Linux is Making Me Fat and Lazy
Because of Linux I hardly have to lift a finger anymore, and because of it my health is suffering. I rarely hop up and down in a fit of temper, I don't have to drive to the store to buy software, and I don't get the aerobic benefits of spending hours on the phone with tech support, breathing hard and accelerating my heartbeat. I rarely make site visits anymore. I don't even leave my chair, because I log in and do fixes and admin chores from home. I even have my remaining tiny herd of Windows users (close relatives only who bribe me handsomely) set up with VNC over SSH, Cygwin/SSH, or rdesktop. I alone have the passwords, mwahaha.
There is a story that has circulated on the Net since forever about a little server tucked away in a closet, running quietly for years and years, and nobody really knew it was there. In some stories it's a Linux box, sometimes Unix. It is discovered under various circumstances, depending on the storyteller- sometimes it's a remodel, sometimes it's an office move, once it was a new janitor trying out keys and discovering a mysterious locked door that no one else knew about.
I'm inclined to believe it is a true story, even several true stories, because I just experienced something like it.
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