Category «That Time When»

Interesting or funny stories from my may eons as an engineer or growing up.

That time when I an innocent HPUX reference almost got me in trouble for Sexual Harassment.

So it was sometime in the late summer or early fall of 2003, I was installing HPUX on some new servers for a big Oracle upgrade project I was working on for the Bank at the time. So I was in the lab where all new server builds happened. And in walks this particularly conservative …

That time when a professor whacked me upside the head with a stack of papers.

So, around fall of 1998, I was working as a UNIX sysadmin for Tickets.com, and taking classes at CSU trying to get my EE degree. I had attempted to take the networking class without taking the pre-req UNIX class first. I figured I was a UNIX admin, had been doing this stuff for a few …