I was getting a little annoyed while trying to update my repos and nothing was happening, and pressed ctrl-c to stop it.
Nothing happened, so I swore a little and started hitting lots of ctrl-c’s (yes I know that apostrophe is incorrect, but didn’t know how to convey it in plural lol!), and this is what I got:
Building repository 'openSUSE BuildService - KDE:Backports' cache [done]
Download (curl) error for 'http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/GNOME:/STABLE/openSUSE_11.0/repodata/repomd.xml':
Error code: User abort
Error message: connect() timed out!
Abort, retry, ignore? [A/r/i]: r
^C
^COK OK! Exitting immediately...
I noticed that the other day when I cancelled a zypper up command.
It didn’t surprise me too much, since the second thing I learned after the importance in commenting your code whilst programming when I took a a programming class, was that the comments that programmers leave can not only be helpful, but humorous, whimsical, vile, insane, and philosophical.
It doesn’t surprise me in the least that this would carry over into program output.
As a matter of fact, I once found a link that documented several things like this in Linux programs - I wish I could still find it. Another thing, from what I hear, poking through the Kernel Source can afford you a few laughs too.
If you are interested in occurrences like this in other programs, and no one else knows the link, or poking through the source is too much, you could always try out the program ‘fortune.’ If I had all the hours I had wasted using that command in a shell, I could bring about world peace…
I didn’t even notice the “COK” thing… Maybe I’m getting too old to think about things like that?
I think the humour was actually in the fact that usually when hitting CTRL-C you kill an app in the terminal, but in this case you have to hit it twice, and upon doing so you get “Okay, okay, exiting immediately!”
I kind of took it as, “Oh, Okay, fine… I see I’m not needed any more, I’ll get off your terminal now.”
As I remember that was included with the openSUSE 10.3 release… it would pop up at random. Not sure what was driving it but it was a funny ‘easter egg’. 10.3 was released somewhere near xmas… so that must have been the joke.
>
> wehrmacht;1848633 Wrote:
>> I got a really groovy winter/Christmas/snow grub boot screen with
>> animated penguins running all over it.
>>
>> …
> If you mean the snow theme at the grub boot menu?
>
> As I remember that was included with the openSUSE 10.3 release… it
> would pop up at random. Not sure what was driving it but it was a funny
> ‘easter egg’. 10.3 was released somewhere near xmas… so that must have
> been the joke.
I think that was actually 10.2 but it was an alternate boot screen. Go back
to (roughly) Dec. 06 or 07 and search the messages in alt.os.linux.suse to
find info to turn it on or off. The wife made me figure out how to make it
the default on her laptop but I’ve forgotten the details - simple change to
a file AIR.
