Re: [OT] xkcd

2007-10-15 Thread Tom Buskey
On 10/14/07, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/13/07, John Abreau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course, if you're using bash, then http://xkcd.com/{1..327} Depends on what version of bash. That's why we should be using #!/bin/bash-3.2.9 at the top of our shell

Re: [OT] xkcd

2007-10-15 Thread Ben Scott
On 10/15/07, Tom Buskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It'd be nice if --version wasn't so wordy or you could get just the version like uname -r FYI, there is a BASH_VERSION internal variable that's useful for this sort of thing. There's a bunch of others with similar good info, too. They're not

Re: [OT] xkcd

2007-10-15 Thread Mark E. Mallett
On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 11:37:48PM -0400, Ben Scott wrote: On 10/11/07, Mark E. Mallett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mm (I suppose we could just say xkcd.com/{`seq 1 327`}) Doesn't work. You need the comma a separator within {...}. But even Funny, right after I sent that (obviously should

Re: [OT] xkcd

2007-10-15 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
I tried the 28 hour day In 1973 I worked for Aetna Life and Casualty. The company's computers ran 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The operators there worked 12-hour shifts, so we only had two shifts of operators, not three. In order to work (more or less) 40-hour weeks, they really worked

Re: [OT] xkcd

2007-10-14 Thread Ben Scott
On 10/13/07, John Abreau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course, if you're using bash, then http://xkcd.com/{1..327} Depends on what version of bash. That's why we should be using #!/bin/bash-3.2.9 at the top of our shell scripts. -- Ben

Re: [OT] xkcd

2007-10-14 Thread Ric Werme
On 10/13/07, John Abreau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course, if you're using bash, then http://xkcd.com/{1..327} Depends on what version of bash. That's why we should be using #!/bin/bash-3.2.9 at the top of our shell scripts. Unless you have Suse 10.1: tux:~ ls -l /bin/bash*

Re: [OT] xkcd

2007-10-13 Thread John Abreau
On Thu, October 11, 2007 11:37 pm, Ben Scott said: Of course, if you're using bash, then http://xkcd.com/{1..327} will do the job without all the messy syntax or the external program. Depends on what version of bash. The first time I tried that, it failed: $ echo

RE: [OT] xkcd

2007-10-11 Thread Flaherty, Patrick
You missed the best one. http://xkcd.com/138/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ben Scott Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 9:37 PM To: Greater NH Linux User Group Subject: Re: [OT] xkcd On 10/10/07, Kent Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [OT] xkcd

2007-10-11 Thread Ben Scott
On 10/11/07, Flaherty, Patrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You missed the best one. http://xkcd.com/138/ I considered adding that, but the list was already long, and listing all the good ones would be ridiculous. Besides, the best one is: http://xkcd.com/240/ Why is that the best one?

RE: [OT] xkcd

2007-10-11 Thread Flaherty, Patrick
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ben Scott Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 10:59 AM To: Greater NH Linux User Group Subject: Re: [OT] xkcd On 10/11/07, Flaherty, Patrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You missed the best one. http://xkcd.com/138/ I considered adding that, but the list

Re: [OT] xkcd

2007-10-11 Thread Paul Lussier
Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I considered adding that, but the list was already long, and listing all the good ones would be ridiculous. Besides, the best one is: http://xkcd.com/240/ Nono. Really, the best one is: http://xkcd.com/224/ -- Seeya, Paul

Re: [OT] xkcd

2007-10-11 Thread Michael Costolo
On 10/11/07, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nono. Really, the best one is: http://xkcd.com/224/ This one has to be WAY up there: http://xkcd.com/202/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org

Re: [OT] xkcd

2007-10-11 Thread Mark E. Mallett
On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 04:00:50PM -0400, Paul Lussier wrote: http://xkcd.com/224/ The LISP/perl ones are fun, this one especially: http://xkcd.com/312/ with a NH connection, even (via Robert Frost). it's probably been mentioned here before, my brain leaks like a sieve. mm (I suppose

Re: [OT] xkcd

2007-10-11 Thread Ben Scott
On 10/11/07, Mark E. Mallett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mm (I suppose we could just say xkcd.com/{`seq 1 327`}) Doesn't work. You need the comma a separator within {...}. But even http://xkcd.com{`seq -s, 1 327`} doesn't work, because the output of Command Substitution is not

Re: [OT] xkcd

2007-10-11 Thread Paul Lussier
Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Of course, if you're using bash, then http://xkcd.com/{1..327} will do the job without all the messy syntax or the external program. And, as we've all recently witnessed, if you need to put this in a script, start it out with: #!/bin/bash How

Re: [OT] xkcd

2007-10-10 Thread Ben Scott
On 10/10/07, Kent Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you know what a SQL injection attack is, you will love this: http://xkcd.com/327/ For those of you who hadn't already seen the above: xkcd is an extremely excellent comic, and should be read by all geeks. http://xkcd.com/149/

Re: [OT] xkcd

2007-10-10 Thread Bill Ricker
If you know what a SQL injection attack is, you will love this: http://xkcd.com/327/ while xkcd++; And if it doesn't make sense, you NEED to read this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL_injection_attack -- Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___