From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 16 16:33:58 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFD1016A4CE for ; Tue, 16 Mar 2004 16:33:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89DCB43D31 for ; Tue, 16 Mar 2004 16:33:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from daleco.biz ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.0); Tue, 16 Mar 2004 18:34:26 -0600 Message-ID: <40579CF2.5050708@daleco.biz> Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 18:33:54 -0600 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040212 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: William Palfreman References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 17 Mar 2004 00:34:27.0015 (UTC) FILETIME=[9A607570:01C40BB7] cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Let it BSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 00:33:58 -0000 William Palfreman wrote: >I had a few minutes spare working the Sunday nightshift, so I wrote a >BSD theme song, "Let it BSD". This is sung to the tune of Lennon & >McCartney's Let It Be, but instead of being about wussy religious and >emotional stuff, it is about important things, i.e. BSD operating systems. >I believe it is original - obviously it's a bit like "Code in C", but not >much like it. And I've not found anything similar with Google. >-Bill. > > >** Let it BSD ** > >When I find myself with system trouble, >Library incompatibilities, >There are words of wisdom, BSD. >And in my hour of darkness, there is one CVS tree >make update in /usr/src and download BSD. > >BSD, BSD, BSD, BSD, >Whispered words of wisdom, >"Just use BSD." > >And for the broken NT servers, leaking kernel memory, >There will be an answer, installing BSD >For though there is GNU Parted, resizing Linux directories, >You only need one disklabel, for running BSD. > >BSD, BSD, BSD, BSD, >Whispered words of wisdom, >"Just use BSD." > >And when the comms room's darkened, LEDs still shine on me, >UPSed until tomorrow, up 2 years on BSD. >I wake up to the sound of servers, with fans humming merrily, >Crunching starry wisdom, with SETI and BSD > >BSD, BSD, BSD yeah BSD >Solaris is no answer, it's not a BSD >BSD, BSD, BSD yeah BSD >Whisper words of wisdom, >"Just use BSD". > > > Kudos, William! It's funny and likeable. I wonder if it'd be more singable if the syllabic structure were a tad more like the archtype; but, that's another issue, unless someone wants to record it. Hmm, throw an MP3 on the web, then see if we could /. it; might be a Good Thing(tm).... Which makes me wonder ... maybe I should fire up the sequencer and give it a go. I've never tried to imitate Paul ;-) Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P.