Admin Mourning

by Jeff

Image text: And every day it gets harder to fight the urge to su to the user and freak people out.

This is a play on words with "Ghost in the/a Shell".  Ghost in a shell is a concept from cyberpunk and especially the Japanese franchise by the name "Ghost in the Shell" that means when a human's brain and consciousness is inside a mechanical body.  Ghost is the person and shell is the mechanical exterior.

In this comic, the play on words is saying if a person dies, they leave a "ghost" of themselves still logged on a server. And of course zShell is a Unix login shell.  Which pulls the whole play on words together.

And the image text references "su to the user". Su is the Unix command to switch to another user from the command line.