[5464] in Central_America
New quotes for Sun May 29
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Central America)
Sun May 29 02:49:02 1994
Date: Sun, 29 May 1994 02:48:22 -0400
From: Central America <root@charon.MIT.EDU>
To: ca-mtg@charon.MIT.EDU
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therese (Therese):
Don't dream too wild, and shoot for the moon
Don't ride your heart like a balloon
Don't blow away to places unknown
Cause when you finally come knocking, there'll be nobody home
Nobody home
- Heart
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warlord (Derek Atkins):
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 94 19:30:06 EDT
Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny
Organization: The Johns Hopkins University CS Department
From: jelson@condor.cs.jhu.edu (Jeremy Elson)
Subject: FOOTOS -- A Guide to Modern Operating Systems
Keywords: chuckle, computers, original
This was inspired by the recent file making its rounds on the Net describing
how to shoot yourself in the foot in a variety of programming languages.
Now, the madness is extended to operating systems.
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Unix: You shoot yourself in the foot.
DOS: You keep running up against the one-bullet barrier.
MS-Windows: The gun blows up in your hand.
Windows NT: The gun is so huge and unwieldy that you have to keep swapping
it from one hand to the other.
OS/2: The gun and the bullet aren't speaking to each other any more.
Mac Finder: It's easy to shoot yourself in the foot -- just point and shoot.
AIX: You can shoot yourself in the foot with either a .38 or a .45.
IRIX: The Terminator shoots you in the foot. A T-Rex bites your other foot.
SVR4: The gun isn't compatible with your foot.
Minix: You learn how to shoot yourself in the foot with a Saturday
Night Special.
Linux: Generous programmers from around the world all join forces to help
you shoot yourself in the foot for free.
HURD: You'll be able to shoot yourself in the foot Real Soon Now.
VM/CMS: IBM shoots you in the foot.
VMS: \FOOT\ ambiguous: supply more toes.
AMIGA-DOS: The gun works pretty well, except that few people use one and
it's impossible to find bullets.
Mach: The bullets work pretty well, but they don't make guns for it any more.
Cray: You shoot yourself in the foot with an Uzi.
MasPar: You shoot all of your friends' feet simultaneously.
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