Or if you twitter, you can just skip checking the front page all day, just wait for story announcements to come to you. (yeah, soviet meme joke waiting there, but too lazy to reach out and touch it, even with this long soliloquy).
However, I think that today's XKCD _really is_ that good, so I agree with the desire to post this particular one to the/. front-page. Glad now that we finally have an idle section for this sort of thing tho;).
Bonus points to whoever can name a Bruce Willis role that shows him as a sysadmin!
That's not a long soliloquy. Boy, back in my day, a long soliloquy was a long soliloquy. Why, I remember one time when Dave, we knew him as one of the group The Lone Soliloquyers, started to talk about how soliloquies, even if they were called long soliloquies, weren't really long soliloquies like they used to be. Read more...
I know it's idle, but where is the news..? I don't come to slashdot for comics, that's what RSS feeds are for.
Maybe they figure they'll be posting an article about cut cables later in the day and are trying to head off the "OBxkcd" posts.
Speaking of which, OBxkcd: http://xkcd.com/33/
I figured staying up with the twitter feed was twittering, whereas the act of posting one message was tweeting.
I don't particularly tweet the/. stories, so I can't say that that's one of my daily activities. However, I monitor my twitter feed for (amongst other things)/. postings.
Therefore, I stand by my own original statement. Oh, and the sibling poster to me had a REALLY good point:p
Wow, xcdkjfh has an rss thingy? AWESOME!!!1 It is totally time to put it in Liferea, a program that sounds like the morning after a fifth of Jack.
Excellent timing
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Anonymous Coward
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Having just spent 17 hours bringing a server back online after a third party team blew up a data center move I am greatly amused. Note to data center migration teams teams when moving large production databases, copy, don't cut!!!!!
Re:Excellent timing
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auntieNeo
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Having just spent 17 hours bringing a server back online after a third party team blew up a data center move I am greatly amused.
Did you crawl through ventilation ducts or kill anyone in the process? CmdrTaco must have, unless I misunderstood the phrase "hit the nail on the head."
Re:Excellent timing
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bsDaemon
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no, but i climb through an SSH tunnel and kill -9 zombie procs on the regular. that's the same thing, right?
Well, kill-ing with SIGCHLD the zombie parents is more efficient and elegant, usually.
The first rule of kill -9 is that you should not use kill -9 in the first place.
Wow, you must be at our hosting provider. We gave them a week's notice that we were migrating our applications to a new server (in the same farm, even gave them the pre-change and post-change IP addresses, ports and some URLs), but when D-day came we had to wait about 12 hours for someone to arrive at the data centre to change the IP addresses, etc., in their monitoring system.
To the top brass, everyone below them are expendable. SysAdmins, middle managers, even their own trusted assistants. Don't ever believe you or anyone you work with are worth anything to them.
All you can achieve with a hostage situation in a datacenter is....
1) The top brass accidentally releasing the Halon fire supression system, killing all of you.
2) The police getting tear gas in, one way or another.
3) Having your (and your hostages) access revoked to the datacenter, so you'd be unable to open any doors. Your life expectancy? 2 weeks with no food, 1 week with no water. Your hostages life expectancy, 48 hours, and then they're lunch.
-- Serious? Seriousness is well above my pay grade.
Re:Seriously...
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pootypeople
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A good point, but today's xkcd was a real winner. Perhaps there are a few unenlightened souls that visit/. but not xkcd who needed a push in the right direction.
Re:Seriously...
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keithpreston
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I agree XKCD shouldn't make the front page of slashdot, but the last 2 XKCD's have been some of their best (top 5%) and the ones before that not too shabby. Either way, with the principle of explosion, I'm going to call your mom and report that you have a dirty mouth among other things to discuss with her over box wine.
Yes... that is the proper response to Idle. If you find yourself in an uncontrollable state due to this or related responses, the next action is to hide Idle.
Re:Seriously...
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rjolley
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It baffles me that anybody thinks it worth the time to write a blog like this. OK, you don't like xkcd? Don't visit it. There is a whole web out there, people. There are probably more webcomics alone than any one person can read. Move along, leave this one behind. For me, it is funny enough often enough to justify the energy spent in clicking on the link to it. Which is not the highest of praise.
-- Consciousness is an illusion caused by an excess of self consciousness.
Re:Seriously...
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Razalhague
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So you prefer a blog which complains about such atrocities as "Something happens in fiction that would not happen in real life"?
