Gifts for IT admins

Nobody likes to fix the mistakes another person has made due to incompetence, laziness or simply by accident. But when you yourself are that person...

Did you know that you can make a lot of money with compression? And we’re not talking about the inventors of WinRAR (who are most likely still wait...

We can all agree that it can be pretty hard keeping up with all the latest social customs. One minute you shake a person's hand when you meet them,...

Death, War, Pestilence and Hunger - one does not need to be familiar with the works of Albrecht Dürer to recognize this unholy quartet: The Four Ho...

If one were to believe the genre legends Run DMC, hip-hop really does have one thing in common with informatics: It's tricky! While the trio of Run...

"Is your computer running low on disk space? Are old holiday pictures and text documents clogging your hard drive? Then simply put everything into ...

The good ol'’ floppy disk!How we loved you when you were our go-to portable, long-term memory solution. We shared so many happy years…!Not tha...

Ein Sysadmin schläft nicht

Penguins are cool, pretty goofy and probably the only birds in the world who forgot to be birds. No other animal looks funnier waddling in the snow...

Imagine arriving at the office, sitting down at your desk in order to do all the important bug fixes , whilst sipping your coffee... when all of t...

Many people see administrators as a kind of Matrix god. They sit in front of computers, typing away like mad in completely unspectacular looking te...

Anyone who has ever worked in IT support will know what the following situation is like: "Can you help me? My computer crashed and I can't get to a...

What's the most popular answer to calls at the IT support hotline? Of course the sentence: "Have you tried turning it off and on again?&q...

There are a few unwritten rules everybody in IT should always follow. And trust us, if you decide to ignore these rules, you definitely won't want ...

Imagine that you’ve just created a model that allows different technical systems to communicate with each other and that features different layers ...

Home sweet home. Nobody likes to sit in front of strange computers where nothing is where it should be ;)

One nice aspect of mastering a language that not everyone understands is the possibility of being able to make a lot of inside jokes. This is espec...

Anyone who's ever developed a program knows that just because it works on one person's computer, doesn't means it works on another! Given the almos...

Comments in code are massively overrated. Those who are in the know don't need extra explanations.

Something you may not know is that computer scientists have to deal with all sorts of trees. Quite often, the most common being the so-called binar...

"Too many cooks spoil the broth!" - a principle that not only applies in the kitchen but also the world of IT. When it comes to identifying former ...

Look again!Even on t-shirts, the number of bugs increases by the day. All getDigital t-shirts are of course way past the beta phase ;)

At times, we reach the point where our brain just refuses to function properly and even the simplest tasks are impossible to complete. Most program...

Ahh, nothing beats a well-organized home, right? Everything exactly where it belongs, all the books organized by the astronomical sign of the autho...

This shirt based on the jurassic park logo is a tribute to all the brave admins combating outdated systems, inexplicable server failures and of cou...

Sometimes it's astonishingly easy to hack into other computer systems. Just pick up your phone and say: "Hi. This is your system administ...

Who knew that two small words could make a seasoned programmer sweat and shiver in fear? Simply utter "syntax error" to reduce anyone who works in ...

Isn't it a good feeling to have power over hardware users? Of course, backups don't help against a real admin, but users won't reali...

With this shirt, the world of computer users will tremble at the mere thought of you! Clickhere for more information.

There are too many newbies around. If you do not want to answer dumb questions or deinstall AOL for the 10th time, then you may want to buy this t-...

At least in theory, we nerds should not have problems with curfews, right? After all, we usually spend the majority of our time at home in front of...

So, your computer centre urgently needs better security? Are you perfectly qualified for the job? Then don't hesitate: Become a member of the ...

"You are dumb" in binary ASCII-code.The right answer to all DAU questions (including the one on what's written on your T-shirt): You are dumb! ;-)

There has to be an end to this dumb "Connection reset by peer".

Let's keep our computers clean and ban Unicode! Abominations like Unicode are destroying our good nerd-values and when you get right down to it, AS...

True story."Look, Mum, with the new router you don't need cables anymore! Now you can use WLAN in the whole house"."So can I wr...