The program "ddate" converts gregorian date into discordian date which is described in the principia discordia. The output looks like this:
"Today is Pungenday, the 56th day of The Aftermath in the YOLD 3176"
That piece of software is installed on every default installation of any ubuntu version and many debian systems. The manpage links to subgenius.com.
The ubuntu repositories also contain programs called "hdate" and "itools" for hebrew and muslim calendars, but contrary to ddate, they both have to be installed manually.
So dear people living in muslim/jewish zones, please strengthen your open source communities, or else debian will have to quit support for your keyboard layouts, language support and time zone. Thanks in advance.
Quote from: http://linuxcommand.org/man_pages/ddate1.htmlEmperor Norton Utilities
:lulz:
I don't (yet) see a clear way to activate it though, I'm on the newest release of Ubuntu.
by "activate" you mean start?
open terminal, type ddate
as you see in the manpage there's a load of options too.
or you mean using ddate as default? i've never heard of something more useless.
Did you know they named a planet after Eris?
Did you know that if you read something you already knew, one option is not commenting on it?
Quote from: Weltbürger (NSFW) on December 14, 2010, 11:11:42 AM
by "activate" you mean start?
open terminal, type ddate
as you see in the manpage there's a load of options too.
or you mean using ddate as default? i've never heard of something more useless.
yeah I wanted to see if there was an option to put it as default, though of course I wouldn't keep it. Was just out of curiosity.
Quote from: Weltbürger (NSFW) on December 14, 2010, 11:15:54 AM
Did you know that if you read something you already knew, one option is not commenting on it?
Did you know complaining just makes me more likely to up the ante?
HEY GUYZ, HAS ANYONE HEARD THE BREAKING NEWS? RAW IS DEAD!
Quote from: Cain on December 14, 2010, 11:43:33 AM
Quote from: Weltbürger (NSFW) on December 14, 2010, 11:15:54 AM
Did you know that if you read something you already knew, one option is not commenting on it?
Did you know complaining just makes me more likely to up the ante?
Of course. Upping the ante often doesn't make sense until someone reacts. This seems to be how a dialogue works. It was nice to dialogue with you.
We should have a tagging system for this board though, where every sentence can be marked as "Cain already knows this".
Sorry, but after the last six months, you dont get to pretend to be reasonable now.
HEY EVERYONE, I READ THIS REALLY COOL BOOK I BET YOU NEVER HEARD OF. IT'S CALLED "ILLUMINATUS!"
There are some mild lulz to be found in a bug report (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=149321) filed by someone wanting it made so that ddate is not installed by default.
Quote from: bug reporterThe ddate utility supports the printing of Discordian dates, as used by the (apparently fictional) Church of the SubGenius. People with more traditional moral values might not appreciate a reference to or advertisement for this movement being present on their system.
Quote from: developerI personally use ddate, I use it in some scripts, I know other people do the same, and I know some Debian developers would be annoyed if ddate was removed. There are even programs that use ddate, e.g. freecraft and the games that use its engine.
I will be very sad if Debian can't include ddate because an imaginary user with "traditional moral values" means more than real users.
Quote from: util-linux package maintainerwontfix
--
ddate is staying
Quote from: Cain on December 14, 2010, 12:17:21 PM
Sorry, but after the last six months, you dont get to pretend to be reasonable now.
HEY EVERYONE, I READ THIS REALLY COOL BOOK I BET YOU NEVER HEARD OF. IT'S CALLED "ILLUMINATUS!"
Isn't that that Conspiracy theory thing by Dan Brown?
Quote from: Weltbürger (NSFW) on December 14, 2010, 11:15:54 AM
Did you know that if you read something you already knew, one option is not commenting on it?
FUCK YOU MY MOM DIED READING BORING USELESS TRIVIA!
Quote from: Weltbürger (NSFW) on December 14, 2010, 11:11:42 AM
by "activate" you mean start?
open terminal, type ddate
as you see in the manpage there's a load of options too.
or you mean using ddate as default? i've never heard of something more useless.
I can think of at least one thing more useless. Welty.
(http://imgur.com/iS166.jpg)
:lulz:
I loled at the picture. i guess it was your idea, badbeast.
because there just has to be one joke in your posts which wasn't served you on a silver tablet. you're a humorous guy. there must be a filter in your head which prevents you from posting every dump your brain has taken. but i'd understand if you said it was shut down temporarily.
:eek:
:lulz:
Oh look! Twatburger is trying to play nice.
