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2.1 KiB
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65 lines
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1) Have you ever crashed the server?
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More than once in a day?
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On purpose?
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2) Have you ever accidently deleted a *LARGE* amount of data from your
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company's database using query?
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Did you recover it?
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Would it have been quicker to retype it all in instead?
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3) Ever format the wrong disk?
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Was this other disk important?
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Did the owner want to kill you?
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Were you able to unformat it successfully?
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Did the owner then treat you like a god?
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Do you thrive on being treated like a god?
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4) Ever just walk into a room to troubleshoot a computer and "the
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problem" mysteriously goes away?
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Does this happen all the time?
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Do the lights dim when you enter?
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5) Do you use more than one operating system on your computer?
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More than three?
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More than five?
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Do you use just one, but it's one you wrote yourself?
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6) Do you know more programming languages than presidents?
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Do you read computer magazines?
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Do you admit it?
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7) Ever lied to your boss about having a current backup of the company
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database?
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Did he believe you?
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Do you have a current backup right now?
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Do you have *any* backups?
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8) Have you ever lost power to the server because your UPS died?
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Did it crash a critical application?
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Did you explain the irony to your boss?
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Did he think it was funny?
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9) Ever reverse engineer a program?
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Did it work after?
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Did you do it to get rid of those pesky "Not Registered" shareware
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messages?
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Did you put your own name in there to make it *look* like you were
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registered?
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10) Do you make your own cables?
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Do they work?
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Have you ever wondered why anyone would *buy* a serial cable?
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Have you ever strung 5 or more converters/tranceivers together to
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make a cable do something it was never intended?
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11) Have you ever told a newbie that the "any" key is the big switch
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labled "1/0"?
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Did you deny it when confronted by your boss?
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12) Ever set up a "God" account so you could send system messages to
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newbies that say "Message from God:..."
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Did the newbie then run to your office and say "Come quick! Look at
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this!"?
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Do you do this regularly?
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Has anyone figured it out yet?
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