Re: Nerd Boy, episode 258

On Wed, 31 Jul 2002 16:53:52 +0200, llizard wrote:

> In article <ai85vi$agb$1...@pheidippides.axion.bt.co.uk>, "Anonymous"
> <gue...@anonymous.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Joaquim G�ndara wrote in message ...
>>>
>>>              *appear!*                     
>>>                __              YIKES!      
>>>               _\=              ,     `,,,  
>>>           _   / |            Oo       oo'  
>>>          /(_.'  |           -//-     -//-  
>>>          `._    | _________ dd _____ //    
>>
>>WONDERFUL expressions of surprise on both NB and FB.  :o)
> 
> Yes, very good expressions and in this case the sound effect *appear*
> works well.

Ahh, can't resist myself, have to make a Zen-joke on that...

For those not knowing the sound *appear!*
Its the same sound as one hand clapping.

hahahhah hehheh heh.. ho, ??... laugh, it's supposed to be funny.
grrmmmph.

hmmm, And now to something completly different.

I wanted to do some obascii, but it didn't come out right, so I got an 
crazy (Nerd boy style, I think) idea I just had to try. 

if you've got awk!!, then try this...

- Save some ascii-art to a file (e.g. xx.txt), though avoid backslash
and put a "'" in the end of each line (explained later) 

- type the following (ip-address being the address of a webserver)
awk 'BEGIN {service="/inet/tcp/0/ip-address/80"} 
           { print $0 |& service;  close(service); }' xx.txt

You will then produce lines below in the errorlog on the webserver.

...:21:09:53 +0200] "          *appear!*                        '" 400 412
...:21:09:53 +0200] "            __              YIKES!         '" 400 412
...:21:09:53 +0200] "           _V=              ,     `,,,     '" 400 412
...:21:09:53 +0200] "       _   / |            Oo       oo'     '" 400 412
...:21:09:53 +0200] "      /(_.'  |           -//-     -//-     '" 400 412
...:21:09:53 +0200] "      `._    | _________ dd _____ //       '" 400 412

neat, huh! :)

- then pray that the sysadmin has a sense of humour.

The thing with backslash and "'" is to make it look good in the errorlog.
"'" will keep the "400 ..." away from the drawing.
backslash unfortunately gets doubled.

the original came out like this, which isn't nice :(
.../2002:21:32:52 +0200] "          *appear!*" 400 -
.../2002:21:32:52 +0200] "            __              YIKES!" 400 412
.../2002:21:32:52 +0200] "           _\\=              ,     `,,," 400 412
.../2002:21:32:52 +0200] "       _   / |            Oo       oo'" 400 412
.../2002:21:32:52 +0200] "      /(_.'  |           -//-     -//-" 400 412
.../2002:21:32:52 +0200] "      `._    | _________ dd _____ //" 400 412

/xlo