Do End Users come with Brains
J.D. Falk
> I have come to the conclusion that end users do not come equipted with
> natural processors (BRAINS). I had one call me into the office today to
> trouble shoot a Monitor that was not turned ON. This user only sports a
> PHD shingle on his door. I wonder what it stands for.
It's the sound you get when you push a dried pea into his ear.
> AB in NJ
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Ivor von Wolfsheim
>ObAsr:
>Today someone asked me if they had to turn off their monitor after turning off
>the power to the main box. The green light on the monitor had gone off when the
>main box was turned off. Was that significant?
DPMI - the monitor gets dejected and shuts itself down when it
realises that the computer is no longer talking to it.
"Here I am, CRT the size of a planet, but do any of you care? I've
got this pain in the diodes down my left side ..."
Help me.
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Jan van den Broek
>Today someone asked me if they had to turn off their monitor after turning off
>the power to the main box. The green light on the monitor had gone off when the
>main box was turned off. Was that significant?
I was walking around when there was someone hammering on every key on the
keyboard, saying:"My terminal seems to be stuck." I point at the status-bar and
ask, tongue in cheek, "By the way, what does 'HOLD' mean?" "Someone
pressed F1, so my terminal doesn't do anything", but still continuing
hammering.
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Elizabeth Schwartz
>Today someone asked me if they had to turn off their monitor after turning off
>the power to the main box. The green light on the monitor had gone off when th
>main box was turned off. Was that significant?
Yesterday someone sent me email asking how to turn their new Windows NT PC
on. He had verified that it was plugged in. He demonstrated for me that
turning the monitor power switch on and off had no effect on the CPU.
Neither did hitting the reset or turbo buttons rapidly or slowly. He had
not tried the third button located immediately above the other two.
Software professors who don't do hardware. Mathematicians.
Probably true story: An engineer, a chemist, and a mathematician all worked
in the same building. One day, the engineer walks by a lab and sees a small
fire. He looks around, sees a fire extinguisher, reads "this device is
designed to put out fires of type A, B, and C." He thinks "Aha, this device
was engineered for this application," and uses the extinguisher to put out
the fire.
A few days later, the chemist walks by the lab and sees a small fire. He
sees the fire extinguisher, reads the ingredients, and thinks "Aha, Fire
requires oxygen. Applying these chemicals will halt the process of
oxidation" and uses the extinguisher to put out the fire.
A few days later, the mathematician walks by the lab and sees a small
fire. He looks at the fire. He looks at the extinguisher. He thinks "Aha!
This is not an interesting problem. The solution is known to exist!" and
walks away.
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Martin Hargreaves <mar...@paston.co.uk> wrote:
>Todd Graham Lewis <to...@wooster.org> wrote:
>
>
>>As a newcomer, I have to ask, is there a all-time top ten sysadmin's
>>favorite movies list? I hereby start it -- you guys know how to fill in
>>the blanks, I assume... (This reasoning has gotten me into trouble before)
>
>>a| Full Metal Jacket
>>b|
>>c|
>>d|
>>e|
>>f|
>>g|
>>h|
>>i|
>>j|
"Falling Down"
'nuff said.
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Timothy J. Hunt
Elizabeth Schwartz <bet...@cs.umb.edu> wrote:
>In article <4e29kg$e...@status.gen.nz> al...@triffid.internet.co.nz (Alan Robson) writes:
>
>Probably true story: An engineer, a chemist, and a mathematician all worked
>in the same building. One day, the engineer walks by a lab and sees a small
>fire. He looks around, sees a fire extinguisher, reads "this device is
>designed to put out fires of type A, B, and C." He thinks "Aha, this device
>was engineered for this application," and uses the extinguisher to put out
>the fire.
>
>A few days later, the chemist walks by the lab and sees a small fire. He
>sees the fire extinguisher, reads the ingredients, and thinks "Aha, Fire
>requires oxygen. Applying these chemicals will halt the process of
>oxidation" and uses the extinguisher to put out the fire.
>
>A few days later, the mathematician walks by the lab and sees a small
>fire. He looks at the fire. He looks at the extinguisher. He thinks "Aha!
>This is not an interesting problem. The solution is known to exist!" and
>walks away.
>
A few days later, the engineer walks by the lab and sees there is no fire
and says "there is no problem" and walks on.
A few days later, the chemist walks by the lab and sees there is no fire
ans says "there is no problem" and walks on.
A few days later, the mathematician walks by the lab and sees there
is no fire, so starts one and says "Aha! I have reduced this to a
previously solved problem!"
Timothy
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Doug McNaught
>Todd Graham Lewis (to...@wooster.org) wrote:
>:
>: As a newcomer, I have to ask, is there a all-time top ten sysadmin's
>: favorite movies list? I hereby start it -- you guys know how to fill in
>: the blanks, I assume... (This reasoning has gotten me into trouble before)
>
>Okay, I'll bite.
>
>: a| Full Metal Jacket
>: b| Apocolypse Now
>: c|
>: d|
>: e|
>: f|
>: g|
>: h|
>: i|
>: j|
The Blues Brothers!
"Are you the police?" "No ma'am, we're Sysadmins."
-Doug
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Bill Napier
>In article <seagullD...@netcom.com>, Seagull <sea...@netcom.com> wrote:
>>Todd Graham Lewis (to...@wooster.org) wrote:
>>:
>>: As a newcomer, I have to ask, is there a all-time top ten sysadmin's
>>: favorite movies list? I hereby start it -- you guys know how to fill in
>>: the blanks, I assume... (This reasoning has gotten me into trouble before)
>>
>>Okay, I'll bite.
>>
>>: a| Full Metal Jacket
>>: b| Apocolypse Now
>Okay, I'll chew:
>c: Repo Man
>d: Falling Down
>Those two have been heartily agreed upon. I'll add a few I think would
>qualify...
>Apollo 13. "You have 24 hours to make _this_ fit into _this_ using
> only _this_" where $1 is a round thing, $2 a square
> thing, and $3 a random pile of junk. Geek heroism.
I loved this part of the movie! The non-techie I was with didn't see
it. Finance major....
>2001. "I'm sorry Dave... I'm afraid I can't do that." Like we don't
> all know that feeling, and envy Dave for getting to take
> the thing down posthaste.
I think I'm going to make this my beep on my windows machine. Psycho
computer goes haywire and try to kill its sysadmin. Aren't you glad
computers aren't that smart?
>And there are others. But let that start you off.
The Net - Just Kidding! The best part of this movie was Sandra
Bullock as most computer nerds godess. Why couldn't she in any of my
Comp. Sci. classes!
Star Wars - Han Solo was a sysadmin. The Millenium Falcon was his
ship. He knew everything about it. He cusomized it. he fixed it
when it broke. And sometimes it just needed to be hit to work right.
Tech support? He was a mercanary. He was subject to all his user
desires and complaints. (remeber Obi-wan and Luke talking about the
falcon and how it sucked and such).
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Todd Showalter
>Probably true story: An engineer, a chemist, and a mathematician all worked
>in the same building. One day, the engineer walks by a lab and sees a small
>fire. He looks around, sees a fire extinguisher, reads "this device is
>designed to put out fires of type A, B, and C." He thinks "Aha, this device
>was engineered for this application," and uses the extinguisher to put out
>the fire.
>A few days later, the chemist walks by the lab and sees a small fire. He
>sees the fire extinguisher, reads the ingredients, and thinks "Aha, Fire
>requires oxygen. Applying these chemicals will halt the process of
>oxidation" and uses the extinguisher to put out the fire.
>A few days later, the mathematician walks by the lab and sees a small
>fire. He looks at the fire. He looks at the extinguisher. He thinks "Aha!
>This is not an interesting problem. The solution is known to exist!" and
>walks away.
A variant:
A physicist, an engineer and a mathematician are sleeping in
seperate hotels. Through a wild co-incidence that you feel no urge to
question, a fire ignites in each of their rooms...
The physicist wakes up, grabs a glass of water, eyes the fire for
a second, and throws the water at the exact spot required to put the
fire out, extinguishing the blaze. He returns to sleep.
The engineer wakes up, runs out to the hall, grabs the firehose
and hoses down the fire. The room is a little wet, but the fire is
out and the engineer returns to sleep.
