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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.
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.
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.