Duela gutxi erosi dut nire anaia bazkaria egiteko (Ohikoa den bezala) and we ended up talking about funny things that we did at our respective colleges. At my alma mater, Lafayette College, the academic support IT department had a very inclusive way about it. We were given a LOT of rope and I took advantage of that at times.
Bi nire oroitzapenak, nire lagun ona erlazionatzeko, Gabe. He had made the terrible mistake of telling people his freshman year that "I’m a freshman, baina Sophomore zutik daukat" Izan ere, hainbat aurreratu placement klaseak hartu zituen, etc. Many of us were similarly situated but we didn’t talk about it so much. His senior year, hura sartu dugu jendea, we’d say "This is Gabe. He’s a Senior, but he has Sophomore standing".
The college had some Sun workstation/servers running X-Window. They had gigantic monitors and the engineers used them for CAD and other boring engineer stuff. We CS people used them to learn programming and, jakina, jokatu.
Guk ez dugu ordenagailuz Babesgabe ingeniari bezala hainbeste gure gogoko gauzak egin behar bat litzateke kutxa gainean ziren telnet izan eta exekutatu X-begi on them. This would pop up a pair of eyes that followed the mouse around on the screen. You could pop up even more and have literally a dozen or more of the X-eye applications running. Try not to laugh out loud when a hapless engineer is trying to close X-eye after X-eye and muttering under his breath about it 🙂
We also played X-trek on those boxes. To do that, iturburua deskargatu nahi izan duzu, get various dependencies wherever you could find them and build it. I wasn’t a sophisticated C programmer, but I could read header files. I was looking through these and found directives like "#DEFINE MAX_TORPEDO_DISTANCE 10". I played around with that increase range and power for phases and torpedoes, berriro eraiki zuten, eta, ondoren, suntsitu Gabe hurrengoan dugu jokatu.
Gabe ere izan zen izeneko TV show bat fan handi bat Blake-en 7. I had never seen it, baina horrek ez zuen eragotzi dit Dr dela azpimarratu tik. Who is the superior show. The arguments would get heated at times 🙂
Egun bat, it occurred to me that I could probably guess his UNIX password. I sat down next to him one day and announced in a loud tone, "I’m going to guess your password right now, Gabe." "Yeah, eskubidea" was his answer. I then logged in, sartu bere erabiltzaile id, aktibatuta zion aurre egiteko, Idatzitako eta esan ozen, "I wonder if it’s B-L-A-K-E-7" ? Touch typing has never paid off as handsomely as it did that day.
Hurrengo astea (edo laster): More computer room antics from college.
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Paul