MAC to Linux
Notes for George's One Liner Lightning Talks

Oakland.pm 2002-12-05

5 one-liners in 5 minutes including Q & A. Please hold questions until after the final talk.

My intention in giving these talks is to:

• have fun.
• express my minimalist tendencies.
• get across that lightning talks can be way shorter than 5 minutes.
• get others to say: "Those are lightning talks?! I can do that."
• get each of you to smile, chuckle or laugh at least once.
• inspire someone to further tailor their OS (hopefully, Linux) environment.

Scroll down for one-liners.

alias be='su';

• for the metaphysically oriented.
• doesn't even save any key strokes. Oh, well!

alias 6='vi';

• based on my favorite Unix pun.
• I started using Unix in 1989.
• But, somehow, I wasn't exposed to this pun until 2001.
• Hey, it's a 50% saving in keystrokes. (OK, one keystroke saved.)

alias ppl='perl -p -e';

• the first of a one liner series of talks.
• OK, a two talk series.

ppl 's# / # /index.html #';

• depends on previous talk.
• actually, does something useful (if applied to my Apache logs).

What is the relationship between beer, squirrels and Perl?

• They say a picture is worth a thousand words.
• Perhaps the answer is here?
  [This used to be a link to an image of a squirrel drinking beer through a straw. Oh, well.]
• found on the site of Hartog "Sinister" de Mik of Rotterdam.pm.
  [Alas, last I looked, I couldn't even find Rotterdam.pm.]
• Go beer-sig.

Any questions?