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The cruelty of poker – part 10

*** HOLE CARDS *** Dealt to dkpw [Ah 8c] BIGBAZZER: calls 20 bluntholda is connected hamball00: calls 20 007 Gambler: calls 20 linnyd: calls 20 varkiza: calls 10 dkpw: checks

*** FLOP *** [3d Jd 8h] varkiza: checks dkpw: checks BIGBAZZER: checks hamball00: bets 80 007 Gambler: calls 80 linnyd: folds varkiza: calls 80 dkpw: [...]

Power saver script

cd /home/davidw/Desktop/Downloads wget -nc ftp://slackware.cs.utah.edu:21/pub/slackware/slackware-11.0/patches/packages/*

The above lines, when saved as a shell script on my Slackware server and set as a scheduled cron job, allow me to download all of Slackware 11.0′s security patches from The University of Utah Sschool of Computing’s ftp server. The script runs once a day unattended. The -nc option [...]

German

A friendly, mellifluous language German is not. With its habit of verbs at the end of sentences putting.

This 404 “page not found” banner just begs to be barked out in a stereotypical manner!