IntegralDuChemin @IntegralDuChemin@qoto.org

If there is a #virus for Mac OS X can it also run under FreeBSD? On what conditions would that depend?

@r2qo Interesting. Why do you recommend FreeBSD?

Is there a way to gain access to the usenet free and anonymous?

@aral One instance per user would then be the optimum?

I mean why don't you take the ratio total_number_of_instances/total_number_of_users?

I want to try #BSD. Which is your favorite flavor and why? #retoot

#introductions part 2

I love spending time in the internet reading about strange topics. Right now it's a lot of time reading about old operating systems from the #80s and #90s as well as their use and their #bugs. It's just interesting that every #Linux user still uses programs written in the 70s and 80s like bash or the X window system

@dewb I so agree with that. Thank you @textfiles for setting up this genious web page - it is just amazing! Maybe you want to donate to Scott a bit :-)

@laura That I would love to see on more websites - it's a shame that most sites don't load even a bit with NoScript enabled.

@michsc Du redest von gekochten Eiern? Dann nimm die Seite mit der Luftblase, dann steht dein Ei nämlich auch ohne Eierbecher - so in der Theorie. Du stellst es hin und schlägst dann die obere Seite auf und genießt dein Ei.

@michsc Ich glaube, die runde Seite enthält die Luftblase.

I like the writing style of its authors (well concerning the linked book) and wonder whether the cited bugs are still a problem for Linux.

For all the #nerds and #hackers among you - I highly recommend textfiles.com - a site containing thousands of files from the old times of BBS but some interesting things from the modern days as well.
For example try this - the Unix Haters Handbook - quite fun to read.

http://pdf.textfiles.com/books/ugh.pdf

@freemo Great thanks. In my case less should do as well 🙂

@freemo Ah I see. Just a stupid question - what means "something" in that case? Another command for displaying my file like "less file"? Thanks in any case

I am looking for a way to search a file for a specific pattern '.00' and want to calculate how often it appears. grep -o '.00' file does this quite well. Unfortunately I do not know how to exclude any pattern which contains the pattern I want to have but is a longer string.

What I want to have :

number of times, '.00' appears in the file

What I want to exclude :

longer patterns like '0.000001' so everything '*.00*'

Does anybody have an idea? Could I do something like "grep -o ('.00' and not '*.00*') ?

Thanks in advance, advice and boosting appreciated.

@bowers Thanks for the compliment, that's very kind of you. What you do sounds quite interesting as well - software engineering - right?

@bowers Just new to mastodon :)
I'm a physicist so I should know a thing about technology or even two. Well as a theoretician I know less about nowadays technology than the average experimentalist at least when it comes to electrodynamics but I can work quite well with computers - be they quantum or not ;-)

And as we cannot avoid experiment during our studies I also know how a laser works and how to work with it in the lab. And I love to balance spoons on my finger to learn about their center of mass.

What about you?