To the Slaughter

I want to buy a huuuuge water cannon and take a bike for a spin while my co-pilot shoots innocent bystanders!

Gun Control and your rights to personal security in South Africa

A very important topic in South Africa is to do with firearms and our rights to our personal security. Don’t get me wrong: I’m not in the belief that everyone should have the right to bear a bazooka, M82, or AK-47 * – not unless you have to defend yourself against an army **.
However, I [...]

Anger, dude

How can someone be so angry and so vicious, to push someone, to push them far beyond where they’ve already told you they’re not willing to venture. And when the buck gets stopped, to then just drop that person and accuse them of the worst.
You’re hurting someone who you should be caring about. Life sucks [...]

Posted in: health, random, rights by Tricky 1 Comment , , ,

To fail at failing

To fail at failing. I recently came across a discussion where a user was advised to run a fail command. The result was, luckily, as follows:
[user@user-desktop ~]$ cd ~/.Trash; sudo rm -rfv *
bash: cd: /home/user/.Trash: No such file or directory
bash: sudo: command not found
[user@user-desktop ~]$
The command cd ~/.Trash changes the directory (or present working directory) [...]

Posted in: linux by Tricky 5 Comments , , , ,

You feel a disturbance…

(xx:55:12) You feel a disturbance in the force…
(xx:56:34) Tricky: Afternoon
(xx:05:54) anon: HI
(xx:08:19) anon has left the conversation.
Sometimes I think I shouldn’t let Pidgin try to make me Jedi.

Posted in: random by Tricky 3 Comments , , ,