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Dr. Seuss – Tech Writer

Here’s an easy game to play. Here’s an easy thing to say. If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port, And the bus is interrupted as a very last resort. And the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort, Then the socket packet pocket has an...

Unix Creationism

In the beginning there was the computer. And God said %Let there be light! #Enter user id. %God #Enter password. %Omniscient #Password incorrect. Try again. %Omnipotent #Password incorrect. Try again. %Technocrat #And God logged on at 12:01:00 AM, Sunday, March 1....

SysOp Favorite Things Song

From alt.sysadmin.recovery Mon Dec 4 22:12:26 1995 Path: sunews!sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk!lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk!warwick!slxsys!plug.news. pipex.net!pipex!dish.news.pipex.net!pipex!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!howland.res...

The Unix Hierarchy

beginner insecure with the concept of a terminal has yet to learn the basics of vi has not figured out how to get a directory still has trouble with typing <RETURN> after each line of input novice knows that `ls’ will produce a directory uses the editor,...

How did the OS Chicken cross the road?

From Dobrica Pavlinusic on Fri, 10 Jan 1997 17:07:53 +0100 (MET)   This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. Send mail to mime@docserver.cac.washington.edu for more...