, X-NEWS: spcvxb alt.folklore.computers: 15228K Relay-Version: VMS News - V6.0-3 14/03/90 VAX/VMS V5.4; site spcvxb.spc.edu T Path: spcvxb.spc.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!uknet!ukc!dcl-cs!gdt!aber!aem" Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers3 Subject: Pink Floyd: (Was: Re: The Ol' Sun Lab ...) / Message-ID: <1991Oct18.123835.27002@aber.ac.uk> ) From: aem@aber.ac.uk (Alec David Muffett)  Date: 18 Oct 91 12:38:35 GMT5 References: <1991Oct10.221235.26822@qucis.queensu.ca> 6 Organization: University College of Wales, Aberystwyth Keywords: ditty, song, Sun
 Lines: 169  _ In article <1991Oct10.221235.26822@qucis.queensu.ca> cordy@qucis.queensu.ca (Jim Cordy) writes: 7 >Here's a little ditty I wrote a few years ago, sung to   G Here's a set of pseudosongs which is the result of several long drunken E nights talking on a bulletin board between London & Aberystwyth (220+  miles apart)... circa 1988.   0                           The Alternative Wall:-  +  Established by:- 	Anarchy, Atropos, White, '  			Roadrunner>>>++>>, & Giant Hogweed.   5                       The Alternative Wall, Part One. 	 Nobody On 	 ---------   # I got keyboard corns on my fingers, ! I got a Ethernet Pad for a brain, ) I got a VDU to prop up my mortal remains.    My programs always fail, I got a strong urge to MAIL  But I got no-one to MAIL to, MAIL to,	 MAIL to..   % Oh, babe, when I send down the phone,  There's still nobody on...  5                       The Alternative Wall, Part Two.    Does anybody here remember DEC?  Remember how the manual  Was useless to me 
 In every way.    UNIX, what has become of you? , Can any other O/S be quite as slow as you...  6                      The Alternative Wall, Part Three.  	 The Trial 	 ---------     Good Morning, ROOT, your honour,= The dump will plainly show the user who now stands before you # Was caught red-handed in the system ) Crudely hacking in a truly vicious nature  This will not do!  CALL THE LOGFILE!   @ "I always said he'd come to no good didn't I, ROOT, your honour,< If they let me have my way I'd have him banned from the VAX! But my hands were tied,  The bleeding hearts and artists  Not to mention the Dave Prices Wouldn't let me throw him off!"   % -- Dedicated to Atropos The Wanderer.   8                         The Alternative Wall, Part Four.   The UNIX Login Software  -----------------------    Is there anybody out there?    (repeat ad nauseam)   8                         The Alternative Wall, Part Five.   One of My Hacks  ---------------  Log onto the system  On that lurid green screen  You'll find there's no response!   Don't look so frightened,  this is just a passing crash,  One of my bad hacks!   Would you like to watch TV,  Well, that's no use to me  I want to watch you squirm As you try to get logged on!   Do you want to call the OPS,! Do you think it's time I stopped?  Why are you running away?   6                        The Alternative Wall, Part Six.  ( Filled Up Spaces / What Shall We Do Now?( ----------------------------------------   What shall we use to trash) The filled up spaces on the archive tape?   & How should I hack and leave no traces,% How shall the system completely fall?   7                       The Alternative Wall, Part Seven.    Uncomfortably Numb ------------------  Hello, is there anybody on here? I'm here but can you see me? Is there anyone at home?$ C'mon now, I hear that MIST is down,- I can ease the pain, maybe bring it up again.   % Relax, I need some information first, 7 Just the basic facts, have you hacked the system Snurt?   ) There is no shell, your call is clearing, * The distant chips smoke on the breadboard,% You are only coming through off pads, 5 Your fingers move but I can't see what you're typing.   $ When I was a child I caught a virus,* My filebase swelled just like two balloons% Now I've got that feeling once again, 6 I can't explai(core dumped), you would not understand, This is not how I am. ! I have become uncomfortably numb.   7                       The Alternative Wall, Part Eight.   
 In a Flash
 ---------- So ya 
 Thought ya
 Might like to  Go to the show$ To feel the thrill of board hacking, That luminescent glow.  ( I've got some bad news for you, sunshine$ OPS not around, 'cos Node 5 is down,0 And they sent us along, they've gone to the bar,( And we're going to find out who you guys Really are.   , Have we got any oppos on the system tonight? Grep 'em up against the wall.  There's one on Bullet, He don't look right to me, Grep him up agaist the wall. That one's called Badger,  And that one's Tyrone,' Who let all this riffraff on their own;  There's one smoking a joint and  Another with sandals?  If I had my way  I'd have all of you shot. N ******************************************************************************5                     The Aberystwyth Student Algorithm  repeat	     begin      if daytime then drink alone (     if nighttime then drink with friends     end  until dead.   6                     The Modified UCL Student Algorithm main ()  {      while (1) drink(); } 