The univ I worked at let incoming freshmen pick their own username. One used "null." Four years later the DBA had to dump the database to source and manually delete the entry indexed for "null" to get rid of it.
The sysadmins [raises hand] told them not to do that but did they listen....?
one of the greatest reads i ever had was the original 'Bastard Operator from Hell' series who pretty sure at the beginning was college or university employed.
you just reminded me of it.
you just reminded me of it.
I lived it for years! CDC mainframes running in batch mode when I started. Piss off the sysop and your card deck (yeah, I started out reading hollerith cards into the system in the 70s) was pushed to the back of the shelf. Scheduling was entirely managed by the sysops.
Ah, the good old days.
P.S. I love A BOFH Christmas -- it's still findable on the 'net.
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