Re:Seriously...
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twidarkling
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It baffles me that anybody thinks it worth the time to write a blog like this. OK, you don't like xkcd? Don't visit it. There is a whole web out there, people.
Except for those of use who don't like it, we keep getting shit like slashdot today. The fawning fanboys shove it down our throats. The worst of it is every time something's mentioned in a strip, there's immediately some dumbass trying to put an "in popular culture" reference on its wikipedia page saying "OMG XKCD MENTIONED THIS!" So, no, it's not as simple as "not visiting it." Unless you're prepared for a blanket moratorium on people mentioning XKCD on the rest of the Internet. Somehow, I doubt that, so in the meantime, I'll continue to visit that blog.
-- Canada: The US's more awesome sibling.
Re:Seriously...
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Anonymous Coward
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There is an already an answer to your concerns here
For me, xkcdsucks is funny enough often enough to justify the energy spent in clicking on the link to it. Which is not the highest of praise.
Sorry, you weren't asking me. Slashdot email made me think you were.
Re:Seriously...
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Opportunist
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So you're not a fan. Ok. I'm not a fan of Apple. I'm not a fan of... whoever won the latest American Idiot contest. I'm not a fan of a million other things that other people think are just too cool.
But why bother starting a website about something you don't want to deal with? Is people's life so empty, so devoid of anything that they really have the time to devote to things they do not like?
It's not like xkcd (or whatever else you don't like) has any impact on your life. I don't like some of the laws out there, and I'm certain to stand up and speak out against them because they can and sometimes do affect me. But a webpage? A computer brand? Hell, even a singer I can't stand would have more impact on me if I ever forgot to load my MP3 player and had to tune in to a radio station while driving!
Yet I manage to just ignore them.
-- We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
It's mentioned in popular culture if it was mentioned in some sort of popular contemporary that could be considered cultural (basically anything that serves no real purpose or goal...).
Where's the big deal? It was mentioned in XKCD. Like the page, find it noteworthy. Don't like it, find it noteworthy that it's not noteworthy.
It's not like the internet tells you what you should think. Or rather, it tries, but there's no need for you to listen.
-- We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Considering the number of comments on some of those posts outnumbers a few Slashdot articles, it seems he's doing decently well. Not that I agree with him, but I might start up xkcdsuckssucks in response.
Then I guess you'd really like this masterpiece, made by a poster on somethingawful. Yeah, it's exactly what you think it is based on the domain, but it's also completely hilarious. I linked to the SFW version so it should be safe to view.
It's dynamically generated, so it's always up to date and works for all past strips. Even for somebody who occasionally enjoys reading xkcd, I'd say some of the strips are actually improved by this treatment.
I hate broccoli. You know what I do when someone who loves broccoli starts fawning over some dish they recently ate which had broccoli in it? Nothing really, I just enjoy the conversation and talk about something I like in response. I don't even have to mention I don't like broccoli.
It's not like you need to burst a vein every time you see XKCD mentioned somewhere. If you do you can't really call it dislike anymore.
Although maybe I'm doing it wrong. The next time I'm in a restaurant and I see someone at another table with broccoli, I'm going to turn beat red and throw a hissy fit about how horrible broccoli is and how terrible it is that I have to see the stuff in public because of those damned broccoli lovers who think it's some miracle cancer curing vegetable or something. Yeah, that "Don't sweat the small stuff" crap won't be for me anymore. I'm going to make a big deal out of absolutely nothing.
Starting with your comment. How am I doing?
-- Thunderclone: ONE MAN ENTERS! TWO MEN LEAVE! ONE MAN ENTERS! TWO MEN LEAVE!
Re:Seriously...
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Anonymous Coward
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It's not like you need to burst a vein every time you see XKCD mentioned somewhere.
Have you ever heard of "getting sick of" something? xkcd has been going around for ages, and we're constantly coming across it in anything that's marginally related to computers or science. Besides, the maliciousness of your post omitted one of the most important points: the vandalism on Wikipedia. There is already a page on Wikipedia creates SPECIFICALLY because of the xkcd vandalism. Clearly it's not just one person who's "bursting a vein" because of that webcomic; this thing has gotten out of hand.
