Re: [SLUG] research: do we still need LUGs?

From: Dylan William Hardison (dylan@hardison.net)
Date: Sat Jul 07 2007 - 18:13:46 EDT


Spake Robert Foxworth on Saturday, July 07, 2007 at 05:51PM -0400:
> Dylan dispatched dese data,
>
> > It is pleasant being around people that understand what is meant by
> "ps dash u
> > fred pipe awk single-quote bang slash PID slash bracket print dollar 1
> bracket
> > single-quote pipe xargs kill dash 9".
>
> Cool! You've found the Undocumnted Command! When I do that,
> a little faucet pops out from below the CD drive and a couple ounces
> of Jack Daniels appears. Of course I can only do it twice a day.

...

I'm assuming that is sarcasm. Actually, the above spoken bourne shell pipeline
was in response to someone asking how to forcibly "log out" a user, about 2
years ago.

> > Further, pretty much every job I've ever had has been somehow related
> to SLUG or
> > someone I've met through SLUG.
>
> You get Jobs through SLUG! Wow. You must be much younger than I :-)

Not "through" SLUG, it's just my social network is closely correlated to SLUG.

> To answer the question, yes. They are nice to do. (FWIW 2nd Tuesday
> has become a conflict for me)

That's too bad. Your presense has certainly been missed. How's Pat?

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