I was browsing around my company‘s internal wiki while looking for some teaching aids on teaching the Red Hat RH033 course this week and next. While there, I found this fun little gem (provided by Joseph Hall):
When teaching file permissions, create a directory called ‘base’ and in that directory a number of base? files:
aaron@kratos:~$ mkdir base; cd base
aaron@kratos:~/base$ touch base{1,2,3,4}
aaron@kratos:~/base$ ls -l
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 aaron aaron 0 Nov 4 01:59 base1
-rw-r--r-- 1 aaron aaron 0 Nov 4 01:59 base2
-rw-r--r-- 1 aaron aaron 0 Nov 4 01:59 base3
-rw-r--r-- 1 aaron aaron 0 Nov 4 01:59 base4
aaron@kratos:~/base$ su -
Password:
root@kratos:~# useradd us
root@kratos:~# cd /home/aaron
root@kratos:/home/aaron# chown -R us.us base/
root@kratos:/home/aaron# ls -l base/
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 us us 0 Nov 4 01:59 base1
-rw-r--r-- 1 us us 0 Nov 4 01:59 base2
-rw-r--r-- 1 us us 0 Nov 4 01:59 base3
-rw-r--r-- 1 us us 0 Nov 4 01:59 base4Now that’s pretty good! Anyone who even remotely claims to be a geek better get the reference to that joke.

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XD
Are your base(s) are belong to us
It wasn’t until I saw Artir’s comment that I got it. It’s a bit too subtle — I thought it was something to do with baseball.
groan…
i thought you were going somewhere else, instructive, so i was paying attention.:P
That’s horrible!
That meme stopped being funny years ago. The current one is LOLcats, although they’re starting to lose stock.
Remember kids, obsolete cultural references show your age!
“Remember kids, obsolete cultural references show your age!”
Saborlas I love you, but we’ve only got fourteen hours to save the Earth!
man, I really do roxxorz teh soxxorz
Saborlas, that meme never got old
I still laugh every time I see it or a reference to it. LOLCATS will always be funny too. Thanks for the laugh Aaron!
Yarr. Still a funny joke, made me giggle on teh inside.
LOL
FYI, in Iran, we don’t have bases.
chown user.group works?
Interesting, I always used user:group.
Good to know, and ultimately irrelevant
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FWIW, I got the joke the second I saw the “screenshot”. (By which I mean the ascii duplication output, which doesn’t sound nearly as cool.)
Pfft… funny, I got it. Thanks for the joke. Now to look like an idiot and explain it to my wife.
I still don’t get it
All your base *never* stops being funny. It’s gone beyond old to oldschool, and now is beyond reproach.
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