Happy Systems Administrator Day!
To add to the every increasing commercialization of the world, we celebrate Systems Administrator Day today. Here is a funny and appropriate UserFriendly cartoon released in the days leading to Sysadmin Day 2002. Enjoy!
Here are some gift Ideas to show your Sysadmins some appreciation. If you have other gift ideas please feel free to comment and add to this list.
- palmOne Treo 650 PDA Phone (Unlocked)
or a BlackBerry 8700c Phone
. So your Sysadmin can manage your servers even if they are on vacation.
- Essential System Administration (3rd Edition)
and Programming Perl (3rd Edition)
. To update the First Editions still lying around your Sysadmins’ desks.
- Swissbit Swiss Army 512 MB USB Flash Drive Red 401316
. You sysadmins’ belts probably can’t take anymore new gadgets. Do them a favor a consolidate some essential tools and a USB thumb drive into one device.
- Sony PSP Value Pack
. Best for Sysadmin stress relief.
To all of the systems administrators out there (especially to the ones I work with. Patrick, Ton, Ryan, Ech, Jijo, Cleif, Pol, Rico, Irwin, Garry, Rommel, Ramil, Anthony) hope you are not at stressed and worked up today as the rest of the year.
July 29th, 2006 at 1:20 pm
My sister was planning to get one of those Swiss Army knives with a USB drive but it seems that the local retailer that she went to has stopped ordering those. It seems that this particular item wasn’t very popular. You might have to order one from overseas…
July 29th, 2006 at 2:05 pm
Too pricey. But, I would definitely like one