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Jokes For Geeks – Prepare For Laughter

This article was written on November 27, 2006 by CyberNet.

System Administrator Looking for a good laugh today? I wasn’t until I came across two sites that are just hilarious. The second one that I’ll mention is a little funnier than the first but they are both sure to give you a chuckle.

The first one comes from a Google Blogger employee who noticed some common phrases in the code that people wrote. He used the Google Code Search to pull up the results and here are my favorites:

The second site is a list of 101 things that you do not want your System Administrator to say (well, the list only has 97 things so it is short 4 ). Picture yourself as an employee that is hearing some of these:

What software license?
What do you mean that wasn’t a copy?
Where’s the GUI on this thing?
Damn, and I just bought that pop…
The drive ate the tape but that’s OK, I brought my screwdriver.
What’s this “any” key I’m supposed to press?
Do you smell something?
I have never seen it do *that* before…
What do you mean you needed that directory?
Oracle will be down until 8pm, but you can come back in and finish your work when it comes up tonight.
Wonder what this command does?
You did what to the floppy???
What do you mean that could take down the whole network?
The backup procedure works fine, but the restore is tricky!
It is only a minor upgrade, the system should be back up in a few hours. (This is said on a Monday afternoon.)
I think we can plug just one more thing in to this outlet strip with out tripping the breaker.
What do mean by “fired”?
now it’s funny you should ask that, because I don’t know either
We prefer not to change the root password, it’s an nice easy one