Wednesday, September 3, 2008

One finger too many

2nd September
5 AM
3 people in the intel lab
( there was a fourth one but lets leave him alone for a while )
one finger too many

harry: shit yaar mera system hang ho gaya
sanneo: ( looking at his system ) hmmm...
harry: sanneo ... kya karna hai?
sanneo: mera login try kar le
harry: command line?
sanneo: aur kya... ALT+CTRL+F1
harry: tera to chal raha hai
sanneo: mast hai... ab gui chala le ...
harry: kaise
sanneo: huh?? mujhe nahi pata ... ( delves into a man page )
lets see
( tries one option too many )
kya yaar mera system bhi atak gaya
harry: mere system par try kar
sanneo: ok ...
( several attempts and gets the gui to go )
mast ... chal gaya ... dekh
harry: sahiiii...
tere system par mera login bhi ho gaya
ab main apne system par ssh karta hun
( bansal enters scene )
bansal: kaunsa system kiska hai
harry: ( gesturing ) ye sanchit ka tha par ab main login hun kyunki mere par mera login nahi ho raha aur sanchit ka mere par ho raha hai
bansal: ( confused as anyone would be ) to tum ek dusre ke upar kyun baithe ho ??
sanneo: arre yaar par teri files to ispar hai ...
harry: wo to maine ssh kiya hai ... finger karke dekh ...
bansal: kya sanneo tu harry ke system ko finger karega ...
sanneo: huh ?? ( unaware he goes ahead and fingers it )
harry: main to abhi bhi hun wahan ...
logout karke login kar
( 2 min silence while sanneo logs out and logs in )
harry: haan ab finger kar
sanneo: ek minute
harry: finger kar na
sanneo: ye kya ...( something unexpected appears on the screen )
harry: finger kar na ...
( then notices the screen )
kya kar raha hai achche se kar ...
( sanneo gets confused and starts moving about the mouse furtively )
sanneo: huh ?? kya?

( Three people laughing their asses off ... one on the floor ... another on the verge of falling and the third still trying to finger his way in )

( Fourth guy from mcl lab enters )
FG: kya yaar tumhara sab kaam ho gaya kya??

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