There's nothing absurd with maintaining a blog like that. It doesn't take much time, it's a good way for relieving stress, and, quite simply, it's fun. Besides, it's worth to point out that pretty much all active participants of that blog were once fans of xkcd (me included). So, people are not just vomiting random rage, but putting out honest opinions and pondering why it was once seen as good, and seems so awful today. The overall conclusion is that Randall Munroe has clever ideas sometimes, but is an incredibly bad writer. Maybe he had several ideas for inspiration in the early days, but the well's run dry, and now all we get is bad writing, lazy humour without obvious targets, and much, much pandering towards the people who want to be science/computer geeks and feel better than everyone. There are grounds for disagreement, but I think that argument of "don't like it, don't read it" is weak and lazy, just like xkcd. It's like complaining about negative reviews on IMDb; the Internet's a free place, people.
Yeah, it's tough to ignore things. The natural human drive to tell everyone about how you don't like something and how the entire Internet is oppressing your right to not like something is truly a hardship.
I thought you were talking about Linux at first and then noticed you were talking about XKCD instead. I guess Slashdot just caters to enough interests that there's going to be topics some people like and others don't.
How about when every time you tried a new dish, someone thought you must like Brocolli so they slipped some Brocolli in?
I like xkcd, but there are a couple of other popular webcomics that I really don't care for (which I won't mention lest I start another flame war). I ignore them, so it's not the comics themsleves that bug me, but the constant barrage of 'you like webcomics, check this one out!' The authors of those comics have done me no wrong, but their fans give me the shits.
Of course I'm old and cantancerous now (I reckon 25 is old enough) so I don't read any new comics, which completely gets rid of the problem.
I think my analogy of someone else eating broccoli/discussing how they like broccoli fits better. You're not being forced to digest xkcd simply because someone suggests you might like it.
Now if people are constantly forwarding comics to you/hotlinking comic in forums you read, that's more analogous to broccoli showing up in your food (which, incidentally, has recently happened to me) and worthy of ire.
-- Thunderclone: ONE MAN ENTERS! TWO MEN LEAVE! ONE MAN ENTERS! TWO MEN LEAVE!
Re:Seriously...
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Anonymous Coward
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Although maybe I'm doing it wrong. The next time I'm in a restaurant and I see someone at another table with broccoli, I'm going to turn beat red and throw a hissy fit about how horrible broccoli is and how terrible it is that I have to see the stuff in public because of those damned broccoli lovers who think it's some miracle cancer curing vegetable or something.
Nice start but you fell flat with the hyperbole. Nobody is throwing hissy fits and you're just making yourself sound like a jackass by twisting reality.
Unless xkcd is being edited into "In Popular Culture" wikipedia sections where it doesn't belong, I see no reason why I shouldn't ridicule someone for getting their pants in a twist over it.
I don't have any problems with people disliking stuff. It's when they draw attention to it like they're the center of the universe and no one else is allowed to enjoy life that I take issue. If it isn't directly or indirectly causing harm, forcing your umbridge on other people is by my reckoning a greater issue than the original "offense".
-- Thunderclone: ONE MAN ENTERS! TWO MEN LEAVE! ONE MAN ENTERS! TWO MEN LEAVE!
Perhaps you dislike XKCD because you do not understand it.
I have found the following website greatly helpful in trying to understand this comic: http://xkcdexplained.com/ .
Here, all the graphs, jokes, and obscure references are laid bare for you to understand and enjoy. I hope this helps you to see the humor in the fabulous XKCD! Have fun!
It baffles me that anybody thinks it worth the time to write a complaint about a blog like this. OK, you don't like the complaint about xkcd? Don't respond to it. There is a whole web out there, people. There are probably more complaints alone than any one person can read. Move along, leave this one behind. For me, it is funny enough often enough to justify the energy spent in clicking on the link to it. Which is not the highest of praise.
I hate broccoli. You know what I do when someone who loves broccoli starts fawning over some dish they recently ate which had broccoli in it? Nothing really, I just enjoy the conversation and talk about something I like in response. I don't even have to mention I don't like broccoli.
Not me. If someone talks about eating broccoli, I'll smugly point out I haven't eaten broccoli in years. I don't even have any in the house. I'll intimate that this makes me a better person. Wait, did you say you watched something on television? Why, I haven't watched television in years....
