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Buffistechnology 3: "Press Some Buttons, See What Happens."

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tommyrot - May 17, 2010 4:03:41 pm PDT #13845 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Oh, the temptation.

Make it say, "You do watch Firefly don't you?"


Typo Boy - May 17, 2010 4:04:18 pm PDT #13846 of 25501
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

I'm trying to connect to pandagon.net IP 209.200.252.213

isitdownorisitjustme.com says it is just me. But I can't connect or ping even using ip address.


tommyrot - May 17, 2010 4:07:31 pm PDT #13847 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

I can ping it fine.


§ ita § - May 17, 2010 4:18:05 pm PDT #13848 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Make it say, "You do watch Firefly don't you?"

Screeching with laughter over here.


Typo Boy - May 17, 2010 4:52:28 pm PDT #13849 of 25501
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

Thanks. Rebooting my Router had not worked so I assumed a real problem with the site. But I got out the screwdriver and did a hard reset to defaults and reprogrammed it from scratch and now it is working fine. But probably not a great sign.


le nubian - May 17, 2010 5:14:06 pm PDT #13850 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

I have a Unix question that I cannot find the fucking answer to despite my google-fu.

I need to log unix commands. I just want to start a logfile and have it record all the commands I enter (with corresponding responses back).

How do I do this? I can find commands on log mathematical functions, but not how to create and save a logfile.


beth b - May 17, 2010 5:52:50 pm PDT #13851 of 25501
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

From Matt:

script will capture commands.

If you run script and tee the output into the same file using append (>>) and redirecting using 2>&1, that might also work.


le nubian - May 17, 2010 6:07:01 pm PDT #13852 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

oh thank you so much. this rocks this house. THANK YOU THANK YOU.


tommyrot - May 18, 2010 7:03:35 am PDT #13853 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

So I had two iPods die in two days. I'm hoping Apple will upgrade the amount of memory in the iPod Touch, so in the meantime I bought an iPod Nano. This has the pedometer, and it keeps asking me if I want to send my pedometer results to Nike. Has anyone tried this? Is Nike all privacy-invasive and sending a billion emails a day? or are they all mellow with your footstep info?


-t - May 18, 2010 7:50:50 am PDT #13854 of 25501
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I do the Nike+ thing and haven't gotten a lot of spam from it, I don't think. I'm pretty sure I even checked the "send me offers and whatnot" box and the official Nike e-mails are just occasional and actually informative.

Do you not have to put a sensor in your shoe, now? I bought my new Nano just a little too early, it seems.