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Thursday 26 January 2012

System Administration in the Twilight Zone

This is a bit of a commentary on how things have been going in my new job. It's somewhat exaggerated, but not vastly. Trixbox is a software telephone exchange (PBX) which runs on a PC and gives you Internet telephony (VoIP). A worm is similar to a virus; some PC's have been infected by one from 2009, which they should have been immune to due to operating system patches.

In the twilight zone
The users groan
They haven't got a working phone.
Trixbox the name
And it's a pain,
The clunker's gone tits up again.

The boss has sunk into despair,
He's started to tear out his hair;
The firewall's down,
The techheads frown,
Fix soon or they won't be aroun'.

Weird things come fast
From out the past;
Old worms resume
The system's doom.
Hard drives and fans
Give up the ghost,
The ancient servers are just toast.

The staff are fighting with the boss,
Or saying they don't give a toss;
The techheads are quite at a loss.

The systems creak,
The gremlins leer,
The techies curse and quake with fear.
Whatever next?
God alone knows,
It seems our trouble only grows.

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