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How Are You Celebrating National Sysadmin Day?

Posted by Unknown on from the bofh-demands-tribute dept.

jfruh writes "July 26 is Sysadmin Day, the system administrator's version of Secretary's Day. Are you giving your hardworking sysadmin the recognition they deserve? Blogger (and, yes, sysadmin) Sandra Henry-Stocker argues that a holiday like this is needed because due to the nature of their job, in everyday life sysadmins 'get noticed least when they do the best work' So if your systems run so smoothly that you sometimes forget you even have a sysadmin on staff, be sure to recognize them for their excellent work today."

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  1. Hmmm ... by gstoddart · · Score: 5, Funny

    First I'm going to delete your inbox.

    Then I'm going to switch your phone extension with Larry in facilities management.

    And I think this afternoon I will take the Production environment down for a little while.

    --
    Lost at C:>. Found at C.
  2. In my country... by mfarah · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This day is known only by the sysadmin themselves (and former sysadmins, as well), so we pat each other on the back, post a message on twitter and/or facebook and that's it.

    --
    "Trust me - I know what I'm doing."
    - Sledge Hammer
    1. Re:In my country... by Minwee · · Score: 4, Funny

      Ray, when someone asks you if you're a god, you say YES!

  3. Same as every year by Scutter · · Score: 4, Funny

    As usual, the only people who know (or care) about SysAdmin Day are sysadmins. Therefore, nothing is being done to celebrate it. Not even a free donut.

    --

    "Tell me doctor, with all of your defenses, are there any provisions for an attack by killer bees?"
  4. How Are You Celebrating National Sysadmin Day? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "How Are You Celebrating National Sysadmin Day?"

    The same thing we do every night, Pinky—try to take over the world!

  5. Same as I do every day by smooth+wombat · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Dealing with incompetence and stupidity.

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    We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
    1. Re:Same as I do every day by gstoddart · · Score: 5, Funny

      Dealing with incompetence and stupidity.

      It can be challenging, but don't let anyone else tell you what your limitations are.

      Oh, did you mean the users? ;-)

      --
      Lost at C:>. Found at C.
  6. Same as every day by Sparticus789 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Telling the developers, for the 76732198435 time, that their application is not important enough to warrant it's own server, they do not need root access, and I cannot fix their personal laptop.

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    sudo make me a sandwich
  7. Why didnt anyone tell me sooner by drummerboybac · · Score: 4, Funny

    Quick, I need A black T-Shirt(preferably with an antisocial saying in white block letters), some Mountain Dew(or preferably Jolt Cola), a Carpal Tunnel wrist brace, a desk piled with manuals and CD-R spindles, and a LOT of terminal windows open.

    Hmm, looks like I already have the terminal windows part covered........and the black T-Shirt...and the CDR Spindles

    Crap.

  8. Custom app not important enough for own server? by xxxJonBoyxxx · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you're blowing cash on a dev team (let's say 5 folks at $120K/year each with benefits), you're going to try to save $1-2K a year so you don't have to host the final product (perhaps a publicly-facing final product) on its own server?

    And it's "its" dammit. Happy SysAdmin Day.