I recently came across this caused me to smile if not giggle.
ENOTOBACCO Read on an empty pipe
EBEFOREI Invalid syntax
ECHERNOBYL Core dumped
ECRAY Program exited before being run
EDINGDONG The daemon is dead
EFLAT System needs tuning
EGEEK Program written by inept Frat member
EIEIO Here-a-bug, there-a-bug, ....
EIUD Missing period
ELECTROLUX Your code could stand to be cleaned up
EMILYPOST Wrong fork
END.ARMS.CONTROL Silo overflow
ENOHORSE Mount failed
ENONSEQUETOR C program not derived from main(){printf("Hello, world");}
EWATERGATE Extended tape gap
EWOK Aliens sighted
EWOK Your code appears to have been stir-fried
EWOULDBNICE The feature you want has not been implemented yet
Not to be out done, a new signal:
SIGNUKE Nuclear event occurred (cannot be caught or ignored)
I am a constant user of screen and it always suprises me how many people use it and barely know how truly powerful it is. Here is a short list of some very neat tricks.
| Starting a new session |
screen |
| Reattach to a session |
screen -r |
| Leave a session |
^A d |
| Open another window |
^A c |
| Change to a window |
^A number |
| Change to next window |
^A space |
| Change window via the window list |
^A “ |
| Add a split region |
^A S |
| Jump between split regions |
^A tab |
| Close region |
^A X |
| Close all the other regions |
^A Q |
| Enter “copy mode” (useful for scrollback!) |
^A [ |
| Watch for silence |
^A _ |
| Watch for activity |
^A M |
| Protect screen with password |
^A x |
As always looking through info and man pages can provide a raft of information about tools and sometimes uncover tricks that you might of otherwise not known about!
So I have got access to the new look Gmail. I have to say that I am impressed, it is an obvious improvement in the overall look and feel of using Gmail.
This is the new minimalistic theme, Wonderful! Good job Google.
One of the things that truly gets on my nerves is the way that ISPs are allowed to sell connections. The now ubiquotious up to. Surely someone in government or the ASA can do something about this nonsense. Up to 8M, in reality probably around 6 if you are lucky, more like 4 for the mass. It’s a horrible thing, really I would like to see them reverse the promise, at least 4M. That way you know you will not drop below that.
But now its got worse, not only do they see these unobtainable rates, now the rates you get will be constricted at “peak times” (which basically means whenever you except to use the internet). So not only do they sell rates they will not provide but they go further and restrict the rates when you want to use it. These so called “unlimited” packages all of a sudden have a limit.
The final thing that annoys me is that ISPs will reduce the cost of their packages, offer more and more options to their packages and completely neglect their existing customers. I find myself browsing the website of my ISP every 6 months just to make sure they aren’t overcharging me.
Why is noone outraged like me about this? Why is the government not stepping in and kicking the ISPs in the teeth for this abuse of its customers. Tools like iPlayer from the BBC depend on good solid rates and you’re not going to get them any time soon in the UK.
There I’ve said it now. There is nothing wrong the Rar format, it may even been slightly better at compressing that Zip. So why does it suck then, the algorithm for creating a Rar file is proprietary, this means that no other applications are able to create Rar files other than the RARLabs tools (WinRAR etc). So everytime you see a Rar file you know that WinRAR was behind its creation.
Now look at say Zip, the format is just as capable of compression as Rar. The algorithm for creating and unpacking Zip files is Free! This means anyone can make a program that compresses Zip files, anyone can make a program that unpacks Zip files.
I would push you all to consider the utilities you use and look to see if they are truely free. For every program we support that isn’t free we dimish the OSS movement just that little bit.
