rws3n@astsun8.astro.virginia.edu (Robert W. Spiker) (10/03/90)
...on Staaaaaaaar Trek: The Next Generation.... Data becomes a hacker... Riker: Data, you've got two minutes to break into the Borg mainframe!! Data: Acknowledged, Captain. big-e# telnet telnet> open borg.big.cube.mil Trying 301.143.45.45 ... Conected to borg422.big.cube.mil. Escape character is '^]'. BorgOS UNIX (borg422.big.cube.mil) login: root Password: login incorrect login: root Password: login incorrect login: locutus Password: Last login: Jun 25 2367 02:45:50 on console BorgOS Release 2.1.1 (BORG422) #422: Dec 12 09:07:30 GMT 2365 Message of the day: Usenet is irrelevant. BIFF is futile. You have mail. borg422% sleep & [1] 1489 borg422% ...Broadcast message at 19:02:34 from root@borg422.big.cube.mil: System shutdown in three minutes... borg422% borg422% logout Connection closed by foreign host. big-e# ....Next week, on an all-new episode of Staaaaaar Trek: The Next Generation! Robert W. Spiker, UVa Dept. of Astronomy +------------------------+ It is truly written that a man has five | rws3n@virginia.edu | times as many fingers as ears, but only | rws3n@virginia (BITNET)| twice as many ears as noses. -- Edited by Brad Templeton. MAIL your jokes (jokes ONLY) to funny@looking.ON.CA Attribute the joke's source if at all possible. A Daemon will auto-reply. Remember: PLEASE spell check and proofread your jokes. You think I have time to hand-correct everybody's postings?
sun@ecf.toronto.edu (Kwan Leung Andy Sun) (10/11/90)
From: rws3n@astsun8.astro.virginia.edu (Robert W. Spiker) >big-e# telnet >telnet> open borg.big.cube.mil >Trying 301.143.45.45 ... >Conected to borg422.big.cube.mil. > ...... >You have mail. >borg422% sleep & >[1] 1489 >borg422% ...Broadcast message at 19:02:34 from root@borg422.big.cube.mil: >System shutdown in three minutes... >borg422% >borg422% logout >Connection closed by foreign host. >big-e# > What is actually happening over in borg422.big.cube.mil: borg422% Usage: sleep time-in-seconds [1] Exit 1 sleep borg422% /usr/etc/fastboot borg422% mail riker@big-e.uss.starfleet.mil < tractor_beam borg422% mail riker@big-e.uss.starfleet.mil < cutter_beam borg422% mail riker@big-e.uss.starfleet.mil < cutter_beam borg422% telnet telnet> open big-e.uss.startfleet.mil network unreachable telnet> ST fans certainly don't like this alternate ending due to Data issuing a command without an argument ... Andy -- Edited by Brad Templeton. MAIL your jokes (jokes ONLY) to funny@looking.ON.CA Attribute the joke's source if at all possible. A Daemon will auto-reply. Jokes ABOUT major current events should be sent to topical@looking.on.ca Anything that is not a joke submission goes to funny-request@looking.on.ca