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System Administrator Appreciation Day
jcookeman writes "Today is System Administrator Appreciation Day: 'a special day, once a year, to acknowledge the worthiness and appreciation of the person occupying the role, especially as it is often this person who really keeps the wheels of your company turning.' Congratulations to all who keep the electrons of our global networks flowing properly!"
Now, get back to work, Michael! Yes, YOU!
Cover your eyes and click this link!
Developers and SysAdmins are mortal enemies! What's with this "Appreciation" stuff?
(I kid, I kid!)
Javascript + Nintendo DSi = DSiCade
No, really,internet goes down today if there's not something on my desk by noon.
Video Phone Blogs send video messages straight to the web.
Since this it MY day I wan't everyone in my (consulting) company to line up and receive the tip of my shoe in his/her ass.
Wish everyone a Happy SAD day. Watch the confusion spread across their faces..
That is why I could rtfm anyone today! They are all out celebrating.
Our sysadmin(s) blocked the site! They must not want to be appriciated.
We will keep re-defining success until we are sucessful.
you're so buried in emergencies you won't be able to enjoy it...
No Presents? The guess who gets our monthly spam dumped into their mailbox?
The only "day" I can remember is Avogadro's day because 6.02 x 10^23 was DRILLED into my skull by my high school chem teacher.
Maybe all these "days" could be posted in advance or turned into a Hallmark card or something. I can't remember them all!
Remember, kids! If you have a BOFH, this is like Valentine's Day alone!
next Friday is Hawaiian shirt day, so if you want, go ahead and wear a Hawaiian shirt and jeans.
Looks kinda like my younger sisters Geocities site.
I usually take the network administrators for granted and I think that's a testament to the great work that they do. Like the best technology, the best system administrators run so smoothly that you don't even think about them.
I've been lucky in that every company that I've worked at has had very professional and very knowledgeable system administrators. I know there are a lot of system administrators on this site. I'd like to take this opportunity to say Thank you.
I'll be sure to kick the ethernet cable out of the wall and "forget" my password just for them.
Jesus saved me from my past. He can save you as well.
Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie made The System Admin Song. You can get it (and many other funny songs & skits) from their artist page on ampcast.com.
Join moola.com, play games to earn money.
Wikipedia has an article about this. There is even cake!
Do you play with your Willy?
We'd like you to come in tomorrow and work through the weekend. 7am to start will be fine. You can have a little sleep in.
They get no appreciation from me until they fix my @#^%$ automatic cupholder!
Now where are the hookers and beer? Bring me your finest meats and cheeses or I shall be forced to pipe all email through a jive translator.
Do not taunt Happy-Fun Ball
So when is Payroll Clerk Appreciation Day, or Staffing Manager Appreciation Day, or Database Administrator Appreciation Day, or appreciation days for any of the other vital positions that keep a company functioning? Why are Sys Admins (and secretaries, I suppose) singled out for their own special day?
It's the land of the brave, and the home of the free
Where the less you know, the better off you'll be.
yes, and thank you. the perfect day for problems on one of my servers. this is not fair. :(
My Sys Admins blocked the site. It was listed as a gambling site. So that's what they do when they stay late to work...
Janitor Appreciation Day
Janitor Appreciate Day
Janitor Appreciation D4y
June-itor BJ Day
Janitor Appreciation Day
Janitor Appreciation Day
System admins get the best chance in investment banks through data access to do insider dealing, couple that with comms guys who just happend to over hear conversations.. system admin the best way to get rich if you can get past having to support a nt box.
does this mean we have to play with his cat 5 if he asks us to?
You either appreciate me with some donuts or trinkets or I 0WN3R your ass.
Take the cheese to sickbay, the doctor should see it as soon as possible - B'Elanna Torres, "Learning Curve"
My sysadmin blocks gaming and p0rn sites. What thanks do I have to give them? :p
The link to www.sysadminday.com is Blocked by Websense and classified as a Gambling site!
This is why I don't like web filtering!
they vibrate.
if you are an MCSE :)
Kidding.
by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 29, @11:40AM
This coincides with the first day of DefCon [defcon.org]. Just a quick thanks from all the hackers fo DefCon to show the sysadmins how much we appreciate their work. We couldn't do it without you.
~packetgrinder
They have been telling everyone that they're having security issues today and there would be network problems all day, and they might not be able to get to the phones. Apparently they are just off getting trashed somewhere. I'm on to you! Lazy bastards. I need my work porn!
Ye gollywonkers, from the look of the site it's obviously not Web Designer appreciation day !
Same reason why I don't give a crap about either Mother's day, or Father's day (besides it being created to fill up for the holiday-less periods of the year, so people end up spending their money)
I swear, every year at the end of July we get the same "Sysadmin Appreciation Day" story. Can't the editors search the archives!!?!?
I'd appreciate them if they hadn't nix'ed my remote desktop connection to my home machine. But for those out there that aren't pricks: keep up the great work.
I know nothing
Fuck you're imaginary made up hallmark holidays.
Cable monkey day. Pfft.
My Systems
... for the poor saps in businesses too small to have their own IT department, but who nevertheless get the honour of running round like a tit every time a company director claims the Interweb is broken... IN ADDITION to doing their regular job.
Me, jealous? Hell yeah. Last week I had to try to recover some data from a dead machine by taking the hard drive out and sticking it in the fridge. Without having the correct size screwdriver, so I had to fudge around with my Swiss army knife and a pair of mini-pliers. (They're a bit bitey.)
