On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, will trillich wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 10:28:55PM +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 10:32:43AM -0500, will trillich wrote: > > <snip,snip,snip> > > > > Have you considered implementing this as a fortune type deal rather than > > > > your perl script? <snip> > karl and romain -- this indeed looks easy. but it feels like i'll > be adding comments and tips daily if not hourly, for a while at > least. maybe when it calms down a bit, i'll hammer it into a > fortune database.
adding a new tip: echo % >> my_tip_fortune_db cat new_tip >> my_tip_fortune_db strfile my_tip_fortune_db how hard is that ? fortune can take an absolute filename as input, so you don't have to worry about copying it to /usr/share > > > what i had considered, tho, is rube-goldberg-ing a web page allowing > > > anyone to add tips (with heavy regex behind to scenes to check for > > > duplication) of their own, and then offer a random tip via a finger-like > > > service on a publicly-accessible port, to the community at large. newbiedoc.sourceforge.net doesn't have 'fortune' which is sad, but I used php to add a fortune cookie at the bottom of my web page: <?php system("/usr/games/fortune -s"); ?> We probably could use a similar php trick on the newbiedoc homepage, using a homemade script instead of 'fortune'. > DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP: > Why are *.rpm (RED HAT PACKAGES) considered spawn of Satan? I thought it that telnet was spawn of Satan ? Does that mean Satan's multithreaded ???