Humor: Know your System Administrator
Monday, March 17th, 2008I laughed out loud for 5 minutes reading through a joke, called Know Your Sysadmin, harvested from old email archives. It goes on about all the different prototypical administrators through the eons. Here’s my favorite entry:
SITUATION:
Stupid user questions
TECHNICAL THUG:
Answers question in hex, binary, postfix, and/or French until user gives up and goes away.
ADMINISTRATIVE FASCIST:
Locks user’s account until user can present documentation demonstrating their qualification to use the machine.
MANIAC:
# cat > > ~luser/.cshrc alias vi ‘rm \!*;unalias vi;grep -v BoZo ~/.cshrc > ~/.z; mv -f ~/.z ~/.cshrc’ ^D
IDIOT:
Answers all questions to best of his knowledge. Recruits user to system administration team.
Kudos to nixCraft for linking to it!