YAWN!
Ok, I don't want to break traditions here:
Khara, you may have lost weight. Pitty that the disappearing layer of fat revealed just another layer of ugliness. Now back to the kitchen!
Quote from: Weltbürger (NSFW) on December 14, 2010, 03:06:01 PM
Ok, I don't want to break traditions here:
Khara, you may have lost weight. Pitty that the disappearing layer of fat revealed just another layer of ugliness. Now back to the kitchen!
:lulz:
Twat you are such a, such a....
Hell I have no clue.
You just keep up the idiot job you are doing!!! :retard:
I am sure your mommy is so proud. :thumb: Maybe santa will bring you some big boy toys for christmas this year. That Bob the Builder doll looks a bit errrrrr sticky!
:lulz:
Quote from: Weltbürger (NSFW) on December 14, 2010, 03:06:01 PM
Ok, I don't want to break traditions here:
Khara, you may have lost weight. Pitty that the disappearing layer of fat revealed just another layer of ugliness. Now back to the kitchen!
You really are a mean-spirited prick, aren't you?
I usually don't respond to trolls, but that was... yeah. That was a pretty ugly thing to do.
I bet he's a joy at staff parties. Wait, does he have a job?
Quote from: Weltbürger (NSFW) on December 14, 2010, 03:06:01 PM
Ok, I don't want to break traditions here:
Khara, you may have lost weight. Pitty that the disappearing layer of fat revealed just another layer of ugliness. Now back to the kitchen!
(http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h183/Jenne73/STFU-1.jpg)
Quote from: Weltbürger (NSFW) on December 14, 2010, 02:42:32 PM
:lulz:
I loled at the picture. i guess it was your idea, badbeast.
because there just has to be one joke in your posts which wasn't served you on a silver tablet. you're a humorous guy. there must be a filter in your head which prevents you from posting every dump your brain has taken. but i'd understand if you said it was shut down temporarily.
I suppose there is, Welty old thing. I think most people do. However, you seem to lack one. This gif reminds me of you, and your futile drive for acceptance here.
(http://i748.photobucket.com/albums/xx128/ChuckFukmuk/1SuqV.gif)
holy crap, i didn't realize that there was a bitchfest going on in here when i first clicked the link.
However, some ddate info from me:
One of the developers of ddate has an MIT email address (those geeks).
ddate is in one of the integral security parts of the linux kernel, which means: 1. it will be present in all versions of linux unless specifically removed. and 2. it will never come out (as foretold by the guy responding to the complaint ticket about it).
I have worked for a long time trying to make my clock applet in ubuntu display the discordian date, but have so far failed. Instead, i think i oped for a much more awesome solution.
(http://img691.imageshack.us/img691/6149/screenshotvmg.png)
If you want to do this too, here is how:
First go and do everything on this page to install a terminal in your background (move any icons from behind the place where the terminal will be, because you won't be able to click on them anymore once the terminal is over them. http://www.webupd8.org/2009/05/ubuntu-embed-terminal-into-you-desktop.html (http://www.webupd8.org/2009/05/ubuntu-embed-terminal-into-you-desktop.html)
Once you make the terminal in the background, modify step 3.2 to where the file that gets called in startup also calls the ddate command after opening the terminal. My version of this file is:
#!/bin/bash
sleep 20 && gnome-terminal --window-with-profile=trans777 --geometry 72x35+780+50 -e ./ddate
You can modify the geometry sizes however you like, but make sure that the command calls another executable file in the home folder (mine was called ddate, but that's just the name of executable file)
Now you have to create the executable file in the home folder that the above command executes (make sure to flip the executable bit on this file as well). My copy of this new file is below:
ddate
/bin/bash
This calls the ddate command, but unfortunately the terminal just freezes up without a command line after this, so we manually add in a line calling a command line (which is the /bin/bash line).
And that's it. Just make sure to add the "start terminal" shell to the programs at startup list and you should have a wonderful transparent background terminal displaying the ddate for today whenever you start up your computer.
Side note: if you run commands in the terminal and want it to get cleaned up to "just started up" status, run the command:
clear && ddate
to clear all output above ddate and just leave the output of ddate and a command line below it in the terminal.
additionally, you can follow ddate on Twitter now:
http://twitter.com/ddate
android needs ddate :fnord:
Quote from: Dean on December 14, 2010, 06:02:59 PM
Big block of text about having ddate run when you start the prompt
A substantially quicker solution is to add the line
ddateto .bashrc
Quote from: Able on December 15, 2010, 02:59:47 AM
android needs ddate :fnord:
http://www.digiburo.com/mobi/db_products.html
Android and ipoop
ddate, is that when all of the l33t spags storm the beaches of Normandy in search of Mountain Dew?
