___ ____ _____ ____   ___   ____ ____  
|_ _| __ )_   _/ ___| / _ \ / ___/ ___| 
 | ||  _ \ | | \___ \| | | | |   \___ \ 
 | || |_) || |  ___) | |_| | |___ ___) |
|___|____/ |_| |____/ \___/ \____|____/ 

The sysctl(8) man page says that you need to use the '-w' flag to change a value. Actually, it changes values anytime you either use '-w' or your argument contains an equal sign. You have to have an equal sign to set a value.
IBTSOCS

The "Operating Systems and Systems Engineering" class at Berkeley is taught in Java. Consequently, top students in the class don't know anything about real operating systems.

IBTSOCS.

If my window manager crashes after the X server sends a MapRequest to it but before it can actually map the window, the window never appears. IBTSOX.

Installing VMware Workstation radically changed my desktop's shutdown sequence, resulting in it not syncing and unmounting filesystems before rebooting or powering off. IBTSOCS.

This bug brought down our web server cluster:
--- /usr/sbin/ldirectord.orig
+++ /usr/sbin/ldirectord
@@ -2705,3 +2705,3 @@
$$r{url} =~ /(http|https):\/\/([^:\/]+)(:([^\/]+))?(\/.*)/;
- my $host = $1;
+ my $host = $2;
IBTSOCS

Backspace on UNIX and its myriad terminals still doesn't just work. IBTSOCS

OS X 10.5 lacks NSWindow:-isActiveSpace and any useful Spaces-related API at all, so I need 50 lines of really slow CoreGraphics queries and caching to make drag-and-drop work. IBTSOCS.

Oracle doesn't have a "LIMIT" clause, so selecting a range with offset involves ROWNUM subqueries. IBTSOCS.

Software patents exist. IBTSOCS

People are still using non-ajaxified, deep-link unfriendly interfaces to student data. IBTSOCS.