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Sysadmin of the Year
PMcGovern writes "Do you know a great sysadmin? Nominate them for OSTG's sponsored Sysadmin of the Year. The first 2500 sysadmins nominated receive a free ThinkGeek T-shirt.
Your sysadmin can also win great prizes including an Apple MacBook, a trip to the LISA conference in Washington DC, Splunk Professional server, and cases of Bawls soda. Only two weeks left to nominate your sysadmin (Oct. 31, 2006). (Note: Slashdot is part of OSTG.)"
I have to fire the Sysadmin today
The only chance I have at winning this is if they're using Diebold machines to count the votes.
What if the Hokey Pokey really is what it's all about?
5,268 votes cast by Slashdotters, resulting in 5,268 candidates all tying for first place.
Slashdot Burying Stories About Slashdot Media Owned
This may be a first post. maybee not. But the real reason for this post is that there are no comments and the site is already slashdotted. either that or they realized that its not April 1st. After all any sys admin that gets nominated by someone other than a sys admin can't possibly be doing his job right.
I nominate this guy.
It is not our abilities that show what we truly are... it is our choices.
Only two weeks left to nominate your sysadmin (Oct 31, 2006)
Either Slashdot is late as usual they thought we rolled back 2 weeks instead of an hour last night.
See, this is why you don't let submissions sit in the queue. Tomorrow is October 31st. One day is significantly shorter than two weeks.
GLaDOS for President 2016! "Well here we are again. It's always such a pleasure." -- GLaDOS, 2011
Lets be honest, people only notice the sysadmins and network admins when things don't work, then they get flack. When they are busting their humps keeping things working or improving their systems they are generally taken for granted.
It is by the juice of the coffee bean that thoughts acquire speed, the teeth acquire stains. The stains become a warning
My eyes! we don't all look like that, do we? I need another donut.
"Remember, any tool can be the right tool." -- Red Green
I know the greatest /. editor of all time is Hemos, bar none.
Consistently professional, wise, witty, handsome, master lover and never posts dupes.
(Is that good enough for a MacBook?)
Um I just nominated myself because I wanted a shirt, but I was probably too late...
In a world of acronyms, the words are the real victims.
And to think, I was just about to nominate Hemos...
I thought that read "a trip to the USA"
Wincopy
everyone hates me at my company, let's be frank,,,,,users dont love you unless your company policies are permissive or were and are now more srtict.
:( and nobody has a clue what i do.
And being granted a title can only be made by other IT who see the work and understand what has to be done even when it pisses people.
one other problems is that,,,,,,i'm the only one at my company
Why do Sys admins have to bear the aspect of having teir contact information - 1000s of sys admin information collected and then probably used for directed commercial marketfor the poor guys. As if they dont have enough email overload.
Guys n gals, please grow up.
I say we skip that and all vote for *PEDRO* instead...
Maybe I'm not a SysAdmin but I'm creative. Time to create 100 mail accounts. Send 1 email for me and get the T-Shirt.
Easy as taking lollipop from a kid!
"an experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often, quite often, picturesque liar" - Mark Twain
Oh, wrong intraweb site.
Nice job sysadmins....
of machines nominating me.
:( Technically I'm only the Sysadmin to millions of girls hearts everywhere, but in this case I wanted to say "for shame" to everyone of the assbandits who didn't give me a free shirt last year. WOoo, I got my invitation to the Tape it Off TV App today! Eat that people! (Your daughters' Sysadmin of the year)
If you're doing a good job, nobody knows you exist.
We have an employee recognition program where I work, but it's very rare for Sys Admins, developers and the like to ever get even a nomination. The people who usually get the awards are either instructors or the field service techs (who usually call one of us when they get stuck) who have their faces out there in the public eye. The people getting the votes are the people who showed them how to play a CD on their PC, not the guys behind the scenes protecting their servers and data.
What if the Hokey Pokey really is what it's all about?
Looks like the site is down. Their sysadmin should now be disqualified.
I'd like to file this under the old news section.
Oh wait, it's because a good BOFH can wrangle free equipment, all expenses paid trips and more without having to win any damn competition.
That's not a prize. That's a punishment and a guarantee for harassment as far as most of the worlds population is concerned.
They're quick to kill a story, but they pend forever. I wonder if my journal entry on buying Comics for Kids on Halloween is going to make it in time for people to get to the local comic store.
the sys admin for their webserver clearly isn't getting this one, since their server isn't responding.
thanks for the laugh :)
Free beer is never free as in speech. Free speech is always free as in beer.
Your'e late, its a dupe, yes this has been said. But maybe we need a new "...of the year category" I nominate slashdot for several awards. First I would like to nominate slashdot for recycler of year, while other websites only post a story once, slashdot recycles many stories once, and some even twice! Secondly I would like to nominate the slashdot editors for the no shit sherlock award, for stating the bleeding obvious, which is often done in conjunction with recycling. And finally I would nominate slashdot for the wow they have certainly gone down hill in recent times, because lets face it guys, you have.
http://goat.cz/
some former co-workers nominated me last week. I got the email and thought it was spam until I saw the prize fulfillment url was a thinkgeek address. clicked the link, signed into my TG account, and received the t-shirt one week later. it says "42" in binary on the front. a good freebie imo.
swanker than you
...is a BOFH-of-the-Year award. With alot more than 2500 finalists.
Obviously, whoever modded this comment down didn't appreciate the humour of the above post. I'd hate to see what happens to *that* person's user id...
It is not our abilities that show what we truly are... it is our choices.
Looks like the contest is designed to churn Splunk's membership roster, probably so they can meet their targets this quarter and the C[A-Z]O's can get their bonuses.
If that's a sufficient tradeoff for you receiving a shirt plastered with logos and a yet another entity sending you spam for life, OK.
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?"
My sysadmin who set up my CVS server for my team and several others.
I entered a work order which asked for the operating system to be installed, a mirrored filesystem to be installed and backups to be kicked off.
The work order was completed with the statement "did not set up backups, enter another ticket if you still want those". So the machine has not been backed for all this time (uptime ~1000 days so far).
Good job we did our own rsync mirroring of the repositories to a reliable NAS device (EMC symmetrix)!
In future I am going to try this tactic myself - when we finish projects we'll just leave out bits and put in the log "didn't add features X, Y, Z as requested, please enter another ticket if you still want them".
I can't even get a decent mod. hint... hint.. btw: outage in 3 mins.
and all's I got was this lousy t-shirt
"By entering the Contest, you agree to allow a Splunk representative to contact you regarding potential sales, case studies and other business matters. In addition, you agree to allow a Splunk representative to contact you regarding your status in the Contest. You also agree to allow Splunk and all sponsors to use your name and employer's name in all the Contest promotional materials including, but not limited to, press releases and presentations."
It should be called the North American Sys Admin of the Year Award.
Yes! Our man in Cuba.
Though he knows nothing about System V, BSD or any of the Linux'ers,
he's single handled'ly responcible for inflaming hemroids in Washington
D.C.!
What about that!
Give this guy a Nobel and and a bud-truck load of Preparation H.
Toodles