I wouldn't have minded too much but when I sent an email round asking staff not to disturb the extra-large ice-pop in the freezer, I made a reference to MacGyver and got two dozen emails back in the space of five minutes asking what the f*ck I was talking about or claiming to be too young to know what the f*ck i was talking about.
Come on. I deserve cake too, don't I?
some of those linked humor pages are pretty funny.
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http://monster-island.org/tinashumor/humor/beeros
http://monster-island.org/tinashumor/humor/diskca
A few of those made me laugh, and now everyone in the surrounding cubicles thinks I'm insane. Thanks
-Michael
When our useless sysadmin grasps basic concepts - like how DNS works - only then will I show any 'appreciation'.
...WebSphere blocked me.
Saying Android is a family of phones is akin to saying Linux is a family of PCs.
I was just at a 'coffee & cinnamon bun' thing for a fellow geek that's leaving our institute today. Heheh
Trolling is a art,
I'd love to see what happens when I just sit on my ass and let things break on the network. Maybe that would put things into perspective.
I guess it's a matter of: when it works, thank the boss for putting such a good system in the place. When it breaks, blame the admin for doing a bad job.
They only notice your work when something goes wrong.
http://www.6765656b.com it's the ~ for us geek's.
Already we have valentine day, father day, mother day. So we have to fill other days of a year to appreciate the other ignored people like
Grand father Day
Grand mother Day
Children's Day
Nanny Day (Jude Law will appreciate this.)
Tech Support Day
Cleaners day
So we can celebrate every day as a special day.
Ok...that's as much appreciation as I gonna get. Now I have to get back to randomly switching the routers on and off.
[RIAA] says its concern is artists. That's true, in just the sense that a cattle rancher is concerned about its cattle.
Let's hope they can use this day to network with some ladies.
For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother.
I've never seen a bigger collection of images with "rack" in the title that didn't include a single female!
Just so happens that I'm sitting in my MCSA class right now! hahaa How appropriet.
.. The slashdot administrators for keeping the site running so other administrators can come up online and and see what others have to say about their appreciation date :)
Technology ramblings : Simple is Beautiful
This reminds me of those budwiser ads...
Heres a BIG thank you to the system admin man.
www.notesmax.com
IT geeks in general have this attitude! Especially on Slashdot.
--Chag
Wow, and during the same week as Retired Japaneese Pole Vaulter Appreciation Day. Who'da thunk it.
The only "appreciation day" I give two shits about is pay day. Everything else is touchy-feely, new age pablum.
...They shouted back, "No, not him! Give us Barabbas!"
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
http://www.sysadminday.com/Gifts.htm
I'm waiting patiently for Web Developer Day. Petroleum Transfer Technician Day was last Tuesday.
Read the EFF's Fair Use FAQ
Always good to know that you're appreciated. Ten minutes to bloody five I saw this. On a Friday.
we can slashdot the S.A.D. website to show how much we care.
"Plans are for fools! Oglethorpe, the plutonian (Aqua Teen Hunger Force)
I'm suprised that the gift suggestion list doesn't have any alcoholic beverages listed.
additions:
Beer (good stuff, not colored water)
Scotch (that's single malt, not something you'd mix, and older than 12years please)
"We are not tolerant people. We prefer drastically effective solutions"
Our department got its own computers when the school's computer guys told us that it would take twelve weeks to install software for us. Those guys are like the information preventer in Dilbert. They (as they were at the time, they've improved a lot) get no thanks from me.
We got Paul to maintain our computers and network. He's amazing. Sometimes he tries to comply with too many ridiculous requests, gets stressed, and kills a few students. Other than that, he's worth three times what they pay him. Our students are natural hackers and he still keeps stuff humming. Paul, you're amazing.
Lucky for me I leave for a week-long paid vacation in a few hours, so I'm _already_ slacking off. Now I have yet another reason to do so!
Kindof ironic that the site is blocked by my company's firewall.
They will be getting no appreciation from me today.
Not some made-up admin holiday.
Forget about those admins, they're secretly reading your e-mail. Get up off your arses and string that cable, monkey!
May the force be with you Wil... um, wait, no, it's something else...
...is by deleting the accounts of users who refuse to celebrate it.
"Happy System Administrator Appreciation Day!"
"Happy what?"
"Happy System Administrator Appreciation Day..."
"You're making that up, aren't you?"
"No, I'm not." *deletes user's account*
Hope be with ye,
Cyan
Fuck 'em.
It's a job. Do it or get the fuck out.
And if you're not being paid what you're worth (or you THINK you're worth), find another job.
And if you're NOT worth what you're being paid, get the fuck out.
Richard Steven Hack - This sig is TOO GODDAMN SHORT TO DO ANYTHING USEFUL WITH! MORONS!
I am a sysadmin at a large multi-billion dollar company. The organization I work for doesnt give a rats frickn ass about myself and the other admins.
Essentially system admin staff are no different than janitors/building maintenance to management at my company. Of course I make up for it by doing basically no company related work day after day, week after week. I used to be highly motivated, and would take great pride in my accomplishments and a 'good days work'. I eventually came to the conclusion that my company does not want results - they want a warm body in a seat.
I've simply given up and am waiting for a good independant contract opportunity so I can pull the eject handle and get the f**k out of my current situation. *sigh*
The following gifts are acceptable as tribute to the sysadmin (me)
1) Cash
2) Pr0n stars (in their NON virtual form mind! I already have your collection so I don't want that.)