The mathematician awakes. He sees the fire. He rushes to the
bathroom and gets a glass of water. He produces a match, lights it,
and dips it in the water. The match expires. "AHA!" cries the
mathematician, "A solution exists!". Whereupon he returns to bed...
Todd.
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Douglas R. Floyd
>
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>
>much I appreciated this (ROFL).
>
>As a newcomer, I have to ask, is there a all-time top ten sysadmin's
>favorite movies list? I hereby start it -- you guys know how to fill in
>the blanks, I assume... (This reasoning has gotten me into trouble before)
>
B: Army of Darkness
C: Evil Dead I
D: Evil Dead II
[...]
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Disclaimer: What, me speak for my employer(s)? Yeah, right.
Being hosed is not a state of a computer, its a way of life.
Mark Edwards
[snipped other choices]
> : c| Pulp Fiction
[snipped blank spots]
>Why? Because if I was allowed to keep automatic weapons in my
>"office", I'd do to lusers what the two enforcers do to the kids
>in the apartment building...
There's also that part near the end, where, obviously stressed out at
a "no win" situation, and obviously straining to pull out his own
version of a LART, he comments "...I am trying VERY hard to be a
Sheperd..."
Sounds like most sysadmin situations I'm familiar with.
*BANG*
Damn, the safety must have been off....
medw...@onramp.net
Mark Edwards
Arlington, Texas
Peter Gutmann
>On 23 Jan 1996, Ivor von Wolfsheim wrote:
>As a newcomer, I have to ask, is there a all-time top ten sysadmin's
>favorite movies list? I hereby start it -- you guys know how to fill in
>the blanks, I assume... (This reasoning has gotten me into trouble before)
>a| Full Metal Jacket
b| Apocalypse Now ("I love the smell of lusers in the morning...").
Next.
Peter.
Kevin S. Ho
Peter> Todd Graham Lewis <to...@wooster.org> writes:
>> On 23 Jan 1996, Ivor von Wolfsheim wrote:
>> As a newcomer, I have to ask, is there a all-time top ten
>> sysadmin's favorite movies list? I hereby start it -- you guys
>> know how to fill in the blanks, I assume... (This reasoning
>> has gotten me into trouble before)
>> a| Full Metal Jacket
Peter> b| Apocalypse Now ("I love the smell of lusers in the
Peter> morning...").
full metal jacket still has far more appeal... i'd love to turn
into drill seargent hartman on certain users i remember very
unfondly...
"WE HAVE NO RACIAL DISCRIMINATION HERE! YOU ARE ALL EQUALLY
WORTHLESS!"
and of course:
"this is my console!
there are many like it but this one is mine!
my console is my best friend!
without my console i am useless!
without me my console is useless!
.....
"
ksh
Kevin S. Ho
Thomas Down
Abby Franquemont-Guillory wrote:
>2001. "I'm sorry Dave... I'm afraid I can't do that." Like we don't
> all know that feeling, and envy Dave for getting to take
> the thing down posthaste.
Some time ago, at about the time the stories of dodgy FP on pentiums
were appearing, I saw a spoof script of 2001, where HAL had just been
upgraded to P5 spec. At one point he was enumerating the reasons why
Dave should not unplug his SIMMs. Obviously the numbers ran 1, 3,
42.14, etc. Finally, he sang a song, of which the last line was:
All I want is a ??? and a workable F.P.U.
Unfortunately, I do not have a copy of this. Has anyone else out there
seen this, and if so, do they still have a copy they could forward to
me.
Bye4Now,
-- Thomas
Like the leaves in the wind
They are blown along
Each melody rising from
Home and the Heartland... - Riverdance
Phil Burg
: a| Full Metal Jacket
: b| Apocolypse Now
: c| Pulp Fiction
: d|
: e|
: f|
: g|
: h|
: i|
: j|
Why? Because if I was allowed to keep automatic weapons in my
"office", I'd do to lusers what the two enforcers do to the kids
in the apartment building...
Phil (stressed out, fourth day back at work...)
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Jerry Leslie
: As a newcomer, I have to ask, is there a all-time top ten sysadmin's
: favorite movies list? I hereby start it -- you guys know how to fill in
: the blanks, I assume... (This reasoning has gotten me into trouble before)
: a| Full Metal Jacket
: b|
: c|
: d|
: e|
: f|
: g|
: h|
: i|
: j|
After the late Friday night episode of applying the Service Pack #2
for NT 3.51 to a NT 3.5 system, one title comes to mind:
"Raise the Titanic"
Although that title better describes an AIX 3.1.x to 3.2.x upgrade.
One movie's title always sounded like the VMS DOC set shelves had collapsed:
"Grey Lady Down"
--Jerry,
Gerald (Jerry) R. Leslie jle...@dmccorp.com gle...@isvsrv.enet.dec.com
Dynamic Matrix Control Corporation (my opinions are my own)
Jan Schrage
: On 24 Jan 1996, Tim Miller wrote:
: > In-reply-to: pgu...@cs.auckland.ac.nz's message of 24 Jan 1996 15:23:57 GMT
: > X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.0
: >
: > On 24 Jan 1996 15:23:57 GMT, pgu...@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann) said:
: >
: > P> Todd Graham Lewis <to...@wooster.org> writes:
: > >> On 23 Jan 1996, Ivor von Wolfsheim wrote:
: >
: > >> As a newcomer, I have to ask, is there a all-time top ten sysadmin's
: > >> favorite movies list? I hereby start it -- you guys know how to fill
: > >> in the blanks, I assume... (This reasoning has gotten me into trouble
: > >> before)
: >
: > >> a| Full Metal Jacket
: >
: > P> b| Apocalypse Now ("I love the smell of lusers in the morning...").
: >
: > c| Clerks ("There's nothing more exhilarating than pointing out the
: > shortcomings of others, is there?" I find Randall admirably
: > refreshing.)
: >
: > d| Swimming with Sharks (For obvious reasons.)
: >
: > -- Cerebus <tmi...@ims.advantis.com>
: > "I'm not even supposed to *be* here today!"
: >
: >
: e) Brazil - a typical day.
: Steve Burnett
: bur...@nando.net
f) Throne of Blood - a typical career
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Trevor Fiatal (Sysadmin)
1996 21:03:35 GMT:
>Monty Python and the Holy Grail. We have periods of doing support in
>manner of a film and the Holy Grail has worked best... "Thaats no
>ordinary server", "Looked at that network and soiled my armour", and
>sparrow stuff.
>Between that and talking to invisible dogs ("What's that Lassie?
>BSDI's panicked again? Take me there Lassie, take me there..") we end
>up with a bit of a reputation. The other Distributed Systems Support
>Team in the company look normal compared to us. And they have little
>sweat shirts with logos on. But we don't knock over networks every day
>of the week.
>LART'ing a cow-orker on the PC team, I don't get an "ouch" but a "Now
>we see the violence inherent in the system".
Gatorade > Nose > Laptop
(Ritalin is *much* better than coffee, but it means I can't indulge in
caffeine. Waaaaahhhh...)
Trevor
Ed Hutchison
Abby Franquemont-Guillory <abb...@tezcat.com> wrote:
>In article <4e6517$o...@mercury.near.net>,
>Nathan J. Mehl <nm...@bbnplanet.com> wrote:
>>
>>1. Repo Man
>> (Do I have to even say it?)
>
[many good films deleted!]
1.Mad Max
2.Road Warrior
3.Clockwork Orange
4.FMJ
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Mathew Hennessy
>>a| Full Metal Jacket
>B: Army of Darkness
>C: Evil Dead I
>D: Evil Dead II
Let me suggest:
Blue Velvet
Clockwork Orange
The Usual Suspects
Se7en
The Last Seduction (wow, Linda Fiorentino is just too unbelievably sexy!)
>Douglas R. Floyd <dfl...@io.com>
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>:>
>:[many good films deleted!]
>:
>
Might I also suggest some of these oldies but goodies.
- Casablanca - "Of all the computer operations in all the companies in all the
world, this luser works in mine."
"Why did you come to Casablanca, Rick?". "I came for the waters."
"Waters? We're in the desert." "I was misinformed."
- Alice in Wonderland. The Catepiller with the Hookah. "Who <pause> R U?"
- China Syndrome. This places usually feels like it will spontaneously go through
thermonuclear meltdown.
