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.
Yay!!! Actually, we just admire your great big brain!
ReplyDelete"Hey! Check out the big brain on BP!"
Huh!?
ReplyDeleteI'm more surprised when I do get comments; here's hoping you weren't going by a lack of response.
ReplyDeleteKansas 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:
ReplyDeletearbitrary_program --verbose
Like I said, it's Unix Geeky.
It was worth a shot, unlike New Coke which never should have seen the light of day.
ReplyDeleteLinks abound on the Web; what's lacking is intelligence. We need you to help hold back the tide of dumb.
Oh. My. God. You're a csh user?
ReplyDeleteRick C, I can make csh do things you've never imagined.
ReplyDeleteBut now, I only use my Powers for good ...
Bash dude. And Perl! Then C, C++, Java (under duress), PIC assembler ... Make, autoconf, ...
ReplyDeleteI'm partial to ksh, myself. Been using it for a long time in various job roles. Old tech, but still good and very useful!
ReplyDeleteLinkers 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.
ReplyDeleteUnix-geek-coolness: Failed my first captcha-test on this comment. I think it was "noatine", so I just -- out of pure habit -- typed "noatime".