Geeks Do Christmas
Dec. 27th, 2007 03:47 pmIf "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" was a computer program. I've incorporated the changes from the next six (!!) e-mails from the TLUG mailing list debugging the program...
---------- Forwarded Message ----------
Subject: [TLUG]: santa.sh
Date: Sunday 23 December 2007 22:08
From:
To: TLUG mailing list <tlug@ss.org>
#!/bin/sh
better !pout !cry
better watchout
lpr why
"santa claus" < "north pole" > town
cat /etc/passwd > list
ncheck list
ncheck list
cat list | grep naughty > nogiftlist
cat list | grep nice > giftlist
"santa claus" < "north pole" > town
who | grep sleeping
who | grep awake
who | grep bad || good
for (goodness sake) {
be good
}
---------- Forwarded Message ----------
Subject: [TLUG]: santa.sh
Date: Sunday 23 December 2007 22:08
From:
To: TLUG mailing list <tlug@ss.org>
#!/bin/sh
better !pout !cry
better watchout
lpr why
"santa claus" < "north pole" > town
cat /etc/passwd > list
ncheck list
ncheck list
cat list | grep naughty > nogiftlist
cat list | grep nice > giftlist
"santa claus" < "north pole" > town
who | grep sleeping
who | grep awake
who | grep bad || good
for (goodness sake) {
be good
}
(no subject)
Date: 2007-12-27 09:49 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-12-27 09:52 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-12-27 10:04 pm (UTC)Hehe I think dad still has a Dorf VHS somewhere. I know I've seen the box recently.
(no subject)
Date: 2007-12-27 10:22 pm (UTC)It seems almost everyone had the old Dorf on Golf at one point in time. I prefer Tim Conway's work with the Carol Burnett show, but that's a matter of taste.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qqE_WmagjY
(no subject)
Date: 2007-12-28 01:19 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-12-30 02:27 am (UTC)