TOTP - Top Ten Things System Administrators Do To Annoy Users
Mr Admin (if that is his real name) has some series issues which he chooses to share with us, here are the top ten of the most evil things that he gets up to whilst in control of computer networks:-
- 10 - Remotely rebooting PCs just as users try and save their data
- 9 - Putting in email filters to send yourself a copy of all the jpegs that people email
- 8 - Coming into work early and making sure you are visibly seen tampering with a users system.
- 7 - Hiding critically important user files
- 6 - Randomly deleting email with a subject line of test
- 5 - Asking users to reboot their systems while holding down specific key combinations
- 4 - Leafing through users browser history for dodgy blackmail material
- 3 - Mis-directing email for fun and profit
- 2 - Reacting really slowly when someone asks "My god - Can you stop an email I've just sent?!"
- 1 - Making someones PC play the theme tune to Heidi at random intervals through the day
Here is the mp3 of the show. Plus another quiz and a badly rendered (probably non-child safe) song in our outtakes section at the end. When you are done listening to this can you do us a big favour and pay a visit to the Top Of The Pods page at podcast alley for a quick vote? If you would like to send us your list of top ten items then email topofthepods@gmail.com as we are also low on audio comments so get recording now!
We'd like to see some ideas on the www.topofthepods.com comments board for this post for things that users can do to annoy system administrator too. Be inventive and the best ideas will make it into a forthcoming list.
