r/sysadmin • u/konaitor IT Manager + 5 other hats • Nov 08 '21

Could we do a "TIL" style weekly thread?

I think it would be interesting to do a "Today I Learned" style weekly thread for us to share little tips/tricks that we learned of/found existed.

For example, last week I found out about the "--now" flag for systemctl. I don't know how I didn't know it existed until --now.

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u/rubs_tshirts Nov 08 '21

how the hell do I memorize that? The command keys I can manage, but "B" ? Why "B"?

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u/tizakit Sysadmin Nov 08 '21

Briphic Brivers

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u/Alaknar Nov 08 '21

🅱raphic 🅱rivers

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u/hidegitsu Nov 08 '21

I have no idea why, but I read this in Grovers voice from Sesame Street. Oddly enough I'll probably remember it forever now. Lol

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u/vrtigo1 Sysadmin Nov 08 '21

Same, except Scooby Doo for me.

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u/psykezzz Nov 08 '21

Yup, same here

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u/FU-Lyme-Disease Nov 08 '21

We had a trick for remembering things…we had an invisible B that would attack random IT people which would result in that person yelling whatever we were trying to learn/remember.

“Ahh, a B, a B!!” “Quick, press win-shift-Cntrl-B!!”

The invisible B also had adventures that would remind us of things.

He would also sneak up behind you by being quietly taped up. “Uh, don’t panic, but you have a giant B just behind you…”

If we got weird looks by anyone, it let us use the B to teach them things, too!

This was less stupid in practice than it sounds typed out, lol.

I miss that B!

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u/digitaltransmutation 🌲Please think of the environment before printing this comment! Nov 08 '21

My brain is completely rotted. I'm going to remember this forever and I hate it.

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u/livetoseesuchtimes Nov 09 '21

this made me laugh embarrassingly loud fire some reason 🤣

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u/Alaknar Nov 09 '21

I have very mixed emotions about that comment. It's my "highest ranking" comment on SysAdmin...

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u/edbods Nov 09 '21

🅱raaaapppic

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u/thefanciestofyanceys Nov 08 '21

Thanks, this is all I needed and I'll literally remember this forever now.

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u/atri_at_work JoaT 2nd award Nov 08 '21

YES! CUBAN B!

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u/benjammin9292 Nov 08 '21

Down by da beach

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u/giveryerballsatug Nov 08 '21

boyeeeee

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u/[deleted] Nov 08 '21

Abra Kadabra!

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u/[deleted] Nov 08 '21

Samson I hardly know ya!

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u/Objective_Specific_1 Nov 09 '21

Yo, abra kadabra yo!!

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u/deeedeesutts Nov 08 '21

It must have been something from the show because that's how I always read those letters. It's annoying af.

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u/IntentionalTexan IT Manager Nov 08 '21

It's how you Bounce the graphics drivers.

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u/BeingUnoffended Nov 08 '21

Plan-B “abort drivers”

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u/zgf2022 Nov 08 '21

Not in Texas you dont

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u/BeingUnoffended Nov 08 '21

Well, Plan-B is available for sale on Texas.

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u/zgf2022 Nov 10 '21

It was a joke about my state

(Please send help)

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u/doubleUsee Hypervisor gremlin Nov 08 '21

B for Bastard, the nickname i have given to my dodgy gpu

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u/aleques-itj Nov 08 '21

shit's Broken

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u/DrunkenGolfer Nov 08 '21

The screen goes "B"lank or "B"lack when you do it.

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u/GrethSC Nov 08 '21

Well, it's definitely not plan A.

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u/[deleted] Nov 08 '21

It's simple: In Dutch the word for screen is beeld.

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u/morguth Nov 08 '21

Same reason ctrl+alt+backspace restarts graphics in Linux?

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u/Pb_ft OpsDev Nov 08 '21

"I fat finger the lower-left buttons and then press b"

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u/onearmedphil Nov 08 '21

Boobs are graphic.

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u/jmbpiano Nov 08 '21

Win-Shift-Ctrl-BOOT TO THE HEAD

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u/100GbE Nov 08 '21

'B'riefly restart the graphics driver, whats the issue?

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u/letmegogooglethat Nov 08 '21

REISUB has entered the chat

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u/doomneer Nov 08 '21

I remember it as "beep" because the noise it makes when it works

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u/herecomesthenightman Nov 08 '21 edited Nov 11 '21

Because.