Kaptain Krunk (photoshopped by deadlock) – Parody of Captain Morgan
Random Crap:
Court pardons smitten bra burglar – He told the court he swiped the woman’s MP3 player because it was in need of repair, but admitted he “took her bra and photos out of love for her.”
Weebls Stuff – Toy Ad (from deadlock) – Remember that Lions and Tigers in Kenya flash? Well, they are now selling the plushies for it!!! They’re so cute! Check them out at the Weebls Stuff Store.
Honda Debuts New ASIMO (from /.) – Honda Motor Co., Ltd. today debuted a new ASIMO humanoid robot that features an advanced level of physical capabilities. Compared to the previous model, the new ASIMO achieves the enhanced ability to act in sync with people. In addition, ASIMO is now capable of running at a speed of 6km/hour and of running in a circular pattern. Videos available here. The robots pretty cool!
Top 10 System Administrator Truths (from /.):
- Users Lie
- Email is the Lifeblood of Non-Techies
- Printers Suck
- Cleanliness is Godliness
- Backups are Crucial
- Switches and Hubs (Usually) Die One Port At A Time
- No One Ever Got Fired For Buying Microsoft
- Politeness > Brevity
- Know Your Needs
- The Holy Grail of Tech Support
Click the above link to see the actual descriptions of these truths.
Someone later in that thread posted this interesting piece which differentiated between 4 types of administrators:
- 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 retentive drone (or rarely, a harridan ex-secretary) who has been forced into system administration.
- The MANIAC. Usually an aging cracker who discovered that neither the Mossad nor Cuba are willing to pay a living wage for computer espionage. Fell into system administration; occasionally approaches major competitors with indesp schemes.
- The IDIOT. Usually a cretin, morpohodite, or old COBOL programmer selected to be the system administrator by a committee of cretins, morphodites, and old COBOL programmers.
So you’d like to… fireproof your fish pond (from Microsoft newsgroup) – Pretty funny guide. You’ve probably seen it before, but someone commented they’ve finally figured out how to create a phishing firewall.