Old sayings with new meanings


paul@senex.unh.edu Paul S. Sawyer

Summary: We are the Knights Who Say "su"


lgoldste@ladc.lockheed.com (/225686/lgoldste/Lee Ann Goldstein)

It's inevitable that even among us weirdos there'll be oddballs.


From: Adam Prato

Whats the difference? Aliens / Marketing Executives?
One of them are mysterious, unpredictable beings that we know nothing about.
The other drives a spacecraft.


From: das@halcyon.com (Debbie Schwartz)

In alt.sysadmin.recovery :
Time to come out of the kitchen closet: I'm a vegetarian.
Positive proof that you don't need to eat meat to be aggresive and nasty.


unknown (I forgot)

In the beginning there was darkness, and the darkness was without form, and void. And God said "let there be light", and there was a general protection fault.


From: pgut01@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann)

This is the Unix box. The Unix box of slime. Over 400 lusers reside in this small area. Some of them eventually go bad, making their living preying on other, weaker lusers. Usually they are morons or incompetents, sometimes cretins. But, whatever their problem, they are dangerous. That's where I come in. My name is sysadmin. I carry a LART.

Dummmm-da-dum-dum. Dummmm-da-dum-dum. Dummmm-da-dum-DUMM-MM-MM-MMM!


Koos van den Hout :)

Linux.. the next best thing you can get up in your bedroom


Cor Bosman

Je moet de PTT zien als een Alien uit de bekende film. Ze zuigen zich vast aan je gezicht, rukken alle wil tot leven uit je, en je ziet ze pas als het leed al gebeurd is.


From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)

One question: How come the .44 magnum is the worlds only usable point and click interface ?


From: pepke@scri.fsu.edu (Eric Pepke)

> [..] sex makes the world go round [..]

Angular momentum makes the world go round. Sex just makes it go up and down a bit.


Lionel Lauer

I think your cats need tuning - according to a couple of quick measurements on a recently calibrated reference cat, the dominant frequency of a correctly adjusted cat should be 12Hz +/-20%.


bofh@visi.com

You've slept 4 hours in 4 days...Your blood turned to caffine yesterday...You change rechargable batteries in your pager twice daily...Your cell phone bill rivals the national debt...You're a sysadmin.


Bob Dowling (rjd4@cam.ac.uk)

Among our many weapons are such diverse elements as fear, surprise and a fanatical loyalty to all things Unix


Matt Welsh

..Unix, MS-DOS and Windows NT (also known as the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly)


Tom Holub, a.h.b-o-i

An NT server can be run by an idiot, and usually is.


Peter Gutmann (pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz)

Security-wise, NT is a server with a "Kick me" sign taped to it.


Koos van den Hout (koos+web@kzdoos.xs4all.nl)