Недавно сам купио ручак за мог брата (као и обично) and we ended up talking about funny things that we did at our respective colleges. At my alma mater, Лафајет колеџу, 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.
Две моје омиљене успомене односе се на мог доброг пријатеља, Gabe. He had made the terrible mistake of telling people his freshman year that "I’m a freshman, али имам Соутхмор положај" због разних напредне класе пласман је предузео, итд. Many of us were similarly situated but we didn’t talk about it so much. His senior year, када га је упознао са људима, 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, наравно, да играте игрице.
Ми нисмо као компјутерски беспомоћне инжењера много тако да један од наших омиљених ствари које треба урадити да би се телнет на пољу су били на води и Кс-еие 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, морали сте да преузмете извор, 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, поново изграђен је и затим уништили Габе следећи пут смо играли.
Гејб је такође велики фан ТВ емисији Блаке 7. I had never seen it, али то ме није спречило да инсистира да је др. Who is the superior show. The arguments would get heated at times 🙂
Једног дана, 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, право" was his answer. I then logged in, ушла у његов кориснички ИД, окренуо према њему, откуцана и рекао наглас, "I wonder if it’s B-L-A-K-E-7" ? Touch typing has never paid off as handsomely as it did that day.
Следеће недеље (или ускоро): More computer room antics from college.
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