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Lady from Sweden

ron@noisytoot.org (Noisytoot) — Fri, 08 Nov 2019 20:56:12 +0000

There was once a lady from Sweden
Which made it all very even
The dog said "hello"
And the cat said "oh no"
And they all ended up in Eden¹

Dedicated to the public domain, or licensed under the CC0

Another version uses "The Eden Project"

DRM Haiku

ron@noisytoot.org (Noisytoot) — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 11:26:04 +0100

Digital handcuffs
DRM is very bad
I hate DRM

Standard Attainment Tests

ron@noisytoot.org (Noisytoot) — Sun, 25 Aug 2019 14:00:29 +0100

The fat Cats,
Rats
And Bats
Sat on the SATs
That sat on the Mats
And liked Pats
Then the Cat
Who was called Pat
Sat
On the Mat
With the Rat,
Bat
And SAT.

Smug Pug in Mug 3

ron@noisytoot.org (Noisytoot) — Sun, 25 Aug 2019 13:44:32 +0100

The mug
Was fug,
The pug
Was smug
And the jug
Was fug.
The pug said "I am smug",
The mug said "I am fug"
And the jug said "I am also fug".
When the pug got transferred from the mug
To the jug
The pug
became fug,
The jug became smug,
And the mug became smug.
The pug said "I am fug",
The mug said "I am smug"
And the jug said "I am also smug".
The bug
In the rug
Said "I am a smug bug in a rug"
Then later said "I am a fug bug in a rug".

Smug Pug in Mug 2

ron@noisytoot.org (Noisytoot) — Sun, 25 Aug 2019 13:41:50 +0100

The smug pug
Who was in the mug
Said "I am smug"
Then the pug said "I am in the mug"
The pug was transferred from the Mug
to the jug
And the pug
Was fug
And in a jug
The pug said "I am fug"
And then said "I am in a jug".
The bug
In the rug
Said "I am a bug"
Then also said "I am in a rug"
And "A tug boat is brilliant"

New Newt

ron@noisytoot.org (Noisytoot) — Sun, 25 Aug 2019 13:38:36 +0100

I knew
A new
Newt
Who liked to hoot

The Dog Went to the Bog

ron@noisytoot.org (Noisytoot) — Sun, 25 Aug 2019 13:37:23 +0100

The dog
Went to the bog
With a log
And a cog
For a jog

As Snug as a Bug in a Rug

ron@noisytoot.org (Noisytoot) — Sun, 25 Aug 2019 13:33:58 +0100

As snug as a bug in a rug
Or as a smug pug in a mug
Or a fug pug in a jug
You can pour the pug
From the jug
To the mug.

Shoe

ron@noisytoot.org (Noisytoot) — Sun, 25 Aug 2019 13:30:17 +0100

There was once a shoe
Who was pale blue

He went to buy some cheese
then he bought some peas

He then put on his jeans
and gave his friend some beans

The Cat Sat on the Mat

ron@noisytoot.org (Noisytoot) — Sun, 25 Aug 2019 13:27:06 +0100

The cat
Sat
On the mat
With the rat
And the bat
Who had a hat
And was called Nat
And was also very fat

The Ox and the Fox

ron@noisytoot.org (Noisytoot) — Sun, 25 Aug 2019 13:23:56 +0100

The ox and the fox
Were sitting on the rocks
They found a box of socks
They had a lot of locks

Primera Air Is Not a Bear 🐻

ron@noisytoot.org (Noisytoot) — Sun, 25 Aug 2019 12:57:57 +0100

Primera Air is not a bear 🐻
It flies through the air
As if without a care
And yet they do care
Though not enough
To plan adequate water supplies

Man From Estonia

ron@noisytoot.org (Noisytoot) — Sun, 25 Aug 2019 12:55:53 +0100

There was once a man from Estonia
Who said he had never felt lonelier
Then he went to UK
And since was OK
That ex-lonely man from Estonia

