Posted on 02/13/2020 11:30:17 AM PST by ShadowAce
In the Dilbert TV show it was revealed that Wally was the only guy who knew how to make the system behind all systems function.
so naughty
Especially printing.
I fail to see how this is a Linux Sysadmin list!
Anyone who works with and has responsibility for any systems (most especially high availability systems) has exactly the same issues.
It is a standard list...all of them.
you also
Unix is evil. Good parent processes always kill off their children before they die so their children don’t become zombies.
11. All IT staff lie to the users.
I think that most of those ten points apply no matter which OS you are using.
#2 is very true.
Wife and I on the plane, after it landed the stewardess stopped me at the door telling me pilot advised her my company (another airline) had radioed the pilot and requested I call as soon as we landed. Computer problem at the HQ.
Honest to God real.
the key to being a successful sysadmin is always acting annoyed. that way, no one bothers you, and then you can go back to playing xtrek with your other sysadmin buddies on the net.
They have to because of rule #1!
8^)
My brother worked at DEC back in the early days, and they had a VIP customer who had a system failure, and in trying to fix it, seemed to bring in more and more people to go down more and more obscure remediation alleys, until they had a large group of people (including the VIP customer and DEC bigwigs) watching, and when they ran a command, after a long pause, the terminal said “System go bye-bye”.
Some coder somewhere thought they had sense of humor, and probably thought that if they coded that little fun in, that branch would be so obscure nobody would ever get to it (much less the customer) but in front of that important crowd, it popped up on the screen.
Apparently, the VIP customer AND the DEC bigwigs went ballistic, and they got so angry they tracked down the guy who wrote the code and fired him.
LMAO! Someone who is realistic!
never heard that one (but then, i don’t know all the stories). wonder if it was VMS...
I was going to say the same thing
Hah! Spot on. I love it.
If you’ve never heard of the Bastard Operator from Hell you should look it up.
#6 we still have programs in use that were originally written in 1988. Now that’s a legacy!
Of course, you can always disown your children, but sometimes that gets messy. Zombies are the worst.
Linux is user friendly.
It’s just very particular about who its friends are...
Mark
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