Sorry check back later for pics, Steve Jobs says I don’t need copy & paste as I’m sending this from the wordpress app on my iPhone.

Update:

One note of clearification, as crazy as the feature set on these machines is, I still wouldn’t mind having one to use whenever I wanted, imagine what you could do with it! The commercial I saw is available in flash form at
http://www.sharpusa.com/files/workwithoutlimits.swf.

Google pointed me to the year old bug 94065 in launchpad. I added a quick ‘me too’ and subscribed to updates on the bug. This was back in March. Fast forward to last week and this arrives:

** Changed in: upstart
      Target: 0.5 => None

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Add non-destructive means to disable a job
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/94065
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of the bug.

There is no mention of this change in bug meta-data on the launchpad site, or maybe I’m just not finding it since I lack the doctorate in navigating launchpad necessary to be able to use the site. This prompted an update from the original reporter on the bug asking for more information:

is there a disable method yet? i reported this initially over a year ago. (there may be, but since there’s no upstart manpage on hardy, it’s hard to know. :-)

Now for the asshole fail:

Scott James Remnant wrote on 2008-08-14: (permalink)

Does this bug report say that there is a disable method? Is it marked Fix Released?
No.

I’m not sure what Scott James Remnant <scott@canonical.com>’s roll at Canonical is but perhaps it should be modified to remove any tasks that involve interaction with the public?

http://thegrebs.com/~michael/netqmail-1.06.patch.bz2

It is quite polite of the sender of this piece of mail to warn the recipient that they are about to get fired for infecting office machines (supposing they click the link from a suitable browser, that is).

Entering Copy Mode and Scrolling

By default, enter copy mode with CTRL+a then ESCAPE. You can use vi like commands to navigate through the scollback buffer. The arrows and PAGE UP/DOWN should work as well. A few useful commands some may be unfamiliar with:

• M - jumps to the middle visible line
• NN% - jumps to the specified percentage in the buffer (0 - start, 100 - end
• g - jumps to the beginning of the buffer
• G - jumps to the end of the buffer

These keys are even useful when you aren’t using copy mode to copy/paste text.

Copying Text

Once the cursor is at the beginning location, press SPACEBAR to set your first mark. Next navigate to the ending position and hit it again. The second SPACEBAR will set your end mark and exit copy mode. One neat and often useful feature is selecting a rectangle on the screen rather than full lines. Use c and C to set the left and right column margins to the cursor’s current location.

Pasting

Pasting is easy, just hit CTRL+a to activate screen then ] to paste.

There’s More!

There are loads more options such as multiple copy buffers, the ability to append marked text to the buffer rather than replacing it, etc. Check out the man page for more screen goodness.

dh-make-perl --cpan Some::Module --build
sudo dpkg -i libsome-module-0.1-1_all.deb

Done.

Dependencies

If you have apt-file installed and Some::Module requires Lib::Foo for which a Debian package is available, the dependancy will automatically be created. If Lib::Foo does not have a Debian package already available, you will likely need to manually run dh-make-perl on Lib::Foo first.

I haven’t seen the apt-file trick mentioned elsewhere. Honestly when someone mentioned it on IRC I didn’t believe him. Sure enough, looking at the source for dh-make-perl revealed that it does indeed check apt-file for each module that Some::Module lists as required in the META.yml.

Why?

Now dpkg/apt know that you have Some::Module installed. If an official package for Some::Module comes out, it will likely have the same name and if it is for a newer version of Some::Module aptitude upgrade will automagically upgrade you to it. The real win is ease of cleanly uninstalling though. How many times have you found what you thought was the perfect module for task XYZ and installed it. Only to find that it isn’t so hot 5 minutes after beginning to use it. Making sure ‘make uninstall‘ really uninstalled every thing can be a pain.

idle time command

Executes screen command, command when idle for time seconds. E.g. to rotate through screen windows with a 3 second interval:

idle 3 next

To cancel, idle 0

I think that Superman is the clear winner, he was super duper from the start. Spider-Man on the other hand, he just happened to get bit by a messed up spider. I didn’t consider this a highly weighted factor though. Superman is impervious to all but kryptonite, Spider-Man is way vulnerable.

Batman, though crazy cool with all the gadgets, isn’t even in the running what with no super powers and all.