there are some times when things are so convenient that it actually bothers me.
in a recent attempt to uninstall a program on one of my FreeBSD boxes, I typed the wrong flag on the end of the “pkg_delete” command and uninstalled… well, pretty much everything. by… um.. mistake. oops. ok, so that’s not very convenient, but that’s not what I’m talking about…
Now I’m reinstalling everything. I want to install “XFree86”, the GUI that comes as the sort of standard graphic interface for many flavors of UNIX. so I tell it to install and it goes along its merry way. in the mean time I want to look something up, but I realize I don;t have a web browser. so from the command like I type “pkg_add -r lynx” (lynx being a simple web browser I can use from the command line). it says “fetching lynx from such and such a server….Done”. and it’s, like, done. just the one command and it finds and installs the program. that’s just way too easy. I keep expecting it to ask me tons of stupid questions and click “next” an infinite number of times.
kinda reminds me of The Matrix when Neo learns Kung Fu or whatever. I bet that guy just plugged him in and typed “pkg_add -r kung_fu”. Neo was so impressed because he’d been plugged into a cumbersome draconian GUI based OS all his life. He was amazed at how easily and quickly he could learn martial arts now that he wasn’t bogged down by The Matrix XP Home Edition ™… not the actaul fact the he learned it.
nice
how’s the new place?
The new place is excellent. I’ll write up something cool about it soon with pics and whatnot once I get it all straightened out.
except this giant fucking spider that’s crawling up the wall as I’m typing it. I will exterminate it with wrath and fury after I hit the post commment button. Rest assured it will not remain functional for much longer, and will not appear in any of the pictures.
smashing ensues…
Aw…spiders are our friends – they kill all sorts of other flying irritants that would otherwise bite us and transmit all sorts of nasty diseases.
On the other hand, spiders are icky, so bravo!
Shortly after the second Matrix movie came out I wrote this rather lengthy thing about how the Matrix was actually about the Windows/Linux dichotomy. People just told me I was nuts. Glad to see I’m not the only one.
If you posted i tup on el-jay I thin kI may have read it. I remember reading something very much like that and thinking it was pretty interesting. A good deal of my friends are IT geeks like me, so we all can’t resist the urge to make such comparisons ourselves. So you are indeed not the only one that’s a little nuts liek that =D
weetodded.
ha ha. I once did that..with Windows 95, mind you.
Flashback to 1998…
me: “DelTree? What on earth is DelTree?”
*double-click*
5 minutes later: *blank look of horror*
Re: weetodded.
Well, duh, it’s the tree that Dells grow on!