From news.cis.ohio-state.edu!romig Tue Apr 6 09:41:28 EDT 1993 Article: 5555 of cis.staff.software Path: cis.ohio-state.edu!news.cis.ohio-state.edu!romig From: romig@news.cis.ohio-state.edu (Steve Romig) Newsgroups: cis.staff.software Subject: enjoy... Message-ID: <9303101556.AA05421@brachiosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 10 Mar 93 05:56:39 GMT Organization: The Ohio State University Department of Computer and Information Science Lines: 116 X-Msmail-Conversation-Id: E9A3415D From: Mike Jones To: Bob.Wheeler@ernst.mach.cs.cmu.edu bob@MorningStar.Com carol_peterman@vcd.hp.com conti@tle.enet.dec.com cstevens@jgsm2.gsm.cornell.edu dbo@cs.utah.edu der@usl.com Fil.Alleva@speech2.cs.cmu.edu Gillette.Elvgren@b.gp.cs.cmu.edu GJONES@CSI.compuserve.com jms@ernst.mach.cs.c, mu.edu karl@godiva.nectar.cs.cmu.edu laz@pyrps5.eng.pyramid.com mk3@mach.cs.cmu.edu mrf@formtek.com nawaf@kpc.com rdhogg!trish rick@ivy.isc.com romig@cis.ohio-state.edu sanzi@transarc.com Shapiro@cgi.com sp@gr.osf.org theimer@parc.xerox.com verber@parc.xerox.com wmc@littlei., intel.com@microsoft.com Date: Tue, 9 Mar 93 15:06:19 PST Subject: FW: "Hotel California" revisited ---------- From: Rick Rashid To: Operating Systems Research Group Subject: FW: "Hotel California" revisited Date: Tuesday, March 09, 1993 2:36PM ---------- From: John Mason To: Rick Rashid Subject: FW: "Hotel California" revisited Date: Tuesday, March 09, 1993 2:24PM Came across this 'old' mail, and thought you might find it amusing. *********************************************************** "Berkeley California" (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 definitely 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 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 alibis 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' 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)