Man With a Beard

ron@noisytoot.org (Noisytoot) — Sun, 25 Aug 2019 12:53:38 +0100

There was an old man with a beard
Who said it is just as I feared
Two larks and a hen
Who had a ball pen
Just signed their name on my beard

Man From David Street 3

ron@noisytoot.org (Noisytoot) — Sun, 25 Aug 2019 12:48:40 +0100

There was once a man from David Street
He liked his chocolate treat
He learnt how to rhyme
And committed no crime
That innocent man from David Street

Man From David Street 2

ron@noisytoot.org (Noisytoot) — Sun, 25 Aug 2019 12:48:38 +0100

Man from David Street 2
Who wanted to go to the loo
He took so long
That he missed ping pong
This mysterious¹ man from David Street 2

2 David Street does not exist

Man From David Street

ron@noisytoot.org (Noisytoot) — Sun, 25 Aug 2019 12:46:05 +0100

There was a young man from David Street
It is someone you would like to meet
His name starts from "R"
He rides in a green car
Guess who is this man from David Street

Person From Tallinn

ron@noisytoot.org (Noisytoot) — Sun, 25 Aug 2019 12:40:46 +0100

There was once a person from Tallinn
Who didn't much care for old Stalin
He/she logged into root
And started to toot
That musical person from Tallinn

mq

ron@noisytoot.org (Noisytoot) — Wed, 26 Jun 2019 09:49:02 +0100

A command line program that tests your knowledge of arithmetic (addition/subtraction, multiplication/division), and then logs the results, written in Perl 6, and licensed under the GNU GPL v3.0 (or any later version)

This document is about mq version 1.5.x, but the installation instructions will install the latest version

Note: $MQ_CONFIG_DIR was added in v1.4.0

What is mq?

mq is a program that asks you maths questions

How to use?

mq <mode> <max>

Mode "level1": Addition, subtraction
Mode "level2": Multiplication, division
Mode "get-group": Get the group length
Mode "get-max": Get the maximum number
Optional named argument "disable-log": Disable the log file, added in v1.5.0
Optional named argument "group": Set the group length, added in v1.5.0

Example: mq --disable-log --group 5 level1 10

Configuration file

Where is the configuration file?

If $MQ_CONFIG exists, then the config file is $MQ_CONFIG.
If it does not exist, but $MQ_CONFIG_DIR exists then the config file is $MQ_CONFIG_DIR/config.toml.
Otherwise, the config file is ~/.mq/config.toml (default).

What format is it in?

It is written in TOML 0.4.0

What keys/sections are there?

The section "mq"

The integer "group": The length of the group, can be set to any integer

What does it look like?

[mq]
group = 20
length = 10

Log file

Where is the log file?

If $MQ_LOG exists, then the config file is $MQ_LOG.
If it does not exist, but $MQ_CONFIG_DIR exists then the config file is $MQ_CONFIG_DIR/log.slf.
Otherwise, the config file is ~/.mq/log.slf (default).

What format is it in?

SLF (The Simple Log Format), basically CSV/DSV separated with spaces

Installation instructions

These instructions use GitHub, but you can use GitLab or Noisytoot Git instead, by replacing the URI you get mq from

For UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems (like GNU/Linux, BSD, Mac OS X)

Using git

Install mq:

cd ~
git clone https://github.com/Noisytoot/mq.git
cd mq
ln -s $PWD/mq.p6 /usr/local/bin/mq # Replace /usr/local/bin/mq with where you want to install mq, you may need root permissions to run this
mkdir ~/.mq

Update mq:

cd ~/mq
git pull

Using wget

Install, and update mq:

cd /usr/local # Replace /usr/local with where you want to install mq
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Noisytoot/mq/master/mq.p6 -O mq # You may need root permissions to run this
chmod +x mq

For other operating systems (like Windows)

I do not currently have instructions for other operating systems, but basically you need to download mq.p6, add executable permissions if the OS has them, and put it into your PATH

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