@HawkSkater0:
Norton IS - policy, not our choice... it's crap.

Porn blockage - Gotta get yourself an iPhone or some other web phone so you can do the jank yank in the bathroom... doing at your desk could only end well then bad... or maybe bad then well.

Screwing up the butt - Never tried it... doesn't seem like it would be fun though.

@venomous_duck41: LOL

hagrun

@strider_mt2k: Mmmmmm - hydrogen cyanide vapors....

Geisrud

@strider_mt2k: All electronics run on a magic smoke. If you let that smoke out they stop working. I've found that out first hand.

Aoi

I'm wishing my sysadmin a happy day from afar in hopes you don't come around me with your awkwardness, funny clothes, and criticism. On this day I will refrain from putting Oreos and cheez wiz into the DVD drive.

venomous_duck41

"The people without whom your entire computing network would come crashing down in flaming ruins?"

more like the people who screw you and your computer up the butt with Norton Internet Security, and porn blockage.

HawkSkater0

Happy Sysadmin Day to all you network nazis. Though we, the ungrateful and clueless users, seldom tell you, we love you.

Curves

The company I work for (as a sysadmin) has their company picnic on sysadmin day every year so we get lunch, semi yearly bonuses and a day on the beach for sysadmin day. Sounds like a good way to say Happy Sysadmin Day to me, even if they don't know it.

theweerdough

Computer smoke...don't breathe this!

strider_mt2k

I'm celebrating Sysadmin Day by installing NewsGator, Weatherbug, and Webshots! on my computer. Then, I'm going to nag the network administrator until he installs iTunes on my computer. Then, I'm going to turn off all the controls on Internet Explorer and open everything email attachment in my spam box.

Happy Sysadmin Day! Look what I got you!

Job security and a weekend of overtime.

OMG! Ponies!

@Curves: I am offended by that. I just deleted your files! :)

SigmundTheSeaMonster

Nick Burns, thy ways are the path to truth. "MOVE!"

SkyLab

Or you can just not break anything today. That also works.

Joseph

Oh system admins, what would I do without you at school. Who would restore my internet after I get caught Illegally downloading music, who would I complain too when my wireless doesnt work because my anti-virus and security suit is not up to date or your brand. God I hate system admins, they act like fixing simple problems is equal to finding the holy grail. Stupid holiday, should be replaced by Free Lego's for All!

Storm490

If you bring me a cupcake I might unblock facebook for 30 minutes .... MUHAHAHA (drunk with power)

broho

Oh by the way I'm thinking of getting a FREE TERRY bumper sticker. LOL

LiquidGravity

On a related note here is the most informative unbiased news article on Terry Childs the network administrator for the City of San Francisco.
[www.networkworld.com]

LiquidGravity

Why the f does this day keep moving around the calendar like it's related to the moon or something? I try and pin it down the previous year (because I actually DO give silly gifts to friends for it) and this year it's like a month earlier!

Laura

@HawkSkater0: Norton Internet Security isn't the fault of the sysadmin; it's the fault of the CIO who hasn't been down in the trenches in 20 years. Were it up to me, I'd have all our systems on NOD32.

As for the porn blocking... well, duh. You're at work. Don't look at porn at work.

HeartBurnKid, creepy morbid freak

Blue Smoke FTW.

Lupison

@HawkSkater0: Some system admins install Norton Internet Security? I'm a system administrator and I wouldn't be caught dead near it. Corporate versions for corporate networks!

geowrian

I would send my sysadmin a e-card but he's blocked them...

CaptEO2000

@broho: A former sysadmin tried to do that to me. He said "Go out with me baby, and I will let you have messenger back on there". I took his arm and lovingly lead him into the CEOs office and said "Ok, you wanna repeat that for the boss?". He was then the former sysadmin.

Curves

@CaptEO2000: That just means he's doing a good job. A personally composed email would mean more anyway...

bpapa9013

@HeartBurnKid, creepy morbid freak: NOD32 FTMFin'W!!!

bpapa9013

Sounds like some lame-ass holiday made up by some unappreciated incompetent tool of a sysadmin. Most sysadmins I know would laugh at this...

anti-hello-kitty

I know! I'll install my own anti-virus on my work computer in addition to the provided anti-virus, so that my computer has DOUBLE the virus fighting power! He'll appreciate that.

thenino85

I thought I'd give my system admin back at the campus an illegal copy of Windows Server 2008, disguised with a nice virus and Trojan to bring down the enterprise network. Nevertheless, I'm sure it will help the sysadmin get equated with active directory much faster than Windows Server 2003.

Thank You sysadmin, I've left you a coffee in the CD-ROM drive, and a flapjack in the floppy drive (do we still have them nowadays?)

DvDaf