by Thomas Farrell, tfarrell@lynx.dac.neu.eduThe life of a sysadmin goes approximately as follows. 8am: Your pager goes off and wakes you up. The message says it’s the office, and it’s a crisis. You roll out of bed moaning. 8:15am: You are now sufficiently...
Here’s an easy game to play. Here’s an easy thing to say. If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port, And the bus is interrupted as a very last resort. And the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort, Then the socket packet pocket has an...
Some Important Theological Questions are Answered if we think of God as a Computer Programmer. Q: Does God control everything that happens in my life? A: He could, if he used the debugger, but it’s tedious to step through all those variables. Q: Why does God...
by Alan Meiss, ameiss@gn.ecn.purdue.edu Using the Line Printer If your printout does not arrive within 1.2 seconds, immediately take the printer offline and press line feed enough times to place the perforation in the center of all subsequent printouts. Leave the...
by Stephen Harrison and Noel MageeThis is the story of a different kind. No melting CPU’s, no screaming disc drives, just the kind of psychological torture that scars a man for life. I had a 9:00 meeting with my sales rep. I needed to buy an entire new series...
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