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The History of Solitaire
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'''Virginia Tech People Search''', '''People Finder''', or, colloquially, '''Hokie Stalker''', is a web search interface to the university directory.
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While people have been playing solitary games with charge cards, dice, stones and pegs because the dawn of recorded history, solitaire, used to describe games for which the goal would be to arrange a outdoor patio of cards coming from a chaotic pattern to an ordered pattern, only noticed description in card gaming literature start about 1765. This kind of element of making purchase coming from chaos likely stems from a combination of cartomancy forms like Tarot and Germanic culture, because the mid 18th century had been when a lot of the present day cartomantic layouts were established. The first definitive documenting of the video game of Solitaire comes from a German gaming book coming from 1783.  
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=Searching the University Directory=
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Solitaire was originally known because Patience, and was a competitive video game between two players. The goal was to complete the video game before the other player. Nevertheless, it soon took keep since a solitary pursuit, probably due to the proven fact that practicing it alone offered the same gaming experience since competing with another. The solitary nature of Patience also probably stemmed through its similarities with another solitary card pursuit, Tarot.  
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Keyword searches can serve as handy shortcuts. In recent versions of
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Firefox, you can simply right-click in a search box and choose to add a
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Similarities and Differences between Solitaire and Tarot
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keyword for the search. See the [http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/smart-keywords.html Mozilla article on "Smart Keywords"].
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Indeed, there are many similarities between Tarot and Solitaire, known as Patience back when it has been first created. Both are solitary pursuits, often completed to engage the mind with a system of rules rather than with another person. Both can use the same set of cards, with both fifty-two and seventy-8 card Solitaire games recorded in it's infancy. Both make use of pre-ordained arrangements. There is even a tradition, still alive in Germany and Scandinavia today, of using Solitaire since a means for divination. If a single "wins" within the first few games, times is going to be good and luck will grin on you, whereas if one loses a string of games, the cards are saying to be cautious.  
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==Commandline People Search==
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Virginia Tech previously operated a finger server, but it was shut down on January 16th. [http://www.middleware.vt.edu/doku.php?id=middleware:ed:edlite:finger] [[User:mutantmonkey|mutantmonkey]] has hacked up a [https://github.com/mutantmonkey/hokiestalker/blob/master/hs.py Python script that works as a replacement].
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Yet these people differ also, and this is where the German cultural values come in as opposed to the Roma or even Egyptian elements that found Tarot. Namely, Solitaire is worried with building a great ordered card structure at the end, rather than an ordered mental or "spiritual" structure in the way that Tarot is made to carry out.
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Historical Stories about Solitaire
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$ sudo apt-get install python3-lxml
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$ git clone https://github.com/mutantmonkey/hokiestalker.git
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Napoleon was said to be described as a card gaming fanatic, and everywhere he went, he learned the local forms of playing charge cards. The ideal mind that won him so many battles across The european union has been well-suited for charge cards, and Solitaire has been no exception. While the conqueror has been generally surrounded by adequate individuals who he didn'capital t play Patience or other forms of Solitaire while he was rampaging through Europe, upon his exile the stories went that most he did had been play Patience endlessly. A brilliant strategist'utes mind never sleeps, so the story went.
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$ ./hokiestalker/hs.py charles steger
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Name:              Charles W Steger
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About that time in the 19th century, different forms of Solitaire were getting traction throughout France, but historic data shows that while Napoleon played credit cards in exile, he never played Patience. Regardless, so popular did Solitaire become in France, in component due to the stories told about their greatest general, that many of the terminology used in Solitaire today derives through French.
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                    Charles W. Steger
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UID:                808122
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Solitaire caught on among English speakers starting in the mid 19th century, when Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria and passionate social reformer, had been said to play Solitaire often in the spare time. It is intriguing to trace the rise and fall of Solitaire's popularity in terms of changes, orderings, and restructurings of your society at any offered time. It took about half a century for Solitaire to make their way throughout the pond to the United States, where it caught on like wildfire during the gold rush of the early 20th century, and once again during the Great Depression in the 1930s.  
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Department:        President - Admin.
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Title:              President and Prof. of Arch.
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One particular final story about Solitaire is tragic. During the fall of the Nazi Regime, Adolf Hitler was said to have taken his most trusted lieutenants and staff, among them Joseph Goebbles and his wife and kids, to a bunker to prevent being raped and defiled by the advancing Soviets. Magda Goebbles has been said to be considered a solitaire enthusiast, and the story will go that after she fed cyanide to her youngsters, she played Patience, a kind of sad tribute to the Nazi attempts to make a "perfectly ordered society."
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Office:            Office of the President
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                    210 Burruss Hall
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Common Solitaire Synonyms
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                    Blacksburg, VA 24061
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Mail Stop:          0131
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Patience - Used throughout the UK today, Patience was the unique name for solitary card games. The sense was that instead than using bluffs, personality traits, or luck to win the video game, the principal high quality exercised had been that of patience.  
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Office Phone:      5402316231
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Email Address:      president@vt.edu
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Klondike - Solitaire is actually often a synecdoche for Klondike, meaning that it will be so well-known that people use the term "Solitaire" to reference Klondike exclusively. Klondike will be a form of solitaire that involves alternating suits, cascades of cards, a several-suit set of foundations, and also a terrace. It is the simplest form of solitaire that still includes every component solitaire is best known for. The name "Klondike" comes through the undeniable fact that it was made popular during the Gold Rush from the early 1900s which took place in the Alaskan Klondike region.  
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The Virginia Tech finger server hooks into the same database as the web-based people search. Access to it using [[netcat]] is trivial:
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$ echo charles steger | nc finger.vt.edu 79
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OpenLDAP Finger Service...
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1 exact match found for "charles steger":
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"808122, People"
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  Also Known As:
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              Charles W Steger
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              Charles W. Steger
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              President and Prof. of Arch.
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Department: 
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              President - Admin.
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Department Number:
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              043100
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Work Address:
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              Office of the President
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              210 Burruss Hall
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              Blacksburg, VA 24061
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Mail Stop:   
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              0131
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  Work Phone: 
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              5402316231
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  E-Mail Address:
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              president@vt.edu
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It might be useful to turn this one-liner into a script if you need to lookup professor room numbers, email addresses, etc. on a regular basis. To do so, follow the steps below to create a script that can be called by typing <code>hs</code>.
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# echo -e '#!/bin/bash\n\necho $* | nc finger.vt.edu 79' > /usr/local/bin/hs
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# chmod +x /usr/local/bin/hs
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=Privacy Settings=
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==Managing via MyVT==
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To suppress personal information visit [https://my.vt.edu/navigate.jsp?channel=attribute-suppression MyVT profile visibility] after logging in via the [https://auth.vt.edu/login?service=https://my.vt.edu/Login central authentication system].
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==Computer Labs==
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In order to login at the [[Math Emporium]] and on the [[Torg computer labs]], public visibility of ones PID was once required. This was fixed sometime in 2009.
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=See Also=
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* [[Searching]]
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=Links=
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* [http://search.vt.edu/search/people.html Virginia Tech | People Search]
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* [[ud:Hokie Stalker|Urban Dictionary Hokie Stalker entry]]
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[[Category:Campus computing resources]]
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[[Category:Web applications]]
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[[Category:Scripts]]
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[[Category:Data]]

