Thursday, January 18, 2007

Very Funny Joke


A lead hardware engineer, a lead software engineer, and their program manager are taking a walk outdoors during their lunch break when they come upon an old brass lamp. They pick it up and dust it off. Poof — out pops a genie.”Thank you for releasing me from my lamp-prison. I can grant you 3 wishes. Since there are 3 of you I will grant one wish to each of you.
”The hardware engineer thinks a moment and says, “I’d like to be sailing a yacht across the Pacific, racing before the wind, with an all-girl crew.”"It is done”, said the Genie, and poof, the hardware engineer disappears.
The software engineer thinks a moment and says, “I’d like to be riding my Harley with a gang of beautiful women throughout the American Southwest.”"It is done”, said the Genie, and poof, the software engineer disappears.
The program manager looks at where the other two had been standing and rubs his chin in thought. Then he tells the Genie, “I’d like those two back in the office after lunch.”

Thursday, January 11, 2007

Things You Don’t Want Your System Admin To Say

Things You Don’t Want Your System Admin To Say
1. Uh-oh… 2.Oh S***! 3.What the heck?!? 4.Go get your backup tape. (You DO have a backup tape?) 5.That’s SOOOOO bizarre. 6.Wow!! Look at this… 7.Hey!! The Suns don’t do this. 8.Terminated?!? 9.What software license?!? 10.Well, it’s doing SOMETHING…
11.Wow…that seemed fast…12.I got a better job at Lockheed… 13.Management says…14.Sorry, the new equipment didn’t get budgeted. 15.What do you mean that wasn’t a copy? 16.It didn’t do that a minute ago… 17.Where’s the GUI on this thing? 18.Damn, and I just bought that Coke… 19.Where’s the DIR command? 20.The drive ate the tape but that’s OK, I brought my screwdriver. 
21.I cleaned up the root partition and now there’s LOTS of free space. 22.What’s this “any” key I’m supposed to press? 23.Do you smell something? 24.What’s that grinding sound? 25.I have never seen it do THAT before… 26.I don’t think it should be doing that… 27.I remember the last time I saw it do that… 28.You might as well all go home early today… 29.My leave starts tomorrow. 30.Oops! (said in a quiet, almost surprised voice)
31.Hmm, maybe if I do this… 32.Why is my “rm -R *” taking so long?” 33.Hmmm, curious… 34.Well, MY files were backed up. 35.What do you mean you needed that directory? 36.What do you mean /home was on that disk? I umounted it! 37.Do you really need your home directory to do any work? 38.I didn’t think anybody would be doing any work at 2am, so I killed your job. 39.Yes, I chowned all the files to belong to pvcs. Is that a problem to you? 40.We’re standardizing on AIX.
41.Wonder what THIS command does? 42.What did you say your (1)user name was…?