just screwin' with unix

[Geewoody]

Checked out this easer egg last time I went on:

pcp09676469pcs:~ *myusrname$ cat /usr/share/calendar/calendar.history | grep "LOTR"
01/05 Fellowship enters Moria (LOTR)
01/09 Fellowship reaches Lorien (LOTR)
01/17 Passing of Gandalf (LOTR)
02/07 Fellowship leaves Lorien (LOTR)
02/17 Death of Boromir (LOTR)
02/20 Meriadoc & Pippin meet Treebeard (LOTR)
02/22 Passing of King Ellesar (LOTR)
02/24 Ents destroy Isengard (LOTR)
02/26 Aragorn takes the Paths of the Dead (LOTR)
03/05 Frodo & Samwise encounter Shelob (LOTR)
03/08 Deaths of Denethor & Theoden (LOTR)
03/18 Destruction of the Ring (LOTR)
03/29 Flowering of the Mallorn (LOTR)
04/04 Gandalf visits Bilbo (LOTR)
04/17 An unexpected party (LOTR)
04/23 Crowning of King Ellesar (LOTR)
05/19 Arwen leaves Lorian to wed King Ellesar (LOTR)
06/11 Sauron attacks Osgilliath (LOTR)
06/13 Bilbo returns to Bag End (LOTR)
06/23 Wedding of Ellesar & Arwen (LOTR)
07/04 Gandalf imprisoned by Saruman (LOTR)
07/24 The ring comes to Bilbo (LOTR)
07/26 Bilbo rescued from Wargs by Eagles (LOTR)
08/03 Funeral of King Theoden (LOTR)
08/29 Saruman enters the Shire (LOTR)
09/10 Gandalf escapes from Orthanc (LOTR)
09/14 Frodo & Bilbo's birthday (LOTR)
09/15 Black riders enter the Shire (LOTR)
09/18 Frodo and company rescued by Bombadil (LOTR)
09/28 Frodo wounded at Weathertop (LOTR)
10/16 Boromir reaches Rivendell (LOTR)
10/17 Council of Elrond (LOTR)
10/25 End of War of the Ring (LOTR)
11/16 Bilbo reaches the Lonely Mountain (LOTR)
12/05 Death of Smaug (LOTR)
12/16 Fellowship begins Quest (LOTR)


For those of you who don't know, Unix is on the Terminal for Mac. >.<

[Sergeant Dull]

[Geewoody]

Uh... Unix is a text based processor/ browser/ whatever, and apparently, in one of its many files there happened to be a wierd easter egg. Understand now? ...cuz I don't.

[WDot]

Heh. Probably one of the developers thought it was funny. Anyway, good idea, learning UNIX. You probably also want to get Fink, it's a package manager for Mac-Unix. All kinds of good stuff there.

www.sourceforge.net

Not to spam, but that's really THE place for *NIX packages and free software. Also, for those willing to look, there's some cool Mac packages and stuff, like Cube for MacOSX (Online FPS, it's supposed to be great multiplayer, but it always crashes on my Linux box. I have yet to test it on the Mac.)

Anyway, look up how to use tcpdump. Next time you upload files to the net, see if it's really secure. Basically, open up tcpdump and set the parameters, then log into ftp, email, etc and watch the window. It goes by fast, so you might have to scroll up. If you see your username and password among the text, you know that your software isn't secure, and hacker material. Not that there are really that many Mac hackers, and not that it's like that big a deal. It's just interesting just to see how insecure most apps are. Good UNIX exercise.

[Geewoody]

I used to use stuff on source forge. Its like the database for Hackvitismo.... You didn't hear that.

[Matt_TY]

fortune! fortune! fortune!

(By the way, d'ya know Unix's time() value is going to overflow and go negative in 2034?)