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System Administrator Appreciation Day

Posted by Zonk on from the thanks-for-the-passwords-guys dept.

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!"

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  1. Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie by Beolach · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.

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  2. Re:DUPE! by Uruk · · Score: 4, Interesting

    wget -O - http://slashdot.org/rss/index.rss | grep \/title | perl -e '%h=(); while() { chomp; $h{$_}++; } print join("\n", keys(%h));'

    Duplicates? No problem for a system administrator...

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  3. an admin I use to know... by slashdotnickname · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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!