Fine. Where's the step where you entered it into a text document? That's what the original poster used as an example.
It's already done. The "> dirlist.txt" portion of that command line created the text file with the needed info. No muss, no fuss.
Folders are confusing? Do you find drawers and closets confusing also?
(ignoring the flamebait portion of that comment) Folder structures rarely confuse me, but you'd be amazed at how often Joe User gets a deer-in-headlights look when viewing directory trees. Ever view a directory tree in Windows Explorer? How about one that's about 10 levels deep? Go ahead, expand a few directory trees (make sure you're in 1280x1024 resolution first) and select a folder. Now, click somewhere on the background in the left hand side of that window. Notice that the folder you are in, is no longer highlighted. Now, grab a friend and have him glance at the screen for just a second or two and see if he can tell you the name of the folder/directory you are viewing the contents of.
Ever drag and drop a folder into another folder by accident? CAD operators at my work do it all the time. Then they come whining to us that some job number "isn't on the server anymore." It's there, but one simple misplaced click/drag has now rendered it unfindable by that user, and all the other CAD people here. So we (IS people) type a simple command line to find the job in question, and type another to put it back where it goes. Total time spent: 10-20 seconds. Now, as a test, I go to an NT box and click Start|Find|Files or Folders, enter a known good folder name several layers deep, and click find. Now I move that folder to where it goes by dragging and dropping it. Total time spent: 45-60 seconds after 5 tries, according to my trusty Bulova. And I'm purposely doing this as fast as possible. That makes this common task quicker by a factor of about 3-4 when I'm telnetted in to our Linux server, or sitting in front of it. Same goes for *BSD, Solaris, AIX, etc. Sure, a time savings of 20-50 seconds doesn't sound like much. But multiply that by the number of times things like this have to be done (to repair the damage done by people misusing click/drag/drop interfaces, I might add), and the company I work for saves several hundred to several thousand dollars a year because I, a lowly technician, know a few simple command lines, which take maybe 60 seconds to learn.
Now, ask yourself if you ever type "mv./001076 010064" by accident. No? Seems to me that making user errors less likely and less destructive also has value...
Do you get kicked in the teeth? I know lots of people that have baited ignorant cops and enraged them, but they had video cameras on them t the time and thus were not clobbered.
Probaby, judging from what I once witnessed. A friend of mine managed to piss off a cop to the point where he was being pistol-whipped by one while 2 others were holding him down. I must say, though, that this guy brought it on himself, cursing the cop up one side and down the other, insulting the cop's mother, etc at the top of his lungs, kicking the door of the cruiser, and happened to have a big sheath knife on his belt (he uses it for cutting thick foam rubber material at his job, but I doubt the cops knew that - they just saw a bigass knife). In the end, he was arrested for assaulting an officer and resisting arrest, taken to the hospital then to jail for a couple of days, then sentenced to time served and $1500 fine.
I certainly don't think it was right of the cops to pull a Rodney King on this guy, but then again, the guy hasn't been mouthing off to cops since then. And coincidentally, he hasn't been even hassled by the police nearly as much as he used to, and hasn't gotten any ass-kickings from them since then either.
I have yet to hear a radio station play a song by Cannibal Corpse, or even some of the old school death metal bands that actually played Death Metal and weren't manufactured bands.
Way back in the day (1988-1991), when I lived in New Orleans, WTUL (Tulane University's station) had a show every Saturday night where they would play death metal for an hour. They even managed to play some decent songs every now and then (Deicide's "Carnage in the Temple of the Damned" for example).
The cool part was that they didn't play the commercial mass-produced crap on this show. So, for one hour every week, I could flip on the radio and actually hear the music I liked.
No, death metal is definitely not "pop". And if you went to a Soylent Green or Exhorder show and said something to that effect, you'd be lucky to escape with your Gerbaud jeans and Polo shirt intact.
Just my 2.28905 yen
I saw a show about this exact project on the Discovery Channel about 6 months ago. CNN is just now finding out about it?
As a builder/flyer of radio controlled model airplanes, I've also heard of such systems employed, albeit on a much smaller scale (literally), on RC planes. One example that comes to mind is a fellow who covered the top surface of the wing on a model plane with solar cells. The resultant power was enough to power the motor and the radio receiver, so his flights of the model are now limited in duration by the batteries in his transmitter, which last for hours. Compare that to the average flight time of about 10 minutes for battery-powered electric model airplanes, and you can see the utility of efficient solar power. No more burning 50 pounds of jet fuel for every mile travelled in an airplane, for example. Of course, NASA has been doing this longer than I've been alive (Fuel cells charged by solar cells, essentially). The trick is to get the price of the technology down into the range of practicality, much like the computer price/performance curve from the 70's-present. I'm sure it can be done if we get Corporate America to realize that "If you make it, they will buy it."
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Fine. Where's the step where you entered it into a text document? That's what the original poster used as an example.
./001076 010064" by accident. No? Seems to me that making user errors less likely and less destructive also has value...
