The Top 10 surprises that new sysadmin John Ackley found on Keystone


The default root shell isn't /bin/sh, it's /dev/null
When checking out Tom Kelliher's old Netscape cache, he found 200 jpeg's from www.xxx.com
He found that Keystone really isn't BSDI, it's really Linux impersonating BSDI
He took apart Keystone and found a grilled cheese sandwich in place of the Ethernet card
The grilled cheese sandwich was actually faster than the Ethernet card in his own computer
"That damned 10K DOS partition"
All output from Abacus was mysteriously cat'ed to /home1/gollingj/my_secret_file_to_find_the_root_password
The Pentium-90 was really an 6502
He discovered a dynamic .mpeg file that was fed by a Quicktime camera in Dan Hrozencik's office
It's a Commodore VIC-20

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