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Huge relief to see that this page has a horrible design. Wouldn't feel legit otherwise.

Yet it's oddly responsive.

Time to read a few classics of Bastard Operator from Hell.

http://bofh.ntk.net/BOFH/index.php

I'll never forget a SysAdmin Day again I promise. Why? Because today is my birthday :D

problem is sys admin day is always the last friday in July while your birthday is always July 26

So nostalgic - my very first system was SCO UNIX 3.2 v4.2, and then FreeBSD 1.1.5.1. I had a few happy moments with Dec OSF/1 and some fun with AIX on RS/6000. All these moments will be lost in time, like tears in a rain, so to speak.)

My first exposure to *nix operating systems was when I was a teenager. We had a CompUSA store I was vising with my father, when I convinced him to buy a box with a devil[1] on the front cover.

I took home the box that said 'FreeBSD', popped in the cd(s) and installed, reading the giant manual(s) that came with the discs along the way. I was horrified when I finally was finished, rebooted and was stuck at '$'. Having no real idea what I was doing, I had destroyed my windows installation, and the only way I knew to continue was to keep reading the manuals. My career started right here.

(I believe it was FreeBSD ~4.2, but can't seem to locate a picture of the boxed version.)

[1]: http://lh4.ggpht.com/-XylzvDQxBDU/TSo0hdd4OFI/AAAAAAAAAA8/Mw...

What about us developers? Don't we get a little love?

Programmers Day is 256th day of the year (September 13 during common years and on September 12 in leap years).

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmer's_day

Thanks!

GlobalGiving.org is celebrating World SysAdmin day by hiring another sysadmin for our team.

http://www.globalgiving.org/aboutus/jobs/junior-systems-ninj...

Happy sysadmins day!

Splunk is giving out free t-shirts to sysadmins today -- https://twitter.com/splunk/status/360786441749532672

You mean it's been 8 hours and this hasn't been posted yet?

http://www.deadtroll.com/sysadmin/

"Now get in there and do some work to do with computers!!!"

All sysadmins!!! indulge yourself and break your chains by getting

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/active-directory-assist/id52...

/shamelessplug

Celebrating by moving workloads to the public cloud!

Happy SysAdmin Day! When is DevOps Day? (:

DevOps by definition run systems. We may be bastard cousins, but what the hell, join the party and celebrate, it's your day as well!

http://devopsreactions.tumblr.com/

Sudo I'll make him a sandwich.

perl -le 'print shift=~s<(\w{8})>;"".reverse$1=~y/nwcdsha/azpz/dr;er' "Sudo i'll make him a sandwich."

(Just some production sysadmin code...)

Happy Sysadmin's day! :-)

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