What's your favourite "super user" cartoon?

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[+25] [17] tjrobinson

[2009-07-15 09:19:26]

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[ http://superuser.com/questions/554]

I'll start with the obvious, Sandwich ^[1] by xkcd ^[2]:

Make me a sandwich. What? Make it yourself. Sudo make me a sandwich. Okay.

Yes, this question is a copy of What’s your favorite “programmer” cartoon? ^[3] but where's the harm in a Super User equivalent of such a popular question?

[1] http://xkcd.com/149/
[2] http://xkcd.com/
[3] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/84556/

(4) Flame war starting in 5.. 4.. 3.. - Mark Pim

(1) Well, that was fast. It's approximately 3 hours since the site has launched. :P - MrValdez

Well technically it's not launched yet :) - tjrobinson

(3) Better to get it over and done with early. - ChrisF

Super Users are soooo predictable. - Saul Dolgin

(4) Another "post xkcd" thread. - Sam152

[+54] [2009-07-20 14:51:39] Damien [

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Just added today but I think this will be a classic XKCD:

They could say "the connection is probably lost," but it&squot;s more fun to do naive time-averaging to give you hope that if you wait around for 1,163 hours, it will finally finish

Title Text: They could say "the connection is probably lost," but it's more fun to do naive time-averaging to give you hope that if you wait around for 1,163 hours, it will finally finish.

hahaha, i was going to say i dont remember reading that one - Petey B

(1) I saw this one today, and it was TOO funny! Perfect analogy! - geoffc

What's the alt text? - mmyers

(3) <nerd>You mean title text, not alt text.</nerd> - DisgruntledGoat

For some reason, I've seen it called alt text specifically when it's on an xkcd cartoon. I'm not sure why. - mmyers

changed...........;) - Damien

Alt text is the old term from ye olde browser wars. Modern HTML calls it title text. - MiffTheFox

[+38] [2009-07-15 09:58:38] Mikeage

(4) Classic Dilbert > Current Dilbert - p5ycho_p3nguin

[+37] [2009-07-15 16:24:04] balpha

I know we have quite an XKCD inflation here, but I have to post this one, since it's my definte all-time second-to-none never-gonna-find-a-better-one favorite:

It's simply so true.

I have that posted on my desk. - Clay Nichols

My favorite xkcd comic! - alex

[+28] [2009-07-15 10:06:02] Oscar Reyes

I'm An Idiot

It's a good one, but more about programming than being a super user - tjrobinson

I agree. I changed it! - Oscar Reyes

This is so true to life ;) (though in this case finally giving up and driving to a nearby WiFi spot for IMing solved the problem (there was no doorbell, and this was before mobile broadband became common)) - Oskar Duveborn

[+27] [2009-07-21 12:06:00] Jonathan Sampson

(3) This one is more for programmers than users. - thenonhacker

Oh my, ROTFL... - DigitalRoss

[+19] [2009-07-15 09:54:21] Christian Davén

From Speed Bump ^[1] by Dave Coverly.

[1] http://www.speedbump.com

(7) That's just sad .... - hasen j

You said it. - ldigas

[+18] [2009-07-20 14:55:07] Ioxp

nice try

Original post by loxp, I only embedded the picture... - EricSchaefer

Thanks, you do me honer in this world of no rep. HA - Ioxp

(4) I actually did that in school instead of writing. I told the teacher I needed the practice for typing class. I told her I would number each line so she would know I didn't just type one page and copy it. - Larry

(1) I wish I could give Bill Amend +1 for functioning code. - John Rudy

(3) Not really working as intended - it'll print everything on one line. Should've used puts instead of printf, or included \n last in the string! - gustafc

(3) @gustafc: Maybe that's why the teacher won't accept it. "Nice try, but there a bug!" :) - Ilari Kajaste

[+17] [2009-07-15 11:07:10] DisgruntledGoat

Another xkcd (I know, what a cliché!)

Title text: "When I look into your eyes, I see JPEG artifacts. I can tell by the pixels that we're wrong for each other."

What's the alt text? - mmyers

The alt text is "Photoshops". I think you meant title text :p - DisgruntledGoat

I'm on IE here, so alt == title for me. (But as I said in another comment, I've seen it called alt text specifically when it's on an xkcd cartoon. I don't know why.) - mmyers

[+14] [2009-07-21 12:02:38] Robert MacLean

alt text

I don't really get this one. - waiwai933

"to back up from the computer" ... ? What's not to get ? - ldigas

[+10] [2009-07-20 17:17:03] EricSchaefer

My alltime favorite:

Kevin and Kell

[+7] [2009-07-20 16:12:21] Laserallan

alt text

Oh God, it's Jeff K… - htw

[+7] [2009-09-07 08:52:39] martani_net

alt text

This is the best ever XD

[+5] [2009-07-27 09:28:29] joe

alt text

[+3] [2009-07-27 09:27:38] joe

alt text

(7) Is there a joke in here somewhere? - mmyers

[+1] [2009-07-27 09:31:06] joe

alt text

(1) It's ok, but more about programming than being a super user - tjrobinson

[0] [2009-07-26 04:30:55] Axxmasterr

alt text

ERR of course! Not to mention the amusement over the Boston police overacting and calling in the bomb squad.

http://laughingsquid.com/aqua-teen-hunger-force-promo-causes-panic-in-boston/

"I hope you can see this because I'm doing it as hard as I can." - Kevin Panko

[-1] [2009-07-27 09:29:33] joe

alt text

(14) I don't get it. - tjrobinson

(1) It's a coordinate plane, where any point has a "cloudy" value and a "softwarey" value. I think the joke is that while the opposite of a cloud computing-based solution is a desktop-based solution, the opposite of a software-based solution is one that actually does stuff for you.... (if it's supposed to be funny. If not, I suppose it means daemons and the like) - Babu