Iggy S.B.'s Request for MIT Namespace Entries

Subject: Elemental Athena
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 93 04:46:20 -0500
From: iggysb@athena.mit.edu (Iggy S. B.)
To: netreq@MIT.EDU
Cc: cec@MIT.EDU

Dear Humans,

Happy first day of April!

After snarfing down a tasty dinner of carrots and peas provided by the
guy with the shiny head, I was a little restless in my cramped living
quarters when suddenly a new neuron fired.  What sort of mischief
could I do on the last night of March?  I noticed that the top on my
cage was a little loose; after a little work I managed to get out
of my tank.  I started wondering around the floor, but found very few
people around.  I headed out the door and headed towards the direction
of the setting sun.  I went through a long hallway, but fortunately
there were no roller-bladers around (those men in blue must have been
doing their job).

Well, anyways, it was a little difficult crossing this road, but I got
to this 5 story building where there was a lot of activity.  After taking a
slow elevator ride up to the top floor, I scampered down the hall and
discovered a room full of workstations... but they all had boring
names.  Given the season, I decided I would do all those nerds
a favor and brighten up their day by giving the workstations good
names for at least a day.  I went from workstation to workstation,
setting things up to change automatically.  Fortunately, the nerds
were too busy with their problem sets to notice a green iguana logging
into unused workstations.  I got as many workstations as I could;
those color workstations are pretty popular.  I also went around
adding labels to each of these machines, to reflect the new name.
Boy, my tongue is tired.

So, I am requesting a namespace change, so that NFS lookups and the
like will work without the secret ``-s'' option to attach.  The changes
to hstath.txt are located in /mit/bitbucket/iggysb/hstath.patch.
Could you please include them in the MIT namespace (for at least a
day)?  Maybe you should ask the nice lady who bought me my tank.  I
think she has a sense of humor.

If for some reason you want these changes to go away, you should
create me a home directory in the net cell (/afs/net/user/iggysb), and
the workstations should dehack themselves tomorrow.  If there are any
that do not get cleaned up, I'll volunteer to head out and fix them
myself.  If you think that these names are much cooler than the
current ones, then just let things be, and they'll be made permanent.

Hmmm.  My sleep neuron just fired.  I better get back to my branch.
Don't expect me to be too lively or talkative today;  I've been up late.

 The Iggster

P.S.  Any way I could get a larger tank?

P.P.S.  Can I get moved from Category 3?