Ah, What is Haiku Just seventeen syllables Yielding boundless joy
> -----Original Message----- > From: Filipe Joel de Almeida [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 1:54 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Haiku Friday > > > 1 - Waht does Haiku mean? > 2 - I'm not understanding half of what you're writing in your posts... > > /me gets ready to be flamed > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Ali Wilkes > (IT) > Sent: sexta-feira, 26 de Abril de 2002 18:35 > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Haiku Friday > > Vendor here at three > In a small room, new sales pitch > I will fall asleep. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Muqeem Syed [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 12:34 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Haiku Friday > > > If its helping a dame in distress.... yep..me is game to that... and > nope ... dont go the bars...... would rather spend some quality time > with my computers here. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Brett Wesoloski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 7:31 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Haiku Friday > > > Why not go to the bars. Or if your that board I have some things for > you to > do. :-) > > -----Original Message----- > From: Muqeem Syed [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 11:23 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Haiku Friday > > > OK guys... its 7.21 in the evening here in Cyprs... and I have nothing > better to do home... so .. I try to keep this thing going... BTW.. for > all the BEST SYS ADMINS IN THE WORLD... > > Top 100 things you don't want the sysadmin to say. > > > 100. Uh-oh..... > 99. Shit!! > 98. What the hell!? > 97. Go get your backup tape. (You _do_ have a backup tape?) > 96. That's SOOOOO bizarre. > 95. Wow!! Look at this..... > 94. Hey!! The suns don't do this. > 93. Terminated??! > 92. What software license? > 91. Well, it's doing _something_..... > 90. Wow....that seemed _fast_..... > 89. I got a better job at Lockheed... > 88. Management says... > 87. Sorry, the new equipment didn't get budgetted. > 86. What do you mean that wasn't a copy? > 85. It didn't do that a minute ago... > 84. Where's the GUI on this thing? > 83. Damn, and I just bought that pop... > 82. Where's the DIR command? > 81. The drive ate the tape but that's OK, I brought my screwdriver. > 80. I cleaned up the root partition and now there's LOTS of > free space. > 79. What's this "any" key I'm supposed to press? > 78. Do you smell something? > 77. What's that grinding sound? > 76. I have never seen it do *that* before... > 75. I think it should not be doing that... > 74. I remember the last time I saw it do that... > 73. You might as well all go home early today ... > 72. My leave starts tomorrow. > 71. Ooops. > 70. Hmm, maybe if I do this... > 69. ``Why is my "rm *.o" taking so long?'' > 68. Hmmm, curious... > 67. Well, _my_ files were backed up. > 66. What do you mean you needed that directory? > 65. What do you mean /home was on that disk? I umounted it! > 64. Do you really need your home directory to do any work? > 63. Oracle will be down until 8pm, but you can come back in > and finish > your > work when it comes up tonight. > 62. I didn't think anybody would be doing any work at 2am, > so I killed > your > job. > 61. Yes, I chowned all the files to belong to pvcs. Is that > a problem > to > you? > 60. We're standardizing on AIX. > 59. Wonder what *this* command does? > 58. What did you say your (l)user name was...? ;-) > 57. You did _what_ to the floppy??? > 56. Sorry, we deleted that package last week... > 55. NO! Not _that_ button! > 54. Uh huh......"nu -k $USER".. no problem....sure thing... > 53. Sorry, we deleted that package last week... > 52. NO! Not _that_ button! > 51. Uh huh......"nu -k $USER".. no problem....sure thing... > 50. [looks at workstation] "Say, what version of Dos is this > running?" > 49. Oops! (said in a quiet, almost surprised voice) > 48. YEEEHA!!! What a CRASH!!! > 47. What do you mean that could take down the whole network? > 46. What's this switch for anyways...? > 45. Tell me again what that '-r' option to rm does > 44. Say, What does "Superblock Error" mean, anyhow? > 43. If I knew it wasn't going to work, I would have tested it sooner. > 42. Was that YOUR directory? > 41. System coming down in 0 min.... > 40. The backup procedure works fine, but the restore is tricky! > 39. Hey Fred, did you save that posting about restoring filesystems > with vi and a toothpick? More importantly, did you print it out? > 38. OH, SH*T! (as they scrabble at the keyboard for ^c). > 37. The sprinkler system isn't supposed to leak is it? > 36. It is only a minor upgrade, the system should be back up in > a few hours. ( This is said on a monday afternoon.) > 35. I think we can plug just one more thing in to this outlet strip > with out triping the breaker. > 34. What is all this I here about static charges destroying > computers? > 33. I found this rabbit program that is supposed to test system > performance > and I have it running now. > 32. Ummm... Didn't you say you turned it off? > 31. The network's down, but we're working on it. Come back > after diner. > (Usually said at 2200 the night before thesis deadline... ) > 30. Ooops. Save your work, everyone. FAST! > 29. Boy, it's a lot easier when you know what you're doing. > 28. I hate it when that happens. > 27. And what does it mean 'rm: .o: No such file or directory'? > 26. Why did it say '/bin/rm: not found'? > 25. Nobody was using that file /vmunix, were they? > 24. You can do this patch with the system up... > 23. What happens to a Hard Disk when you drop it? > 22. The only copy of Norton Utilities was on THAT disk??? > 21. Well, I've got a backup, but the only copy of the restore program > was > on THAT disk.... > 20. What do mean by "fired"? > 19. hey, what does mkfs do? > 18. where did you say those backup tapes were kept? > 17. ...and if we just swap these two disc controllers like _this_... > 16. don't do that, it'll crash the sys........ SHIT > 15. what's this hash prompt on my terminal mean? > 14. dd if=/dev/null of=/vmunix > 13. find /usr2 -name nethack -exec rm -f {}; > 12. now it's funny you should ask that, because I don't know either > 11. Any more trouble from you and your account gets moved to the 750 > 10. Ooohh, lovely, it runs SVR4 > 9. SMIT makes it all so much easier...... > 8. Can you get VMS for this Sparc thingy? > 5. I don't care what he says, I'm _NOT_ having it on _my_ network > 4. We don't support that. We _won't_ support that. > 3. ...and after I patched the microcode... > 2. You've got TECO. What more do you want? > 1. We prefer not to change the root password, it's an nice easy one > 0. Just add yourself to the password file and make a directory... > -1. This won't affect what you're doing. > -2. `We are shutting xxx down from 8.30 to 10.30 on Thursday > to install > a > new tape drive.' > The machine was up at about 2pm sans-tape drive > -3. `I just have to install these three patches. It should not take > more > than a few minutes.' > The machine was working again about 3 hours later... > -4. Umm, did anyone have anything important in /usr? > -5. We had to format some tracks, and we seem to have hit an inode > track. > Half the files are still there though... > -6. Ooops, I should really have change directory before doing that > chmod -R bin.bin . > -7. I just made an extra 2 meg of space in /, I stripped /vmunix. > Oh, so that's why ps doesn't work. > -8. Ignore the errors. It complains too much. > -9. I got these instructions off the net. I'm going to follow > them exactly. Let's see if they work. > -10. Heard at my workplace when I found emacs wouldn't run : > "Oh I took that thing off, it was huge and nobody > uses it. It's > a stupid editor anyway." --Spoken by an MS-DOS programmer > -11. I don't know if this is ethical, but... > > Back to Omri's Computer Humor Page <index.html> > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Andy David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 7:15 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Haiku Friday > > > Now I lay me down to sleep, > I pray to Zeus my peeps to keep; > If I should die before I wake, > please kill this thread, for heaven's sake. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Muqeem Syed [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 12:08 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Haiku Friday > > > Whine whine...... me is a poor sys admin... .. me work for a > small time > company.... me being paid so less... me such a sad story.... > Dont expect me to pay a lot... infact ... can i be in the > category that > goes > by "A friend in need is a friend INDEED...????" I might be of > some help > to > you some day..... do you remember the story of the Lion and the > Mouse.... > the mouse that helped the line get out of a net by biting thru the > net......???? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Chris Scharff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 7:08 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Haiku Friday > > > With sufficient funding, anything is possible. Catering to > the obscenely > rich is one of my specialties. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Muqeem Syed [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 11:02 AM > > To: Exchange Discussions > > Subject: RE: Haiku Friday > > > > > > Hey Chris... I would liek to assemble my very own.. super > > fast turbo powered .. Jet engine car ... that should fly and > > swim when needed... like the ones you see in James Bond > > movies.... do you know any of those inventor highly paid... > > lost professor blokes on the army who can help me... > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Chris Scharff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 7:00 PM > > To: Exchange Discussions > > Subject: RE: Haiku Friday > > > > > > In case I ever own one, or one stops by and needs a part I > > happen to have? > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Kevin Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 10:51 AM > > > To: Exchange Discussions > > > Subject: RE: Haiku Friday > > > > > > > > > Just in case what??? > > > > > > --Kevinm TSSSBE, M, WLKMMAS, UCC+WCA, And Beyond > > > http://www.daughtry.ca/ For Graphics and WebDesign, GO here! > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of > > Chris Scharff > > > Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 8:48 AM > > > To: Exchange Discussions > > > Subject: RE: Haiku Friday > > > > > > > > > I'm a civilian, but I used to be able to quote the dry weight and > > > other public technical specs of the F-14 from memory and > have a few > > > spare parts for one in my garage (just in case). > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: Muqeem Syed [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > > Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 10:21 AM > > > > To: Exchange Discussions > > > > Subject: RE: Haiku Friday > > > > > > > > > > > > Guys................. am I the only DAMNED "Bloody > Civillian" Sys > > > > > Admin on this list... how did I land here...??? this is > the fifth > > > > or sixth Sys Admin replying from the govenrment or the mil... > > > > army.mil, navy.gov ./.. > > > > and now... state.us ..... hooooooo boy.... this list is fun. > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: Tom Meunier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > > Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 6:08 PM > > > > To: Exchange Discussions > > > > Subject: RE: Haiku Friday > > > > > > > > > > > > Don't sweat it. Gomer was only paraphrasing Alfred, Lord > > Tennyson > > > > anyway. > > > > > > > > "Forward, the Light Brigade!" > > > > Was there a man dismay'd? > > > > Not tho' the soldier knew > > > > Someone had blunder'd: > > > > Theirs not to make reply, > > > > Theirs not to reason why, > > > > Theirs but to do and die: > > > > Into the valley of Death > > > > Rode the six hundred. > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > > From: Muqeem Syed [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Posted At: > > > > > Friday, April 26, 2002 09:26 AM Posted To: MSExchange > > Mailing List > > > > > Conversation: Haiku Friday > > > > > Subject: RE: Haiku Friday > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Geee.... thanks for correcting me Chris.... I skipped the > > > AND part > > > > > .... I thought I would get away with the OR ... > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > > From: Chris Levis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > > > Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 5:21 PM > > > > > To: Exchange Discussions > > > > > Subject: RE: Haiku Friday > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Ours is not to reason why. Ours is but to do and die. > > > > > > > > > > Gomer Pyle, USMC, taught me that. > > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > > > From: Muqeem Syed [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > > > > Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 10:13 AM > > > > > > To: Exchange Discussions > > > > > > Subject: RE: Haiku Friday > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Yeaaaaa Dale... thats the true military spirit... 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