XKCD - Now with commandline mode!

duffman85

http://www.xkcd.com/

Brilliant!:D

Khannie

Class

Herbal Deity

Posting from within xkcd

Eliot Rosewater

Thats so class!! :pac:

Tar.Aldarion

Brillinant.

I love

guest@xkcd:/$ cat
You're a kitty!


guest@xkcd:/$ echo
Echo ... echo ... echo ...

guest@xkcd:/$ bash
You bash your head against the wall. It's not very effective.

guest@xkcd:/$ apt-get
This APT has Super Cow Powers.

guest@xkcd:/$ look
You are at a computer using unixkcd.

Exits: west, south
guest@xkcd:/$ more
Oh, yes! More! More!

It fake lets you rm -rf things, showing them as gone

Tar.Aldarion

guest@xkcd:/$ kill
Terminator deployed to 1984



guest@xkcd:/$ ping
There is another submarine three miles ahead, bearing 225, forty fathoms down.

guest@xkcd:/$ pwd
You are in a maze of twisty passages, all alike.

guest@xkcd:/$ sudo quit
Bye.


and you cant type any more

sudo reboot shuts down and comes back etc


guest@xkcd:/$ ssh
ssh, this is a library.

guest@xkcd:/$ whoami
You are Richard Stallman.


Try write <namehere>

Jonathan

guest@xkcd:/$ nano
You should really use an editor.

Sheeps

anyone found the command to open welcome.txt?

Tar.Aldarion

It's what you are displayed at the start
cat welcome.txt

Jonathan

Sheeps wrote: »

anyone found the command to open welcome.txt?

guest@xkcd:/$ cat welcome.txt
Welcome to the unixkcd console.
To navigate the comics, enter "next", "prev", "first", "last", "display", or "random".
Use "ls" and "cat" to navigate the filesystem, other commands such as "cd store" will allow you to navigate around the site.


edit: damn you tara :P

Tar.Aldarion

Man you must feel noob

Pygmalion

Konami code.
That is: Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, b, a

matrim

Sheeps wrote: »

anyone found the command to open welcome.txt?

cat welcome.txt

guest@xkcd:/$ cat welcome.txt
Welcome to the unixkcd console.

To navigate the comics, enter "next", "prev", "first", "last", "display", or "random".

Use "ls" and "cat" to navigate the filesystem, other commands such as "cd store" will allow you to navigate around the site.

guest@xkcd:/$ cheat
*** FREE SHIPPING ENABLED ***

guest@xkcd:/$ finger

Mmmmmm...

guest@xkcd:/$ go

Go where?

Brian

Look starts a text-game.
sudo apt-get update brings you to http://abetterbrowser.org

Eliot Rosewater

The location of the CLI has moved to http://uni.xkcd.com/ but it doesnt work for me anymore

Brian

http://xkcd.com/unixkcd/

irc <nick> goes to mibbit.

Jonathan

guest@xkcd:/$ top
It's up there --^

Tar.Aldarion

Baza210 wrote: »

http://xkcd.com/unixkcd/

irc <nick> goes to mibbit.

so does write!

Jonathan

guest@xkcd:/$ sleep
You take a nap.
You awake refreshed.

Hydromonkey

guest@xkcd:/$ find
What do you want to find? Kitten would be nice.

guest@xkcd:/$ date
March 32nd

Eliot Rosewater

Baza210 wrote: »

sudo apt-get update brings you to http://abetterbrowser.org

Are you using an old browser? Does nothing for me

Tar.Aldarion

guest@xkcd:/$ sudo apt-get update
Reading package lists... Done

pljudge321

guest@xkcd:/$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
You are already running Linux.

Brian

Eliot Rosewater wrote: »

Are you using an old browser? Does nothing for me

No, I'm so far over the bleeding edge that I've come right back around. Minefield 3.7a4pre nightly.

Eliot Rosewater

Minefield, a perfect name for bleeding edge anything. :pac:


So the Unix forum ... Linux is great, huh? Come on cable842, you should be plugging Linux to all these blowins

Brian

Is Windows 7 Linux?

Eliot Rosewater

Baza210 wrote: »

...Windows 7...

Please, no blasphemy in the Unix forum.

Brian

I'm pretty sure it's Linux. Look, I have GIMP!

Jonathan

Baza210 wrote: »

I'm pretty sure it's Linux. Look, I have GIMP!

Na, you just are one. :P

Brian

Actually, Windows' CLI really sucks compared to *nix. Thankfully it doesn't break very often so I don't have to use it.

Herbal Deity

Actually, Powershell is awesome.

Jonathan

Baza210 wrote: »

Actually, Windows' CLI really sucks compared to *nix. Thankfully it doesn't break very often so I don't have to use it.

I use Windows 7 + Cygwin on my desktop. Best of both worlds.

Laptop has OSX and Karmic.

boidey

goosh.org is better again

Naikon

$ make me a sandwich
What?, make it yourself

$sudo make me a sandwich
Okay

Brian

uptime doesn't work

dubhthach

guest@xkcd:/$ uname

Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator

guest@xkcd:/$ ed

You are not a diety.

GasserOfMattoon

guest@xkcd:/$ nano
Seriously? Why don't you just use Notepad.exe? Or MS Paint?

Mmmm...

Mycroft H