wow you should carry some more useless shit. Crayons? wtf is the practical reason for carrying crayons as a system admin? To have something in your bag to make a giant fucking mess to clean up later, ok i get it. Where I live, those crayons would fucking melt. a pocket reference? seriously? Get a smart phone…

Lifehacker tip - Shop listening to Death Metal. You'll spend $1.73

I am with you. As soon as I see Mac and IT, i chuckle. We had a sysadmin who gloated about his iHelmet get fired his first day for downloading a virus instead of firefox.

I am with you. As soon as I see Mac and IT, i chuckle. We had a sysadmin who gloated about his iHelmet get fired his first day for downloading a virus instead of firefox.

I'm sorry but whenever I read IT anything and then see an iPhone+iPad+MacBook it's horse waste.

I've got a real laptop :) my ThinkPad, some USB (2.0! Windows ISOs don't play nice on 3.0) drives with YUMI loaded full of tools (Hiren's Boot CD Restored, Windows 7/8.1 multi edition ISOs, Kali, etc), small tool kit, flashlight, headlamp, spare Android device in an otterbox, 2 power packs (Zagg Sparq and a no-name…

What REAL sysadmin uses a Macbook and/or iPad? I still use an old POS Dell D630. It's probably about the newest Dell laptop that still had a serial port built into it. I have to program all sorts of devices that require a serial port, and those USB-serial converters don't work worth a shit.

Everyone's situation is different, but that looks to be a bunch of silly kit. Mostly I run around with a thumb drive and knife (attached to my keychain) and a (paper) notebook with a pen and a few essential CDs stuffed along. My Samsung S4 can remote into any system in our network via LogMeIn. For some stuff you…

Sysadmin/Sysdev for a community college with 5 sites:

The fact that a sysadmin of a premium provider never use OSX. Their bags start with a Thinkpad X2...-T4..../Dell/HP p series notebook with an Arch/Debian/Gentoo linux

As an admin for 9 years now, 6 at a hospital, I carry nowhere near that. Pocket knife, flashlight, multi-tool, Android phone, and some thumb drives. If need be I can RDP to our terminal server for password reset/account unlocks, or teamview back to my laptop for something. In a pinch I can do either from my phone with…

Geepers, all that junk! I've been a sysadmin/troubleshooter for a long time...I can, and have diagnosed down to the component level, and replaced chips/sockets, caps, resistors, etc...but no one really does that nowadays. It's quicker and easier to diagnose to the board level, and replace the board. As such, I carry…

Geepers, all that junk! I've been a sysadmin/troubleshooter for a long time...I can, and have diagnosed down to the component level, and replaced chips/sockets, caps, resistors, etc...but no one really does that nowadays. It's quicker and easier to diagnose to the board level, and replace the board. As such, I carry…

Geepers, all that junk! I've been a sysadmin/troubleshooter for a long time...I can, and have diagnosed down to the component level, and replaced chips/sockets, caps, resistors, etc...but no one really does that nowadays. It's quicker and easier to diagnose to the board level, and replace the board. As such, I carry…

Geepers, all that junk! I've been a sysadmin/troubleshooter for a long time...I can, and have diagnosed down to the component level, and replaced chips/sockets, caps, resistors, etc...but no one really does that nowadays. It's quicker and easier to diagnose to the board level, and replace the board. As such, I carry…

Geepers, all that junk! I've been a sysadmin/troubleshooter for a long time...I can, and have diagnosed down to the component level, and replaced chips/sockets, caps, resistors, etc...but no one really does that nowadays. It's quicker and easier to diagnose to the board level, and replace the board. As such, I carry…

Owned by Luxottica which also owns Lens Crafters, Pearle Vision, Ray Ban, Oakley, Sears Optical, Target Optical, Sunglass Hut, Eye Med eye insurance and basically every designer frame that you'd buy.

What I learned from this post.

By setting selling a product at a reasonable price, or even not a reasonable price (see Apple) and just let the market decide whether or not they want product A (at X cost) or product B (at Y cost)

@dchall8: hey, how about that...the answer is YES, Really!