bug#8500: util: where am i (original) (raw)

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From: Bob Proulx
Subject: bug#8500: util: where am i
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 14:42:53 -0600
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)

Erik Auerswald wrote:

uname -n

A problem with uname is that traditionally this would truncate names to eight characters. (I once had a hostname "aphrodite" and it would always emit "aphrodit".) The uname structures are really problematic. I recommend avoiding them.

All in all I don't see a need for a 'whereami' utility at all.

For what it is worth I agree. What is available is already available. And what isn't available such as gps location isn't possible to be available and would have severe privacy concerns if it were.

Bob

P.S. I have always wanted a utility to send lightning bolts out of the keyboard just like what is shown in the movies when someone is repelling a computer attack. But I don't think I will ever get that one either.