Comment by ramanan 9 years ago Reminds me of one of my all-time favorites -The 500 mile emailhttps://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html 6 comments ramanan Reply joshvm 9 years ago Don't forget the magic switch:http://catb.org/esr/jargon/html/magic-story.html(Also mildly upset that units on OS X only has 586 units and 56 prefixes, fortunately brew install gnu-units to the rescue!) jedimastert 9 years ago This is my favorite way of explaining why being a sysadmin is hard and requires more than just knowledge of computers. Fnoord 9 years ago Fun read!If you're interested in computer stupidities this website (lynx friendly) is one of my favs: http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/Most of them aren't related to engineering; rather computer helpdesk stories from the previous century. kornish 9 years ago Haha, this was indeed posted with that all-time great in mind. balabaster 9 years ago Seconded... great lesson in sleuthing technical problems.There was another that amused me about the server rebooting in a haunted data center:http://www.greendatacenternews.org/articles/763167/the-haunt... rbolla 9 years ago nice story ,, Feb 8 2008 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=123489
joshvm 9 years ago Don't forget the magic switch:http://catb.org/esr/jargon/html/magic-story.html(Also mildly upset that units on OS X only has 586 units and 56 prefixes, fortunately brew install gnu-units to the rescue!)
jedimastert 9 years ago This is my favorite way of explaining why being a sysadmin is hard and requires more than just knowledge of computers.
Fnoord 9 years ago Fun read!If you're interested in computer stupidities this website (lynx friendly) is one of my favs: http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/Most of them aren't related to engineering; rather computer helpdesk stories from the previous century.
balabaster 9 years ago Seconded... great lesson in sleuthing technical problems.There was another that amused me about the server rebooting in a haunted data center:http://www.greendatacenternews.org/articles/763167/the-haunt...
Don't forget the magic switch:
http://catb.org/esr/jargon/html/magic-story.html
(Also mildly upset that units on OS X only has 586 units and 56 prefixes, fortunately brew install gnu-units to the rescue!)
This is my favorite way of explaining why being a sysadmin is hard and requires more than just knowledge of computers.
Fun read!
If you're interested in computer stupidities this website (lynx friendly) is one of my favs: http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/
Most of them aren't related to engineering; rather computer helpdesk stories from the previous century.
Haha, this was indeed posted with that all-time great in mind.
Seconded... great lesson in sleuthing technical problems.
There was another that amused me about the server rebooting in a haunted data center:
http://www.greendatacenternews.org/articles/763167/the-haunt...
nice story ,, Feb 8 2008 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=123489