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Kelley Walker kwalker2 at gte.net
Tue Jul 10 13:08:07 PDT 2001


Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny Subject: "Hotel California" revisited From: barr at pop.psu.edu (David Barr) Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 12:20:06 EST

This is original, written in light of the AT&T-BSDI lawsuit, and the recent trend with Sun towards System V and away from Good Ol' BSD.

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"Berkeley California"

(Sung to the tune "Hotel California" by the Eagles)

In a dark dim machine room

Cool A/C in my hair

Warm smell of silicon

Rising up through the air

Up ahead in the distance

I saw a Solarian(tm) light

My kernel grew heavy, and my disk grew slim

I had to halt(8) for the night

The backup spun in the tape drive

I heard a terminal bell

And I was thinking to myself

This could be BSD or USL

Then they started a lawsuit

And they showed me the way

There were salesmen down the corridor

I thought I heard them say

Welcome to Berkeley California

Such a lovely place

Such a lovely place (backgrounded)

Such a lovely trace(1)

Plenty of jobs at Berkeley California

Any time of year

Any time of year (backgrounded)

You can find one here

You can find one here

Their code was definately twisted

But they've got the stock market trends

They've got a lot of pretty, pretty lawyers

That they call friends

How they dance in the courtroom

See BSDI sweat

Some sue to remember

Some sue to forget

So I called up Kernighan

Please bring me ctime(3)

He said

We haven't had that tm_year since 1969

And still those functions are calling from far away

Wake up Jobs in the middle of the night

Just to hear them say

Welcome to Berkeley California

Such a lovely Place

Such a lovely Place (backgrounded)

Such a lovely trace(1)

They're livin' it up suing Berkeley California

What a nice surprise

What a nice surprise (backgrounded)

Bring your alibies

Windows NT a dreaming

Pink OS on ice

And they said

We are all just prisoners here

Of a marketing device

And in the judges's chambers

They gathered for the feast

They diff(1)'d the source code listings

But they can't kill -9 the beast

Last thing I remember

I was restore(8)'ing | more(1)

I had to find the soft link back to the path I was before

sleep(3) said the pagedaemon

We are programmed to recv(2)

You can swap out any time you like

But you can never leave(1)

[ substitute whirring of disk and tape drives for guitar solo ]

Written by David Barr and Ken Hornstein and a little help from Greg Nagy

and thanks to the lyrics archive at cs.uwp.edu



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