- Body Heat. Great way to live. Lots of fun to be had. You're eventually going
to have to take the blame for EVERYTHING.
-dd
Mathew Hennessy
Colossus-the Forbin project (haven't you ever had a day like that?)
Ave de Los Andes
An engineer, a physicist, and a mathematician are shipwrecked on a
desert island. Nothing survives from the ship save for one big box
of canned goods. This is at first deemed to be a lucky thing, as
the food will keep and there's a bunch of it.
Unfortunately, since there is no sysadmin there with a Leatherman
or anything, there is the problem of how to get at the food in the
cans. Everyone stops and thinks for a bit, and then the engineer
leaps to her feet, saying, "AHA! I've got it." She starts scratching
in the sand with a pointed stick, and explains, "What we do is move
these stones up to the top of that cliff, place the cans underneath,
use leverage to move the stones over the edge of the cliff, and
they fall onto the cans, breaking them open."
"Hmm," says the physicist, "It could work, but then we'd have to move
the stones off of our crushed food. I've got a better idea. What
we do is this: build a fire, and place the cans in the fire. As the
temperature inside the cans increases, so does the temperature of
the contents, and since the contents will expand with the increase
in temperature, pressure will build inside the cans, causing them
to burst open, at which point we can eat our food."
The mathematician, having been quiet this whole time, suddenly
perks up and says: "Wait! I've got the best solution of all!"
"What is it?" the engineer asks, skeptical.
"Okay," the mathematician says, "First, assume you have a can opener.
Then, use the can opener to open the cans, and eat the food."
Now, I told this to a cow-orker who had a math degree, and he just
snorted derisively and said, "A _real_ mathematician would have
said, 'Assume you've opened the cans and eaten the food already.
QED.'"
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Pete Ehlke
>In article <seagullD...@netcom.com> sea...@netcom.com (Seagull) writes:
>>Todd Graham Lewis (to...@wooster.org) wrote:
>>:
>>: As a newcomer, I have to ask, is there a all-time top ten sysadmin's
>>: favorite movies list? I hereby start it -- you guys know how to fill in
>>: the blanks, I assume... (This reasoning has gotten me into trouble before)
>>
>>Okay, I'll bite.
>>
>>: a| Full Metal Jacket
>>: b| Apocolypse Now
>>: c|
>>: d|
>>: e|
>>: f|
>>: g|
>>: h|
>>: i|
>>: j|
>The Blues Brothers!
>"Are you the police?" "No ma'am, we're Sysadmins."
Oh, hell. Whadja hafta go and do that for? I had this beautiful 17" NEC
monitor for my PeeCee, and now look at it. Bits of espreresso soaked
scone all over.
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Bill Napier
And the Economist picked up the can and said "Imagine the can were open..."
Dan Duncan
: As a newcomer, I have to ask, is there a all-time top ten sysadmin's
: favorite movies list? I hereby start it -- you guys know how to fill in
: the blanks, I assume... (This reasoning has gotten me into trouble before)
How about TV characters? I myself am very fond of Mr. Burns, from the
Simpsons. He'd make a great BOFH, as he is already an excellent
NPPOFH (Nuclear Power Plant Operator From Hell.)
"Ahh, I see those are running shoes you're wearing. EXCELLENT!
SEND OUT THE HOUNDS!" -Mr Burns to Ned Flanders
-DanD
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Jared Buntain
jan...@juhani.decus.fi (Petteri Jantti) wrote:
>In article <0zbunt8...@pluto.towson.edu>, do...@pluto.towson.edu (Doug
McNaught) writes:
>
>[damn idiotic VAX newsreader doesn't allow the amount of quoted lines to
exceed
>written...so chomp, chomp, chomp]
>>
>>The Blues Brothers!
>>
>>"Are you the police?" "No ma'am, we're Sysadmins."
>>
>
Though I might be skating on thin ice to say this, but God is, in my
mind, the ultimate BOFH. Subtle to the point of a grand unified theory. You
can run, but you cant hide. And hes the sysadmin for the ultimate machine.
Everything.
He just likes you to _think_ the Devil is the real bad guy :).
Jared Buntain
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. USA
chan...@nwu.edu
Blank James
>favorite movies list? I hereby start it -- you guys know how to fill in
>the blanks, I assume... (This reasoning has gotten me into trouble before)
>
>
>Once we get 10, we number them? Something like that. If I could figure
>out how to get more than three days on my news box, I wouldn't have to
>race to my box every morning in fear of a thread getting /dev/nulled. Oh
>well...
>
>Todd Lewis
>to...@wooster.org
01| Buckaroo Banzai <-- Bigboote.
02| Big Trouble in Little China <-- Black blood of the earth.
03| Whoops Apocolypse <-- "No you can't bring the fucking tiger..."
04| Things are Tough all Over <-- "its not the drugs that'll kill you..."
05| Dr. Strangelove <-- "You gonna let that communist rat come in
here and puke all over everything."
06| Full Metal Jacket <--Required viewing for abusing Lusers
07| Clerks <-- "This job would be great if it wasn't for the
fucking customers."
08| Dune <-- "MY PLAN!!!" "The Plan."
09| Aliens <-- "Did any one ever mistake you for a man.?" "No. You?"
0a| Time Bandits <-- "...mercifully free from the Ravages of Intelligence"
--
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An admin.
Chris Comley
wrote:
> >Apollo 13. "You have 24 hours to make _this_ fit into _this_ using
> > only _this_" where $1 is a round thing, $2 a square
> > thing, and $3 a random pile of junk. Geek heroism.
>
> I loved this part of the movie! The non-techie I was with didn't see
> it. Finance major....
I would have *hoped* that a finance type would have appreciated the
comments of the Grumman representative! :-)
> >2001. "I'm sorry Dave... I'm afraid I can't do that." Like we don't
>
> I think I'm going to make this my beep on my windows machine. Psycho
One of the offices where I work (where I'm sitting now) is full of
NeXT machines and they all say this a lot.
The "critical error" on my Windows PC is "I have sustained major
damage". The Windows Exit is "I have done all I can. It's up to you
now." Both, of course, from that excellent man vs. machine film, Dark
Star.
Joe Lannom
ej...@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Ed Hutchison) wrote:
> In article <4e6c0m$g...@huitzilo.tezcat.com>,
> Abby Franquemont-Guillory <abb...@tezcat.com> wrote:
> >In article <4e6517$o...@mercury.near.net>,
> >Nathan J. Mehl <nm...@bbnplanet.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>1. Repo Man
2. Doctor Strangelove - Sysadmin goes crazy and changes the
passwd so no one can login and stop the installation of
windows 95.
3. Electric Dreams - "Hello, Moles." "Thats Miles" "Oh, Sorry, Moles."
joe lannom
Kevin Littlejohn
: In-reply-to: pgu...@cs.auckland.ac.nz's message of 24 Jan 1996 15:23:57 GMT
: X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.0
: On 24 Jan 1996 15:23:57 GMT, pgu...@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann) said:
: P> Todd Graham Lewis <to...@wooster.org> writes:
: >> On 23 Jan 1996, Ivor von Wolfsheim wrote:
: >> As a newcomer, I have to ask, is there a all-time top ten sysadmin's
: >> favorite movies list? I hereby start it -- you guys know how to fill
: >> in the blanks, I assume... (This reasoning has gotten me into trouble
: >> before)
: >> a| Full Metal Jacket
: P> b| Apocalypse Now ("I love the smell of lusers in the morning...").
: c| Clerks ("There's nothing more exhilarating than pointing out the
: shortcomings of others, is there?" I find Randall admirably
: refreshing.)
:
: d| Swimming with Sharks (For obvious reasons.)
: -- Cerebus <tmi...@ims.advantis.com>
: "I'm not even supposed to *be* here today!"
Other People's Money. There's a movie crammed with good quotes...:)
(Must get my video player fixed sometime....)
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Rick Heylen
Thomas Farrell <tfar...@lynx.dac.neu.edu> wrote:
>In article <4eatia$a...@yama.mcc.ac.uk>, C Speed <per...@mcc.ac.uk> wrote:
>>rest) and post to the local test group saying either "I will not
>>leave myself logged on" or "Young Single Male seeks older man for
>>experimentation" depending on what kind of day you're having?
>
>As a gay man, I find the latter extremely offensive.
Well if I ever found a terminal you'd left logged on, I'd be sure to make
the subject line "Older Single Male seeks woman for a refreshing change"
Rick
PS Nice post perdita
Jim Wise
Gutmann) wrote:
> b| Apocalypse Now ("I love the smell of lusers in the morning...").
"Ok... we rlogin over campus ether, wait 'till we're about 3 kliks out and start
pulling up a background render on soft. Come in low, out of the command line,
they won't even know what hit 'em."
"But - but those are comp. sci.'s Indy's sir!"
"Comp. Sci don't render!"
--
--
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System Administrator
Columbia University GSAPP
j...@santafe.arch.columbia.edu
http://www.arch.columbia.edu/~jim
Monument
: I've got to add Pulp Fiction to the list -- in another life, Jules
: would've been a true BOFH:
[screenplay from a scene deleted]
I really hope you didn't type that up yourself. If you did... well,
you just have WAAAAAYYYYYY too much time on your hands.
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Wargames:
Matthew Broderic: "./Global ThermoNuclear War."
WOPR: "Wouldn't you rather play a nice game of chess?"
Matthew Broderic: "Let's play Global ThermoNuclear War."
Come on, wouldn't it be _fun_? <wicked grin>
-Erik
Oh, and how about Ferris Bueller's Day off? I think we could all use a day
like that...
--
"On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray,
Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right
answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of
confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
--from the writings of Charles Babbage
Steve Simmons
There was a big layoff at Big Tech, Inc, and a number of folks found
themselves taking jobs they hadn't expected. In particular, an engineer,
a physicist, and a mathematician found themselves working as umpires in
a baseball league.
One day there was a close play at the plate, and all three called the
runner out. He jumped up and began screaming in protest ``How can you
call me out on that play!?!?!''.
The engineer said ``I call 'em the way I see 'em, and you're out.''
The physicist said ``I call 'em the way they are, and you're out.''
The mathematician said ``You're out because I called you out.''
Mary Conner
Thomas Farrell <tfar...@lynx.dac.neu.edu> wrote:
>As a gay man, I find the latter extremely offensive.
Nah. If a female luser, you post "Young single female seeking older
man for experimentation." Equal opportunity chain yanking. "Young
single man seeking older woman for experimentation" just loses. Women
just don't reply to that kind of stuff like men do. In fact, just
generic "young seeking old for experimentation" isn't good enough,
you gotta use "older man with male dog" or "older man into necrophilia"
for good effect.
--
Mary Conner
tr...@serv.net
Nathan J. Mehl
miq...@cistron.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg) writes:
>c| The Blues Brothers
> (1060 West Addison? That's the Wrigley Field..)
Oh man...
You see, a while ago, there was this lunatic by the name of John
Grubor who hung out on news.admin.net-abuse.misc. (Still does,
but is nowhere near as prolific these days.) One of your typical
net-psychos, he was convinced that there was a Usenet Cabal that
was conspiring to censor all of his posts. Standard stuff.
The thing that made Grubor stand out was that in addition to being
a good sight stupider than your average net.loon (he fell for
the "Usenet Global Killfile" troll when I baited him with it), he
was a disbarred attorney, and got his jollies from threateneing
to sue people who bothered him.
Well, when he started getting messages from "ro...@usenet.com" informing
him that his posts had been removed by action of the Usenet Global
Killfile, he started demanding that someone tell him the ADDRESS of
the Cabal Headquarters, so he could serve them with a personal
injury lawsuit.
Helpful soul that I am, I offered (with Abby's help in looking up
the full address):
Usenet Central Administration
1060 W. Addison
Chicago, IL 60636
...AND HE FELL FOR IT!
It was a highlight of my life, I tell you.
--
"The life of a sysadmin is always intense!"
If you think I speak for my employer, they'll be happy to correct you.
Nathan J. Mehl -- Just another bozo on the usenet bus -- nat...@bbnplanet.com
<A HREF="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~nmehl">homepagesque</A>
Nathan J. Mehl
abb...@tezcat.com (Abby Franquemont-Guillory) writes:
>>5. Real Genius
>> ("...I drank _what_?!")
>
>How could I have forgotten that one? How could I ????? And to
>think I just saw it again a couple of days ago, too. What's
>wrong with me? Ah -- I know -- it's lack of beer. I'd better
>get right on that.
Heh. Drink one for me.
Ack! I just realized - I forgot the most important one of all!
6. Miller's Crossing
("What heart?")
Tom was the ultimate BOFH...
Piers Cawley
There's always the old standard 'proofs that all odd numbers > 1 are prime:'
Mathematician: 3's prime, 5's prime, 7's prime, 9's not prime
therefore not all odd numbers are prime.
Statistician: 3's prime, 5's prime, 7's prime, 9's not prime, 11's prime
so on average all odd numbers are prime
Computer: 3's prime, 5's prime, 5's prime, 5's prime, 5's prime,
5's prime, 5's prime, 5's prime, 5's prime, 5's prime...
Physicist: 3's prime, 5's prime, 7's prime, 9's not prime, 11's prime
therefore all odd numbers are prime, 9 was an
experimental error
Arts Graduate: 3,s prime, 5... is prime, 7.. um... 7's prime,
9... yeah, 9's prime, therefore all odd numbers are prime.
--
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Lusers: Can't live with them, can't shoot 'em
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1. Buckaroo Bonzai
"No matter where you go...There You Are"
2. Nightmare on Elm Street (the first one)
"I am god"
3. Princess Bride
got to love the Big F*cking Rodents.
-- Christopher R. Moewes | Specializing in Small
-- Computer Resource Management | Business and Personal
-- http://www.inxpress.net/~moewes | Computer Systems
Jeff Wolfe
>ej...@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Ed Hutchison) wrote:
>> Nathan J. Mehl <nm...@bbnplanet.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >1. Repo Man
> 2. Doctor Strangelove - Sysadmin goes crazy and changes the
> passwd so no one can login and stop the installation of
> windows 95.
(With apologies to George C. Scott and Stanley Kubrick.)
"I can no longer sit back and allow Windows infiltration and indoctrination, Usenet
subversion, and the international Microsoft conspiricy to sap and impurify all of our precious
bodily fluids..."
-Jeff
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Kevin Stephens
Real Genius - Lazlo living in the closet cause he was a sys admin for too
many years and crashed hard one fine day. Now he just uses
his computer to enter the publishers clearing house sweepstakes
a million and a half times.
Army of Darkness - "Good? Bad? I am the one at the console"
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Neil Hoggarth
Nosmo King <log...@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu> wrote:
> g| Terminator II
> "WAIT! You were gonna kill that guy!"
> "Of course. I'm a terminator."
John Conner: "We're not going to make it, are we? Lusers, I mean."
Terminator: "It's in your nature to destroy your PCs."
John Conner: "Major drag, huh?"
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: b| Apocalypse Now ("I love the smell of lusers in the morning...").
c| Blade Runner ("I have seen things you lusers would not believe...").
d| Dune ("It is by will alone that I set this box in motion").
Tim N.
Alistair J. R. Young
>On 23 Jan 1996, Alan Robson wrote:
> I may be an undergrad but I've seen plenty of brainless computer users
>during my lifetime.
> Everyone can log on, but you'd be suprised how many people can't log off
>and just leave their computer turned on, logged into their account, just
>waiting for somebody to come along and have 'fun' in their account
>(although nobody does: apart from opening up Eudora and mailing the user
>a message telling them what an idiot they are [though without using any
>stronger language])
What kind people you were, then! We started out doing that, but swiftly
graduated to, e.g. putting sarcastic message in their .login ("Hello. This is
the new user-friendly interface of the SunOS 4.1.3 operating system..."),
aliasing "ls" to "echo .\n..\n.login\n.cshrc\n"[1], to putting "logout" as the
first command in their .login.
Probably the best one was changing their prompt to:
"Login incorrect.
login:"
though. And no-one ever seemed to realise that all the "Command not found."
messages scrolling up the screen might mean something...
Alistair
[1] I may not have the details right. It's been a long time. So sue me.
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Ben Norwood
>
> |> In alt.sysadmin.recovery, Alan P. Branch <alanp...@attmail.com> wrote...
> |>
> |> > I have come to the conclusion that end users do not come equipted with
> |> > natural processors (BRAINS). I had one call me into the office today to
> |> > trouble shoot a Monitor that was not turned ON. This user only sports a
> |> > PHD shingle on his door. I wonder what it stands for.
