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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.

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  2. 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!

  3. 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? ;-)

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      Lost at C:>. Found at C.
  4. 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.