The Register Opera Company presents: The Pirates of Penzance, Sysadmin edition Why look at that, it’s 07:00 GMT Friday, the slot when The Register usually runs “On-Call”, our tales of tech support woes. But this Friday is Good Friday, so much of the Reg-reading world has the day off. We therefore decided to deviate a little from the On-Call template with this contribution from reader “Patrick”, who is …
The EFF are too twacked out of their red berets on nyaope. The only thing they're expropriating is each other's drugs and cheap booze at the shabeen. It was the ANC hooking up one of Ramaphosa's cronies with a free farm, while the DA sat there and threatened them with the ConCourt and the FF+ kept preaching to a choir.
Mu cousin's school used to do an annual G&S production (to an incredibly high standard), and I was allowed to attend a performance each year free - Mum had to pay. I got sucked in rather, and learned most of the plot lines and songs. However, as my school was somewhat less {cough} refined {cough} the instinct for self preservation kicked in and I never shared this with my school mates.
Way back in 2015 I wrote this, sung to the tune of a well known Pink Floyd song, from one of their more famous albums. I've been a programmer for longer than I've been a musician, so I refactored out the duplications, to avoid The Wall of text. Insert David Gilmour guitar solo where appropriate.
We don't need no compilation.
We don't need no source control.
No damn subversion in the repo.
Coders leave them bugs alone.
Hey! Coders! Leave them bugs alone!
All in all, it's just another bug in the code.
All in all, put just another bug in the code.
Crashed, run it again!
If you don't edit yer code, you can't have any debugging. How can you have any debugging if you don't edit yer code?
You! Yes you behind the segfaults, STAND STILL LADDIE!
I always liked the Animaniacs version: I am the very model of a cartoon individual.
A series sadly not only not continued, but also not repeated!
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