you know you're using the computer too much when...(please add your own)

tearinox · 11-30-2003, 02:14 PM

when you look at a bus and say "nice server"

and yes, ive done that :-D

Tarts · 11-30-2003, 05:01 PM

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Originally posted by Blinker_Fluid
I've done the :wq! in word... ls on a windows box (and a VMS terminal)
At one point I was working with touch screens for a point of sale application it got to where I would go home at night and hit the monitor a few times before I would remember it isn't a touch screen...

Ive seen quite a few people who have problems getting the commands for DOS/Unix mixed, so...UnxUtils

If anyone uses this and figures out the syntax for 'find.exe' I would be happy to see a working command.

Tarts

frieza · 12-01-2003, 10:28 AM

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Originally posted by Whitehat

...you use a Windows box and you keep forgetting that xkill does not work.

yes, sadly i do that kinda thing too, trying to type
'ls', 'clear', etc... into a DOS prompt... and then take a few seconds to realize why it gives me 'bad command or file name...'

joesbox · 12-01-2003, 02:04 PM

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Originally posted by Tarts
Ive seen quite a few people who have problems getting the commands for DOS/Unix mixed, so...UnxUtils

If anyone uses this and figures out the syntax for 'find.exe' I would be happy to see a working command.

Tarts

i use it and i think that the find utility is for looking thru a file and finding a sttring to match.

ganninu · 12-02-2003, 03:32 AM

ok i know it sounds crazy, but one night i have even had a the worst nightmare of my life - i was dreaming dat i forgot all linux commands! no joke.. i recall of having waken up shivering! PS: i haven't had slept for an entire week during dat time...

BSlack · 12-02-2003, 04:25 AM

when you go to bathroom and make it outside the wc because you want to keep your sight on the terminal through the corridor to see if the last kernel compilation comes to an end!
The guy that initiate me to *NIX world done it in his GF's house!!!!

Misel · 12-02-2003, 04:37 AM

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Originally posted by frieza
yes, sadly i do that kinda thing too, trying to type
'ls', 'clear', etc... into a DOS prompt... and then take a few seconds to realize why it gives me 'bad command or file name...'

that's why I have an ls.bat in my Windows directory

Tarts · 12-02-2003, 02:35 PM

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Originally posted by joesbox
i use it and i think that the find utility is for looking thru a file and finding a sttring to match.

Thanks joe.

joesbox · 12-02-2003, 06:03 PM

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Originally posted by Tarts
Thanks joe.

unfortunately i don't think that the unxutils' sh or zsh is a seperate shell. i think that it just masks the dos and still uses a lot of the dos tools like find but has seperate tools like wget as *.exe apps under the C:\WINDOWS\system32 (windows $PATH). hope this helps more.

LogicG8 · 12-02-2003, 07:33 PM

/* After an 80 hour work week */
When the girl you are sleeping with smacks you with
a pillow at 4am cause you won't shut up about
computers in your sleep.

/*
* 4:30am after a long coding session right before
* I went to sleep...
*/
When you can't figure out why you can't remember how
to insmod modules into your brain for 5 minutes before
you realize that you the reason you can't remember is
that you there is no way.

/* Everyday */
When you have to hit the backspace key every time you
type 'print' b/c you always type 'printf'

/* And one I just realized */
When you start commenting 'normal' english...

/* Nerds can party too... */
When you are blacked out drunk at a party and you fix
the hosts computer and are very confused when they
thank you the next day.

Tarts · 12-02-2003, 10:57 PM

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Originally posted by joesbox
unfortunately i don't think that the unxutils' sh or zsh is a seperate shell. i think that it just masks the dos and still uses a lot of the dos tools like find but has seperate tools like wget as *.exe apps under the C:\WINDOWS\system32 (windows $PATH). hope this helps more.

Actually my brief 4 or 5 day stint with windows was just due to complications with switching ISPs...and usernames, proprietary software..yadda, yadda. unxutils was about the funnest thing I had to play with in windows, but, I am happy to report I am back in Linux with 1.5(or so)Mbits/per second.

Tarts

Gill Bates · 12-03-2003, 06:15 AM

when ur wife divorces u and blames the computer

perry · 12-03-2003, 06:36 AM

you take the last $47.00 out of your check and blow it on a game instead of putting gas in the car....

- perry

Chu · 12-03-2003, 04:02 PM

When your dreams consist of you creating Function calls and compiling your work.
When you're socially communicating peer-to-peer (In the real sense..) and you start using *Net jargon (lol, wtf, thx, etc...)
When you're sitting in class wondering what you'd be doing right now if your computer was on your desk.
When you wear Polo T-Shirts with little Penguins on the Pocket.
When your Shirts contain ink spills in the pockets.
When you can't live without a computer (After a day without a computer you start your cravings..)

perry · 12-04-2003, 07:11 AM

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Originally posted by Chu
When your dreams consist of you creating Function calls and compiling your work.
...
When you can't live without a computer (After a day without a computer you start your cravings..)

how about, when you no longer have two nickles to rub together, creditors calling, the girlfriend bitching and a chance to go back to school, start an EE degree and become an officer in the armed forces working on real cool Linux apps, end up with a six figure salary with a stable job for the rest of your life, down in Cali but you'd rather sit and find out what's new on your linux box instead....

hmmmmm.... ....Linux..... !

- perry