[svlug] Garden Party - Twenty Year Anniversary of the PC UNIX SIG / SVLUG

[john_re]

I went to a garden party
to reminisce with my old friends
a chance to share old memories
and boot our distros again

When I got to the garden party
they all knew my name
noone recognized me
KDE & GNOME to blame    ;)

CHORUS:
But it's all right now
I learned my lesson well
You see, you can't please everyone
so ya got to please yourself

People came from miles around
everyone was there
Linus brought his penguin chicks
there was a daemon in the air

And over in the corner
much to my surprise
Saint IGNUcius stood in RMS's shoes
selling Free Software for the highest price.

CHORUS

Lat da da Lat en da da ah da

Installfested all them old distros
Bruce put em all in one virtual machine
Minix, Xenix, Microport, SVR3.2
noone had a 286

I said hello to Dan Kionka
he's sure a travelin' man
AT&T, Cupertino library, Carl's Jr, Cisco, Veritas=>Symantec!
It was time for Denny's

CHORUS

Lat da da Lat en da da ah da

John Conover opened up the floppy door
and out popped Johnny BSD Goode
60 floppies to download over a 9600 modem
and working like it should

If you've got to play at garden parties
I wish you a lot a luck
But if memories were all I sang
I'd rather drive a truck

CHORUS

Lat da da Lat en da da ah da

CHORUS


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On Wednesday 07 May 2008 14:55:12 Daniel P. Kionka wrote:
> I don't know if anyone else noticed, but 2 months ago was the 20 year
> anniversary of SVLUG (or the PC UNIX SIG).
>
> I have not been going to many meetings, but this topic is related to
> what I am doing at work, so I will be there tonight.

Daniel,
Thanks for the alert. I'm sending this to the veterans of SVLUG as this
is,
indeed, historic.
See you tonight.

Mark


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What if we have an SVLUG meeting
where we invite everyone who has ever presented at
the PC UNIX SIG, or SVLUG? 
We have them all come up
in chronological order of when they talked
and say just their name,
and the title of their talk.

Next, we'd better heed the words
of the sage Rick Nelson:

'If you've got to play at Garden parties
I wish you a lot a luck
But if memories were all I sang
I'd rather drive a truck'

So, the 2nd half of the meeting should be
a talk on something of current relevance.

;)

Either that, or we wait till next year-
then we could serve SVLUG alcohol.


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http://www.google.com/search?q=Ricky+Nelson

The Creation of the UNIX* Operating System
http://www.bell-labs.com/history/unix/

http://www.google.com/search?q=IGNUcius

http://www.gnu.org/

http://www.kionka.org/

Twenty Years of Berkeley Unix - From AT&T-Owned to Freely
Redistributable 
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/kirkmck.html

Memoir of a Homebrew Computer Club Member - By Bob Lash
http://www.bambi.net/bob/homebrew.html

Homebrew at 30 - The Homebrew Computer Club 30 Year Retrospective
http://www.digibarn.com/history/05-VCF8-HomeBrew30/index.html

http://www.digibarn.com/collections/newsletters/homebrew/index.html

EVERY MAN A GOD - HACKERS; Fifty miles south of Berkeley, Silicon Valley
was beginning to come alive.
http://opencollector.org/history/homebrew/Chapter9.html

Lee Felsenstein
http://www.smartcomputing.com/editorial/dictionary/detail.asp?guid=&searchtype=1&DicID=18007&RefType=Encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix

http://www.svlug.org/about.php

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John Regan

Come and share the software
you'll be free, hackers,