Daniel O. Escasa wrote: > "two significant products came out of > UC-Berkeley, LSD and Unix. > I suspect there is a connection." > >Well, there _is_ serious research work going on about >the hallucinogenic capabilities of LSD and the productivity >of the human mind while having such hallucinations.
>:) -- >Paolo Why does this urban legend keep being perpetrated> I thought the post I made several months ago would put it to rest! Is it just because it sounds good? It's wrong, folks, pure and simple. LSD WAS NOT DISCOVERED AT UC BERKELEY! For the benefit of those who came in late, my original post: On 2001.08.08 17:15 Federico Sevilla III wrote: > On Wed, 8 Aug 2001 at 14:53, Allan Garcia wrote: > > any ideas on how can i recover a root password on a Freebsd 4.3 linux? > > FreeBSD is _NOT_ Linux. It's a BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution). :) > > --> Jijo > > PS- There are two things that came out of Berkeley: LSD and BSD. Hmmm ... > are you smelling what I'm smelling? (no, that wasn't me) ;> Huh. AFAIK, LSD (Lysergic Acid Diethylamide) was discovered in Switzerland by Albert Hoffman, whilst working for the Sandoz Chemical (a large pharmaceutical that has now merged with Ciba-Geigy to form Novartis). Tim Leary, the main US advocate for LSD taking in the '60s is from Harvard. And the Beatles, who sang "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" (LSD, get it) are from Liverpool, England. While Berkeley was the centre of the "Flower Power" movement in the '60s, and a lot of LSD was taken there, so were a lot of other psychotropic substances (cannabis, heroin, quaaludes, etc). So it would be historically inaacurate to say that LSD came from Berkeley... unlike BSD, which did. A quick glance at the Berkeley Website shows some of the things that DID come out of UC Berkeley (aside from BSD) "In the 1930s research on campus burgeoned in nuclear physics, chemistry, and biology, leading to the development of the first cyclotron by Ernest O. Lawrence, the isolation of the human polio virus, and the discovery of all the artificial elements heavier than uranium. Sixteen members of the Berkeley faculty have been awarded Nobel Prizes for these and subsequent discoveries, as well as in literature and economics, for liberal arts kept pace with physical sciences. " Cito "stickler for historical accuracy" Maramba Google the web. Prove me wrong. I dare you. _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
