The C Days of Y2K

The C Days of Y2K
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Performed at LISA 1999 / Seattle, Washington by sing; sing; halt: Michael J. Bauer, Adam Hirsch, Kit, Phil Kizer, Jon Kuroda, Kendall Libby, Lamont Lucas, Matt Pounsett, and Chad Robinson.

Lyrics:

On the first day of Y2K, my server said to me:

It's January, 1970.
On the second day of Y2K, my server said to me:

/var is full, and it's January, 1970.
On the third day of Y2K, my server said to me:

stale file handle, /var is full, and it's January, 1970.
On the fourth day of Y2K, my server said to me:

hme is down, stale file handle, /var is full, and it's January, 1970.
On the fifth day of Y2K, my server said to me:

no route to host... hme is down, stale file handle, /var is full, and it's January, 1970.
On the sixth day of Y2K, my server said to me:

bad magic number, no route to host... hme is down, stale file handle, /var is full, and it's January, 1970.
On the seventh day of Y2K, my server said to me:

can't open socket, bad magic number, no route to host... hme is down, stale file handle, /var is full, and it's January, 1970.
On the eighth day of Y2K, my server said to me:

panic! double panic!, can't open socket, bad magic number, no route to host... hme is down, stale file handle, /var is full, and it's January, 1970.
On the ninth day of Y2K, my server said to me:

can't fork process, panic! double panic!, can't open socket, bad magic number, no route to host... hme is down, stale file handle, /var is full, and it's January, 1970.
On the A day of Y2K, my server said to me:

out of ttys, can't fork process, panic! double panic!, can't open socket, bad magic number, no route to host... hme is down, stale file handle, /var is full, and it's January, 1970.
On the B day of Y2K, my server said to me:

enter system password, out of ttys, can't fork process, panic! double panic!, can't open socket, bad magic number, no route to host... hme is down, stale file handle, /var is full, and it's January, 1970.
On the C day of Y2K, my server said to me:

ok

enter system password, out of ttys, can't fork process, panic! double panic!, can't open socket, bad magic number, no route to host... hme is down, stale file handle, /var is full, and it's January, 1970.

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• 12
• twelve
• days
• of
• christmas
• unix
• solaris
• y2k
• geek
• sysadmin
• funny
• geeky

[takeda64]

Well first of all everything they sing, matches Solaris operating system. Solaris which was made by Sun Microsystems runs primairly (or it was at that time) on their Sparc machines. Sparc instead of BIOS that we're used to on PC has so called Openboot PROM.

When Openboot PROM is waiting for an user input it displays an "ok" prompt. You'll see it, either if you abort startup sequence, or there's an error. So the joke was that it was so bad, that the system couldn't even boot (e.x. HD died)

[SJGster]

What's "Ok" supposed to mean? Is it some sort of lie by the server?

[takeda64]

I guess I created new thread instead directly responding to you.

[kwackerkit]

OMG. That's us!!!! Hilarious that this is on You Tube.

[takeda64]

I hope you don't mind that I posted it.

It took me quite a while to find it on the web so I thought it would be good to somehow preserve it.

[sleepsong]

I heard about this performance a long while ago from my friend at MIT, after I told him of the song we sang at CMU, "Find the Longest Path." This song is fantastic, even now almost 10 years later. Good job to sing; sing; halt for coming up with such a masterpiece of geekdom. <3

[takeda64]

The one by Dan Barrett?

Nice, our teacher from algorithms class played it to us, it's hillarious :)

[DSplinters]

As a computer scientist with one semester left until I get my Bachelor's, I say, with all of my heart, that this is the best video on youtube.

[webtm14]

I was there at the LISA where this was first performed. The audio matches perfectly with the video, but the video is NOT from the conference.

The second speaker before the song starts is Dan Klein, who then takes part in the song. Not only is he not present in the group, but there are nearly twice as many "singers" on stage as were actually present.

[theboombody]

Weird song. Too weird for me. And I'm a weird guy.

[iconoplasty]

OMG that IS us!!!! I haven't seen this in years!

Thanks for posting it!

[roxannehilton2]

But its still a good video! :) Thanks! peace.

[roxannehilton2]

wrong video. I wanted to see something about the Y2K problem in 1999.