What You Say!! [EXTREME GEEK WARNING]

[vin_petrol]

Fantastic t-shirt seen at The Wendy House. Black, with the following text written in white across it:

chown -R us ./base

I told the bloke wearing it how good it was. Apparently I was the third person to do so :-) And yes, I wish I had thought of it first.

Comments

[fritx.livejournal.com]

Hehe brilliant! Maybe ~/base would be even better though?

[vin_petrol]

Maybe ~/base would be even better though?

Hmmm. I don't think so. That would be all *my* base, wouldn't it?

[steer.livejournal.com]

~you/base?

Of course not all shells expand ~

# find /home/you/ -name base -exec chown us {} \;

[black-marx.livejournal.com]

Don't get it.... I'm not geek enough!!!

[vin_petrol]

That's OK. I'm not sure that understanding this is something to be proud of!

[smorgasbord.livejournal.com]

Damn. I get the joke.

[wibblefish.livejournal.com]

worrying isn't it

[ms-siobhan.livejournal.com]

Its no good - I've only got 'o' level french and very rusty latin so you'll have to explain. Would Andy know what it meant?

[vin_petrol]

There are two things going on here:

1) a reference to a geeky cultural phenomena called "All Your Base Are Belong To Us" which you can read about on wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_your_base_are_belong_to_us

2) A 'humorous' writing of "All Your Base Are Belong To Us" as a Unix command:
chown -R us ./base
(Change ownership of the file or directory "base" in the current working directory to be owned by the user "us". Do it recursively, so if it's a directory *all* of base now belongs to "us". See?)

You have to be pretty geeky to get *both* the above...

[ms-siobhan.livejournal.com]

Ta, it has all become clear.......er.
Hope you have a good lunch and hopefully see you next week.

[elizabeyta.livejournal.com]

I don't know Unix and still had enough of an idea to guess what it was :S

[mofette.livejournal.com]

I understand. damn me!

[evil-girlie666.livejournal.com]

Phew. I understood the Unix bit, but not what the significance of changing the owner of all bases to us was. Obviously I still have SOME degree of un-geekness :-)