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Poetry For Sysadmins: Shall I Compare Thee To a Lumbering Bear?
itwbennett writes Don't forget that July 25th is Sysadmin Day — a good day to show love to the folks who save your butt again and again when you mess up your computer. Forget the chocolate and flowers, long-time sysadmin Sandra Henry-Stocker has tailored some poems to celebrate these under appreciated, hard-working souls.
All sysadmins, rise up today. The world is yours for the taking. Nothing can stop you. You hold the keys.
Hmm. That's a weird name for a guy.
I guess 2 is "some".
Check it out. It's very cool.
Especially at http://sysadminday.com/ Site is already down.
Please, for the love of your own mental health, do not click the story's hyperlink to the poems.
They are just bad. I might not have been able to do better if I was in kindergarten. By third grade, yes, I could have. If I just spent five or ten minutes trying.
If you want something to lighten your mood today, check out Despair.com or spend some time reading XKCD. And if you don't get XXKCD, there is ExplainXKCD which can help.
But, please, please, please, don't read those poems that the story's hyperlink points to. They're worse than awful.
Thank you. I unfortunately went to the page to read the poems. They actually depressed me :) :)
Damn, I wish I knew that it was SysAdmin day. Screw it, I am taking a partial day off
sysadmin poetry == Vogon poetry
If I find myself fixing someone's computer, then someone else is not doing their job properly. That's why we have (competent) help-desk staff. As a sysadmin I'm far too busy looking after servers, storage and network to worry about your PC. If I'm doing my job properly, you'll never see me.
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Artificial intelligence is the study of how to make real computers act like the ones in the movies.
Poetry isn't for left-brained types. It is the province of free-thinkers, of artists, it's not really intended for anyone else. The low number of comments on this article is evidence enough nobody cares.
"Poetry is nobody's business except the poet's," wrote Philip Larkin, "and everybody else can fuck off."
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
I find this comment very suiting, too bad he said Mordor rather than Redmond..
There are no atheists when recovering from tape backup.
If you don't get xkcd, there's xkcdexplained, or xkcdsucks, or xkcd-sucks, or xkcdisntfunny.
There are two questions whose both correct answers correlate pretty highly with whether I'm going to get along with someone casually:
(Apologies to Jerry Maguire)
The poems do not even rhyme.
Troll is not a replacement for I disagree.
July 25th is Sysadmin Day
Of what might I of you compare?
When using windows I just sit at the desktop and stare
When using linux it just runs without pain
Maybe I should say it again
When using windows I am in trouble
When using linux it works to the double
But that is only thanks to you
You set my computer up, and suddenly you are through
One two minutes and it is done
Dont have to wait for the programs to run
It just works out of the box
Ubuntu 14.04 rocks
So thanks Sysadmin for making my day
http://www.o-madsen.dk/skriverier/digte/2014/105-July_25th_is_Sysadmin%20Day.php
Seriously.
Mod me down with all of your hatred and your journey towards the dark side will be complete!
The sysadmins I meet in the past were intelligents, sensibles, good-willing and good working peoples. One of them loved photography. Another one told us how he liked to give good food to his family.
I think changing the messages produced by 404 pages so that they produce haiku similar o that produced by BeOS its NetPositive browser runs into a problem would be funny, especially if the sysadmin doesn't know about it!
It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.
This book had a section on how to treat your system admin.
Thought it was great when I first saw it. and it still applies.
I would say a card with money to be spent on drinks,food and a summer super hero movie, would be great.
signed a ex unix/vax/mainframe system admin
and a note for the sysadmins of Slashdot.
One day you will realise the global audience and effect of TIMEZONES.
Either use your CMS to publish stuff in the LOCAL users timezone... or put this stuff out12 -> 24 hours before you are so those of us 10, 12 or more hours ahead of the Slashdot servers see date sensitive stuff on BEFORE the day, rather than AFTER.