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Politically correct Unix
Joab Jackson writes "Funny
page I found on a " Politically Correct Unix.
Examples: "The term `daemons' is a Judeo-Christian pejorative. Such processes will now be known as 'spiritual guides.'"
"There will no longer be a invidious distinction between `dumb' and `smart' terminals. All terminals are equally valuable."
"From now on `rich text' will be more accurately referred to as `exploitive capitalist text.'"
You mighta seen this before, but its fun.
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Actually, following the threads from this post, I realized the thing I had found funniest about it was the followup by Jeff Liebermann, which can be found here:
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http://www.dejanews.com/[ST_rn=qs]/getdoc.xp?AN
Liebermann's solution to the problem of deamons in Unix was this (quoting from his post):
The solution to your problem is not to switch to NT but to
upgrade to a new personal operating system that does not require
the fear of daemons. I recommend Judaism 1.0 which had been
offering an un-advertised competative upgrade for the last
6,000 years. Check your phone directory for the address of
your nearest authorized services center for details.
I haven't read that group in a couple of years, but when I did, Jeff Liebermann was a regular poster who gave very high quality answers to SCO questions.
Also, in the followups there is a description of the origin of the term daemon for 'system background process':
http://www.dejanews.com/[ST_rn=qs]/getdoc.xp?AN
Its a quote from a Unix review column by one of my personal idols, Stan Kelly-Bootle. The term goes back to CTSS.
Cheers
Eric
umm, pardon me for intruding on your happy flamefest, but what are you flaming exactly?
"almost sincere" ?
wtf are you talking about?
I once saw a post in one one of the SCO newsgroups about how daemons were evil, and is every unix full of them. The original looked sincere enough that I didn't really think it was a troll. It of course started a huge flamefest.
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Thanks to DejaNews, I have a link to it:
http://www.dejanews.com/[ST_rn=qs]/getdoc.xp?AN
Enjoy!
Eric
But still funny. BTW, what's with the smut in Debian? I was doing a perfectly innocent install, when it insisted that sex was buggy.
The word "daemon," of course, comes from
ancient Greece and their mythology, not
Christianity. Oh well.
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at http://mitarbeiter.mbi-berlin.de/schade/internet/
you can find some man-pages (or maybe I should say person-pages) for some not so commonly used unix commands. Some of them seem rather useful and some are just amusing
Die.
I particularly got a kick when i was introduced
to the concept that a parent can fork or spawn
a child, and the child daemon then gets killed..
;) its a saturday nite.. what can i say...
( lemme gues... nothing..)
late
Heh, this is lame. People need to relax.
I think George Carlin would have a hay-day with this one.
"Shellshock is now Post-Dramatic Stress Disorder, and stupid people are the 'Intellectually Challenged'."
I can't believe they forgot about the infamous finger! Back in my sysadmin days, I almost got slapped when I innocently told a female co-worker looking for info on another co-worker to just finger her.
Old stuff, but still a little funny. BTW, I once thought it's not *that* funny... Unix IS becoming more politically correct (I hate PCness...) because one thing on the list has become true (and everyone thinks less(1) is better than more(1), grr.)
check out his author posting history on dejanews.
the guy was just ignorant of the whole deal and hyperactive when he posts. ignorance + computer == bloody mess.
dont make it right, dont make it wrong. just the facts of life.
Heh.. this reminds me of the flamefest on the debian-devel list a while back when Bruce Perens was project leader, and deemed 'deity' an unfit name for debian's new package management interface. Apparently he was trying to avoid offending those 'Christian extremists' at Caldera... And, someone did bring up daemon being just as offensive. So, Bruce, in all seriousness said that if he'd been there at the time, he would have tried to get daemons named differently, too. :)
In Linux, daemons should of course be called paenguins. :)
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Hey, what an excellent joke!
Now tell us the one about the lady who
paid $200 for a cookie recipe.
But seriously: old old old. Humor is a charming
addition to the mix, but please have a look
around altavista first.
On the third hand, there's nothing inherently
wrong with old jokes, but maybe collect up a
bunch of them into a quickies post every once
in a while?
And don't forget about SATAN, which has a script to change it's name to SANTA... whatever... maybe GIMP will have to be renamed, lest it offend actual gimps!
a 's/daemon/angel/g' should fix his problems. Er.. his problems on the computer side. I wonder if he is somehow related to the Timecube guy?
now there's an operating system that's completely customizable, and has perhaps millions of years of testing behind it...
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the Gods have a sense of humor,
Never underestimate the power of stupidity
To err is human, to moo bovine
I've never made a "this is nothing new" post before, but here goes:
I first saw this about three or four years ago, and I assume it's been on the net for longer than that. I seem to recall that it was originally titled the "Draft Proposal for System VI Unix", or some such thing, and I gather that it was a spoof on the name "System V Unix" and that it came out at about the same time. It's not new. Of course, this page changed the name and presents it as if it were new, but that's no excuse.
I don't generally object to the articles that get posted on
However, you really need to stop posting every old humor article that someone finds for the first time and thinks it's new. There are a lot of people out there who don't realize that there are a lot of these humor articles that have been floating around for a long time, even if it's "new to you". There are plenty of humor lists and archives (Infoseek "humor") where you can find all these things. They really don't belong here.
David Gould
David Gould
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This may have been stolen from Stan Kelly-Bootle.
Ben "You have your mind on computers, it seems."
Not bad but not all that creative either. I'd like to see a bit more time and it could be very interesting.
Funny is often due to the fact that it has a grain of truth in it and not that its simply -1 * comment.
Happy Mardi Gras!