Lines from “Whose Line”

I’ve always liked American shows, series (like “Three’s company”) and stuff, i guess culturally it fits me. I also love stand up comedy. Actually anything that has to do with it, stand up, imrpov etc. About a year ago i discovered a great show, “Whose line is it anyway”. It started as an English show, back in the eighties and then in ’98 it went to the states. I guess all my American readers should already know what i am talking about, all the othersshould have to take a quick look on Imdb.

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Dumb and dumber root commands

Managing a linux machine can be from extremely easy to extremely difficult depending on the level of abstraction to the system you are willing to use. For instance, using an Ubuntu distribution with an administrator-like user account (that’s a sudo-er) and synaptic, makes things actually pretty easy. But, in my humble opinion, the time when you need to get your hands a bit dirty will come sooner or later. Either you will need a program that is not available from the official sources (so compiling seems to be the only way) or you will be curious on “how can this be done manually”. And then the magic begins…

You start a quest on installing or modifying something and, as the time goes by, you get tired. Now, what is wrong with that? Well, you start typing without really thinking. You just hit the keys on your keyboard and press enter. What’s wrong with that? Well, if you are logged in as root – and chances is that you are since you work on something on the system – then most probably you will be in a lot of trouble. Why’s that? Because, when the system gets a command from his root, his absolute and true God, his one and only master, will do exactly what is told to do. Even if it means messing up things for good.

I can already see a face from all the Ubuntu users with one thought going through their mind “i use sudo”. I would say that sudo is good (too good to be true actually) but when you have a batch of things to do you get tempted on just logging in as root and get it over with (i know that you can do a sudo session but that’s not the point here).

To make things clear we have all been there, including me. You just type and hit enter and ten seconds later you are like “what the @#$%#$%^$%^ have i done!”. In this post i decided to list a few nice and glorious moments i have collected from my experience with Linux and through talking with poor friends. It’s just for fun and not actually to insult or make fun of anyone. So, here i go!

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7 of the most idiotic people of 2008

This email hit my inbox a few minutes ago from my beloved aunt Angie, and when i read it i decided to share this with you guys. I don’t know if this is published somewhere (if so please comment so i can give credits to the author) but i really think you guys are going to enjoy this. So, it’s like a “Golder globe” award to stupidity that took place last year. So here they are in reverse order.

#7 The traffic genius

In a semi-rural area (Weyauwega, Wisconsin) a new neighbor called the local township administrative office to request the removal of the Deer Crossing sign on the road. The reason: ‘Too many deer are being hit by cars out here! “I don’t think this is a good place for them to be crossing anymore.” I think the township needs to put up an Idiot Crossing sign in front of this guy’s house.

#6 Beeing drunk doesn’t make a difference

Arkansas : Seems this guy wanted some beer pretty badly. He decided that he’d just throw a cinder block through a liquor store window, grab some booze, and run.  So he lifted the cinder block and heaved it over his head at the window. The cinder block bounced back knocking him unconscious. It seems the liquor store window was made of Plexi-Glass. The whole event was caught on videotape. Yep, here’s your sign.

#5 Don’t move! I mean everybody!

A pair of Michigan robbers entered a record shop nervously waving revolvers. The first one shouted, ‘Nobody move!’ When his partner moved, the startled first bandit shot him.
This guy doesn’t even deserve a sign.

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Project management cycle

This is so true and happens on the computer industry as a rule. I hate it but unfortunately it’s all over. I realy laughed hard with this one so i thought i’d share. Have fun!

Women as C structs!

Before you go on i would like to tell you that this is funny only to those of you that you know some stuff about programming and C. So, i recently stumbled on a very funny blog post. I thought i’d repost it here as i found it hillarious! (more…)