Day of the system administrator

Generally, the profession of a sysadmin is often ungrateful. If the system administrator has everything working like a clock, they all think that at work he beats the buckets, forgetting how much time he spent on debugging and tuning. And if something happens, the sysadmin is again to blame. And the nuances of communication between system administrators and users are not devoted to a single site with bikes.

That is why 12 years ago, in 2000, American sysadmin Ted Kekatos decided that every system administrator at leastOnce a year, I should feel gratitude and appreciation from the users (it's "painful", probably, for twenty years of work as a system administrator). This idea occurred to him when he saw an advertisement of HP in the magazine. It depicted a system administrator, to whom users presented flowers and a fruit basket in gratitude for the installation of new printers. So there was a Day of the system administrator.

The first celebration of the Day of the sysadmin was prettymodest: colleagues Ted, employees of a small company engaged in software development, gathered for a picnic in the fresh air on the outskirts of Chicago. It happened 28 July 2000. Since then, the Day of the System Administratoris celebrated annually on the last Friday of July, and not only sysadmins celebrate it, but also other "IT people". In 2012, the Day of the System Administrator falls on July 27.

Various professional organizations - the League of Professional System Administrators (LOPSA), SAGE / USENIX - recognize and support this holiday. In Russia, the Day of the System Administrator is timed to coincide with All-Russian meeting of system administrators near Kaluga and the annual LinuxFest Linux festival.

Some sysadmins also consider theirprofessional holiday Friday, 13. True, this tradition is more common in the US and Europe than in our country. It is related to the cycle of stories by the New Zealand author Simon Travilie "Bastard Operator From Hell", narrating about the work of menacing and ruthlesssysadmin. In all the stories, the action takes place on Friday, 13. Some of the stories are taken from life, because Simon worked as a university system administrator.

A modern office is inconceivable without computers - we compose and print documents, producecomputing, we search the Internet for the information we need, we correspond with customers and partners by e-mail and communicate with them in Skype. It is thanks to the system administrator that we manage to do this without problems. And now remember when you last said "thank you" to the person who saved your system from an imminent reinstallation?

Day of the system administrator is an occasionremember the "fighters of the invisible front", which ensure the smooth operation of the company. This is an occasion for a time to forget about the disagreements that sometimes arise in the sysadmins and users, and together drink after work a bottle of beer - a favorite beverage of many system administrators.

Country Councils congratulates all sysadmins on their professional holiday - Day of the system administrator. We wish you all computer technology inoffice worked smoothly so that the network never "fell", so that users respected you and did not bother you with questions from the series "Why did it break? I did not do anything! "And" How to patch KDE2 under FreeBSD? "

Happy holiday, dear sysadmins!