CSC System Administrator 'squished', needs net to change own proxy limit

IIT Delhi. In an exclusive interview with ANFSnsCD yesterday, the CSC System Administrator candidly confessed to having been squished "for over 3 days now". The incident is believed to have occurred last Sunday afternoon, after having viewed a short video on the hugely popular social networking site Facebook.

"I was just browsing my friend's new friend's photos...she was not aware of the new privacy settings you see" explained the Sysadmin, "when I suddenly see the Rajnikanth escape video on the sidebar...you know the one with the horse sliding and all". Having heard a lot about the video's popularity but never actually viewed it, the Sysadmin excitedly opened the video in a new tab and waited for it to buffer. In the meanwhile, the Sysadmin proceeded to participate in the 'How Sadistic Are You' Facebook quiz. "I had been getting all those hate mails after the new proxy system...I was just a little curious" he admitted. However, to his utter horror, when the Sysadmin clicked on the quiz result link, he was confronted with the widely dreaded 'Check Proxy Quota' page.

"At first I could not understand what was happening. I had never seen that page before....now that I think about it, we should really work on making that page more explanatory. Maybe a bit sympathetic too" observed the Sysadmin.

Surely getting squished should not be a problem to a System Administrator. However, in what appears to be a cruel twist of fate, the Sysadmin seems to have stored the procedure to increase his own proxy limit in his Gmail account, saved as an attachment to a draft. "They are all Unix terminal commands, most of them with parameters. How can you expect me to remember them all?" ranted the Sysadmin.

With a lump in his throat, the Sysadmin informed that he even tried asking his colleagues to log in for him on his machine. "But then they would not be able to use the net at the same time. So they refused, but yes I can understand why". On the suggestion to ssh into, or use the IP of, a logged in machine the Sysadmin grumbled "That's just plain unethical" before noting this reporter's name and entry number.

At this point in the interview, the Sysadmin finally broke down in front of ANFSnsCD. "I still can't believe it, it was just a 3 minute video...not even HD !"

Despite several attempts on this reporter's part, the Sysadmin categorically denied releasing any details on his proxy limits.