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First day at work – owned by OpenSolaris

Written by Toomas Römer on September 23, 2009 – 12:41 pm

Two years ago a hidden video was made of the authors of this blog, Real Programmers Use Sign Language. In that video we were talking about the internals of JRebel and most of the time we were discussing using our hands. It was filmed by just placing a camera on one of the shelves in the room.

Two years later when a new developer was about to join our ranks it got me thinking. On the morning of his arrival we placed a video camera in one of the laptop bags opened towards him. We inserted an OpenSolaris Live-CD (was not able to get Plan 9 to boot :( ) to his new PC.

The OS was booted in text mode and a user with his name added so that it would feel warm at ~ home. He was placed in a javarebel folder and a VIM sessions had just ended (in text mode you very often see the old contents of the session). The first 5 minutes at the new office follows.


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18 Comments to “First day at work – owned by OpenSolaris”

  1. toomasr Says:

    How to welcome a new team member, the Open Solaris way, http://bit.ly/6HfGk

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  2. merlisnogene Says:

    Programmeerijate nalja: http://bit.ly/7RGYa (Javarebeli arendajad tegid uuele töötajale tünga. Nunnu.)

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  3. fadilfr Says:

    First Day @ Work PWNAGE Prank | http://bit.ly/6HfGk | LMAO!

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  4. GM Says:

    Epic win.

    “Must not fail on first day”… bwhaha

  5. sander_s Says:

    nice work tom : )

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  6. downgrade Says:

    First day at work – owned by OpenSolaris: Two years later when a new developer was about to join our ranks it go.. http://bit.ly/g7PQ4

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  7. digfish Says:

    Check out First day at work – owned by OpenSolaris @ http://bit.ly/6HfGk

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  8. jfb3 Says:

    Most annoying audio in history of videos.

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  9. toomasr Says:

    I even listen to it while programming :)

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  10. enanoretozon Says:

    must not fail on first day…

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  11. gdebug Says:

    did he have anything interesting/funny to say after he found out?

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  12. SeanJA Says:

    Must not fail on first day http://bit.ly/6HfGk

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  13. Random Says:

    uname -a

  14. tekoppele Says:

    Nice welcome of a new team member http://bit.ly/I1n48 by @toomasr (@niels)

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  15. KhaledEss Says:

    Check out First day at work – owned by OpenSolaris @ http://bit.ly/6HfGk (youtube)

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  16. scottishwildcat Says:

    (Last link should have been http://bit.ly/I1n48 …) #fb

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  17. mburkert Says:

    This is too funny — a new developer is owned by OpenSolaris on his first day at work! http://bit.ly/FSgwf

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  18. Home Based MLM Says:

    I can do cmdline…

    Funny video.

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