Yes, its true. Its time to celebrate System Administrator Appreciation Day. Its always the last Friday of the month of July.
For those that don’t know. Sysadmins are the people that fix your printers, stay up late patching servers, migrating mailboxes or making sure that the company keeps running with laptops, file servers, email and chat. So today is your day to show your appreciation. Take us out for lunch or buy us a beer!
Some people never learn. If you spam me, there is a good chance that I WILL mock you on the internet. Sure my site gets all of 2 readers a week, but they will know how big of a jackass you are.
Here is the spam that I got from Verisign:
—— Forwarded Message
From: “Borgches, Sergio” sborgches@verisign.com
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:39:24 -0500
To: Webmaster Webmaster@lightedge.com
Subject: Ineffective EV SSL Certificate on domain: my.
Disclaimer: I’m not a Comcast subscriber, but I play one on TV
Comcast has me scratching my head. A friend of mine pointed out the following post on the Comcast goofiness. For a long time now they have been messing with DNS and if you happen to screw up and look up a site that does not exist in DNS, you get the Comcast ad page. Many of the tech savvy folks out there simply got around that by putting up their own caching server or using opendns.
Ladies and Gentlemen, today you are going to learn a lesson on why you do NOT edit the active directory directly for exchange attributes.
Background
A long time ago, we had a very crappy provisioning system for our hosted Exchange 2003 platform. It worked ok, but missed a lot of things that we wanted to have set. They also were kind of pricks when it came to licensing so making a ton of money on the platform was hard to do.
Every once in a while one of the LUG lists that I am on decides to have a big dick contest and everyone shows off who has the better uptime. Its actually a way of generating traffic on mailing lists that have greatly suffered any sort of reasonable traffic in a while. Its the same as starting a vi vs emacs flame war. No one really wins, but it always gets people contributing to the list.