Tolkien used Linux

[Norman_Graham]

Hi all

I've had Linux for a few months now and I'm beginning to understand why Linux people are so into Lord of the Rings. I mean, BASH is kind of like navigating towards Mordor. You have to use incomprehensible runes and magic sayings to open gates and ward off evil spirits. Depending on what day of the week it is and whether you are carrying elfen charms with you, the runes can mean different things.

If Tolkien had lived a bit longer, he'd have installed Linux.

umount -t ext2 /dev/balrog1 /middleearth/eternal0

Oh, I wish I was back in the Shire!

Norm

[Weedpacket]

Weta Digital (who basically had a hand in every single frame of the three LOTR movies) did the job on a cluster of 200 Linux servers.

[goldbug]

Originally posted by Norman Graham
umount -t ext2 /dev/balrog1 /middleearth/eternal0

Bah! EXT2? Everyone knows that hobbits use a journaled filesystem, like ext3 or reiserfs 😃

[Tracer]

No No...You have it all wrong...

I belive the command is

mount /Arwen

🙂

[Merve]

No one would ever name a mountain after her. 😃

[dalecosp]

Besides, if you're not the superuser, you'll likely get "operation not permitted".... 😉

... and you've got to overcome hordes of orcs, I mean ops, to ascend to the throne...

[drawmack]

that's funny, I named my db server tolkien so I can actually say mount /tolkien

[dalecosp]

Hmm, how 'bout "doom" 😉

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[tekky]

Originally posted by drawmack
that's funny, I named my db server tolkien so I can actually say mount /tolkien

That does sound kinda perverted.... Assuming your a guy of course.... :evilgrin: