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Admin
I apologize for having to correct you, sir - but as anybody can see it should be /var/bus as it is a temporarily served file of computers.
Admin
You've got to love people with business degrees.
Admin
What about him?
Admin
In linux at least, there's no reason you couldn't create a device node in /etc/
Anyway, if they have put a / at the end (/etc/bus/) then it would have been fine... The bus was containing a collection of demo systems of various CONFIGURATIONS. ;-)
Admin
Well, come on, this is Big Blue after all. Their systems don't have a lowly 'bus'. You have to call it a 'channel'.
Just like you have to call their disk drives DASDs.
Admin
OMG, I can't believe you guys are arguing about what directory 'bus' should go into...
Admin
Anonymous wrote: #!/bus/(Insert company name here)
Were the bangbus videos around back then? That would have been a truly monumental W T F!
Admin
To be picky, a buss has wires, a bus has wheels.
On another note. Many years ago I was involved in writing programs for an 8 bit home micro (Spectravideo) that a company was trying to sell. I think the marketing droid didn't quite get the idea of an 8 bit buss / byte or whatever. I don't know what was thinking but one slogan he came up with was "only six bits". Those of us with a bit more knowledge privately called him "six bits" forever after.
Admin
And now the properly formatted reply (I hope):
Were the bangbus videos around back then? That would have been a truly monumental W T F!
This forum software needs a preview feature...
Admin
I think there's a pretty good argument for calling it the /tmp/bus.
Admin
This is news to me... I have NEVER seen or heard etc. pronounced "ex cetera".
Admin
There is one. Enable javascript (at least for TDWTF), and you see a "Preview" tab.
Admin
As I understand it, "/etc/" stands for: Editable Text Configuration
Admin
/sys works even better - it's the system bus!
Thank you, thank you, I'm here all week.
Admin
Have you seen the contents of /etc on RedHat? I think they misunderstood it as "Every Thing Confusing". And, speaking of the latin meaning "and so forth", it wouldn't suprise me if there is some actual Forth in there.
Admin
Actually, there are three "buses" in a origional linux system.
1) /dev/bus
2) /proc/bus
3) /sys/bus (for those kernel version > 2.6 systems)
I think /home/bus can be good, but /sys/bus is also a good one, as that is a transportation system anyway.
Admin
I guess that makes /etc/selinux/modules/{active,previous} a wrong place then...
Admin
Now thats the funniest post i've read so far!! wtg
Admin
He should have known it was a SIGTRAP instead of a SIGBUS. Of course it ended as a SIGABRT after the marketroids started using some nonstandard undocumented SIGUSR1's.
ps: Thank god for SIGTERM limits.
Admin
I suspect you're one of the market droids who tried to cram bus into /etc.
folderent.h anyone?
Admin
For me that was (and still is) one of the most confusing things about UNIX file systems, because my definition of things filed under "etc" is everything that doesn't fit into other categories, but configuration files definitely belong to the category "configuration". I think I will never get behind the mystery of the reason for configuration files *not* being stored under "/config" or "/cfg" or whatever.
Admin
I've always pronounced it like eck-set-urr-uh.
(Am I the only one who notices that ASP programs are monumental WTFs more often than those written in PHP?
Admin
Admin
The real WTF is people who can't stand losing an argument, who rehash the argument again and again, every time declaring victory.
Admin
Re: /tmp/bus
So, the bus is volitile data - once used the bus blows up?
Admin
% make fire
Make: Don't know how to make fire. Stop.
% why not?
No match.
% gotta light?
No match.
% How's my lovemaking?
Unmatched '.
% "How would you rate Bush's incompetence?
Unmatched ".
% [Where is Jimmy Hoffa?
Missing ].
% [Where is my brain?
Missing ].
% ^How did the sex change^ operation go?
Modifier failed.
% ^How did the sex change operation go?
Bad substitute.
% If I had a ( for every $ Congress spent, what would I have?
Too many ('s.
% man: why did you get a divorce?
man:: Too many arguments.
% %blow
%blow: No such job.
% \(-
(-: Command not found.
% sh
$ PATH=pretending! /usr/ucb/which sense
no sense in pretending!
$ mkdir matter; cat >matter
matter: cannot create
% cd /tmp
% touch this; chmod 000 this
% ln -s /usr/bin/touch U
% U this
U: cannot touch this: no write permission
% rm meese-ethics
rm: meese-ethics nonexistent
% cd ~god
Unknown user: god.
% ar m God
ar: God does not exist
% make love
Make: Don't know how to make love. Stop.
% sleep with me
bad character
% ^What is saccharine?
Bad substitute.
% drink bottle: cannot open
opener: not found
% alias alias alias
alias: Too dangerous to alias that.
% cat catfood
cat: cannot open catfood
% cat "food in cans"
cat: can't open food in cans
% nice man woman
No manual entry for woman.
% man p***y
No manual entry for p***y.
% rm God
rm: God nonexistent
% ar r God
ar: creating God
% Unmatched ".
Unmatched ".
% write desert
desert is not logged on.
% man you
No manual entry for you.
