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Nominate SysAdmin of the Year By Oct. 12
PMcGovern writes "Deadline for nominations for SysAdmin of the Year 2007 is this Friday Oct. 12. The award is sponsored by Slashdot, SourceForge, Digg, Usenix, Lopsa, Splunk, and Naspa. The first 2500 sysadmins nominated win a free SysAdmin Rockstar tee shirt. Prizes include a MacBook Pro, a non-bricked Apple iPhone, Gibson guitar, Splunk license, a full-paid trip to the LISA conference, cases of Red Bull, and more. If you know a sysadmin that goes beyond the call of duty, nominate them."
I nominate this guy
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
O.o I don't know any system admin who is that much of a fat ass. What kind of "sys admin" lets himself go that far? Does he eat cheetos and play games all day?
Me nor any admin I know is THAT fat. I myself and between regular-husky simply by jogging every day or so, its not hard... try it.
Seeing as sysadmins are the ones reading slashdot, I foresee a tonne of self nominations.
Shouldn't this be called "north-american SysAdmin of the year", considering they only accept nominees from two countries...?
I guess it wouldn't be very sportsman-like to nominate myself. Of course, it would also be a horrible lie, since I'm a pretty mediocre SysAdmin at best. :)
Nothing to see here
If any of you guys win, avoid shouting "Yessssss! At last, I'm a Syssie!!!" if you get the call while you're in the men's room.
...while so many other stories go unpublished, we're patting ourselves on the back.
Nice job.
it is a thankless job.
Surely the sysadmin of the year should be able to unbrick their own iPhone..
Me: Hello!
Admin: Hi!
Me: I have a request for you. Could you please install Suse 10.3 on my computer, it is still running Suse 9.3
(sidenote: every other guy already has open 10.2, every other guy who knows at my place)
Admin: Why?
Me: It has OpenOffice.
Admin: 9.3 has StarOffice 7
Me: But it does not support ODF files.
Admin: Ok I will do that.
Me: I have another request for you. Could you please install WindowMaker and rxvt-unicode?
Admin: What is this WindowMaker?
Me: It is a window manager.
(Admin fires up yast2. WindowMaker is there, explained as: "a fancy windowmanager". I hate Suse team. The term "fancy" is not even on .
Admin: Huh! Yet another window manager. Could you please tell me a reason why should I install it?
Me: WindowMaker was already installed in 9.3...
Admin: 9.3 does not count.
Me: Because I use it?
Admin: Don't give that as a reason. Use is not a reason. You know that KDE is the supported windo manager on my system?
Me: Yes I know.
Admin: Then why can't you use KDE? Tell me, why you need another window manager when everyone else is using KDE?
Me: That is not true, Horsch uses FVWM...
Admin: Horsch manages his own system, and he doesn't use BitTorrent!
Me: I did it once, I DIDN't do it ever again!
(Admin looks rxvt-unicode in yast2)
Admin: This program is very small, it can be installed without any trouble.
Me: Thanks, see you.
Huh! I hate my system administrator, I love Linux and I still hate my machine! Kudos to him for causing this much trouble.
because he put scripts to delete all emails with subjects like "CONGRATZ YOU WON A FREE IPHONE FOR BEING THE ADMIN OF THE YEAR BY /.!!!!", so he'd probably won't get the prize anyway.
I nominated myself for the sole purpose of registering for something who's male 'model' is fatter and uglier than I am. Sold!
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... for selflessly pooling their resources to create what is perhaps the largest distributed computing project ever, the Storm botnet.
The shareholder is always right.
no more negativity just nominate someone and have fun with this. I would nominate someone in my company, but they keep us IT guys in a smelly building six exits down the freeway from them. But if resetting outlook and Active Directory counts as a systems admin then I got two or three guys I could nominate...... How do we go about entering those names again?
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to Call of Duty 4? Do we really want to nominate the system admins who have played through 3 video game sequels? I guess that means their systems are running smoothly...
"The Contest is open only to residents of the U.S. and Canada..."
well bugger that. Here I was expecting an all-expenses-paid-for-round-the-world-trip, but no... I can't even make an "all I got was this lousy t-shirt" comment.
Probably the sysadmins who do it for free (NGO's), under fire (Iraq, Afganistan, Sudan, Rwanda (I'm going there to do IT work next year) and China (pro-freedom anti-communist NGOs).
