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A few words of advice, from someone who's obviously a genius

Drink Alcohol.

If I could offer you only one tip for the future, alcohol would be it.
The long-term benefits of alcohol have been consistently misunderstood by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own drunken experience.

I will dispense this advice now.

Enjoy the power and beauty of your alcohol tolerance.

Oh, never mind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your alcohol tolerance until it's faded.

But trust me, in 20 years, you'll look back at photos of yourself puking in a gutter and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much alcohol you drank and how fabulous it really was.

You are not as sick as you imagine.

Don't worry about where the next beer is coming from.

Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to pull a page three model after 15 pints of Stella.

The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your drink-addled mind, like the unexpected lack of ale in the fridge on some idle Tuesday.

Drink one thing every day that scares you.

Sing badly.

Be reckless when buying other people drinks. Don't put up with people who are reckless
when buying yours.

Gargle.

Don't waste your time on shandy.
Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long and, in the end, it's only
to the bar.

Make up compliments you received. Return the insults. If you don't succeed in doing this drink more beer now.

Keep your old ring pulls. Throw away your old cans. Wretch.

Don't feel guilty if you don't know when you might dry-out in you life. The most interesting people I know didn't know at 22 when they would sober up. Some of the most interesting 40-year-olds I know still haven't.

Get plenty of kebabs.

Don't be too kind to your liver. You'll hardly miss it when it's gone.

Maybe you'll pull, maybe you won't.
Maybe you'll get some bird up the duff, maybe you won't.
Maybe you'll enter rehab at 40, maybe you'll dance the nude conga at your 75th University Reunion.

Whatever you do, congratulate yourself far too much and berate others.

Your choices are half alcohol influenced. So are everybody else's.

Enjoy someone else's body.

Use it every way you can. Don't be afraid of it or of what the lads might think of it. It's probably the only time you'll ever pull.

Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but on the street with a can of Special Brew.
Ignore the directions, don't ever follow them.

Do not read beauty magazines, just cut out the pictures and put them on your wall.

Get to know your parents. You never know when you'll have to tap them for some cash.

Be nice to your barman. They're your best link to the bar and the person most likely to stop you getting your head kicked by a bouncer when paralytic in the future.

Understand that favourite drinks come and go, but with a precious flammable few you should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in strength and consistency, because the older you get, the harder it will be to neck ales like when you were young.

Live in London once, but leave before it makes you a ponce.
Live in Liverpool once, but leave before everything you own gets stolen.

Dribble.

Accept certain inalienable truths:
Beer prices will rise.
Bouncers will throw you out.
You, too, will get a hangover.
And when you do, you'll fantasise that when you were young, prices were reasonable, bouncers couldn't catch you, and hangovers were NEVER as bad as this.

Respect alcoholics.

Don't expect anyone else to buy you a beer.

Maybe you'll have a huge overdraft. Maybe you'll have a wealthy bird.
But you never know when either one might stop getting you pissed. Don't mess too much with alcopops or by the time you're 25 you will look like a faggot.

Be careful whose cheap booze you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.
Cheap booze is a form of rip-off. Dispensing it is a way of fishing old stock from the bin, wiping it off, painting over the sell-by date and re-selling it for more than it's worth.

But trust me on the alcohol.
 
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[GA]KillMachine

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ohhh, mate. How long did it take you to come up with that
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I've just been sat here for about 5 minutes reading that back like the song, pretty good
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And true!



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mookie

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hhmmmm... i'm starting to get a bit sick of this. when i first heard the song (chris Moyles show, radio 1. think this was the first british broadcasting of it.) i loved the song..

several weeks l8r, several hacked up versions l8r. its really starting to annoy me. i must have seen 5 hacked up versions.

stop it.
its not big.
its not clever
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ps. anyone done a BW one yet?
 
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cro

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Errr... Until March last year I was resident in Australia (yeah, yeah etc etc), and I heard this (and most of the attendant spoofs) around 2 or 3 years ago - so image how I feel now that's it been released here! Gah!

