After a few tentative drips, it’s pouring Sysadmin of the Year entries. The following describes the indoor adventures of “Nathaniel ‘Natty’ Bumppo,” exorcist of entropy. No one is really named Natty Bumppo. Hollywood even changed the name for the 1985 “Last of the Mohicans,” a great disappointment to sticklers for literary accuracy. But we digress.
Of course, my vote — as always — goes to our very own [Natty Bumppo], the very epitome of everything wonderful about sysadmins. [Natty] is level-headed and calm, technically skilled, bright and quick, tireless and impassioned. He cares about the systems and he cares about the people who use them. He has beaten DoS attacks, tuned and maintained our hardware to a startling level of reliability, and has gotten out of a warm bed more times than I can count to battle demon entropy. What’s more, [Natty] cares about systems in general, with a deep commitment to justice and freedom on the network. Thank you [Natty], you’re the sysadmin of the century in my books.
