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Happy System Admin Day!

Posted on 31 July 2009 by


Alexander.Shurik4

Today is the tenth annual system admin day! We sysadmins get blamed for everything even when it isn’t our fault.  The internet broke?  Yep it’s the sysadmin’s fault.  Can’t get your computer to boot up?  Blame it on the sysadmin!

Today is the ONE day you can do something nice for the guy who gets crapped on every other day.

Things you can do are:

1. NOT call him today!

2. Buy him a cake!

3. Buy him a gadget.

4. Buy him a Red Bull for that next outage.

5. If you are his wife, let him buy a cool gadget!

6. Give him the day off!

7. Take him out for some wings!

8. If the sysadmin is female, give her a day at the spa.

9.  Have a pizza party!

10. Get him a T-Shirt from Think Geek.

Have you hugged your sysadmin lately?

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Joel is a system admin for a local college in Columbus, OH. While he loves Linux and tend to use it more than anything else, he will stoop to running closed source if it is the best tool for the job. His techno passions are Linux, Android, netbooks, GPS, podcasting and Personal Media Players.

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