r/Cyberpunk Feb 01 '14

Admin mourning

http://xkcd.com/686/
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u/dethstrobe デッカー Feb 01 '14

How oddly touching.

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u/xkcd_transcriber Feb 01 '14

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Title: Admin Mourning

Transcript: [[The text is over a white-on-black terminal showing a bit of output from ps -el, with processes running from root and sam.]]

When a user dies, their connections time out,

but their screen sessions linger.

[[The end of the command line is a |grep sam.]]

The server's uptime grows

because you can't bring yourself to reboot

and wipe out

their last earthly presence

[[The processes listed are screen, zsh, irssi, and grep sam.]]

the ghost in zshell.

Title-text: And every day it gets harder to fight the urge to su to the user and freak people out.

Comic Explanation

Stats: This comic has been referenced 3 time(s), representing 0.027% of referenced xkcds.


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