Comments on: Humorous Open Source Programmers http://fredericiana.com/2006/08/16/humorous-open-source-programmers/ Open Source, The Web, And German-American Oddities Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:31:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Open Source Humor #2 at fredericiana http://fredericiana.com/2006/08/16/humorous-open-source-programmers/#comment-4330 Open Source Humor #2 at fredericiana Thu, 07 Sep 2006 15:40:55 +0000 http://fredericiana.com/2006/08/16/humorous-open-source-programmers/#comment-4330 [...] Update on the open source humor post: [...] […] Update on the open source humor post: […]

]]> By: Fred http://fredericiana.com/2006/08/16/humorous-open-source-programmers/#comment-3902 Fred Thu, 24 Aug 2006 03:44:48 +0000 http://fredericiana.com/2006/08/16/humorous-open-source-programmers/#comment-3902 Ah, thanks for that comment. That's a funny command too. I just tried it on OS X, and unfortunately they have the "new" message you were mentioning, too. Too bad! Ah, thanks for that comment. That’s a funny command too. I just tried it on OS X, and unfortunately they have the “new” message you were mentioning, too.

Too bad!

]]> By: tim budd http://fredericiana.com/2006/08/16/humorous-open-source-programmers/#comment-3744 tim budd Mon, 21 Aug 2006 22:57:00 +0000 http://fredericiana.com/2006/08/16/humorous-open-source-programmers/#comment-3744 Way back when you used to be able to say cat can and would get the humorous message cat can't open can But unfortunately, at some point the error message was made more precise but less amusing. Now it says cat: can: No such file or directory Way back when you used to be able to say
cat can
and would get the humorous message
cat can’t open can
But unfortunately, at some point the error message was made more precise but less amusing. Now it says
cat: can: No such file or directory

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