Today is annual System Administrator Appreciation Day. Raise your hats to sysadmins, those invisible heroes who are most often remembered only when IT systems crashes.

July 26 is an annual System Administrator Appreciation Day. You might surprise when you hear that it’s the 14th time we celebrate SysAdmins!

Picture copyright: someone. *)

Since rest of the year SysAdmins are mostly forgotten (if there’s no disasters), I’m glad we have a celebration day for them AND we do also have written memories of the ancestor to every SysAdmin: The Bastard Operator from Hell. Enjoy!

My favourite story is at the end the first the chapter. I can’t copy it into my blog because I’m afraid of the curse of BOfH, so please read it yourself. It starts with a sentence: “Another user rings.” BOfH really has a killer solution to disk space problems every SysAdmins struggle with every now and then.

BTW, did you know that every SysAdmin and BOfH needs modern tools to accomplish daily tasks? Please visit my company’s website www.onrego.com and learn more about our systems management cloud service www.onlinesystemcenter.com.

BTW2, I have been a SysAdmin too. I have a certificate to prove it!

*) Picture of Simon, The Bastard Operator from Hell, must have a copyright, but I really have to admit that I borrowed it from the internet many years ago. Actually when was a trainer, that picture was the last slide of my introduction slidedeck. Not many of my students understood who it was.