"excluding Quebec due to restrictive contest laws." Why? A quick search turned up this, this and this. Interesting.
I nominate one Wesley Crusher
How many sysAdmins use MacBooks!?
I nominate CowboyNeal as SysAdmin of the Year, also I don't see any specific mention that the first 2500 entries cannot be the same person. This might also have the unfortunate* consequence of perhaps eliminating some CowboyNeal options from being available in future polls.
* Relatively speaking, some may be happy, some may frown.
If you're reading this, it means you don't deserve to win this award.
Really, the best sysadmin is one so good that he/she/it doesn't appear to do much of anything at all - because that's exactly what he/she/it should be doing. Who is really going to nominate a guy who seems to just sit around while everything around him seems to work just perfectly?
Thus, the contest is biased. You'll either get:
A) The guy that always seems "industrious", nominated by people who aren't sysadmins, or
B) The guy that seems "lazy", sits around not doing much at all while dozens to hundreds of carefully written scripts fire off all day long, sending an occasional message when an error condition is detected. Since this guy would have to be nominated by a sysadmin, and sysadmins are in the minority, this contest is biased in favor of the incompetent.
I have no problem with your religion until you decide it's reason to deprive others of the truth.
I'm the best!
No sig today...
Gooks? Man, I hav't heard that term in years!!!!
Reminders me of the film Romper Stomper... Now that was a geat flick!
Skin-Heads, Skin-Heads looking for a street fight, looking for a root!
Something like this turned out to be a recruitment office stunt, we lost our sysadmin to this.
It appears that only American's and Canadian's can be SysAdmin of the year... I guess that America "Is the World" anyway so... you can't complain that much - otherwise they will put a cap in ya ass!
"cases of Red Bull"
How about a treadmill ?
It appears that only American's and Canadian's can be SysAdmin of the year... I guess that America "Is the World" anyway so... you can't complain that much - otherwise they will put a cap in ya ass!
Who's Googles main Admin? I want to nominate him - just to destroy some chairs in redmond...
The MAFIAA is a bunch of mindless jerks who will be the first up against the wall when the revolution comes
A couple of years ago a friend of mine asked me for an advice. He has just started to work as a sysadmin at some middle-sized bank. They have had a lot of *NIX servers that were working just fine. But there was also one Windows NT-based server there with a *very* special application which was absolutely crucial for bank's business processes. The very special "feature" of this application was that it crashed quite often and took the whole server to the realm of BSODs with every crash. The old sysadmin was working in the server room and has had no problem resetting the server manually if needed. My friend, however, preferred remote administration from his sunny office (yea, i know, how weird it sounds :) ) so walking down to server room in order to restart a server was hardly an option for him.
/dev/hdc.
Fixing a program was not possible - no source code was available.
After a weirdest brainstorming i have ever participated at, he finally found a solution - he has built together a crappy PC with linux 2.4 on board and connected it to the server via a crossover cable.
The sole task of this PC was to ping the alleged server and if it wasn't responding - eject
The cd-rom drive opened itself and pressed the Reset button on the server. Fool-proofed system and the funniest linux-based solution to solve windows proglems I've seen in my life.
Kim Jong Il
Isn't he best sysadmin the one you don't know is there. I find in general Bad Sysadmins are the ones complaining all the time, and always working very hard with fires, Complain about the pager because they know it will go off. While good sysadmins are rarely seen unless they want to be so. Because they have the organization running so well and smooth that most problems are preemptively fixed, the ones that are not have enough backup and fail over that he can fix without disrupting anyone else's work. That is a good sysadmin... The problem with that is they are also the first ones to be considered for layoffs because they don't seem to be working hard... But they learn in a couple of months that his job was necessary.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
My sysadmin told me to vote for him or he'll post my internet logs and rape my user permissions.
>The criteria by which sysadmins in say, China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, etc., are judged might be the opposite of what westerners value.
D'oh.
'nuf said
How can you be sure that the Ubuntu packages weren't backdoored ?
We need a license for our splunk now? I thought it just kinda came with the territory.
Ok, I'm going to risk a massive Troll slam, but my trigger finger's just too itchy.
> Nominate SysAdmin of the Year
With real programmers around, isn't this kind of like the NIT tournament, the battle to be the 65th best college basketball team in the country?
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There should sooooooo be a BoFH of the Year award! Then I'd have a chance!
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