You know you're a power-mad sysadmin...

Gary Wheeler

The group affected by the outage (repairs to a SourceSafe 'data base') are all located in Dayton, Ohio, US. I'm the first in, usually around 6:00 a.m. The latest one in shows up around 8:30 to 9:00. We're on flex-time, so this isn't a big deal.

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LittleYellowBird

... when you send a broadcast e-mail regarding an outage, even though no one is in the office yet, and won't be for another hour ... AND you post about it on the internet! ;)

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Gary Wheeler

Touché.

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Dalek Dave

Yeah, that old trick!

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ii_noname_ii

..Just to make sure all the managers know you're in the office early, huh? ;P

Gary Wheeler

Well, you know what they say about old dogs/whores and tricks...

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Gary Wheeler

I doubt they give the proverbial rat's ass how early I come in, as long as I continue to be as productive as I am.

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Dalek Dave

They are cheap and they are good at the old tricks?

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Gary Wheeler

You've described my consulting services perfectly.

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ii_noname_ii

That's like saying: "You know you're a midget when you're under 130cm". I AM THE ALMIGHTY SYSADMIN! ALL PRAISE MEEE! MEEEE! MUAHAHAHAHAH! edit: MUUUUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

BrainiacV

NO! Bed checks MUST be performed! If you are not chained to your rower at the same time as everyone else, how can the ship go in a straight line? (Get the feeling I worked for too many asinine companies/managers?)

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greldak

Would be much better if it was to tell everyone that the email servers are going down in 15 minutes

Snowman58

And probably using a remote login from bed.....

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Stefan_Lang

Somehow reminds me of the recent discussion about the CP forums being down - on the CP forums ... :doh:

patbob

Hey now, we have to laugh at each other for this kind of stuff... nobody else gets it :)

We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.

Robert Heffernan

You know you're a power-mad sysadmin... ...When the BOFH reads like your biography!

Gary Wheeler

... or they ask your permission to use your material.

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jsc42

Sounds like my local ISP: Its network status page always shows everything is working acceptably as it is not updated when there is a fault because no-one would be able to access the page until the fault is fixed. I also know of a large Data Centre which has an Up Time running into several years (probably decades now) as it excludes scheduled downtimes and unscheduled downtimes from its stats.

doright

Power-mad is part of the sysadmin job description. Isn't this question like asking, "You know you're a lying politician when..."

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