Robin Hood And Friar Tuck

http://www.csd.uwo.ca/staff/magi/personal/humour/Computer_Folklore/Robin%20Hood%20And%20Friar%20Tuck.html

by jacquesm • 13 years ago

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dccoolgai• 13 years ago

Pretty funny story, thanks for sharing. When I used to work desktop support, I ran into a few instances of malware that used this nasty tactic of two or more daemons that restart each other.

unimpressive• 13 years ago

Stories like this pop up on HN over and over, (The same stories.) instead of waiting for reruns, is there some kind of place where they've all been collected? (Sort of like folklore.org)

EDIT: Besides the jargon file(s).

elemeno• 13 years ago

I've got a feeling that I first heard this story in the paperback version of the Jargon File - The New Hacker's Dictionary (3rd Ed). That book alone is a pretty great compendium of stories from the 70s and 80s.

bluesmoon• 13 years ago

The paperback is just a printout of the online (living?) version that esr still maintains.

jacquesm• 13 years ago

catb has some nice ones, for instance:

http://catb.org/jargon/html/magic-story.html

alphakappa• 13 years ago

I have a feeling though that if the two of them did something similar today, they would be looking at some legal action against them.

Wingman4l7• 13 years ago

I was introduced to this story in a computer science class assignment which tasked me with replicating this pair of programs (it ran in Linux). Testing it was a PITA!

dailo10• 13 years ago

I love these types of stories on HN... wish we had more of them.

(And look, no snark in the comments!)

lsiebert• 13 years ago

fun stories? try http://bash.org/?top

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