Talk:912: Manual Override - Revision history

162.158.110.65 at 00:47, 1 April 2025

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108.162.216.91: Crash Override!

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Crash Override!

Dgbrt at 20:48, 10 March 2014

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Kynde at 09:01, 10 March 2014

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108.162.237.64 at 06:31, 10 March 2014

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Hkmaly at 00:23, 10 March 2014

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Dgbrt at 23:25, 9 March 2014

2014-03-09T23:25:40Z

108.162.219.223 at 06:39, 21 January 2014

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Qwach at 23:06, 31 August 2013

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183.87.213.90 at 04:32, 8 June 2013

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	I did some edits, but I fear this is still not smooth enough for non UNIX people. (Posted from a Linux Desktop Computer) --[[User:Dgbrt\|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt\|talk]]) 20:48, 10 March 2014 (UTC)		I did some edits, but I fear this is still not smooth enough for non UNIX people. (Posted from a Linux Desktop Computer) --[[User:Dgbrt\|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt\|talk]]) 20:48, 10 March 2014 (UTC)
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		+	The joke is that (a) there is very little time to switch the plane to manual control, but (b) in stead of just asking "do you want to switch to manual override?" the system just prints a message poointing to some documentation that is (c) in a format hated by many UNIX users and considered to be the hardest to use, most convoluted documentation format ever invented. Therefore (d) the pilot would immediately know that there is no chance to understand the documentation before the plane crashes.
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	:No - if you have never heard of Gnu info pages or man pages, then to have any chance of understanding the meaning the title text might help. Although I'm sure I would never have understood this completely without explain XKCD... (I hope I understand it now). As the explanation now has been changed as discussed above, and which was also asked for in the incomplete box, I have changed this explanation to complete - after having written the line about the title text - which I believe is said to the pilot, after his initial command opened the "man" page! [[User:Kynde\|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde\|talk]]) 09:01, 10 March 2014 (UTC)		:No - if you have never heard of Gnu info pages or man pages, then to have any chance of understanding the meaning the title text might help. Although I'm sure I would never have understood this completely without explain XKCD... (I hope I understand it now). As the explanation now has been changed as discussed above, and which was also asked for in the incomplete box, I have changed this explanation to complete - after having written the line about the title text - which I believe is said to the pilot, after his initial command opened the "man" page! [[User:Kynde\|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde\|talk]]) 09:01, 10 March 2014 (UTC)
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		+	Somehow this reminds me of the movie Hackers, wherein the central character refers to himself as "Crash Override"; Not that such a command exists. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.91\|108.162.216.91]] 08:46, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

	I did some edits, but I fear this is still not smooth enough for non UNIX people. (Posted from a Linux Desktop Computer) --[[User:Dgbrt\|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt\|talk]]) 20:48, 10 March 2014 (UTC)		I did some edits, but I fear this is still not smooth enough for non UNIX people. (Posted from a Linux Desktop Computer) --[[User:Dgbrt\|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt\|talk]]) 20:48, 10 March 2014 (UTC)

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	:No - if you have never heard of Gnu info pages or man pages, then to have any chance of understanding the meaning the title text might help. Although I'm sure I would never have understood this completely without explain XKCD... (I hope I understand it now). As the explanation now has been changed as discussed above, and which was also asked for in the incomplete box, I have changed this explanation to complete - after having written the line about the title text - which I believe is said to the pilot, after his initial command opened the "man" page! [[User:Kynde\|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde\|talk]]) 09:01, 10 March 2014 (UTC)		:No - if you have never heard of Gnu info pages or man pages, then to have any chance of understanding the meaning the title text might help. Although I'm sure I would never have understood this completely without explain XKCD... (I hope I understand it now). As the explanation now has been changed as discussed above, and which was also asked for in the incomplete box, I have changed this explanation to complete - after having written the line about the title text - which I believe is said to the pilot, after his initial command opened the "man" page! [[User:Kynde\|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde\|talk]]) 09:01, 10 March 2014 (UTC)
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		+	I did some edits, but I fear this is still not smooth enough for non UNIX people. (Posted from a Linux Desktop Computer) --[[User:Dgbrt\|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt\|talk]]) 20:48, 10 March 2014 (UTC)

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	Anyone else feel like the comic is going a bit out of its way to make sure people get the joke? The title is the command, and the title text basically repeats the last line of the comic (albeit in the form of a command). [[Special:Contributions/108.162.237.64\|108.162.237.64]] 06:31, 10 March 2014 (UTC)		Anyone else feel like the comic is going a bit out of its way to make sure people get the joke? The title is the command, and the title text basically repeats the last line of the comic (albeit in the form of a command). [[Special:Contributions/108.162.237.64\|108.162.237.64]] 06:31, 10 March 2014 (UTC)
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		+	:No - if you have never heard of Gnu info pages or man pages, then to have any chance of understanding the meaning the title text might help. Although I'm sure I would never have understood this completely without explain XKCD... (I hope I understand it now). As the explanation now has been changed as discussed above, and which was also asked for in the incomplete box, I have changed this explanation to complete - after having written the line about the title text - which I believe is said to the pilot, after his initial command opened the "man" page! [[User:Kynde\|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde\|talk]]) 09:01, 10 March 2014 (UTC)

