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- alt.sysadmin.recovery FAQ v1.799999999999999998... (1 April 1974)
-
- This is the frequently-asked questions list for alt.sysadmin.recovery,
- a newsgroup for practising and recovering system administrators.
-
- 1) ABOUT THE NEWSGROUP
- 1.1) What is alt.sysadmin.recovery?
- 1.2) Special note RE: alt.humor.best-of-usenet
- 1.3) What is not welcome on alt.sysadmin.recovery?
- 1.4) What does BOFH mean? How about LART? TTTSNBN? PFY? Cow-orker?
- 1.5) Official ASR mottos
- 1.6) If you find sysadminning to be such stress, why not find a job other than
- being a sysadmin?
- 1.7) What is the scary devil monastery?
- 1.8) I hate this group! Where do I complain?
- 1.9) Why is this FAQ dated April 2006 even though it was last updated in May
- 2007?
-
- 2) ABOUT OUR FINE PROFESSION
- 2.1) I want to be a sysadmin. What should I do?
- 2.2) So, I've just "volunteered" to be a sysadmin. What do I do?
- 2.3) Where do sysadmins rank as a profession?
- 2.4) What's a typical day in the life of a sysadmin?
- 2.5) Do sysadmins all drink a lot?
- 2.6) Why can't I find my sysadmin?
-
- 3) OUR LITTLE FRIEND, THE COMPUTER
- 3.1) Are there any OSes that don't suck?
- 3.2) Are there any vendors that don't suck?
- 3.3) How about any hardware?
- 3.4) Just HOW MUCH does this system suck?
- 3.5) Where can I find clueful tech support?
- 3.6) What can I do to help my computers behave?
-
- 4) OUR BIG HEADACHE, THE LUSERS
- 4.1) I'm on tech support. Where can I find clueful customers?
- 4.2) Some tips for general luser interaction
- 4.3) What is the best way to deal with lusers?
- 4.4) Revolvers, cyanide and high voltages: The pros and cons of various luser
- education strategies.
- 4.5) How can I clean up the mess made by a luser's brain splattered across a
- monitor?
- 4.6) What is the penalty for murdering a luser?
- 4.7) How much should I charge for holding their hands?
-
- 5) DEALING WITH BEING A SYSADMIN
- 5.1) Caffeine and other recreational pharmaceuticals
- 5.2) The ASR Drinking Game
- 5.3) The excuse server
- 5.4) The insults server
- 5.5) Should I slit my wrists across or downward?
- 5.6) Sysadmin tools
- 5.7) Psychiatric assistance
- 5.8) But seriously, should I kill myself?
-
- 6) OK, SERIOUSLY FOLKS! HELP!!!1!
- 6.1) I wouldn't ordinarily do this, but I _need_ to ask a technical question.
- 6.2) You guys are all meanies/elitist/a bad example/corrupting/fattening
- 6.3) DOODZ!!!!!! W3R3 CAN 1 F1ND SUM K3WL WAREZ???????????
- 6.4) Does Network Solutions suck?
-
- 7) OTHER RESOURCES
- 7.1) Other newsgroups
- 7.2) Where can I read about the BOFH?
- 7.3) ASR mailing lists
- 7.4) What does MCSE stand for?
- 7.5) The Coat of Arms
- 7.6) Where is Spike Bike (http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~mjh/spike.html)
- mentioned in the ASR FAQ?
-
-
- ------------------------------
-
- 1) ABOUT THE NEWSGROUP
-
- 1.1) What is alt.sysadmin.recovery?
-
- Alt.sysadmin.recovery is for discussion by recovered and recovering sysadmins.
- It is a forum for mutual support and griping over phenomenally stupid users,
- mind-bogglingly unhelpful tech support, surprisingly lousy software,
- astonishingly deficient hardware, and generally how idiotic this job is.
- Think of it as a virtual pub where we can all go after hours to gripe about
- our job. Since the concept of "after hours" is unknown to your average
- sysadmin, we have this instead.
-
- Warning: If you are a user, you may well see your sysadmin posting messages
- about how stupid YOU are. (But none of us will be surprised when you fail
- to take heed of this warning.)
