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VMware and your favorite OS

ashish — Wed, 16 May 2012 06:09:03 +0000

Q. What did VMware say to your favorite OS ?
A. Be my guest.

[Reminder] To myself

ashish — Sun, 13 May 2012 12:24:32 +0000

Apr  1 13:30:26 2012   Beginning...
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May 13 15:30:39 2012   Ending...

SYSTEM

Quit message

ashish — Tue, 08 May 2012 02:30:41 +0000

In case I forget where it came from:

Whenever we are together, it’s always estatically palpitating!
— a Marmalade Boy pencil pouch as pointed by NessaChan

Note: Please don’t point out any typos

Emacs あい

ashish — Sun, 06 May 2012 22:37:45 +0000

There’s always an Emacs command to do that:

C-x RET C-\ japanese-hiragana RET

There will always be…I <3 Emacs

Hate

ashish — Sun, 06 May 2012 03:28:57 +0000

Love is a word that is constantly heard,
Hate is a word that is not.
Love, I am told, is more precious than gold.
Love, I have read, is hot.
But hate is the verb that to me is superb,
And Love but a drug on the mart.
Any kiddie in school can love like a fool,
But Hating, my boy, is an Art.
                -- Ogden Nash

xargs

ashish — Fri, 04 May 2012 07:52:21 +0000

Maybe, I’m the lost person to realize the functional awesomeness of xargs(1).

Without xargs(1):

% i=0; for j in $(jot 100 1); do if [ $i = 4 ]; then printf "%2x %2x %2x %2x %2x\n" $s $j; s=""; i=0; else i=$((i+1)); s="$s $j"; fi; done
 1  2  3  4  5
 6  7  8  9  a
 b  c  d  e  f
10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19
1a 1b 1c 1d 1e
1f 20 21 22 23
24 25 26 27 28
29 2a 2b 2c 2d
2e 2f 30 31 32
33 34 35 36 37
38 39 3a 3b 3c
3d 3e 3f 40 41
42 43 44 45 46
47 48 49 4a 4b
4c 4d 4e 4f 50
51 52 53 54 55
56 57 58 59 5a
5b 5c 5d 5e 5f
60 61 62 63 64

With xargs(1):

% jot 100 1 |xargs -n 5 printf "%2x %2x %2x %2x %2x\n"
 1  2  3  4  5
 6  7  8  9  a
 b  c  d  e  f
10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19
1a 1b 1c 1d 1e
1f 20 21 22 23
24 25 26 27 28
29 2a 2b 2c 2d
2e 2f 30 31 32
33 34 35 36 37
38 39 3a 3b 3c
3d 3e 3f 40 41
42 43 44 45 46
47 48 49 4a 4b
4c 4d 4e 4f 50
51 52 53 54 55
56 57 58 59 5a
5b 5c 5d 5e 5f
60 61 62 63 64

Lifetime

ashish — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 20:29:10 +0000

 Relativity doesn't expand your lifetime, it just bumps up your age.

Man and Woman

ashish — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 18:32:20 +0000

 Pass woman, a man, and you'll learn everything about man. Pass man, a woman, you'll be told: No manual entry for woman.

Sysadmins never take vacations…

ashish — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 10:32:19 +0000

…they always stay on call.

“Exactly. Simple as that. Can’t have you having bad dreams, and I’ve paid my dues. From now on, I’m only going on night call to cover holidays.”
She laughed. “Sysadmins don’t take holidays.”
“This one will,” he said. “Promise.”

source: When Sysadmins Ruled The Earth

When a UNIX user wants to kill you?

ashish — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 10:24:24 +0000

(S?)he only means to signal you