No longer a “NOC Monkey”

By cormander

Starting on Monday, I’ll have moved to a different department in the company: Tools & Automation. So my new job title; Tools & Automation System Engineer, or TASE; as in, I shock people.

I should start carrying around a Taser to be funny.

Quote from my wife

By cormander

“The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Churches are full of good intentions. Ergo, church is the way to hell.”

I love her so much.

And another one bites the dust

By cormander

Wow another class flew right on by, CIS/205 Management of Information Systems. How in the world did I not go back to school sooner? I’d seriously have my doctorate by now if I continued this pace of one class at a time over the past couple years. They really do pile up, and I feel that a lot of it has been a waste due to not getting an education (when in reality, I’ve gotten my education, it just didn’t come with a certificate).

Next up, “Business Systems”.

Unix and Hell

By cormander

The majority of the people in my major in college are new to the IT world. It’s funny to see their reactions to the systems. Face it, the unix world is a little different from normal reality, and perhaps its a little more paranormal due to the actual terms used. There’s the standing association about IT guys loving dungeons and dragons, and it’s very much based in reality. Consider the following creative I put together for class:

You have to fork a processes, which is also referred to as spawning them, and sometimes they turn into zombies. You have daemons that run in the background, and you eventually need to kill them. You have the python language, the anaconda system installer, and you have to occasionally fsck the disks. Source code is usually inside tar, and you bash the system each time you login. Passwords are kept in the crypt, java is in the jar, and there is an echo with everything you type. Oh, and there is a lock on a lot of things.

This would totally sound like the 7th ring of hell to me if I wasn’t already so used to all of these terms.

/dev/null has the mark of the beast

By cormander

Ever noticed the permissions for /dev/null?

crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 Apr 27 07:33 /dev/null

Well, since /dev/null is a black hole, it’s kind of ironic that its permissions are set to 666. Kind of like hell for bits.

“[...] no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name [...] His number is 666″ (Rev. 13:16-18).

Since we all buy online now, we’ll all need a /dev/null before this revelation is fulfilled. Ergo, Jesus Christ will not come and save us all until every PC in the world is installed with Linux, BSD or Mac.

I guess that makes Windows good instead of evil? After all, Windows has services and icons, while Linux is full of daemons and zombies.