Unix Frivolities and LOTR
Open the Terminal in Mac OS X (Applications / Utilities).
Type
cat /usr/share/calendar/calendar.history | grep “LOTR”
You should see a list, in month and day order, of events in Tolkien’s The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. For instance, September 14 is the birthday of both Bilbo and Frodo.
This particular Stupid Terminal Trick is not unique to OS […]
Unix Frivolities and The Language of Flowers
We all know Unix, even with the very user-friendly OS X GUI, is the realm of the serious user, especially when it comes to using Terminal, the OS X application for using a command line interface. But thank goodness that along with all the Unixy goodness OS X inherited from BSD, we also got the […]
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