If the Beatles were computer geeks.

[HerrFlick]

"Yesterday"
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Yesterday,
All those backups seemed a waste of pay.
Now my database has gone away.
Oh I believe in yesterday.

Suddenly,
There's not half the files there used to be,
And there's a millstone hanging over me
The system crashed so suddenly.

I pushed...something wrong What-it-was...
I could not say.
Now-all my data-is-gone and I long.....
for yester-day-ay-ay-ay.

Yesterday,
The need for back-ups seemed so far away.
I thought my data was all here to stay,
Now I believe in yesterday.

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"Eleanor Rigby"

Eleanor Rigby
Sits at the keyboard
And waits for a line on the screen

Lives in a dream
Waits for a signal

Finding some code
That will make the machine do some more.
What is it for?

All the lonely users, where do they all come from?
All the lonely users, why does it take so long?

Guru MacKenzie
Typing the lines of a program that no one will run;
Isn't it fun?

Look at him working,
Munching some chips as he waits for the code to compile;
It takes a while...

All the lonely users, where do they all come from?
All the lonely users, why does it take so long?

Eleanor Rigby
Crashes the system and loses 6 hours of work;
Feels like a jerk.
Guru MacKenzie
Wiping the crumbs off the keys as he types in the code;
Nothing will load.

All the lonely users, where do they all come from?
All the lonely users, why does it take so long?

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"Unix Man"

He's a real UNIX Man
Sitting in his UNIX LAN
Making all his UNIX plans
For nobody.

Knows the blocksize from du(1)
Cares not where /dev/null is going to
Isn't he a bit like you
And me?

UNIX Man, please listen(2)
My lpd(8) is missin'
UNIX Man
The wo-o-o-orld is at(1) your command.

He's as wise as he can be
Uses lex and yacc and C
UNIX Man, can you help me At all?

UNIX Man, don't worry
Test with time(1), don't hurry UNIX Man
The new kernel boots, just like you had planned.

He's a real UNIX Man Sitting in his UNIX LAN
Making all his UNIX .plans For nobody ...
Making all his UNIX .plans For nobody.

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"Something"

Something in the way it fails,
Defies the algorithm's logic!
Something in the way it coredumps...

I don't want to leave it now
I'll fix this problem somehow

Somewhere in the memory I know,
A pointer's got to be corrupted.
Stepping in the debugger will show me...

I don't want to leave it now
I'm too close to leave it now

You're asking me can this code go?
I don't know, I don't know...
What sequence causes it to blow?
I don't know, I don't know...

Something in the initializing code?
And all I have to do is think of it!
Something in the listing will show me...
I don't want to leave it now
I'll fix this tonight I vow!

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Write in C ("Let it Be")

('C' is a language)

When my code is in deep trouble,
Friends and colleagues come to me,
Speaking words of wisdom:
"Write in C."

As the deadline fast approaches,
And bugs are all that I can see,
Somewhere someone whispers:
"Write in C....."

Write in C, Write in C,
Write in C, oh, Write in C.
LOGO's dead and buried,
Write in C.

I used to write a lot of FORTRAN,
For science it worked flawlessly.
Now try using it for graphics!
Write in C.

If you've spent some 30 hours,
De-bugging your assem.b.l.y,
Soon you will be glad to
Write in C.


Write in C, Write in C,
Write in C, yeah, Write in C.
BASIC's not the answer.
Write in C.
Oh Write in C.

Write in C, Write in C
Write in C, oh, Write in C.
And-when Pascal won't-just quite cut-it,
Write in C ... Oh Write in C.

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[el-nicko]

My brain hurts.

[das bike u1100s]

My brain hurts.

Try the Fool on the hill

[el-nicko]

My brain hurts.

Try the Fool on the hill

(Number) 9 danke.