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Trust But Verify (Or Drive Two Hours)

Debugging Networking Devops Hardware Programming

3 days ago 49.1K views 0 shares

Trust But Verify (Or Drive Two Hours)

The eternal IT paradox: "Trust but verify" taken to its logical extreme. Poor Eric drove two hours just to press a power button that three people swore was already on. This is why we develop trust issues and insist on seeing error logs ourselves. Nothing quite builds character like a 4-hour round trip to flip a switch that takes 2 seconds. The server was probably running perfectly... in someone's imagination.

Make Sure The Server Works

Devops Networking Security Linux Backend

24 days ago 113.6K views 0 shares

Make Sure The Server Works

Ah, the sacred pre-vacation server ritual! Nothing says "please don't crash while I'm gone" like a desperate group prayer to the uptime gods. These poor souls are performing the ancient IT sacrament of server-touching—a mystical ceremony where sysadmins transfer their life force into the hardware. "Stay alive until January, you temperamental pile of circuits. I've got eggnog to drink and I'm not debugging your tantrums remotely from my in-laws' house." The irony? The server will absolutely choose Christmas morning to have an existential crisis anyway.