Copy cat

I found one more person who liked my lines at my site so much that he just copied them on to his own...

although this time its just the idea that was copied and not the whole verbatim site as previously had happened.

Its kinda not bad to find people copying you :D

File named "-i"

While reading slashdot i came accross a thread that discussed friendly fire of "rm".
I know every one of you unix geek has suffered from it atleast once. A mistakingly given rm command.

But the thread had a brilliant idea, put a file naded "-i" in the directory.

so if you type by mistake "rm -rf /* .tmp" the / directory will expand having -i in the command line and rm will ask confirmation before proceeding :D

Althoguh i haven't tried it yet, will see... it will be dumb try if shell just adds an escape sequence in it's expanded strings.

w810i + macosx

Finally i found a reason to buy meself a new phone.
Google just mapped my city (click to view) and added it to GoogleMaps. And now i can get location info on my mobile with sattelite pictures to verify my location.This gives a big advantage when roaming around trying to find an address in this crazily difficult road maze in pune.
So here i go and buy a shiny carbon black W810i.
Spent some time to get it to work with macosx. Bummer, it needed an update to 10.4.7, but then synchronization works perfect after that. Now i will try dialing to gprs which seems to require installing and hacking some scripts.

Next month it will be Linux's turn.