President Obama turns 50 today, IF YOU BELIEVE HIS OBVIOUSLY FAKED BIRTH CERTIFICATE!
It’s been years since I used Linux, but it’s quickly coming back to me how inscrutable it is. -xvzf – what the hell is that? Why do I have to keep typing it?
It’s just me by myself home tonight. I don’t know how to function by myself anymore. Who will feed me?
I was a bachelor for years, but I don’t remember it being this sad and depressing. Anyway, I guess I’ll just do what I did as a bachelor: PLAY LOTS OF VIDEO GAMES!!!
My parents said if I go over to their house, they’ll feed me.
Don’t make me smack you.
What is a linux?
Oh, criminey – get out the Gilbert O’Sullivan records.
Here’s a bachelor refresher:
1. MacNCheese if very versatile. Think chopped wieners, cubed spam, taco meat, canned chili.
2. Eating over the sink means never having to wash dishes.
3. Milk tastes better directly from the carton (corollary to #2)
4. ALWAYS date the Styrofoam containers before stuffing them into the fridge and remember, the outside date for practically everything is 2 weeks.
5. Re-heating IS TOO cooking!
marco, it is doubtful you have ever encountered a linux. They went extinct about a decade ago. At one time they roamed the PC plains in all their glory but were hunted and exterminated by the Gates tribe.
Frank was alone yesterday. Too busy playing angry birds to bother eith us. and seriously, hope everything is okay.
Who is Obama’s cheif economic advisor? Jimmy Carter?
Marko, a linux is a catlike animal with sharp teeth and pointy ears.
…or maybe Sally’s little brother.
…oops…I meant Lucy’s little brother. Crap! I just ruined the gag! ABEND!
Frank, You’re in the early stages of the evolution of a husband/father. At this stage, you’re lonely and depressed when you come home to an empty house. In a few more years, the rare opportunity to be home alone will be nearly as thrilling as a 5-year old meeting Mickey Mouse for the first time. My favorite thing to do when I’m home alone: NOTHING…Sweet, Sweet, NOTHING!
I like linux I have it on a laptop at home. I would put it on all the work computers if I could get the enterprise software to talk to it.
And the answer to your question is Domino’s. Just try and keep the grease off the keyboard for once.
SarahK left you without any food in the house? I miss the 1960’s.
What has always been inscrutable to me is whyizzut that tar (as in “tape archiver”) doesn’t require a hyphen before the option switches (i.e., xzvf). I think tar was invented in the early days of UNIX when there were no rules and all was lawless. If you want a message that is 100% scrutable, try creating a tar file (cvzf) without specifying any files to archive.
Umm, Burma…you are as big an programming tard as Frank J! Linux is great! It was open source UNIX back in the day, which really makes sense for large companies to use these days. I’d highly recommend it along with any open source security software (freeware) that you can download from the internet. Redhat was and is the preferred LINUX. Do not EVER use UNIX, because then you will have to hire a whole staff of LINUX guys! Unless you already have UNIX, then you can pay to train them or hire a bunch of LINUX guys. If you are installing an application that requires LINUX, it was written in someone’s garage and you shouldn’t be using it in the first place!!! But just blame the whole mess on the Project Manager!
while enjoying your “video games”, remember to use the “private browsing” feature…
In my defense, I would like to state that I am operating system agnostic.
And I don’t see what the Linux/UNIX prob is. I use Linux and Windows on my workstations, but use UNIX (OpenBSD) for the server I admin. They’re not that different. Don’t let the programmers stymie you into paying for expensive training.
@Burmashave: Hey! My little bro provides some of that expensive training! He is a genius. You must defer to the genius . . . (For Christmas, I got the poor guy one of those T-shirts with the message, “No, I will NOT fix your computer.” I’m guessing only MDs are pestered more by their families for free advice.)
“President Obama turns 50 today, IF YOU BELIEVE HIS OBVIOUSLY FAKED BIRTH CERTIFICATE!”
Well, since Obama can’t seem to remember his own birthday, http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/07/15/obama_forgets_his_own_birthday.html , one has to wonder how long that date’s been his birthday.
@Crabby -Or youth pastors with pickup trucks They get asked to help move people alot.
@Crabby: I have been sorely tempted to get one of those shirts.
Frank, you should have given me a call. I would have fed you, and I baked bread yesterday. Nice, fresh, French bread, made with 1/3 whole wheat flour! You probably got just a whiff of the aroma where you are. It was much better here. And, of course, as a post-middle-aged bachelor, I have a refrigerator full of very good beer.
Whatever you do, don’t eat from Domino’s. My father and I can both attest to Domino’s pizza lasting for weeks on end. Now what kind of processed food lasts that long? What are they putting in that stuff? By-products from a steel mill? God only knows.
Be a rebel, leave out the v and just say tar xzf. Just slows things down with a lot of useless jabber on the terminal anyway.
@Marko,
I have a theory about that. If preservatives are designed to preserve things like meat, and we’re made of meat, then if you eat enough preservatives you will stay young forever.
Actually, SOB, you’re right. For example, Sodium Erythorbate is both a preservative and a chelating agent.