The Warm Thrill Of Confusion » IRC http://thrillofconfusion.com So ya, thought ya, might like to go to the show.. Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:01:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Ye Olde Upgrades http://thrillofconfusion.com/blog/post/05141787 http://thrillofconfusion.com/blog/post/05141787#comments Wed, 14 May 2008 13:10:45 +0000 Daniel http://thrillofconfusion.com/post/05141787 The pythonesque approach to a system upgrade conversation (as seen on IRC today):

      <vhata> in my day, we had to upgrade a thousand
              packages a day, uphill both ways, and
              then we'd go home and have a cold pile
              of punch cards for supper, and then our
              sysadmins would jump up and down on our
              graves singing "Hallelujah"

<cocooncrash> Upgrade? Count yourself lucky! We had
              to downgrade a million packages day on
              minix systems, stay up all night manually
              backing up the servers bit by bit, and
              then get slaughtered by our users the next
              morning!

Glad I wasn’t working back then ;-)

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