Tomorrow is System Administrator Day 2006 83
ferrgle writes with a reminder of the annual observation of Sysadmin Day. "This celebration's aim is to acknowledge the tireless effort that sysadmins perform every day of the year. It is celebrated on the last Friday of July and more info can be read at sysadminday.com This year there is also a dedicated site for sys admins who are Welsh or who live in Wales (it can be found at sysadminday.org.uk). We hope that all sys admins have a nice day on Friday and get a little less hassle than normal."
Happy time is over (Score:5, Funny)
Sincerely,
the CEO
Yes... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Yes... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Yes... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Happy time is over (Score:4, Funny)
Turn off your caps lock when typing your password.
Re:Happy time is over (Score:2)
Nearly OT - I run a small business with four employees, so I'm CEO and IT guy. When email, or anything network related, doesn't work I have to fix it. While I haven't left the caps lock on, I have had a frustrating morning recently when my laptop woudn't see the network, and I spent an hour fiddling with cables and routers before it dawned on me that I had set up my MIL's TiVo on her network the past weekend. I wanted to test the end-to-end con
In celebration... (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:In celebration... (Score:5, Funny)
Did not get even a single mmumbled "thanks" from my boss. He looked terrified during the event though so I guess that's as good as it's going to get, watching him sweat his ass off.
Re:In celebration... (Score:2)
Lies (Score:5, Funny)
I'll believe it when my SysAdmin comes complaining on monday that we forgot about SysAdmin Day. And even then, I won't believe it.
welll.... (Score:1)
Is there a coders day by chance? I could do with an excuse to partey!
Re:welll.... (Score:1)
Woohoo. (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Woohoo. (Score:1)
Re:Woohoo. (Score:2)
what, you didn't put it up as MOTD yet?
Most People Will ask... (Score:2)
Re:Most People Will ask... (Score:1)
Re:Most People Will ask... (Score:4, Interesting)
My take.. (Score:1)
http://macbros.dnsalias.com/blog/they-are-taking-
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Re:My take.. (Score:1)
Now that's importance (Score:2)
My wish list (Score:1)
Stupid (Score:2, Troll)
Re:Stupid (Score:1)
Re:Stupid (Score:4, Informative)
My kids asked me one Mother's day, "Hey, how come there's no Kids Day?". Answer: "Because every other friggen day of the year is kids day."
Sad to say, there a plenty of people out there who tend to treat people who are important or do important things to them like they are furniture. With kids, of course, it's natural, and it's your fault if you don't train 'em out of it.
But it doesn't hurt to be forced to at least fake appreciation for those people once and a while. I view it kind of like putting a paraplegic on a machine that works and stretches his leg muscles. Maybe if science finds a cure for his condition, then his unused muscles won't be atrophied past any hope of recovery.
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Tomorrow (Score:1)
GIft ideas (Score:2, Interesting)
(Nick, I know you read
Re:GIft ideas (Score:2, Informative)
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Re:GIft ideas (Score:3, Informative)
Re:GIft ideas (Score:1)
A.) The obscure Unix configuration file babble fish.
B.) The auto-sensing left mouse button disabler, with shocker.
C.) The magic lost e-mail retrieval robot, for when "it's not spam"
D.) The magic inbox attitude adjuster, for "can you stop these from comming to my..."
E.) An undo menu item for my xterm window.
Re:GIft ideas (Score:2)
And because it's the last Friday in July... (Score:3, Funny)
...no one will be at work to thank their Sysadmin, unless they've brought their laptop to the beach and are logged on remotely. Summer hours, people! And mind you, most Sysadmins never see the light of day, so you'd never find them at the beach.
Yay! (Score:5, Funny)
At lunch, they take me to the best place in town. "On us," they say. "Have the prime rib, and don't worry about having a couple glasses of wine. Gina in Human Resources is handling the server today." When we get back to the office, there's a mariachi band and talk of a stripper. "Nothing's getting done today!" exclaims the boss as he whips out a beer-stained toga.
After the cake, it's all, "Hey, Chysn, why don't you cut out early today? And leave your pager with Gina."
Re:Yay! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Yay! (Score:1)
From my experiences with HR, you'll be rebuilding the pieces for months, and still it won't work right.
There is a reason I work in academia. Corporate HR are the lowest form of life, even lower than Marketing.
