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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.
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.
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!
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.
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
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~