topic Re: What's with this guy trying to get free points!? in Operating System - HP-UX

What's with this guy trying to get free points!?

Chuck J — Thu, 21 Nov 2002 16:32:49 GMT

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John Palmer

November 21, 2002 15:39 PM GMT [ 10 pts ]

Here's a shell script to do the rotating /...

#!/bin/sh

CHAR[0]="|"
CHAR[1]="/"
CHAR[2]="-"
CHAR[3]="\\"

let I=0
print -n " "

while true
do
let N=I%4
let I=I+1
print -n "\010${CHAR[N]}"
sleep 1
done

Regards,
John

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jimmy

November 21, 2002 15:44 PM GMT [ 6 pts ]

Here's a shell script to do the rotating /...

#!/bin/sh

CHAR[0]="|"
CHAR[1]="/"
CHAR[2]="-"
CHAR[3]="\\"

let I=0
print -n " "

while true
do
let N=I%4
let I=I+1
print -n "\010${CHAR[N]}"
sleep 1
done

THEN:
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0xaa660fe6d0f7d61190050090279cd0f9,00.html

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Stefan Farrelly

November 21, 2002 15:10 PM GMT [ 7 pts ]

You can use top as it can redirect to a file then grep the PID you want;

rm /tmp/t;top -s 10 -d 1 -f /tmp/t;cat /tmp/t|grep

Change the to the one you want or -s to the length of time in seconds you want the sample for.

Only limitation is top only shows processes which are using a lot of cpu. Glance may be better. Anyone got a similar syntax for glance?

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jimmy

November 21, 2002 16:23 PM GMT [ unassigned ]

hi guys
use top as it can redirect to a file then grep the PID you want;

rm /tmp/t;top -s 10 -d 1 -f /tmp/t;cat /tmp/t|grep

Change the to the one you want or -s to the length of time in seconds you want the sample for.

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Re: What's with this guy trying to get free points!?

Pete Randall — Thu, 21 Nov 2002 16:36:04 GMT

Chuck,

As I responded in the first example, at least he was clever enough not to cut and paste the

Regards,
John

part.

Pete

Re: What's with this guy trying to get free points!?

harry d brown jr — Thu, 21 Nov 2002 16:41:05 GMT

Chuck,

I think it's really John Palmer's split personality logged in as "jimmy"

That was damn funny. This belongs in the Joke thread!

gotta run and do a presentation on the emc centera!

live free or die
harry

Re: What's with this guy trying to get free points!?

Pete Randall — Thu, 21 Nov 2002 16:44:01 GMT

You do see it happen once in a while, though I'm glad to say it's rare. I do remember a person borrowing a few (quite a few) words from Bill Hassell (without credit) a while back - at least this in-duh-vidual had the good taste to plagiarize a true expert.

Pete

Re: What's with this guy trying to get free points!?

Stefan Farrelly — Thu, 21 Nov 2002 16:44:47 GMT

plagiarizer!!

Re: What's with this guy trying to get free points!?

harry d brown jr — Thu, 21 Nov 2002 16:45:34 GMT

I say "OFF WITH HIS HEAD!!!"

Oh wait, someone else has already said that.........Maybe jimmy can say it too?

Re: What's with this guy trying to get free points!?

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Sorry harry, I just couldn't resist :)

Re: What's with this guy trying to get free points!?

Justo Exposito — Thu, 21 Nov 2002 16:47:37 GMT

Hi,

This is the real the unique...mirror/ux MAN!!!

Regards,

Justo.

Re: What's with this guy trying to get free points!?

justin berkman — Thu, 21 Nov 2002 16:58:40 GMT

hi guys

I'm come from italy
I don't know John Palmer

who is John Palmer ?

io sono italiano e realmente non conosco John Palmer .
mi sapete per favore dire chi e' ??

Re: What's with this guy trying to get free points!?

John Poff — Thu, 21 Nov 2002 16:59:49 GMT

Hi jimmy and welcome,

We're having some fun at your expense because your reply to Robert Menefee's scripting question was exactly the same code as what John Palmer had posted, right down to the variable names.

JP

Re: What's with this guy trying to get free points!?

