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System Administrator Appreciation Day 2015
ninjagin writes: They might be underneath a desk, hauling cables above your ceiling, swapping out a drive in your data center, putting the blue smoke back inside that old pizza box on the rack, up at 2 :00AM dealing with an alarm, or upgrading or patching your systems over the weekend. But wherever they are today, take a moment to thank your friendly neighborhood system administrator. We always look to them to fix things up when things go bad, but they are rarely recognized for the majority of their effort — the quiet work they do in the background to keep the bits flying and things running smoothly.
Thanks for the hard work to get this site and sf.net back up!
It is a Friday during the summer and no one is in the office. What more do you want?
I hope that Debian celebrates this day by giving Linux system admins the greatest gift possible: the permanent removal of systemd from all future versions of Debian.
The server team managed to blotched a printer migration from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2012. My boss threw me under the bus by volunteering me to clean up the mess involving 1,000+ printer queues and four servers. Just when I'm about to finish three weeks of work, the server team pulled the old print servers without warning. That created 100+ tickets from angry users who can't print. Another fine mess to add to my resume.
He's our Systems Admin. Good guy.
that on this side of the pond its 21:30 and we are already later than all of asia, so thanks for taking away SysOpDay from all the rest of the world you pricks!
Wait..... I'm friendly?
Nice stapler icon. This is not Secretary's Day
I just gave my sysadmin an eightball of coke and a box full of Raspberry Pi's. He says he's "planning something big".
I'm starting to wonder if I should maybe tell someone.
You are welcome on my lawn.
S.A.A.D
I put the 'Physics' in 'Physical Attraction'
with pizza and Mountain Dew (so I heard these are their gourmet dining). Other than that, our sys ads are great. They fixed problems before they become problems. Occasionally one of them comes through my office, have to do another audit of machine s/n and IP addresses (with so many platforms their lists get all screwed up so they have resort back to classic technique of determining what all is where).
mfwright@batnet.com
No one cares.
fixing the Win10 upgrade errors
This should've been posted at least YESTERDAY rather than 3pm on the day of. If they want more than just a "thank you" (and I'm sure they do) then people need more notice. Most people don't track these X Appreciation Days.
..but T-bird is giving me that can't-connect-to-the-SMTP-server message again. I guess I'll get on the company xmpp. Oh crap, that's down too. Oh fuck, so is the desk phone. I need to charge my cellphone so I can call him and tell him "thanks" but someone keeps stealing my USB cables. Meh, I'll just call him Sunday night.
http://tech.slashdot.org/comme... Pulp Administrator, With apologies to QT and SLJ Do you read assembly language, Brad? There's a few lines of Code I've got memorized EBIDIC 9D5: "The path of the Network Administrator is beset upon all sides by the inequities of the ignorant hacker and the tyranny of jackass users. Blessed is he who, in the name of file retention and network security, shepherds the newbie through the darkness of the Internet. For he is truly his users administrator and the finder of lost files. And I will strike down upon keys with great vengance and furious deletion those who would attempt to poison and destroy my network. And you will know I am root when I lay my lockout upon thee." I been typin' that shit for years. And if you read it, it meant your ass. I never really gave much thought about what it meant 'till just now. I just thought it was just some cold-blooded shit to IM to user before I locked his ass out of the network. But I saw some shit this mornin' made me think twice. Now I'm thinkin', it could mean you're the jackass user. And I'm the Administrator. And Mr. PalmPilot here, he's the shepherd protecting my Administrator account in the darkness of the Internet. Or it could be, you're the Administrator, and I'm the shepherd, and it's the Internet that's an ignorant jackass. I'd like that. But that shit ain't the truth. The truth is... (he levels the PalmPilot and speaks deliberately) You're the weak And I am the tyranny of jackass users. But I'm tryin' Brad, I'm tryin' real hard, to be a shepherd.
~corporate tool, but employed~
Thank you me!
You're welcome.
That's about it.
Once email is working again I'll send them an e-card.
"I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)
It's kind of funny this lands on a Friday in the middle of summer when it looks like most of the rest of the office is off.
Thanks to you System Administrator/s. I too have been and most likely will be a System Administrator. Kindest regards from JONATHAN DEAN MACKENZIE.
Finally someone got it right.. Congrats /.
But seriously,
To all who put up the "good fight" at all hours of the day and or night, the sacrifices made, etc..
A hardy RIGHT ON!
( I could say more, but I want to keep it clean)
To those who fail to see the importance of your Fellow Sys Admin. I will pray for the survival of your position, company, and or the industry in which this is applied.
Best Wishes to all whom make it happen..
GeeKay
And this year sysadmins are grafted by a BIND update just in time for sysadmin day.
Happy patching sysadmin day!
SysAdmin Day. Awesome day, but I have never benefited from it, because everyone here is gone for summer vacation. No one here to appreciate what I do. How about one nearer a solstice day, so neither hemisphere has to worry about being excluded?
Just sayin'.