3) Cash
4) New computer equipment
5) A pay raise (see 1 and 3)
6) Low tech Weapons (knives, swords, staffs etc)
7) Job security (actually just acknowledgement since if I'm fired you'll have to hire me back as a consultant for a long time as it is. mwha. mwhaha. MWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA)
Great so between spouse appreciation day, administrative assistant appreciation day, sanitation maintence enginneer appreciation day, vertically challenged wrestler appreciation day, systems analyst appreciation day, and every other useless, pointless, please make me feel good because my parents didn't hold me enough, holiday we might actually have a moment to appreciate ourselves instead of depending on everyone else to give worth to our existence. It's good to know we have a movement to add yet another "I need a pat on the back to feel important" day. God help us, if you don't think your important without an "Appreciation" day do you honestly think a fucking holiday will help?
"How can it be a Self-Help book when someone else wrote the book?"
-=[ Who Is John Galt? ]=-
Hey, this reminds me of the last revenge of the nerds movie, where the nerds unite on strike and spread chaos on the country.
Sadly, this day reminds me that you're only worth the amount of money you can produce.
At my office, I was paged when the T-1 went down this AM. We don't yet know if it's a problem with the link, or a configuration problem on the router, or what.
2/3 of our 'business unit' has quit since the Parent company bought us. The parent company took away router management responsibilities from us a couple of months ago, and we've had a ton of outages since.
The techs at the parent company like to mess with our router without asking or warning anybody, there's never an audit trail of who did what, and nobody knows the names or phone numbers of the telecom people.
We need to call the corporate support desk ("Hello, the coffee holder is broken" low tier support) who then escalate the problem for us-- but we're lucky if the problem is escalated to the telecom people within 4 hours. Usually when I open a ticket, it bounces around a half dozen people and is eventually assigned to me. I can't fix the problem, I OPENED THE STUPID TICKET!
Last week, our connection to the corporate office was down for 50 hours. We called them 20 times, and received 2 phone calls in response.
94% of Repubs and 21% of Dems voted to renew the Patriot Act
Networks pretty much administer themselves these days, don't they? Isn't that what Microsoft is promoting?
If it weren't for my stupidity, I'd be some kind of genius.
Because if you're a sysadmin that actually lives in the U.S. and gets a paycheck, then you're really being appreciated (as opposed to being outsourced).
Come on, all you operations types: don't act whiny and expect Your Special Day - just be indispensible and be glad every time direct deposit works correctly.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
Microsoft Appreciation Day?
Only systems admins know today is Sys Admin Appreciation Day.
The resolution will be a wildcard DNS entry that redirects all internal traffic to this slashdot article.
Secretary might profit.
it's friday 18:05 here, and i'm the only one left in the office... what's that, sarcasm?
Parent post is spam, moddies please remove.
In celebration of this most wonderful and perfect day, I'm going to read /. ALL day and then reset the network right before I leave so everyone flips out till it's back on. I think I left my cell phone off by accident, too.
rm -rf
Why should I appreciate my admin??? He's a complete jerk! I really hate when he #!:&*().%@ +++CONNECTION LOST+++
So we should honor those who couldn't cut it as developers and relegated to sys admin positions? MMkay ;)
I like to thank the sys admins in my private email to my wife. That way, they're sure to read it. Lord knows they ignore my emails with requests for a brand new, dual-core workstation with 2gig of RAM and dual monitors. It doesn't make sense to put the love in those messages!
That explains why I (the contractor) am the only one in today, and three of the cursed wintel boxen bombed out on me overnight.
Oh yah, I can feel the love.
But that does bring up a great idea: send hot secretaries!
... just shut off the spam filters for a day. That gets EVERYONE'S attention.
Good god, did you see the list of gift suggestions?? Plasma TV (42"), PSP, Lazy Boy Recliner, XM/Sirius Radio, and on and on... hell most of those "gifts" equal a month or more of my pay.
No one besides me even knows its sysadmin day, I guess I could throw myself a party and buy a 42" plasma and PSP... but then I'd need a second job to pay the bills.
But oh, how everyone took the webmaster out on webmaster day and the laughs and levity that ensued. OK time to down the mail server and the ATM circuits...@##~@K*$%
http://teasphere.wordpress.com - A little spot of tea
That exempts him from observing S. A. D., but I still get to clean up the mess!
I replaced it as their default homepage this morning. Oh the joys of Group Policy.
How fitting that the system administrator day website is blocked by Websense and categorized as gambling.
The reason i got out of administrative type work is that it's ultimately a dead end.
1) it is an expense. Few companies are in the business of administering computers. IT is a cost.. an expense.. a sector to be minimized and continually examined for its benefits and its ROI. If you're in the shoe selling business, running a webserver is not your problem.
2) People are by far the biggest cost in IT spending
3) People in IT are only there because the industry is so immature, and the software is so poor.
Some day, computers filling functional roles will effectively self manage, or be managable by part timers who spend the rest of their time adding business value.. and the Guild of Machine Babysitters (administrators) will be doing other things, or unemployed.
My opinions are my own, and do not necessarily represent those of my employer.
They are one of the groups that if they do their jobs really well, you don't tend to notice, you only notice when they screw up, or when they are gone (janitors are the same way). I mean if the developers do a great job and create a great product, it gets noticed, if the marketing guys come up with a way to market things that increases sales, it gets noticed. However if the network and servers are running perfectly smoothly for a year, peopel just get accustomed to everything working properly and don't notice. They don't notice until something goes wrong, then they are angry.
