Neat, windoze 2002 if it ships on schedule and rewrite again for merced. Gives all other OS's a big opening to charge right through.
Keep a log book
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Start a plain old notebook when first installing the machine and write all your settings, references to custom script files, workarounds, start-up procedures, TODO reminders, etc. there.
If the organization is working smoothly and you show this to your boss when leaving, he'll just say to the next one: "I don't care if you don't know Linux. Just do it. Everything is there"
Nice Story, but...
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If you leave... they should have paid you more and the'll miss you when the're MS drone installs NT on it just a shame u won't be there to watch it hit teh fan they might hire you back at 2x pay
Reprehensible
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Yeah, big man, got it all over an eighty-gram kitten. I'm surprised he didn't use a rifle. This fear and hatred of cats--I've never understood it, guess I never will.
Kitten Torture.
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I dont like animal torture at all But seriously this guy tried to find the cat, not torture it. And it worked to. If he hadnt done it the kitten would prolly die because it would never get found Its really annoying when you try to actually fight animal cruelness to see that so much energy is spilled on the wrong cases. Besides, I always wondered did you ever realize that after all this is talk about an animal, not a human child
This employer deserves to die
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I have a Herbert running here. Instant email, the whole shot, yadayadayada.
Another location is proudly proclaiming (braying?) their use of NT, and real soon now they'll have email. And one of these days everybody will be able to use the spiffy color LaserJet. This has been going on for eight months.
So what do I get? Nothing but static, because I'm not using that OS that's in all the magazines.
When you leave, the server will go done, if only because your replacement is too stupid to do a three finger salute. And all the now happy customers will lose the email access will the boy geniuses install the real-soon-now OS.
This is good, especially if your new employment is at a competitor.
It's called the KITA school of management.
The Movement
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I can relate to this story, I have done something very similar myself. The usual settings: a dilbert-like environment, mad bosses and a few clever techies.
We (the techies) realised there was a problem, the management couldn't care less, so something had to be done (tm). We formed an underground movement, put an old 486 PC together, even went as far as using our own private disks, cables and other components to wire it up, loaded Linux (Debian), hid it in a corner (it still looked like a wreck) and we were up and running.
Ah, those were the days, the main servers crashed as often as ever but funnily enough some of us were still able to do the work. Yeah, I know the bosses got a huge freebie and cut time-to-release and much more but they never knew. These guys were more interested in slitting each others throats to get a promotion than to get things to work.
So in the end what had to happen did finally happen: bad management caused the company to fold. The movement took out our private components and went home.
Whoa!!
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I wanted to submit this one, but couldn't do it anonymously:
There were a number of classes in this competition, funny, scary and more. This one fits into all, depending on your point of view:
All of those stories were cool, except for the one where the guy tortures a kitten with a Sun E10k... not my idea of 'cool'.
He should've just shut the system down and let it come out, instead of trying to fry it. What a lamer. And he uses a Linux distro as a prying tool to 'save a kitten and an E10k'...
Kinda dumb story.
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I hope someone got root to herbert
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Someone who can be trusted to not screw up admining him. Not too many people mind you, but enough people that the maintance can be done.
Otherwise he will be gone in a month when everyone realises that the disks are full, and they don't have an clue as to how to fix the probelm.
hot swapable boards and you don't bother to try?
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Come on, what true geek has ever seen a comtpuer with hot swapable motherboards and never wanted to try. Perfect exceuse to see if solaris really will route around such a problem in real time. Pull some boards, get the kitten, put the boards back.
Although turning the power off wouldn't have been a big deal considering this machine is so uncritical that you can consider turning it off for the night.
Aside from it otherwise being 'too much fun', I saw no real reason why not to turn the e10k off, considering he was the one who turned it on in the first place... the 'screaming in pain' comments were an eloquent touch. Perhaps the Cult of the Dead Cow are still looking for writers.
Yet another person to add to your list of 'never hires', unless you or your boss get off on burning kittens (adding torture to the terror undoubtably already experienced from being locked inside an e10k overnight to begin with).
-- rickf@transpect.SPAM-B-GONE.net (remove the SPAM-B-GONE bit)
-- "People will pay big bucks for the luxury of ignorance."
All of those stories were cool, except for the one where the guy tortures a kitten with a Sun E10k... not my idea of 'cool'.
Not mine, either. Although allergic to cat hair, I am a wholehearted cat lover. How he described the poor thing being scared to death made me grind my teeth.
I've got a similar box here. I sneaked it in, it does a lot of stuff which people rely on. And now I'm leaving, and nobody's going to know how to admin it...
That's the "but"... How do you get your employers to realise they need to recruit a replacement who groks UNIX, when your UNIX box was sneaked in through the back door?
