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Original song |
Ironic |
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Original artist |
Alanis Morissette |
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Filk author |
Jeffrey K. Bray |
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Intro |
This was inspired by about a year of bad network decisions, poor IT management, and long-coming decisions which came too late. Surrounding all of this was our inability to keep a simple dedicated line up. In short everything was going wrong, and it was doing it all at once, and the harder we tried, the more it kept happening. |
Fiber-Optic
An old LAN, learned in '88
Put on Windows NT .. got fried the next day
It's a MAC guy, in charge of your CRAY
It's an avoided core-dump, two cycles too late
And is it fiber-optic?
Can you link?
Chorus:
It's a downed frame, on your very first day
It's a call to find(1), when you've got a full RAID
It's the root account, that you just didn't make
And who would have thought; it fingers!
Brilliant sys-admin, had the load real high
Typed in lowercase, and kissed the SPIDs goodbye
It took him his whole damn life, to make that site
The main-frame crashed down, he thought, "Well, I shoulda used nice(1)"
And is it fiber-optic?
Can't you link?
(Chorus)
The load has a funny way
Of peakin' up on ya when you think HTTPd's ok
And you got a stable site
And nice(1) has a funny way
Of helpin' ya out when ya think all the pings are too long
Then every ping times out in your trace
Some broken RAM, in a fully foamed crate
A slow-poking line, as your Internet fate
It's the password for root, when all you need is a life
It's like building the LAN of my dreams, and not seeing a single link-light...
And is it fiber-optic?
Can't we link?
It's only fiber-optic!
Don't need a super heat-sink!
(Chorus)
The load has a funny way, of peakin' up on you...
nice(1) has a funny way, of helping you out ...
Helping you out..
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