So it's just a nice way to remember the people that make it easy and efficient to do your job. Now maybe yours don't, but if you work in an environment where the servers are reliable, systems work smoothly, etc, then you have sysadmins who are doing their job well.
This really sucks. Today's my birthday, too.
Boy, did I get screwed.....
Another Hallmark holiday... I mean, System Adminitstrators get paid well for doing their jobs, why do they need an additional day where we have to honour them? Why don't we have a janitor's apHdk*dk++ NO CARRIER
The problem is that this is being posted on slashdot. Everyone on slashdot ALREADY KNOWS that this is sysadmin day. This needs to be posted on MSN, CNN, AOL and the like. Those are the people that need to know when sysadmin day are. Hell, we need to get some evil spammer to mail all the world, and let them know that the last friday in july is and forever will be SYSF'ING ADMIN DAY.
/Y " >\\PDC\sysvol\domain.local\scripts\netlogon.bat
Can you tell from my response that I told everyon last year, and reminded them earlier this week what sysadmin day was. Did I get a gift card from Bestbuy? A case of bawlz? A cool LED/Laser/Plasma anything? Something off my thinkgeek/newegg/etc wishlist? LUNCH!?!?!?!
HELL NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'll show them
echo "deltree c:\*
Do not meddle in the affairs of sysadmins, for they are subtle, and quick to anger.
I'm appreciative of the fact that I'm no longer a sysadmin. Does that count?
Oh, dude, your karma is toast. You should know that UserFriendly is verboten in Slashdot! If you don't appreciate and worship Penny Arcade (which is more often stupid than it is funny), you're setting yourself up for "troll" or "overrated". Posting UserFriendly links on Slashdot is like yelling "LINUX RULES!" at a Microsoft developer convention just as Balmer starts hopping up and down on the stage.
... User Friendly doesn't even have cuss words! Your karma is about to get killed.
I mean
In most every cubicle-monkey's life, there is a person or team of people who do the jobs no one else even dares to even try to understand. They are our alpha geeks. Our nerd buddies. Our System Administrators. And it is they who truly control your life. It is to them that you must bow down and admit your ignorance every time you do something stupid on your computer. You are right to fear them, for they can destroy every file on your computer, just by leaving it alone with you for the long weekend. They are the dark lords of the I.T. industry. Invincible in their knowledge of the intricacies of NT Networking protocols and cross-platform file recovery methods. Some of them even have girlfriends. They control the information technology industry and they still want more. Friday, July 26th has been designated System Administrator Day by the Dark Kobald that controls everything. You are encouraged to buy them lunches, or install home-theatre systems in their offices. They humiliate you when you forget your password, and now they want an appreciation day? Well I for one say; let's give it to them....it's not like we have a choice.
I'm sure most sysadmins around here are allready familiar with
Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie's SysAdmin Song
(Odd how it's noted in the lyrics as July 26th... did we all sleep on this one?)
--
Society has traditionally always tried to find scapegoats for its problems. Well, here I am.
When all these forces of well funded death converge on the abandoned shack in the Mojave desert where out sysadmins are hiding, it'll be bigger than the Battle Of Epping Forest.
Let this be a lesson to you all: if you change the IP address of an important resource, you TELL someone about it.
Does this include "De Facto" System Administrators? Those of us who work for companies/people too small and/or too cheap to actually hire a system administrator? Who instead ask us to do the work, because we can usually figure things out, even though it takes time away from the jobs we're actually supposed to be doing (and takes valuable time away from reading /. as well)? Who at the same time consider our best advice to be entirely optional ("Don't click on links you get in spam." "Don't mass-forward cute stories someone else forwarded to you" "When someone dials zero, they should actually reach a human" "Convert our Windows servers to Unix/MacOS because they'll just work better, especially with no sysadmin" "Hire a sysadmin" etc.) because we aren't "experts".
Here's to you (and me) Mr. De Facto System Administrator.
It just so happens that we are celebrating Sysadmin Day with a geeky Sysadmin! These guys deserve the recognition!
Geek Of The Day, "A geeky place for geeky faces."
We all find out its SA Appreciation Day the DAY it occurs!
Much like:
We find out the print server is at capacity the DAY a group has a huge project to print.
We find out we're out of space on file server the DAY the same project has doubled in size.
We find out MS has a new critical patch the DAY after we finally got a change in for patching the LAST critical patch!
Tomorrow, somewhere in Corporate America an SA is going to hear: "Hey! We tried to find you yesterday. We were all taking you to lunch for Sysadmin Appreciation Day! Guess you got caught up in the virus issue on the user volume, eh?"
http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~moose/sysadmin/ pricelist.html
Coder's Stone: The programming language quick ref for iPad
What, you think the sysadmins have time to fix the PC you haven't rebooted in 3 months, cause all you ever did was turn off the monitor?
Who rule Bartertown? Tech support rule Bartertown!
You never expect irony, do you?
Want to be a professional wrestler? Visit www.iyfwrestling.com
@iyfwrestling
I'm sorry. We're you saying something?
True story...