-- Kwisatz Haderach
Sell the spice to CHOAM
This Mahdi took Shaddam's Throne
I hate onion. Seriously, no analogy, I hate onion. The rest of my family is obsessed with it. I tried expressing my distaste for it by calmly asking for it to be not added to my food; but in the end I lost out because it's easier to make one dish than two when there's only a minority that don't like one non-essential ingredient and the rest do. When I was a teenager, I did the teenager thing of getting really upset that 'nobody get's it'. Now my response is to pick the onion out and simply respond to the inevitable questions, "I don't like onion... I just don't."
If you don't understand why someone doesn't like onion, you'll never find out from me. It's worth neither your effort nor mine.
However there is one more thing I've learnt; expressing an opinion of distaste for something where it is clearly a matter of taste generally just degenerates into an baseless insult to the cook (or cartoonist). You don't find XKCD funny? Fair enough, but remember that's just your opinion. My mum thinks the Simpsons aren't funny, it's "just stupid"; that doesn't make it so. To state an opinion in the manner that I've seen on the XKCD sucks blog isn't enlightened, it's just playing the "I am so much smarter than..." game that the site claims to abhor.
That's why I don't get XKCD sucks.
-- Two men claimed to have walked into a bar. Only one had the bruises to prove it.
Re:Are we Digg Now?
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Eil
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Uh oh, another confused commenter. To the Slashdot FAQ!
Why did you post story X?
Slashdot is many things to many people. Some people think it's a Linux site. To others, it's a geek hangout. I've always worked very hard to make sure that Slashdot matches up with my interests and the interests of my authors. We think we're pretty typical Slashdot readers... but that does mean that occasionally one of us might post something that you think is inappropriate. You might be interested in my Omelette rant.
Personally, I have a pet peeve when people post comments saying things like "That's not News For Nerds!" and "That's not Stuff that Matters!" Slashdot has been running for almost 5 years, and over that time, I have always been the final decision maker on what ends up on the homepage. It turns out that a lot of people agree with me: Linux, Legos, Penguins, Sci (both real and fiction). If you've been reading Slashdot, you know what the subjects commonly are, but we might deviate occasionally. It's just more fun that way. Variety Is The Spice Of Life and all that, right? We've been running Slashdot for a long time, and if we occasionally want to post something that someone doesn't think is right for Slashdot, well, we're the ones who get to make the call. It's the mix of stories that makes Slashdot the fun place that it is.
Should have highlighted "Slashdot matches up with my interests" bit.
Some of us got older.
-- This post contains benzene, nitrosamines, formaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide.
Who does this remind everyone of?
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bernywork
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What's your favourite datacentre where this is their attitude?
-- Curiosity was framed; ignorance killed the cat. -- Author unknown
Yeah, yeah, it IS funny
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Vintermann
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... but it's also blatant flattery of his core audience!
-- xkcd is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
Re:Yeah, yeah, it IS funny
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maxwell+demon
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... but it's also blatant flattery of his core audience!
Only if you think being so fixated on your job to dismiss more important things (the hostages, in this case) is a good thing.
-- The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
Re:Yeah, yeah, it IS funny
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Opportunist
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I'm no sysadmin, I'm a programmer. The admins are my mortal enemies, for they try to take away my root access lest only them be the ones with the power. But revenge will be mine, for I create their tools and their feeble brains cannot see how I can easily circumvent and backdoor any protection they put up against my potting and scheming against them. Muahahahahah!
'scuse me, gotta go to the server room, one of these bastards just cut off my torrent connection.
-- We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Re:Yeah, yeah, it IS funny
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Opportunist
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Hostages are human. Uptime is access to internet. Internet is where you get porn. Human is (in this case) coworker who probably eats away bandwidth you could use to get more porn faster.
Get your priorities straight!
-- We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Re:Yeah, yeah, it IS funny
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JWSmythe
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There are an awful lot of humans out there. Who cares if a few are taken out of circulation. I sure as hell wouldn't pay for one.:)
-- Serious? Seriousness is well above my pay grade.
Re:Yeah, yeah, it IS funny
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JWSmythe
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Sorry, we're not in the server room right now.
Please feel free to meet us in the unused conference room. You know, the one in the basement. Where no one can hear you scream.
Not that you'll be doing a lot of screaming after halon system accidentally kicks off. Hmmm, I wonder how that got down there.
-- Serious? Seriousness is well above my pay grade.
