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Reminds me of one of my all-time favorites - The 500 mile email https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.htm
by ramanan 10y ago
Reminds me of one of my all-time favorites -
The 500 mile email
https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html
- kornish 10y agoHaha, this was indeed posted with that all-time great in mind.
- jedimastert 10y agoThis is my favorite way of explaining why being a sysadmin is hard and requires more than just knowledge of computers.
- rbolla 10y agonice story ,, Feb 8 2008 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=123489 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=123489
- joshvm 10y agoDon't forget the magic switch: http://catb.org/esr/jargon/html/magic-story.html http://catb.org/esr/jargon/html/magic-story.html (Also mildly upset that units on OS X only has 586 units and 56 prefixes, fortunately brew install gnu-units to the rescue!)
- Fnoord 10y agoFun read! If you're interested in computer stupidities this website (lynx friendly) is one of my favs: http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/ http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/ Most of them aren't related to engineering; rather computer helpdesk stories from the previous century.
- balabaster 10y agoSeconded... great lesson in sleuthing technical problems. There was another that amused me about the server rebooting in a haunted data center: http://www.greendatacenternews.org/articles/763167/the-haunted-data-center-why-data-center-cleaning-s/ http://www.greendatacenternews.org/articles/763167/the-haunt...