oh-so-descriptive man pages

[jerome1232]

I was just looking at the man page for xorg and saw this


VIDEOADAPTOR SECTION
Nobody wants to say how this works. Maybe nobody knows ...


I wonder if there's any other oh-so-helpful man pages out there.
:lolflag:

[jimi_hendrix]

linux is the only OS where the programmers hide funny quirks like this...(whens the last time you saw a joke in windows?)

[steeleyuk]

(whens the last time you saw a joke in windows?)

That stupid dog in XP that helps you search for things.

[LaRoza]

linux is the only OS where the programmers hide funny quirks like this...(whens the last time you saw a joke in windows?)

Actually..

Windows and MS are full of easter eggs. It is less now, for legal reasons, but it is there.

Google for them ;)

Programmers are programmers the world over.

[jimi_hendrix]

That stupid dog in XP that helps you search for things.

thats not a joke...that was a serious thing to play around with in computer class (right click + animate!)

[tdrusk]

linux is the only OS where the programmers hide funny quirks like this...(whens the last time you saw a joke in windows?)
*waits for witty comment*

[JohnFH]

sudo apt-get install funny-manpages
man party
man uubp
man rescrog
man rtfm


Your homework is to find the other man pages in the package. Have fun!

[Le-Froid]

(whens the last time you saw a joke in windows?)

They used to have a few easter eggs in Internet Explorer (6?) - google it.

[jimi_hendrix]

just googled it...id take cow powers over a moving background that wastes ram

[scragar]

sudo apt-get install funny-manpages
man party
man uubp
man rescrog
man rtfm


Your homework is to find the other man pages in the package. Have fun!

hmn, let's see:


usr/share/man/man1/
usr/share/man/man1/date.1fun.gz
usr/share/man/man1/echo.1fun.gz
usr/share/man/man1/gong.1fun.gz
usr/share/man/man1/grope.1fun.gz
usr/share/man/man1/party.1fun.gz
usr/share/man/man1/rescrog.1fun.gz
usr/share/man/man1/rtfm.1fun.gz
usr/share/man/man1/rm.1fun.gz
usr/share/man/man1/tm.1fun.gz
usr/share/man/man1/xkill.1fun.gz
usr/share/man/man1/baby.1fun.gz
usr/share/man/man1/celibacy.1fun.gz
usr/share/man/man1/flog.1fun.gz
usr/share/man/man1/uubp.1fun.gz
usr/share/man/man1/condom.1fun.gz
usr/share/man/man1/flame.1fun.gz
usr/share/man/man1/xlart.1fun.gz
usr/share/man/man6/
usr/share/man/man6/sex.6fun.gz
usr/share/man/man3/
usr/share/man/man3/strfry.3fun.gz
usr/share/lintian/
usr/share/lintian/overrides/
usr/share/lintian/overrides/lintian
usr/share/doc/
usr/share/doc/funny-manpages/
usr/share/doc/funny-manpages/README.Debian
usr/share/doc/funny-manpages/copyright
usr/share/doc/funny-manpages/changelog.Debian.gz
usr/share/man/man1/egrope.1fun.gz
usr/share/man/man1/fgrope.1fun.gz

so I'm guessing there's a number of man pages.

[Hire]

sudo apt-get install funny-manpages
man party
man uubp
man rescrog
man rtfm


Your homework is to find the other man pages in the package. Have fun!

hire@nicus:~$ sudo dpkg -L funny-manpages
/.
/usr
/usr/share
/usr/share/man
/usr/share/man/man1
/usr/share/man/man1/date.1fun.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/echo.1fun.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/gong.1fun.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/grope.1fun.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/party.1fun.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rescrog.1fun.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rtfm.1fun.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rm.1fun.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/tm.1fun.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/xkill.1fun.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/baby.1fun.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/celibacy.1fun.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/flog.1fun.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/uubp.1fun.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/condom.1fun.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/flame.1fun.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/xlart.1fun.gz
/usr/share/man/man6
/usr/share/man/man6/sex.6fun.gz
/usr/share/man/man3
/usr/share/man/man3/strfry.3fun.gz
/usr/share/lintian
/usr/share/lintian/overrides
/usr/share/lintian/overrides/lintian
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/funny-manpages
/usr/share/doc/funny-manpages/README.Debian
/usr/share/doc/funny-manpages/copyright
/usr/share/doc/funny-manpages/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/egrope.1fun.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/fgrope.1fun.gz

[JohnFH]

hmn, let's see:
...

so I'm guessing there's a number of man pages.

Yep, but, after first trying 'man sex' and seeing that it worked, you're meant to spend hours trying to guess other man pages are included. ;)

[jerome1232]

sudo apt-get install funny-manpages
man party
man uubp
man rescrog
man rtfm


Your homework is to find the other man pages in the package. Have fun!

Those are pretty good, lol. rtfm -ph. egrope -v /etc/X11/xorg.conf

[MaxIBoy]

man mount

The proc file system is not associated with a special device, and when
mounting it, an arbitrary keyword, such as proc can be used instead of
a device specification. (The customary choice none is less fortunate:
the error message ‘none busy’ from umount can be confusing.)

Well that certainly clears things up!

Unintentional irony for the win.

[lswb]

This is from the man page for "who"


.... If ARG1 ARG2 given, -m presumed: ‘am i’ or ‘mom likes’ are
usual.

[jerome1232]

What's better is it works

who mom likes
jeremy pts/1 2008-10-26 16:49 (:0.0)

[nixscripter]

A classic one from AIX, the tunefs command:



NOTE: You can tune a filesystem, but you can't tune a fish.