From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jaapna@xs4all.nl (Jaap Akkerhuis) Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2014 23:41:36 +0300 Subject: [TUHS] made up errno contest, at an early USENIX In-Reply-To: <201409271919.s8RJJwPx019024@skeeve.com> References: <201409271919.s8RJJwPx019024@skeeve.com> Message-ID: On Sep 27, 2014, at 22:19, Aharon Robbins wrote: > Hi All. > > This is really gonna stretch the memories. (I may have even asked about > it on this list before.) > > At one of the earlier USENIX conferences that I attended, maybe in > Atlanta, there was a contest to make up humorous new errno values. > The one that won, which I remember to this day was: > > EMISTERED: > A host is a host from coast to coast, > and no-one can talk to host that's close, > unless the host that isn't close > is busy, hung, or dead. Ah, that one. There is even a videa somewhere on which the judges sing this entry to the contest. I forgot who the winner was but having been a judge of the contest (and singing badly) I should have some notes soemewhere. I'm currently not close to my personal archives, so it might take a while before I have an opportunity to look for the details (provided I still have them). jaap > I have quoted this is the gawk doc for many years. > > I'm wondering if there is a way to find out who was the author > of this gem? I'd like to give him/her credit. > > Thanks, > > Arnold > _______________________________________________ > TUHS mailing list > TUHS at minnie.tuhs.org > https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 235 bytes Desc: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail URL: