Word: unix
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this paper, I examine one of Harvard's tiniest but most socially significant genres of literature: the plan file. To those of you unfamiliar with this academic field, please allow me to explain. When someone fingers your account on the Harvard UNIX server, the screen displays the last time and place that you logged on, as well as an optional message--the plan--that greets whoever is fingering you. Most often, these plan files are either blank or filled with a brief witty saying. It's not uncommon, however, to see plan files that push the very envelope...
SHUTTLEBOY. The Quad-bound will find the "Shuttleboy" Unix function particularly useful. Although originally created by David Malan '99 for his friends, Shuttleboy now allows students campus-wide to view the full shuttle schedule (or customized versions) just by logging on to telnet. Setting up the function for an individual telnet account simply requires one to follow clear on-screen instructions and customizing the program by selecting the desired options. Shuttleboy automatically accounts for special holiday shuttle schedules...
...game that makes Nathans so queasy? "Fake guns can look like real guns," she claims. Not if they're fluorescent-colored and loaded with large sponges. "Simulated stalking looks very much like real stalking," she warns. But real stalking--for Harvard students, at least--is usually done in Unix. Or maybe Nathans is concerned with the concept of "killing." No fear, the game could be modeled after Pforzheimer's game of Gotchal, where students "tag," not "shoot...
...feel that certain aspects of the Unix environment...allow for a lot of private information to be seen by other users," Barber said...
Osterberg agreed, saying, "You can't take the Unix out of Unix...