Happy Sysadmin Day, Ken!

Happy Sysadmin Day! Today is the ninth annual sysadmin appreciation day and I'd like to extend my heartfelt thanks to the systems administrators who keep my life running, especially Ken Snider, who is the technical bedrock upon which Boing Boing is built, and Mark Perkel, who hosts my mailing lists, and Chris Smith, who makes our submission queue spam-resistant, and all the other tireless toilers in the bowels of the Internet. You truly rule the Earth, thou latter-day morlocks. Link (Thanks, Jono!)

[#1 posted by Anonymous , July 25, 2008 5:39 AM]

That logo looks a bit too much like a penis.

[#2 posted by insomma , July 25, 2008 5:52 AM]

So what kind of alcohol do I have to drink today?

[#3 posted by AceJohnny , July 25, 2008 6:05 AM]

I'm sorry, but I have to say that I initially wrongly recognized the right part of the image extract on this article.
It is sort of a corollary of rule #34, I suppose, in that innuendo can be seen anywhere.

[#4 posted by roundabout , July 25, 2008 7:06 AM]

no seriously, that's totally a dick.

[#5 posted by skabob , July 25, 2008 7:38 AM]

"I came for SA Day, but I stayed for the UFIA"

[#6 posted by pork musket , July 25, 2008 7:57 AM]

That wang has a thumb

[#7 posted by MCM , July 25, 2008 8:14 AM]

Maybe the thumb is just checking for lumps...

[#8 posted by Joel Johnson , July 25, 2008 8:16 AM]

YAY KEN

[#9 posted by phlavor , July 25, 2008 9:19 AM]

Ha HAAAAAAAAAAAAA penis.

And kudos to all who keep Boing Boing up and running every day. If you think about it other sites occasionally get Slashdotted or Boing Boinged but Boing Boing gets Boing Boinged every day. Yeah. Take another toke and think about that one.

[#10 posted by clueless in brooklyn , July 25, 2008 9:42 AM]

Our whole floor got free pizza for lunch for this "sort of" holiday.

I honestly can't believe our Manager would even know about it.

Perhaps he secretly reads Boing Boing?!

[#11 posted by wolfwitch , July 25, 2008 9:43 AM]

Well, I'm a Sysadmin and I'm still waiting for ANYONE in my company to acknowledge the day...

[#12 posted by Xeni Jardin , July 25, 2008 9:50 AM]

YAY KEN! THANKS CHRIS! W00T!!!!

[#13 posted by clueless in brooklyn , July 25, 2008 9:54 AM]

Thank You Wolfwitch, your services are appreciated.

[#14 posted by Xopher , July 25, 2008 9:58 AM]

YAY Ken! YAY Sysadmins whose names I don't know (bad me) at my company!

[#15 posted by Drew from Zhrodague , July 25, 2008 10:03 AM]

Our group celebrated by eating lunch at Big Mama's House of Soul. Seriously tasty pulled pork sammiches!

http://bigmamashouseofsoul.com/

[#16 posted by Whiteops , July 25, 2008 10:06 AM]

I hear you Wolfwitch, I shamelessly sent out an email to all of the staff today telling them to thank my assistant, but deep down I think I might have been fishing for compliments of my own :)

[#17 posted by MarlboroTestMonkey7 , July 25, 2008 1:10 PM]

Does anyone knows if I can send a card to Terry Childs, the sysadmin who locked SF's Network?
Thanks!

http://csoonline.com/article/437873/IT_Admin_Locks_up_San_Francisco_s_Network

:P

[#18 posted by Takuan , July 25, 2008 1:13 PM]

Today I will gut a small furry mammal on the IT altar in the basement in your honour!

[#19 posted by toolbag , July 25, 2008 2:18 PM]

sent to my kids this afternoon:

To the folks who sent us the pizzas in celebration of Sysadmin Day: We'd like to say thank you. You’ve made our day. We were so delighted we created a special OU just for you guys and you don't need to read any further.

To the other 463 of you who didn’t send us jack we’d just like you to know that coincidentally it’s also Mandatory Change Password Day. Yeah, don’t bother looking it up, it’s a new holiday and probably not recognized by any other organizations because we just came up with it. Please pick a new password when you log on today. Make it a strong one. FYI, we recently (this morning) changed the security requirements on the domain so picking a weak one will be impossible. You’re no longer able to use letters in your passwords, only standard non-alpha-numerics and punctuation from the Romanian ascii symbol set. Minimum password length is 28 characters. Yeah I know, that’s a real pain but look at it this way, under the new security requirements you’ll only have to change it once a week. You know, as I type this I just got a notice on my calendar saying today is also Random Data Storage Power Interruption Day. So after you change your password you should probably start backing up your critical data. Oh, and just to save you some hassle, one of the new security requirements (implemented this morning) is disabling usb so don’t bother trying to backup to usb drive. You still have free reign over the floppy drive though and we have a couple boxes of disks down here if anyone needs them.

Yep, July 25th, every year, Sysadmin Day. Might want to write that down somewhere.

Weird, I just got off the phone with TSD and it turns out they’re celebrating HVAC Temperature Control Fluctuation Day, and nobody got them anything. I’m not sure what that means. Is it just me or is it hot in building 7 today?

[#20 posted by Takuan , July 25, 2008 3:17 PM]

moonlighting again?
http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/vulnerabilities/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=209600496