NAME¶
think - you don't have to think, the computer can think for you
SYNOPSIS¶
think [ -
detach ]
DESCRIPTION¶
Think simulates a thinking brain.
This can be useful if someone is not wanting to think at invocation time or if
someone is needing some thinking about something. It can also be helpful if
someone's brain is not working correctly at invocation time.
When invoked,
think will go ahead and look at all of the commands and
keystrokes that a user has made during the current login session.
Think
will then look at what files the user has. From this and what level the user
is listed at in the file /usr/lib/think,
think will figure out what the
user was trying to do when
think was invoked.
DEVICES¶
The process that
think uses to help a user is greatly aided if the user
is wearing a brain interface bus (bib) device. A bib device is normally worn
on the head, and if being used, then
think will try to see what was
going through the users head at the time of invocation. After
think
does this, it will send electric signals to the users brain, causing the user
to type in whatever keystrokes are necessary to accomplish the task that
he/she doesn't want to think about.
OPTIONS¶
- -detach
- also known as "Must mother do all of your thinking for
you?"-mode. This options causes think to run in the background
as a daemon that watches for users who look like they may need assistance.
When a user is found to be exercising cluelessness, think will lock
up their keyboard and will proceed to execute what seems to be the most
likely sequence of commands that the user had intended to execute. This
flag may only be used by the super-user.
FILES¶
- /dev/brain
- bib device special file.
- /usr/lib/think
- file to indicate various user abilities. The format of this
file is a username on each line followed by some whitspace and then a
number. The higher the number for a given user, the more likely
think is to assume that that user knows what he/she is doing.
Unfortunately, what think considers a large number will vary with
usage.
BUGS¶
If a user is using a bib device and actually lacks a brain of their own, then
there is a high risk that
think will take over their (non-existent)
minds. This has the upshot that someone other than the user will have to stop
the program. (Perhaps this is a feature.)
It may illegal in some areas to force users to wear bib devices.
AUTHOR¶
This man page was written by John Guthrie <guthrie@math.upenn.edu> with
suggestions from Kevin Whyte <kwhyte@math.upenn.edu> for the
alt.sysadmin.recovery man page collection.