% !bluemoon
bluemoon: Event not found.
% scan for "Arnold Schwarzenegger": % cat 'the can of tuna'
cat: cannot open the can of tuna
% rm Quayle-brains
rm: Quayle-brains nonexistent
% cat "door: paws too slippery"
cat: cannot open door: paws too slippery
% look into "my eyes"
look: cannot open my eyes
% lost
lost: not found
% make war
Make: Don't know how to make war. Stop.
% mkdir yellow_pages; cat > yellow_pages
yellow_pages: Is a directory
%touch me
%chmod 000 me
%touch me
touch: cannot touch me: permission denied
% ar x "my love life"
ar: my love life does not exist
% ar x "matey, the treasure"
ar: matey, the tresure does not exist
% talk Gorvachev@Kremlin
talk: Kremlin: Can't figure out network address.
% talk Comrade Khruchev
[Your party is not logged on]
make "bottle open"
make "heads or tails of all this"
make love
make mistake
make sense
man woman
man -kisses dog
% echo
'[q]sa[ln0=aln256%Pln256/snlbx]sb31350717901017685 42287578439snlbxq'|dc
GET A LIFE!
% ping elvis.rice.edu | awk '{print substr($1,1,5), $2, $3}'
elvis is alive
% finger [email protected]
Unknown host
% finger huge-keg-party@big-house
Unknown host
% make ' ' bang ' ' with gun
make: Fatal error: Don't know how to make target ` '
Admin
Is this really worthy of a spot on this site? Students are expected to do a lot of stupid stuff. That is the reason they are students, and don't yet have any experience.
Admin
Yeah, OK... Someone found one of those computer funnies sites. A pile of those are repeats of the same joke with slightly different wording.
I did like the echo one that spits out "GET A LIFE!" though.
Admin
Perhaps he should explain that "etc = editable text configuration" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//etc
Admin
Stick it in "My Computer\Control Panel" and be done with it...
Admin
This joke is old and don't work in most recent UNIX. This under Cygwin:
renan@renan ~$ make fire
make: *** No rule to make target `fire'. Stop.
Captcha: mustache. Like the UNIX gurus have.
Admin
Um, this kind of bus is more than a set of wires. I think there might be an internal combustion engine in there at a minimum, possibly some kind of pneumatic system for absorbing shock.
It does encounter bridges, but rarely does it plug into one.
Admin
This is Unix - it's a directory. Start calling it a folder and people will wonder what other jargon you mangled because 'It's all the same thing, anyway'
Admin
And when they do, there are rarely any survivors. Collision detection failures don't help people in that case either.
Oh no. I could probably go on.
Admin
This is why technology businesses should be run by people who know and use technology.
Admin
Steve should learn to keep his boring Unix warstories in /dev/null .
Admin
I can't help but get the image of a bus driving around with "/dev/bridge" on the side of it...
Admin
/dev/cut is just as dumb as /etc/bus
~ $ which cut /bin/cut
Admin
wtf is up with the newlines in this forum?
Admin
Probably the same idiots who say 'congradulations'
wasn't he the wooden actor in Fast and Furious?
Admin
I was new to Solaris and was looking to configure something. So I did
a grep -r something /etc/*. After a minute the grep still didn't return.
After some headscratching it turned out that /etc contained a symlink to
some device that just feed grep endless data when opened.
But then they're weird anyways. Their real devices are not even in /dev,
but in another directory.
Admin
Or that it stands for "erudite technical content", which is just as accurate - that is, not at all.
Unix's /etc was named after the common abbreviation for et cetera. See for example:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.development.system/msg/66e2aa80872964b6
which quotes a relevant passage from Kernighan & Pike's The Unix Programming Environment. (Note that in traditional Unixes, as K&P describe, /etc contained some binaries, such as /etc/getty; init, the most important user-space process, was also traditionally in /etc. It was never solely for text, nor for configuration files.)
The Wikipedia page you cited doesn't support the bogus, obviously back-formed etymology you provided. (And, of course, citing Wikipedia is the rhetorical equivalent of sticking out your tongue in a boxing match.)
I have to agree with several others that this is a pretty poor WTF. There's nothing about the name "bus" to imply it refers to a device node; there's nothing to stop a user with the proper permissions from creating a device node in /etc; and it was a weak joke in the first place. And in the early 1990s, IBM (if that is indeed the source of this story) was a major player in the Unix market: the RISC System/6000 went GA in 1990 and was very popular, despite IBM's prior poor reputation in the Unix market (thanks to the underperforming PC RT and the firm's hostility toward open systems) and controversies over AIX's idiosyncracies.
And the smallest of the original RS/6000s, the model 320, was a desktop machine. Even the larger 5xx systems were not "refrigerator" sized, unless your unit is a very small refrigerator.
Admin
The real WTF here is that anybody should care what is written on the bus. It's sorta like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. Worrying about Paris Hilton's soul.
Admin
I'm obviouslly too young, ... what company was that came up with this big ideea?
Admin
Followed everywhere by 19 Fiat 600s named /usr/local/share/lib/bus.[...].properties.......