-
- 1.2) Special note RE: alt.humor.best-of-usenet
-
- It is prohibited to re-post alt.sysadmin.recovery messages to
- alt.humor.best-of-usenet. Most ASR denizens have nothing against that group
- itself, but sometimes in the past we have averaged a few messages a day there.
- This has drawn the lusers here like moths to a candle -- more unpleasant
- for the moths than for the candle, but we don't care about the moths.
- We strongly recommend that you put "X-No-Ahbou: yes" in your headers.
-
- 1.3) What is not welcome on alt.sysadmin.recovery?
-
- If many people object to your articles, consider the possibility that it
- might be you. Some people are just a waste of skin.
-
- But occasionally it will be the topic, rather than the user.
- Not welcome on alt.sysadmin.recovery are: advocacy, user questions,
- users (unless you are a sysadmin in another life), amateur salespeople, or
- general cluelessness. Particularly unwelcome is ANY real sysadmin related
- stuff. Useful (to our job) information is forbidden. It doesn't matter if
- you ROT-13 it, cast it as a sonnet, or attach it as a mime-encoded mpeg,
- just don't do it. We are here to escape, and there are plenty of other
- newsgroups that will be able to answer your question. And please avoid
- excessive quoting, "me toos", etc.
-
- There are things that have become tedious. Gratuitous ROT-13 (especially
- frequent switching on and off within a message), $USE $OF $SHELL $VARIABLES,
- ranting about it (a single, well-aimed "BLAM" will suffice when necessary),
- and anything else the Official ASR Taste Committee deems tired. Yes,
- you are smart, young, old, had trouble in school, enjoyed school, never
- went to college, use vi, use emacs, hate them both, read Robert Heinlein,
- have a cool web page, and practice martial and marital arts. Please don't
- tell us about it.
-
- To repeat, ROT-13 does not make a posting acceptable. It can, however,
- interfere with luser searches. Sometimes we rotate text to avoid lusers who
- might search for their own name or their company name, and we certainly rotate
- common luser-magnet software names such as yvahk. (There is still a debate
- about whether or not you have to rotate the 'Q' word, but indeed the article
- http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=97ltlp%24s21%241%40atlas.dgp.toronto.edu
- did not cause untoward summoning.)
-
- Most of all: DO NOT mention how to post here, don't even hint about it,
- and don't tell them or hint about it by e-mail. It's already far too
- easy to work it out. Those who belong here can figure out how to post.
- Unfortunately, so can several people who don't belong here. Fortunately,
- we usually manage to make such posters leave "willingly".
-
- By the way, don't cross-post to newsgroups with different moderation policies
- (e.g. unmoderated groups). It accomplishes nothing and annoys the pig, or
- something like that.
-
- 1.4) What does BOFH mean? How about LART? TTTSNBN? PFY? Cow-orker?
-
- BOFH: Bastard Operator From Hell. Our role model.
- (The Bastard Operator From Hell was originally a series of stories
- written by Simon Travaglia, s.travaglia@waikato.ac.nz. See section 7.)
-
- LART: Luser Attitude Readjustment Tool. Something large, heavy, and painful.
-
- TTTSNBN: [sorry, I can't name it here]
-
- PFY: A term for a junior sysadmin indicating both age and skin condition,
- both often metaphoric.
-
- Cow-orker: A one-time misplaced hyphen (in alt.folklore.urban, in fact)
- revealed a shameful truth here.
-
- Copro-grammer: literally, "writer of feces"
-
- C|N>K: C is coffee, N is nose, K is keyboard; and think unix shell syntax.
-
- STR: synchronous transmit receive. A mode of the synchronous communications
- adapter that provides for point-to-point operation only. (Rumour has it
- that 'S' actually secretly stands for "slurp".)
-
- 1.5) Official ASR mottos
-
- The official ASR motto, our catch phrase, is the immortal:
-
- "Down, not Across"
-
- It is our mantra. We recite it to ourselves as we deal with the day-to-day
- realities of a life that is far more nasty, brutish, and short than even
- Hobbes could have ever imagined.
-
- Some other mottos include:
- *clickety-click*
- "Oh, lovely."
- "Just DON'T."
- "I need a drink."
- "Either way I'm screwed."
- AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
-
- The official ASR position:
- Hiding in a corner, under a desk, in fetal position, arms covering
- head and quietly whimpering.
-
- The official ASR luser position:
- 6 feet under.
-
- 1.6) If you find sysadminning to be such stress, why not find a job other than
- being a sysadmin?
-
- "Why not? Sure, why not? Why not just kick the heroin habit?
- Why not just stop breathing if the air gets polluted?"
-
- Sysadmins are driven by a desire to _make_it_work_. We loathe non-functioning
- pieces of crap. Similarly, we hate seeing equipment working at substantially
- below its potential due to moronic admin decisions.
-
- Doesn't this mean we should shun sysadminning, then? Well, as you will
- see from discussion in ASR, we have this tendency to drift into the job.
- It starts when you're given a machine on your desk which crashes every
- five minutes, and you know how to make it crash only once every five days.
- You get given the root/administrator password. You end up fixing someone
- else's machine too. As word gets out, you have more and more people
- calling on you for basic computer administration assistance every week.
- Eventually you get told that your sysadmin work is more important than
- what you were doing before. Since you seem to be the only person in your
- company who is doing any work, you have to agree.
-
- After a while, you quit and go to work for somewhere else, where you're
- promised you won't have to be a sysadmin.
- But the machine on your desk crashes every five minutes...
-
- 1.7) What is the scary devil monastery?
-
- alt sysadmin recovery
- rancid mystery loaves
- steady micron slavery
- comedy striven salary
- trendy mosaic slavery
- convert already missy
- scary devil monastery
- misty adversary clone
- discover anal mystery
-
- 1.8) I hate this group! Where do I complain?
-
- Probably you want the folks who run the net. Address mail to:
-
- Usenet Central Administration
- 1060 West Addison Street
- Chicago, Illinois
- USA 60613-4305
-
- Allow six to eight weeks for a response.
-
- 1.9) Why is this FAQ dated April 2006 even though it was last updated in May
- 2007?
-
- Ha ha, April Fools!
-
-
- ------------------------------
-
- 2) ABOUT OUR FINE PROFESSION
-
- 2.1) I want to be a sysadmin. What should I do?
-
- Seek professional help.
-
- 2.2) So, I've just "volunteered" to be a sysadmin. What do I do?
-
- See 5.4.
-
- 2.3) Where do sysadmins rank as a profession?
-
- Apparently held in considerably lesser regard than building maintenance,
- because no one goes complaining to the janitors saying that it's the janitors'
- fault that they can't manage to throw garbage into their garbage bin from
- across the room.
-
- 2.4) What's a typical day in the life of a sysadmin?
-
- Perhaps Abby Franquemont summarized the life of a sysadmin the best,
- when she described us as:
-
- "disgruntled, disenchanted with things we used to really get a kick out of,
- foul tempered, hard-drinking, heavy-smoking, overworked, with no real social
- life to speak of."
-
- Or perhaps she was being optimistic.
-
- 2.5) Do sysadmins all drink a lot?
-
- Most sysadmins seem to, but there are always exceptions.
- In particular, some psychotropic medication makes you react very strongly
- to alcohol; if you're on such medication, you find that you can't _ever_
- have dozens of drinks in an evening, and if you have five drinks in an
- evening you'll feel like you used to when you occasionally had dozens.
- Then as you drink less your tolerance decreases, and pretty soon one drink
- will make you too drunk to go back to work after lunch. All this is to say
- that psychotropic medication (e.g. SSRIs) seems to be either software or
- hardware, because it sucks. And for some reason, a lot of sysadmins seem
- to need medication. See section 5.
-
- 2.6) Why can't I find my sysadmin?
-
- Would you want to be found by a luser?
-
-
- ------------------------------
-
- 3) OUR LITTLE FRIEND, THE COMPUTER
-
- 3.1) Are there any OSes that don't suck?
-
- No. See http://www.ehlke.net/os-suck.html
-
- 3.2) Are there any vendors that don't suck?
-
- No.
-
- 3.3) How about any hardware?
-
- The PDP-10 was pretty nice. Pity they aren't made any more.
-
- 3.4) Just HOW MUCH does this system suck?
