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System Administrator Appreciation Day is an annual ICT Holiday created by Ted Kekatos in 2000. It takes place in the last Friday in July, hence today is the 16th SysAdmin Day. So as they put it: 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.
To keep track of ICT Holidays, you can use the International ICT Holidays calendar, a Google calendar maintained by the Computer Engineers Association of Spain (ATI).
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Remember Darwin; building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 31 2015, @07:53AM
No. If you are not keeping yourself up to date about technology, and about newly found vulnerabilities that might affect your systems, you're not a good sysadmin. No scripting can replace that. Those things must get into your brain, and that means you have to actively put them there.
Of course that might give the impression that you are doing nothing but surfing the web during your work time.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday July 31 2015, @09:57AM
Heh! Based on that, I might well be on my way to become the best sysadm. The rest may come later.
(grin)
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 31 2015, @03:25PM
Good luck keeping up with even a tenth of security advances and vulnerabilities. There is a reason why even moderately good security now requires a full-time position in even relatively small organizations.
Security breaches happen when there is an insufficient level of specialists on staff. Requiring a regular sysadmin to know end-to-end security is like requiring an embedded systems developer to know how to design and manage power substations for a city. It just is no longer possible for one person to do both.
(Score: 2) by darkfeline on Friday July 31 2015, @08:07PM
Based on the news, security breaches happen because people hook vital infrastructure up to the Internet, store passwords in plaintext or MD5 unsalted hashes, use weak passwords, neglect software updates for more than a year, fall to phishing attempts, fail to use parametrized MySQL queries, or some other variation of "babby's first sysadmin mistake".
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