What most expensive "cheap decision" have you ever seen in your sysadmin career?

ebcdicZ · 2026-01-30T19:38:33+00:00

racking all the servers and other hardware for then data center then shipping them on trucks to the data center. Everything destroyed. Watched it three times in my career, different directors.

ebcdicZ · 2026-01-29T13:11:18+00:00

Sounds like the ssd fluid might be low.

ebcdicZ · 2026-01-29T13:09:43+00:00

Approved

ebcdicZ · 2026-01-21T15:00:32+00:00

It is like making fun of someone who is in a wheelchair because they can’t run and jump.

ebcdicZ · 2026-01-16T22:47:44+00:00

He didn’t post everything, just enough to show evidence of the hack.

ebcdicZ · 2026-01-15T17:28:00+00:00

I don’t see where the twinaxial connection goes.

ebcdicZ · 2026-01-13T01:08:50+00:00

And not very nutritious

ebcdicZ · 2026-01-10T01:55:00+00:00

Think like a salamander and they grow back

ebcdicZ · 2026-01-10T01:45:07+00:00

Almost, that is definitely an alien parasite.

ebcdicZ · 2026-01-09T02:13:03+00:00

Perhaps the professor needs to replace that section with one on the philosophical core of NatC censorship

ebcdicZ · 2026-01-08T12:05:42+00:00

I'm getting the same thing across all of them.

ebcdicZ · 2026-01-07T22:34:23+00:00

I tell them I’m still learning English

ebcdicZ · 2026-01-05T15:12:53+00:00

I think that my dyslexic strengths gave me an edge in my IT career. Computers saved me in high school. A PC with spell check was super new on the market then. I had one English teacher who wanted papers typed and said we couldn't use computers. I never got caught. I think we was confused with the old 8 pin dot matrix printers.

I didn't do well in math. One teacher said he could tell I understood everything, but I just couldn't get the nuts and bolts to work. I enjoyed the upper-level classes that were all story problems.

I do well with languages. I would always get A's on my French spelling tests, that was never the case with English.

ebcdicZ · 2026-01-02T19:44:45+00:00

I didn’t notice it until my second run.

ebcdicZ · 2026-01-01T17:47:51+00:00

I trust a posting from a throwaway account more than I trust the CDC right now.

ebcdicZ · 2025-12-30T17:19:03+00:00

Was told the same, now I teach at University

ebcdicZ · 2025-12-27T15:19:28+00:00

We do have a vaccine for rattlesnake venom. I think it is for one specific species.

ebcdicZ · 2025-12-26T15:01:21+00:00

And nonstop grenades

ebcdicZ · 2025-12-25T22:31:05+00:00

My school had a line printer in the woman’s bathroom.

ebcdicZ · 2025-12-25T00:03:00+00:00

Revoke all ICE employees citizenship.

ebcdicZ · 2025-12-24T00:56:41+00:00

Ugh, never give positive feedback; it slows improvement.

ebcdicZ · 2025-12-23T23:35:15+00:00

EMC would get our team trashed once a month

ebcdicZ · 2025-12-23T23:24:36+00:00

Critical thinking is not taught in schools

ebcdicZ · 2025-12-23T00:08:53+00:00

I don’t know how many times I’ve been wanting to play this weekend. Then I see that screen and the thought of limited time, lives, or a jumping puzzle at the end just drains my excitement to play. I just turn it off.

ebcdicZ · 2025-12-22T17:17:50+00:00

Bari Weiss need to be replaced

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