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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Russian on July 27, 2007, 10:15:53 AM
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July 27th, 2007 (Last Friday Of July)
8th Annual
System Administrator Appreciation Day
If you can read this, thank your sysadmin
A sysadmin unpacked the server for this website from its box, installed an operating system, patched it for security, made sure the power and air conditioning was working in the server room, monitored it for stability, set up the software, and kept backups in case anything went wrong. All to serve this webpage.
A sysadmin installed the routers, laid the cables, configured the networks, set up the firewalls, and watched and guided the traffic for each hop of the network that runs over copper, fiber optic glass, and even the air itself to bring the Internet to your computer. All to make sure the webpage found its way from the server to your computer.
Ted in wires
Fig. 1 Ted.
A sysadmin makes sure your network connection is safe, secure, open, and working. A sysadmin makes sure your computer is working in a healthy way on a healthy network. A sysadmin takes backups to guard against disaster both human and otherwise, holds the gates against security threats and crackers, and keeps the printers going no matter how many copies of the tax code someone from Accounting prints out.
A sysadmin worries about spam, viruses, spyware, but also power outages, fires and floods.
When the email server goes down at 2 AM on a Sunday, your sysadmin is paged, wakes up, and goes to work.
A sysadmin is a professional, who plans, worries, hacks, fixes, pushes, advocates, protects and creates good computer networks, to get you your data, to help you do work -- to bring the potential of computing ever closer to reality.
So if you can read this, thank your sysadmin -- and know he or she is only one of dozens or possibly hundreds whose work brings you the email from your aunt on the West Coast, the instant message from your son at college, the free phone call from the friend in Australia, and this webpage.
Show your appreciation
Friday, July 27th, 2007, is the 8th annual System Administrator Appreciation Day. On this special international day, give your System Administrator something that shows that you truly appreciate their hard work and dedication.
Let's face it, System Administrators get no respect 364 days a year. This is the day that all fellow System Administrators across the globe, will be showered with expensive sports cars and large piles of cash in appreciation of their diligent work. But seriously, we are asking for a nice token gift and some public acknowledgement. It's the least you could do.
Consider all the daunting tasks and long hours (weekends too.) Let's be honest, sometimes we don't know our System Administrators as well as they know us. Remember this is one day to recognize your System Administrator for their workplace contributions and to promote professional excellence. Thank them for all the things they do for you and your business.
Share and Enjoy
http://www.sysadminday.com/
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Nobody has thanked me today.
All they ever do is ask me "what do you do here".
I answer them, but they only ask again..."yeah, but what do you DO"
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Yea right,
They are still yelling and spitting at me for there mistakes.
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pfhhht!!!!! sysadmin guys should be thanking their HVAC guys for keeping the data centers nice and cool!:p
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I want my damn flowers. And candy. And maybe a hug too.
:p
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A good sysadmin is like gold-dust.
Unfortunately, I send a large chunk of my working life unscrewing the messes made by undereducated idiots with over-inflated ego's masquerading as sysadmins. Public sector sysadmins are the worst.
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Doesn't Skuzzy count as a sysadmin for AH? :confused:
if so: happy System Admin day!, Skuzz :D
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they are too geeky to appreciate :)
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Awwwwwe
Here you go Skuzzy!
(http://www.atkinson-flowers.com/usrimage/logo.jpg)
We Wub Woo!
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:rofl
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this one won the Locus "best novelett award for 2007......"
http://baens-universe.com/articles/When_Sysadmins_Ruled_the_Earth
Regards,
Gunns
<50,000 words sold this year...>
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Originally posted by wooley
A good sysadmin is like gold-dust.
Yep. One puff of wind or a few rain drops and they are gone forever. :)
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Hey when all the systems are running smooth....that gives me more time to spend down the hall with the LifeFlight helicopter pilots :)