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System Administrator Appreciation Day

posted by takyon on Friday July 27 2018, @04:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the appreciated-for-just-one-day dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

A shout out to everyone keeping the site running.

takyon: The last time you got 'preciated was in 2015.

martyb: An obligatory xkcd Devotion to Duty.

For some light reading see: When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth by Cory Doctorow.

And please join me in thanking TheMightyBuzzard, mechanicjay, audioguy, Deucalion, Ncommander, and paulej72 who have kept this site (and all the attendant backend services) running! And, if some of those names do not look familiar, that gives you an idea of how good these guys are! Thanks to all you!

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Thexalon on Friday July 27 2018, @04:27PM (4 children)

    by Thexalon (636) on Friday July 27 2018, @04:27PM (#713732)

    Failure to properly celebrate System Administrator Appreciation Day with substantial gifts to the System Administrator Benevolent Fund will result in:
    - Loss of important data files, including backups.
    - The placing of "interesting" material on your office computer followed by alerts to and subsequent discovery by Human Resources and the FBI.
    - The subtle delaying and altering of email messages to embarrassing and career-ending effect.
    - The mysterious shrinking of disk quotas.

    I'm sure that reasonably creative sysadmins can come with a few other threats as well.

    --
    The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday July 27 2018, @05:08PM (2 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday July 27 2018, @05:08PM (#713755) Journal

    Blue Oyster Cult, 'Don't fear the admin'.

    • (Score: 2) by Thexalon on Friday July 27 2018, @05:17PM

      by Thexalon (636) on Friday July 27 2018, @05:17PM (#713759)

      I got a fever, and the only prescription is more shell scripting!

      --
      The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.

    • (Score: 2) by archfeld on Friday July 27 2018, @09:19PM

      by archfeld (4650) <treboreel@live.com> on Friday July 27 2018, @09:19PM (#713839) Journal

      40K patches every year...

      --
      For the NSA : Explosives, guns, assassination, conspiracy, primers, detonators, initiators, main charge, nuclear charge

  • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Saturday July 28 2018, @02:55AM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Saturday July 28 2018, @02:55AM (#713910) Journal

    Love the Computer! If you do not love the Computer, you will be used as reactor shielding...

    Thank you guys for keeping SN humming along.

    --
    Washington DC delenda est.