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>>>>> On 1 Oct 90 20:22:19 GMT, lowey@herald.usask.ca (Kevin Lowey) said: >> the Borg based their entire >> group consciousness machinery on...UNIX!! No wonder it was so easily >> defeated. > Kevin> Na, MS-DOS has no idea of "group consciousness". MS-DOS is what Kirk used Kevin> to defeat in all those episodes about the computer that took over the planet. Kevin> Kirk: "Your sole purpose is to keep these people healthy and care for them" Kevin> Computer: "Affirmative" Kevin> Kirk: "It is a fact that people need to be challenged if they are going to Kevin> continue to exist" Kevin> Computer: "Affirmative" Kevin> Kirk: "You are providing for all the people's needs" Kevin> Computer: "Affirmative" Kevin> Kirk: "By providing their needs, you are not challenging people" Kevin> Computer: "Affirmative" Kevin> Kirk: "Therefore you are contributing to the demise of these people" Kevin> Computer: " Error, Error, .... Computing ... Solution ... shut down computer" Yeah, yeah, kinda like [aboard enterprise@federation.goodguys.com] Data: The interface will have three phases. Doctor, you monitor the Captain's TTY activity, and Mr. O'Brien, you watch my load factor. I am trying connect to machine....No signifigant access. I am attempting the rlogin command..Still no significant progress. Now for phase three- Telnet--O wow....processing.... Crusher: Sir, the Borg have stopped hacking at the bank of Boston computers... Riker: Well, we seem to have some of thier attention. Riker: Mr. Data report. Data: Captain,I have succesfully tenlneted and am logged in as locutus@borg.com It seems they all are logged in at the same time. Their group consciousness is based on the UNIX operating system of the late 20th century. Commands are issued by the super user from the root and go downward iteritavely to all branches... probably using the -r flag sir. Riker: Very good. Type rm -rf /* Data: I do not have super user access privelages to the root directory sir Riker: Well, try /usr/bin/weapons/weapons.off Data: That directory is protected, as well as are /usr/bin/communications /usr/bin/operations In fact, the ~locutus directory is in a relatively unimportant disk partition. Riker: Very well. Dr. Crusher has informed me that out /usr/bin/virus will not be affective, and we cannot use /usr/weapons/phasers because their mesg is set to `n'. Mr. Crusher, shut the air conditioning off so that our machine burns itself out. Maybe we'll take them with us. wesley: But sir... Riker: Shut up you simple user ! I have the super user password now. You'll do as I say. Worf: Sir, the Borg have all the passwords for the users in /usr20, /usr19 /usr18. They are erasing these partitions and are moving up towards the root !! Riker: Data, your final report ?? Mr. Crusher, eng- Data: Sir, please put self destruct job suspended background, stand by Picard: Restore...restore.. Bev: He wants to restore his lost files.. Data: I do not beleive so. I have an idea. [Suddenly, the Borg stop] Data: Sir, the Borg's /usr/etc/restore/file_lost was a low priority file and public read, write and executable access. I ran it and redirected it to all of their tty devices. Their jobs are all suspended. Riker: Commander Shelby, I want you to rlogin over there and see if the Borg really have been control-z'd (Heh- ZZZ'd, get it ?? ;-) shelby: Sir, it's true, they thought that they lost their files and they are all standing in line at the backup tape drive to restore their accounts. Riker: How long till they figure out to type 'fg' ?? Shelby: Sir, I am not sure, but there has been a dramatic jump in the uptime of the the borg computer. I think all of them trying to restore from tape at once is pushing the load up to 30+...it's bad; an ls command is taking 30 seconds to run,- do you want me to try to kill the processes ?? Data: We should consider the value of thouroughly FTPing everything we can from their machine... Riker: Ahhhhmm...Screw it- logout. Mr Crusher, as soon as they have logged out, unhook connections from FEDNET and set all mesg to `n' Crusher: Aye aye sir. Now the borg computer is show melting down very dramatically... Chips meltings, circuit boards burning, hard disk crashing out of vacuum...etc Riker: We won...Higher disk quotas for everyone :-)

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