This is one of many jokes and humorous articles I collected, mainly from USENET and similar
sources in the early to mid 1990s. They're really not very interesting nowadays.
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Subject: 101 THINGS YOU DO NOT WANT YOUR SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR TO SAY.
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Here's some Friday humor.
Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437
Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766
UNIX Support OV/VM: BCSC02(CSCHUBER)
ITSD BITNET: CSCHUBER@BCSC02.BITNET
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To: cschuber@uumail.gov.bc.ca (Cy Shubert)
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Cc: pblake@uumail.gov.bc.ca (Peter Blake),
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Hey, this is pretty funny. If your a sysadm.
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>
> 101 THINGS YOU DO NOT WANT YOUR SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR TO SAY.
>
> 1. Uh-oh.....
> 2. Shit!!
> 3. What the hell!?
> 4. Go get your backup tape. (You do have a backup tape?)
> 5. That's SOOOOO bizarre.
> 6. Wow!! Look at this.....
> 7. Hey!! The suns don't do this.
> 8. Terminated??!
> 9. What software license?
> 10. Well, it's doing something.....
> 11. Wow....that seemed fast.....
> 12. I got a better job at Lockheed...
> 13. Management says...
> 14. Sorry, the new equipment didn't get budgetted.
> 15. What do you mean that wasn't a copy?
> 16. It didn't do that a minute ago...
> 17. Where's the GUI on this thing?
> 18. Damn, and I just bought that pop...
> 19. Where's the DIR command?
> 20. The drive ate the tape but that's OK, I brought my screwdriver.
> 21. I cleaned up the root partition and now there's lots of free
> space.
> 22. What's this "any" key I'm supposed to press?
> 23. Do you smell something?
> 24. What's that grinding sound?
> 25. I have never seen it do *that* before...
> 26. I think it should not be doing that...
> 27. I remember the last time I saw it do that...
> 28. You might as well all go home early today ...
> 29. My leave starts tomorrow.
> 30. Ooops.
> 31. Hmm, maybe if I do this...
> 32. "Why is my "rm *.o" taking so long?"
> 33. Hmmm, curious...
> 34. Well, my files were backed up.
> 35. What do you mean you needed that directory?
> 36. What do you mean /home was on that disk? I umounted it!
> 37. Do you really need your home directory to do any work?
> 38. Oracle will be down until 8pm, but you can come back in and finish
> your work when it comes up tonight.
> 39. I didn't think anybody would be doing any work at 2am, so I killed
> your job.
> 40. Yes, I chowned all the files to belong to pvcs. Is that a problem
> to you?
> 41. We're standardizing on AIX.
> 42. Wonder what this command does?
> 43. What did you say your (l)user name was...? ;-)
> 44. You did what to the floppy???
> 45. Sorry, we deleted that package last week...
> 46. NO! Not that button!
> 47. Uh huh......"nu -k $USER".. no problem....sure thing...
> 48. Sorry, we deleted that package last week...
> 49. [looks at workstation] "Say, what version of DOS is this running?"
> 50. Oops! (said in a quiet, almost surprised voice)
> 51. YEEEHA!!! What a CRASH!!!
> 52. What do you mean that could take down the whole network?
> 53. What's this switch for anyways...?
> 54. Tell me again what that '-r' option to rm does
> 55. Say, What does "Superblock Error" mean, anyhow?
> 56. If I knew it wasn't going to work, I would have tested it sooner.
> 57. Was that your directory?
> 58. System coming down in 0 min....
> 59. The backup procedure works fine, but the restore is tricky!
> 60. Hey Fred, did you save that posting about restoring filesystems
> with vi and a toothpick? More importantly, did you print it out?
> 61. OH, SH*T! (as they scrabble at the keyboard for ^c).
> 62. The sprinkler system isn't supposed to leak is it?
> 63. It is only a minor upgrade, the system should be back up in a few
> hours. (This is said on a monday afternoon.)
> 64. I think we can plug just one more thing in to this outlet strip
> with out triping the breaker.
> 65. What is all this I here about static charges destroying computers?
> 66. I found this rabbit program that is supposed to test system
> performance and I have it running now.
> 67. Ummm... Didn't you say you turned it off?
> 68. The network's down, but we're working on it. Come back after
> diner. (Usually said at 2200 the night before thesis deadline...)
> 69. Ooops. Save your work, everyone. FAST!
> 70. Boy, it's a lot easier when you know what you're doing.
> 71. I hate it when that happens.
> 72. And what does it mean 'rm: .o: No such file or directory'?
> 73. Why did it say '/bin/rm: not found'?
> 74. Nobody was using that file /vmunix, were they?
> 75. You can do this patch with the system up...
> 76. What happens to a Hard Disk when you drop it?
> 77. The only copy of Norton Utilities was on THAT disk???
> 78. Well, I've got a backup, but the only copy of the restore program
> was on THAT disk....
> 79. What do mean by "fired"?
> 80. hey, what does mkfs do?
> 81. where did you say those backup tapes were kept?
> 82. ...and if we just swap these two disc controllers like this...
> 83. don't do that, it'll crash the sys........ SHIT
> 84. what's this hash prompt on my terminal mean?
> 85. dd if=/dev/null of=/vmunix
> 86. find /usr2 -name nethack -exec rm -f {};
> 87. now it's funny you should ask that, because I don't know either
> 88. Any more trouble from you and your account gets moved to the 750
> 89. Ooohh, lovely, it runs SVR4
> 90. SMIT makes it all so much easier......
> 91. Can you get VMS for this Sparc thingy?
> 92. I don't care what he says, I'm not having it on my network
> 93. We don't support that. We won't support that.
> 94. ...and after I patched the microcode...
> 95. You've got TECO. What more do you want?
> 96. We prefer not to change the root password, it's an nice easy one
> 97. Just add yourself to the password file and make a directory...
>
>
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> Copyright 1995 by Richard L. Pieri <ratinox@ccs.neu.edu>
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> Last modified: Tue Dec 5 13:03:46 1995
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