> ^^^
> Pin Headed Dope
> ObAsr:
> Today someone asked me if they had to turn off their monitor after turning off
> the power to the main box. The green light on the monitor had gone off when the
> main box was turned off. Was that significant?
>
I may be an undergrad but I've seen plenty of brainless computer users
during my lifetime.
Everyone can log on, but you'd be suprised how many people can't log off
and just leave their computer turned on, logged into their account, just
waiting for somebody to come along and have 'fun' in their account
(although nobody does: apart from opening up Eudora and mailing the user
a message telling them what an idiot they are [though without using any
stronger language])
Then (although it hasn't happened here) you get plenty of people who do
nothing for ages on their terminal then go into a wild frenzy as soon as
the screensaver kicks in. Now that IS interesting to watch! They curse,
they swear, they turn the monitor on and off, they check all the plugs,
they even go as far as to reset the computer! Yet they'll never
consider moving the mouse or pressing any keys.
Ben.
Michael Handler
> ("What heart?")
Yeah, the Cohn brothers make lots of BOFH-movies. Someone's already
mentioned _Raising Arizona_ ("I'll take that $60K Cisco router, and um,
this box of Huggies."), so I'll put in a plug for _Blood Simple_. :-)
--
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Mathew Hennessy
TAY! Bigboo-TAY!
>07| Clerks <-- "This job would be great if it wasn't for the
> fucking customers."
THIRTY SEVEN!
ps: Sounds like something else to add to my useless page.. (yes, I'm
waiting for some patches from our developers to install, so I've got a
touch of spare time lately..)
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documentation around in a briefcase. This was fixed in BSD4.2." - ?
Thomas Farrell
>rest) and post to the local test group saying either "I will not
>leave myself logged on" or "Young Single Male seeks older man for
>experimentation" depending on what kind of day you're having?
As a gay man, I find the latter extremely offensive.
TF
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Russell Street
"Living in Oblivion" should be added to the list.
Russell Street
><forget the title>
> The one about the Colossus/Guardian system which takes over
> the world (the dangers of networking?)
"The Forbin Project"? (sp?) Large underground computer, does not like
its sys admin... or any one else.
Miquel van Smoorenburg
Richard W Kaszeta <kas...@me.umn.edu> wrote:
>Doug McNaught (do...@pluto.towson.edu) wrote:
>: The Blues Brothers!
>
>: "Are you the police?" "No ma'am, we're Sysadmins."
>
>For the first time ever:
>
>C|N>K!!!
Do all sysadmins live at 1060 West Addison ?
Mike.
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Nathan J. Mehl
gre...@netaxs.com (Michael Handler) writes:
>Yeah, the Cohn brothers make lots of BOFH-movies.
Heh. You see, the Coen brothers both went to Simon's Rock. Which
makes them part of the Nathan Conspiracy, along with Abby.
>Someone's already
>mentioned _Raising Arizona_ ("I'll take that $60K Cisco router, and um,
>this box of Huggies."), so I'll put in a plug for _Blood Simple_. :-)
Hell yes. The switchblade scene _alone_...
Nick Cuccia
Donald Desrosiers <desr...@mci.net> wrote:
>Might I also suggest some of these oldies but goodies.
>- Casablanca - "Of all the computer operations in all the companies in all the
> world, this luser works in mine."
> "Why did you come to Casablanca, Rick?". "I came for the waters."
> "Waters? We're in the desert." "I was misinformed."
How dare you mention _Casablanca_ and forget the line::
Round up the Usual Suspects!
--Nick (We'll always have 4BSD...)
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Paul Batchelor
>
>For the ultimate sysadmin nightmare, imagine "Misery" with a PC XT instead of
>the typewriter.
>
>Peter.
>
It's gotta be...
_Aliens_ "...but secreted from what?..." "...Busy little lusers..."
W.Q. Snyx
Nathan J. Mehl <nm...@bbnplanet.com> wrote...
[Short recap of Grubor's life deleted.]
> Helpful soul that I am, I offered (with Abby's help in looking up
> the full address):
>
> Usenet Central Administration
> 1060 W. Addison
> Chicago, IL 60636
>
> ...AND HE FELL FOR IT!
>
> It was a highlight of my life, I tell you.
Oh, that was you who started it? I was ROFTL, but I could never
remember who it was that pulled that trick. I've been using it from time
to time ever since....
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>Peter Gutmann (pgu...@cs.auckland.ac.nz) wrote:
>: >a| Full Metal Jacket
>:
>: b| Apocalypse Now ("I love the smell of lusers in the morning...").
>c| Blade Runner ("I have seen things you lusers would not believe...").
"... I've seen Sun monitors on fire off the side of the multimedia lab.
I've seen NTU lights glitter in the dark near the Mail Gate.
All these things will be lost in time, like the root partition last week.
Time to die...".
Peter.
Bill Napier
>In <Pine.OSF.3.91.960126...@osfb.aber.ac.uk>, Ben Norwood <bd...@aber.ac.uk> writes:
>What kind people you were, then! We started out doing that, but swiftly
>graduated to, e.g. putting sarcastic message in their .login ("Hello. This is
>the new user-friendly interface of the SunOS 4.1.3 operating system..."),
>aliasing "ls" to "echo .\n..\n.login\n.cshrc\n"[1], to putting "logout" as the
>first command in their .login.
The best part about something like this is that the user who forgets to
log out for the most part has no idea how to change it. Set their prompt
to "I promise I will log out when I'm done:" or downright insulting them
when they log in
echo "I'm an idiot becuase I forgot to log out"
This happens a lot at the beginning of the Fall semester here. Freshmen
don't understand that they have to click on the big button that says "Log
Out" on it to log out of the X-term.
>Probably the best one was changing their prompt to:
>"Login incorrect.
>login:"
>though. And no-one ever seemed to realise that all the "Command not found."
>messages scrolling up the screen might mean something...
>Alistair
>[1] I may not have the details right. It's been a long time. So sue me.
>--
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>The opinions above ARE my company's, because I OWN it! [Team OS/2]
>e-mail: ava...@arkane.demon.co.uk; Phone/Fax: +44 (1833) 638233 (24 hr.)
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>"Computer memory and male genitals have one thing in common;
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> - Platt's Fourteenth Law of Computers
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Electel
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>
>Peter Gutmann (pgu...@cs.auckland.ac.nz) wrote:
>: >a| Full Metal Jacket
>:
>: b| Apocalypse Now ("I love the smell of lusers in the morning...").
>
>c| Blade Runner ("I have seen things you lusers would not believe...").
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: I just have to add:
: 1. Buckaroo Bonzai
: "No matter where you go...There You Are"
: 2. Nightmare on Elm Street (the first one)
: "I am god"
: 3. Princess Bride
: got to love the Big F*cking Rodents.
Rodents of Unusual Size actually. You've been playing too much Doom...
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> In article <4e9goq$p...@alien.austin.cc.tx.us>,
> Blank James <bl...@alien.austin.cc.tx.us> wrote:
(No spoilers...)
Adding: Carpenter's "The Thing" to the movie list...rank #5.
Saw it 1st time -82...(came out tonite on TV)
(securely saved on tape, non-censured version!)
...
"How do we make it?"
"Maybe we shouldn't."
..
"What do we do?"
"Well, we'll just wait here a little while...see what happens"
<passes J&B bottle>
EOF (film/movie, in this case)
Exellent flick, no hope left.
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Bryant Durrell
> Todd Graham Lewis <to...@wooster.org> writes:
>>As a newcomer, I have to ask, is there a all-time top ten sysadmin's
>>favorite movies list? I hereby start it -- you guys know how to fill in
>>the blanks, I assume... (This reasoning has gotten me into trouble before)
>>
>>a| Full Metal Jacket
>
>Much as I love FMJ, I can't see it as being number one. For me, it
>would have to be:
>
>1. Repo Man
> (Do I have to even say it?)
>2. Goodfellas
> ("As long as I can remember, I always wanted to be a sysadmin.")
>3. Straight to Hell
> ("What brings you here?" "Blood! Money! Sexual Tension!")
>4. Apartment Zero
> ("I shoulda been a chiropractor.")
>5. Real Genius
> ("...I drank _what_?!")