Celebrate! (Score:1, Redundant)
My sysadmin (Score:2, Insightful)
Mine didn't think it needed to be patched for Sasser so it went down.
Mine didn't test the backups which were corrupted and we lost over a week's worth of work.
Mine doesn't know how to properly configure a firewall so our software development tools that require special conn
Re:My sysadmin (Score:2)
Being a sysadmin is complex, and small mistakes can cause huge problems. Don't hire an inexperienced sysadmin without someone more senior around to guide him, or he's virtually guara
Re:My sysadmin (Score:2)
Re:My sysadmin (Score:2, Funny)
One day, my PC won't open any files. The mouse works, the cursor moves around the screen, but nothing happens when you try to open the file. I call my sysadmin. She arrives, and asks "What seems to be the problem?".
I tell her I can't open anything, even my batch files. Her re
Re:My sysadmin (Score:2)
Already sent out notices (Score:3, Funny)
Unfortunately we're not in a position to muck with the system such as putting on special logon scripts or delaying taking care of issues so for us it's just another friday. *sigh*
At least I, and a few others, get free pizza for doing some other work last month so I'll take what I can get.
Help your sysadmin - download all MS updates! (Score:5, Funny)
It will make your sysadmin's life much easier if he doesn't have to do these downloads for you - so don't bother asking them before you do the downloads; that just makes more work for them.
(For the stupid among the moderators - this post is sarcastic humor. Of course I don't mean YOU - I mean the OTHER moderators that are stupid.)
Re:Help your sysadmin - download all MS updates! (Score:1)
He must have still been pissed when I caught him on the Sun Blade 150 that runs the DNS and threw him out of the server room, screaming "Bad Windows Admin! Bad!". Thank $DIETY for backups...would have been a long day otherwise.
Break out the bananas!!! (Score:3, Funny)
Thanks, guys (Score:3, Interesting)
So, from one of those "customers" you never talk to, a sincere thanks for your often unsung efforts.
Re:Thanks, guys (Score:1)
And many, many thanks to you for not singing.
What I did for my SAs (Score:2, Insightful)
We actually had to store it in the computer room for safe keeping.
Josh
Re:What I did for my SAs (Score:2)
grump. (Score:2)
Does this mean? (Score:2, Funny)
That we can have sex tomorrow?
Wait, I forget. This is Slashdot. :-P
Re:Does this mean? (Score:2)
Re:Does this mean? (Score:1)
Oh, OK. Bummer. :-P
How do you broach the subject? (Score:1)
Re:How do you broach the subject? (Score:2)
Re:How do you broach the subject? (Score:2)
Re:How do you broach the subject? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:How do you broach the subject? (Score:2)
Cron it the night before, and roll it out to all the workstations while you're sound asleep
Sysadmin of the year contest. (Score:5, Interesting)
Sponsored by OSTG (owner of Slashdot.org).
http://www.sysadminoftheyear.com/ [sysadminoftheyear.com]
New to System Administration (Score:2)
My boss gave me the day off :) (Score:1)
They say it is a "small thank you" for the work I have done in the past year. Strictly speaking I am owed several days in lieu however I never normally push for them unless they were weekends I gave up, but still it is a very nice gesture and one I will not forget. It is the small things like this which will keep me at thi
Very cool, actually... (Score:1)
Thanks to all the admins and j
A thanks to the other sysadmins (Score:2)
maytag sysadmin (Score:3, Interesting)
Boss: When you first started here spam dropped to almost nothing, downtime was determined by the building having power, and you added several services that helped everyone become more productive.
Me: Thanks man.
Boss: But, what happened this year?
Me: What do you mean?
Boss: I never see you do anything. What have you done this year?
Me: How much spam do you get each day?
Boss: One maybe two.
Me: How many times has someone been unable to get their email?
Boss: I think so in so had trouble when he was in Dunabi.
Me: Once?
Boss: Sounds right.
Me: Are there services that you want but we don't have?
Boss: I don't know. What else is out there?
Me: -shrug- So this year you have hardly no spam, your never down, you have all the tools you can think of needing?
Boss: -untrusting look- Your being sarcastic aren't you.
Me: -looks at his watch- Well, see you Monday.
Don't Let Them Forget (Score:4, Funny)
It went over great at the last place I worked, right before they fired me.
My vendor does something cool for all us SysAdmins (Score:1)
It is acceptable (Score:1)
Are there more 'days' for IT staff? (Score:1)