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cosmolinguistps is a cool command. It tells me the status of the processes my computer is running ("process status" = ps). This in itself isn't very interesting, because I don't ask my computer to do much; ps aux is better. It gives me a bigger, more impressive list and I can look at numbers and names and see all the things my computer is doing even when it looks like it's not doing anything. I can even kill things (kill is the command useful if something's misbehaving) if I want to, just by typing kill and the process identification number (which ps aux tells me) of whatever it is that I want to go away.I sometimes feel like there are a lot of things going on in my brain when it feels like it's not doing anything. Sometimes I'm happy (or sad, or something else) for no reason. It kind of feels like I'm ignoring something I shouldn't be. This happens occasionally; I've learned that I'll either figure it out or the weirdness will go away and I go back to whatever it is that passes for normal. Even so, it's sort of annoying and sometimes troubling, and it makes me wish I had a
ps aux so I could see what's going on in my brain. And it'd be especially nice to be able to kill the messed-up things, just like that.![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
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Date: 2004-02-17 12:03 am (UTC)835 my-brain
#: kill -9 835
oh, that eould've be nice today...
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Date: 2004-02-17 05:13 am (UTC)kill is kind of like walking up to someone, explaining that there time has come, and they should finish up what they're doing, say their good byes, make any funeral arrangements, and then consume the entire bottle of sleeping pills you just handed them.
kill -9 is like walking innocently up to someone, and then going all balefire on their arse.
Are you familiar with The Wheel of Time..?
Ok, maybe that's a bit extreme. It's more like collecting someone with the front of a road train doing about 100mph, and then driving the hole thing into the mouth of an active volcano.
Behold the power of kill -9.
By the way, if you like kill, you should play with xkill, it's much more fun.
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Date: 2004-02-17 11:26 am (UTC)All these friends I have who want to take over thw world must be rubbing off on me.
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Date: 2004-02-17 11:44 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-02-17 05:46 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-02-17 06:33 am (UTC)Re:
Date: 2004-02-17 06:36 am (UTC)(I'd settle for something that lets me get to bed before one!)
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Date: 2004-02-17 06:41 am (UTC)system administration
Date: 2004-02-17 07:20 am (UTC)root@Holly$ rm -frd /messed-up-things
There ya go. Better?
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Date: 2004-02-17 07:21 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-02-17 07:31 am (UTC)ps
Date: 2004-02-19 07:23 am (UTC)Using the nifty feature of being able to trace each process's parent, a ps for one's sensorium would make it easy to ...
- Name that tune (with
- List all the things that the smell of a madeleine cookie reminds you of.
- Have a well-ordered coherent set of replies at hand when the therapist asks, "And how does that make you feel?"
I think we need to glom onto other UNIX commands, too. For example, if it's true that the unexamined life is not worth living, there's an easy solution:kill -9to get commercial jingles out of your head).live > journal
tail journal
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