amazon.com funny review

[cisamcgu]

You probably need to be a nerd/geek to truly appreciate this, but, check out the review (about half way down the page) by John E. Fracisco of the following book

Ping the duck


Andrew

 

[TheDoctor]

Literally LOL!

That is fantastic.

 

[Smeggers]

I guess he's not read Config The Swan then?

 

[magnatom]

You'll have to look here (http://ftp.arl.mil/~mike/ping.html) to find out where this review originally came from....

It is a classic!

 

[mr Mag00]

hahhahahahahaaa

 

[domtyler]

I preferred his earlier works like "chmod the lonely shrew".

 

[PrettyboyTim]

I preferred his earlier works like "chmod the lonely shrew".

Sounds like someone had a vermin problem and wished to make the friendless critter 'executable'...

gets coat

 

[Sh4rkyBloke]

I always liked Tracert the Otter.. the much loved, but oft forgotten twin brother of Tarka.

His stories of shell commands and scripting had me coming back for more 'when I were a lad'.

Likewise Tim, coat retrieved...

 

[red_tom]

# cat flap
cat: cannot open flap

# echo "127.0.0.1 Elvis" >> /etc/hosts;ping Elvis
Elvis is alive

And my fave (although it's sql rather than shell)

> SELECT * FROM users WHERE clue > 0"
0 rows returned

Can I come out of the basement now?

 

[Melvil]

In this vein, surely Harry Potter is all about peer to peer (Ron, Hermione and Harry) networks working under a liberal network environment (Dumbledore) to defeat the evil top down information/magic syndicates?

 

[spindrift]

http://www.amazon.com/Very-Best-Dav...bs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1207637743&sr=8-1

 

[Rhythm Thief]

Anyone got a link to the Peter Andre and Jordan album reviews on Amazon? Those are hilarious.

 

[spindrift]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0306804379/b3ta-21