It’s a nerdy place to live, this northern California region commonly known as Silicon Valley. In 20 minutes of driving around on a Sunday afternoon, I saw the license plates ‘UID ZRO’ and ‘GNU FAN’. For fun, I searched and found a reference to a ‘UID ZRO’ license plate. The post refers to a truck, but it was also written 9 years ago. I guess that’s the kind of vanity plate that one holds onto. However, the blog’s picture depicts the Atlanta, GA skyline. This would imply that there are 2 different geeks in 2 different states that had the same geeky idea for a nerdy license plate.
Then there was the time I saw the Ferrari in this region with the license place ‘TREO’.
And while I’m rambling about geeked-out license plates, I would be remiss if I did not mention once seeing ‘666-FSF’ in my old town. It’s highly likely that this was just a standard issue sequential plate that had an unfortunate number. But there’s also the outside chance that the automobile owner wanted to make a statement about the Free Software Foundation.
That reminds me of my first workplace, a company working with conditional access stuff for PayTV. On the road in front of the company there was regularly a car with license plate MO-SC, which was the name of the ‘cracker’ scene at that time, “Modified Original SmartCard”. But we never met the owner :)
In Brazil license plates are 3 letters and 4 four numbers. If I ever get a car I’ll try to get LZW 1984 =)
A sysadmin at my Uni had ‘C0L1NUX’, just because it had ‘Linux’ in it. I informed him that Colinux was actually a program to run Linux in windows at the time. He said that was OK. :)
Sysadmin friend in the Bay Area has “FSCK” … lucky guy..
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Nerdy. I wonder if he had to explain away and argue over FSCK.