It's already done. The "> dirlist.txt" portion of that command line created the text file with the needed info. No muss, no fuss.
Folders are confusing? Do you find drawers and closets confusing also?
(ignoring the flamebait portion of that comment) Folder structures rarely confuse me, but you'd be amazed at how often Joe User gets a deer-in-headlights look when viewing directory trees. Ever view a directory tree in Windows Explorer? How about one that's about 10 levels deep? Go ahead, expand a few directory trees (make sure you're in 1280x1024 resolution first) and select a folder. Now, click somewhere on the background in the left hand side of that window. Notice that the folder you are in, is no longer highlighted. Now, grab a friend and have him glance at the screen for just a second or two and see if he can tell you the name of the folder/directory you are viewing the contents of.
Ever drag and drop a folder into another folder by accident? CAD operators at my work do it all the time. Then they come whining to us that some job number "isn't on the server anymore." It's there, but one simple misplaced click/drag has now rendered it unfindable by that user, and all the other CAD people here. So we (IS people) type a simple command line to find the job in question, and type another to put it back where it goes. Total time spent: 10-20 seconds. Now, as a test, I go to an NT box and click Start|Find|Files or Folders, enter a known good folder name several layers deep, and click find. Now I move that folder to where it goes by dragging and dropping it. Total time spent: 45-60 seconds after 5 tries, according to my trusty Bulova. And I'm purposely doing this as fast as possible. That makes this common task quicker by a factor of about 3-4 when I'm telnetted in to our Linux server, or sitting in front of it. Same goes for *BSD, Solaris, AIX, etc. Sure, a time savings of 20-50 seconds doesn't sound like much. But multiply that by the number of times things like this have to be done (to repair the damage done by people misusing click/drag/drop interfaces, I might add), and the company I work for saves several hundred to several thousand dollars a year because I, a lowly technician, know a few simple command lines, which take maybe 60 seconds to learn.
Now, ask yourself if you ever type "mv
66mhz 486? Jesus, are you running the Hubble Telescope??
Hey, some of us masochists are tinkering with clustering, using 80386/25mhz machines.
PS/2's no less.
And in the process, acquiring a renewed hatred of Microchannel.
Nobody's ever accused me of not loving a challenge *grin*
Do you get kicked in the teeth? I know lots of people that have baited ignorant cops and enraged them, but they had video cameras on them t the time and thus were not clobbered.
Probaby, judging from what I once witnessed. A friend of mine managed to piss off a cop to the point where he was being pistol-whipped by one while 2 others were holding him down. I must say, though, that this guy brought it on himself, cursing the cop up one side and down the other, insulting the cop's mother, etc at the top of his lungs, kicking the door of the cruiser, and happened to have a big sheath knife on his belt (he uses it for cutting thick foam rubber material at his job, but I doubt the cops knew that - they just saw a bigass knife). In the end, he was arrested for assaulting an officer and resisting arrest, taken to the hospital then to jail for a couple of days, then sentenced to time served and $1500 fine.
I certainly don't think it was right of the cops to pull a Rodney King on this guy, but then again, the guy hasn't been mouthing off to cops since then. And coincidentally, he hasn't been even hassled by the police nearly as much as he used to, and hasn't gotten any ass-kickings from them since then either.
Just my $0.02
I have yet to hear a radio station play a song by Cannibal Corpse, or even some of the old school death metal bands that actually played Death Metal and weren't manufactured bands. Way back in the day (1988-1991), when I lived in New Orleans, WTUL (Tulane University's station) had a show every Saturday night where they would play death metal for an hour. They even managed to play some decent songs every now and then (Deicide's "Carnage in the Temple of the Damned" for example).
The cool part was that they didn't play the commercial mass-produced crap on this show. So, for one hour every week, I could flip on the radio and actually hear the music I liked.
No, death metal is definitely not "pop". And if you went to a Soylent Green or Exhorder show and said something to that effect, you'd be lucky to escape with your Gerbaud jeans and Polo shirt intact. Just my 2.28905 yen
I saw a show about this exact project on the Discovery Channel about 6 months ago. CNN is just now finding out about it?
As a builder/flyer of radio controlled model airplanes, I've also heard of such systems employed, albeit on a much smaller scale (literally), on RC planes. One example that comes to mind is a fellow who covered the top surface of the wing on a model plane with solar cells. The resultant power was enough to power the motor and the radio receiver, so his flights of the model are now limited in duration by the batteries in his transmitter, which last for hours. Compare that to the average flight time of about 10 minutes for battery-powered electric model airplanes, and you can see the utility of efficient solar power. No more burning 50 pounds of jet fuel for every mile travelled in an airplane, for example. Of course, NASA has been doing this longer than I've been alive (Fuel cells charged by solar cells, essentially). The trick is to get the price of the technology down into the range of practicality, much like the computer price/performance curve from the 70's-present. I'm sure it can be done if we get Corporate America to realize that "If you make it, they will buy it."