Actually, the kitten was the only funny story.
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Quite funny... IMHO it's made up, but it WOULD be fun if it happened:)
The rest is just some "Linux rulez" dumb advocacy.
Flame if you want, it's just my opinion...
ZDNet still sufering from old ilness.
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Anyone remember those days when some popular sites tried to force people to use Windows and IE ? If that wasn't lame enogh for ya, check out Infobeads over on ZDNet. Funy I went there for a Linux story
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Talk about backward mentality ?
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Whole family of Herberts here...
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When I came to work here, the "server" was just a shared directory on my predecessors Win95 workstation. Needed rebooting 3 or 4 times a day to remain visible to the rest of the network.
After a couple of days, I noticed a few old 486's gathering dust in the back room. One trip home to grab my RedHat CD and we had an IP Masquerading Internet gateway, e-mail server, a fast and reliable file server, networked printing, and a MySQL based database server which I am currently converting our Access stuff to (thinking about going with Oracle, but MySQL has been great so far). A little negotiating with our ISP and a check to the InterNIC, and the whole office had full Internet e-mail, complete with our company name as the domain name. All using my boss's $20/month dialup Internet connection (It's now $60 since I switched it to a static IP). This should be upgraded to cable-modem access this month, providing TCI sticks to their schedule. The quoted price for the cable modem will be about $2 less than we pay for the dialup accound plus the dedicated business phone line.
Not a bad range of network services for a couple hundred bucks a year. I haven't even bothered to figure out what the same services would have cost had NT based solutions been used.
Its a shame we all can't do such things
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Just like a fairy tale.:)
I've been trying to put linux on the network at work, but its too non MS for these ppl.
Its a shame that people are becomming some narrow minded. If 200 million isn't spent on advertising it, it obviously isn't any good...:/
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I use to have a funny sig, but slash cut it off, and I forgot what the punchline was.
From my own experience: I quit a job some 3.5 years ago. I had just installed a 386 with Linux as a gateway machine/proxy server between the company's LAN and a leased line to NLnet (now UUNET). That was the first and only Unix-like box there (except one Sun in the software development department) and it sat in a cupboard where nobody noticed it.
Over a year ago I saw their new sysadmin and he told me they were going to replace that setup by an NT server 'real soon now'.
However, I just did a quick scan and it sure looks like they still haven't changed a thing, except for the portmaster that is now connecting it to a higher-speed link. The network services on that box are the same as when I left.
While I don't exactly approve of the way that the kitten was extracted from the E10000, I have to say it was also very irresponsible of the guy who brought the kitten in to work (who would do such a thing), then left it there unattended, let alone that it was left in a room full of potentially dangerous equipment. Not very bright.
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Ahh... don't it give you the
AndyM
Neat, windoze 2002 if it ships on schedule and rewrite again for merced. Gives all other OS's a big opening to charge right through.
Start a plain old notebook when first installing
the machine and write all your settings, references to custom script files, workarounds,
start-up procedures, TODO reminders, etc. there.
If the organization is working smoothly and you show this to your boss when leaving, he'll just say to the next one: "I don't care if you don't know Linux. Just do it. Everything is there"
If you leave...
they should have paid you more and the'll miss you when the're MS drone installs NT on it
just a shame u won't be there to watch it hit teh fan
they might hire you back at 2x pay
Yeah, big man, got it all over an eighty-gram kitten. I'm surprised he didn't use a rifle. This fear and hatred of cats--I've never understood it, guess I never will.
I dont like animal torture at all
But seriously this guy tried to find the cat, not torture it.
And it worked to.
If he hadnt done it the kitten would prolly die because it would never get found
Its really annoying when you try to actually fight animal cruelness to see that so much energy is
spilled on the wrong cases.
Besides, I always wondered did you ever realize that after all this is talk about an animal, not a human child
I have a Herbert running here. Instant email, the whole shot, yadayadayada.
Another location is proudly proclaiming (braying?) their use of NT, and real soon now they'll have email. And one of these days everybody will be able to use the spiffy color LaserJet. This has been going on for eight months.
So what do I get? Nothing but static, because I'm not using that OS that's in all the magazines.
When you leave, the server will go done, if only because your replacement is too stupid to do a three finger salute. And all the now happy customers will lose the email access will the boy geniuses install the real-soon-now OS.
This is good, especially if your new employment is at a competitor.
It's called the KITA school of management.
I can relate to this story, I have done something very similar myself. The usual settings: a dilbert-like environment, mad bosses and a few clever techies.
We (the techies) realised there was a problem, the management couldn't care less, so something had to be done (tm). We formed an underground movement, put an old 486 PC together, even went as far as using our own private disks, cables and other components to wire it up, loaded Linux (Debian), hid it in a corner (it still looked like a wreck) and we were up and running.
