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 error to report! If your cursor finds a …
Unix Creationism
In the beginning there was the computer. And God said %Let there be light! #Enter user id. %God #Enter password. %Omniscient #Password incorrect. Try again. %Omnipotent #Password incorrect. Try again. %Technocrat #And God logged on at 12:01:00 AM, Sunday, March 1. %Let there be light! #Unrecognizable command. Try again. %Create light #Done %Run heaven and earth #And God created Day …
SysOp Favorite Things Song
From alt.sysadmin.recovery Mon Dec 4 22:12:26 1995 Path: sunews!sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk!lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk!warwick!slxsys!plug.news. pipex.net!pipex!dish.news.pipex.net!pipex!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!howland.res ton.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!news.fido.net!demon!mail2news.d emon.co.uk!imperial.demon.co.uk From: Steve Shipway <steve@imperial.co.uk> Newsgroups: alt.sysadmin.recovery Subject: A song for UseNet Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 16:13:56 GMT Organization: Imperial Business Systems Message-ID: <dipmf9.9oc@imperial.co.uk> References: <47qs23$63m@umbc8.umbc.edu> <phil.95nov24130430@jcsmr.anu.edu.au> richard.817287059@exxilon> <498534$bij@osh1.datasync.com> Summary: more silly sysadmin related songs X-NNTP-Posting-Host: imperial.demon.co.uk X-SMTP-Posting-Host: imperial.demon.co.uk [Mon, 27 Nov 95 18:18:18 GMT] X-SMTP-Posting-Host: post.demon.co.uk [Mon, …
The Unix Hierarchy
beginner insecure with the concept of a terminal has yet to learn the basics of vi has not figured out how to get a directory still has trouble with typing <RETURN> after each line of input novice knows that `ls’ will produce a directory uses the editor, but calls it `vye’ has heard of `C’ but never used it has …
How did the OS Chicken cross the road?
From Dobrica Pavlinusic on Fri, 10 Jan 1997 17:07:53 +0100 (MET) This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. Send mail to mime@docserver.cac.washington.edu for more info. –m-i-m-e-b-o-u-n-d-a-r-y-s-t-r-i-n-g Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-ID: <pine.osf.3.93.970110170512.23183c@barok> How did the chicken cross the road ———————————- NT Chicken: Will cross …
TELNET Coffee Machine
/——————————————————-/ / In real life : Dejan Rogic / / Fakultet organizacije i informatike / / VARAZDIN / / Phone:+385 51 812 278 / / e-mail: drogic@barok.foi.hr / /——————————————————-/ ———- Forwarded message ———- Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 10:55:44 GMT From: Hrvoje Crvelin <crv@efri.hr> To: Dejan Rogic <drogic@barok.foi.hr> Cc: Dragan Popadic <popadic@erc.riteh.hr>, Igor Varljen <igor@efri.hr>, Marina Janko <mjanko@barok.foi.hr>, Ratko Mladenic …
UNIX Support Line
Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny Subject: Unix support hotline, may I help you? From: toad@cellar.UUCP Keywords: unix, chuckle, true The following is original, but it’s by our entire organization (which, for safety’s sake, must remain anonymous). I work at the support hotline for a large company that sells Unix systems. Customer calls are first handled by a group of receptionists, who determine the …
Computer Knowledge
Path: athena.cs.uga.edu!emory!ogicse!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!looking!funny-request From: denelsbe@cs.unc.edu (Kevin Denelsbeck) Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny Subject: Lessons Learned From Comp 4 Keywords: computer, funny Message-ID: [S317.5889@looking.on.ca] Date: 17 Oct 91 10:30:04 GMT Lines: 97 Approved: funny@looking.on.ca I recently finished up teaching Comp 4, the computer literacy course here at UNC, during a compressed summer session. Comp 4 is an introductory class that assumes NO knowledge of computers …
Awesome UNIX chdir program
Path: athena.cs.uga.edu!emory!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uunet.ca!xenitec!looking!funny-request From: baur@mdcbbs.com (Steve Baur) Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny Subject: NEED HELP FAST !!!!!!!!! Keywords: original, computer, smirk Message-ID: [S425.63b1@looking.on.ca] Date: 12 Jul 92 23:30:04 GMT Lines: 58 Approved: funny@clarinet.com This composition is original, although the subject is not. ————————— Cut Here——————————— Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: NEED HELP FAST !!!!!!!!! From: cs245@cs.somewhere.edu (The Unknown Hacker) Date: 7 Apr 92 12:55:45 EDT Organization: …
A Day in the Life of a SysAdmin
from: tfarrell@lynx.dac.neu_dot-edu (Thomas Farrell) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin, alt.sysadmin.recovery subject: Re: I need a job… Date: 4 May 1995 00:29:51 GMT Organization: Northeastern University, Boston, MA. 02115, USA Magneto (magneto@news.epix-dot_net) wrote: : Why do I get the feeling that alot of you guys are sorry you became : Sysadmins? Personaly I would love the job. Or what I’ve seen of it so …