A shout out to everyone keeping the site running.
takyon: The last time you got 'preciated was in 2015.
- System Administrator Appreciation Day
- Sysadmin trained his offshore replacements, sat back, watched ex-employer's world burn
- UC Berkeley students' heroic efforts can't stop CalCentral from crashing
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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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).
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Thexalon on Friday July 27 2018, @04:27PM (4 children)
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.
"Think of how stupid the average person is. Then realize half of 'em are stupider than that." - George Carlin
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday July 27 2018, @05:08PM (2 children)
Blue Oyster Cult, 'Don't fear the admin'.
We're gonna be able to vacation in Gaza, Cuba, Venezuela, Iran and maybe Minnesota soon. Incredible times.
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Friday July 27 2018, @05:17PM
I got a fever, and the only prescription is more shell scripting!
"Think of how stupid the average person is. Then realize half of 'em are stupider than that." - George Carlin
(Score: 2) by archfeld on Friday July 27 2018, @09:19PM
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
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.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 27 2018, @04:30PM (2 children)
https://www.theregister.co.uk/data_centre/bofh/ [theregister.co.uk]
(Score: 4, Funny) by takyon on Friday July 27 2018, @04:39PM (1 child)
I prefer the On Call [theregister.co.uk] user-submitted horror stories.
[SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 27 2018, @05:03PM
I wasn't aware of those.
(Score: 5, Funny) by Hartree on Friday July 27 2018, @04:36PM
And the users all said, with a sneer and a taunt, "It's just what we asked for. But not what we want."
(Score: 3, Interesting) by linkdude64 on Friday July 27 2018, @04:41PM
Arigato gozaimasu!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by mrpg on Friday July 27 2018, @05:15PM (1 child)
Once I read that you should visit people in the office once in a while so they know you exist, otherwise they'll only see you when there are problems. I used to do that, go talk to people and ask if everything was ok.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 27 2018, @06:06PM
'If you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all'
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 27 2018, @08:24PM
Just once a year, thanks TMB.
(Score: 2) by AnonTechie on Friday July 27 2018, @09:04PM
Many Many Thanks
To all the people who keep this website running ... may your kind, live long and prosper.
Best Wishes.
Albert Einstein - "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
(Score: 1) by D2 on Friday July 27 2018, @09:37PM
mad props to the soylent admins... thanks for all you've done.
(Score: 3, Funny) by realDonaldTrump on Friday July 27 2018, @09:38PM
BIG THANKS to all the guys that are working to further my agenda. The geniuses of cyber, of computer. The Einsteins of internet. You're doing a fabulous job. Beautiful job. The MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN agenda is doing very well despite the distraction of the Witch Hunt. Because of me. And because of you.
And hopefully you guys are getting laid today, tonight. Or this weekend, we've got the weekend coming up. Very soon. And maybe for some of you it's already the weekend. Because we've got so many Time Zones these days, right? Too many! Some ahead and some behind. I'll tell you, I know the best girls. Very young, very clean. In New York, L.A., many places. Believe me, I didn't throw out my little black book just because I became President. So if you don't have any girls, or you only have one, give me a call. And I'll find you some VERY NICE girls!
(Score: 3, Interesting) by opinionated_science on Friday July 27 2018, @10:37PM (1 child)
for a nice simple html interface and no bouncy, clicky bits!!!
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Saturday July 28 2018, @02:56AM
Amen, amen, AMEN!
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday July 28 2018, @12:50AM (1 child)
My own personal thanks goes out to mechanicjay, audioguy, and Deucalion for taking care of the crap I don't want to.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by AudioGuy on Saturday July 28 2018, @02:41AM
And thanks to the Mighty Bird of Prey here who actually keeps the main app functioning, without which nothing else would be possible - or necessary.