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"Sysadmin of the Year" Winners Announced

Posted by kdawson on from the kudos-for-ubergeeks dept.

lisah writes "Ten winners of this year's 'Sysadmin of the Year' contest have been announced and, while Robin 'Roblimo' Miller says it's not quite like winning the Miss America contest, being selected from approximately 2,500 entrants is nothing to sneeze at. This year's first place winner battled an office fire to save a RAID backup server, while another IT manager won an honorable mention for his dedicated work at a yarn store. From the article, '[The nominating entry said:] Any man who would take on a position at a yarn store, much less a technological position while surrounded by a dozen women, ages 55+ deserves some kind of reward...'" Linux.com and Slashdot are both owned by OSTG.

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  1. OSTG? by JustASlashDotGuy · · Score: 5, Funny


    Linux.com and Slashdot are both owned by OSTG.

    I dunno who OSTG is, but they must be pretty awesome. They pwned Slashdot and Linux.com!

  2. Those Darn flames. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    " From the article, '[The nominating entry said:] Any man who would take on a position at a yarn store, much less a technological position while surrounded by a dozen women, ages 55+ deserves some kind of reward...'""

    It could have been worse. The yarn store could have burst into flames.

  3. What a Grand Prize by zentinal · · Score: 5, Funny

    The winner got "Washington DC"? The whole thing? Man, I knew OSTG had major league pull, but that's amazing! ;-) Note to Michael Beck - Now that you own Washington DC, please replace Congress, the Supreme Court and the President with a few Beowulf clusters. We should see a marked improvement in performance.

  4. Hardly! by Darlantan · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why, I take very good care of my users. In fact, I wouldn't have a job without them, right? I mean, I support the computers they use, and without them the computers wouldn't NEED any support. In fact, I just had a brand new backup system installed in our halon-protected server room. It's there to ensure that any data they find valuable will always be available. Go ahead, step in and take a look for yourself. It's right there in the back row, about halfway down.

    No, really, I insist. Have a look.

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    Fill in your four or five-letter word of wisdom here _ _ _ _ _.
    1. Re:Hardly! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      I have enclosed the following diagram describing the situation, for your convenience.

          *     <--- Joke

          O
         \|_    <---- You
          |
         / \

  5. No picture of the Hot Sysadmin? by zcubed · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sysadmins are famous for coming in all sorts of packages, but Dawn stands out in that you'd never guess she spent all her working hours tippy-tapping as a senior system administrator and technical lead. She's model gorgeous--tall-ish and slim with strawberry blonde hair and, of course, the requisite sysadmin pale skin. But they have a picture of the idiot that risked his life for a damn server!
  6. Re:sysadmins by nizo · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think he made the rational decision that he would rather burn to death than wait for the new server hardware to arrive, and then wait for file restores to finish, all while people dropped in every 2 minutes to ask when the server would be back up.

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    I Am My Own Worst Enemy
  7. Re:Rewards? by crazdgamer · · Score: 5, Funny
    So does the winner recieve all of the Xena and Star Trek: Voyager season DVDs...
    Why would the winner want to receive something he already has?