You Know You've Been Hacking Too Long When... ...you Look At An Internal Telephone Extension Number 2444 And Immediately Try To Work Out What Permissions It Represents, And Then Wonder Why It's Sgid!

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-- You know you've been hacking too long when...
...you look at an internal telephone extension number 2444 and immediately
try to work out what permissions it represents, and then wonder why it's sgid!

You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you fumble dialing the telephone, and make a stab for the backspace key [and wonder why the numbers aren't coming up on your screen].
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... ...you try to ^Z out of Quattro.
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you open a window to find a phone number in a file, then try to cut & paste it to the phone.
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...your friends who aren't hackers wonder what happened to you.
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you look above the television for a title bar to find out the name of the program you are watching.
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you see a flock of birds and try to figure out the algorithms that determine their movement.
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...your alarm clock goes off, and in your dream you try vainly to figure out what keyboard command to use to turn it off.
You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you make a mathematical proof and try to compile it to test if it is correct.

You Know You've Been Hacking Too Long When... ...you Look At An Internal Telephone Extension Number 2444 And Immediately Try To Work Out What Permissions It Represents, And Then Wonder Why It's Sgid!

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