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What is your favorite sysadmin cartoon?

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asked Apr 30 at 21:34

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Toro

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This should be community wiki – cagcowboy Apr 30 at 21:36

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Community-wiki this and I'll upvote it. – Ben Alpert Apr 30 at 21:39

@Ben Alpert: ok – Toro Apr 30 at 21:46

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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 Apr 30 at 22:15

trent · Answer 1 · 2009-04-30 21:39:43Z

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

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I have a shirt of this comic. – Ben Alpert Apr 30 at 21:46

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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 Apr 30 at 22:03

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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 Apr 30 at 22:07

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Hey, this made me realise, my other half is clearly the superuser in our relationship. She's so logged in as root. – Charles Roper May 4 at 16:23

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@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 May 8 at 14:47

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Ben Alpert · Answer 2 · 2009-04-30 21:36:20Z

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xkcd #327

http://xkcd.com/327/

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Just read this one a couple days ago. – Keith Sirmons Apr 30 at 21:37

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The best part is that this is highly popular with the programmers too. 8^D – Dillie-O Apr 30 at 21:37

A nice one :).... – Chathuranga Chandrasekara May 24 at 14:59

Good ol' Bobby Tables. – Wesley 'Nonapeptide' Aug 26 at 13:39

Murali Suriar · Answer 3 · 2009-04-30 22:08:49Z

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

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

answered Apr 30 at 22:08

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This is mentioned in Neal Stephenson's "In the beginning was the command line" – Richard Gadsden May 2 at 23:56

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@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 May 3 at 0:00

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"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 May 8 at 14:45

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There is some weird thing with UNIX guys and beards though, seriously. What is that all about? – Doug Chase May 14 at 18:29

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I love this one! It's on the cover of my Richard Stevens book :) – Xerxes May 27 at 10:10

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Shard · Answer 4 · 2009-04-30 21:51:03Z

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

answered Apr 30 at 21:51

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Shard

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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 Apr 30 at 22:11

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Nothing relieves support stresses like IT Crowd. – Matt Hanson May 3 at 21:36

Aaron · Answer 5 · 2009-05-01 13:31:16Z

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alt text

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Lance Roberts · Answer 6 · 2009-05-29 23:05:18Z

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Dilbert is the best, here's one:

dilbert

answered May 29 at 23:05

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Lance Roberts

splattne · Answer 7 · 2009-05-03 13:41:01Z

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alt text

answered May 3 at 13:41

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splattne

Oskar Duveborn · Answer 8 · 2009-05-14 20:26:03Z

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alt text xkcd.com

answered May 14 at 20:26

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Oh wait, that is more a stackoverflow comic... but hey... – Oskar Duveborn May 14 at 20:26

l0c0b0x · Answer 9 · 2009-05-14 20:36:28Z

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l0c0b0x

Alakdae · Answer 10 · 2009-05-31 20:27:17Z

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

answered May 31 at 20:27

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Alakdae

Hamish Downer · Answer 11 · 2009-05-29 22:34:21Z

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regular expressions

http://xkcd.com/208/

answered May 29 at 22:34

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Duncan Smart · Answer 12 · 2009-05-14 18:14:27Z

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

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Note well that the "Windows Fanatic" is the only one without a beard... – Teddy Oct 8 at 0:02

Joseph Kern · Answer 13 · 2009-08-26 13:25:23Z

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Colin · Answer 14 · 2009-05-03 19:00:41Z

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Learn to Love the Abstruse Goose comics:

Technical Assistance

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Here should have just said FizzBin... hanselman.com/blog/… – Even Mien May 12 at 12:36

K. Brian Kelley · Answer 15 · 2009-04-30 21:54:21Z

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UserFriendly (images aren't allowed to be linked directly)

answered Apr 30 at 21:54

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That sounds a bit user unfriendly to me. – Wedge Apr 30 at 23:25

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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 May 1 at 0:57