[CoLoCo] Ubuntu 8.04 Beta Released

Neal McBurnett neal at bcn.boulder.co.us
Sat Mar 22 22:07:12 GMT 2008


On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 03:29:36PM -0600, Scott Scriven wrote:
> * David L. Willson <DLWillson at TheGeek.NU> wrote:
> > > cat my-pkg-list > dpkg --set-selections
> > 
> > I haven't used the feature in question, but that doesn't look right...  Did you mean:
> >   cat my-pkg-list | dpkg --set-selections
> 
> Probably.  And though I love cats, I feel the need to point 
> something out...  As Einstein said:
> 
>     You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat.  
>     You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los 
>     Angeles.  Do you understand this?  And radio operates exactly 
>     the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there.  
>     The only difference is that there is no cat.
> 
> With that in mind, it's a little cleaner to run this instead:
> 
>     dpkg --set-selections < my-pkg-list
> 
> :)

LMFAO!!!

I've heard the quote, and done that exact disappearing cat trick for
over 30 years, but I've never seen the two put together before!

And I could explain both of those to my wife also!

Neal McBurnett                 http://mcburnett.org/neal/



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