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Did somebody say 'timeless' in the context of tech humor? https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/know.your.sysadmin.en.html https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/know.your.sysa

Did somebody say 'timeless' in the context of tech humor? https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/know.your.sysadmin.en.html https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/know.your.sysadmin.en.html

yjftsjthsd-h 6y ago
That's utterly beautiful. I really lost it at: alias vi 'rm \!*;unalias vi;grep -v BoZo ~/.cshrc > ~/.z; mv -f ~/.z ~/.cshrc' ...which is of course utterly evil:)
- Diederich 6y ago
  Yup; it's packed full of such gems.
- Phrodo_00 6y ago
  I might borrow some of these aliases too. alias rm 'rm -rf \!*' alias hose kill -9 '`ps -augxww | grep \!* | awk \'{print $2}\'`' alias kill 'kill -9 \!* ; kill -9 \!* ; kill -9 \!*' alias renice 'echo Renice\? You must mean kill -9.; kill -9 \!*'
- RobRivera 6y ago
  That's mean
- CobrastanJorji 6y ago
  Lessee, this: 1. Creates an alias named "vi", so that next time the user runs the text editor vi, it will run this script instead. 2. Deletes whatever files the user was planning to edit in vi. 3. Removes this "vi" alias, reverting the behavior to just running vi in the future. 4. Removes every line from the .cshrc which contains the string "BoZo". If you put this in someone's .cshrc file, the next file they attempted to edit with vi would be deleted along with the evidence that anything malicious had been done to you.
haecceity 6y ago
Why is the idiot compressing everything?
- Diederich 6y ago
  'back in the day', storage space was always at a premium. (As was RAM, CPU, ...) UNIX system administrators spent a lot of time thinking about saving space. I suspect the joke is that the idiot just got fixed on that one aspect.
Phlogistique 6y ago
> The IDIOT. Usually a cretin, morphodite, or old COBOL programmer https://www.lexico.com/definition/morphodite https://www.lexico.com/definition/morphodite > Originally: a hermaphrodite; a person having both male and female sex characteristics. In later use also: a homosexual man or woman, especially one overtly manifesting features or attributes regarded as characteristic of the opposite sex; a transvestite. Oh wow, TIL a new homophobic slur :-(
- sterlind 6y ago
  Tbh it doesn't really make sense. Queer/trans people are accused of many things but not COBOL.
- supersandra 6y ago
  FWIW, I emailed the webmaster address for gnu.org, and they thanked me for my report and removed the slur. (I suspect it only snuck in there in the first place because it's obscure enough that nobody recognized it. Or at least I hope so.)
csours 6y ago
Hah, I list my occupation as IT THUG.

Did somebody say 'timeless' in the context of tech humor? https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/know.your.sysadmin.en.html https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/know.your.sysadmin.en.html

yjftsjthsd-h 6y ago

That's utterly beautiful. I really lost it at: alias vi 'rm \!*;unalias vi;grep -v BoZo ~/.cshrc > ~/.z; mv -f ~/.z ~/.cshrc' ...which is of course utterly evil:)

Diederich 6y ago
Yup; it's packed full of such gems.
Phrodo_00 6y ago
I might borrow some of these aliases too. alias rm 'rm -rf \!*' alias hose kill -9 '`ps -augxww | grep \!* | awk \'{print $2}\'`' alias kill 'kill -9 \!* ; kill -9 \!* ; kill -9 \!*' alias renice 'echo Renice\? You must mean kill -9.; kill -9 \!*'
RobRivera 6y ago
That's mean
CobrastanJorji 6y ago
Lessee, this: 1. Creates an alias named "vi", so that next time the user runs the text editor vi, it will run this script instead. 2. Deletes whatever files the user was planning to edit in vi. 3. Removes this "vi" alias, reverting the behavior to just running vi in the future. 4. Removes every line from the .cshrc which contains the string "BoZo". If you put this in someone's .cshrc file, the next file they attempted to edit with vi would be deleted along with the evidence that anything malicious had been done to you.

haecceity 6y ago

Why is the idiot compressing everything?

Diederich 6y ago
'back in the day', storage space was always at a premium. (As was RAM, CPU, ...) UNIX system administrators spent a lot of time thinking about saving space. I suspect the joke is that the idiot just got fixed on that one aspect.

Phlogistique 6y ago

> The IDIOT. Usually a cretin, morphodite, or old COBOL programmer https://www.lexico.com/definition/morphodite https://www.lexico.com/definition/morphodite > Originally: a hermaphrodite; a person having both male and female sex characteristics. In later use also: a homosexual man or woman, especially one overtly manifesting features or attributes regarded as characteristic of the opposite sex; a transvestite. Oh wow, TIL a new homophobic slur :-(

sterlind 6y ago
Tbh it doesn't really make sense. Queer/trans people are accused of many things but not COBOL.
supersandra 6y ago
FWIW, I emailed the webmaster address for gnu.org, and they thanked me for my report and removed the slur. (I suspect it only snuck in there in the first place because it's obscure enough that nobody recognized it. Or at least I hope so.)

csours 6y ago

Hah, I list my occupation as IT THUG.