And Other Bad Words
Linux: Because rebooting is for adding hardware
Solaris: Because you don’t need to reboot to add hardware
Windows: Because rebooting is for adding hardware, adding software, regularly scheduled downtime, and should also be done on a daily basis to keep the machine running.
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Heisenberg, Schrödinger and Ohm are in a car driving down the highway. An officer pulls them over and asks Heisenberg, “Sir, do you know how fast you were going?”
“No, but I can tell you exactly where I am,” Heisenberg replies.
The officer gets suspicious and decides to search the vehicle. Opening the trunk, he discovers a dead cat in a box.
“Do you know there’s a dead cat back here?!” the officer exclaims.
“Well, now I do!” replies Schrödinger.
Getting frustrated, the officer decides to take the three men in for questioning — but Ohm resisted.
You can do this in a number of ways. IBM chose to do all of them. Why do you find that funny?
— D. Taylor, Computer Science 350
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3840x2160There are 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary, and those who don’t.
There are 10 types of people in the world. Those who know binary, those who don’t, and those who didn’t expect this joke to be in base 3.
There are 10 types of people in the world. Those who know binary, those who don’t, those who didn’t expect this joke to be in base 3, those who didn’t expect this joke to be in base 4, … , and those who didn’t expect this joke to be in base n.
There are 10 types of people in the world. Those who know ternary, those who don’t, and those who mistake it by binary.
There are 10 types of people in the world. One who knows binary, and nine who can’t tell a joke right.
There are two kind of people, the ones that can extrapolate information with incomplete data
There are 1 kinds of people in the world: those who start their arrays at 0 and those who don’t.
There are two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors.
You know that big button near the door in the data center, the one labeled “Halon?” That’s French for “exit,” so you push that to unlock the door and get out.
From a slashdot post
Hint: don’t hit the ‘halon’ button unless you like getting a big bill for disaster recovery and cleanup — Editor