Chuck J — Thu, 21 Nov 2002 17:04:30 GMT

Split personality eh, sounds good to me. If so, yeah it's quite funny - but not a good example for others who might think they can do the same thing

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Re: What's with this guy trying to get free points!?

Bill McNAMARA_1 — Thu, 21 Nov 2002 17:06:32 GMT

;) nice one..
jimmy's trying to cach in on the time difference bug I guess.

Later,
Bill

Re: What's with this guy trying to get free points!?

Thomas Schler_1 — Thu, 21 Nov 2002 17:28:05 GMT

Hey people:

Don't be so severe with little Jimmy-Boy, possible explanations for his behaviour may be:

1) He is from Italy.

2) He is from the southern part of Italy.

3) He is from the most southern part of Italy.

4) His english is very bad; he understands what other people write, but he is unable to form meaningful sentences by his own.

5) He is too stupid to use the keyboard (much too many keys), but he learned how to use a three-button mouse (and this works well, obviously).

6) He is a little child, playing around with his fathers computer (while the father is on the toilet).

7) He is a 39 years old IT Unprofessional with excellent knowledge in Word, Notepad, and mouse movings, still living with his mother at home (as most Italian boys of his age do, that's quite normal -- in Italy), enjoying Mama's Spaghetti Napoli, three times each day.

8) He never had a girl-friend.

9) He had a girl-friend, but had no idea what to do with TWO buttons.

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But the most likely explanation of Jimmy's behaviour is:

10) He is an employee of Bill Gates' Company. He is Microsoft's personalized Denial Of Service, i.e. MS-DOS. Proofs are:
a) his questions
(http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/TopSolutions/1,,BR696296!1!questions,00.html)
b) his answers, i.e.
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0xd622eea29889d611abdb0090277a778c,00.html
(of course, there are more -- have a look and enjoy :)

Re: What's with this guy trying to get free points!?

Pete Randall — Thu, 21 Nov 2002 17:46:08 GMT

Well, his English may be challenged a bit - but so's his Italian:

According to babelfish.altavista.com, "io sono italiano e realmente non conosco John Palmer . mi sapete per favore dire chi e' ??" translates to "I am Italian and I really do not know John Palmer. sapete
please to say who to me e'? "

Pete

Re: What's with this guy trying to get free points!?

Adam J Markiewicz — Thu, 21 Nov 2002 17:54:20 GMT

;) nice one..
jimmy's trying to cach in on the time difference bug I guess.

Later,
...erhmm.... Adam

P.S.: Will I earn points for that? ;D

Re: What's with this guy trying to get free points!?

Adam J Markiewicz — Thu, 21 Nov 2002 17:59:34 GMT

Thomas:
I think that two buttons are easier to handle, unless you have three hands... ;D

But maby it's just coincidence that jimmy had discovered perfectly the same solution in the same time... Well this is some sort of guaranty that the sollution is optimal - more than one person discovered it. :)

But hey, thats the idea of points-earning. Having two peronalities: Dummy for asking questions and Real for giving 10-pts answers... HMmmm....

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D:

Hi guys, I've just lost a jolie.jpg somewhere in the enormous space of my hard disk. Don't you know where can it be?

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R:

Hi, D.

Check in your $HOME/chicks folder.

Regards
10 pts.

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Ooo, yeah. ;D

Re: What's with this guy trying to get free points!?

John Bolene — Thu, 21 Nov 2002 19:35:05 GMT

Intesesting concept, but it is up to the person giving points to catch this.

Maybe he was relying on the fact that 90% of people are stupid 90% of the time, the other 10% are stupid 10% of the time.

Re: What's with this guy trying to get free points!?

Oleg Zieaev_1 — Thu, 21 Nov 2002 19:49:16 GMT

Users ! Beware of Jimmy - the Italian boy 'syndrome', ehh :)

He-he ;)

Hey Jimmy, look what a flame you have triggered.

Bottom line - users are not stupid. They will tell the LAMER. :)

Re: What's with this guy trying to get free points!?

Martin Johnson — Thu, 21 Nov 2002 20:11:45 GMT

Another explaination is that both John and Jimmy got this information from a third source and neither gave credit.

:-)
Marty

Re: What's with this guy trying to get free points!?

Michael Tully — Thu, 21 Nov 2002 21:20:29 GMT

Definitely a split personality....

Half likes tea other half the vino...