An old sysadmin configured the idrac interface of a company VMware server to get the IP address trough DHCP. Of course, without a valid IP, the server doesn't start. For you, where was hosted the VM with the DHCP server?

Happy Christmas!

Thanks for the stress ball! Here a picture of it with my new Power over Ethernet adapter 😂

documentation? what is it?

we just had a security audit

correctly named devices

when you already know that your code one day is going to be obsolete...

me today at work

Not mine, but a colleague puts a script in production which has to sent an email every time a config changes, but in reality sent an email every time the file was accessed. The system sent a good amount of email in a couple of minutes, the remote SMTP bounced them but the connections on port 25 was dropped by the server, the production firewall hits the maximum number of allowed connections... a lot of shit!

A bug on a chef script which stops the web server in case if it was unable to talk with the database. One night the database hits the maximum number of allowed connection and a good number of web servers went down at 3 am.

Original Apollo 11 commander module code wrote in Assembler: https://github.com/chrislgarry/...

I don't know if it already passed here...

stickers in action

old commodore 64 basic:
10 print fuck
20 goto 10

the coolest project was mine: a dynamic DNS like dyndns, wrote in scala, an API layer in ruby and a lot of sysadmin stuff like ospf any cast. A big technical success, a total financial failure... but I enjoyed and I learned a lot!

when you don't update your LinkedIn profile and a recruiter offers a job in the company where you actually work...