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There was a young man in Japan, whose verses never would scan. He said: - Yes, I know, this is really so, because I always try to get as many words into the last line as I possible can. |
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Here’s an easy game to play. Here’s an easy thing to say.
If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port, and the bus is interrupted as a very last resort, and the adress of the memory makes your floppy disk abort, then the socket packet pocket has an error to report!
If your cursor finds a menu item followed by a dash, and the double-clicking icon puts your window in the trash, and your data is corrupted cause the index doesnt hash, then your situations hopeless and your systems gonna crash!
If the label on the cabel on the table at your house, says the network is connected to the button on the mouse, but your packet want to tunnel on another protocol, thats repeatedly rejected by the printer down the hall, and your screen is all distorted by the side effects of Gauss, so your icons in the windows are as wavy as a souse, then you may as well reboot and go out with a bang, cause as sure as Im a poet the suckers gonna hang!
When the copy of your floppys getting sloppy on the disk, and the microcode instructions cause unnecessary RISC, then you have to flash your memory and youll want to RAM your ROM, quickly turn off the computer and be sure to tell your mom! |
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A computer was something on TV From a science fiction show of note. A window was something you hated to clean And ram was the cousin of a goat. Meg was the name of my girlfriend And gig was a job for the nights Now they all mean different things And that really mega bytes An application was for employment A program was a TV show A cursor used profanity A keyboard was a piano Memory was something that you lost with age A CD was a bank account And if you had a 3 1/2" floppy You hoped nobody found out Compress was something you did to the garbage Not something you did to a file And if you unzipped anything in public You'd be in jail for a while Log on was adding wood to the fire Hard drive was a long trip on the road A mouse pad was where a mouse lived And a backup happened to your commode Cut you did with a pocket knife Paste you did with glue A web was a spider's home And a virus was the flu I guess I'll stick to my pad and paper And the memory in my head I hear nobody's been killed in a computer crash But when it happens they wish they were dead! |
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<>!*''# ^"`$$- !*=@$_ %*<>~#4 &[]../ |{,,SYSTEM HALTED The poem can only be appreciated by reading it aloud, as follows: Waka waka bang splat tick tick hash, Caret quote back-tick dollar dollar dash, Bang splat equal at dollar under-score, Percent splat waka waka tilde number four, Ampersand bracket bracket dot dot slash, Pipe curly-bracket, comma comma CRASH. |
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Du sätter dig ned, blir svag och skral framför en död och kall terminal. Självbevarelsedriften vrålar “FÖRSVINN” men kompilatorn viskar förföriskt “BEGIN...” Straxt är du inne i filernas boning där ingen levande möter försoning från buggarnas sura och beska träsk, eller errorkodernas slemmiga träsk, där syntaxen härskar oinskränkt, klagar på varje tanke du tänkt, på operandernas ordning, på träden och bladen, på semikolonbrist i slutet på raden som gör att allt efter detta går snett. Kompilatorn säger till slut “Låt gå du får några varningar, blott trettiotvå Jag har givit de bästa och klokaste råd, men inget kan troligen rädda din kod. Och se efter åtta millisekunder programpekaren hittar du första blunder. Stacken dumpas, adressen försvinner, swappern slänger ut dig så fort den hinner. Resultatet av detta kan bara bli “Execution terminated abnormally”. Avlusning startar, med cursor i blicken vässar du hjärnan och felsökningstricken, dyker på djupet, i Pascalhavet simmar plaskar runt i trettio timmar. Kravlar sen upp, lycklig på stranden med en nästan godkänd körning i handen. Trött går du hem för att sova helt kort, under tiden raderas filerna bort av en kinesisk hacker med hembyggt modem och en brinnande iver att knäcka system. Så börjar du om, men tiden är kort i morgon vill dom ha sin rapport. Andra gången går det lätt, du har lärt dig mycket och upptäckt att du pallar för trycket. Allt som innan var otäckt och styggt har blivit vackert, rent och snyggt. När morgonen randas sitter du fast din värsta plåga har blivit din last, och hjärnan är bunden men CPU:ns band i de läbbiga länkade listornas land. |
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