Re: 9000 bike riders fined for breaking road rules

TimC

On 2008-04-10, Theo Bekkers (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
> lemmiwinks.au@gmail.com wrote:
>> On Apr 10, 3:13 pm, "Theo Bekkers" <tbekk...@bekkers.com.au> wrote:
>>> lemmiwinks...@gmail.com wrote:
>>>> How would he unmount the disk first though? I'm going to assume
>>>> that Theo normally comes up in single user mode.
>>>
>>> "comes up in single user mode"
>>>
>>> ?? What are you trying to say there Lemmi?
>>
>> That I'm not very good at puns (or system administration)

Describes my job well.

> I thought you were calling me a wanker. :-)

Most sysadmins are.

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TimC
"If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would
it?" -- Albert Einstein

Theo Bekkers

TimC wrote:
> Theo Bekkers wrote

>> I thought you were calling me a wanker. :-)

> Most sysadmins are.

Now that's just too much. I will not be called a sysadmin. :-)

Theo

Zebee Johnstone

In aus.bicycle on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 06:14:19 +0800
Theo Bekkers <tbekkers@bekkers.com.au> wrote:
> TimC wrote:
>> Theo Bekkers wrote
>
>>> I thought you were calling me a wanker. :-)
>
>> Most sysadmins are.
>
> Now that's just too much. I will not be called a sysadmin. :-)

I agree, you shouldn't be called one.

You are management. 'Nuff said.

Zebee

Terryc

TimC wrote:

>
> Most sysadmins are.

But, sadly, a neccessary evil.
My first unix job was as a sysadmin for a network of unix boxen and PCs
under total user control. It was at a time when NIS was still called
Yellow Pages and spinning platter space was expensive and they crunched
large data sets. The data carnage was incredible.

"But how can I stop other users from deleting your data if I'm not
allowed to stop you from deleting theirs?"

lol, made interesting because as a profit centre, I could largely
ignore the corporate "super sysadmins" who set the standards and do what
I wanted, aka hardware and some software so long as senior managers had
the paper trail where they'd been asked to solve a problem and declined
or failed and a white paper explaining the technical problems to keep
them distracted.

Sadly, it was just a tad too far to commute to by bicycle in those days.

Theo Bekkers

Terryc wrote:
> TimC wrote:

>> Most sysadmins are.

> But, sadly, a neccessary evil.

Stuff doesn't work without some management. If you get rid of your accounts
dept, (you know, those people upstairs who winge about your timesheets and
all kinds of forms they _say_ they need,) no invoices would go out, no money
would come in and no-one gets paid. Sure, your customers work will still get
done, but not for long.

Theo
Who is appreciated on paydays.

biggersn@gmail.com

Talk about going 'off-topic'! I logged on expecting a new and pithy
comment on breaking road rules and what do I find but an arcane
discussion about sysadmins. (Note that I am a computer geek myself by
employment if not by temperament).
<start of rant>
On the issue of cyclists being fined for not wearing helmets, I find
that the topic of compulsory helmets is a no-no in many forums. To
dare to suggest that compulsory helmets may not be the greatest thing
ever is met with utter contempt and derision. I was recently in
Europe, including countries like Germany where the proportion of
cyclists in relation to the population is much greater than here, and
in not one of these countries were cycle helmets compulsory.
</end of rant>

TimC

On 2008-04-12, biggersn@gmail.com (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
> Talk about going 'off-topic'! I logged on expecting a new and pithy
> comment on breaking road rules and what do I find but an arcane
> discussion about sysadmins. (Note that I am a computer geek myself by
> employment if not by temperament).

You're new here, aren't you?

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TimC
Octopuses don't like astro turf much. That's a *great* piece of trivia
to drop into conversations. I must remember it.
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