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The Court Sysadmin - With apologies to Danny Kaye Raw
ENGINEER
If I have to configure this, just pray I know how to.
APPRENTICE
You’ll not fail, you’ll not have to configure it. .
ENGINEER
What?
APPRENTICE
Listen, I have put a line of config in one of the routers.
ENGINEER
Which one?
APPRENTICE
The one connected to a computer.
ENGINEER
The computer with the router?
APPRENTICE
Yes, but you don't want the computer with the router, you want the SAN from Iran.
ENGINEER
I-I don’t want the computer with the router, I want the SAN from the what?
APPRENTICE
The SAN from the Iran!
ENGINEER
Hmmm?
APPRENTICE
It’s a little Fibre SAN that was shipped from Iran.
ENGINEER
Th-the computer with the router has the settings for subnetting?
APPRENTICE
No, the settings for subnetting are in the SAN from Iran.
ENGINEER
Oh, oh, the router with the computer.
APPRENTICE
The computer with the router.
ENGINEER
What about the Iran from the SAN?
APPRENTICE
Not the Iran from the SAN! The SAN from the Iran!
ENGINEER
Where’s the settings for subnetting?
APPRENTICE
In the computer with the router!
APPRENTICE
Don’t you see? The settings for subnetting’s in the computer with the router.
APPRENTICE
The SAN from the Iran has the cable with the label!
APPRENTICE
It’s so easy, I can say it!
ENGINEER
Well then you configure it!
APPRENTICE
Listen carefully. The settings for subnetting’s in the computer with the router, the SAN from the Iran has the line that is new.
ENGINEER
Where the settings for subnetting’s in the computer with the router, the SAN from the Iran has the line that is new.
APPRENTICE
Good man!
APPRENTICE
Just remember that.
And then they’re interrupted by the arrival of a RANDOM MANAGER.
RANDOM MANAGER
You there, back to your desk! And you, to your place meeting room.
ENGINEER
(to himself, following the Manager)
The line with the config... the line with the config is in the computer with the router. The SAN from Iran has the new that is new. Eh.. line that is new... The line with the config's in the computer with the router, the SAN from Iran has the new that is new. Eh, eh, line that is new. Eh. The cofnig with the roofer, eh eh, Iran with the ..
ENGINEER
I’ve got it! I’ve got it. The settings for subnetting's in the computer with the router, the SAN from Iran has the line that is new, right?
APPRENTICE approaches, worried, she’s overheard this last bit and –
APPRENTICE
Right. But there’s been a change. They broke the SAN from Iran.
ENGINEER
They broke the SAN from Iran?
APPRENTICE
And replaced it with a DAS.
ENGINEER
A DAS?
APPRENTICE
Connected via SAS.
ENGINEER
A SAS connected DAS?
APPRENTICE
Right.
ENGINEER
Did you put the settings for subnetting in the computer with the router?
APPRENTICE
No! The settings for subnetting’s in the SAS connected DAS, the computer with the router has the line that is new!
ENGINEER
The settings for subnetting’s in the SAS connected DAS, the computer with the router has the line that is new!
APPRENTICE
Just remember that.
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