Mark: Someone installed the Redneck Mods on that there Vista box.
Me: Dude, Vista IS a redneck mod

BGInfo
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897557.aspx

(This is really for my personal reference, I'm sure most admins know about this already)

... no I didn't! >.<

You accidentally type 'Administrator' as 'Assministrator' on your VM server.

Until management starts tossing kryptonite in your Wheaties...

IT's a bird! IT's a plane! No IT's just the sysadmin... wait, is he on fire?

They see me routing
My packets

I know they're all thinkin' I'm just typin' QWERTY
Think I'm just typin' QWERTY
Think I'm just typin' QWERTY
Can't you see I'm typin' QWERTY
Look at me I'm typin' QWERTY

I wanna foil some, of those crackers
But so far they all think I'm just typin' QWERTY
Think I'm just typin' QWERTY
Think I'm just typin' QWERTY
I'm really typin' QWERTY
Really really typin' QWERTY

The humans... they come with packets, they come with issues... phreaking, cracking, breaking, hacking, phishing. Destroyers and usurpers, curse them.

To all of the gadgets and gizmos that make up the corporate machine,

We are your systems administrators, not your playmates, buddies or friends. We weave the arcane arts of UNIX, SMTP and HTTP into the magic carpet which you use to scoot around performing your daily mundane tasks with greater ease and efficiency. These arts are not idly learned and are not to be trifled with. As a result, a certain level of respect is in order.

We, as administrators, are not here to amuse you. We will not clap our hands excitedly and perform a trick for you when you come to us with yet another problem. In this light, please stop coming into our offices hoping for a show and then painting on a sad expression when we don't perform a balancing act for you. We are here to keep you productive and safe out there on the Internet and in here on the intranet, that is all. There are systems in place by which you can alert us to something that seems problematic or an issue which is stopping you from completing your designated operational sequences. Said systems are in place for a reason. They keep your admins sane and, as a result, your precious data from disappearing into the ether. Use them, or know our wrath.

Many assign us the attributes of 'evil', 'creepy', 'insane' and other adjectives which, while possibly quite fitting for some, do not describe us as a group. We genuinely strive to keep our corporate overlords and their minions safe from missiles cast by darker foes. Our order is focused on corporate-service. Quite simply, if we don't do our jobs, no one gets paid. You don't want that and neither do we.

Please remember that we understand your job is stressful and important. We see a much larger picture than your average gizmo and as a result, we understand what it is you do and why it is deemed neccesary to the overlords.

You may now return to your regularly scheduled programming.

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Going
To
Set
The
Building
On
Fire

Okay on a whim I decided to search for God in the 'chaos' (as it were)...

Keep in mind that the previous post's results were returned over the period of an hour or so, where as these took about 15 seconds:

nickw@nimitz ~ $ cat /dev/urandom | strings | grep -i god
hgODni
'[GOd
"NgGODw
God@
GODR
d&zgOD
GOd2Kj
God7
god>!b0
&>goDz
GodE
CgodW
BgOd
8GOD
gOD\
god}
goD`
GOD%
T9Vgod
YgODx
OGod
GODY
h2god
Godv
(GOd
!goD
iGODl0
9s7gOd
JE~God
gODS%'
=FGoDC
GOdj
s4pgOD
GOdb
goDX
+godg
UGoD;q

Curious no? Now while we could say that God is much more prevalent in the world than 'WTF?', the mathmatics behind this would center more on the fact that 'wtf?' has 4 characters compared to 3 in 'god'. Furthermore I'm guessing that if you convert god and wtf? to their binary equivalents, the 'god' pattern will be a much more common than 'wtf?' primarily due to the use of '?'.

Of course there are so many open ends to this that it really doesn't mean anything (Hello /dev/urandom?), however I found the concept amusing and thought provoking.