May 052009
Now as you may know, in my dayjob, I’m a unix system administrator. The users who use my servers are not secretaries, in fact they are unix programmers… you would imagine a rather high level of unix competence among them… wouldn’t you?
Well… never ever assume competence among professionals I guess… here are the top 5 funniest responses I have had to give to them:
- *Please explain to me why you need a 5 terrabyte of space to hold “Sample test data” ?
- *If you save your work in /tmp, I’m afraid you cannot blame me if it gets deleted.
- *Why exactly would you check out a project from the source repository, onto a network drive… and leave it there ?
- *I’m sorry, I cannot install the software you requested, because it doesn’t exist
- *Next time you wish to kill my server, do me a favor, use a forkbomb. An endless loop that allocates 5gb of disk-space to random data on every run, in a server sitting on a VM with a growable drive is just too cruel…
What’s worse: that was a plural “you”.
I’m not making this up.
No, I’m still not making this up.
Sigh… and the last one, today, while I’m sick and wishing I was in bed.