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$ rain | wall #.. my favourite thing to do to my colleagues during the end of coding marathons we'd find ourselves in, during the 80's ... on machines that were
by boffinAudio 3y ago
$ rain | wall #.. my favourite thing to do to my colleagues during the end of coding marathons we'd find ourselves in, during the 80's ... on machines that weren't always fortified against the rain .. ;){
- linschn 3y agoI couldn't make talk or wall work on a modern linux system. That's a shame.
- themoonisachees 3y agoJust a few years ago in university the lab computers were running debian 10 and the sysadmin would make announcements about linux-specific infra outages through a script that ssh'd into every machine and wall'd the outage message. We would often get people using lab computers remotely and you could talk or wall them to tell them you were rebooting soon. Good times.
- boffinAudio 3y agoI think the whole idea of using a Linux system as the host for a social network is an idea whose time has definitely come. Disclaimer: Have a "The Wall" account somewhere. What goes around, comes around ..