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Try "bill gates" in Terminal!!
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ablaze
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Jun 3, 2001, 01:41 PM
 
Found this on http://www.macosx.org:

Try typing "bill gates" in the Terminal window...

It is really funny...
     
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Jun 3, 2001, 01:54 PM
 
of course, the same thing happens with any Bill, like Bill Clinton...
     
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Jun 3, 2001, 01:56 PM
 
of course, the same thing happens with any Bill, like Bill Clinton...
     
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Jun 3, 2001, 01:56 PM
 
Ach du schei**e

and I thought they'ld lost their sense of humour
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Jun 4, 2001, 09:18 AM
 
Originally posted by theolein:
<STRONG>Ach du schei**e

and I thought they'ld lost their sense of humour </STRONG>
erm...

Not really humor - just tcsh substituting the closest command for one it doesn't recognize...still pretty funny though

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Jun 5, 2001, 01:10 AM
 
Ha ha ha, that's great!
     
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Jun 5, 2001, 01:13 AM
 
That's nothing.

In DP3, if you pressed Control-Alt-Delete, a window would pop up saying:

THIS ISN'T DOS!

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Jun 5, 2001, 01:18 AM
 
Finally a reason to upgrade to OS X!!

[ 06-05-2001: Message edited by: iSilver ]
     
tie
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Jun 5, 2001, 01:28 AM
 
Try "tan tie" (oh yeah). <font face = "courier">OK? tar tie?</font>

Okay, that's not as funny. Any other good commands to try?
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Jun 5, 2001, 01:42 AM
 
Originally posted by tie:
<STRONG>Any other good commands to try?</STRONG>

"bill gates"
"kill gates"
"make love"

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Jun 5, 2001, 02:30 AM
 
A Classic:

"What's my level at chess?"

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Jun 5, 2001, 09:08 PM
 
Originally posted by ablaze:
<STRONG>Found this on http://www.macosx.org:

Try typing "bill gates" in the Terminal window...

It is really funny... </STRONG>
Yup, that's funny, but so is the rest of the message... I quote:

user% bill gates
OK? kill gates? yes
kill: arguments should be jobs or process id's.

And now that you know the rest of the story.
     
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Jun 5, 2001, 11:46 PM
 
I think I'd read this once before, but it still made me chuckle
Then I tried it myself and got the Jobs thing.
Funny how we're making this so much more than it is, eh?
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Jun 6, 2001, 12:37 AM
 
try "fsck gates"

     
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Jun 7, 2001, 03:50 PM
 
or type in "job kill gates" or job "kills gates"

"ok? jobs kills gates?"

what? equally as humourous...
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Jun 7, 2001, 04:05 PM
 
That's better than the pie in Gates face!

heh!

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