Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Well, that didn't work out so well

I guess that all y'all like the % borepatch --verbose option.  OK, then.

Science is after all about falsifiable hypotheses.  I guess the "People dig linky-not-thinky" is falsified here.  Blogging will be back to the normal paid-by-the-word format. 

10 comments:

Southern Belle said...

Yay!!! Actually, we just admire your great big brain!

"Hey! Check out the big brain on BP!"

Kansas Scout said...

Huh!?

Rev. Paul said...

I'm more surprised when I do get comments; here's hoping you weren't going by a lack of response.

Borepatch said...

Kansas Scout, it's a Unix Geek joke. The way to make arbitrary_program give you as much output as it can, you run the command:

arbitrary_program --verbose

Like I said, it's Unix Geeky.

Dave H said...

It was worth a shot, unlike New Coke which never should have seen the light of day.

Links abound on the Web; what's lacking is intelligence. We need you to help hold back the tide of dumb.

Rick C said...

Oh. My. God. You're a csh user?

Borepatch said...

Rick C, I can make csh do things you've never imagined.

But now, I only use my Powers for good ...

Anonymous said...

Bash dude. And Perl! Then C, C++, Java (under duress), PIC assembler ... Make, autoconf, ...

Dirk said...

I'm partial to ksh, myself. Been using it for a long time in various job roles. Old tech, but still good and very useful!

lelnet said...

Linkers are dime-a-dozen. Even the good ones, I generally don't actually read myself, because I know that for the really worthwhile links, someone like you is going to come along with a more extensive commentary on them, which I'll then read before referring back to the original.

Unix-geek-coolness: Failed my first captcha-test on this comment. I think it was "noatine", so I just -- out of pure habit -- typed "noatime".