Favorite "sysadmin" cartoon

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[+57] [17] Toro

[2009-04-30 21:34:10]

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What is your favorite sysadmin cartoon?

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(2) This should be community wiki - cagcowboy

(1) Community-wiki this and I'll upvote it. - Ben Alpert

@Ben Alpert: ok - Toro

(5) The inevitable has happened. As Jeff has lamented on numerous podcasts, the question gets stuffed into 'what is your favorite [x] as a sysadmin'. He does encourage to have a little fun, but certainly not a question that has a definitive 'answer'. - pcampbell

[+75] [2009-04-30 21:39:43] trent

alt text http://xkcd.com/149/ Sudo make me a sandwich

(3) I have a shirt of this comic. - Ben Alpert

(3) That command works on the linux server at work. Well, almost. "make" was taken so it's, "sudo make_me a sandwich" to which the server will respond, "Okay." - Grant

(13) I've created an alias called plz for sudo. Tend to become humorous when you forget to use sudo and go all like "PLZ DO THIS!" - Spoike

(4) Hey, this made me realise, my other half is clearly the superuser in our relationship. She's so logged in as root. - Charles Roper

(4) @grant - aw, c'mon, a real admin would have replaced 'make' with a script that either echoed "Okay" or exec'd the real make based on whether $1,$2,$3 was "me","a","sandwich" =). - jj33

@jj33 fushizen.net/~bd/install-sandwich.sh (!debian/ubuntu users will need to roll their own :) - bdonlan

hee hee.. Power of SUDO ;) - Chathuranga Chandrasekara

(1) @jj33: a real admin would create a Makefile. :-) - Maciej Delmanowski

[+64] [2009-04-30 21:36:20] Ben Alpert

xkcd #327

http://xkcd.com/327/

Just read this one a couple days ago. - Keith Sirmons

(4) The best part is that this is highly popular with the programmers too. 8^D - Dillie-O

A nice one :).... - Chathuranga Chandrasekara

Good ol' Bobby Tables. - WesleyDavid

[+58] [2009-04-30 22:08:49] Murali Suriar

Here's a nickel, kid. Get yourself a better computer.

http://www.dilbert.com/fast/1995-06-24/

haaaaaaa that was great. - Sara Chipps

(3) This is mentioned in Neal Stephenson's "In the beginning was the command line" - Richard Gadsden

(2) @Richard: That is in fact where I first saw it. Brilliant essay; still worth a read even if it is a little dated. - Murali Suriar

(1) "You're one of those condescending <BLANK> users!" and "Here's a nickel, get yourself a better <BLANK>" are both common constructions in my place of employment, both directly related to this comic. - jj33

(5) There is some weird thing with UNIX guys and beards though, seriously. What is that all about? - Doug Chase

(1) I love this one! It's on the cover of my Richard Stevens book :) - Xerxes

@Doug Chase: it's not just a beard, it's a way of life. ;) See blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/tamir/archive/2008/04/28/… for a primer.. :D - Avery Payne

[+46] [2009-05-01 13:31:16] Aaron

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[+39] [2009-04-30 21:51:03] Shard

alt text http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1999-08-04/

(13) This reminds me of The IT Crowd's common answer to the phone: "Have you tried turning it off and on again?" youtube.com/watch?v=QpmLrz_lSuE - Spoike

(2) Nothing relieves support stresses like IT Crowd. - Matt Hanson

[+37] [2009-05-29 23:05:18] Lance Roberts

Dilbert is the best, here's one:

dilbert

[+28] [2009-05-14 20:26:03] Oskar Duveborn

alt text xkcd.com ^[1]

[1] http://www.xkcd.com/583/

(11) Oh wait, that is more a stackoverflow comic... but hey... - Oskar Duveborn

[+26] [2009-05-03 13:41:01] splattne

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[+25] [2009-05-14 20:36:28] l0c0b0x

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[+21] [2009-05-31 20:27:17] Alakdae

Why IT specialist have a lot of free time http://www.eviljaymz.com/files/whypeopleseemtohavefreetime.png

(3) I kinda like the IT Consultant one more than the others. - iconiK

[+20] [2010-02-22 07:30:53] Vaibhav Garg

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This is the best sysadmin cartoon! - manojlds

[+19] [2009-05-29 22:34:21] Hamish Downer

regular expressions

http://xkcd.com/208/

[+15] [2009-05-14 18:14:27] Duncan Smart

Doctor Fun's (David Farley) "long flight": The beginning of a very long flight

(7) Note well that the "Windows Fanatic" is the only one without a beard... - Teddy

[+12] [2009-08-26 13:25:23] Joseph Kern

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[+5] [2009-04-30 21:54:21] K. Brian Kelley

UserFriendly ^[1] (images aren't allowed to be linked directly)

[1] http://www.userfriendly.org/

(15) That sounds a bit user unfriendly to me. - Wedge

(3) Illiad isn't nationally syndicated and that's his full time job, so he has been restrictive with the free linking. Also, I think at one point it was really getting abused. - K. Brian Kelley

[+5] [2009-05-03 19:00:41] Colin

Learn to Love the Abstruse Goose ^[1] comics:

Technical Assistance ^[2]

[1] http://abstrusegoose.com
[2] http://abstrusegoose.com/136

(1) Here should have just said FizzBin... hanselman.com/blog/… - Even Mien

[0] [2009-06-13 16:36:56] nitins

Dilbert is the best !