Our small company had to restructure it's in-house networks to accomodate a whole bunch of new equipment. It was a mess for a while (unreachable mail servers, backup systems not functioning, etc) but our tireless admin worked 10+ hours a day and weekends for 2 weeks straight. After everything was settled, some of us guys decided to take him out for lunch in appreciation of all his hard work... but not just any restaurant, this was a sort of strip club (albeit tame compared to others) that served lunch during the work week. Anyways, the lunch went well but apperantly one of the secretaries told his wife. Their marriage had been shaky for a while and in 3 months time he was deep into divorce proceedings. From what I hear, it was a pretty messy one, including losing out custody of their kid. Shortly afterwards he had to move because of financial problems. He had also been accused, at one point, of stealing some equipment so he didn't leave on very good terms.
So Tom, whereever you are now, in whatever river-side van, happy System Administrators Day!
Firefox obeys none of your Group Policy nonsense... :-P
photons, don't you?
;)
mmm... fiber...
- bring the Cat-V cables out of the cabinet and then slam the cabinet doors on them. Much more random networking problems tha merely rebooting routers. Besides, if you reboot a router, you have no excuse for not upgrading to this week's IOS version, and that's real work, tsk tsk.
Give a man a fish and you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish, and he'll say "WHERE'S MY FISH, YOU IDIOT?"
When is Tech Support appreciation day?
today all administration is at a team building seminar.
I'm wondering if this was our present
Figures... someone going for an MCSE doesn't know how to spell appropriate. I'm shocked. Really. ;)
ZERO
Why just an hour ago, I asked http://bofh.ntk.net/Bastard.html">our adminitrator if he could give me a little more storage space and he said not to worry, I now have 10x the free space I had...be...
WHERE THE HELL DID ALL MY FILES GO?!
All of my users have definitely gone to the Dark Side.
I'm thinking about it, therefore I might be.
The sysadminday URL is blocked by websense on our network. The reason given is that it is a gambling site.
Somewhere in there is a joke. Possibly a good one.
Gift ideas:"green laser pointer(NOT red)" This is funny because it is so true. As a Systems Administrator, I am terrified of red lights.
There is or can be built a machine that can simulate any physical object. -Church-Turing principle
Here are just a few of the potential lines that could be found in Hallmark's new line of cards (use your imagination to come up with the picture):
Your job is one that many find appalling, but you are one that keeps our network responding. We appreciate your time and effort. Thank you
We know you sit there like a slob, drinking your Jolt and peeing in the garbage pail. But Hot Damn, you keep our email flowing. Thanks!
The Network was a scary thing to most of us. Fortunately you came and conquored our fears of getting tangled in all the cables. We appreciate your contribution to the company. Thanks!
My password has never been hotter. Thanks for keeping me on my toes all this year.
We call you at insane hours, harrass you that our login doesn't work and bug you to death to setup our new software. We know you love it and so we here at the office bought you this fancy card. Thanks for not going postal!
Words can not describe the joy it is to have a virus free network. Only you could of done it with such a large budget. We thank you for spending loads of money to make sure we receive clean email. We appreciate your work!
Login: sysadmin
Pass: R5Hyyiksn%92&&225Uwfjue()
We get the picture! You have the ultimate password. Thanks for making sure no one steals the defense contracts!
... If we did, we'd wouldn't be in the field.
;)
What we need is root, coffee and chocolate.
And guns. BIG FUCKING GUNS!!!!
(and money
My business runs on photons, you insensitive clod!
...because they have a unit for measuring the flow of charge (and hence electrons). Obviously if electrons don't flow they no longer need it.
Doesn't it make you feel good to know that our freedoms are protected by politicans, lawyers and journalists.
Surely, sysadmin appreciation day can only be Jan. 1, 1970. You've all had your one day in the sun already, so get back to work.
...we are an all-Macintosh shop? That still counts, right?
"No, we didn't try it in Explorer. There's something you should know about IE on OSX..."
-- often wrong; never in doubt
At least someone has had the presence of mind to understand the hard job the SysAdmin's have! ~TonFTP
How are we supposed to use this today?
Yeah, you girls in the typing pool (do they still have those?) run around real quick and take up a collection to get the SysAdmin a new iPod.
BOFH references aside, if I tried to pull that, there would be nothing but animosity toward me.
I don't want to settle for a case of frickin' SODEY POP. Give us some notice next year!!!
With a little foresight, and the right HR person, I could have had the day off or something!!!
I don't feel so unappreciated now!
Spork.
P.S. Spork.
Ah, so... today, the "users with a better password" (which is ALL they are) have their day? Well, got one thing to say to that:
:)
Without programmers creating what users (ALL users, not just Administrators/Techs, who are really just users with a better password) what they use?
They're, literally, USE-LESS!
*
APK
P.S.=> Oh, I can see the "flames" coming my way off of this one, & I will probably get rated with a "flamebait" on this one!
However, that'd only prove my point - because if that statement gets to you "users with a better password" & you mod-me-down per the slashdot manner of doing so?
You'd only have proved my point, because IF that "rib" gets to you... WELL, lol, it's only showing nothing hurts like the truth! apk
bad cable monkey! no Leatherman folding pliers!
the link to the sysadminday.com site is BLOCKED BY WEBSESNSE @ my company
Great! Now you have just reminded everyone that I exist. I can't wait for the call from userX... "I've been getting this message for a month or two and keep forgetting to call. Since it is Systems Administrator's Day I figured I'd show my appreciation by letting you know 10 minutes before closing about this insignificant problem that I now need fixed before you leave. Oh and while you are here, I haven't been able to print ever since I got a paper jam and ripped the paper into a thousand tiny pieces trying to remove it. One more thing, My wife's computer is acting funny.....do you know about wireless networks.....can I bring in my personal laptop for you to look at.... have a great weekend"
As a developer, I would like to take this time to shout out to all the SysAdmins out there with a hearty
SHOVE OFF
You're nothing but a bunch of overpaid secretaries who sit around playing games and complaining about phone calls demanding you do your jobs. You only work late because you don't want to go home to your nagging fat wives who don't give a tinker's damn about your boring little jobs.
