lordandrei

welcome to the power of unix-based OSes ;)

i had a sudden strange image that i thought i'd share.

SCENE: two guys, sitting in a dark cave of a computer lab. greasy hair, glasses, dorito bags and bottles of Mt. Dew all over the place. a sign in the background says "U Cal Berkeley OS Research Lab", with a smaller one beneath it that says "We put the 'B' in 'BSD'".

[FX: a DOORBELL rings. GEEK 1 looks up from his terminal, then at GEEK 2.]

GEEK 1: See who that is, willya?

GEEK 2: It's probably the soda delivery guy. The fridge is kinda low.

[GEEK 2 walks over to the door and opens it. Outside are standing hundreds of extras, including families, college students, hipster artists types, etc. GEEK 2 stares, blankly, at them for a second. CAMERA cuts back to GEEK 1, still immersed in his terminal.]

GEEK 1: Who is it?

GEEK 2 (off screen): Hundreds of thousands of Apple users.

GEEK 1: What do they want?

[CAMERA cuts back to GEEK 2, standing in the doorway, yelling over his shoulder at GEEK 1.]

GEEK 2: Um, an OS kernel with protected memory and real preemptive multitasking, hundreds of business applications, rock-solid internet server applications, and ridiculous uptime.

[CAMERA cuts back to GEEK 1. He is unfazed; without looking away from the screen, he extends his hand and makes the "come on in" motion.]

[FX: MacOS X logo. "Think different." logo fades in below after a second. After another second, in the same font, fades in "We've got your uptime RIGHT HERE, baby."]

but probably the strangest one you'll see today:

$ telnet twenex.org
Trying 192.94.73.36...
Connected to twenex.org.
Escape character is '^]'.

 KANKAN, PANDA TOPS-20 Monitor 7.1(21733)-4

USE  and ? for help.

TWENEX.ORG
If new, type 'new new' ..

@sayler
Password: 
 Job 7 on TTY44  (TCP) 4-Dec-2004 15:02:10
  Last interactive login 2-Dec-2004 11:00:39
  Last non-interactive login Never
 End of LOGIN.CMD.1
@systat
 Sat 4-Dec-2004 15:02:15  Up 84:26:54
 3+6 Jobs   Load av   0.01   0.02   0.02

 No operator in attendance

 System is remedial

 Job  Line Program  User              Origin
   7*   44  SYSTAT  SAYLER            192.94.73.1(TCP)
   8    21  HTTPD   NCSA
  11   DET  DETACH  SSERVER

   1    13  OPR     OPERATOR
   2   DET  SYSJB1  OPERATOR
   3    14  RESOLV  OPERATOR
   4    15  NETSRV  OPERATOR
   5    16  SMTJFN  OPERATOR
   6    17  MMAILR  OPERATOR
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