>
Hm. OK. There's this thematic trilogy...
1. Into The Night.
2. Something Wild.
3. After Hours.
Yuppies in Hell. All about the awful things that can happen to you
when you expose yourself to people/lusers.
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Ian Chard
> I may be an undergrad but I've seen plenty of brainless computer users
>during my lifetime.
> Everyone can log on, but you'd be suprised how many people can't log off
>and just leave their computer turned on, logged into their account, just
>waiting for somebody to come along and have 'fun' in their account
>(although nobody does: apart from opening up Eudora and mailing the user
>a message telling them what an idiot they are [though without using any
>stronger language])
I always found that "echo I AM A TWAT |mail undergrads postgrads staff"
tended to be more common.
Another thing that used to happen is some dozy pleb typing the entirity
of his mail message into the "To:" line; the words would then get sorted
into alphabetical order, and you can bet that one of the words was "all".
It was great fun trying to reconstruct the message.
I'm not totally innocent of this sort of thing myself; a few years ago I
was walking along the tops of the desks in a lab (I think better that way),
and I jumped down and landed on one of those mains plugs in the floor.
All the machines (30-40 SLCs and ELCs) went off and stayed off.
All I could think to do was mailing the dutyofficer from another lab,
saying "I just knocked out the second year lab... sorry". Next day it
was locked with a sign on the door saying "electrician en route".
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Hiroki
: On 23 Jan 1996, Ivor von Wolfsheim wrote:
: favorite movies list? I hereby start it -- you guys know how to fill in
: the blanks, I assume... (This reasoning has gotten me into trouble before)
: a| Full Metal Jacket
: b|
: c|
: d|
: e|
: f|
: g|
: h|
: i|
: j|
: Once we get 10, we number them? Something like that. If I could figure
: out how to get more than three days on my news box, I wouldn't have to
: race to my box every morning in fear of a thread getting /dev/nulled. Oh
: well...
And here I was thinking the alphabet went up to 26.
No wonder nobody can spell my name: half the letters are missing.
A couple that I didn't see listed:
The Killer
Hard Boiled
Desperado has a couple of funny scenes that probably warrant a
rent, in the vein of Drink^H^H^H^H^HHighlander.
El Mariachi
hiroki
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Monument <jggo...@vela.acs.oakland.edu> wrote...
> W.Q. Snyx (jdf...@cais.cais.com) wrote:
> : I've got to add Pulp Fiction to the list -- in another life, Jules
> : would've been a true BOFH:
> [screenplay from a scene deleted]
> I really hope you didn't type that up yourself. If you did... well,
> you just have WAAAAAYYYYYY too much time on your hands.
No, some other geek did.
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Abby Franquemont-Guillory
> gre...@netaxs.com (Michael Handler) writes:
>
>>Yeah, the Cohn brothers make lots of BOFH-movies.
>
>Heh. You see, the Coen brothers both went to Simon's Rock. Which
>makes them part of the Nathan Conspiracy, along with Abby.
Geeeze. And to think I'm also in the Jen(n) conspiracy by virtue
of the fact that I Always Work With Jen... I think it's time I had
my *own* conspiracy, dammit. I'm sick of just being in everyone
else's conspiracies. It should be MY TURN!!!
But, you know, I think we did establish that that Japanese class was
a breeding ground for sysadmins. As were other parts of the Rock.
--Abby "Off to work on that conspiracy now" F-G
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Peter Gutmann
>What kind people you were, then! We started out doing that, but swiftly
>graduated to, e.g. putting sarcastic message in their .login ("Hello. This is
>the new user-friendly interface of the SunOS 4.1.3 operating system..."),
>aliasing "ls" to "echo .\n..\n.login\n.cshrc\n"[1], to putting "logout" as the
>first command in their .login.
Much nastier is changing their .login to cat a `sleep 1' onto itself at each
login. This happened to someone here some years ago, and took him forever to
notice. "Hmm, system's a bit slow this morning...".
Peter.
Peter Gutmann
>Christopher R. Moewes (moe...@inxpress.net) wrote:
>: I just have to add:
>: 1. Buckaroo Bonzai
>: "No matter where you go...There You Are"
>: 2. Nightmare on Elm Street (the first one)
>: "I am god"
>: 3. Princess Bride
>: got to love the Big F*cking Rodents.
>Rodents of Unusual Size actually. You've been playing too much Doom...
Or watching ... damn, can't remember the name, it's a film set in the future
in a half-submerged London:
"Bigger guns. We need BIGGER GUNS. BIG FUCKING GUNS!!!!"
(picks up an assault rifle)
"Not big enough".
(sees a multi-barrelled shotgun).
"Bingo".
Actually there are a number of sysadmin-like things in the film, like one of
the main characters (and, after about halfway, the other main characters)
eating habits: A nonstop stream of chocolate, cigarettes, and a liquid
consisting of 50% coffee, 50% sugar, by volume. Then there are lines like:
"That wasn't a him, that was a fucking IT!!".
I've got most of the best lines taped for posterity.
"We've gotta get BIG FUCKING GUNS!!!". Wish I had an answerphone to put that
on as a message.
Peter.
Peter Gutmann
>In alt.sysadmin.recovery and bofh.general,
> Nathan J. Mehl <nm...@bbnplanet.com> wrote...
>> Helpful soul that I am, I offered (with Abby's help in looking up
>> the full address):
>>
>> Usenet Central Administration
>> 1060 W. Addison
>> Chicago, IL 60636
>>
>> ...AND HE FELL FOR IT!
> Oh, that was you who started it? I was ROFTL, but I could never
>remember who it was that pulled that trick.
It's from the Blues Brothers isn't it (the address of Wrigley (sp?) Field or
something). I've always used the Portaloo phone number when I don't want to
give people a contact number.
Peter.
Michael Handler
Peter Gutmann <pgu...@cs.auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
> Or watching ... damn, can't remember the name, it's a film set in the future
> in a half-submerged London:
Rutger Hauer, _Split Second_.
Michael, a FOTUI (Fount of Totally Useless Information)...
Gary Barnes
Kevin Littlejohn <dar...@interworld.com.au> wrote:
:
:Other People's Money. There's a movie crammed with good quotes...:)
:(Must get my video player fixed sometime....)
I'm gonna have to sample part of Ace Ventura... I just gotta have the bit
where he shows up the police and then goes:
"Luuu-uuu-uuu-uuu-uuu-uuu-uuu-uuu-uuu-uuu-uuu-uuu-uuu-uuu-uuu-uuu-uuu-sers!"
Gaz
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Mike O'Connor
Michael Handler <gre...@netaxs.com> wrote:
: * THE LAST SEDUCTION
: Okay, it has _nothing_ to do with computers or technology or
: anything. But Linda Fiorentino is evil, sexy, twisted, bad, utterly
: manipulative, and she gets away with _everything_ -- in short,
: the ultimate BOFH.
She's quite the operator all right... everything I *expect* in a woman.
Some people think I say that lustily, and some people think I say that
misogynistically... they haven't figured out that I mean both. :) Who
here thinks it's funny that Peter Berg goes from sleeping with a guy who
he thinks is a girl in BOTH The Last Seduction and Chicago Hope?
Oh well.. since the time is near, I really like Groundhog Day. Bill
Murray has the right attitude for a sysadmin. All of my hard-core
sysadmin friends (and me) seem to have a fetish for Dune. "His name
is a power word!" :)
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Ivor von Wolfsheim
>in a half-submerged London:
>
Split Second. Rutger Hauer.
fnord.
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Peter Gutmann <pgu...@cs.auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
>"... I've seen Sun monitors on fire off the side of the multimedia lab.
> I've seen NTU lights glitter in the dark near the Mail Gate.
> All these things will be lost in time, like the root partition last week.
> Time to die...".
Inspired. Absolutely inspired. I laughed loudly, and then when my
husband asked me what was so funny, I read it to him, and he almost
snarfed his oatmeal onto his newspaper. Then he went on to describe
the scene.. "Sitting on a rain-soaked ledge somewhere in an eternal
night, looking at the uberadmin who could have killed him, the blade
luser is awed and inspired by the fact that in his final moments, the
BOFH chose not to kill the luser, but rather to let him live with
the knowledge of his inferiority..."
*sniff* Inspired, Peter, inspired.
