The Funny Screenshot Thread
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Do any Apple users know what this does? "Finger" sounds awfully odd as a network utility...(That's my email by the way)
BobK
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From the finger man page:
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FINGER(1) BSD General Commands Manual FINGER(1)
NAME
finger -- user information lookup program
SYNOPSIS
finger [-lmsp] [user ...] [user@host ...]
DESCRIPTION
The finger displays information about the system users.
Options are:
-s Finger displays the user's login name, real name, terminal name and write status
(as a ``*'' after the terminal name if write permission is denied), idle time,
login time, office location and office phone number.
Login time is displayed as month, day, hours and minutes, unless more than six
months ago, in which case the year is displayed rather than the hours and minutes.
Unknown devices as well as nonexistent idle and login times are displayed as sin-
gle asterisks.
-l Produces a multi-line format displaying all of the information described for the
-s option as well as the user's home directory, home phone number, login shell,
mail status, and the contents of the files ``.plan'', ``.project'', ``.pgpkey''
and ``.forward'' from the user's home directory.
Phone numbers specified as eleven digits are printed as ``+N-NNN-NNN-NNNN''. Num-
bers specified as ten or seven digits are printed as the appropriate subset of
that string. Numbers specified as five digits are printed as ``xN-NNNN''. Num-
bers specified as four digits are printed as ``xNNNN''.
If write permission is denied to the device, the phrase ``(messages off)'' is
appended to the line containing the device name. One entry per user is displayed
with the -l option; if a user is logged on multiple times, terminal information is
repeated once per login.
Mail status is shown as ``No Mail.'' if there is no mail at all, ``Mail last read
DDD MMM ## HH:MM YYYY (TZ)'' if the person has looked at their mailbox since new
mail arriving, or ``New mail received ...'', `` Unread since ...'' if they have
new mail.
-p Prevents the -l option of finger from displaying the contents of the ``.plan'',
``.project'' and ``.pgpkey'' files.
-m Prevent matching of user names. User is usually a login name; however, matching
will also be done on the users' real names, unless the -m option is supplied. All
name matching performed by finger is case insensitive.
If no options are specified, finger defaults to the -l style output if operands are pro-
vided, otherwise to the -s style. Note that some fields may be missing, in either for-
mat, if information is not available for them.
If no arguments are specified, finger will print an entry for each user currently logged
into the system.
Finger may be used to look up users on a remote machine. The format is to specify a
user as ``user@host'', or ``@host'', where the default output format for the former is
the -l style, and the default output format for the latter is the -s style. The -l
option is the only option that may be passed to a remote machine.
If standard output is a socket, finger will emit a carriage return (^M) before every
linefeed (^J). This is for processing remote finger requests when invoked by fingerd(8).
FILES
~/.nofinger If finger finds this file in a user's home directory, it will, for fin-
ger requests originating outside the local host, firmly deny the exis-
tence of that user. For this to work, the finger program, as started
by fingerd(8), must be able to see the .nofinger file. This generally
means that the home directory containing the file must have the other-
users-execute bit set (o+w). See chmod(1). If you use this feature for
privacy, please test it with ``finger @localhost'' before relying on
it, just in case.
~/.plan
~/.project
~/.pgp These files are printed as part of a long-format request. The .project
file is limited to one line; the .plan file may be arbitrarily long.
SEE ALSO
chfn(1), passwd(1), w(1), who(1)
HISTORY
The finger command appeared in 3.0BSD.
Linux NetKit (0.17) August 15, 1999 Linux NetKit (0.17)Disclaimer: I am not an Apple user.
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- monkeylima
Here's a reply of mine earlier today on twitter.
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It just refused to continue forward. Multi-airline flights aren't that desirable, but unusual last-minute travel plans do occur.
I see these text-based games now have radio-button interfaces...
Reminds me of when Ernie Irvin won his first Winston Cup race after his "fatal accident".
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When you join the French Foreign Legion, you automatically get a new identity, so that when people come asking if you joined they can say no. Your passport is taken, and only given back once you leave.
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Probably. 
