Happy Sysadmin Day !

Sano

I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one here, so I wish a happy System Administrator Appreciation Day to all my fellow sysadmins, especially those running this site and community.

May the users and devs be smart, the hardware reliable, the software bugfree and the coffee plentiful.

Cheers !

BuZz

@sano cheers to all sysadmins!

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Lurker

That's not a real thing.
...Wait
...Is that a real thing?
type-ety type type type
Well son of a...It is a real thing!

First celebrated in 2000, I presume for saving our collective butts from time stamp issues.

Y2K abbreviated for any one who wondered:
Way back when, when memory and ram were precious things.
"Hey how much space should we code for the date year?"
"Just 2 digits it will save us that little bit more of room."
"But what happens when we roll over to 2000?"
"Pft, this code will be replaced by then."
...1999
"Ah crap"
Sysadmin: "It's cool, we can fix it. It is just going to take a bunch of work finding the various time stamp codes and fixing them, but we got this."
"Oh good. We should give you a holiday for this. I mean this could have launched missiles and ended the world."
Sysadmin: raises one eyebrow in the how stupid are you kind of way. "No, it would just make some systems not talk to each other and would mess up log files. No missiles. But thanks for the holiday."

...AND SCENE...

Happy Sysadmin Day! and thanks for keeping things running despite all of our ID-10-T errors.

Final true store from my IT days.
Me: You filed a support ticket?
Coworker: Ya, my computer won't work it just sits there. It's locked up or something.
Me: Okay let me look. Crawls under desk and then back out as computer turns on
Coworker: Wow. What magic did you do to get it to work?
Me: I... I turned it on. There's a power button right down there.
Coworker: Oh... Could you maybe...not tell anyone about this?