Happy April Fools Day!
The Register to publish Mindful Sysadmin adult colouring book
The Register is proud to announce a new venture: we're getting into the self-help business with The Mindful Sysadmin Colouring Book. Adult colouring books are the publishing industry's surprise hit. Apparently colouring in helps you to relax. As we contemplated our own effort in the field, The Register engaged eminent techno- …
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Friday 1st April 2016 06:40 GMT caffeine addict
This is why I hate April Fools on the internet. You get the rubbish attempts at humour from companies (although I really quite like this one) then you get people desperate to announce to the world that they got the joke.
Can't we just let the joke rumble on quietly? They didn't feel the need to shout "April Fools" at the bottom of the article...
/grumpy bastard
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Friday 1st April 2016 07:19 GMT m0rt
I sent the link to a friend, forgetting what day it was...
She was quite gutted when It isn't real.
You should do this. I can personally guarantee 2 sales. As long as it is under a tenner. For the two.
edit: And has pics of the staff writers to colour in too...in which case I will buy three and send one to Mr S. Fry.
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Friday 1st April 2016 07:46 GMT Anonymous Coward
Is this a compulsory practice in DevOps?
I mean, if you have different colors for each stage it will help to route your thoughts appropriately, and understand what is what.
It would be great if you could send your colour patterns to a manufacturer and get your own true Colour Defined Network (TM). I see a market for "red" switches instead of the dull Cisco Blue, HP Gray or Dell Black for critical ones (those that should have a sign saying "touch this without my permission and you're dead"), although in a true cloud environment I'd go for transparent ones, maybe in foggy cases. They should turn darker when something is going wrong.
Also many of my colleagues will find this book useful, the time spent colouring old Macs and PETs wouldn't be spent in writing crappy code I have to hunt down and fix later, before it get pasts testers following their coloured thoughts as well (usually because of alcohol/substance abuse...) and reach production, then colouring any monitoring screen they hit.
Shouldn't we have also a Mindful Programmer colouring book? Let programmers learn the intricacies of syntax highlighting and proper variable naming using fruit-scented markers!
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Friday 1st April 2016 09:31 GMT MacroRodent
Mind the language
Packetise mielesi: Periaatteiden soveltamisessa TCP/IP omaan neuroverkko
Another dolt who thinks you can use automatic translation into Finnish. One sees a lot of this these days, my family nearly died laughing at how the Playstation store had translated the description of a Star Wars game! In the interests of promoting sysadmin mindfulness, here is how it should look:
Paketisoi mielesi: TCP/IP:n periaatteiden soveltaminen omaan neuroverkkoosi.
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Friday 1st April 2016 12:24 GMT MacroRodent
Re: Mind the language
So you're saying that "Kaikki pohja on kuulu meille" is wrong?
Yes. I think "All your base are belong to us" would be better translated into "Kaikki teidän tukikohta on kuulua meille". Grammatically incorrect in a way that mimics the original better. The context would probably make it clear to even a poor human translator that another sense of the word "base" should be used.
More to the point, what's the Finnish for "Romanes eunt domus"?
I'm not a Latin expert, but perhaps "Roomalainet menevät koti"? Bad grammar like the original, enough to make a Finnish-speaking centurion to force you write "menkään kotiinne roomaiset" a 100 times.
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Friday 1st April 2016 11:10 GMT PNGuinn
Do the decent thing
Ok, El Reg, this thing has legs.
I dare you to produce the whole book. And send a complimentary copy to Sadnads.
It'll either force a reset more powerful than the traditional 3 fingered salute or better cause the whole kaboodle to implode with nuclear ferocity.
One a can but hope ... >>
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Friday 1st April 2016 12:55 GMT Anonymous Coward
Reminds me why senior managers don't visit our office
We had a senior manager over and he asked if there were any questions.
I asked if the company had enough money to buy our Solution Architects some new crayons as the others where so worn we couldn't read their scribblings any longer. He did attempt to laugh it off and mentioned pencils, but we insisted as we had to remove their pencils as they hurt themselves too often when they had anything truly pointy.
It started a bit of a row as he claimed ownership of them then while having a 'town hall' meeting with them the following day told them that they where known as the Crayon Squad and needed to up their game.
Maybe I should have mentioned the tyre swing, the bunches of bananas (that they peel with their feet) and the varnished walls which had to be installed (so the faeces they fling doesn't stick too much)