-
- The ASR standard unit of suckiness is the Lovelace (Ll).
- This is defined as: One Lovelace is the amount of force (measured in dynes)
- it takes to draw a round ball weighing e Troy Ounces down a tube it fits
- exactly (in air) at a speed of pi attoparsecs/microfortnight.
-
- Like Farads, this is a rather large measurement. Thus, Plan 9 sucks a few
- mLl, for instance, while your average Microsoft product achieves many Ll.
-
- 3.5) Where can I find clueful tech support?
-
- HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
-
- There is a device the telco puts on the phone that ensures that whoever is
- on the other end of a service call is always a drooling moron with the IQ
- of a potted plant. Note that this applies both ways (see 4.1).
-
- 3.6) What can I do to help my computers behave?
-
- Some go for the carrot approach, others the stick, others both. If you
- favour the carrot, try offering memory upgrades or faster processors.
- For sticks, try bullwhips. Many computers are easily fooled, so placing
- a picture of yourself in front of a computer will often cause it to think
- you are watching and it will be too scared to misbehave.
-
- Remember that if computers are networked, they can talk to each other.
- That is useful in that you can make an example of one and the others will
- watch (and hopefully learn).
-
- Of course, some computers require a blood sacrifice. But you don't have to
- worry about this one, because they will simply take the blood without asking.
-
-
- ------------------------------
-
- 4) OUR BIG HEADACHE, THE LUSERS
-
- 4.1) I'm on tech support. Where can I find clueful customers?
-
- See item 3.5. A clueful luser is an oxymoron.
-
- 4.2) Some tips for general luser interaction
-
- - lusers, bless their little hearts, have simple minds. Even if you
- think that a lobotomized flatworm could understand your instructions,
- your luser probably won't. And we tried lobotomizing a few lusers to
- see if it would help, but it didn't make any detectable difference.
-
- - since lusers will neither read nor understand any docs you write for them,
- just don't even bother.
-
- - NEVER anthropomorphize lusers.
-
- 4.3) What is the best way to deal with lusers?
-
- Lusers are much easier to deal with if they aren't breathing. 240V across the
- heart, a revolver round through the head, or even a simple little broadsword
- thrust into their abdomen will improve your interactions wonderfully.
- See next item.
-
- 4.4) Revolvers, cyanide and high voltages: The pros and cons of various luser
- education strategies.
-
- There has been a great deal of debate on ASR about the best way of dealing
- with lusers, and at this time no consensus has been reached. What we can
- suggest, however, is to be sure it is painful, clean, and doesn't harm
- the computer. That unfortunately leaves a lot of options out -- you can't
- just throw a grenade at them; it will hurt the machine.
-
- 4.5) How can I clean up the mess made by a luser's brain splattered across a
- monitor?
-
- First of all, be careful. While cluelessness is not contagious, there are
- some nasty things that can be picked up from lusers, such as blood-transmitted
- diseases. (Watch out for Creutzfeldt-Jacob syndrome, aka mad cow disease.
- Of course, we are all mad anyway.) Be sure to wear latex gloves --
- available for 40 cents a pair 'round here -- when you're through, remove
- them by peeling them off carefully so that they end up inside-out, and
- discard.
-
- Luser guts will usually clean up with soap and water. They say that
- to clean up blood you should use cold water, not warm; a little bleach
- sometimes helps for the more stubborn cases. Be sure to get all of the
- blood off the keyboards or the keys may get very sticky.
-
- To get rid of the body, people have suggested using several garbage bags
- and a large quantity of duct tape. If you have to keep it for a while,
- try to remove the guts; that will keep the smell down. Alcohol and formalin
- works well as a preservative.
-
- 4.6) What is the penalty for murdering a luser?
-
- Unfortunately, in the eyes of the law, lusers are treated like humans. We
- therefore recommend you be discreet in your luser era^H^Hducation campaigns.
-
- 4.7) How much should I charge for holding their hands?
-
- See the official ASR price list at
- http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~moose/sysadmin/pricelist.html
-
- Warning: Like their computers, live lusers are usually infected with viruses.
- Either reformat ^W kill them first or use standard biohazard precautions.