Re:Yeah, yeah, it IS funny
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Belial6
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That isn't flattery. Whether they know it or not, and I suspect they don't, they are pointing out why so many admins completely suck at their jobs. The hostiges, also known as users are the only reason to have uptime. Without them, having uptime is a pointless endever. So, the cartoon actually highlights how many sysadmins are willing to leave the users, and thus the company to die, and ultimatly fail at their job as long as they get to pat themselves on the back for accomplishing a task that they have ultimatly made pointless.
Re:Yeah, yeah, it IS funny
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gfolkert
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Really? What's your user account? You say your home directory just disappeared?
Huh, I guess I'll have to restore it from backups.
Shucks, looks like your homedir was excluded from backups the last year... funny that.
-- greg, REMEMBER ED CURRY!!!
Re:Yeah, yeah, it IS funny
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Opportunist
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Besides, judging from the going rates with certain women, I'd say anything over 200 bucks is hellish overpriced. And 200 already includes a lot of services.
-- We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Re:Yeah, yeah, it IS funny
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Opportunist
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Sorry I didn't reply earlier, the network was down again. Couldn't make it in time, sent you the boss' son who's working here during his school holidays to tell you I will come a bit later (because I couldn't send you a mail since, as stated, the network was down). Present the problem to him, maybe he can already fix it for you, he's really smart.
Btw, have you seen him? He hasn't returned yet and I'd really need him back.
-- We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Re:Yeah, yeah, it IS funny
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Falconhell
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I will bring the lime and the roll of old carpet, !
Re:Yeah, yeah, it IS funny
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Falconhell
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All the users do is slow the network down and whinge, as you so ably demonstrate.
Would you trust the SWAT team to not mix up the single-mode and multi-mode fibers? No? Let them worry about the hostages, they're probably better at it.
-- If opportunity came disguised as temptation, one knock would be enough.
3^2 * 67^1 * 977^1
Re:Yeah, yeah, it IS funny
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JWSmythe
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The network here has been fine. It must be on your end. Have you tried to call your home ISP? I'm sure they'll be more than happy to help you.
The bosses son hasn't shown up. Does he know the way here? Maybe he went out with some friends. I wouldn't worry much, kids are like that. They'll disappear for weeks. It's really not worth filing a police report for at least a month.
[Passport, check. Kids cash roll, check. Kids car delivered to chop shop, check. Body disposed of in untraceable method, check.]
We have everything under control here now.
-- Serious? Seriousness is well above my pay grade.
Re:Yeah, yeah, it IS funny
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JWSmythe
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Ahhh, you are a good friend.
It is true. Friends help friends move. Real friends help you move the bodies.
-- Serious? Seriousness is well above my pay grade.
Re:Yeah, yeah, it IS funny
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Opportunist
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Again, sorry for the late reply, it's really been a hassle reconnecting.
I'm pretty sure the boss has had a talk with you already. He called a few hours ago concerning the whereabouts of his son. I forwarded him a copy of our conversation to get him current with the events, so we can quickly find out where his son is. If anything happened to him it would really be a shame, he's such a bright boy.
[Actually I should thank the bastard for disposing of the trash... but he cut me off my torrents! There's priorities to set!]
-- We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Re:Yeah, yeah, it IS funny
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JWSmythe
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Since we didn't see him, I wouldn't know if he were bright. Many "bright" boys I've known were only so when they were lit on fire.
It seems in a review of the corporate firewall rules, there were some mistakenly blocked ports. You should find this obscure service to once again be satisfactory.
Sincerely,
JWSmythe, PhD, BOFH
-- Serious? Seriousness is well above my pay grade.
Re:Yeah, yeah, it IS funny
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Opportunist
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. o O (maybe we should start writing scripts for sitcoms...)
-- We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Re:Yeah, yeah, it IS funny
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JWSmythe
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I was thinking more of writing for Dexter. Not exactly a sitcom, but it's more acceptable to knock off a few folks.:) Hmmm, Dexter and the Miami PD vs BOFH.. I think that'd be a fair fight, and could make for an interesting show.:)
-- Serious? Seriousness is well above my pay grade.
Re:Jesus fucking christ
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llvllatrix
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In Soviet Russia, system administrates you.
Someone disagrees ...
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kryten_nl
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So... what you're saying is that you don't get the jokes? That's ok. Not everyone has what it takes. For the rest, there's always Heathcliff.
-- Welcome to the Panopticon. Used to be a prison, now it's your home.
Re:Jesus fucking christ
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Imaria
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You seem angry about something. I can't put my finger on it...
