Sysadmin Edit Meaning

1.

The troll that looks over the computers at your school/library/local bestbuy. He has no real power and solely relies on smoke and mirrors to intimidate students. His magical powers include psychic remote viewing (through VNC desktop viewer), sending popup messages through winpopup, remote restart/shutdown, locking up your desktop, and playing god. Skills involved in being a sysadmin include networking, hardware, and being an asshole.

Mr. Rankins is a stereotypical sysadmin.

See administrator, admin, network, god

2.

A person with much more power than you and who is bitter enough to use it in ways that please him/her.

So, you say this is a pretty important file? *delete*

3.

short for "System Administrator"

I worked for an ISPas a Senior Sysadmin.

4.

A person that hates everybody.

A sysadmin's skills are determined by his capacity to ignore time constraints and his attachment to bad faith. Additionally, a sysadmin usually believes anything with a higher level of abstraction than the C programming language is stupid.

Company: "Akshay, our email hasn't been working correctly for the past year. Can you please fix it?"

Sysadmin: "F*ck you! There is no way email is broken. I'll look at it tonight."

See sysadmin, slow, hatred, time management, useless

5.

Short for System Administrator

From the SAGE website:

system administrator n. a system administrator is one who, as a primary job function, manages computer and network systems on behalf of another, such as an employer or client