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XKCD Deploys Command Line Interface

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the it's-actually-better dept.

ipquickly was one of a large number of users to note that the best on-line comic has just got a little better with the addition of a command line interface. You can also sign the petition to make the CLI permanent.

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  1. Dear Slashdot, by Jurily · · Score: 5, Interesting

    that was funny. Learn from him.

    1. Re:Dear Slashdot, by Jurily · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Flamewar time!

      guest@xkcd:/$ vi

      You should really use emacs.

      guest@xkcd:/$ emacs

      You should really use vim.

      guest@xkcd:/$ ed

      You are not a diety.

      guest@xkcd:/$ nano

      You should really use an editor.

    2. Re:Dear Slashdot, by plasticsquirrel · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Right, the last time Slashdot changed, it was just for a "new" layout. And the new layout just looked like the old layout, but with crawling JavaScript. The butt ugly pine-green-on-white was never even questioned. To get some volunteer graphic designers together for a new conceptual look would have made too much sense.

      Also, Arial? WTF, Slashdot? At least pick Verdana or Georgia in the stylesheets, two decent web fonts that ship with Windows. And why haven't we ever been able to post limited pre-formatted snippets of code? Not to mention some sort of glyph coverage beyond ASCII...?

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    3. Re:Dear Slashdot, by zx-15 · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Even better:
        guest@xkcd:/$ whoami
        You are Richard Stallman.
      Also, a rather weird command execution:

      guest@xkcd:/$ kill

      Terminator deployed to 1984

      But,

      guest@xkcd:/$ kill 1

      Unrecognized command. Type "help" for assistance.

      Command parser definitely needs some work

      guest@xkcd:/$ sudo -i

      sudo: -i: command not found

      Also I demand, while, for, if and which.

    4. Re:Dear Slashdot, by RalphSleigh · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Right now for me it is:

      font-family:arial,sans-serif;

      Which is arial for me and anyone that has it installed, regardless of your browsers default choice (Calibri here) . If you are getting Helvetica you are probably using a mac.

      Brings up a interesting point, is there an addon/other way to make Firefox not use arial even if its installed and the page explicitly requests it?

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  2. Whatever you do don't "go south" by pcx · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The new format is a bit more adventurous than it looks at first blush.

  3. Re:No tab completion! by dgatwood · · Score: 2, Interesting

    That's okay. They made up for it by occasionally disabling your backspace key, though it would have been better if they had inserted ^H, too. Or maybe that was just a random glitch.

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  4. Shutdown? by CapOblivious2010 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Try "sudo shutdown"

  5. Possible bug? by benedictaddis · · Score: 2, Interesting

    rm store works even though it's a folder. Is this a bug?

  6. Re:Yes, but by veganboyjosh · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Not a prank since it was my own computer, but I once had a desktop at work with the image set as a screensaver being a screenshot of the same desktop. the icons were only slightly out of kilter, so it wasn't always obvious which ones were real or not. In a few weeks, the icons on the desktop changed, and it was more confusing.

    my boss hated it.

  7. Re:retro by Sir_Lewk · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I think that is quite possibly the worst possible way something like this could possibly have been implemented. Congrats.

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