There's a "silly internet game" going around various blogs and sites in
which you
1. Grab the nearest book,
2. open it to page 23,
3. find the 5th sentence,
4. post its text along with these instructions,
5. point back to where you got the idea so that we can follow the threads.
Since I was sitting at home by my Ultra when I read this on planetsun, [1]
the nearest book was the one on (or rather, in) the hard disk by my
knee, and given the topic of that book, I just had to post it here (with
the author's permission) - so now for your viewing pleasure, the world
broadcast premiere of the fifth sentence of page 23 of
"Solaris Systems Programming" by the one and only Rich Teer:
The -a flag tells id to show us all the groups we belong to
(interestingly, 'id -a' will list up to 32 groups regardless
of the setting of ngroups_max).
Coming later this year to a theater, err, bookseller near you! You'll
have to pick up your own copy to find out what comes after that gripping
and suspenseful buildup. (Though given the size of the review draft I
have, you may need a friend to help you pick it up. And no, Rich is not
paying me for this shameless plug. 8-)
Now go find a book near you, and somewhere appropriate to post it's
fifth sentence...
[1] That's the http://www.planetsun.com/ Sun employee public/personal
blog aggregator. For the purposes of step 5 above - I found this
specifically in this weekends posts to Tim Bray's & Dave Edmondson's blogs:
http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2004/04/24/FifthSentence &
http://www.dme.org/log-archives/2004/04/24/book_chain.html .
Unfortunately, my blog is on the wrong side of the Sun firewall to
point at, and I haven't taken the time to set one up out in the wild.
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