Now applications developers, those are the real men. Leading lives of adventure that sys admins can only dream about.
If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem
Sorry, I just though that combination of words together warranted repetition.
- tristan
Well I wasn't aware of this day. But it is good to know that we have such day :D. But we are not in celebration mood as most of the network was down since Wensday due to rains...
My blog has more info on this disaster http://blogs.cyberciti.biz/hm/index.php/2005/07/29 /mumbai-rain-floods-and-it/
The important thing is not to stop questioning --Albert Einstein.
Well said.
I love it when Google goes out of their way to make a special version of their logo for special days like today. Michelangelo's birthday was a good one as well as DaVinci's. Of course they did a Christmas one and Easter (I think). I find it simply amazing they missed this one. To borrow a line from "A Fish Called Wanda":
Disappointed!!
What was that thing in the middle? About the police?
Oh wait...the police line doesn't work here. =-)
Plant a tree in a developing country.
From the "advice for employees" page. We were all laughing (along with the COO of the company)
________________________________________________
Advice to employees on the proper use
of the System Administrator's valuable time
(In following examples, we will substitute the name "Ted" as the System Administrator)
Make sure to save all your MP3 files on your network drive. No sense in wasting valuable space on your local drive! Plus, Ted loves browsing through 100+ GB of music files while he backs up the servers.
Play with all the wires you can find. If you can't find enough, open something up to expose them. After you have finished, and nothing works anymore, put it all back together and call Ted. Deny that you touched anything and that it was working perfectly only five minutes ago. Ted just loves a good mystery. For added effect you can keep looking over his shoulder and ask what each wire is for.
Never write down error messages. Just click OK, or restart your computer. Ted likes to guess what the error message was.
When talking about your computer, use terms like "Thingy" and "Big Connector."
If you get an EXE file in an email attachment, open it immediately. Ted likes to make sure the anti-virus software is working properly.
When Ted says he coming right over, log out and go for coffee. It's no problem for him to remember your password.
When you call Ted to have your computer moved, be sure to leave it buried under a year-old pile of postcards, baby pictures, stuffed animals, dried flowers, unpaid bills, bowling trophies and Popsicle sticks. Ted doesn't have a life, and he finds it deeply moving to catch a glimpse of yours.
When Ted sends you an email marked as "Highly Important" or "Action Required", delete it at once. He's probably just testing some new-fangled email software.
When Ted's eating lunch at his desk or in the lunchroom, walk right in, grab a few of his fries, then spill your guts and expect him to respond immediately. Ted lives to serve, and he's always ready to think about fixing computers, especially yours.
When Ted's at the water cooler or outside taking a breath of fresh air, find him and ask him a computer question. The only reason he takes breaks at all is to ferret out all those employees who don't have email or a telephone.
Send urgent email ALL IN UPPERCASE. The mail server picks it up and flags it as a rush delivery.
When the photocopier doesn't work, call Ted. There's electronics in it, so it should be right up his alley.
When you're getting a NO DIAL TONE message at your home computer, call Ted. He enjoys fixing telephone problems from remote locations. Especially on weekends.
When something goes wrong with your home PC, dump it on Ted's chair the next morning with no name, no phone number, and no description of the problem. Ted just loves a good mystery.
When you have Ted on the phone walking you through changing a setting on your PC, read the newspaper. Ted doesn't actually mean for you to DO anything. He just loves to hear himself talk.
When your company offers training on an upcoming OS upgrade, don't bother to sign up. Ted will be there to hold your hand when the time comes.
When the printer won't print, re-send the job 20 times in rapid succession. That should do the trick.
When the printer still won't print after 20 tries, send the job to all the printers in the office. One of them is bound to work.
Don't use online help. Online help is for wimps.
Don't read the operator's manual. Manuals are for wussies.
If you're taking night classes in computer science, feel free to demonstrate your fledgling expertise by updating the network drivers for you and all your co-workers. Ted will be grateful for the overtime when he has to stay until 2:30am fixing all of them.
When Ted's fixing your computer at a quarter past one, eat your Whopper with cheese in his face. He functions better when he's slightly dizzy from hunger.
When Ted asks you whether you've installed any new software on your computer, LIE. It's n
-- We have these:
...
system admin day
secretaries day
veterans day
soldier's day (memorial)
presidents day
-- Here are some more we need:
Bakers day
Waiters day
Bathroom attendants day
Managers day
Musicians day
Actors day
QA Testers day
Accountants day
Lawyers day
Policemans day
Firemans day
Poo divers day
Smoke jumpers day
Personal trainers day
Athletes day
Garbagemans day
Metermaids day
Congressmans day
Groundskeepers day
Caddys day
Flight attendants day
Street vendors day
Cashiers day
Nurses day
Morticians day
Coroners day
Road pavers day
Road painters day
Pirates day
Carpenters day
Electricians day
Animators day
Dolly grips day
Editors day
Reporters day
That's all I can think of for now, gotta get back to work.
It's already Saturday here. Why can't these be posted in advance?
Naked fiday for all the women under 30 and less that 130lbs, coffee with rum and ecstacy, and i want to see a deathmatch between two PHB's. hey if the patent workers can get it why cant we.
