Re: 'Twas the night....

["Jim Franz" <franz400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

amen.

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From: "DrFranken" <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, December 24, 2010 1:28 AM
Subject: 'Twas the night....


> 'Twas the night before Christmas in the IBM i house
> Not an admin was worried nor even a spouse.
>
> Their systems ran smoothly not so much as a care.
> Secure in the knowledge no virus would hit theirs.
>
> The sysops were talking about gifts of toy sleds
> While visions of happiness danced in their heads.
>
> When down in the rack there arose such a clatter,
> The sysops went running to see what's the matter.
>
> It was windows they saw, gone down in a crash,
> A screen full of blue made them mad in a flash.
>
> The blue that they saw lit the whole server row
> screen after screen they were all in a glow.
>
> They called in the expert, begged him to appear,
> he came in quite quickly for he had been near.
>
> He opened his bag, whipped out a key-stick
> Stuck it into a server and booted it quick.
>
> He watched for the drivers calling each one by name
> Memory Disk, video LAN, each in turn up it came
>
> One by one each was started and it loaded them all
> But the server yet failed and the tech hit the wall.
>
> He turned to the sysops and asked what all was down?
> They looked at each other and checked all around.
>
> Each thing after the other was working just fine
> So happy they were that they toasted with wine!
>
> The tech he was puzzled. "It's all working, But why?"
> The sysops all in chorus: "Because we run IBM i!"
>
> "Those things with blue screens run unimportant stuff now
> We've learned not to trust them as they oft' let us down."
>
> He shook his head slowly as as he walked out the door.
> The sysops they taunted which frustrated him more.
>
> "On iStar on sStar, on PWER, on Blades!
> The best ever selection of servers we made!"
>
> Yet they they heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight,
> "Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night."
>
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