[798] in Humor
[HUMOR] Little nuggets of wisdom for sysadmins
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew A. Bennett)
Fri Mar 31 20:57:33 1995
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 1995 20:52:56 EST
From: "Andrew A. Bennett" <abennett@MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 1995 14:41:20 -0500
From: Erik Nygren <nygren@MIT.EDU>
[seen somewhere on netnews)
Removing the spindle screw out of a hard drive while its spinning is NOT
a way to preserve data. Neither is removing the controller ROM.
Hot-plugging SCSI devices does NOT make them last longer.
Configuring the machine to boot from the scanner is not a good idea.
Avoid formatting the drive you are booted off of, unless its a CD-ROM.
Never mount a tape as the root filesystem.
Avoid having a null password as root on the firewall.
"It doesn't work" is not a proper complaint.
If the OS you pay for has more kernel rebuilds than Linux,
chuck it and get a generic BSD.
user nobody does not belong in wheel, no matter what your users say.
