[TriLUG] apropos or not vis a vis disabling cron jobs 'cause you didn't install them

Peter Neilson neilson at windstream.net
Sat Feb 23 12:26:47 EST 2013


On Sat, 23 Feb 2013 11:58:01 -0500, John Vaughters  
<jvaughters04 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> It makes perfect sense, it says leave the dang computer alone. Just with  
> more detail `,~)

> Google translates your paper as:

(oops)

> It might as well be pig-latin. Still makes no sense :-)

The paper cannot be translated from German, because it is not. It's very  
old. this reference purports to trace it back to 1959:
http://www.langston.com/Fun_People/1996/1996ANQ.html

The fake-German style seems to have been invented by Dave Morrah, a  
long-time contributer to the Saturday Evening Post long before 1959:
http://schott.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/22/frabjous-mimsy/



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