TOP 84 Things you don't want to hear from your system administrator
1. Uh-oh...
2. Oh S***!
3. What the heck?!?
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...
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 Coke...
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.
25. I have never seen it do THAT before...
26. I don't think it should be doing that...
28. You might as well all go home early today...
29. My leave starts tomorrow.
30. Oops! (said in a quiet, almost surprised voice)
31. Hmm, maybe if I do this...
32. Why is my "rm -r *" taking so long?"
33. Hmmm, curious...
34. Well, MY files were backed up.
45. NO!!! Not THAT button!!!
46. [looks at workstation] "Say, what version of DOS is this thing
running?"
47. YEEEHAA!!! What a CRASH!!!
48. What do you mean that could take down the whole network?
49. What's this switch for anyways?
51. Say, what does "Superblock Error" mean, anyhow?
54. System coming down in 0 minutes...
55. The backup procedure works fine, but the restore is tricky!
56. Hey Fred, did you save that posting about restoring filesystems with
vi and a toothpick? More importantly, did you print it out?
58. It is only a minor upgrade, the system should be back up in a few
hours. (This said on a Monday afternoon.)
59. I think we can plug just one more thing in to this outlet strip
without tripping the breaker.
61. I found this rabbit program that is supposed to test system
performance and I have it running now.
63. The network's down, but we're working on it. Come back after
dinner. (Usually said at 2200 the night before thesis deadline.)
64. Oops! Save your work, everyone! FAST!!!
65. Boy, it's a lot easier when you know what you're doing.
66. I hate it when that happens.
67. Why did it say '/bin/rm: not found'?
68. You can do this patch with the system up...
73. ...and if we just swap these two disk controllers like this...
74. don't do that, it'll crash the sys...DAMN!
75. what's this hash prompt on my terminal mean?
76. Now it's funny you should ask that, because I don't know either...
81. ...and after I patched the microcode...
83. We prefer not to change the root password, it's a nice easy one...
84. Just add yourself to the password file and make a directory...
