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If You Sat A Monkey Down In Front Of A Keyboard, The First Thing Typed Would Be A UNIX Command.
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If you sat a monkey down in front of a keyboard,
the first thing typed would be a UNIX command.
-- Bill Lye
Related:
pace-cadet keyboard n. A now-legendary device used on MIT LISP machines, which inspired several still-current jargon terms and influenced the design of EMACS.
It was equipped with no fewer than seven shift key...
ecurity through obscurity (alt. `security by obscurity') A term applied by hackers to most OS vendors' favorite way of coping with security holes -- namely
ignoring them, documenting neither any known holes nor the underlying security algorithms, trusting that nobody will find out about them and that people who do find out about them won't exploit them....
DWIM /dwim/ [acronym, `Do What I Mean'] 1. adj. Able to guess, sometimes even correctly, the result intended when bogus input was provided.
2. n. obs. The BBNLISP/INTERLISP function that attempted to accomplish this feat by correcting many of the more common errors....
AFK [MUD] Abbrev. for "Away From Keyboard". Used to notify others that you will be momentarily unavailable online.
eg. "Let's not go kill that frost giant yet, I need to go AFK to make a phone call"....
We have to slow down first! BULLSHIT! Just stop this thing! I order you!
luser /loo'zr/ n. [common] A user; esp. one who is also a loser.
(luser and loser ar pronounced identically.) This word was coined around 1975 at MIT....
luser: /loo'zr/ n. A {user}; esp. one who is also a {loser}.
({luser} and {loser} are pronounced identically....
NT IS UNIX. -- Bill Gate
Examples of the output generated when running commonly typed commands under YODIX, the new Unix-like operating system for Star Wars fans (Submitted by Dave Finton)
# pwd Know you not where you are. Show you I shall....