BAMBOO LOVES THE FAB 5D2!

HDR,like it oughta be.

http://bretdouglas.smugmug.com/Photos/HDR/15766381_jmJ8h#1188993192_xLyQS-O-LB

Anybody wanna guess how I made that one?

 

On your back, from the bottom up.

....and, yes! You used a camera.

 

Annika1980 wrote,on my timestamp of 16/02/2011 3:11 PM:

With a 5D2?

Seriously: it looks great. Well done!

 

Sarah, does your dad know you're on his computer? Miss ya, sweetie.

 

I'll let the enormous stupidity of that remark stand on its own.

 

Ah, you're back. That'll teach ya to leave your computer unattended.
I appreciate the compliment, whoever it was from.

 

I don't leave my computer unattended.

 

I do, but I unplug the wire that goes from the main frame to the modem. When
disconnected from the outside world, it can't be impregnated.......

 

Damn! Bill! What kind of people do you have in Oregon who would
impregnate a computer?
You would think they would use some sort of "protection".

 

Hey, they used to have "hard core"...

 

That reminds me of the early days of computers when DEC had a computer
called the VAX.
As I recall the Operating System was pretty basic ... heck, it might
even have been BASIC.
You'd give it a command and if it was successful the prompt would say,
"Ready" meaning it was ready for the next command. If you typed
something it didn't recognize it would come back with an error message
like "That command cannot be completed" or something similar. You
could abbreviate the commands because it only recognized the first
three letters so SCR meant the Screen command and HEL might mean Help.

Anyway, this one guy I heard about was having a helluva time
communicating with this beast and he got so flustered he started
typing in cuss words. He'd suggest something obscene and the computer
would dutifully reply with, "That command cannot be completed."
Finally, at wit's end, he typed, "Screw you!"

The computer answered, "Ready."

 

Snoorfff! Snicker! Choke!

OK! I can breathe again. Everybody return to your previous positions.

 

Annika1980 wrote,on my timestamp of 19/02/2011 11:39 AM:

Early days?
http://dcl.openvms.org/

Hmmm, you obviously don't recall well. It was one of the most advanced OS's ever.

Urban myth. It said whatever you wanted it to say.
My prompt for a long time was a crocodile in character matrix.

Akshally, SCR was never part or the whole of a command in DCL:
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/83final/9996/9996pro_contents.html

Never get in the way of a good urban myth...

 

With computers, their "sex organs" are very long....ASAMOF, they streatch
all over the world....:^)

 

I remember the DEC VAX'es.....I think it would have been relatively simple
to reprogram it to say, "I beg your pardon!"

 

I like Jay Leno's statement last night about the guy that won an award for
best song with his, "FU". Leno said he is now working on a sequel titled,
"And the horse you rode in on."

 

Well, that part is not urban legend; probably happened just as related.

Reminds me of the mainframe I used as a student back in the
19-ought-80s, a Honeywell DPS-8. Some of the OS code was obviously
written by wisenheimers. I remember writing FORTRAN programs with "GOTO"
statements in them (The horror!). If you named the target of the GOTO
statement "JAIL" (hence "GOTO JAIL" in the program), when you executed
(ran) your program, the output printout would respond with:

Do not pass go. Do not collect $200.

(I guess this is what's technically called an "Easter egg", no?)

 

Hey, I even found an online reference for this:
http://www.sanitarium.net/jokes/getjoke.cgi?63


With the FORTRAN compiler under the CP-V operating system on Xerox
Sigma computers, the program:

10 assign 10 to jail
goto jail

Would elicit the diagnostic:

Go directly to jail. Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200.

 

David Nebenzahl wrote,on my timestamp of 25/02/2011 11:21 AM:

No it didn't. "scr" is not the abbreviation of any recognized command in vms,
it'd never return "Ready".

Yup. In Unix and Linux, there used to be a command called "mt", for "magnetic
tape". Used to do things like rewind tape, forward it one file mark and so on.
If you typed a wrong set of options, like:

"mt -reality"

it'd reply back with:

"Don't grok reality"

(google grok)

 

Well, as The Oldest Member says, "That may not be exactly how it
happened, but that's the way I remember it."