Daily Archives: 24 January, 2008

Mid-week nightly Perl useless magic and fun!

24 January, 2008 – 9:54 pm

Last night, I was sitting at my desk, watching text scroll by across an IRC session open in a terminal screen set in black, when my eyes came to halt at Pixelized on ##slackware on FreeNode soliciting help with a particular use of grep. To cut the rather overly technical story short, what Pixelized [...]

By ayaz | Posted in Humour, Linux, Programming, Unix | Comments (0)

Blessed is I

24 January, 2008 – 9:06 pm

… for I have an Internet connection at work that is so fast, so fast (and I can’t seem to be able to emphasize enough) it will blow your mind off. Some proof is in order:
ayaz@worklinux:$ ping www.google.com
PING google.navigation.opendns.com (208.67.217.231) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from google.navigation.opendns.com (208.67.217.231): icmp_seq=160 ttl=53 time=4228 ms
64 bytes from [...]

By ayaz | Posted in Humour, Rants | Comments (3)