Time to Say Thanks For the Uptime

DepecheModem writes: "MSNBC is running an article about System Administrator Appreciation Day. Ted Kekatos created this holiday three years after seeing a poster of a system administrator being bombarded with presents. Feeling somewhat underappreciated, he declared his "day" as the last Friday in July. I think we should all remind our employers that administrators are people too and proudly wear our buttons bearing "Have you hugged your geek lately?"."

Comments

Re:Why FreeBSD is dying by poopbot

[Lxy]

You bring up some interesting points, but it really comes down to one question: does open source software "die"?

Let's say that I'm a kernel developer for the OS foo. I've been with the project since ver .02 and now 2.0 is looking pretty awesome. Then we have a conference and start to talk about direction. A huge debate breaks out and we end up with 4 or 5 cells of people who want to go off in their own direction. Now what?

Here's the beauty of Open Source: they fork. 1/2 of the attendees have the same vision and start to develop the new 2.1 tree for foo. The other half is broken into 3 groups. My group goes off and starts a new project, and viola, we have a new OS, bar, to 1.0. In the process we've gained a few developers from another project and 1 from foo. Now, you have two robust OS's: foo and bar. Both do something well, and their strength is the other OS's weakness.

Now, here's the best part: the user HAS A CHOICE to run foo or bar. They download foo, mess with it, and decide that it's not right for them. They download bar, and while it's missing some neat features from foo, it looks to be an overall superior OS in the mind of THAT USER.

To simply say that an OS is going in a different direction does make it dead. Mike is free to do whatever he wants to. He mentions that it's not fun, that it's all politics. Well, fork the kernel and start MikeBSD. Nothing wrong with that! Make your OS work for YOU. That's what Open Source is all about. As for raving about this OS or that OS being dead, you're just taking up space.

My uptime champion is gone.

[AtariDatacenter]

It had a panic a month ago after another admin commented out some functions in the /etc/inetd.conf, and kill -HUP'd the inet daemon. Too bad. The little Sun E450's uptime was over 1000 days, which dates its last reboot as before Y2K. The firmare is still dated from 1997.

Bless its little kernel. We're finally getting a backup box for it. We couldn't patch it before because there wasn't a test/dev environment. And we didn't want to bring it down, because it served a critical production function. HA!

Having boxes that are caught up in politics really makes a sysadmin's job tough. Even worse is politics, and no money!

You're jealous.

[AtariDatacenter]

Moderate up if you agree that he is jealous. ;)

Could you be more clueless?

[jobugeek]

Either you are trolling or haven't a clue.

Re:Could you be more clueless?

[Neck_of_the_Woods]

Why would that be a troll? Just because it does not happen where you are does not mean that it does not happen where I am. Was not a plug at developers, just a pop at someplace I use to work.

Then again, your right it could just be a troll....wink. You never can tell with me.

I get a lot of:

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Re:Only problem I see...

[DecoDragon]

...is some overbearing sweaty person seeing an excuse to get 'appropriately' fresh upon viewing the button. Yippee :P.

Now, "have you brought your geek proper offerings today" I could go for :).