Abby Franquemont-Guillory
W.Q. Snyx <jdf...@cybernothing.org> wrote:
>In alt.sysadmin.recovery and bofh.general,
> Nathan J. Mehl <nm...@bbnplanet.com> wrote...
>
>
>> the full address):
>>
>> Usenet Central Administration
>> 1060 W. Addison
>> Chicago, IL 60636
>>
>> ...AND HE FELL FOR IT!
>>
>
>to time ever since....
Hehehe. It was truly odd -- there I was at the Other Job, and I got this
piece of urgent e-mail from Nathan insisting that I call him right away,
it was URGENT. Thinking perhaps all of USENET had exploded or something
along those lines was afoot, I called him back right away, and was greatly
relieved to discover that he needed the above address. Sadly, I didn't
know it off the top of my head -- I'm more accustomed to knowing Where
Things Are than knowing their exact addresses, see, plus I'm a South
Side woman, so the Cubs, ick. Then Nathan explained and it was just too,
too perfect. I kept chuckling about it for days. I tried to tell some
folks who don't read USENET about it but sadly, such efforts fell short.
But I coudn't help it.
Speaking of Sysadmin Movies, though -- how could I forget to mention
Big Trouble in Little China? You know... it's all in the reflexes.
Well, I am off now, to -- of all things -- go buy a TV. We've decided
that, since I have a 19" monitor for my Sun, we can now justifiably
have a TV larger than 13". In my own horribly methodical way, I have
made a list of features to research further, and features that we do want,
and so now we are off to find the best value for the most of those
features, and stuff.
Monument
: a good sight stupider than your average net.loon (he fell for
: the "Usenet Global Killfile" troll when I baited him with it), he
You... mean... there's... no... Global... Killfile?
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Art Walker
: Or watching ... damn, can't remember the name, it's a film set in the future
:
: "Bigger guns. We need BIGGER GUNS. BIG FUCKING GUNS!!!!"
: (picks up an assault rifle)
:
: "Not big enough".
:
: (sees a multi-barrelled shotgun).
:
: "Bingo".
"Split Second"
With Rutger Hauer.
- Art
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Nick Cuccia
Russell Street <r.st...@auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
>h...@freya.yggdrasil.com (H. Peter Anvin) writes:
>><forget the title>
>> The one about the Colossus/Guardian system which takes over
>> the world (the dangers of networking?)
>"The Forbin Project"? (sp?) Large underground computer, does not like
>its sys admin... or any one else.
And the location used for _Colossus: The Forbin Project_, Berkeley's Lawrence
Hall of Science, is a place near and dear to the hearts of many an east bay
sysadmin.
Or should be, at least. Not only is it a pretty good science museum, it has
neat science-related abstract sculpture (most memorable are a set of pipes on
the hillside that play notes when the wind's up, and the magnetic unit for
Lawrence's original cyclotron), and some of the best views of San Francisco Bay
that you're going to find anywhere.
--Nick
Joseph Bork
Dan Wood <linh...@gold.tc.umn.edu> wrote:
>Folks, don't forget "The Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy" Movie...
>
>Ford Prefect is the Interplanetary BOFH, Arthur Dent the luser...
I can't believe that nobody has mentioned the number one sysadmin movie:
_Wargames_.
I consider this a shocking oversight. The movie has it all!
Techno-jargonspeak:
"Can we feed it a tapeworm?"
"No, it might smash the system."
"Have you tried to invade the Deep Logic(tm)?"
"Yes, but we keep hitting a damn file wall!"
Clueless lusers:
"...don't you know you're supposed to stay with the rest of the
tour group? Now get going!"
"So, some of the men tell me you're a pretty good tennis player..."
The Bastard Programmer From Hell, who doesn't want to fix his system:
"I've planned ahead. We're only three miles from a primary
target sight. One millisecond of brilliant light, and it's over."
A broken network:
"The system's not letting me back in."
"I know, it's not letting *anyone* back in."
A harried computer guy running around saying things like
"We checked the random number generators. They're not even
running!"
and
"I tried that! Don't you think I would have tried that?"
<pointing and looking at various people's progress, giving them
the "keep doing what you're doing" look, all whilst running
frantically among rows of Complex Computer Stuff(tm)>
It also has blinking lights, antiquated hardware, a bunch of people who
refuse to believe that the computer really *is* lying to them, a very
satifying <clickety clackety> keyboard noise, and a computer that doesn't
know the meaning of futility.
'Cmon, you *can't* tell me that this is the epitome of a sysadmin movie,
where a young kid knows more about the computer systems that the
thick-skulled people who run it. Beautiful.
--Joe
LOGON: JOSHUA
Greetings Professor Falken.
Bryant Durrell
Abby Franquemont-Guillory <abb...@tezcat.com> wrote:
>In article <4ebqru$q...@mercury.near.net>,
>Nathan J. Mehl <nm...@bbnplanet.com> wrote:
>>In article <slrn4gicl0....@unix3.netaxs.com>,
>> gre...@netaxs.com (Michael Handler) writes:
>>
>>>Yeah, the Cohn brothers make lots of BOFH-movies.
>>
>>Heh. You see, the Coen brothers both went to Simon's Rock. Which
>>makes them part of the Nathan Conspiracy, along with Abby.
>
>Geeeze. And to think I'm also in the Jen(n) conspiracy by virtue
>of the fact that I Always Work With Jen... I think it's time I had
>my *own* conspiracy, dammit. I'm sick of just being in everyone
>else's conspiracies. It should be MY TURN!!!
>
>But, you know, I think we did establish that that Japanese class was
>a breeding ground for sysadmins. As were other parts of the Rock.
Y'all were Simon's Rock? *That* explains a lot.
(My high school was... highly alternative, and I got most of the
offbeat colleges in the country pushed on me at one time or another.
Reed, Hampshire, Sarah Lawrence, St. John's, the New College, yee.)
Douglas R. Floyd
Kevin Stephens <kst...@cypress.idir.net> wrote:
<pseudo-diff>
< Army of Darkness - "Good? Bad? I am the one at the console"
> Army of Darkness - "Good... bsd... I am the one with the root password."
</pseudo-diff>
PS: Can someone tell me which magazine stated that "UNIX uses a long
filename kludge similar to Windows 95, while Windows NT uses true long
filenames." ? Someone was popping peyote buttons again probably.
--
Douglas R. Floyd <dfl...@io.com>
Disclaimer: What, me speak for my employer(s)? Yeah, right.
Mary Conner
Joseph Bork <jb...@junior.wariat.org> wrote:
>I can't believe that nobody has mentioned the number one sysadmin movie:
>_Wargames_.
The part of that film where they go talk to the guy who tells them about
backdoors was filmed at the University of Washington, where I used to
work and where my husband still does. While he's in the NOC now, he
used to work as an operator at the Academic Computer Center. One of
the extras in the computer center they go into looks slightly like him,
and he bears a lot of teasing about how the caught him on film goofing
off, as usual.
--
Mary Conner
tr...@serv.net
War Operations Plan Response
> LOGON: JOSHUA
>
Greetings Professor Falken. Long time no see.
Vladimir Gabrielescu
This is the third time I've seen that address in this group and for the
life of me I can't figure/remember/imagine/guess what it is. Could some
kind soul enlighten me? Wait ... a.s.r ... kind soul ... Hmmm ....
Vlad "who is looking for his special flame resistant underpants expecting]
flames about mentioning kind souls on asr ... "Wrong group you IDIOT"
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Just when you think people have hit the nadir of stupidity,
they go out and get Internet accounts.
I.Dobbie
Dan Wood <linh...@gold.tc.umn.edu> writes:
Folks, don't forget "The Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy" Movie...
Ford Prefect is the Interplanetary BOFH, Arthur Dent the luser...
Ok, so where do Zaphod ("There's nothing worse than having only one drunk
head") and Roosta ("When I feel down I just suck my towel") come on the BOFH
scale? Oh yeah an then there is Trillian ("I'm sorry I missed that date Arthur
but I did spend all that morning in a black hole"). Does Eddie come below
Solaris and Aix in the OS sucks scale?
