Do you mostly wear
Submitted by root on Mon 8 May 2006
| boots |
   13% | 94 votes |
| shoes |
47% | 330 votes |
| trainers |
20% | 144 votes |
| sandals |
11% | 79 votes |
| other? |
6% | 42 votes |
| Total 689 votes |
been wearing the current one for almost 2 years and it costed me only $10USD. bought the same one for $10USD and plan to get another one just incase since its now only $5 hahahahah
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Must say though that I only where them when I go out (or to the server room which has wicked A/C and cold floor), preferring to spend most of my time barefoot ;-)
Laters.
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however.. I mostly wear shoes.
./sabin -s
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After wearing boots for the past 12 years I got a pair of shoes the other day .. and got curious about other people!
*shrugs*
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robin
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Or am I just fooling myself?
Gotta say though, it's not the what I'd usually expect for a poll on a linux admin site...
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Gotta say though, it's not the what I'd usually expect for a poll on a linux admin site...
It has certainly been interesting to see people submitting polls on random, but related, topics. Such as beards!
I've noticed a lot of local sysadmins wearing army boots, or other big boots. And figured it was an interesting thing to poll about having just bought my first pair of shoes in about 12 years.
(I usually wear boots; the bigger the better!)
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Why stealies? Well, they've saved my toes from one work-related-accident. About 8 years ago I was trying to fix a SCSI problem in one of the servers I was given charge of, and stupidly, removed the mounting screws on a recently new 18GB SCSI drive, before I had detached the molex power cable. You know how tight those buggers can be sometimes, and well, while working the thing off, it suddenly popped out, sending the drive shooting out the front of the chassis, and you guessed it, down onto my steal clad toe.
Dead silence.
I glance up at the other admin working nearby, and without saying a word, I he picks it up, hands it to me, and hurridly gets back to his own work. I do what I wanted to with the LUN jumpers, stick it back in, plug it all together, and then we both sat there and held our breaths while it booted back up, all fine and dandy.
I just rang the guy to check, and the server is still going strong, with the same drive humming along. Never had a hitch.
So the moral of the story -- if you're doing server maintenance, where safety boots!
Laters...
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I for one would like to see if I am the only one who is reading this site out of sheer interest as it has absolute nothing to do with my day job.
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It is probably not a bad idea to repeat the old poll now that polls have more readers, and comments associated with them.
If you create a poll I'll happily post it.
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I quit driving a few years ago, so I walk everywhere in this dinky little town in the boonies with no public transportation of any kind, not even a taxi. I'd be in a bad way without my boots. And if I ever again encounter an old IBM 360 that needs a good swift kick, I'll be prepared to cave in the panel!
Cool follow-up question, since we're into sysadmin fashion: How long is your hair? I sometimes feel like the last of the ponytails, but would love to find out that I'm not the last of the breed.
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I shave my head every couple of weeks meaning I have either no facial/head hair at all - or just a small amount of regrowth.
I get lazier in the winter, when it is cold and snowing, but usually no hair at all.
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Red Wings! I have a pair of them I bough when I lived in the US. The best pair of footwear I ever bought. I've had them about 10 years and they are the only items of footwear that I regularly wear that have lasted longer than 18 months. They don't look pretty any more but I don't care as they are comfortable and keep my feet safe and dry.
These days I mostly wear shoes or hybrid multi-activity trainers/walking boots. My current pair of Hi Tec's will have lasted just over 18 months when the go in the bin this autumn.
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"It's Not Magic, It's Work"
Adam
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i use a pair of sox on the cold days.
I only use shoes when i need to go out ( i rarely do)
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