System Administrator Appreciation Day

BaconZombie

July 25th, 2008 (Last Friday Of July)
9th 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 25th, 2008, is the 9th 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.

http://www.sysadminday.com/

*/ Mods: I posted this in AH was non-techies will read it and hopefully give their local BOFH Alcohol tomorrow */

biko

Happy birthday admins

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Terry

SAAD

Mr. CooL ICE

All system admins can suck my balls



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PCros

Yeah fail. Get real jobs!

feylya

I'll be doing no work tomorrow until I get my alcohol/cake/alcohol cake

funk-you

Screw them, thank your multi vendor systems engineer that does most of that work/fixes all the hardware and has to know the sysadmins job inside out because they're sitting on their asses miles away from the machine room playing WoW.

Not to mention puts up with the sysadmins unrealistic time frame for getting parts on site. While the user has placed a call at 5pm on Friday
that he really knows is software but passes it off so he can go home.

I'm not bitter, not bitter at all:pac:

-Funk

Dyr

Im in on sahherday and sunday this weekend, i better feel the sys admin related love tomorrow from my overlords.:(

Eoin

Stick-on vulcan ears for all of them, I say. Anyone reminded of Tron Guy?

Admittedly the sysadmin guys in my office are dead sound, but some of them drive me mental. Yes, we do want admin access to our own f-cking desktops.

Standard Toaster

Admin

Dyr

eoin_s wrote: »

Yes, we do want admin access to our own f-cking desktops.

NEVARRR!!

danniemcq

biko wrote: »

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po0k is that you?