X-NEWS: spcvxb alt.folklore.computers: 15213 Relay-Version: VMS News - V6.0-3 14/03/90 VAX/VMS V5.4; site spcvxb.spc.edu Path: spcvxb.spc.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!utgpu!jmason2 Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,alt.folklore.computers,comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: found this the other day Message-ID: <1991Oct18.092745.27456@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> From: jmason2@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Jamie Mason) Date: 18 Oct 91 09:27:45 GMT References: Organization: University of Toronto Computer Services Advisor Lines: 70 Xref: spcvxb talk.bizarre:35031 alt.folklore.computers:15213 comp.unix.wizards:3735 In article ward@math.psu.edu (Bri Bri) writes: >well, i was cleaning up my directory, and i found this thing, which i >sorta wrote this summer. anyway, here it is, dedicated to one of >my "favorite" users of the printer. > >TREEKILLER (adapted from Judas Preist's "Painkiller") >---------- ------------------------------------------ Likewise, I was going through one of my directories Wednesday, and I also found this thing which I sorta wrote this summer. This is dedicated to all those weary Unix hacks who spend their entire waking lives stuffing /dev/tty??'s clist so that processes have something to read. :-) Unix Wizard (Concocted by Jamie Mason to 'Pinball Wizard' by The Who) ----------- Since I first logged in on Unix I sure have had a ball, From SunOS down to Minix I must have hacked 'em all But I ain't seen nothing like him In any terminal hall... That tired, squinting and blind kid Sure makes a mean system call! He sits like a statue, Becomes part of the machine, Feeling all the limits, Catching signals clean. Hacks by intuition The CPU counters fall, That tired, squinting and blind kid Sure makes a mean system call! He a Unix Wizard, I just can't get the gist A Unix wizards Brain's got such a twist How do you think he does it? I don't know! What makes him so good? Ain't got no distractions Don't hear those fire bells Don't see no lights a flashin' Ignores his sense of smell Patches a running kernel Dumps no core at all, That tired, squinting and blind kid Sure makes a mean system call! I thought I was The process table king, But I just handed My root password to him. Even on my favorite box, His hacks can beat my best. His Telnet leads him in, And he just does the rest. He's got crazy Finger servers Never seen him seg-fault... That tired, squinting and blind kid Sure makes a mean system call! --- Jamie ... The Third Sync() Written On Friday, October 18, 1991 at 05:20:42am EDT