December 13, 2006
#196: Command Line Fu explain
[Two men talking.]
Cueball: Last night I was watching videos with this girl and my monitors kept turning off - even though I had disabled power save.
Friend: Odd.
Cueball: However! I wrote a command to jiggle the mouse pointer every couple minutes to keep it from going idle.
Friend: Not the first hack I’d try, but see? Linux has problems, but it gives you the tools to deal with them - and save your date!
Cueball: Actually, I was half an hour into the pointer scripting documentation when she got dressed and left.