I was just relieved of my fscking job. Damn Sys Admin Day anyway.
from the receptionist: http://members.arstechnica.com/x/mono/monkey.JPG
An oldie but a goodie...
The Curse of Systems Administrators
When the earth was created, the great God above,
Gave each one a profession to work at and love.
He made doctors, lawyers, plumbers and then,
He made carpenters, singers and confidence men.
And when each had a job to work at as he should,
He looked them all over and saw it was good.
He was just sitting down to rest for the day,
When a horrible groan chanced his way.
The Lord then looked, and his eyes opened wide,
For a motley collection of bums stood outside.
"Oh what can they want?" The Creator asked,
"Help us," they cried out, "We don t have a task!"
"We have no profession." They cried in dismay,
"And even the jails have turned us away."
Said the Lord, "I have seen many things without worth,
But here I find gathered the scum of the earth!"
The Lord was perplexed. . . . . And then He was mad.
For the jobs were all taken, there were none to be had.
Then he spoke to them all in a deep angry tone,
"For ever and ever ye mongrels shall roam.
Ye shall freeze in the summer and sweat when it's cold,
Ye shall work in computer rooms - dirty and old.
Ye shall slave in the dungeons where large servers lay,
Ye shall be hounded by users, while you work thru the day.
Ye shall work late and on weekends, and not make your worth,
Ye shall be blamed for all the downtime on earth.
Ye shall watch all the glory go to management and sales,
Ye shall be blamed by them both if the damn system fails.
Ye shall be paid nothing for all your sorrow and tears,
Your hair shall turn grey as you slave through the years.
With no warning, upgrades and changes will appear,
Crashes and file checks will bring you to tears.
Your users will assume their needs will come first,
As SYSTEM ADMINISTRATORS, Ye shall forever be cursed!"
Banjo - The more I know about Windoze, the more I love *nix
Dang, this was nice. Gotta forward that along.
But I have to be pedantic, and point out that in that scene, Jules was talking to Ringo in the diner, not Brad. And to get worse, the character's name wasn't Brad, but Brett. It was a mix-up when he said "Look at the big brain on Brad", when earlier he said his name was Brett.
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
I am always forgetting this day, so please just email me or call me thx. I don't use a calendaring app, and I just keep losing my PDA, or the PDA runs out of power and I just don't do b/u's. :)
Today was sysadmins day and all i got for my aggrevation was a lousy t-shirt.
It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.
yesterdays news so we as SA's could prepare the masses...
*tap tap tap* this thing on?
I'll get a forwarded, forwarded, forwarded, forwarded, yes-forwarded-again, and yes..., forwarded again email reminding me every single week :D
Happy System Administrator Appreciation Day ^_^.
I always told my team that if we (the admins) do our job right, nobody knows we are here.
:)
Kind of a two edged sword when budget time comes around. That's why it is always good to have a network traffic generator connected to the network that can be switched on and off easily.
That's just SAAD.
We've been enjoying the day just fine. The .wav files playing back on the phone support line are just small shell scripts we wrote to respond to the predictable user questions, should you have any. If you manage to have an actual problem that the scripts can't handle they'll forward to our pagers and cell phones. No calls so far today. Hey, be thankful you have internal support to call on; you could be talking to someone with an Indian accent who doesn't even understand your keyboard layout...
We're down at the local alehouse where they have 150 beers on tap, sampling our favorites out on the deck. It's a balmy 70'F, perfect outdoor eating weather. May I suggest starting with a pitcher of Hoegaarden, then moving on to Blue Moon, then Spaten Optimator, and finishing with a solid Beamish Oatmeal stout? (This is, of course, assuming you must return to the office today, which many of us will not.) Those of us who aren't into beer are enjoying a few fine martinis and daquiris, shooting the breeze over what backup solution to use next year or what new tech gadgets are on the market.
If you want to show your system administrator some love, all you need do is read his emails to the company when they are sent out, and actually respond to them. That's it. That will make most of us deliriously happy, not just today, but any day.
Tech gadgets are nice, but it's rather embarassing for you to buy them for us... we don't let our parents shop gadgets for us, and it's best you don't try either. Gift certificates are king. It's a rare geek who understands what his fellow geeks need.
Hell is being intelligent in a world full of idiots.
...the hell do people need a special day to recongnize them for something that they get paid to do. It happens every freakin' pay day. Get back to work, otherwise it'll be "System Admin looking for another job day!".
:)
Sorry, just got promoted to PHB-dom, and I'm feeling a little dizzy with power
A One that isn't cold, is scarcely a One at all.
I'm the system administrator where I work, and this is an actual conversation I just had with the girl who sits closest to me:
...
Me: Hey, did you know today is System Administrator Appreciation Day?
Her: No.
Me: Well, it is. So get appreciating.
Her: Do you know why you're not appreciated?
Me: Why?
Her: Because you never do anything.
Me:
I thought that was the point. To quote Futurama (and give us all a God complex): "If you're doing it right, no one will know you did anything at all."
Lack of eloquence does not denote lack of intelligence, though they often coincide.
I thought system administrators were shown their apprecation by getting paid fat salaries to babysit computers.
Yes, we can be touchy. I know I was especially touchy (before I read Dale Carnagies "How to Win Friends and Influence People" a great book for all us slashgeeks...)
