System Administrator Appreciation Day
Shahriar
Sorry for late the day................
Happy "System Administrator Appreciation" Day July 27th, 2007 (Last
Friday Of July) 8th Annual.
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.
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, Show your appreciation