, X-NEWS: spcvxb alt.folklore.computers: 15213K Relay-Version: VMS News - V6.0-3 14/03/90 VAX/VMS V5.4; site spcvxb.spc.edu 8 Path: spcvxb.spc.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!utgpu!jmason2A Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,alt.folklore.computers,comp.unix.wizards % Subject: Re: found this the other day 9 Message-ID: <1991Oct18.092745.27456@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> 0 From: jmason2@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Jamie Mason) Date: 18 Oct 91 09:27:45 GMT" References: <!v1Hjd453@cs.psu.edu>= Organization: University of Toronto Computer Services Advisor 	 Lines: 70 S Xref: spcvxb talk.bizarre:35031 alt.folklore.computers:15213 comp.unix.wizards:3735   E In article <!v1Hjd453@cs.psu.edu> ward@math.psu.edu (Bri Bri) writes: F >well, i was cleaning up my directory, and i found this thing, which iA >sorta wrote this summer. anyway, here it is, dedicated to one of $ >my "favorite" users of the printer. > 7 >TREEKILLER  (adapted from Judas Preist's "Painkiller") 7 >----------  ------------------------------------------   ? 	Likewise, I was going through one of my directories Wednesday, E and I also found this thing which I sorta wrote this summer.  This is E dedicated to all those weary Unix hacks who spend their entire waking E lives stuffing /dev/tty??'s clist so that processes have something to 
 read.  :-)  F 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()8 Written On  Friday, October 18, 1991  at  05:20:42am EDT