From: IN%"KENNEDY@Eisner.DECUS.Org" "Terry Kennedy" 20-JUL-1992 21:44:44.29 To: IN%"terry@spcvxa.spc.edu" CC: Subj: Notefile SHOP_TALK Note 20.7 Return-path: Received: from Eisner.DECUS.Org by spcvxa.spc.edu (PMDF #2329 ) id <01GMM7HH40GW8WW96P@spcvxa.spc.edu>; Mon, 20 Jul 1992 21:44:24 EDT Received: from Eisner.DECUS.Org by Eisner.DECUS.Org (PMDF #2354 ) id <01GMM7HQ46M8000J8T@Eisner.DECUS.Org>; Mon, 20 Jul 1992 21:44:43 -0400 (EDT) Date: 20 Jul 1992 21:44:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Terry Kennedy Subject: Notefile SHOP_TALK Note 20.7 To: terry@spcvxa.spc.edu Message-id: <01GMM7HQ4G9E000J8T@Eisner.DECUS.Org> Organization: Digital Equipment Computer Users Society X-VMS-To: in%"terry@spcvxa.spc.edu" MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT <<< EISNER::DUA3:[NOTES$LIBRARY]SHOP_TALK.NOTE;1 >>> -< SHOP_TALK >- ================================================================================ Note 20.7 Computer Humor 7 of 8 EISNER::HENSON "Steve Henson" 46 lines 20-JUL-1992 15:15 -< The Ten Commandments >- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I've had this for several years now. It was given to me when I had VMS System Management by the instructor. It's dated Sept. 12, 1983 and came from a DEC 20 person. Steve _______________________________________________________________________________ I am the LORD your VAX who brought you out of the land of IBM, out of the land of slavery. 1. You shall have no other computer before me. 2. You shall not make for yourself a false operating system in the form of anything in Berkely, Boston, or Silicon Valley. You shall not bow down or worship fals operating systems; for I the LORD your VAX am a jealous computer, punishing programmers to the third and fourth generations for the sins of the first. 3. You shal not misuse the name of the LORD your VAX, for the LORD will not hold anyone guiltless for violation of copyright. 4. Observe the P. M. day by keeping it holy, as the LORD your VAX has commanded you. six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a P. M. to the LORD your VAX. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your co-workers, nor your employees, nor your disks, nor your printers, or any of your peripherals, nor the visitor at your installation. Remember that you were slaves to IBM, and the LORD your VAX brought you out of there with a mighty CPU and an outstretched terminal line. Therefore the LORD your VAX has commanded you to observe the P. M. day. 5. Honor your disk quota and base priority, as the LORD your VAX has commanded you, so that you may live long and that it may go well with you in the environment the LORD your VAX is giving you. 6. You shall not kill someone else's processes. 7. You shall not mung other people's files. 8. You shall not steal password, software, or data. 9. You shall not send false mail messages about other users. 10. You shall not covet other user's privileges. You shall not set your desire on their disk quotas, base priority, or other system resources.