Berkeley California - http://www.pressanykey.com/humor/berkeleysong.html

Sung to the tune "Hotel California" by the Eagles 


In a dark dim machine room 
Cool A/C in my hair 
Warm smell of silicon 
Rising up through the air 
Up ahead in the distance 
I saw a Solarian(tm) light 
My kernel grew heavy, and my disk grew slim 
I had to halt(8) for the night 
The backup spun in the tape drive 
I heard a terminal bell 
And I was thinking to myself 
This could be BSD or USL 
Then they started a lawsuit 
And they showed me the way 
There were salesmen down the corridor 
I thought I heard them say 

Welcome to Berkeley California 
Such a lovely place 
Such a lovely place (backgrounded) 
Such a lovely trace(1) 
Plenty of jobs at Berkeley California 
Any time of year 
Any time of year (backgrounded) 
You can find one here 
You can find one here 

Their code was definately twisted 
But they've got the stock market trends 
They've got a lot of pretty, pretty lawyers 
That they call friends 
How they dance in the courtroom 
See BSDI sweat 
Some sue to remember 
Some sue to forget 
So I called up Kernighan 
Please bring me ctime(3) 
He said 
We haven't had that tm_year since 1969 
And still those functions are calling from far away 
Wake up Jobs in the middle of the night 
Just to hear them say 

Welcome to Berkeley California 
Such a lovely Place 
Such a lovely Place (backgrounded) 
Such a lovely trace(1) 
They're livin' it up suing Berkeley California 
What a nice surprise 
What a nice surprise (backgrounded) 
Bring your alibies 

Windows NT a dreaming 
Pink OS on ice 
And they said 
We are all just prisoners here 
Of a marketing device 
And in the judges's chambers 
They gathered for the feast 
They diff(1)'d the source code listings 
But they can't kill -9 the beast 
Last thing I remember 
I was restore(8)'ing | more(1) 
I had to find the soft link back to the path I was before 
sleep(3) said the pagedaemon 
We are programmed to recv(2) 
You can swap out any time you like 
But you can never leave(1) 

[ substitute whirring of disk and tape drives for guitar solo
] 

Written by David Barr 
and Ken Hornstein 
and a little help from Greg Nagy