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July 27, 2007

Gustavo Picón
tabo
Hacking for fun and profit
» Sysadmin Day: System Administrator Appreciation Day

Nobody else cares, but still:

Newsgroups: alt.sysadmin.recovery
Subject: ADMINSPOTTING
Message-ID: <5cl3le$q24@infoserv.aber.ac.uk>
From: gkb@aber.ac.uk (Gary Barnes)
Date: 28 Jan 1997 14:49:18 -0000
Organization: Ripoffs R Us
X-No-Archive: Yes

Choose no life. Choose sysadminning. Choose no career.        *****
Choose no family. Choose a fucking big computer, choose hard  *   *
disks the size of washing machines, old cars, CD ROM writers  * A *
and electrical coffee makers. Choose no sleep, high caffeine  * D *
and mental insurance. Choose fixed interest car loans. Choose * M *
a rented shoebox. Choose no friends. Choose black jeans and   * I *
matching combat boots. Choose a swivel chair for your office  * N *
in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose NNTP and wondering why  * S *
the fuck you're logged on on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting * P *
in that chair looking at mind-numbing, spirit-crushing web    * O *
sites, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose     * T *
rotting away at the end of it all, pishing your last on some  * T *
miserable newsgroup, nothing more than an embarrassment to    * I *
the selfish, fucked up lusers Gates spawned to replace the    * N *
computer-literate.                                            * G *
Choose your future.                                           *   *
Choose sysadmining[1].                                        *****

Gaz
[1] It might fuck you up a little less than heroin[2].
[2] ObFootnote.
--
 /\./\   gkb@aber.ac.uk (Gary "Wolf" Barnes)
( - - ) "Do not ask any lady to take wine, until you
 \ " /   see she has finished her fish or soup."
  ~~~                - Hints on Etiquette and the Usages of Society

Have a nice sysadmin day!

by tabo at 5:11 PM under sysadmin , unix (Comments)
May 4, 2007

Gustavo Picón
tabo
tabo :: para todos y para nadie
» Educación de Primera

Esto hizo recordar mis épocas universitarias:

Conversando con un amigo sobre un trabajo de SFU.

(11:04:11 PM) tabo: nfs = network file system
(11:04:13 PM) SRM: si pes
(11:04:23 PM) tabo: es el protocolo de file system remoto nativo de unix
(11:04:25 PM) SRM: en eso me estoy enfocando, en el clinete y server de NFS
(11:05:10 PM) tabo: pero nadie usa esa mierda (Ed. aqui me refiero a SFU, no a NFS)
(11:05:13 PM) tabo: todos usan cygwin
(11:05:22 PM) SRM: bueno
(11:05:31 PM) SRM: lo que TODOS usen no es importante para este profe
(11:05:37 PM) SRM: este quiere SFU
(11:05:45 PM) SRM: y se hace lo que el quiere, sino no te graduas
(11:05:51 PM) SRM: asi de sencillo

Que definición tan buena de muchos profesores. Podría armar un blog sobre cosas así, protegiendo la identidad de los "inocentes" claro.

Y al rato cuando el trabajo ya estaba perdido...

(11:34:53 PM) SRM: chekea estas alternativas de floros que le voy a meter al profe
(11:35:19 PM) tabo: jaja a ver
(11:35:21 PM) SRM: "Profe lo que sucede es que Ubuntu esta en Live CD y por eso me bota error
(11:35:25 PM) tabo: jajaja
(11:35:30 PM) SRM: esta es mi favorita
(11:35:36 PM) tabo: buena buena
(11:36:13 PM) SRM: "Profe lo que sucede es que mi AMD Athlon esta con Windows XP de 32 bits, y el Pentium D esta con Ubuntu de 64 bits y por eso bota error"
(11:36:19 PM) SRM: yo creo que esa ultima si se la cree
(11:36:51 PM) tabo: claro es que el stack de tcp/ip se vuelve incompatible por los bits
(11:36:56 PM) tabo: se loquea con los 32 bits de mas
(11:37:03 PM) tabo: y se pierden paquetes
(11:37:08 PM) tabo: con el mtu de 1500 bytes de ethernet
(11:37:19 PM) tabo: "y si no me cree preguntele a ($PROFESOR_DE_REDES) que el me dijo eso"
(11:38:04 PM) SRM: lo redondeo con el nunca bien ponderado "profe Ubuntu usa IPv6 y Windows IPv4 y por eso no se reconocen"
(11:38:10 PM) SRM: que fino jaja
(11:38:41 PM) tabo: claro
(11:38:52 PM) tabo: sabes, piensas, haces
(11:40:25 PM) SRM: o la mejor
(11:40:49 PM) SRM: profe profe grabe mi trabajo en formato Office 2007 y aca en la PC hay 2003 y no lo abre pe
(11:40:55 PM) tabo: jajaja
(11:40:55 PM) SRM: ganador
(11:41:08 PM) tabo: pwnd
(11:41:57 PM) SRM: "omgwtfbbq1111!!!! aca no hay Office 2007 n00bsauce"
(11:57:15 PM) SRM: la de mi pata gana
(11:57:17 PM) SRM: jaja
(11:57:28 PM) SRM: como es 32 bit Windows y 64 bit Ubuntu
(11:57:45 PM) SRM: en Windows tienes que loguearte 2 veces pa que sumen 64 bits

Se protegen las identidades, pero se darán bonus points a los que adivinen la universidad, el curso, el profesor y el alumno.

tags:

by tabo at 12:13 AM under educacion de primera , nfs , recuerdos , universidad , unix
December 13, 2006

Gustavo Picón
tabo
Hacking for fun and profit
» A Microsoft Co-President admits it: Microsoft lost its way

James Allchin, co-president of Microsoft’s Platforms & Services Division:

I’m not sure how the company lost sight of what matters to our customers, both business and home, the most, but in my view we lost our way. I think our teams lost sight of what bug-free means, what resilience means, what full scenarios mean, what security means, what performance means, how important current applications are, and really understanding what the most important problems our customers face are.

(source)

We already knew that Mr. Allchin, please continue.

I see lots of random features and some great vision, but that does not translate into great products.

Well at least you have great marketing.

I would buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsoft.

Why not? Just use the best tool for the job (hint: not Microsoft). After all you are still using Linux servers in portions of your site (via Akamai). And you used Linux for your main site a couple of years ago after worm and virus attacks (Microsoft hides behind Linux for protection). Microsoft just doesn’t get security but hey, you already said that :)

And I’m sure you still remember how your own techies admitted that FreeBSD was superior to Win2k for massive server installs when they migrated the frontend of Hotmail? Oh, and I think the Hotmail backend is still running Solaris?

And of course, since you are responsible of Microsoft’s operating systems, you know that your programmers use Perforce instead of Visual Source Safe?

And of course you know that between your own employees, for every MSN search user there are FOUR Google search users?

I think I get the point Mr. Allchin: If Microsoft doesn’t eat its own dog food anymore because it has lost its way, all your costumers should start doing the exact same thing:

USE THE RIGHT TOOL FOR THE JOB (Hint: NOT Microsoft).

by tabo at 5:27 AM under apple , microsoft , technology , unix (Comments)
May 19, 2006

Gustavo Picón
tabo
Hacking for fun and profit
» Dilbert on UNIX

“Here’s a nickel kid, get yourself a better computer.”

Dilbert on UNIX

Priceless.

by tabo at 5:01 PM under dilbert , funny , unix (Comments)