We almost missed this one, but here it is! We’ve found a treasure in the “Know Your System Administrator” guide from the Free Software Foundation. Here’s a preview: There are four major species of Unix sysad: The TECHNICAL THUG. Usually a systems programmer who has been forced into system administration; writes scripts in a polyglot of the Bourne shell, sed, C, awk, perl, and APL. The ADMINISTRATIVE FASCIST. Usually a...

This week we’re going to point you in the direction of some old school Unix jokes in the form of “Man Pages (and commands) that should be part of Unix” from 1997. Enjoy!

Top 20 replies from programmers when their programs don’t work: “That’s weird…” “It’s never done that before.” “It worked yesterday.” “How is that possible?” “It must be a hardware problem.” “What did you type in wrong to get it to crash?” “There is something funky in your data.” “I haven’t touched that module in weeks!” “You must...

This one comes to us from Toothpaste for Dinner.

Two IT guys were chatting in a pub after work. Alpha: “Guess what, mate. Yesterday, I met this gorgeous blonde girl in a bar.” Beta: “What did you do?” Alpha: “Well, I invited her over to my place, we had a couple of drinks, we got into the mood and then she suddenly asked me to make her feel special!” Beta: “You’re kidding me!” Alpha: “Nope! So then I lifted her and put her on my desk next to my new laptop.” Beta:...

We’re a couple of days late on this one, and it’s a bit long, but it’s pretty funny! New Virus Warning This just in : NEW VIRUS WARNING If you receive an email with a subject line of “Badtimes,” delete it immediately WITHOUT reading it. This is the most dangerous email virus yet. It will re-write your hard drive. Not only that, but it will scramble any disks that are even close to your computer. It will re-calibrate...