Posted by Bob Jonkman on 4th August 2017
The last Friday in July is System Administrator Appreciation Day, and SysAdmins from Kitchener-Waterloo went to the Abe Erb Restaurant and Brewery for dinner.
Abe Erb Brewing Company
The Whole Gang (almost)
Infinite Beer
Having a laugh
Beer Valves
Jean and Laurel
Beer Console
Beer Admin
More SysAdmins
Beer Vat
Empties
Ooh, The Shiny!
Something is funny
Acidulated Malt
A beer thing
Tech Talk
Wild Goose
Such shiny things!
Having dinner
In The Brewery
Twilight
SysAdminDay
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Pictures taken at the System Administrator Appreciation Day Dinner at the Abe Erb Restaurant and Brewery on Friday, 28 July 2017.
Pictures by Laurel L. Russwurm, used under a
CC BY 4.0 license.
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Posted by Bob Jonkman on 14th August 2012
They say on the Internet Pictures, or it didn’t happen. So I just want to give you my assurances that the System Administrator’s Appreciation Day Dinner did actually happen!
System Administrator Appreciation Day Dinner, 27 July 2012 at the Egg Roll King Restaurant. Clockwise from left: Willem Jonkman, Bob Jonkman, Becky Nguyen, Wael Khawaja, Hamin (sp?), Rodney Martin, Sergiane Nascimento, Tim Laurence, Henrique Nascimento, Gui Nascimento.
Willem and Bob
Bob and Becky
Wael and Hamin
Rodney and Tim
Henrique and Gui
System Administrators out for dinner. Clockwise from left: Sergiane Nascimento, Tim Laurence, Henrique Nascimento, Gui Nascimento, Laurel L. Russwurm, Willem Jonkman, Bob Jonkman, Becky Nguyen, Wael Khawaja.
Cheese Wontons for dessert!

Bob Jonkman, System Administrator
Thanx for coming, everyone! We’ll do it again next year, 26 July 2013.
–Bob.
Visit the official System Administrator Appreciation Day web site.
All pictures courtesy of Laurel L. Russwurm and released under a
CC-BY-SA license.
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Posted by Bob Jonkman on 25th July 2012

Novell Netware 6.5
I dig out my notebook with the Netware Debugger Monitor instructions and keystrokes whenever I’m called in to work on a new (to me) Novell Netware server. Typically, there’s some kind of problem that needs more SysAdmin powers than those available through the ordinary Netware console screens, and the Netware Debugger Monitor is what gives a Netware System Administrator his superpowers. Sometimes it’s even possible to regain control of a hung server by using the Debugger Monitor. Thought I’d share:
- Swap Screens
- ALT+ESC
- List of screens
- CTRL+ESC
- Alternate console
- CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+ESC
- Shutdown prompt or the “Hung Console Menu”
- CTRL+ALT+ESC
- Entering the Netware Debugger Monitor
- LSHIFT+RSHIFT+ALT+ESC
- he — Help on expressions
- hb — Help on breakpoints
- h — Help
- .h — Help on ‘dot’ commands
- .a — Display abend reason
- .c — Core Dump
- .d — Display page entry map for current domain
- .d address — Display page directory map for current domain
- .l offset — Display linear address at page map offset
- .lx — Display page offset and values
- .m — Display names and addresses of NLMs
- .p — Display process names and address
- .p address — Display address as a process control block
- .r — Display running process control block
- .s — Display screen names and addresses
- .s address — Display address as a screen structure
- .sem — List all semaphores with waiting processes
- .sem address — Display detailed semaphore inforation at address
- .t — Toggle ‘Developer Option’ on or off
- .v — Display version
- b — Display breakpoints
- bc number — Clear breakpoint number
- bca — Clear all breakpoints
- b= address — Set breakpoint at address
- br= address — Set read or write breakpoint at address
- bw= address — Set write breakpoint at address
- c — Change memory
- c entrypoint=hexdigits — Change bytes at entrypoint
- d — Display memory at the current stack pointer
- d address [length] — Display bytes at address for length bytes
- dl [+offset] address [length] — Display linked list for length nodes with next node address at offset
- f flag=value — Change flag to value. Valid flags: CF, AF, ZF, SF, IF, TF, PF, DF, or OF
- g — Go (back to Operating System)
- g breakaddress — Go, end at breakaddress
- i[b|w|d] port — Input Byte, Word, or Doubleword from port
- o[b|w|d] port=value — Output Byte, Word or Doubleword with value to port
- n — Display symbol names and NLMs
- n symbolname value — Create new symbolname with value
- n-symbolname — Remove symbolname defined with n
- p — Step through program code, skip calls
- s or t — Step through program code, enter calls
- q — Quit to DOS
- r — Display registers and flags
- u entrypoint [length] — See assembly code at entrypoint for length bytes
- v — View screens
- x — Exchange processor stack frames
- z expression — Evaluate expression
- ? entrypoint — Display reference to entrypoint
- register= entrypoint — Set register to entrypoint. Example: EIP=CSleepUntilInterrupt will interrupt the last NLM called. Valid registers: EAX, EBX, ECX, EDX, ESI, EDI, EBP, EIP, and EFL
See also the Novell Application Note The NetWare Internal Debugger. There’s more good information in the Novell TID 3193476: How to troubleshoot … an abended, unresponsive or crashed server.
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Posted by Bob Jonkman on 10th July 2012
Pictures are up!

System Administrators install servers
System Administrator Appreciation Day falls on 27 July this year, a global celebration of System Administrators around the world. To see what System Administrators do,
have a look at some of the systems they have to administer.
After the KWLUG meeting in July, Becky asked me where System Administrator Appreciation Day is being held. “It’s a global event”, I said, but Becky was hoping for something a bit more local. So we decided to have a System Administrator Appreciation Day Dinner. What better way for System Administrators to celebrate than by treating ourselves to dinner?

System Administrators maintain web sites
So, if you’re a System Administrator, married to one, or good friends come join us!
Friday, 27 July 2012 from 6:00pm to 9:00pm
iCal
Egg Roll King Restaurant (map)
85 Courtland Avenue East
Kitchener ON

System Administrators make backups
If you’re planning on coming, let me know
by e-mail or
in the comments by Wednesday 25 July so that I can reserve enough seats and egg rolls for everyone.
–Bob & Becky
Event URL for SysAdminDay Dinner: https://bob.jonkman.ca/blogs/2012/07/10/system-administrator-appreciation-day-dinner/
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