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Submission + - Don't Panic, it's Towel Day! 3

An anonymous reader writes: Today, as every May 25th, geeks all over the world celebrate Towel Day and carry a towel in honor of Douglas Adams. The popular author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy died in 2001 at the age of 49, but his work lives on. According to the book, a towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Hence its symbolic role in this celebration. This year, for the first time as far as we know, Towel Day is being supported by the British publisher of Adams' books, who organizes a photo competition.

Comment Re:Ah, geez... (Score -1) 133

Dude, taking a girl out to a dinner is not radical. It's what average frustrated chumps do.

Just give her this geek toy and write, "Valentines is stupid, meaningless, and over-rated. I'm too sexy for a valentines card, but this shit will do. Happy now?"

Geekiness is sexy, as long as it's played right.

Comment Re:10 years too late... (Score -1) 639

Riddle me this: why is it that if someone has trouble in math or something, other people who can do it will offer to help, but if someone is socially inept, the immediate reaction is to ostracize the person rather than offering to give them social coaching?

When someone has trouble in Math, Linux, or in any technical subjects, the geek's immediate reaction* is to ostracize the person and brand him as a n00b.

* doesn't apply to more mature ones

Comment Snippets from my notes (Score -1) 2362

Yikes, I don't know if anyone would read this since I have a negative karma, but I'm pasting snippets from my notes:

If you wish to syntax check (lint) all the PHP files in your current directory, simply do:

        for i in `ls *.php`; do
                php -l $i
        done

You can delete all IPv6 addresses in an interface using the following command (vanilla Bourne shell):

while i="`ifconfig le0 | grep inet6 | grep -m 1 -v '%'`"; do
        ifconfig le0 $i delete
done

To inspect all figlet fonts visually, simply do:
% cd /usr/local/share/figlet
% for i in `ls *.flf | sed -n -e 's/\(.*\)\.flf/\1/p'`; do echo Slashdot | figlet -f $i; done | less

(note: I'm using FreeBSD. YMMV.)

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