OT: evil realnetworks

Fraser Campbell fraser-eicrhRFjby5dCsDujFhwbypxlwaOVQ5f at public.gmane.org
Fri Jul 30 17:28:32 UTC 2004


On July 30, 2004 01:22 pm, Tim Writer wrote:

> Forget prior art, what about the non-obvious requirement for patents. 
> Here's a method for displaying pictures organized by date:
>
>     display `/bin/ls -t *.jpg`                  [1]
>
> or in zsh:
>
>     display *.jpg(om)
>
> Did I just infringe their patent?  Oops!

Nah, you forget a few extra lines of shell that would create HTML making it 
look like a calendar ;-)

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