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…

Sumertime Rolls should be on this list.

I love the "Straight Up" cover they did off the new album:

Me First and the Gimme Gimmes do a wonderfully atrocious punk cover of it:

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