IT Turf Wars: the Most Common Feuds In Tech 217
snydeq writes "InfoWorld's Dan Tynan reports on the most common feuds in tech: turf wars in the IT department. 'IT pros do battle every day — with cyber attackers, stubborn hardware, buggy software, clueless users, and the endless demands of other departments within their organization. But few can compare to the conflicts raging within IT itself.' Dev vs. ops, staff vs. management — taking flak from fellow IT pros has become all too common in today's highly territorial IT organizations."
vim (Score:5, Funny)
Dont forget the choreographed dance/fight numbers. (Score:5, Funny)
To quote Lincoln Spector and sung to the tune of the Jets song from West Side Story.
When you use DOS you use DOS all the way
From your first data loss 'til you format drive A:.
When you use DOS, why your confidence grows;
For your keys there's commands, for your mouse there's Windows.
It's DOS that's sublime; it's used by all go-getters.
At file-namin' time, we're never locked in fetters--
We choose eight letters.
When you use DOS, old hardware you can swap.
You can buy something new, next month prices will drop.
When you use DOS, why, you're never a stooge,
If your 640's low, well, there's always a cludge.
DOS users: On clones we can run, with brand-names we're the choosers.
The Macs'll buy none, cause all the Apple users
Are mouse abusers.
We're using DOS, yeah! and we're gonna fix
Every last system that's not something eighty-six--
Not something eighty, very weighty, six.
Forget Feuds, this is WAR! (Score:4, Funny)
Luckly we have the equivalent of Sun Tzu's Art of War for the IT crowd.
B.O.F.H [wikipedia.org]
Re:vim (Score:2, Funny)
Let's get this out of the way. Real programmers use butterflies [xkcd.com].
CJ
DBA vs. SysAdmin (Score:4, Funny)
DBAs always seem to want root for some reason or other... with apologies to A Few Good Men:
SysAdmin: You want the authority?
DBA: I think I'm entitled.
SysAdmin: You want the authority?!
DBA: I want the root!
SysAdmin: You can't handle the root!
Re:vim (Score:4, Funny)
m is absolutely the bestD
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Re:Network vs. Servers (Score:5, Funny)
Paint one half of the cable blue and the other half white, and hide the switch point in a mass of cables somewhere.
Re:"Long live the Fighters!" (Score:4, Funny)
I always found it fun when OTHERS found net send, decided to "have some fun", and as a result I showed them the consequences of mixing 1. batch scripting, 2. net send, and 3. infinite loops. And not one of them knew how to turn the service off... One of them even started to cry..
Good times :)