Humor: Know your System Administrator

x2oxen · Post by **x2oxen** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 12:53 pm

The joke on this page was obtained from the FSF’s email archives of the GNU Project:

There are four major species of Unix sysad:
1.The TECHNICAL THUG. Usually a systems programmer who has been forced into system administration; writes scripts in a polyglot of the Bourne shell, sed, C, awk, perl, and APL.

2.The ADMINISTRATIVE FASCIST. Usually a retentive drone (or rarely, a harridan ex-secretary) who has been forced into system administration.

3.The MANIAC. Usually an aging cracker who discovered that neither the Mossad nor Cuba are willing to pay a living wage for computer espionage. Fell into system administration; occasionally approaches major competitors with indesp schemes.

4.The IDIOT. Usually a cretin, morpohodite, or old COBOL programmer selected to be the system administrator by a committee of cretins, morphodites, and old COBOL programmers.

HOW TO IDENTIFY YOUR SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR:

Manners Taliban · Post by **lambda** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 2:24 pm

why didn't you post the entire thing, or a link to it?

http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/know.your.sysadmin.html

x2oxen · Post by **x2oxen** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 7:02 pm

because i knew that you gonna provide the full link!