On sailors trying to defend against the Somali pirates:
From “Pirates in Skiffs Still Outmaneuvering Warships Off Somalia” by Jeffrey Gettleman, New York Times.
Tired. Exhausted. Smelly
Ended my last primary on-call shift of the year just now, and not a minute too soon. I like to say that my job is at the intersection of system administration and adrenaline because for 37 hours a weekend we are constantly solving issues where data loss is not an option and speed is everything.
Anyway, two choice quotes from my weekend, emphasis mine:
From a Sybase ASE error log:
I love software that has been patched to tell you how to actually fix the issue but won’t actually fix it for you.
Next up, an email from a first-level system administrator:
piias1332 /ms/user/v/venusrin 63$ rup pisdb38 pisdb38 up 29 days, 2:42, load average: 1.77 1.73 1.62
Um. No. Just no.