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 milestone hanging over me The system crashed
so
suddenly.
I pushed something wrong What it was I could not say.
Now all my data's gone and I long for yesterday-ay-ay-ay.
Yesterday, The need for back-ups seemed so far away.
I knew my data was all here to stay, Now I believe in
yesterday.

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Eleanor Rigby

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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?

Unix Man

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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
goes 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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Write in C ("Let it Be")

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When I find my code in tons of 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.
Try using it for graphics!
Write in C.
If you've just spent nearly 30 hours,
Debugging some assembly, 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.
Write in C, Write in C Write in C, oh, Write in C.
Pascal won't quite cut it.
Write in C.

Something

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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...

[sleep]

Forget that sleeping icon BD'67...I got a chuckle.[:D]