and he'll notice? Hmmm, maybe like this: We have teacher T, who said that during test in front of a PC we can not do $importantthing. Implicitely I understood that it was because we are using a different profile. So I asked him 'what about $littlecommandlineprogram to do $importantthing?' in the hope that he'd let us use it. He however first didn't seem to understand what I meant and when it dawned on him his reaction was not to allow it to everybody but not to allow it for everyone. He said it'd be fair that way. I however suspect 2 things:
- His definition of fair is weird. Or mine. For me fair has something to do with being optimal. A suboptimal solution can never be a fair one. This sounds weird to you? Maybe I should add one step: It often seems to be the way that if a solution was once considered fair, it will be repeated. Thus a fair solution is one which carries a message for future actions, thus it should be optimal.
- He has a fear of everything Linux and probably everything commandline as well. Add joke about him using Flash and preferring 8859-15
Christmas music, the good kind
You might have already realized that I am a bit pro-OpenSource/CreativeCommons/OpenAccess/everyotherhippyconceptconcerninginformation.
In the same way, in which the ocean is "a bit" wet. For this reason and because I have heard "Jingle Bells" and "Alle Jahre wieder" a few times too often, I want to show you a page with a lot of CreativeCommons-licensed christmas songs. Leech them, play them, distribute them! Or we have to suffer through the usual routine again.
I want to recommend Pete Green - Everything's Dead Pretty When it Snows.
