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Happy System Administrator Appreciation Day!

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the i-suggest-a-gift-of-gin dept.

saintp writes "In case you forgot, today is System Administrator Appreciation Day. Be sure to appreciate your sysadmin with some sweet schwag, a LOPSA membership, or even some theme cupcakes. Here's to all the sysadmins out there! Now I've got to go fix the mail server...." Update: 07/28 17:44 GMT by H :And remember that you can vote/nominate them for SysAdmin of the Year.

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  1. Schwag? What about Nugs? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny
    Be sure to appreciate your sysadmin with some sweet schwag...
    Uh, I am thinking you do not know what that word means. If I gave my sys admin some low grade cannabis, I'd probably be fired.

    You see, my sys admin would probably only accept some high quality nugs.

    By the way, you forgot to mention that ThinkGeek, Inc. is an OSTG Company and so is Slashdot. Nice self-Slashvertisement there.
  2. 404 not found? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The requested URL (it/06/07/28/1418242.shtml) was not found.

    If you feel like it, mail the url, and where ya came from to pater@slashdot.org.

    Guess who's not getting nominated for SysAdmin of the Year...

  3. I can tell... by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 5, Funny

    All the system admins are kicking back my help desk tickets and telling me to do their job.

  4. I tried to send my sysadmin a thank you e-card. by Spazntwich · · Score: 5, Funny

    But the network was down.

    1. Re:I tried to send my sysadmin a thank you e-card. by 14CharUsername · · Score: 5, Funny
      Show your sysadmin your appreciation by NOT slumming through the sleaziest shitholes on the 'net using his resources.

      Well, so much for browsing slashdot today.

  5. Ooooh I knew forgot something ... by Average_Joe_Sixpack · · Score: 5, Funny

    Thanks for reminding me, I have to fire the sysadmin today

    1. Re:Ooooh I knew forgot something ... by houghi · · Score: 4, Funny

      What was you login again?

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      Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
    2. Re:Ooooh I knew forgot something ... by Dr+Caleb · · Score: 4, Funny

      For a manager? 'password' or '12345'.

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      "History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme." Mark Twain
    3. Re:Ooooh I knew forgot something ... by rufty_tufty · · Score: 2, Funny

      Hey my keyboard is broken! All I get are *'s in my password field...

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      "The weirdest thing about a mind, is that every answer that you find, is the basis of a brand new cliche" -
  6. To quote Jimmy Fallon by CaffeineAddict2001 · · Score: 3, Funny

    *SIIGH* MOVE!

  7. And when can we expect to see a... by Rellik66 · · Score: 2, Funny

    BOFH day?

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    Too many zeros, not enough ones

  8. Site Access Policies by ConnortheMad · · Score: 2, Funny

    Thank you for the warm hearted appreciated. Your IPs are currently being tracked via the Squid Proxy and those found not compliant with the corporate internet usage policy will be subsequently brought before HR.

  9. Re:Awesome co-workers by Otter · · Score: 2, Funny
    When I can get a card from my co-workers before Slashdot can post the holiday...

    Obligatory: That's because they already saw it on Digg!

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    What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
  10. Re:No love for helpdesk? by Secrity · · Score: 4, Funny

    Don't you have airconditioning in India?

  11. You've got it backwards by btarval · · Score: 3, Funny

    No, no, no. You're supposed to LIGHT your cigs using the CPU, not put them out!

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    The best way to predict the future is to create it. - Peter Drucker.
  12. We don't cotton to their type around here... by Quiet_Desperation · · Score: 2, Funny

    We hung our sysadmin by his ankles from the roof of our tallest building, and told him that we'd very much appreciate it if our network would have somewhat more network connectivity than a 300 baud modem.

    Oh, and a specially hired dominatrix worked him over for making us use Outlook.

    Ah, good times. :)

  13. Re:The article yesterday wasn't good enough? by maxwell+demon · · Score: 4, Funny

    And tomorrow we will get an Ask Slashdot: "Yesterday was sysadmin day. What appreciation did you sysadmins receive?" :-)

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    The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
  14. Re:My office remembered! by GungaDan · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's true, man.

    But only the first two words are in French.

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    Eloi are stupid, throw morlocks at them!
  15. Four Days Late. 24/7 would have been better. by onetruedabe · · Score: 3, Funny
    It seems to me July 24th ("24/7" as it's written in Europe) would have been more appropriate.

    :- Dabe

  16. Making nobody special by morcego · · Score: 3, Funny

    # usermod -u 0 nobody

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    morcego