-
-
- ------------------------------
-
- 5) DEALING WITH BEING A SYSADMIN
-
- 5.1) Caffeine and other recreational pharmaceuticals
-
- Caffeine: Much information about this can be found on alt.drugs.caffeine.
- See FAQs at http://db.uwaterloo.ca/~alopez-o/caffaq.html
-
- Booze: Much low-quality information around the net these days. Perhaps try
- rec.food.drink.*, alt.drunken.bastards, http://www.beerinfo.com, and/or
- http://www.camra.org.uk
-
- Other: rec.drugs.*, http://www.lycaeum.org
-
- 5.2) The ASR Drinking Game
-
- The rules for the ASR Drinking Game, as hashed out over a period of several
- decades ending on 27 January 2007, are quite simple. When something happens,
- drink. As much as necessary.
-
- 5.3) The excuse server
-
- This is an important net resource that lets you give the exact reason why
- you can't do something yesterday.
- http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ballard/bofh/
- Or telnet bofh.jeffballard.us 666
- Or telnet bofh.ucc.asn.au 666
-
- 5.4) The insults server
-
- Once you have got rid of your lusers, you will probably want to tell them
- what they really are. For this, the insults server is useful.
- telnet insulthost.colorado.edu 1695
-
- 5.5) Should I slit my wrists across or downward?
-
- Downward. See http://ash.spaink.net
-
- 5.6) Sysadmin tools
-
- There are a number of tools important to system administration. Most
- important are chemical by nature; see item 5.1. A particularly useful
- tool, revered by many of ASR, is the noble chocolate-covered coffee bean.
- Peter Corlett reports that they can also be bought from Cranberry (stalls
- dotted around London and also rather more sparsely around the rest of the
- UK), and he has also seen fancily-packed versions at fancy prices in the
- food courts of the likes of House of Fraser and Selfridges as well as common
- or garden supermarkets.
-
- You can also make your own. Melt some chocolate, place some coffee beans
- in it, and Bjorn Stronginthearm's your uncle!
-
- Next in line is a good LART. A 2x4 works fine, but a real professional needs
- something a little more effective. Unfortunately, this is a very personal
- thing, and no consensus has yet been reached on the group. Everything from
- a simple 7.65mm Walther (for the Bond fans only; it's not a very good gun)
- to a 155mm with depleted Uranium rounds has been suggested, some even going
- for exotic things like Thermite, nukes, or flamethrowers. For further info,
- look at the rec.guns home page (http://recguns.com).
-
- You can find a lot of cool stuff at Military Surplus stores. Sadly, they
- don't sell the _really_ interesting surplus stuff like tanks or F16s.
- Try US Cavalry, 1-800-777-7732, or http://www.uscav.com.
-
- When you can't use the LART (e.g. you don't want to damage a computer),
- Nerfs are excellent substitutes. These are a range of foam weapons.
-
- The leatherman is another useful tool. The Perl of Swiss Army Knives,
- this shouldn't be too hard to find.
-
- Finally, there are some tools a sysadmin is forbidden from having. Adequate
- computing power is first on this list, but the most important is called a
- "life". And be warned: life is always eventually fatal.
-
- 5.7) Psychiatric assistance
-
- If you are reading this, you need it. Contact your family doctor.
- Perhaps consider http://www.aspergersyndrome.org.
-
- Medication for depression and/or OCD these days is often an "SSRI",
- a category of drug which changes your brain chemistry not subtly.
- SSRIs tend to have a range of seemingly unrelated side effects, such as
- decreased alcohol tolerance, difficulty reaching orgasm (depending upon
- dosage and other factors), weight gain, intestinal changes. But despite
- the drawbacks, some people report advantages such as greater stability,
- e.g. the ability to refrain from choking the living shit out of a luser who
- richly deserves it, and, occasionally, enjoyment of life. See a pshrink near
- you to determine whether you could benefit from psychotropic medication.
- Some of the checklists on the web aren't complete bullshit, but keep in
- mind that Sturgeon's law was an underestimate for anything important.
-
- 5.8) But seriously, should I kill myself?
-
- Seriously, no.
