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

[Chris Knowles]

I had no idea that Das Blinkenlights was still wondering around.  It's
kinda fun watching the younger generation try to figure out what these
etchings on the cave walls mean.

I remember seeing these in the terminal labs in the 80's.  Back then all
sorts of computer monitoring was done through actual blinking lights on the
mainframes and minis.  Nowadays the light mainly says "I've got power" and
"I've got link" - and not much else

Used to be lights associated with registers and load and other CPU states.

CJK

On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 12:26 PM, Peter Neilson <neilson at windstream.net>wrote:

> 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<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/<http://schott.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/22/frabjous-mimsy/>
>
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