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- The Keyboard Prayer :
- Our Program who art in Memory, Hello by Thy Name. Thy Operating
- System come, Thy Commands be done, at the Printer as it is on the Screen.
- Give us this day of our daily Data, and forgive us our I/O Errors as we
- forgive those whose Logic Circuits are faulty. Lead us not into frustration,
- and deliver us from Power Surges. For Thine is the Algorithm, The Application
- and the Solution, looping for ever and ever.
- Return.
- (I saw this at my professors door here at UND!)
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- Old McDonald had a computer with E/A I/O
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- God is real. Unless declared int.
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- Making files is easy under the UNIX operating system. Therefore, users
- tend to create numerous files using large amounts of file space. It
- has been said that the only standard thing about all UNIX systems is
- the message-of-the-day telling users to clean up their files.
- (System V.2 administrator's guide)
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- Two unicians, A and B, are disputing the number of distinct meanings that
- the period (".") can have in UNIX. A says 38, B says 39. A challenges B
- to enumerate. "Well, first off, a period in a string can indicate the
- end of a sentence..." A immediately says, "Ah, yes, ..39."
- Stan Kelly-Bootle in UNIX Review, Jan 91.
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- Unix: The Operating System that makes you say Hmmm...
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- C: The language that combines the power of Assembly language with the
- flexability of Assembly language.
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- If it doesn't work, change the documentation.
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- Using TSO is like kicking a dead whale up a beach.
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- The Law of Computing: Anything that can go wro
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- A transistor protected by a fast-acting fuse will protect the fuse by blowing
- first.
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- 43.2% of all statistics are completely useless.
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- A famous Lisp Hacker noticed an Undergraduate sitting in front of a
- Xerox 1108, trying to edit a complex Klone network via a browser.
- Wanting to help, the Hacker clicked one of the nodes in the network
- with the mouse, and asked "what do you see?" Very earnestly, the
- Undergraduate replied "I see a cursor." The Hacker then quickly
- pressed the boot toggle at the back of the keyboard, while
- simultaneously hitting the Undergraduate over the head with a thick
- Interlisp Manual. The Undergraduate was then Enlightened.
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- THIS IS YOUR BRAIN.
- ___
- /(()\
- \__\|
-
-
- THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON THE INTERNET.
- ___ +-----+
- /(()\ | VAX |
- \__\|===+_____+
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- Boot me, byte me, debug me!
- (UND CSci department slogan for '91/'92)
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- % Got a light?
- No match.
- %
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- #include "std/disclaimer.h"
- #ifdef FLAME
- #include "private/witty_comeback.h"
- #endif
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- if(you(love_c))
- honk();
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- Make it possible for programmers to write programs in English, and you
- will find that most programmers don't know how to write in English.
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- The computer is mightier than the pen, the sword, and usually, the programmer.
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- "This is an ignore, please test..."
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- Primary rule: all code must be commented
- like: /* Read the f**king code */
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- Q: How many Unix Support staff does it take to screw in a light bulb?
- A: Read the man page!
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- Q: Is there a UNIX FORTRAN optomizer?
- A: Yeah, "rm *.f"
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- Q: How do I send electronic mail?
- A: I'm busy now, please send me e-mail.
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- Q: Why do support staff email messages always end in quotes no one
- understands?
- A: "The way is void"
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- "If it doesn't core dump, ship it!"
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- "Using the words 'idiot' and 'Macintosh' in one sentence is redundant!"
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- "VMS is a text-only adventure game. If you win you can use unix."
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- "I can't figure it out, when it said <HIT ANY KEY>, and I hit <SHIFT>,
- nothing happened. Then I hit <CAPS LOCK>, and still nothing happened!"
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- "The reason that God was able to create the world in seven days is that
- he didn't have to worry about the existing configuration"
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- "Me Tarzan, U-Nix."
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- "There are two ways to write an error-free program.
- Only the third works."
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- "Did you ever mask an NMI?"
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- "Q: How many Unix programmers does it take to screw in a light bulb?"
- "A: RTFM!"
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- "Round and round the while() loop goes;
- Whether it stops," Turing says, "nobody knows."
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- "Can you program in Basic?
- ... Do you admit it?"
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- "Never trust a programmer that carries a screwdriver"
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- "It is not possible to both understand and appreciate Intel CPUs."
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- "Brain fault - core dumped."
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- "How many software engineers does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
- Don't know, that's a hardware problem."
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- Constants aren't
- -- 2-nd Programming postulate of Troutman
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- Variables won't
- -- 3-nd Programming postulate of Troutman
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- Computers are unreliable.
- Humans are worse.
- -- 1-st Law of unreliability of Gilb
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- I haven't lost my mind... It's backed up on disk somewhere.
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- And then God said, "Let there be Unix."
- And Man said, "Lets make copies and sell it."
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- Syntax error on Earth, Reboot Universe (Y/N)?
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