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	:I always though that info was designed by people who tried vim and emacs and considered them too easy. Luckily, there are other programs for reading info pages, like pinfo. -- [[User:Hkmaly\|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly\|talk]]) 00:23, 10 March 2014 (UTC)		:I always though that info was designed by people who tried vim and emacs and considered them too easy. Luckily, there are other programs for reading info pages, like pinfo. -- [[User:Hkmaly\|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly\|talk]]) 00:23, 10 March 2014 (UTC)
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		+	Anyone else feel like the comic is going a bit out of its way to make sure people get the joke? The title is the command, and the title text basically repeats the last line of the comic (albeit in the form of a command). [[Special:Contributions/108.162.237.64\|108.162.237.64]] 06:31, 10 March 2014 (UTC)

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	There is no "man override" on UNIX like systems. And "GNU Info Override" brings up "bash: GNU: command not found...", while "info Override" shows up a full page off standard information, a small line at the bottom indicates that even here this page doesn't exist. Much more funny is: How to close this "Info Window"... There is no intuitive navigation on that window. CTRL+C helped. --[[User:Dgbrt\|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt\|talk]]) 23:25, 9 March 2014 (UTC)		There is no "man override" on UNIX like systems. And "GNU Info Override" brings up "bash: GNU: command not found...", while "info Override" shows up a full page off standard information, a small line at the bottom indicates that even here this page doesn't exist. Much more funny is: How to close this "Info Window"... There is no intuitive navigation on that window. CTRL+C helped. --[[User:Dgbrt\|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt\|talk]]) 23:25, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
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		+	:I always though that info was designed by people who tried vim and emacs and considered them too easy. Luckily, there are other programs for reading info pages, like pinfo. -- [[User:Hkmaly\|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly\|talk]]) 00:23, 10 March 2014 (UTC)

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	The info page is overriding the man(ual) page as a source of information, even the name? --[[User:Qwach\|Qwach]] ([[User talk:Qwach\|talk]]) 23:06, 31 August 2013 (UTC)		The info page is overriding the man(ual) page as a source of information, even the name? --[[User:Qwach\|Qwach]] ([[User talk:Qwach\|talk]]) 23:06, 31 August 2013 (UTC)
	:"man override" is giving the (gnu) manual page for the override command. Yes? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.223\|108.162.219.223]] 06:39, 21 January 2014 (UTC)		:"man override" is giving the (gnu) manual page for the override command. Yes? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.223\|108.162.219.223]] 06:39, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
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		+	There is no "man override" on UNIX like systems. And "GNU Info Override" brings up "bash: GNU: command not found...", while "info Override" shows up a full page off standard information, a small line at the bottom indicates that even here this page doesn't exist. Much more funny is: How to close this "Info Window"... There is no intuitive navigation on that window. CTRL+C helped. --[[User:Dgbrt\|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt\|talk]]) 23:25, 9 March 2014 (UTC)

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	The info page is overriding the man(ual) page as a source of information, even the name? --[[User:Qwach\|Qwach]] ([[User talk:Qwach\|talk]]) 23:06, 31 August 2013 (UTC)		The info page is overriding the man(ual) page as a source of information, even the name? --[[User:Qwach\|Qwach]] ([[User talk:Qwach\|talk]]) 23:06, 31 August 2013 (UTC)
		+	:"man override" is giving the (gnu) manual page for the override command. Yes? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.223\|108.162.219.223]] 06:39, 21 January 2014 (UTC)

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	:Agreed. [[User:Wotpsycho\|Wotpsycho]] ([[User talk:Wotpsycho\|talk]]) 02:50, 17 May 2013 (UTC)		:Agreed. [[User:Wotpsycho\|Wotpsycho]] ([[User talk:Wotpsycho\|talk]]) 02:50, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
	:Yup. Sounds right. [[Special:Contributions/183.87.213.90\|183.87.213.90]] 04:32, 8 June 2013 (UTC)Manan		:Yup. Sounds right. [[Special:Contributions/183.87.213.90\|183.87.213.90]] 04:32, 8 June 2013 (UTC)Manan
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		+	The info page is overriding the man(ual) page as a source of information, even the name? --[[User:Qwach\|Qwach]] ([[User talk:Qwach\|talk]]) 23:06, 31 August 2013 (UTC)

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 I think that the joke here is actually that the pilot is attempting a manual override (I.E. overriding the automatic pilot and switch to manual control) by typing in 'manual override'(which is also the title, in fact), and the parser instead opens the manual under the 'manual' command for the 'override' program (as explained in this page), not that the manual is too long to be read in that specific situation (while that is a valid argument). [[Special:Contributions/93.144.215.90|93.144.215.90]] 12:36, 14 April 2013 (UTC)
 :Agreed. [[User:Wotpsycho|Wotpsycho]] ([[User talk:Wotpsycho|talk]]) 02:50, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
-Yup. Sounds right.
+:Yup. Sounds right. [[Special:Contributions/183.87.213.90|183.87.213.90]] 04:32, 8 June 2013 (UTC)Manan