Јас неодамна го купи ручек за брат ми (како и обично) and we ended up talking about funny things that we did at our respective colleges. At my alma mater, Lafayette College, the academic support IT department had a very inclusive way about it. We were given a LOT of rope and I took advantage of that at times.

Две моите омилени спомени се однесуваат на мојот добар пријател, Gabe. He had made the terrible mistake of telling people his freshman year that "I’m a freshman, но имам Сафомор стоење" се должи на различни напредни поставеност класи пивна, итн. Many of us were similarly situated but we didn’t talk about it so much. His senior year, кога го запозна со луѓе, we’d say "This is Gabe. He’s a Senior, but he has Sophomore standing".

The college had some Sun workstation/servers running X-Window. They had gigantic monitors and the engineers used them for CAD and other boring engineer stuff. We CS people used them to learn programming and, се разбира, да играат игри.

Ние не му се допадна на компјутерски беспомошни инженери да се многу, така еден од нашите омилени нешта да се направи ќе биде да телнет на кутијата тие беа на и да ја стартувате X-око on them. This would pop up a pair of eyes that followed the mouse around on the screen. You could pop up even more and have literally a dozen or more of the X-eye applications running. Обидете се да не се смеете на глас кога несреќен инженер се обидува да затвори Х-око по Х-око и мрмори под неговиот здив за тоа

We also played X-trek on those boxes. Да го направите тоа, ти мораше да го симнете изворниот, get various dependencies wherever you could find them and build it. I wasn’t a sophisticated C programmer, but I could read header files. I was looking through these and found directives like "#DEFINE MAX_TORPEDO_DISTANCE 10". I played around with that increase range and power for phases and torpedoes, повторно изградена него, а потоа уништија Габе следниот пат кога игравме.

Габе исто така беше голем фан на ТВ шоуто Блејк 7. I had never seen it, но тоа не ме спречи да инсистира на тоа дека д-р. Who is the superior show. Аргументите ќе се вжештеа на моменти

Еден ден, it occurred to me that I could probably guess his UNIX password. I sat down next to him one day and announced in a loud tone, "I’m going to guess your password right now, Gabe." "Yeah, право" was his answer. I then logged in, влезе во неговиот корисничко име, се сврте кон него се соочи, напишан и рече гласно, "I wonder if it’s B-L-A-K-E-7" ? Touch typing has never paid off as handsomely as it did that day.

Следна недела (или наскоро): More computer room antics from college.

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