Ian
Nick Cuccia
cast Richard Bohringer (_Diva_, _The Cook, The Wife & Her Lover_) as the
ultracool IS manager, and Rutger Hauer (_Blade Runner_), James Woods (_Once
Upon a Time in America_), Linda Fiorentino (_The Last Seduction_), and Kathleen
Turner (_Serial Mom_, _The War of The Roses_) as his staff. Lily Tomlin, as
Ernestine, is the Network Manager. Harvey Keitel, reprising his role as Mr.
Wolf in _Pulp Fiction_, plays the way-too-hands-on company president. Tim Roth
(_Rob Roy_, _Reservoir Dogs_, _The Cook et. al._) plays the software developer
trying to join the sysadmin staff.
The Luser Community is literally a cast of millions, and includes Madonna,
Rosanne, Fabio, The Performer Formerly Known As Prince, Tori Spelling, Dr. Carl
Sagan, and Bill Gates as "Bob".
Ridley Scott is director, Quentin Tarentino screenwriter, and Danny DeVito the
producer. Cinematographer is either Sacha Vierny (_The Cook et al._,
_Prospero's Books_, _Belle de Jour_) or Philippe Rousselot (_Diva_, _Henry &
June_, _Interview with the Vampire_).
Trent Reznor is musical director. Soundtrack features Nine Inch Nails, Oingo
Boingo, The Ramones, Erasure, Blondie, Dance Hall Crashers, Social Distortion,
They Might Be Giants, Enya, P. D. Q. Bach, Tom Lehrer, Basia, and Joyce (the
last two for the obligatory dream sequence love scenes). Sound production by
Saul Zaentz/Fantasy Studios (_Amadeus_).
Special animation sequences by Terry Gilliam.
We do our own special effects.
--Nick (Rutger Hauer plays me, of course...)
Peter da Silva
Greg Wheatley <tali...@tartarus.uwa.edu.au> wrote:
> Here's we we get the money for the animation. We don't need to fake any
>of those dangerous stunts.
Right. Finally we've got a purpose for lusers.
Standins. Oh, and 100 ohm resisors.
Bryant Durrell
Mathew Hennessy <henn...@cloud9.net> wrote:
> BTW: didn't Dan O'Bannon write SCREAMERS? I'm really dying to
>see that movie, but it's playing in Yonkers (cross county) and I _HATE_
>cross county..
Yeah, and unfortunately, it would have been a *keen* movie...
except Dan O'Bannon's dialogue sucks large rocks through a straw.
Sigh. And the ending is a copout but I'm carefully editing my
memories and in the end I'll remember it as having ended the way
P. K. Dick wrote it.
It is, however, still the most faithful P. K. Dick adapation I've
ever seen.
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Lars P. Fischer
The Good, The Bad, and the Sysadmin.
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>>>>> "Alistair" == "Alistair J R Young" <ava...@arkane.demon.co.uk>
Alistair> Probably the best one was changing their prompt to:
Alistair> "Login incorrect.
Alistair> login:"
I always liked putting
echo "sleep 1" >> .login
in .login best.
Dave Brown
Peter da Silva <pe...@taronga.com> wrote:
: In article <4efjlm$h...@zippy.cais.net>,
: W.Q. Snyx <jdf...@cybernothing.org> wrote:
: > Tim Skirvin's got a good start, but until there're scripts
: >avaliable to automagically update my copy every 24 hours (along with the
: >ability to ignore some of the suggestions) I'm just relying on my own.
:
: /Newsgroups: .*alt.is.*/h:j
: /Newsgroups: .*news.admin.policy.*/h:j
: /Newsgroups: .*,.*,.*,.*/h:j
: /Followup-to: .*test.*/h:j
This line has saved me endless trouble:
/^X-Mailer: Mozilla/h:j
--Dave
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Dave Brown
Nathan J. Mehl <nm...@bbnplanet.com> wrote:
: In article <slrn4gicl0....@unix3.netaxs.com>,
: gre...@netaxs.com (Michael Handler) writes:
:
: >Yeah, the Cohn brothers make lots of BOFH-movies.
:
: Heh. You see, the Coen brothers both went to Simon's Rock. Which
: makes them part of the Nathan Conspiracy, along with Abby.
And Daniel Drucker.
I'm sorry. You probably didn't want to know that, did you?
Doug McNaught
>>Do all sysadmins live at 1060 West Addison ?
>
>This is the third time I've seen that address in this group and for the
>life of me I can't figure/remember/imagine/guess what it is. Could some
>kind soul enlighten me? Wait ... a.s.r ... kind soul ... Hmmm ....
Watch _The Blues Brothers_. All will then become clear.
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Greg Wheatley
>So, I think we've got the basis of the cast for _Sysadmins: The Movie_. We
>cast Richard Bohringer (_Diva_, _The Cook, The Wife & Her Lover_) as the
>ultracool IS manager, and Rutger Hauer (_Blade Runner_), James Woods (_Once
>Upon a Time in America_), Linda Fiorentino (_The Last Seduction_), and Kathleen
>Turner (_Serial Mom_, _The War of The Roses_) as his staff. Lily Tomlin, as
>Ernestine, is the Network Manager. Harvey Keitel, reprising his role as Mr.
>Wolf in _Pulp Fiction_, plays the way-too-hands-on company president. Tim Roth
>(_Rob Roy_, _Reservoir Dogs_, _The Cook et. al._) plays the software developer
>trying to join the sysadmin staff.
Call me a fanboy, if you will, but I want to see Jacky Chan in there
somewhere. Maybe as the guy the company president hires to find out
exactly what the admins are trying to hide...
Oh, and Jean Reno as the mysterious guy transferred over from the Paris
office (under clouded circumstances) to learn how they cope with lusers
in the US.
>The Luser Community is literally a cast of millions, and includes Madonna,
>Rosanne, Fabio, The Performer Formerly Known As Prince, Tori Spelling, Dr. Carl
>Sagan, and Bill Gates as "Bob".
Yep. And the girl that played the 'computer genius' in Jurassic Park.
>Ridley Scott is director, Quentin Tarentino screenwriter, and Danny DeVito the
>producer. Cinematographer is either Sacha Vierny (_The Cook et al._,
I want John Woo as director. After all, this _is_ going to be a movie
with some heavy action scenes in it. And anyone who can think of using
babies as ablative shielding (see _Hardboiled_) has got the right
mindset, as far as I'm concerned.
>_Prospero's Books_, _Belle de Jour_) or Philippe Rousselot (_Diva_, _Henry &
>June_, _Interview with the Vampire_).
>Trent Reznor is musical director. Soundtrack features Nine Inch Nails, Oingo
>Boingo, The Ramones, Erasure, Blondie, Dance Hall Crashers, Social Distortion,
>They Might Be Giants, Enya, P. D. Q. Bach, Tom Lehrer, Basia, and Joyce (the
>last two for the obligatory dream sequence love scenes). Sound production by
>Saul Zaentz/Fantasy Studios (_Amadeus_).
Stick in Sarah McLachlan (just for the song _Black_) and this works.
>Special animation sequences by Terry Gilliam.
I suspect this has been thrown in for simple coolness. But hey, if
there's money left in the budget.
>We do our own special effects.
Here's we we get the money for the animation. We don't need to fake any
of those dangerous stunts.
Regards,
Greg
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W.Q. Snyx
Monument <jggo...@vela.acs.oakland.edu> wrote...
> Nathan J. Mehl (nm...@bbnplanet.com) wrote:
> : a good sight stupider than your average net.loon (he fell for
> : the "Usenet Global Killfile" troll when I baited him with it), he
>
> You... mean... there's... no... Global... Killfile?
Tim Skirvin's got a good start, but until there're scripts
avaliable to automagically update my copy every 24 hours (along with the
ability to ignore some of the suggestions) I'm just relying on my own.
/Allisat/f:j
/boursy/f:j
/vfomin/f:j
(I've got more complicated group-specific killfiles for news.groups
and most of the news.admin.* heirarchy.)
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>>c| Blade Runner ("I have seen things you lusers would not believe...").
>
>"... I've seen Sun monitors on fire off the side of the multimedia lab.
> I've seen NTU lights glitter in the dark near the Mail Gate.
> All these things will be lost in time, like the root partition last week.
> Time to die...".
I've just found my new .sig quote. Thanks!
Alistair
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I've seen NTU lights glitter in the dark near the Mail Gate.
All these things will be lost in time, like the root partition last week.
Time to die...". - Peter Gutmann in alt.sysadmin.recovery