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Favorite Techmas carols

• How Come There Is No Manual?
• Virtual Christmas
• 12 Days of (Microsoft) Christmas
• Bring a Disc
• The Bill Gates Song
• God Rest Ye Copland Programmers
• Not So Merry (Gentlemen)
• MIPS to the World
• Microsoft
• Jingle Bell (AOL)
• COBOL Coder
• Little Home Computer
• Perl White
• Blue Screen

Nights Before Christmas

• Computer Christmas
• Hacker's version
• Internet version
• Night Before Implementation
• Night Before Start-up
• Shift Before Christmas
• Silicon Impostor
• Worm Before Christmas

Man page for Christmas

Is Santa a sysadmin? You be the judge...

How Come There Is No Manual?
Tune: Oh Come, Oh Come, Emmanuel

How come, how come there is no manual?
This software is a private little hell
The installation wizard won't run
It crashes every time before it's done
No choice! No choice!
No manual
I'm never gonna get it working well

I really could have used a manual
To troubleshoot that missing DLL
At least I'd like a way to restore
My system to the way it was before
Dismay! Dismay!
I've wasted half a day
I'd love to make those rotten bastards pay

 

Music traditional
Lyrics © 2001 Doug Hamilton

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