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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

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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.

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!

27 July 2012, Egg Roll King Restaurant

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

–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.

Novell Netware 6.5

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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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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