Revision as of 20:30, 16 September 2012

Virginia Tech People Search, People Finder, or, colloquially, Hokie Stalker, is a web search interface to the university directory.

Searching the University Directory

Searching with Firefox

Keyword searches can serve as handy shortcuts. In recent versions of Firefox, you can simply right-click in a search box and choose to add a keyword for the search. See the Mozilla article on "Smart Keywords".

Commandline People Search

Virginia Tech previously operated a finger server, but it was shut down on January 16th. [1] mutantmonkey has hacked up a Python script that works as a replacement. 

$ sudo apt-get install python3-lxml
$ git clone https://github.com/mutantmonkey/hokiestalker.git
$ ./hokiestalker/hs.py charles steger
Name:               Charles W Steger
                    Charles W. Steger
UID:                808122
Department:         President - Admin.
Title:              President and Prof. of Arch.
Office:             Office of the President
                    210 Burruss Hall
                    Blacksburg, VA 24061
Mail Stop:          0131
Office Phone:       5402316231
Email Address:      president@vt.edu


Privacy Settings

Managing via MyVT

To suppress personal information visit MyVT profile visibility after logging in via the central authentication system.

Computer Labs

In order to login at the Math Emporium and on the Torg computer labs, public visibility of ones PID was once required. This was fixed sometime in 2009.

See Also

Links

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