Some of these I came up with for the
Linux Users Group at Georgia Tech
page, but many apply to coding in general:
I prefer sleeping...
During the Night
During the Day
When I'm Tired
Sleep is Unintentional Downtime
Favorite Unix Holy War
(by Buddy Smith)
Pine vs. Elm
Emacs vs. Vi
m
Gnome vs. KDE
GUI vs. Console
Lihnucks vs. Lynucks
Worst command to run as root
rm -rf /
killall -9 init
dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/hda
make install
Number of different OS's I've run Perl on
One
Two
3-5
5+
My brain has a built-in 5.6.0 compiler.
Best way to get a bug fixed.
File a bug report.
Whine, whine, whine.
Kill the coder (they're replaceable, right?).
Ha><0R the bO><oR
Make random noises.
Redefine the Unix epoch.
Troll Slashdot.
Reinstall Windows
TM
.
What's the best way to untar tar.gz files?
(by Lincoln Durey)
tar xzvf
tar -xzvf
alias unpack="tar xzvf"
zcat | tar xvf -
rpm --install
It would be an interesting (if very highly unscientific) to see what differences there are in the poll responses on PerlMonks vs. on a LUG homepage...
- Zoogie
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