You Know You've Been Hacking Too Long When... ...the Message `New Mail In /usr/spool/mail/foo' Becomes An NMI.

You Know You've Been Hacking Too Long When... ...the Message `New Mail In /usr/spool/mail/foo' Becomes An NMI.

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-- You know you've been hacking too long when...
...the message `New mail in /usr/spool/mail/foo' becomes an NMI.

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You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you get snail mail, and you think to your self "You have new mail on node "your_address" from user "name_on_the_frank".
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you send E-mail and end each line with \n.
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you check your email more often than your paper mail, and you remember your network address faster than your postal one.
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you wonder why you can't just go
leep 28800& and go on with your hacking?...
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...after days with YACC, you start to parse your conversations.
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you ask archie where to find your keys.
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you begin all of your questions with "INPUT.
. ....
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you can remember your ethernet hardware address.
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you count sheep in hex.