On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 12:53:20AM +0200, Romain Lerallut wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, will trillich wrote:
> > karl and romain -- this indeed looks easy. but it feels like i'll
> > be adding comments and tips daily if not hourly, for a while at
> > least. maybe when it calms down a bit, i'll hammer it into a
> > fortune database.
>
> adding a new tip:
>
> echo % >> my_tip_fortune_db
> cat new_tip >> my_tip_fortune_db
> strfile my_tip_fortune_db
>
> how hard is that ? fortune can take an absolute filename as input, so
> you don't have to worry about copying it to /usr/share
why, not very hard at all. /dude!/
> > what i had considered, tho, is rube-goldberg-ing a web page allowing
> > anyone to add tips (with heavy regex behind to scenes to check for
> > duplication) of their own, and then offer a random tip via a finger-like
> > service on a publicly-accessible port, to the community at large.
>
> newbiedoc.sourceforge.net doesn't have 'fortune' which is sad, but I used
> php to add a fortune cookie at the bottom of my web page:
> <?php system("/usr/games/fortune -s"); ?>
>
> We probably could use a similar php trick on the newbiedoc homepage, using a
> homemade script instead of 'fortune'.
I just happen to have one ready... (hmm -- wondering if
sourceforge.net servers allow server-side includes...)
> > DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP:
> > Why are *.rpm (RED HAT PACKAGES) considered spawn of Satan?
>
> I thought it that telnet was spawn of Satan ?
> Does that mean Satan's multithreaded ???
Old Scratch certainly gets around, that's the important thing.
--
DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #30 from Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Would you like to have rxvt show you useful information in the
TITLE BAR of its X window? For example, to see your "present
working directory" in the title bar, include this in your command
prompt string:
export PS1="\e]0;[EMAIL PROTECTED] "
Anything between the "\e]0;" and the control-G will be displayed
as the title of the rxvt window. (Here, ^G is preceded by ^V
showing how to insert one into an editor.)
Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...
