From: Jay Hennigan (jay@xxxxxxxx)
Date: Fri Feb 08 2002 - 18:14:42 GMT-3
On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Church, Chuck wrote:
> I guess programmers just like to put in funny things when they can get away
> with it. Especially if they're leaving the company soon. I imagine sooner
> or later one of us will get a dump with a picture of Eric Cartman, talking
> about his love for Cheesy-Poofs :)
> I remember that NetWare had a funny abend message called (I think)
> "The Richard Kiel Memorial Abend" in version 3.12. They later released a
> patch to change the name. Programmers.....
Many early UNIX manual pages are similar.
man tunefs:
Bugs: This program should work on mounted and active file systems.
Because the superblock is not kept in the buffer cache, the program
will only take effect if it is run on dismounted file systems; if
run on the root file system, the system must be rebooted.
You can tune a file system, but you can't tune a fish.
man reboot:
OPTIONS
-n Avoid the sync(1M) operation. It can be used if a disk or the
processor is on fire.
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