Quote from: Cain on December 14, 2010, 12:17:21 PM
Sorry, but after the last six months, you dont get to pretend to be reasonable now.
HEY EVERYONE, I READ THIS REALLY COOL BOOK I BET YOU NEVER HEARD OF. IT'S CALLED "ILLUMINATUS!"
Exactly, actions have consequences. Not to say that you can never have a reasonably normal conversation here, even Wade was able to converse at some points like a normal human being, but you don't just get to decide that your trollish bullshit is over and now people should take you seriously... that takes time and effort. It will mean putting up with a lot of people acting toward your posts the way you acted toward all theirs for so long, and NOT lashing back like you did in this thread. In other words, it will take patience and politeness. I'm sure you will have NO trouble with that, fuckwit.
Quote from: Cain on December 14, 2010, 12:17:21 PM
Sorry, but after the last six months, you dont get to pretend to be reasonable now.
This.
If he wants to be a total fucking prick to everyone, he shouldn't expect a reasonable conversation just because he suddenly wants one.
It's called "growing up", Weltburger. See if you're up to the challenge.
Quote from: Nigel on December 15, 2010, 10:13:40 PM
It's called "growing up", Weltburger. See if you're up to the challenge.
Also, please do it somewhere else.
I understand. If one day I desire to be treated friendly and taken serious in an online community, I'd better look for an other one. That's fine. What's for dinner?
Quote from: Triple Zero on December 15, 2010, 11:59:56 PM
Quote from: Nigel on December 15, 2010, 10:13:40 PM
It's called "growing up", Weltburger. See if you're up to the challenge.
Also, please do it somewhere else.
This too.
Quote from: Weltbürger (NSFW) on December 16, 2010, 12:35:06 AM
I understand. If one day I desire to be treated friendly and taken serious in an online community, I'd better look for an other one. That's fine. What's for dinner?
Hey, I never said it wouldn't happen, just that it would take time... thanks for purposefully misconstruing what I wrote.
Quote from: Weltbürger (NSFW) on December 16, 2010, 12:35:06 AM
I understand. If one day I desire to be treated friendly and taken serious in an online community, I'd better look for an other one. That's fine. What's for dinner?
Your tears.
Quote from: TGB on December 16, 2010, 02:00:32 AM
Quote from: Weltbürger (NSFW) on December 16, 2010, 12:35:06 AM
I understand. If one day I desire to be treated friendly and taken serious in an online community, I'd better look for an other one. That's fine. What's for dinner?
Yo ur tears. ASS
FIXT, etc.
As full of vinegar and anti-lulz as this thread is, it is one of the distinct Discordian residues in our culture. I've been finding more and more, recently.
In the novel "Drop City" by TC Boyle, the main character and her hippie boyfriend mention the "Keristan Society" which promoted the 'free love' idea through 'zine publications. I identified the reference to "Kerista", a movement that many of the o.g. Erisians like Kerry and Camden Benares were associated with.
I had fun explaining to a class full of college kids how 'Kerista' basically invented the computer-accessible database/spreadsheets because their leader (Brother Jeb) demanded that the people living at the main center have rotating bunk sleeping schedules (which was a bitch to figure out by hand). Didn't have to have sex with your bunk-mate, but you still had to move on and spend the night with somebody else tomorrow night.
Also got to tell the awesome story of how Brother Jeb got called to start the movement. According to Jeb an Angel appeared to him suddenly one day with a basic outline of the new movement. When he asked the Angel in all seriousness why they chose him, the Angel replied "Because, Jeb, you're so Gullible."
Quote from: Hoopla on December 16, 2010, 01:30:39 AM
Quote from: Weltbürger (NSFW) on December 16, 2010, 12:35:06 AM
I understand. If one day I desire to be treated friendly and taken serious in an online community, I'd better look for an other one. That's fine. What's for dinner?
Hey, I never said it wouldn't happen, just that it would take time... thanks for purposefully misconstruing what I wrote.
Well, the alternative is growing up, and growing up is
hard.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80_h3mVZN9k :fnord:
Quote from: Weltbürger (NSFW) on December 14, 2010, 03:06:01 PM
Ok, I don't want to break traditions here:
Khara, you may have lost weight. Pitty that the disappearing layer of fat revealed just another layer of ugliness. Now back to the kitchen!
