Nominate SysAdmin of the Year By Oct. 12 76
PMcGovern writes "Deadline for nominations for SysAdmin of the Year 2007 is this Friday Oct. 12. The award is sponsored by Slashdot, SourceForge, Digg, Usenix, Lopsa, Splunk, and Naspa. The first 2500 sysadmins nominated win a free SysAdmin Rockstar tee shirt. Prizes include a MacBook Pro, a non-bricked Apple iPhone, Gibson guitar, Splunk license, a full-paid trip to the LISA conference, cases of Red Bull, and more. If you know a sysadmin that goes beyond the call of duty, nominate them."
USA and Canada only (Score:4, Insightful)
fie gentlemen, fie (Score:2, Insightful)
well bugger that. Here I was expecting an all-expenses-paid-for-round-the-world-trip, but no... I can't even make an "all I got was this lousy t-shirt" comment.
Whom would I nominate? The unpaid. (Score:1, Insightful)
Stupid contest (Score:5, Insightful)
Thus, the contest is biased. You'll either get:
A) The guy that always seems "industrious", nominated by people who aren't sysadmins, or
B) The guy that seems "lazy", sits around not doing much at all while dozens to hundreds of carefully written scripts fire off all day long, sending an occasional message when an error condition is detected. Since this guy would have to be nominated by a sysadmin, and sysadmins are in the minority, this contest is biased in favor of the incompetent.
But... (Score:4, Insightful)