On one of the mailing lists I was on, someone riffed on the idea of a certain Guns’n’Roses song being adapted for sysadmins. I came up with all the lyrics except the first line. Fun like this is why I am still on this mailing list… and why I don’t sleep enough.

Welcome to the server room, we’ve got fun and games…
We got all the passwords here, for all the usernames.
We are the people that can find
Whatever you download
If you got the login, honey,
We got your node

Chorus:

In the server room
Welcome to the server room
Watch it bring you to your shun n,n,n,n,,n,n,,n,n,n,,n,n,,n knees, knees
I wanna watch you geek

Welcome to the server room
We come here night by night
If you want space you’re gonna pay
But that the price, alright?
And you’re a very wired geek
That’s very hard to please
You can taste the web sites
But you won’t get them for free
In the server room
Welcome to the server room
Feel my, my, my serpentine
I, I wanna hear you scream

Welcome to the server room
It gets worse here everyday
Ya learn ta live like a sysadmin
In the server room where we play
If you got a hunger for what you see
You’ll take it eventually
You can get from the vending machine
But you better not take it from me

Chorus

And when you’re on high bandwidth you never
Ever want to dial-in, dial-in, dial-in, dial-INNNNNNNN–YEAH!

You know where you are
You’re in the server room
You’re gonna die
In the server room
Welcome to the server room
Watch it bring you to your shu n,n,n,,n,n,,n,n,n,,n,n,,n,n,,n knees, knees
In the server room
Welcome to the server room
Feel my, my, my serpentine
In the server room
Welcome to the server room
Watch it bring you to your shun n,n,n,n,,n,n,,n,n,,n,n,,n.n, knees, knees
In the server room
Welcome to the server room
Watch it bring you to your
It’s gonna bring you down!
Ha!

I couldn’t find a proper thing to replace “serpentine”, though I’m still thinking something UNIXey might work.