[net.poems] sketches from the hacker's notebook

ix222@sdccsu3.UUCP (Steve Serocki) (09/03/83)

	# lil orphant acker

when the day is done and the moon comes out
and you hear the printer whining and the rk's seems to count
when the other desks are empty and their terminals glassy grey
and the load is only 1.6 and you wonder if it'll stay
you must mind the file protections and not snoop around
or the bio bug'll getcha and bring the system down!

once they was a little nerd who loved to read all mail
and then yank back the i-access times to get hackers off his tail
and once as he finished reading from the secretary's spool
he wrote a rude rejection to her boyfriend (how uncool!)
and this as delivermail did work and he ran his backfstat
he heard an awful crackling like rat fritters in hot fat
and hard errors brought the system down 'fore he could even shout
and the bio bug'll bring yours down too, ef you don't watch out!

and once they was a little flake who'd prowl through the uulog
and when he went to his blit that night to play at being god
the ops all heard him holler, and they to the console dashed
but when they did a ps -ut they'd found the system crashed!
oh the wizards adb'd the dumps and did the system trace
and worked on the file system til the disk head was hot paste
but all they ever found was this:  "panic: never doubt"
and the bio bug'll crash your box too, ef you don't watch out!