January 2011
4 posts
yes
keiki_: there is a yes command?
Caius: `yes`
viking: keiki_: yes will print out something forever
viking: until you kill it
viking: it's useful for piping to
keiki_: that is hilarious
Caius: `yes > /dev/null` is a great way to rinse your CPU
keiki_: o.O
keiki_: "rinse"?
viking: by default, it prints out 'yes'
Caius: need one instance spun up per core though
viking: as you might expect
Caius: keiki_: use up all spare cycles
keiki_: why would you want to do that?
Caius: try using a metal laptop on a winters morning after it's been in a cold car
Caius: and you soon realise why having it generate as much heat as possible is a good thing
viking: hehe
keiki_: ...
keiki_: *headdesk*
wlll: I used the yes > /dev/null trick when my heating was off during the winter while it was being fixed.
keiki_: *headdesk*
wlll: 8 processes running on my iMac and a couple of laptops too
wlll: room was toasty.
wlll: until someone opened the door and I had to start again
skiz: I just plug in a space heater..
skiz: Although I have used cisco firewall hardware as coffee warmers before
wlll: My space-heater is Apple brand
keiki_: >
Justin Long Tween Text Transcript
This is too incredible not to share.
kphooker:
Justin Long was on Jimmy Kimmel on August 17, 2010 where he showed a lengthy text konversashun he had witha tween who texted him by accident thinking that he was a boy from skool. He did not read all of the conversation aloud, so my husband and I went through the video frame by frame whenever Justin scrolled down through the text. I pieced...