Don't forget the magic switch:

http://catb.org/esr/jargon/html/magic-story.html

(Also mildly upset that units on OS X only has 586 units and 56 prefixes, fortunately brew install gnu-units to the rescue!)

This is my favorite way of explaining why being a sysadmin is hard and requires more than just knowledge of computers.

Fun read!

If you're interested in computer stupidities this website (lynx friendly) is one of my favs: http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/

Most of them aren't related to engineering; rather computer helpdesk stories from the previous century.

Haha, this was indeed posted with that all-time great in mind.

Seconded... great lesson in sleuthing technical problems.

There was another that amused me about the server rebooting in a haunted data center:

http://www.greendatacenternews.org/articles/763167/the-haunt...

nice story ,, Feb 8 2008 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=123489