[clug] Favourite moments in man pages
Steven Hanley
sjh at svana.org
Mon Jul 27 05:32:51 UTC 2015
On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 02:54:06PM +1000, Bob Edwards wrote:
> Not actually my favourite, but one I've stumbled over several times
> in the past week (because I am old and need to refer to the same
> man page over and again... Others might resort to G00gle searching,
> but I resist emphatically...).
>
> from resize2fs(8) (on Debian Jessie):
>
> "Note: when kilobytes is used above, I mean real, power-of-2
> kilobytes, (i.e., 1024 bytes), which some politically correct
> folks insist should be the stupid-sounding ``kibibytes''. The
> same holds true for megabytes, also sometimes known as
> ``mebibytes'', or gigabytes, as the amazingly silly ``gibibytes''.
> Makes you want to gibber, doesn't it?"
I like that one, I can not remember some of the other entertaining (but
mostly normal) man pages out there. I know there are a few with similar sort
of commentary.
Of course for deliberately amusing man pages there are the packages
funny-manpages
asr-manpages
(though not in Debian stable currently for licencing reasons they can be
retrievd from wheezy or on other systems (ubuntu, etc))
See You
Steve
>
> scores on http://www.online-utility.org:
>
> Number of characters (without spaces) : 274.00
> Number of words : 54.00
> Number of sentences : 5.00
> Average number of characters per word : 5.07
> Average number of syllables per word : 1.81
> Average number of words per sentence: 10.80
>
> Indication of the number of years of formal education that a person
> requires in order to easily understand the text on the first reading
> Gunning Fog index : 11.73
>
> Approximate representation of the U.S. grade level needed to
> comprehend the text :
> Coleman Liau index : 11.31
> Flesch Kincaid Grade level : 10.04
> ARI (Automated Readability Index) : 7.87
> SMOG : 10.75
>
> Flesch Reading Ease : 42.34
>
> Anyone else want to share a fav?
>
> Bob Edwards.
>
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