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Sysadmin of the Year
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on Mon Oct 30, 2006 10:20 AM
from the and-the-millenium! dept.
from the and-the-millenium! dept.
PMcGovern writes "Do you know a great sysadmin? Nominate them for OSTG's sponsored Sysadmin of the Year. The first 2500 sysadmins nominated receive a free ThinkGeek T-shirt.
Your sysadmin can also win great prizes including an Apple MacBook, a trip to the LISA conference in Washington DC, Splunk Professional server, and cases of Bawls soda. Only two weeks left to nominate your sysadmin (Oct. 31, 2006). (Note: Slashdot is part of OSTG.)"
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lisah writes "Ten winners of this year's 'Sysadmin of the Year' contest have been announced and, while Robin 'Roblimo' Miller says it's not quite like winning the Miss America contest, being selected from approximately 2,500 entrants is nothing to sneeze at. This year's first place winner battled an office fire to save a RAID backup server, while another IT manager won an honorable mention for his dedicated work at a yarn store. From the article, '[The nominating entry said:] Any man who would take on a position at a yarn store, much less a technological position while surrounded by a dozen women, ages 55+ deserves some kind of reward...'" Linux.com and Slashdot are both owned by OSTG.
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Ohhh that reminds me (Score:1, Funny)
Sadly (Score:5, Funny)
Prediction (Score:3, Funny)
(http://robvincent.net/ | Last Journal: Tuesday October 09, @01:55PM)
First Post???? (Score:1)
My Nomination (Score:5, Funny)
Late? (Score:4, Funny)
(Last Journal: Tuesday September 24 2002, @02:32AM)
Either Slashdot is late as usual they thought we rolled back 2 weeks instead of an hour last night.
Must be that "new" Math (Score:4, Insightful)
(http://powerlord.livejournal.com/)
See, this is why you don't let submissions sit in the queue. Tomorrow is October 31st. One day is significantly shorter than two weeks.
Re:Must be that "new" Math (Score:4, Funny)
Invisible workers (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Invisible workers (Score:4, Insightful)
Good God! (Score:2)
(http://slashdot.org/)
No, but... (Score:1)
Consistently professional, wise, witty, handsome, master lover and never posts dupes.
(Is that good enough for a MacBook?)
um (Score:1)
(http://aaronownsyou.blogspot.com/)
USA (Score:1)
Eh! Contest Rule (Score:2)
(http://in2mind.blogspot.com/)
What if (Score:1)
And being granted a title can only be made by other IT who see the work and understand what has to be done even when it pisses people.
one other problems is that,,,,,,i'm the only one at my company
Time for my free T-Shirt (Score:1)
Easy as taking lollipop from a kid!
Not their sysadmin (Score:3, Funny)
So why's there no BOFH of the year? (Score:2)
i know who isn't winning- (Score:1)
I received my t-shirt (Score:1)
(http://www.livejournal.com/users/pegboy | Last Journal: Monday September 12 2005, @06:00AM)
the anti-award goes to (Score:2)
(http://www.mihalis.net/)
My sysadmin who set up my CVS server for my team and several others.
I entered a work order which asked for the operating system to be installed, a mirrored filesystem to be installed and backups to be kicked off.
The work order was completed with the statement "did not set up backups, enter another ticket if you still want those". So the machine has not been backed for all this time (uptime ~1000 days so far).
Good job we did our own rsync mirroring of the repositories to a reliable NAS device (EMC symmetrix)!
In future I am going to try this tactic myself - when we finish projects we'll just leave out bits and put in the log "didn't add features X, Y, Z as requested, please enter another ticket if you still want them".
sysadmin of the year? (Score:1)
This looks like a spam trick (Score:1, Interesting)