That would be System Administrator, Tamara :-) I have been one in my time
(though not internet related, just LANs and WANs) and have known quite a few
having been in the high tech industry for many years. However, I have never
heard of the abbreviation sysad before. This person deals with doing updates
as required to the system (adding and deleting bits, upgrading, etc.);
identifying any problems (hardware, software, firmware, whatever) and fixing
them; working with administrators for other systems that may be connected (as
most tough issues are related to interconnectivity in some way or other);
ensuring any and all licences, etc are current and correctly applied; lots of
other fascinating techy type stuff dependent on the system. I suggest that you
be happy that they are there and play nicely with them whenever there seems to
be an issue :-) They can be horribly powerful - use that in your favour!
On Wednesday, March 21, 2007, at 09:05PM, Tamara P Duvall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
When my son (then at the U) wrote me that he was a sysad for his club and
dorm networks, I dug and dug through various dictionaries (including OED) for
hours, trying to find sysad, before collapsing in total defeat... :)
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