The Pilgrimage

I had this crazy idea, that I could actually make the Church of BSD, a real church.  One dedicated to preaching the values and virtues of BSD UNIX and Linux.  Open Source, and cooperation in development of technology.



What sacred OS place do you worship at?
http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/635bpoll.html

Why the Church of BSD

BSD has been through many Holy Wars and has been called a religion by many people for a long time. Even it's experts are called Guru's , High Priests and Wizards. What BSD programmers do has sometimes been called VooDoo, Alchemy and Black Magic. People who violate our way of doing things are declared Heretics, and publicly flamed! We even have our own official canonical way of doing things and this is in the source code.

The Source code is our Bible.

It seems we are long over due for a formal Church of BSD.

Canonical is an adjective derived from canon. It essentially means "standard", "generally accepted" or "part of the back-story." Canonical in my context means reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality.
This word is usualy used by theologians and canon lawyers to refer to the canons of the Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches, adopted by ecumenical councils.

Hacker Slang - Holy Wars From answers.com
[from Usenet, but may predate it; common] n. flame wars over religious issues. The paper by Danny Cohen that popularized the terms big-endian and little-endian in connection with the LSB-first/MSB-first controversy was entitled On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace. Great holy wars of the past have included ITS vs. Unix, Unix vs. VMS, BSD Unix vs. System V, C vs. Pascal, C vs. FORTRAN, etc. In the year 2003, popular favorites of the day are KDE vs. GNOME, vim vs. elvis, Linux vs. [Free|Net|Open]BSD. Hardy perennials include EMACS vs. VI, my personal computer vs. everyone else's personal computer, ad nauseam. The characteristic that distinguishes holy wars from normal technical disputes is that in a holy war most of the participants spend their time trying to pass off personal value choices and cultural attachments as objective technical evaluations. This happens precisely because in a true holy war, the actual substantive differences between the sides are relatively minor. See also theology.

The Church of BSD: Background

We are not a Satanic Cult Although we may be a cult, this has yet to be determined

One day I was at a restaurant explaining process control to one of my disciples.
I was mentioning how we have to kill the children (child processes) if they become unresponsive. Or we can even set an alarm for the children to kill themselves. That the parent need to wait (wait3) and acknowledge that the child has died or else it will become a zombie. The look of horror the woman sitting across had was unforgettable. I tried to explain it was a computer software thing but it was too late, she fled terrified, probably to call the police or something. I didn't really want to stick around too long to find out.
From: man ps Z Marks a dead process (a ``zombie'').

Hey, you just can't make up shit like this.

Don't forget that you have to Fork to Spawn Children, and the only way to Kill

On another occasion while being filmed doing a live video streaming event with Arthur C. Clarke, The camera filmed me key flying across the keyboard typing "kill 666". Just sort of odd the process ID, I didn't think much of it till It ended up in the final cut of a documentary video made about it.

And what about "chmod 666".

They say when you play a Microsoft CD backwards you can hear satanic messages...but that's nothing, if you play it forward it will install Windows! 
 
And what about Chuck?

 One another occasion a very christian individual was noticing the devil logo, I tried to explain it was a daemon, not demon or devil and didn't have any satanic meaning, again they freaked.

You have to admit, that's sort of a Satanic symbol if you ever saw one, right?

Read more at "What about Chuck".

Happy sysadmin day everyone!

http://sysadminday.com/

>  What about the DBAs? They need something too:

http://www.dbaday.com/

ORA-24123 feature "dbaday" is not yet implemented

24123, 00000, "feature %s is not yet implemented"
// *Cause: An attempt was made to use the specified feature, but the feature is
// not yet implemented.
// *Action: Do not attempt to use the feature.
//