One Unix to bind them all
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Niall Murphy either found or made or altered (or all three) this hacker’s variant of the Lord of the Rings poem. He used it as his .sig block, to lyrically express the arcane workings of Unix sysadmins like himself. I decided to make it into a sleek and shiny picture, and this is the result.
I’m still not entirely certain that the plain red text works okay without further meddling (I love the “bind them” and am tempted to make it all like that—but then of course it wouldn’t stand out), but I’ve left it as is. The rest of it works fine; the background directory listing and the ghostly IP addresses give it the feel I wanted.