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I named the gateway that I built for our QA network darkstar. Currently, it runs Oracle Linux, but it's on the 3rd generation now. Everybody at work uses the
by chasil 5y ago
I named the gateway that I built for our QA network darkstar.
Currently, it runs Oracle Linux, but it's on the 3rd generation now.
Everybody at work uses the name, but I'm the only one who knows where it came from, hat tip to Slackware and the Greatful Dead.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-Xic-CHInek https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-Xic-CHInek
I hadn't listened to that in years.
Dark star crashes, pouring its light into ashes.
Reason tatters, the forces tear loose from the axis.
Searchlight casting for faults in the clouds of delusion.
Shall we go, you and I while we can
Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds?
Mirror shatters in formless reflections of matter.
Glass hand dissolving in ice, petal flowers revolving.
Lady in velvet recedes in the nights of good-bye.
Shall we go, you and I while we can
Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds?
- tarkin2 5y agoDarkstar takes me back. I never knew it was from the Grateful Dead either. In the age of personality-less distributions, corporate jargon, it's nice to see random bits of Pat's tastes and personality finding themselves in server rooms around the world.
- chasil 5y agoI am going to slyly put those lyrics on the darkstar web page tomorrow. Maybe somebody will notice someday.