[linux-help] Re: Installing Red Hat 5.1
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On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, D. Shane Robinson wrote:
> Sadly, your's was the most constructive reply. Know where I could get
> a copy cheap? I don't have internet access right now...
Bring me two blank CDs and I'll burn 'em for ya.
Dustin
--
I think that the message is very clear here: somewhere outside of and beyond
our universe is
an operating system, coded up over incalculable spans of time by some kind of
hacker-demiurge.
The cosmic operating system uses a command-line interface. It runs on something
like a
teletype, with lots of noise and heat; punched-out bits flutter down into its
hopper like
drifting stars. The demiurge sits at his teletype, pounding out one command
line after
another, specifying the values of fundamental constants of physics:
universe -G 6.672e-11 -e 1.602e-19 -h 6.626e-34 -protonmass 1.673e-27....
and when he's finished typing out the command line, his right pinky hesitates
above the ENTER
key for an aeon or two, wondering what's going to happen; then down it
comes--and the WHACK
you hear is another Big Bang.
Neal Stephenson - "In the beginning was the command line"
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