She Blinded Me With UNIX! (Thomas Dolby parody)
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2025
- mainframe operator makes the mistake of buying UNIX computers, regrets her purchase instantly
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Alright, this song has a whole story to it. I actually winged it, well, the first draft of it. I was driving through town (back home from Taco Bell, no doubt), with my friend in the car, and, this song came on a radio station I had tuned up. I brazenly sang over the actual vocals of the song; the whole time, my friend was dying of laughter. I don't fully remember what I sang, but, I got the gist of it... I then went home, came up with a vocal-free version of the original song (thanks useful program that removes vocals from songs!), and winged it standing in the bathroom with an old mic from the 60s. This was done in one take, as I don't have tons of time to record songs (sadly) so it's got a few slip-ups in timing but I think it's good enough!
The video was made in about 5 minutes, with the help of my roommate to hold the camera while I become frustrated at using a UNIX machine.
Yes, I know I spilled Q-tips on the floor... I was cleaning that old keyboard, got distracted, and literally blew 'em on the floor!
everything shown in the video, in order
1. flipping through old UNIX system ads, though the last one is the cover page of an IRIX 5.3 install manual
2. putting a post-it-note on an Indy R4600, on top of an old AMD K5 PC that's used as a terminal
3. taking the lid off the Indy
4. zooming in on the AUI port on an RS/6000 42T
5. looking at the mini-50-pin SCSI port on a DEC 3000 model 300
6. writing a note declaring the DEC 3000 dead (it's not really dead but oh well, it is for the video's sake!)
7. putting the RS/6000 on the stack
8. looking into the drive bay of the RS6k
9. differential SCSI card for that RS6k
10. FDDI board for that Indy
11. RS6k's control key turned to SERVICE IPL and declaring it "dead" (it works in reality)
12. 4x SCSI CD burner, 42x CD-ROM, 50pin mini-centronics SCSI enclosure
13. HVD SCSI, HVD SCSI, FDDI cards, all for the RS6k
14. close-up of the FDDI card
15. entering the command to boot the Indy (note the SCSI controller is timing out)
16. Indy SCSI controller malfunctioning
17. booting IRIX 5.3 after a few SCSI freakouts
18. typing a program on vi
19. chowning files (that XFS speed!)
20. terminal ERASE key is wrong, showing the infamous ^H annoyance
21. program doing a bad ioctl on a tape drive that doesn't exist, showing the infamous ENOTTY "not a typewriter" error
22. running eXcursion on Windows NT and getting an XDMCP-served login screen from the Indy
23. remote X session on IRIX
24. FTPing into GNU's FTP site
25. declaring IRIX to be "from hell"
Nice machines and cute outfit :)
A computer from hell needs a true BOFH.
I searched for Thomas Dolby and this came up what a Masterpice :D
spotify release when
itunes store release when
Lock in before I tweak outface-blue-wide-eyes
hold up I just thought of the other saying you said once but sorta modified: better clock in before my SCSI controller times out
👀
This is amazing
Green fn