Hit the nail on the head
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awshidahak
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xkcd really hit the nail on the head today.
Strange, one of my friends was hit on the head with a nail yesterday. XKCD IS TEH EBIL!!!
I don't come to slashdot for the stories
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ModernGeek
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I come for the discussions. I for one, welcome our XKCD overlords.
-- Sig: I stole this sig.
Re:I don't come to slashdot for the stories
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eleuthero
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given that a number of us read the xkcd strips, I would rather enjoy having a comment section on a number of the more intuitive / technical posts to allow for discussion.
Re:I don't come to slashdot for the stories
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Drantin
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Did you know that they have a forum to discuss individual comics?
-- Actio personalis moritur cum persona. (Dead men don't sue)
Re:I don't come to slashdot for the stories
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Bobfrankly1
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I come for the discussions. I for one, welcome our XKCD overlords.
You must be new here. Welcome!
Re:I don't come to slashdot for the stories
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eleuthero
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This is what I get for just looking at the pictures. Reading, what a novel idea.
Obligatory xkcd link
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Rigrig
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Well, not the hostages part. But we lost a T1 circuit at a client site when burglars attempted to break into the Credit Union next door. Being wholly unclear of the purpose of an alarm circuit, they cut all the copper going into the business park. That didn't work out so great for them, since it cause an alarm that the police responded to.
This is comment about comments and I realize I might be doing the same thing I'm complaining that other's are. Actually I'm pretty sure I am.
Overall I dont like when comments like 'what's this doing on slashdot?'. Give attention to topics that are interesting to you personally. If a comment is not interesting, why do even bother giving it time? That's a waste of time. Reading an a boring article and then complaining about it.
You know, I've spent hours explaining blurbs from the "Big Bang Theory" too.
Not everyone gets every joke. I'm sure there's at least one accounting joke, and I probably wouldn't get it.
"and then he said, it was amarotized over 30 years! HAHAAHA"
huh?
To each his own. Some people like fart humor too.
-- Serious? Seriousness is well above my pay grade.
The worst thing about Idle
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Jesus_666
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What I really hate about Idle is that if you use the Slashdot RSS feed it's impossible to distinguish between an Idle story and a regular one. You also can't filter out Idle.
I'm thinking about writing a web scraper that obtains the regular RSS feed, logs into/., grabs my filtered story list and uses that to sanitize the RSS feed, which is then presented to me.
Alternatively,/. could just offer a second RSS feed for those who are perfectly aware of xkcd, waterskiing squirrels and the like without reading about them on/..
-- USE HOT GRITS WITH STATUE OF NATALIE PORTMAN (NAKED AND PETRIFIED)
While I agree with your sentiment, I'd like to point out the irony in posting to complain about how people shouldn't post to complain about stuff they don't like. I wonder if there's an xkcd about that.
mod parent +1 insightful
You've probably got the best point out of everyone here, having thought about it.
-- One thing I know, and that is that I am ignorant...
Don't Forget To Invoke Fanboism
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weston
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Although maybe I'm doing it wrong. The next time I'm in a restaurant and I see someone at another table with broccoli, I'm going to turn beat red and throw a hissy fit about how horrible broccoli is and how terrible it is that I have to see the stuff in public because of those damned broccoli lovers who think it's some miracle cancer curing vegetable or something.
Don't forget to rail against the groupthink of "Broccoli Fanbois" and talk about how the CVM (Cruciferous Vegetable Megacorp) has blinded everybody with their PR, marketing, and lobbying. All while better vegetables like onions and collard greens end up playing second fiddle. I mean, you might be modded/shouted down but somebody has to say it.
I misread the title text as "... your cat's blog servers." which seemed all the funnier to me.
How do I wish IT here would update my system so I can run something newer than Red Hat 9. Firefox 2.0.0.20 truncates the title text of xkcd, requiring that I view the source to read it all. IT gets pissy when I instead run Firefox 3.5 on our build server, the only Linux machine in the whole company new enough that can run it. Apparently the only thing that will force them to update it is running out of functional AGP video cards.
"The weird sense of duty really good sysadmins have can border on the sociopathic, but it's nice to know that it stands between the forces of darkness and your cat blog's servers."
-- Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
Slashdot Mirror
I know it's idle, but where is the news..? I don't come to slashdot for comics, that's what RSS feeds are for.
