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\fH\s14HACKING SET TO MUSIC\s0\fP
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  Before we all get too intense and humourless about hacking may I offer the
following Edinburgh University undergraduate song for publication. It was
written by my son who is studying computers at Edinburgh, and only privately
circulated among friends in the same line of business.
  EMAS is the main Edinburgh University computer.
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HACKING ON EMAS
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Once a midnight hacker
Sat down at his terminal,
He planned to stay there
Till half-past three,
And he sang as he typed
His program at that terminal,
Who'll come a-hacking on EMAS with me?

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Hacking on EMAS, hacking on EMAS,
Who'll come a-hacking on EMAS with me?
And he sang as he typed
His program at that terminal,
Who'll come a-hacking on EMAS with me?

Up came a data file,
Someone else was working on,
``Great'', said the hacker,
``Software for free'',
And he sang as he stored
That data in his file cache,
Who'll come a-hacking on EMAS with me?

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Hacking on EMAS, . . .
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Up came the engineer,
Brandishing his Winchesters,
Up came the programmers,
One \(em two \(em three.
``Whose is that idea,
You've got in your file cache?
You've been a-hacking on EMAS, I see.''

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Up leapt the hacker,
Typed another program in,
``Just try to stop me now!''
Cried he,
And all across the town,
On half-a-hundred terminals,
``Who'll come a-hacking on EMAS with me?''

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