Skip this, it's just too pointless

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Really, you just don’t want to read this, unless you have absolutely nothing better to do with your time.

Well, now that I’ve weeded out anyone who would get annoyed with the sheer pointlessness of this, here we go:

I go to college. I live off campus, and occassionally log in remotely to one of my school’s remote servers, either Cortez or VCMR-19. These both run Unix. For some reason, I couldn’t stand the default Bash prompt, which showed my home directory as simply ~. No, and I couldn’t even do with it being /home/65/waterj2. Still not good enough. For me to be happy, it must be /afs/rpi.edu/home/65/waterj2.

So, I did some research, and modified my .bashrc file, and got it to do what I want. Yes, I did get my prompt just the way I like it, “[/afs/rpi.edu/home/65/waterj2]$”. C’mon, tell me how great I am.
What, why are you looking at me like that? I told you it was pointless. Now to look at the views rack up if this reverse psychology thing works.

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Dude, you’re weird.

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Jesus, I read that whole freakin’ post before I realized how pointless it is.

Why didn’t you warn me?

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I’ll be the judge of th-

Damn. You were right.

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waterj2, you go to rpi?

not completly pointless, but you know, it…well it… it’s…okay, it IS completly pointless.

Since I’m already typing and I don’t want to have to stop and start over, I’ll write what I was gong to post a thread on.

Real Player: When will people learn?

C’mon, now. Real Player has got to be the CRAPIEST media player known to man. Over half the time I play a .rm file, it stops halfway through because of either ‘net congestion’ or it is ‘buffering.’ Piece of shit.

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<sigh> Some people’s children never learn. You were warned when you came into this forum.

That said, I can remember when accomplishing little computer tasks like that brought me immense joy. That’s why I feel sorry for kids getting into computers now. Nothing wrong with all the cool stuff we can do now but none of the joys of customizing your prompt or organizing your files by creating your first subdirectory!

I like first person games but all the graphics and 3-D perspective has left me jaded. To this day my favorite computer game is one called castle. It’s played on a 40 column text sceen and used symbols and greek characters to represent ogres, vampires and treasures in the castle. I think it’s the closest one can come to appreciating a radio drama or a book where all the images exist in one’s own mind.

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$ PS1="Yes, Master? "

easy as pie.

UNIX RULES!

Or something.

And RPI sucks.

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Heh…I remember when cortez didn’t exist due to a lenghty upgrade/replacement. I must say, seeing mention of cortez and then VCMR is the first time I did a double-take reading a post here.

And the default prompt on RCS (or whatever the Rensselaer Computing System is called now) used to be the full /afs/rpi.edu/home/<number>/<userid>/ Changed around 4 or so years ago, IIRC.

So is hockey line actually in use, or has it completely lamed out and gone the way of the dodo?

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You’re absolutely right, I have NOTHING better to do, but, I did smile when I saw your name! :wink:

I’m also bettin’ that your brilliant psychology WILL work, let’s say, 6 to 1, any willin’ to cover that???

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I’m not impressed. I’ve had unix accounts where the prompt always showed the current directory. Although working on a system where the current path would actually wrap on an 80 column screen broke me of this.

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no, the hockey line is still in use. But due to union construction, it was held at the JEC this year, and noly about five people from some frat did it.

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I used to change my prompt so it said “What do you want?”, but then it wasn’t funny after about 2 days, and I was too lazy to think of something better. So it stayed like that all semester.

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I noticed that during stretching in practice, I seem to be able to spread my legs farther apart bit by bit every week. This should certainly come in handy. Not like they had very much left to go in the first place.

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Bash? real men use c shell, or at the least k. :slight_smile:

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OK, now that I’m back here from a weekend of drinking, I’ll respond to all the points that have been brought up.

brandocet: no shit

Jack Batty: Sorry about the lack of warning. Just ignore my MPSIMS threads. I take the M and P way to seriosly.

ReservoirDog: LOL

Buov: Another RPI student? Yay, we should get together someday.

Padeye: Yeah, kids these days don’t know how easy they have it.

friedo: Also a cool prompt, then yes and yes.

Torberg: When did you go here? You remember Magritte and Rebecca, and, shit, what was the other one? Rembrandt or something. There were two painters, I think. Yeah, and the main reason i like that prompt was that it was the standard when I was a freshman, at least on some of the servers. I think the Sun ones had the full one, and the IBM ones ad the short one. Oh, and hockey line isn’t what it used to be.

Anti Pro: Someday I’ll get the chance to meet you, hopefully. You’re probably the nicest and sweetest person I’ve ever met, online or IRL.

Zyada: The impressive part was having to figure out how to not display ~ for my home directory, which meant using pwd instead of the usual method.

bouv: Yeah, fricken Union construction. Grand opening was today. Distinguished from most grand openings by the fact that it wasn’t entirely open yet, or even more open than it was a month ago.

Xizor: I hear you, man.

ssskuggiii: Thanks for sharing. Anyone else?

wolfman: Hey, I’m a real man. Besides, bash is what they give us.

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I went to the 'Tute from Fall '94 through Spring '98.

As for the remote names, I can recall:

Rembrandt
Rebecca
Matisse
Goya
Cortez
Magritte

File servers had a biblical theme:

Aaron
Seth
Levi
Nebuchadnezzar (sp?)…and so on.
I stop up there from time to time if I can…either for a show by the RPI Players or if Alpha Phi Omega has a large chapter event going on. I was last up there in April because I lucked out and both groups had something big going on, so it made my trip very worthwhile.

Hey, do you read the rpi.* newsgroups…especially rpi.general and rpi.rumor? Since they canned RANN I can’t read them any more. They were a good way to keep tabs on the pulse of what’s goin’ on.

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Here’s something pointless as well. I decided to hack the graphics in Minesweeper. Used a hex editor and hunted around until I saw stretchs of code that looked like graphics data. Then I manually entered new data in hex form. Now when I hit a mine, instead of the little smiley face with x’d-out eyes, it shows a bloody skull.

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Nothing is too pointless for MPSIMS. And Tasha, I think that’s a bit too much information.

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Oh please, Jessica, you know I’m famous for random TMIs. That and exposing myself in front of people who don’t expect it.

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Yeah, like me.