Proverbs, aphorisms, quotations (English) | by Linux fortune |
What's this script do? unzip ; touch ; finger ; mount ; gasp ; yes ; umount ; sleep Hint for the answer: not everything is computer-oriented. Sometimes you're in a sleeping bag, camping out. (Contributed by Frans van der Zande.) | |
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Household hint: If you are out of cream for your coffee, mayonnaise makes a dandy substitute. | |
The fact that it takes more code to parse and interpret ACPI than it does to route traffic on the internet backbones should be a hint something is badly wrong either in ACPI the spec, ACPI the implenentation or both. - Alan Cox on linux-kernel |