Ah, those were the days, the main servers crashed as often as ever but funnily enough some of us were still able to do the work. Yeah, I know the bosses got a huge freebie and cut time-to-release and much more but they never knew. These guys were more interested in slitting each others throats to get a promotion than to get things to work.
So in the end what had to happen did finally happen: bad management caused the company to fold. The movement took out our private components and went home.
There were a number of classes in this competition, funny, scary and more. This one fits into all, depending on your point of view:
We use Linux in defence applications!!
All of those stories were cool, except for the one where the guy tortures a kitten with a Sun E10k... not my idea of 'cool'.
He should've just shut the system down and let it come out, instead of trying to fry it. What a lamer. And he uses a Linux distro as a prying tool to 'save a kitten and an E10k'...
Kinda dumb story.
; -- the corruption of government starts with its secrets. a truly free people keep no secrets. --
Someone who can be trusted to not screw up admining him. Not too many people mind you, but enough people that the maintance can be done.
Otherwise he will be gone in a month when everyone realises that the disks are full, and they don't have an clue as to how to fix the probelm.
Come on, what true geek has ever seen a comtpuer with hot swapable motherboards and never wanted to try. Perfect exceuse to see if solaris really will route around such a problem in real time. Pull some boards, get the kitten, put the boards back.
Although turning the power off wouldn't have been a big deal considering this machine is so uncritical that you can consider turning it off for the night.
Yet another person to add to your list of 'never hires', unless you or your boss get off on burning kittens (adding torture to the terror undoubtably already experienced from being locked inside an e10k overnight to begin with).
--
rickf@transpect.SPAM-B-GONE.net (remove the SPAM-B-GONE bit)
"People will pay big bucks for the luxury of ignorance."
Not mine, either. Although allergic to cat hair, I am a wholehearted cat lover. How he described the poor thing being scared to death made me grind my teeth.
Regards, Jochen
Regards, Geewiz
I've got a similar box here. I sneaked it in, it
does a lot of stuff which people rely on. And
now I'm leaving, and nobody's going to know
how to admin it...
That's the "but"... How do you get your employers
to realise they need to recruit a replacement who
groks UNIX, when your UNIX box was sneaked in through the back door?
Quite funny ... IMHO it's made up, but it WOULD be fun if it happened :)
...
The rest is just some "Linux rulez" dumb advocacy.
Flame if you want, it's just my opinion
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Talk about backward mentality ?
--= Isn't it surprising how badly I spell ?
When I came to work here, the "server" was just a shared directory on my predecessors Win95 workstation. Needed rebooting 3 or 4 times a day to remain visible to the rest of the network.
After a couple of days, I noticed a few old 486's gathering dust in the back room. One trip home to grab my RedHat CD and we had an IP Masquerading Internet gateway, e-mail server, a fast and reliable file server, networked printing, and a MySQL based database server which I am currently converting our Access stuff to (thinking about going with Oracle, but MySQL has been great so far). A little negotiating with our ISP and a check to the InterNIC, and the whole office had full Internet e-mail, complete with our company name as the domain name. All using my boss's $20/month dialup Internet connection (It's now $60 since I switched it to a static IP). This should be upgraded to cable-modem access this month, providing TCI sticks to their schedule. The quoted price for the cable modem will be about $2 less than we pay for the dialup accound plus the dedicated business phone line.
Not a bad range of network services for a couple hundred bucks a year. I haven't even bothered to figure out what the same services would have cost had NT based solutions been used.
Just like a fairy tale. :)
:/
I've been trying to put linux on the network at work, but its too non MS for these ppl.
Its a shame that people are becomming some narrow minded. If 200 million isn't spent on advertising it, it obviously isn't any good...
I use to have a funny sig, but slash cut it off, and I forgot what the punchline was.
From my own experience: I quit a job some 3.5 years ago. I had just installed a 386 with Linux as a gateway machine/proxy server between the company's LAN and a leased line to NLnet (now UUNET). That was the first and only Unix-like box there (except one Sun in the software development department) and it sat in a cupboard where nobody noticed it.
Over a year ago I saw their new sysadmin and he told me they were going to replace that setup by an NT server 'real soon now'.
However, I just did a quick scan and it sure looks like they still haven't changed a thing, except for the portmaster that is now connecting it to a higher-speed link. The network services on that box are the same as when I left.
--B
While I don't exactly approve of the way that the kitten was extracted from the E10000, I have to say it was also very irresponsible of the guy who brought the kitten in to work (who would do such a thing), then left it there unattended, let alone that it was left in a room full of potentially dangerous equipment. Not very bright.