- As posted to ASR by Ed Evans:
-
- Ultimate recovery stalks us all, no need to succour it. Quit or
- take a leave with or without pay (or permission), stop seeing him
- or her, recognise that the cat or dog does rule you, call in sick
- and spend the day in the big blue room, it's only money and can
- be earned again, all the pictures will be posted again, call the
- local professionals if you really feel that way...
-
- And if all else fails? Lawn mowing.
-
- If you're willing to take the severe step of killing yourself, you should
- be willing to take less severe steps such as quitting your job or taking a
- leave without permission. And really, there _is_ help out there.
- Maybe in here, too.
-
- And more of us have been there than you may realize. We're grateful
- now that we didn't do it. (Most days.) In chess they have a saying,
- "You can't win by resigning." Keep playing; you never know.
-
-
- ------------------------------
-
- 6) OK, SERIOUSLY FOLKS! HELP!!!1!
-
- 6.1) I wouldn't ordinarily do this, but I _need_ to ask a technical question.
-
- Fuck off. Really. See item 1.3 above.
-
- 6.2) You guys are all meanies/elitist/a bad example/corrupting/fattening
-
- Yep!
-
- 6.3) DOODZ!!!!!! W3R3 CAN 1 F1ND SUM K3WL WAREZ???????????
-
- Sounds like you want the Warez-net. Here are a list of some participating
- sites:
- warez.satanic.org
- warez.phantom.com
- warez.plethora.net
- warez.terra.nu
- warez.rtfm.net
-
- These places also have a good collection of gifs.
- (You need to log in with your own name and password)
- For more information, look at the Warez-Net home page at
- http://www.bofh.net/~koos/warez.html
-
- 6.4) Does Network Solutions suck?
-
- Yes.
-
-
- ------------------------------
-
- 7) OTHER RESOURCES
-
- 7.1) Other newsgroups
-
- alt.folklore.computers
- I've heard that this newsgroup is back in shape, but I haven't had the
- chance to check it out yet. There _are_ lusers there battling over toy
- OSes, and I've heard that a kill file is essential.
-
- The jargon file
- Not _particularly_ sysadmin related, this is rather a document about
- general computer lore. It may be found at http://www.jargon.org
-
- alt.fan.pratchett
- For some reason, there seems to be a large amount of synergy between the
- followers of the eternal Mr Pratchett and ourselves. You be the judge.
-
- alt.fan.mailer-daemon
- "a hilariously-poorly propagated newsgroup that hardly anybody is ever
- likely to read"
-
- Various cartoons
- Many people in ASR like certain lame cartoons like User Friendly.
- I don't. Anyway, you can find them on the net if you have the brains
- given to a small slug. Thus even some of your users can find them...
-
- alt.suicide.holiday
- Name says it all, really.
-
- 7.2) Where can I read about the BOFH?
-
- http://bofh.ntk.net/Bastard.html
- Newer adventures may be found at the register, http://www.theregister.co.uk
-
- 7.3) ASR mailing lists
-
- There are a number of local ASR mailing lists dealing with organizing
- local ASR gatherings. They include:
-
- ASR New York:
- To subscribe: danj@3skel.com
-
- ASR Boston:
- To subscribe: lists@mathworks.com (it's a majordomo list, name is asr-boston)
-
- ASR London:
- To subscribe: asrlon-request@bofh.org.uk
-
- ASR Israel:
- To subscribe: asr-il-request@cs.huji.ac.il
-
- The Twin Cities [1]:
- List address: asrmeet@winternet.com
-
- ASR DC:
- To subscribe: majordomo@lists.netset.com
- Listname is "asr-dc"
-
- --
- [1] *Which* twin cities, you ask? I could tell you, but then Matthew Crosby
- would have to kill you. Or perhaps me.
- --
-
- 7.4) What does MCSE stand for?
-
- Lots of things. "Must Consult Someone Experienced" is a good one. See
- http://www.leftmind.net/asr/mcse.txt for more.
-
- 7.5) The Coat of Arms
-
- While the College of Arms are still sitting on our application (bastards...
- I think a disk crash is in order), you can see the potential ASR coat of
- arms at http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~djc/asr/
-
- 7.6) Where is Spike Bike (http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~mjh/spike.html)
- mentioned in the ASR FAQ?
-
- In section 7.6.
-
-