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"So," say I, "what is the madness, The state of awful system sadness, That would cause Linux such distress?" After all, the days of yore, from which this re
by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
"So," say I, "what is the madness, The state of awful system sadness,
That would cause Linux such distress?"
After all, the days of yore, from which this reference came before, those days are long since gone.
Yes, the PDP is long since gone, and though it legacy carries on, the once-great HACTRN is no more.
So once again this begs the question, which I ask through my HN session, what did feep upon your console's bell?
--qwertyuiop924 (with apologies to The Great Quux (with apologies to Edgar Allan Poe))
...I have nothing to apologize for.
- ChuckMcM 10y ago...twas qmail's spool space and nothing more.
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoYeah, I don't have qmail, so I don't know it qmail does that, or of it was a console thing.
- syngrog66 10y agothere should be a rule for this: all great & powerful modern emotional things can be reframed to point back to some work of Edgar Allen Poe. whether hacker related or not. the only dependency is the human condition and/or to Shakespeare, etc.
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoThat's true of any author: You can reframe almost anything as a reference to anything, if you try hard enough.