Logiciel Libre

Being a long time GNU Screen fanatic, I thoroughly enjoyed Gerhard Siegesmund’s post entitled Scripting screen for fun and profit.

I used to love “steak and a coke”. These days I’m much more boring… I’m trying to eat less meat and I try to never drink soda/pop/coke. So I wish to pass this on to all my younger siblings by marriage: Don’t Drink Coke! At least, not too often.

Why not? Because of all the crazy stuff it does to your body.

Thanks to Chuck for the link.

A recent Slashdot post on good UNIX habits reminded me of something I really want as far as shell job control: the ability to run a command after another completes.

“Wait a second dude,” you say, “just use a semicolon!”

$ wget http://example.com/bigfile.zip ; mail -s 'done downloading' adamm

…and I wholeheartedly agree. But what if you started that ‘wget’ before you thought to notify yourself when the download completed?

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What the heck: he’s a programmer? Nice!

Scented Bus Stops. I repeat, scented.

Yep, that “convert or die” game is real, and folks want it off the shelves. Just between you and me, my money’s on the entire thing being a publicity stunt ala Snakes on a Plane or Borat or …uh, lots of other things.

I’m glad I could do my little part in this viral marketing campaign.

Computers certainly do a lot of searching. Some search engines can even find you a tune if you only know the melody. What would be really cool is if it could parse a recording of me whistling.

I got thinking about this after watching a video of a dude playing this song while rollerblading down a city street sent to me by Chuck.

I must admit, it was cool to be a part of this!