Sysadmin of the Year 82
PMcGovern writes "Do you know a great sysadmin? Nominate them for OSTG's sponsored Sysadmin of the Year. The first 2500 sysadmins nominated receive a free ThinkGeek T-shirt.
Your sysadmin can also win great prizes including an Apple MacBook, a trip to the LISA conference in Washington DC, Splunk Professional server, and cases of Bawls soda. Only two weeks left to nominate your sysadmin (Oct. 31, 2006). (Note: Slashdot is part of OSTG.)"
Ohhh that reminds me (Score:1, Funny)
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Prediction (Score:3, Funny)
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First Post???? (Score:1)
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My Nomination (Score:5, Funny)
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That minor technicality will not stop the BOFH
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Aw c'mon! Mod Parent Up! (Score:2)
Obviously, whoever modded this comment down didn't appreciate the humour of the above post. I'd hate to see what happens to *that* person's user id...
Late? (Score:4, Funny)
Either Slashdot is late as usual they thought we rolled back 2 weeks instead of an hour last night.
Must be that "new" Math (Score:4, Insightful)
See, this is why you don't let submissions sit in the queue. Tomorrow is October 31st. One day is significantly shorter than two weeks.
only joking.. (Score:1)
The Slashdot Submission Queue is slow (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Must be that "new" Math (Score:4, Funny)
MOD PARENT UP! (Score:1)
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Pat-
Invisible workers (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Invisible workers (Score:4, Insightful)
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If only for your own management chain, it's probably good to generate some noise about the problems you've made sure nobody sees.
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(Grrr, 20 second wait, I'm a fast typer dammit)
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Yup. A sysadmin is one of the strangest jobs ever. There is no real schooling for it, most people are not that good at it, its fairly stressful with little external gratitude... The list goes on.
Now, regarding this sysadmin of the year thing. Another strange thing about this sysadmin business is that I know of approximately 0 "famous" or even known ones besides the BOFH. That too goes into the stuff I said in the first paragraph.
Other sim
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If things dont work, its my fault...if things work, I'm a lazy bastard. Just forget about ordinary users voting for their sysadmin
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Yeah, no kidding. My usual tactic is to make sure that there are spare parts everywhere, lots of blinking lights, a few dozen windows display "tail -f" on the mail queue log, and stacks of books artfully arranged with dozens of bookmarks and/or ope
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Sad But True (Score:2)
We have an employee recognition program where I work, but it's very rare for Sys Admins, developers and the like to ever get even a nomination. The people who usually get the awards are either instructors or the field service techs (who usually call one of us when they get stuck) who have their faces out there in the public eye. The people getting the votes are the people who showed them how to play a CD on their PC, not the guys behind the scenes protec
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is down, slashdotted. Sack the sysadmin, I say!!!
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So many sysadmins I see make their own job a misery by alienating users and doing an all round shitty job. I knew one who, rather than running using a routing protocol or getting it right in the first place, distributed scripts to change a users default gateway depending on what service they wanted to use. Countless times they forgot to change it back, and he'd belittle them. One day he left, and I replaced him.
My first memo: "Throw those scripts away guys. You can now leave your default gat
Good God! (Score:2)
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Time to start excercising, I guess...
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No, but... (Score:1)
Consistently professional, wise, witty, handsome, master lover and never posts dupes.
(Is that good enough for a MacBook?)
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Don't worry, it's a crappy shirt (Score:2)
If that's a sufficient tradeoff for you receiving a shirt plastered with logos and a yet another entity sending you spam for life, OK.
USA (Score:1)
Eh! Contest Rule (Score:2)
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At least they didn't call it 'World SysAdmin
What if (Score:1)
And being granted a title can only be made by other IT who see the work and understand what has to be done even when it pisses people.
one other problems is that,,,,,,i'm the only one at my company
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Time for my free T-Shirt (Score:1)
Easy as taking lollipop from a kid!
Not their sysadmin (Score:3, Funny)
So why's there no BOFH of the year? (Score:2)
i know who isn't winning- (Score:1)
I received my t-shirt (Score:1)
the anti-award goes to (Score:2)
My sysadmin who set up my CVS server for my team and several others.
I entered a work order which asked for the operating system to be installed, a mirrored filesystem to be installed and backups to be kicked off.
The work order was completed with the statement "did not set up backups, enter another ticket if you still want those". So the machine has not been backed for all this time (uptime ~1000 days so far).
Good job we did our own rsync mirroring of the repositories to a reliable NAS device (EMC symmetr
sysadmin of the year? (Score:1)
This looks like a spam trick (Score:1, Interesting)