Hey Weltburger. Why don't you actually be entertaining? I mean, fuck, we're bored, you're bored. Step up your game. This is the problem we're having with these weak trolls. Hell, if you can even bring your lily Swiss neutral coward ass to apologize to Khara it would be a start. Even if you didn't want to do that, do something funny.
Ok, I demand entertainment from you. Give me more fucking anagrams and palindromes, preferably in the best English you can muster.
Also fuck off and go somewhere else kindly please.
-Doktor Blight,
Waiting on your Nephew Twiddleton rearranging of letters. Make it good. Or suffer the wrath of god to be determined in the event of.
Also, umlauts are for retarded has been metal bands.
Blight,
-Likes has been metal
Welted phoned twin?
(Welt did nephew not)
Quote from: BadBeast on December 18, 2010, 10:15:54 AM
Welted phoned twin?
(Welt did nephew not)
Quiet Englishman! I demand a Swiss response, though your rearranging is flawless. That said, going to bed. It's half five in the morning here.
Quote from: Doktor Blight on December 18, 2010, 10:33:01 AM
Quote from: BadBeast on December 18, 2010, 10:15:54 AM
Welted phoned twin?
(Welt did nephew not)
Quiet Englishman! I demand a Swiss response, though your rearranging is flawless. That said, going to bed. It's half five in the morning here.
Early for you. You need to listen to some Beefheart before you retire though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fs8SGbS8hA&feature=related
Quote from: Doktor Blight on December 18, 2010, 09:48:39 AM
Also, umlauts are for retarded has been metal bands.
Blight,
-Likes has been metal
You mean like Queensryche?
Fuckin Queensryche! :argh!:
Can't think of another band that so quickly descended from greatness into the pits of failure.
There needs to be a metal band called "Umlaut".
Their songs would be untranslated German linguistic textbooks.
I nominate Running Wild.
Mostly because the pirate theme is pretty played out by now. They need a new schtick.
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on December 18, 2010, 12:23:04 PM
Quote from: Doktor Blight on December 18, 2010, 09:48:39 AM
Also, umlauts are for retarded has been metal bands.
Blight,
-Likes has been metal
You mean like Queensryche?
Fuckin Queensryche! :argh!:
Can't think of another band that so quickly descended from greatness into the pits of failure.
Marillion After "Fugazi"? (I know it's more Prog than Metal, but same principle)
Quote from: Cain on December 18, 2010, 12:25:54 PM
There needs to be a metal band called "Umlaut".
Their songs would be untranslated German linguistic textbooks.
(http://engforum.pravda.ru/images/smilies/rock%20on.gif)
Üm̈l̈äüẗ!!!(http://engforum.pravda.ru/images/smilies/rock%20on.gif)
Quote from: Pastor-Mullah Zappathruster on December 18, 2010, 03:14:43 PM
Quote from: Cain on December 18, 2010, 12:25:54 PM
There needs to be a metal band called "Umlaut".
Their songs would be untranslated German linguistic textbooks.
(http://engforum.pravda.ru/images/smilies/rock%20on.gif)Üm̈l̈äüẗ!!!(http://engforum.pravda.ru/images/smilies/rock%20on.gif)
:mittens:
I've also decided that, in rebellion against normal Heavy Metal tropes, they shall dress in tweed and with pipes, emulating liguistics professors the world over.
Quote from: BadBeast on December 18, 2010, 10:41:53 AM
Quote from: Doktor Blight on December 18, 2010, 10:33:01 AM
Quote from: BadBeast on December 18, 2010, 10:15:54 AM
Welted phoned twin?
(Welt did nephew not)
Quiet Englishman! I demand a Swiss response, though your rearranging is flawless. That said, going to bed. It's half five in the morning here.
Early for you. You need to listen to some Beefheart before you retire though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fs8SGbS8hA&feature=related
Too late. Also, I should drink less. At the very least so I go to sleep at a good hour. Booze is like caffeine for me.
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on December 18, 2010, 12:23:04 PM
Quote from: Doktor Blight on December 18, 2010, 09:48:39 AM
Also, umlauts are for retarded has been metal bands.
Blight,
-Likes has been metal
You mean like Queensryche?
Fuckin Queensryche! :argh!:
Can't think of another band that so quickly descended from greatness into the pits of failure.
