Mind the Unix
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Customer : What is the command that will tell me the revision code
of a program ?
UNIX consul : Yes, that's correct.
Customer : No, what is it ?
UNIX consul : Yes.
Customer : So, which is the one ?
UNIX consul : No. 'which' is used to find the program.
Customer : Stop this. Who are you ?
UNIX consul : Use 'who am i' not 'who r yoo'. You can also 'finger
yoo' to get information about yoo'.
Customer : All I want to know is what finds the revision code ?
UNIX consul : Use 'what'.
Customer : That's what I am trying to find out. Isn't that true ?
UNIX consul : No. 'true' gives you 0.
Customer : Which one ?
UNIX consul : 'true' gives you 0. 'which programname'
Customer : Let's get back to my problem. What program? How do I
find it?
UNIX consul : Type 'find / -name it -print' to find 'it'. Type 'what
program' to get the revision code.
Customer : I want to find the revision code.
UNIX consul : You can't 'find revisioncode', you must use 'what
program'.
Customer : Which command will do what I need?
UNIX consul : No. 'which command' will find 'command'.
Customer : I think I understand. Let me write that.
UNIX consul : You can 'write that' only if 'that' is a user on your
system.
Customer : Write what?
UNIX consul : No. 'write that'. 'what program'.
Customer : Cut that out!
UNIX consul : Yes. Those are valid files for 'cut'. Don't forget the
options.
Customer : Do you always do this ?
UNIX consul : 'du' will give you disk usage.
Customer : HELP!
UNIX consul : 'help' is only used for Source Code Control System(SCCS).
Customer : You make me angry.
UNIX consul : No, I don't 'make me' angry but I did 'make programname'
when I was upset once.
Customer : I don't want to make trouble, so no more.
UNIX consul : No 'more'? 'which' will help you find 'more'. Every
system has 'more'.
Customer : Nice help! I'm confused more now!
UNIX consul : Understand that since 'help' is such a small program, it
is better not to 'nice help'. And 'more now' is not allowed
but 'at now' is. Unless of course 'now' is a file name.
Customer : This is almost as confusing as my PC.
UNIX consul : I didn't know you needed help with 'pc'. Let me get you
to the Pascal compiler team.
of a program ?
UNIX consul : Yes, that's correct.
Customer : No, what is it ?
UNIX consul : Yes.
Customer : So, which is the one ?
UNIX consul : No. 'which' is used to find the program.
Customer : Stop this. Who are you ?
UNIX consul : Use 'who am i' not 'who r yoo'. You can also 'finger
yoo' to get information about yoo'.
Customer : All I want to know is what finds the revision code ?
UNIX consul : Use 'what'.
Customer : That's what I am trying to find out. Isn't that true ?
UNIX consul : No. 'true' gives you 0.
Customer : Which one ?
UNIX consul : 'true' gives you 0. 'which programname'
Customer : Let's get back to my problem. What program? How do I
find it?
UNIX consul : Type 'find / -name it -print' to find 'it'. Type 'what
program' to get the revision code.
Customer : I want to find the revision code.
UNIX consul : You can't 'find revisioncode', you must use 'what
program'.
Customer : Which command will do what I need?
UNIX consul : No. 'which command' will find 'command'.
Customer : I think I understand. Let me write that.
UNIX consul : You can 'write that' only if 'that' is a user on your
system.
Customer : Write what?
UNIX consul : No. 'write that'. 'what program'.
Customer : Cut that out!
UNIX consul : Yes. Those are valid files for 'cut'. Don't forget the
options.
Customer : Do you always do this ?
UNIX consul : 'du' will give you disk usage.
Customer : HELP!
UNIX consul : 'help' is only used for Source Code Control System(SCCS).
Customer : You make me angry.
UNIX consul : No, I don't 'make me' angry but I did 'make programname'
when I was upset once.
Customer : I don't want to make trouble, so no more.
UNIX consul : No 'more'? 'which' will help you find 'more'. Every
system has 'more'.
Customer : Nice help! I'm confused more now!
UNIX consul : Understand that since 'help' is such a small program, it
is better not to 'nice help'. And 'more now' is not allowed
but 'at now' is. Unless of course 'now' is a file name.
