Things I Am Not Allowed To Do At Work, Part 8

[delta_mike]

( Previously. Recap: University sysadmin.)

• Refer to my office as the 'holding cell'.
• Remove the world-executable bit from /bin/rm, because "the users can't be trusted to use it safely."
• Demonstrate my dominion over the undergraduate lab by scripting all of the lab machines to sequentially eject and withdraw their CD drive trays in a continuous mexican

Comments

[lights]

1. You remind me so much of my friend Doug, who listed his shift goal at a food service job as, "To conquer small European countries." This makes you awesome.

2. If my printer ever said "judging you," I'd marry it. And the person who configured it. (It's not polygamy if one third of the relationship is inanimate, right?)

[pne]

What's the significance of "judging you"? I'm guessing it's a reference to something I haven't come across but (perhaps) should have?

[boggyb]

Demonstrate my dominion over the undergraduate lab by scripting all of the lab machines to sequentially eject and withdraw their CD drive trays in a continuous mexican wave.
I have been tempted to do this with the UID lights on the servers in the lab.

Reconfigure printers to display as their low-toner message NEED MORE POWDERED CHOCOLATE.
"INSERT 10P TO CONTINUE" is also prohibited. While we like your innovative approach to ensuring the ITS department is fully funded, the printer vents are not designed to take coins.

Maintain and/or distribute fortunes files containing quotes from University lecturers.
On one linux box, fortune decided to print "You'll be sorry!" when I logged in as root.

[talonvaki]

OM NOM PAPER

LOL oh, I wish my printer would say that!

[jecook]

If you have a machine on your network that will run perl, there is a script out there that you can run against most networked HP printers (with a display, obviously) to change their 'idle' message.

I *almost* got away with running it at work too, but some of the techs apparently don't have a sense of humor. :)

There's always april fool's day, though... muhahahahaha

[jecook]

... or label individual lecture theatres and labs with test-chamber glyphs.

OH GODS, I must do this to the test lab at work. And maybe the data center as well. For Halloween (and science)

[delta_mike]

I have an SVG if you would like to borrow it.

[japester]

and you have not published it already, why?

Please! may I have a copy as well?

[delta_mike]

It had my University's logo on it. I had to hack it off first.

[laina_inverse]

Omnom Paper! Ahahahah! I'd be laughing too hard to use the printer if that ever popped up for me!