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Sres

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1) didn't take long cos it came to me on the Email
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2) I agree it is a crap song (but this was too funny)

3) OOOOOHHHHH Macarana
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Arhrhrhrhrhrhghghghghgh!
 
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Paul B

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This is definitely my favourite of the piss takes...

From: Ben@lspace.org (Ben)
Subject: Wear a Leatherman
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 11:58:56 GMT

Sysadmins of the class of '99:

Wear a Leatherman.

If I could offer you only one tip for the future, having a Leatherman would be
it. The long-term benefits of a Leatherman have been proved by BOFHs, whereas
the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering
experience. I will dispense this advice now.

Enjoy the power and beauty of root. Oh, never mind. You will not understand the
power and beauty of your root access until it's taken away. But trust me, when
you need to kill a runaway process, you'll think back to the scripts you had
and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and
how much you could do. You are not as powerless as you imagine.

Don't worry about the Y2K bug. Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective
as trying to mount an old chain of Exabyte tape drives by chewing bubble gum.
The real troubles on your network are apt to be things that never crossed your
worried mind, the kind that get you called in at 4 a.m. on some weekend when
you were supposed to be recovering.

Do one thing every day that scares the lusers.

LART.

Don't be reckless with other people's files (if it can be traced back to you).
Come down like a ton of bricks on people who are reckless with yours.

Nerf.

Don't waste your time on lusers' backups. Sometimes you're ahead on patches,
sometimes you're behind. The race to maintain an up-to-date system is long and,
in the end, it's only with yourself.

Remember compliments you receive. Log the insults in a database, cross-
referenced on date, time, reason and luser. If you succeed in doing this, tell
me how (and ftp me the binary).

Archive your lusers' old web caches. Throw away your logs.

Drink Jolt.

Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to do with your old glibc
libraries. The most interesting sysadmins I know didn't know at 22 what they
wanted to do with their systems. Some of the most interesting 40-year-old BOFHs
I know still don't.

Get plenty of UPSes. Be kind to your power supplies. You'll miss them when
they're gone.

Maybe you'll recover, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll have lusers, maybe you
won't. Maybe you'll become a PHB at 40, maybe you'll dance on the head of your
boss on your last day before you wipe the servers. Whatever you do, don't
congratulate yourself too much, or berate yourself either. Your choices are
half chance. So are everybody else's. But at least you can read their email.

Enjoy your network. Use it every way you can. Don't be afraid of it or of what
other people think of it. It's the greatest instrument you'll ever own. No
matter what the PHBs think.

Compile, even if you have nowhere to do it but on your laptop.

RTFM, even if you still use 'tar -xvf' rather than 'tar xvf'.

Do not read NT magazines. They will only make you feel ill.

Get to know your hardware suppliers. You never know when they'll go out of
business. Be nice to your PFY. They're your best link to your past and the
people most likely to play along when you kill the electrician with a power
spike.

Understand that lusers come and go, but with a precious few you should wring
their necks as soon as possible. Work hard to bridge the gaps in their
knowledge and Clue, because the older you get, the more you need the people who
knew you when you were nasty, and had a real mean temper when roused.

Live in your office once, but leave before it makes you arrive too early for
work. Live in the machine room once, but leave before you start to whistle at
28.8. Travel without moving with a line into the CCTV system.

Accept certain inalienable truths: hardware prices will rise. Lusers won't
learn.

You, too, will get old. And when you do, you'll fantasize that when you were
young, prices were reasonable, lusers were just as bad and sometimes they
respected their sysadmin.

Only respect your ass.

Don't expect anyone else to support you when you purchase a Starfire. Maybe you
have photos of the Boss with a secretary. Maybe you'll have a wealthy company
with more money than sense. But you never know when either one might run out,
or find out about the camera in the boardroom.

Don't mess too much with your chair or by lunchtime you won't be able to sleep
in it.

Be careful whose software you buy, don't be patient with those who supply it.
Software is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of fishing the minds of
bad programmers for the 'really neat' ideas, wiping them off, painting over the
ugly parts and selling it for more than it's worth.

But trust me on the Leatherman.



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