Customer : This is almost as confusing as my PC.
UNIX consul : I didn't know you needed help with 'pc'. Let me get you
to the Pascal compiler team.
Mind the Dasher
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Biblioteca de palavras, montadas na base do "editor de texto esperto", que busca a probabilidade da próxima letra ou sequência de letras.
Achei no /., perdido numa discussão sobre ferramentas para ajudar as pessoas que não conseguem utilizar um teclado com as duas mãos.
Baixei pro Mac daqui, muito doido mesmo.
Mind Severino
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Jornal O Globo - Colunista de Segundo Caderno:
"Disse-o Dora Kramer com perfeição outro dia: “O PT construiu estereótipos e, uma vez no governo, passou a agir como acreditava que agissem os poderosos: sem escrúpulos e sem limites, tomando como ponto de partida a premissa de que ao Poder todos se rendem, o Poder a todos corrompe, o Poder tudo pode.”"
"Disse-o Dora Kramer com perfeição outro dia: “O PT construiu estereótipos e, uma vez no governo, passou a agir como acreditava que agissem os poderosos: sem escrúpulos e sem limites, tomando como ponto de partida a premissa de que ao Poder todos se rendem, o Poder a todos corrompe, o Poder tudo pode.”"
Mind the MotorSports
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This is an easy way to get off on your bike without losing any time on the road. While you keep your hands steady on the handlebars, your female passenger simply reaches around, unzips your pants, whips it out, and starts stroking your rod. Just be careful when you cum, so the wind doesn't blow an eyeful of spunk up into your face. Better wear some eye protection just in case.
Mind the 6 million Dollar Monkey
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Scientists in the US have created a robotic arm that can be controlled by thought alone.
Developed at Pittsburgh University, it has a fully mobile shoulder and elbow and a gripper that works like a hand.
Mind the Art
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In 2002, Dylan Reiff and Joe Korsmo began tracking the internet activities of Kolin, aka V. Gnome, an 18-year old computer gamer. They monitored and recorded Kolin’s AOL instant messages and gathered information about his friends and family from other sources on the net. Blending this data with scenarios from videogames and sci-fi films, they developed a mythology in which Kolin is “singled out as the savior of the human race.” The story is told in Gem Missile: A Tribute to V. Gnome, a 40-page book that incorporates photographs of Kolin and excerpts from his personal correspondence. In August 2003, Reiff and Korsmo showed up on Kolin’s parent’s doorstep in Chicago. Reiff introduced himself as “Z. Figiam,” Kolin’s “mentor from the future,” presented him with the book, and left without further explanation.
The plot thickened several days later with Kolin posted a detailed description of the encounter to an on-line gaming forum, along with digital photos of every page in the book. Members of the forum quickly added their own theories and responses, which ranged from close readings of the text and speculations about the gender of its authors, to admissions of jealousy and accusations that Kolin had invented the story in order to get a high rating for his thread (which in a few weeks had received over 40,000 hits).
A year passed after this initial contact. In August 2004, Reiff and Korsmo mailed Kolin a package containing a photograph of their meeting a year earlier, along with a note, a certificate, and a plane ticket to Minneapolis. Kolin was met at the airport by a man in a beat up Lincoln Town Car who identified himself as “The Gatekeeper.” For two days, Kolin was lead around the city in search of robots, buried treasure and information needed to save the future. Reiff and Korsmo involved numerous actors and another on-line gamer who, equally baffled, was driven with Kolin to a forest and abandoned there. At some point, Kolin noticed that his new friend had mysteriously disappeared. “I stood there alone in the woods, in Minnesota, with a shovel and a large black locked box, more confused then I have ever been in my life.” Kolin survived the trip and posted a detailed account of his adventure, concluding, “it was a great experience, and I would not hesitate to save the future again, if the chance ever arose.”
Dylan Reiff is an actor and playwright who studies theater at Antioch College. Joe Korsmo studies business and marketing at the University of Pennsylvania. Both are avid gamers and have been playing them together for 15 years. Their installation is titled after Kolin’s mother’s announcement: There’s Someone at the Door, He Says He’s From the Future.
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