Shit, We’re dealing with a SysAdmin…
Feb 22nd
I absolutely love XKCD today. This would be me…
Seriously don’t mess with my uptime! We haven’t been down in 645 days 23 hours 12 minutes and 13 milliseconds.
File Transfer Time/Speed Calculator
Feb 22nd
Check out this link for a great transfer time/speed calculator. You select the file size and the speed of your line and it will aproximate the transfer time! Sweet
Admin script mistaken for self replicating virus! WTF!
Feb 18th
You may have read this before as it was originally posted on the daily wtf around 2007 but, I HAD to share it with you as we had a similar situation around my office recently. Read through and prepare yourself for a laugh young admin!…
The early 90s were exciting. Tim Berners-Lee invented HTML and created the first of the many internets we have today. A bunch of dancing dudes in foil costumes built the first Pentium processor. And who can forget Eritrea gaining independence from Ethiopia? Well, I could, but I wasn’t following Ethiopian politics so much those days.
At the time, Chilton W. was working at a company that provided software that auto insurance companies used to keep track of users, policies, cars, etc. Things were going great, too. They had sold their software to one third of all auto insurance providers in the U.S.
The architecture consisted of a main system (which they owned) at each insurance provider’s location, physically linked to other systems on a local network. This didn’t work under the typical client/server model, though, it was a daisy-chained, peer-to-peer setup.
Often just one computer on the network could connect to the internet via dialup, so troubleshooting was a matter of dialing into the main system, checking for problems, then walking a user through the steps of testing each networked computer. It was usually the low man on the totem pole at the client’s site that would get tied up for a few hours, changing configuration settings and testing. It was a tremendously tedious process, and the answer was generally either a bad cable, bad software install, or a dead hard drive.
Chilton saw an opportunity to simplify the process by deploying a remote diagnostics application. Deployment was, in fact, pretty easy — a batch file could upload the utility to the insurance provider’s main system, then someone there could copy the utility to a floppy and manually get it out across all the other systems. Chilton still didn’t like that he’d have to explain to each user how to copy the utility, though, so he added the ability for the utility to replicate itself across the network.
Let Me Google That For You
Feb 17th
Hey folks,
Have you ever been completely annoyed by people asking you questions that they could have totally answered on their own.
Most people don’t realize that a well formed web query is just as good as asking the right person the right question at the right time. Google, for most people, is just that person. Some of the more complicated queries actually do warrant your newb friends to ask you for a good set of query terms, even using the more advanced search modifiers.
But most of the questions I have to field during my day to day are questions that could have been easily answered, had the person asking put some thought or effort into it. Questions such as “what’s the url for ask the admin?”
We all know that’s a stupid question. Ask The Admin prides itself on being very search engine friendly, especially when looking for the site itself!
Enter Let Me Google That For You, or more easily LMGTFY.com. This nifty little service allows you to perform the search for your friend or colleague who just cant form the words together themselves. But instead of giving your dear friend a fish, so to speak, your actually giving your friend a fishing pole. Your basically telling them, “You could have googled this yourself, look how simple it could have been for you. You could have completely avoided bothering me during my busy day.”
So, to answer the question above “What’s the url for Ask The Admin?”
browsing over to http://lmgtfy.com/?q=asktheadmin.com yields a serach page resembling googles.
Except now, when you search , it provides you a tinyurl, which you can send back to your inquisitive friend rather than the url of the actual search result.
Click to see sample results here
Nifty right?
-enjoy
Commodore64 (the one you used to play Bruce Lee on,) ,8,1
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