$ X-NEWS: spcvxb rec.humor.funny: 2371P Relay-Version: VMS News - V6.1B4+SPC1 6/9/92 VAX/VMS V5.5-2; site spcvxb.spc.eduj Path: spcvxb!rutgers!att-out!walter!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uunet.ca!xenitec!looking!funny-request Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny % Subject: "Hotel California" revisited % Message-ID: <S4a6.6dbb@looking.on.ca> # From: barr@pop.psu.edu (David Barr)  Date: 19 Nov 92 17:20:06 GMT$ Keywords: topical, chuckle, original Approved: funny@clarinet.com	 Lines: 91   D This is original, written in light of the AT&T-BSDI lawsuit, and theB recent trend with Sun towards System V and away from Good Ol' BSD.  7 -------------------------------------------------------      "Berkeley California"   3 (Sung to the tune "Hotel California" by the Eagles)     In a dark dim machine room   Cool A/C in my hair  Warm smell of silicon  Rising up through the air  Up ahead in the distance   I saw a Solarian(tm) light ,  My kernel grew heavy, and my disk grew slim  I had to halt(8) for the night "  The backup spun in the tape drive  I heard a terminal bell  And I was thinking to myself   This could be BSD or USL   Then they started a lawsuit  And they showed me the way &  There were salesmen down the corridor  I thought I heard them say     Welcome to Berkeley California   Such a lovely place#  Such a lovely place (backgrounded)   Such a lovely trace(1) &  Plenty of jobs at Berkeley California  Any time of year    Any time of year (backgrounded)  You can find one here  You can find one here  "  Their code was definately twisted(  But they've got the stock market trends,  They've got a lot of pretty, pretty lawyers  That they call friends    How they dance in the courtroom  See BSDI sweat   Some sue to remember   Some sue to forget   So I called up Kernighan   Please bring me ctime(3)   He said'  We haven't had that tm_year since 1969 4  And still those functions are calling from far away(  Wake up Jobs in the middle of the night  Just to hear them say    Welcome to Berkeley California   Such a lovely Place#  Such a lovely Place (backgrounded)   Such a lovely trace(1) /  They're livin' it up suing Berkeley California   What a nice surprise $  What a nice surprise (backgrounded)  Bring your alibies     Windows NT a dreaming  Pink OS on ice   And they said  We are all just prisoners here   Of a marketing device  And in the judges's chambers   They gathered for the feast(  They diff(1)'d the source code listings!  But they can't kill -9 the beast   Last thing I remember  I was restore(8)'ing | more(1) :  I had to find the soft link back to the path I was before  sleep(3) said the pagedaemon   We are programmed to recv(2) #  You can swap out any time you like   But you can never leave(1)   @  [ substitute whirring of disk and tape drives for guitar solo ]  ( Written by David Barr <barr@pop.psu.edu>' and Ken Hornstein <kenh@physci.psu.edu> 2 and a little help from Greg Nagy <nagy@cs.psu.edu>  . and thanks to the lyrics archive at cs.uwp.edu     --O Selected by Maddi Hausmann.  MAIL your joke (jokes ONLY) to funny@clarinet.com. * Sponsored by ClariNet Communications Corp.I If you post instead of mailing, it screws up the reply-address sometimes. J Attribute the joke's source if at all possible.  A Daemon will auto-reply.