It's still pretty dang close to a 1/6 chance with a simple shell command. I found a script online that does 1,000,000 runs of it and produces an average. Mine was a 1667.9633 every 10,000 (16.67963% average of bang). Statistically, that's close enough to a 1/6 chance (16.66667%).

Shell script:

Another "fun" one is to take turns with friends and have each run the below as root on their system. First system to go down loses.

NOTE: This replaces a random section of your memory with a random number. This could do nothing, crash an application, cause a kernel panic, or cause filesystem corruption, so be wary if you want to play...

attention whore (OP) !

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Per the rules.
If members do not post anything on-topic to the thread it will be closed.

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Volkerdi said:


in this situation I can only say .....

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

Oh thanks, now I have an earworm.

Hello and thank you for responding. I'm not using John Kerry as some champion or even remarking on his abilities or integrity. It's just that whether from his own mind or his advisers, but during his campaign some very scurrilous TV commercials and Web articles were launched besmirching his military record in Vietnam. Though later the attacks were shown to be fabricated lies, Kerry's choice was to "not wrestle with a pig" and "take the high road" lending the attacks no credibility...in theory.

However that he didn't fight them at all hurt him very badly by keeping them around longer and creating doubt. He should have at least mentioned them and defended himself if not demonstrating his leadership by squashing it and possibly indicting the liars. Instead it looked like weakness to allow unsubstantiated claims go unquestioned, unopposed. They could easily have been sued for Libel and Defamation of Character and he would have appeared strong and decisive and standing tall for Truth. Instead he showed he is not a fighter and it was part of what killed his chances.

If you want a citation here is one SwiftBoat Affair

and all the other political commenters who missed the point.

I'm saddened that my response was apparently not clear enough to set off this OT foray. Hopefully I've now made it crystal clear it was about allowing lies and defamation of character, however unfounded, to stay unopposed. It was most definitely NOT about what anyone thinks of John Kerry, or politics, only the blatant lies about his service going unopposed. He thought he was taking "the high road" but it backfired badly. "One should not suffer fools" is the point and the lesson. The very fact that at least 2 posts recommend or applaud the concept of executing anyone based on speech and /or propaganda proves my point which is Trolls must be exposed quickly and directly...not completely ignored as if they will just go away.

This thread has now gone wildly off-topic, with multiple posts breaking a variety of LQ rules (in many cases by long time members who should know better). Please keep future posts on topic and civil. Failure to do so will result in infractions/temporary bans as appropriate, or if the thread simply can't get back on topic then thread closure. Thank you.

--jeremy

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ping Jeremy
I think we all recovered nicely. Don't you agree? I apologized for apparently not being clear enough that caused misinterpretation (and a few PMs to explain to me) that was the catalyst for the brief political burst. It seemed to die down some and then hopefully my follow up posts made it abundantly clear that it was a social action example, not a political endorsement. Then it seems to have stopped altogether and people got conciliatory and friendly again. Isn't that what adults do with a misunderstanding?

FWIW I belong to a dozen forums and I consider this one, LQN, the best moderated in terms of even-handed fairness and restraint which seems to allow the freedom to resolve issues like adukts are supposed to with minimal personal attacks and apologies for the few that occur. I honestly hope you are proud of the sophisticated balance you have achieved. Frankly, I think this thread, an explosive thread title from the start, should stand as a lesson to other forums as to how enlightened management tends to engender civilized behavior.

I'm posting here to make a point of and to demonstrate the appreciation and respect we should all have for each other in any thread. Thanks for hearing me out.

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Kindly delete enobert's last two posts.

I, as it so happens, have very strong opinions upon Mr Kerry and would absolutely LOVE to expound upon them.

They are in opposition to enobert's opinions. They also have nothing to do with Slackware.

You can delete this post while you are at it.

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You disgusting scrote.

ping Richard Cranium - Nowhere did I give an opinion on Mr. Kerry. The only thing even close to opinion is whether or not Swift Boat lied and I cited Wikipedia as one of many reputable sources that state they accusations were lies, backed up by virtually every man who served with Kerry. It is entirely well documented after the damage was done. Exactly my point. You, Sir, are sadly mistaken. For those who haven't considered it, why don't you explain your nickname instead of acting like one?

Once again my post was in response to "Don't feed the trolls" and I was remarking how injurious that stance can be, pertinent to this thread. I frankly can't imagine what I said that you quoted in it's entirety that would elicit such an ignoble response. Are apologies and explanations disgusting to you? IMHO if my posts are worthy of being deleted then so is the entire thread as inflammatory.

If you wish to expound on political views there is a sub-section for that. Kindly go there and do what you will, but be prepared to back up any claims with reputable documentation.

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As all the cool kids say, "In b4 the lock."

I too would like to see this thread return to discussing why to leave Slackware or not, but I fear it may be beyond saving.

Hi,

After (now - 2004) years, I am considering abandoning slackware.
But is the reason really important? :^)

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Best regards,
Andrzej Telszewski

Maybe we could make a cool game out of that little command sequence:

Make a little shell-script that runs as boot time only from a read-only script that can not be edited (for fairness), make the number low enough to invite some competition, drop it somewhere in rc.S or rc.M with an output to /root/game.log and if you find a game.log with "WINNER!" in your root, you can post it to a topic for it (maybe here on LQ) and you get a few points for bragging rights.

There also is not point to leaving Slackware... and I shall explain why... ehem...

ONCE YOU'VE USED SLACKWARE... IT'S INSIDE YOU FOREVER! NO NO YOU CAN'T GET AWAY! NOWHERE TO RUN! NOWHERE TO HIDE! ONE OF US! FOREVER!!!! Mwhahahahahaha!!!!