That's one reason why I like gentoo and open source ... lol

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R!tman · Post by **R!tman** » Sat May 27, 2006 7:34 pm

I just had to "emerge -1 ntp" when something caught my eye during that process:

...
...
...
checking for gethostent... yes
checking for openlog... yes
checking for MD5Init in -li_dont_want_no_stinkin_md5... no
checking for MD5Init in -lmd... no
checking for MD5Init... no
...
...
...

Note the third "checking" line

Things like that, and things like "...this will take a while, go get a pizza..." you will never find in Windows!

Cheers to the linux community!

nlindblad · Post by **nlindblad** » Sat May 27, 2006 8:07 pm

Agreed my friend

boniek · Post by **boniek** » Sat May 27, 2006 11:33 pm

Good one!

CalPaterson · Post by **CalPaterson** » Mon May 29, 2006 12:14 am

R!tman wrote:Things like that, and things like "...this will take a while, go get a pizza..." you will never find in Windows!

Cheers to the linux community!

Agreed, the human touch is always excellent. Humor and software should must definatley always go hand in hand. A couple of other examples I have come across;

=In the Ubuntu releases of glxgears, in order to see a log of the frame rates (one of the main uses of the program) you must use the -i-acknowledge-that-this-is-not-a-benchmark flag.
=Often in Debian, the configuration programs will refer to themselves in the first person; eg "Should I set eth0 as the default NIC?" and also "use N to tell me I'm very annoying, and I promise I won't bug you again".
=In a program where I looked at the source, I recall seeing the following line; "int ohfuckthewholethingisshottohell"

=Slackware has a couple of funny lines.
=The whole funny-manpages and asr-manpages packages, both here and in Debian. Ever funnier is when you consider that someone must've had to justify both of these to the debian-stable-double-subcommittee-twice-removed. Including the debian-legal list; who will _definatley_ have reservations about licence issues. Obviously, several "desert island philosophy-test" discussions are stored, in triplicate, on all mailing list servers.

Also, often I find the upfrontness of FOSS programmers/programs nice; if something is broken they'll said it out right. This stands in contrast to more closed habits of never admitting a problem, and never admitting a problem is serious.

R!tman · Post by **R!tman** » Fri Jun 02, 2006 7:32 am

CalPaterson wrote:Agreed, the human touch is always excellent. Humor and software should must definatley always go hand in hand. A couple of other examples I have come across;

Yeah, that's exactly what I meant, the human touch.

CalPaterson wrote:Also, often I find the upfrontness of FOSS programmers/programs nice; if something is broken they'll said it out right. This stands in contrast to more closed habits of never admitting a problem, and never admitting a problem is serious.

Very often they exaggerate the problems. I did not find the link right now, but on the R350 project (opensource drivers for ati graphic cards) it said: "This code is broken and will break your hardware."

beatryder · Post by **beatryder** » Fri Jun 02, 2006 8:07 am

hear! hear!

fangorn · Post by **fangorn** » Fri Jun 02, 2006 9:11 am

When starting amule-cvs you had to provide "only_chuck_norris_could_stop_me" as start option at some time.

R!tman · Post by **R!tman** » Fri Jun 02, 2006 10:41 am

There was (and probably still is) a way to really force dvd+rw-format to format a dvd. The usual way is the the "-force" option, and the extreme way is with "-use-the-force-luke"

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KiberGus · Post by **KiberGus** » Fri Jun 02, 2006 2:08 pm

Russian version of showkey says that I should "press any key (it is situated on sistem block)".

omp · Post by **omp** » Fri Jun 02, 2006 5:25 pm

CalPaterson wrote:In the Ubuntu releases of glxgears, in order to see a log of the frame rates (one of the main uses of the program) you must use the -i-acknowledge-that-this-is-not-a-benchmark flag.