Yeah. To the whole post.
Quote from: Doktor Blight on December 18, 2010, 06:51:20 PM
Quote from: BadBeast on December 18, 2010, 10:41:53 AM
Quote from: Doktor Blight on December 18, 2010, 10:33:01 AM
Quote from: BadBeast on December 18, 2010, 10:15:54 AM
Welted phoned twin?
(Welt did nephew not)
Quiet Englishman! I demand a Swiss response, though your rearranging is flawless. That said, going to bed. It's half five in the morning here.
Early for you. You need to listen to some Beefheart before you retire though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fs8SGbS8hA&feature=related
Too late. Also, I should drink less. At the very least so I go to sleep at a good hour. Booze is like caffeine for me.
Well, it's certainly "Late" for the poor old Captain.
And if Booze is like caffiene, you should try drinking that new powdered bean stuff from down Brasilia way. Kwahfee I think they calls it. Bit like Tea, but it tastes like gritty ditchwater, and it keeps you awake for like,
evar!
Quote from: Cain on December 18, 2010, 03:18:23 PM
Quote from: Pastor-Mullah Zappathruster on December 18, 2010, 03:14:43 PM
Quote from: Cain on December 18, 2010, 12:25:54 PM
There needs to be a metal band called "Umlaut".
Their songs would be untranslated German linguistic textbooks.
(http://engforum.pravda.ru/images/smilies/rock%20on.gif)Üm̈l̈äüẗ!!!(http://engforum.pravda.ru/images/smilies/rock%20on.gif)
:mittens:
I've also decided that, in rebellion against normal Heavy Metal tropes, they shall dress in tweed and with pipes, emulating liguistics professors the world over.
BRUTAL
(http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRmtrSZIJENShInFAqAcGyFg_TYHKy6We-s2D3fX9oUb8drNOs_)
Quote from: Cain on December 18, 2010, 03:18:23 PM
Quote from: Pastor-Mullah Zappathruster on December 18, 2010, 03:14:43 PM
Quote from: Cain on December 18, 2010, 12:25:54 PM
There needs to be a metal band called "Umlaut".
Their songs would be untranslated German linguistic textbooks.
(http://engforum.pravda.ru/images/smilies/rock%20on.gif)Üm̈l̈äüẗ!!!(http://engforum.pravda.ru/images/smilies/rock%20on.gif)
:mittens:
I've also decided that, in rebellion against normal Heavy Metal tropes, they shall dress in tweed and with pipes, emulating liguistics professors the world over.
I'm afraid Akercocke beat them to that.
(http://www.earache.com/bands/akercocke/navigation/akercocke_pic.jpg)
Quote from: BadBeast on December 18, 2010, 01:16:03 PM
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on December 18, 2010, 12:23:04 PM
Quote from: Doktor Blight on December 18, 2010, 09:48:39 AM
Also, umlauts are for retarded has been metal bands.
Blight,
-Likes has been metal
You mean like Queensryche?
Fuckin Queensryche! :argh!:
Can't think of another band that so quickly descended from greatness into the pits of failure.
Marillion After "Fugazi"? (I know it's more Prog than Metal, but same principle)
Have you ever heard "Hear in the Now Frontier"? :vom:
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on December 19, 2010, 02:18:38 AM
Quote from: BadBeast on December 18, 2010, 01:16:03 PM
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on December 18, 2010, 12:23:04 PM
Quote from: Doktor Blight on December 18, 2010, 09:48:39 AM
Also, umlauts are for retarded has been metal bands.
Blight,
-Likes has been metal
You mean like Queensryche?
Fuckin Queensryche! :argh!:
Can't think of another band that so quickly descended from greatness into the pits of failure.
Marillion After "Fugazi"? (I know it's more Prog than Metal, but same principle)
Have you ever heard "Hear in the Now Frontier"? :vom:
I totally gave up on Marillion, when that nauseating "Kayliegh" came out, followed by "Lavender". What the fuck was that all about then? :? From "Misplaced Childhood", It was their "Tricky" third Album. Misplaced creativity more like. I think Fish gave up on them too shortly afterwards. I've seen him being interviewed about this Album, and he even he agrees that it's a pile of pretentious wank. Which is a shame, because "Script" and "Fugazi" are really fucking good, and still stand up today. Which really isn't bad for arty 80's Prog. I never noticed the Alex Harvey influence until I dug the Vinyls back out this summer though. (Got "Fugazi" on my turntable now)