I thought this was one of those you've got to be kidding moments.....
World celebrates System Administrator Appreciation Day
In a tradition started twelve years ago, the IT community is celebrating another global System Administrator Appreciation Day (SAAD), a time to recognize the talents for your favorite BOFH. "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 …
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Friday 27th July 2012 20:18 GMT zen1
Yay me!
Enjoying a nice cold pint and quietly reciting the motto of the ASR: Non ex transverso sed deorsum! Over and over in my head. I raise my mug to my brethern and sistern all over the world! May you be appreciated by even your most clueless and problematic user.
God speed and drink heavily!
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Friday 27th July 2012 21:07 GMT phuzz
Well, I'm between jobs this week, but even so, I know that no one else at my old job would have noticed this, so well done to me, and all other loan sysadmins, with no geeky comrades to keep them company.
(next week I start working with a bunch of linux geeks, where I practically had the piss taken out of me in the interview for being a windows nerd [ie, not geeky enough]. I think it's going to be fun :)
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Saturday 28th July 2012 01:35 GMT Uplink
Re: How about some nice ladies finally finding interest in all the work?
It's all this innuendo that scares chicks away methinks. All those guys that do get women seem to do everything BUT the innuendo. But don't ask me how they can be so normal. I'm still trying to find out myself.
I'll go get myself a beer. I administrate my own system. I'm a programmer. I'll try to get some beers out of my co-workers too though, because I double as a sysadmin from time to time. Especially for that guy who can't keep out of the Administrator account even though I put a huge warning in big letters telling him to log off there and then on the desktop and locked it via registry permissions. He's supposedly knowledgeable, but I have no idea why he need that account so often (at least, if that computer get a virus, he's the only one using that account, so if this happens, I can tell him off).
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Monday 30th July 2012 08:33 GMT Anonymous Coward
To be fair, some of us programmers do end up doing sysadmin due to necessity. In my case, I do both as there isn't any other people in the building aware what ls does, or has the inclination to learn or care about Linux. Except when it's all broken, then they care. Technically its not my job, but it did get me a nice pay rise. Management quite obviously didn't want to hire a sysadmin though, though that's more indicative of the attitude within the company to IT.
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Monday 30th July 2012 09:27 GMT Jesrad
funny that
I was hired as Sysadmin, yet end up doing development in the majority of my work time because the actual devs here can't keep up and maintain the whole project's deployment and installation scripts by themselves. Turns out you can learn a new programming language's quirks and odds much faster, than learning an IT infra's inner workings.
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Monday 30th July 2012 20:20 GMT Trevor_Pott
Re: funny that
Scripting is easy. Basic OOP development is easy.
Good development...that's hard. I'd say being a real developer - the kind that worries about maintainable, modular code, knows the ins and outs of the language, understands things like polynomial versus logarithmic execution times for sorts and seraches - that takes as much time, effort, skill and experience as learning Deep Sysadmin stuff.
Of course, the devs are better paid and earn far more respect than the "digital janitors." But that's another rant...
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