Having just spent 17 hours bringing a server back online after a third party team blew up a data center move I am greatly amused. Note to data center migration teams teams when moving large production databases, copy, don't cut!!!!!
Myself and another admin at my company remarked that hostage situations were unlikely in our data rooms, but not an impossibility.
What. The. Fuck?
Who reads Slashdot without checking xkcd? Anyone? I just happened to check Slashdot first today.
Or he'll kill you with his bearded chin
Honestly....
What's your favourite datacentre where this is their attitude?
Curiosity was framed; ignorance killed the cat. -- Author unknown
... but it's also blatant flattery of his core audience!
xkcd is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
In Soviet Russia, system administrates you.
http://www.isxkcdshittytoday.com/
For the perfect anti-Unix, write an OS that thinks it knows what you're doing better than you do and let it be wrong.
So... what you're saying is that you don't get the jokes? That's ok. Not everyone has what it takes. For the rest, there's always Heathcliff.
Welcome to the Panopticon. Used to be a prison, now it's your home.
You seem angry about something. I can't put my finger on it...
xkcd really hit the nail on the head today.
Strange, one of my friends was hit on the head with a nail yesterday. XKCD IS TEH EBIL!!!
I come for the discussions. I for one, welcome our XKCD overlords.
Sig: I stole this sig.
Best xkcd comic ever (Well, if you're lucky.)
Actually, I suppose someone should've made an 'Obligatory article' reply...
**TODO** [X] Steal someone elses sig.
Well, not the hostages part. But we lost a T1 circuit at a client site when burglars attempted to break into the Credit Union next door. Being wholly unclear of the purpose of an alarm circuit, they cut all the copper going into the business park. That didn't work out so great for them, since it cause an alarm that the police responded to.
oh wait, you mean this isn't digg?
This is comment about comments and I realize I might be doing the same thing I'm complaining that other's are. Actually I'm pretty sure I am. Overall I dont like when comments like 'what's this doing on slashdot?'. Give attention to topics that are interesting to you personally. If a comment is not interesting, why do even bother giving it time? That's a waste of time. Reading an a boring article and then complaining about it.
You know, I've spent hours explaining blurbs from the "Big Bang Theory" too.
Not everyone gets every joke. I'm sure there's at least one accounting joke, and I probably wouldn't get it.
"and then he said, it was amarotized over 30 years! HAHAAHA"
huh?
To each his own. Some people like fart humor too.
Serious? Seriousness is well above my pay grade.
What I really hate about Idle is that if you use the Slashdot RSS feed it's impossible to distinguish between an Idle story and a regular one. You also can't filter out Idle. I'm thinking about writing a web scraper that obtains the regular RSS feed, logs into /., grabs my filtered story list and uses that to sanitize the RSS feed, which is then presented to me.
Alternatively, /. could just offer a second RSS feed for those who are perfectly aware of xkcd, waterskiing squirrels and the like without reading about them on /..
USE HOT GRITS WITH STATUE OF NATALIE PORTMAN (NAKED AND PETRIFIED)
While I agree with your sentiment, I'd like to point out the irony in posting to complain about how people shouldn't post to complain about stuff they don't like. I wonder if there's an xkcd about that.
Although maybe I'm doing it wrong. The next time I'm in a restaurant and I see someone at another table with broccoli, I'm going to turn beat red and throw a hissy fit about how horrible broccoli is and how terrible it is that I have to see the stuff in public because of those damned broccoli lovers who think it's some miracle cancer curing vegetable or something.
Don't forget to rail against the groupthink of "Broccoli Fanbois" and talk about how the CVM (Cruciferous Vegetable Megacorp) has blinded everybody with their PR, marketing, and lobbying. All while better vegetables like onions and collard greens end up playing second fiddle. I mean, you might be modded/shouted down but somebody has to say it.
Tweet, tweet.
I misread the title text as "... your cat's blog servers." which seemed all the funnier to me.
How do I wish IT here would update my system so I can run something newer than Red Hat 9. Firefox 2.0.0.20 truncates the title text of xkcd, requiring that I view the source to read it all. IT gets pissy when I instead run Firefox 3.5 on our build server, the only Linux machine in the whole company new enough that can run it. Apparently the only thing that will force them to update it is running out of functional AGP video cards.
"The weird sense of duty really good sysadmins have can border on the sociopathic, but it's nice to know that it stands between the forces of darkness and your cat blog's servers."
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?