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If you can read this, thank your sysadmin

A sysadmin unpacked the server for this website from its box, installed an operating system, patched it for security, made sure the power and air conditioning was working in the server room, monitored it for stability, set up the software, and kept backups in case anything went wrong. All to serve this webpage.

A sysadmin installed the routers, laid the cables, configured the networks, set up the firewalls, and watched and guided the traffic for each hop of the network that runs over copper, fiber optic glass, and even the air itself to bring the Internet to your computer. All to make sure the webpage found its way from the server to your computer.
Ted In Wires

A sysadmin makes sure your network connection is safe, secure, open, and working. A sysadmin makes sure your computer is working in a healthy way on a healthy network. A sysadmin takes backups to guard against disaster both human and otherwise, holds the gates against security threats and crackers, and keeps the printers going no matter how many copies of the tax code someone from Accounting prints out.

A sysadmin worries about spam, viruses, spyware, but also power outages, fires and floods.

When the email server goes down at 2 AM on a Sunday, your sysadmin is paged, wakes up, and goes to work.

A sysadmin is a professional, who plans, worries, hacks, fixes, pushes, advocates, protects and creates good computer networks, to get you your data, to help you do work -- to bring the potential of computing ever closer to reality.

So if you can read this, thank your sysadmin -- and know he or she is only one of dozens or possibly hundreds whose work brings you the email from your aunt on the West Coast, the instant message from your son at college, the free phone call from the friend in Australia, and this webpage.

Show your appreciation

Friday, July 25th, 2008, is the 9th annual System Administrator Appreciation Day. On this special international day, give your System Administrator something that shows that you truly appreciate their hard work and dedication.

http://www.sysadminday.com/

I just had red hat to smileys.

I made some little modifications to pink skin:

• added last comments section on right side bar
• new icon for lists (works with IE now)
• links to previous, next pages are using titles
• better alignment for calendar css icon under IE
• better alignement for css class first letter
• added skininfo.html

This skin have the following features:

• Design for 1024x768 screens
• Date is displayed using a calendar css icon
• Titles are using Comic sans MS font
• Easy to display a picture on the right side; not mandatory
• Title of search fill has been removed
• Easy to make a new color skin based on this template

You can see a demo here.
It can be download on skins.b2evolution.net or on sourceforge.net

Hopes you like it.

I'm making 2 new skins based on Custom skin. One is pink, one is green.
Even if it's not finish yet, I have some changes to make to <blockquote>, <ins> and <cite>, You can preview here the new features:

• Design for 1024x768 screens
• Date is displayed using a calendar css icon
• Titles are using Comic sans MS font
• Easy to display a picture on the left side; not mandatory
• First character of the first line is bigger; I added a new button on the backoffice for this.
• Title of search fill has been removed
• Easy to make a new color skin based on a common template

Demos:

• green skin: http://daury.net/
• pink skin: http://daury.net/phpbb/

I submited this blog to few Blog Directory :
- blogwise; I expected to be list in one month... that's the problem when validation is made by human and service has a lot of success. Anyway, I plan to use blogmaps when I will have time to set ip up, may be in more than one month :-(

- Blogorama: the blog directory.

- Bloogle

I guess the purpose of each is to increase spams...

I setup a webcron to automatically receive the abuse updates from b2evolution.net on a regular basis. I used b2antispam_poll.php script from Isaac and webcron.org service to simulate the crontab.