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Linux / UNIX Desktop Fun: Steam Locomotive

Vivek Gite — Thu, 26 May 2011 20:42:03 +0000

One of the most common mistake is typing sl instead of ls command. I actually set an alias i.e. alias sl=ls; but then you may miss out the steam train with whistle.

Humor: On Feb, Friday 13, 2009 Unix time Will Be 1234567890

Vivek Gite — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 19:54:55 +0000

Unix time (POSIX time) is a system for describing points in time, defined as the number of seconds elapsed since midnight Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) of January 1, 1970, not counting leap seconds.

Humor: E-mail Error Ends Up on Road Sign

Vivek Gite — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 06:09:50 +0000

The English is clear enough to lorry drivers - but the Welsh reads "I am not in the office at the moment. Please send any work to be translated."

Humor: apt-get wife

Vivek Gite — Fri, 23 May 2008 19:42:49 +0000

apt get install wife - either you get it, or you don't

Humor: Firefox Logo in Deep Space

Vivek Gite — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 12:35:40 +0000

I, for one, would like to welcome our new Mozilla Firefox overload directly from deep space ;) V838 Monocerotis (V838 Mon) is a variable star in the constellation Monoceros about 20,000 light years from the Sun. The star experienced a major outburst in early 2002. Originally believed to be a typical nova eruption, it was [...]

Humor: Know your System Administrator

Vivek Gite — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 19:15:07 +0000

The joke on this page was obtained from the FSF's email archives of the GNU Project: There are four major species of Unix sysad: 1.The TECHNICAL THUG. Usually a systems programmer who has been forced into system administration; writes scripts in a polyglot of the Bourne shell, sed, C, awk, perl, and APL. 2.The ADMINISTRATIVE [...]

Humor: Operating Systems and Airlines

Vivek Gite — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 18:31:01 +0000

If Operating Systems allowed to ran airlines. Absolutely hilarious, here is an an excerpt from post: Everyone brings one piece of the plane along when they come to the airport. They all go out on the runway and put the plane together piece by piece, arguing non-stop about what kind of plane they are supposed [...]

Humor: Unusual data disaster horror stories for 2007

Vivek Gite — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 13:06:22 +0000

Ontrack data recovery service has posted unusual data disaster horror stories for 2007. From the article: An ant-infested hard drive and a failing parachute top a list of data disaster horror stories for 2007. The list, provided by Kroll Inc.'s Ontrack Data Recovery unit, illustrates some of the strangest and wackiest things that people put [...]

Humor: Windows Vista Incapable Stickers

Vivek Gite — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 18:44:08 +0000

(click to enlarge) => Download zip file - source (584K) Image Credit: gnome-look.org

Humor: Writing Web Service and Pages using Bourne Shell

Vivek Gite — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 05:31:20 +0000

Why should shell languages be the only ones left out of the ${YOUR_LANGUAGE_HERE} Server Pages fad? This document chronicles foray into the not-so-fascinating world of ${YOUR_LANGUAGE_HERE} Server Pages technology. All of the code developed is available for free download, so you can use Bourne Shell Server Pages to build your very own killer Web application. [...]

Humor: The Last Language War and Linus vs Chuck Norris

Vivek Gite — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:12:48 +0000

I missed a hilarious conversation between various modern programming languages and Linus vs Chuck Norris, definitely worth a read.

ddate: Converts Gregorian dates to Discordian dates

Vivek Gite — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 20:02:55 +0000

Most of you may be aware of date command. There is also a ddate command. It converts Gregorian dates to Discordian dates or Erisian calendar, which is an alternative calendar used by some adherents of Discordianism. It is specified on page 00034 of the Principia Discordia: The Discordian calendar has five 73-day seasons: Chaos, Discord, [...]

Humor: Ten Funny Quotes By Linus Torvalds

Vivek Gite — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 11:01:18 +0000

"Dijkstra probably hates me" ~ (in kernel/sched.c) "How should I know if it works? That's what beta testers are for. I only coded it" ~ (somewhere in a posting) "I'm an idiot.. At least this one [bug] took about 5 minutes to find.." ~ (in response to a bug report) => Read the rest here

Humor: Great UNIX humor on a t-shirt

Vivek Gite — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 10:50:50 +0000

Source: rusmafia.org

Humor: Kill Bill

Vivek Gite — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 03:25:59 +0000

Kill bill art / wallpaper (via digg)

Humor: Ubuntu Linux Easter Eggs using apt-get and aptitude commands

Vivek Gite — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 18:29:54 +0000

Earlier today someone in IRC chat room pointed out me an easter egg (hidden feature or message in a game or software or sound track) for Ubuntu Linux. apt-get command easter egg Open your terminal and type the command: apt-get moo (__) (oo) /------\/ / | || * /\---/\ ~~ ~~ ...."Have you mooed today?"... [...]

Humor: What does your favorite text editor say about you?

Vivek Gite — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 14:31:09 +0000

This is nice and funny post - you tell the author what is the default editor on your system, and author will tell you what kind of person you are!

Humor: OSS and Apple Fan boys rejoice

Vivek Gite — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 21:22:56 +0000

This is sooo funny. Apple released its iPhone and GNU released its GPL v3... what about Microsoft geeks? (click to enlarge) Source / Image credit

Linux Validates as Genuine Windows Advantage (GWA)

Vivek Gite — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 19:53:01 +0000

No need to apply any crack or hack it is plain simple good old Wine software. It allows to validate an Ubuntu installation as a genuine copy of Microsoft Windows and get to the download page of Windows Defender, using IE4Linux and Wine. From the Ubuntu forums thread: I just did this for a laugh [...]

Humor: I paid the price for being a Linux computer

Vivek Gite — Wed, 09 May 2007 15:03:37 +0000

(click to enlarge) Source