Yesterday
Them: Do you want to see the supercomputer?Me: Um, sure...
Them: Cool, hold up I just have to swipe us...
Me: Holy hell...
Them: Yeah, terabytes. Dells, but Linux, and there is another... Oh! the software was done down...
Another Them: Uh, he can't be in here.
Them: It's cool, it's the drunkenbatman from...
Another Them: Does he have a pass?
This should be remedial, but you don't want to have to explain to security why someone named "drunkenbatman" wanted to see the HPC cluster, even if you'd be seriously hard-pressed to call it a supercomputer, but then again a G4 was a supercomputer for awhile.
I don't walk around in robes with a copy of the Koran for Dummies or Communist Manifesto half sticking out of my pocket or anything, but it just isn't going to go over well. Do be sure to get these things cleared in advance, whether or not your advisor is cool and reads slashdot.
Posted by drunkenbatmanDecember 19, 2005, at 10:33 AM
Those books are no problem. Try The Little Red Book.