You couldn't make it up.

[denny]

http://www.centos.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=127

Comments

[ulorin-vex.livejournal.com]

much lol-ing :)

[dpash.livejournal.com]

You tend to get at least one email a month to the Debian lists with similar sorts of problems.

[wechsler.livejournal.com]

I have 22 years in computer systems engineering and operation.

This is probably true. It's *incredible* how long some people can stay dumb.

[pooloftrees.livejournal.com]

He's a manager - he probably keeps having to ask his staff how to access webmail, and what version of 'Microsoft' is running on their servers :-)

[(Anonymous)]

Hey, I'm a manager. You don't *automatically* become incompetent when you get promoted, y'know ;)

PS:

[wechsler.livejournal.com]

Dear Livejournal. Stop F'ing logging me out!

[pooloftrees.livejournal.com]

Promotion good, sideways movement - not so good (my first manager, although a nice chap, was really a sales person, not an IT guy).

[pooloftrees.livejournal.com]

It's amazing how stuborn and stupid this guy seems. I think the CentOS developer was remarkably restrained...

[pooloftrees.livejournal.com]

The story made it to Slashdot:

http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/27/135221

[blaadyblah.livejournal.com]

And thus was no longer available to my colleagues after lunch. Pity - we'd been having a good old laugh at it in the morning. ;)