That's how it should be.

masterdriverz · Post by **masterdriverz** » Fri Jun 02, 2006 5:46 pm

A great way to remember acronyms is the "wtf" package, usable with the ever rememberable line "wtf is (insert acronym)"

R!tman · Post by **R!tman** » Fri Jun 02, 2006 6:37 pm

masterdriverz wrote:A great way to remember acronyms is the "wtf" package, usable with the ever rememberable line "wtf is (insert acronym)"

LOL, didn't know that one

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masterdriverz · Post by **masterdriverz** » Fri Jun 02, 2006 7:19 pm

Discovered it when trying out the more well known "cowsay" and "fortune". Great stuff

R.I.P. · Post by **R.I.P.** » Fri Jun 02, 2006 9:17 pm

it seems to be a good tradition within unix sotfware to have some human touch in it.
i've always liked an error message from good-old tar "Cowardly refusing to create an empty archive".
with one simple sentence (even more with just one word "cowardly") it gives you an impression of the human hands which where typing all that code to create the program.

I like it too.

truc · Post by **truc** » Fri Jun 02, 2006 9:55 pm

Code: Select all

 find /usr/src/linux/ -type f -exec grep -i fuck '{}' \;

and there are many other

:)

theethicalatheist · Post by **theethicalatheist** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 1:51 am

Check my signature.

dmartinsca · Post by **dmartinsca** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 5:02 pm

an apparently undocumented setting for the FEATURES variable in portage is FEATURES="candy". Turning this on will replace the spinner while calculating dependencies with random messages.

Eckzow · Post by **Eckzow** » Sun Jun 04, 2006 8:26 pm

Ah yes... FEATURES="candy"

For those curious (its not too hard to find these in the emerge script either, they're right at the beginning) FEATURES="candy" will give you the following messages rather than the spinner:

Gentoo Rocks (Linux)
Thank you for using Gentoo.

Are you actually trying to read this?
How many times have you stared at this?
We are generating the cache right now
You are paying too much attention.
A theory is better than its explanation.
Phasers locked on target, Captain.
Thrashing is just virtual crashing.
To be is to program.
Real Users hate Real Programmers.
When all else fails, read the instructions.
Functionality breeds Contempt.
The future lies ahead.
3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971694
Sometimes insanity is the only alternative.
Inaccuracy saves a world of explanation.

Also try on "emerge moo" for size (don't need the features setting for that)

GetCool · Post by **GetCool** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 8:23 pm

One of my favorites from Gentoo is the USE flag "GAPING_SECURITY_HOLE".

I also love those packages that do some singularly obscure thing that no one really needs, like cowsay. That's what I love about FOSS; for almost anything you can think of, someone has written and released software for it.

R!tman · Post by **R!tman** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 8:48 pm

masterdriverz wrote:Discovered it when trying out the more well known "cowsay" and "fortune". Great stuff

I usually had a fortune signature before I began using thunderbird. I did not find a clean way I liked to get this to work. Maybe I'll write a thunderbird extension someday...

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R.I.P. wrote:i've always liked an error message from good-old tar "Cowardly refusing to create an empty archive".

Now that you mention it, I always liked that too

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truc wrote:
Code: Select all
find /usr/src/linux/ -type f -exec grep -i fuck '{}' \;

didn't know that one

@dmartinsca, Eckzow: I knew of that, but never used it. I just put it in!

GetCool wrote:One of my favorites from Gentoo is the USE flag "GAPING_SECURITY_HOLE".

GNUtoo · Post by **GNUtoo** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 3:28 am

that's why i saw this in the gentoo sources...

GNUtoo · Post by **GNUtoo** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 3:29 am

that's why i saw this in the emerge sources...
(the cow)

electrofreak · Post by **electrofreak** » Sun Jun 11, 2006 8:24 pm

This reminds of an April Fools joke one year, maybe 2005. An update to mplayer was just released that day and just before it started to compile the ebuild was designed to pretend to be building and then it printed out as if it was failing to build the very first thing, then it waited like 5 seconds and then said April Fools and went about it's business. That was great.

The developer of it happened to be on #gentoo at the time... I commented on the joke.

masterdriverz · Post by **masterdriverz** » Sun Jun 11, 2006 8:30 pm

This is another great April Fools I stumbled upon >> http://gentooexperimental.org/nt/

electrofreak · Post by **electrofreak** » Sun Jun 11, 2006 8:45 pm

masterdriverz wrote:This is another great April Fools I stumbled upon >> http://gentooexperimental.org/nt/

Yeah, that one had my jaw dropped. The screenshots and boot log were funny too. They went all out on that one. It was great.

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