Fanfiction Reviews, Interesting Links, and General Geekery
LKML: “Michael H. Warfield”: Sync option destroys flash!
Just a little something for Linux users which I felt was too important not to share. The short version is, never use the sync option for FAT drives. It does not get ignored, will wear out hard drives quickly, and can kill flash drives with a single file transfer!
Title: Wishes Three
URL: Fanfiction.net
Author: Valandar
Source: Harry Potter
Rating: 5/6
Type: Joke-as-Prose (a humorous story with the humor concentrated on the punchline)
Length: oneshot
Let’s just let the Type entry (Joke as prose) do the talking. It’s suprising enough that I found one oneshot which prompted a temporary return to reviewing, let alone two. The basic concept for the joke is “What if Harry got a djinni that couldn’t grant any ‘deus ex machina’ wishes like reviving his parents or killing Voldemort.”
Title: A Little Homework
URL: FanFiction.Net
Author: Ruskbyte
Source: Harry Potter
Rating: 5.5/6
Type: light comedy
Length: oneshot
Normally, I’m too busy to review things these days, but in this case, it’s funny enough and short enough to make an exception. The story is a funny little one-shot about what might constitute an “accident” in such a magic-filled place as Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Modifiers:
+1 for the “Why didn’t I think of that?” factor.
I recently learned that many of the bash keybindings which I so enjoyed are in fact emacs keybindings. Armed with this knowledge, I’ve decided to try emacs. However, the decision jostled loose a memory which I felt I’d share…
A is for awk, which runs like a snail, and
B is for biff, which reads all your mail.
C is for cc, as hackers recall, while
D is for dd, the command that does all.
E is for emacs, which rebinds your keys, and
F is for fsck, which rebuilds your trees.
G is for grep, a clever detective, while
H is for halt, which may seem defective.
I is for indent, which rarely amuses, and
J is for join, which nobody uses.
K is for kill, which makes you the boss, while
L is for lex, which is missing from DOS.
M is for more, from which less was begot, and
N is for nice, which it really is not.
O is for od, which prints out things nice, while
P is for passwd, which reads in strings twice.
Q is for quota, a Berkeley-type fable, and
R is for ranlib, for sorting ar table.
S is for spell, which attempts to belittle, while
T is for true, which does very little.
U is for uniq, which is used after sort, and
V is for vi, which is hard to abort.
W is for whoami, which tells you your name, while
X is, well, X, of dubious fame.
Y is for yes, which makes an impression, and
Z is for zcat, which handles compression.
-- THE ABC'S OF UNIX
My eternal thanks to the fortune command. The best time waster ever invented.
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