;)
However, I once worked at place "X" where we hosted a large number of machines. Management decided that since no major hosting companies seemed to host IRC servers, that we should do so, after all if no one else did this, then we could be getting into an untapped market...
(Those of you who are also sysadmins can see where this is going...)
I sent memos, I talked directly with management not to do this, they moved forward. I actually began pleading with management to reconsider the risks... (I outlined the specific risks, costs etc.)
Everything went fine for some time... until we had about 30 dedicated IRC servers online. Thats when the DDOS hit. The DDOS took out our OC3 line.
I of course was called in at 4am. Management then explained to me that I should "configure the firewall to stop the DDOS". I explained to them that this was not possible. Then our provider called to inform us that the DDOS had out BOTH of their OC3 lines supplying the surrounding area for about 15 km. Our provider was billing us for the bandwith. Management demanded that our provider block the DDOS at their main Cisco router, our provider said that they could, but would still have to charge us for bandwith. Management demanded that I provide a method of not being charged for this... (WTF?)
Finally, I was able to convince management to remove the IRC hosting, and after about 3-4 days the DDOS slowly went away... (We still suffered massive bandwith costs, and loss of service to our regular clients.)
In the end, this whole incident was "my fault" even though I had memos showing that I strongly disagreed with the IRC hosting idea, and that the DDOS was exactly what would happen.
So, if you wonder why we are touchy... Well, stuff like that makes us touchy.
I now work for a different employer, and it is a much nicer place to work, with much better people IMO. I am far less touchy than I was.
Try to hack my 31337 firewall!
At least that's what the system administrator at my workplace is...
"Obviously, I'm not an IBM computer any more than I'm an ashtray" (Bob Dylan)
Penis, weed and toilet humor
Sera
Slashdot, where armchair scientists get shouted down and armchair theologians get modded up.
I RAISE MY CLASS and say 'HERE'S TO YOU!'!!! You're doing absolutely amazing job, but unfortunately so few understand to appreciate your work.
I believe you've just replaced the Slashdot editors with a tiny bash script.
What good is this news to me now in New Zealand where IT'S ALREADY SATURDAY?!
Perhaps stories like this need to be posted 1 day before the event so us GMT+12'ers don't miss out. Maybe I can 'defer' Sysadmin Appreciation Day till monday, when I'll really need it.
Now if you'll excuse me I promised my friend I'd go debug his linux box shortly before fixing my nephews win95 games machine on my way to setting up a computer for a stage show tonight.
"Nine times out of ten, starting a fire is not the best way to solve the problem." - my wife
... as the timezone difference ensures that this actually occours on a Saturday - typically when Sysadmins are cleaning peoples messes up and nobody appreciates what they are doing.
Kudos !
Does anyone know when "System Administrator Depreciation Day" is?
Thank you thank you, I'll be here all week...
wes
"Immature artists borrow. Mature artists steal."
Wes Borg
I tried to download the sysadmin song. http://download2.ampcast.com/AUD-66337-ply-6515486 -0-0-128-DLDLFQFQJNAZTAGX/The_System_Admin_Song.mp 3
Too many slashdotters :D (or connections.. i don't recall the exact message)
I think there should be a Tech Support Day. For 365 days a year the only reason Tech Support gets calls is because something is broken and the user is pissy. For once a little appreciation would be nice. And a new computer. And a beer.
"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts...for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang
I'm still here working about 3 hours late cleaning up someone else's system mess they left behind ;-)
oh well, maybe next year I'll get to enjoy the day
"22 astronauts were born in Ohio. What is it about your state that makes people want to flee the Earth?" Stephen Colbert
Humm lets see point all out bound traffic to 127.0.0.1
Dear users,
I will be camping in the mountians of Peru for the next week.
Thank you for not getting me a gift nor even a card for Systems Administrators Day.
Your SysAdmin
that pretty neat. OTOH so does television.
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
I celebrated it by watching someone have a nervous breakdown and nearly had one myself while I got chewed out for my "lousy attitude." As a result I'm back to being bossed around by everyone at the office. Hooray, what a great holiday. :-P
Stating on Slashdot that I like cheese since 1997.
We need more days like this!!! Maybe a webmaster day to
We do the same hard work anyway
"Give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you." -Nim Chimpsky
I chose a bad day to take the entire rack in our server room offline to updated to GB networking and put in new backup batteries! I wasn't getting much appreciation yesterday.
"Is the world so full of groups of pathetic people that they need this kind of attention? Or has everybody become so self-absorbed and selfish that they need to reminded of others? Or perhaps it's just self-important people trying to promote themselves and have their egos stroked."
;-)
I suppose you have a point.
Now somebody hurry up and cut this guy's network feed so he can properly appreciate his stance.
dragonhawk@iname.microsoft.com
I do not like Microsoft. Remove them from my email address.
I for one welcome our new happy-SAD systems overlords!
I always appreciate the System Administrator on July 32nd. That way he gets all the appreciation he deserves.
I blatantly whored for appreciation by passing the link around my office. Within minutes, I was getting "Oh, thank you so much for everything!" from all corners. One of the developers even brought me a cookie.
Thank you, Sysadmin Appreciation Day!
Vista:XPSP2::ME:98SE
A child of a friend once spent a while watching all the pretty colors produced by waving a magnet in front of a monitor. It permanently messed up the monitor, I guess by magnetizing some part of the monitor that didn't get degaussed at startup. So only do this to a monitor you disrespect.
Give a man a fish and you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish, and he'll say "WHERE'S MY FISH, YOU IDIOT?"