 Hi everybody, I'm Jen with opensource.com and have a brand new top five articles of the week for you today for July 29th First of all, we want to say happy sysadmin day There are a lot of great sysadmins out there doing a lot of hard work to keep our machines up and running So thank you At number five this week five sysadmin horror stories the job of a sysadmin might not be easy There are constantly systems to update bugs to fix people to please and a whole lot more To celebrate the hard work of our sysadmins We've collected five horror stories to prove just how scary the job can be At number four, I've been Linuxing since before you were born Carla Schroeder shares tales from her personal life When she says Linux was a long hike uphill both ways in the snow barefoot This story is part of our Linux series personal stories in Linux that you can find on the site At number three five reason system administrators should use revision control Elizabeth Joseph is a system administrator for HPE working on the open stack infrastructure team For our sysadmin series this week She shares tips you can use to convince your boss to spend the time to set it up or if you're already using it to improve your process At number two pearl tricks for system administrators Ruth Balbasette says scripting in pearl is quick and easy and its portability makes your scripts amazingly useful She gives us a few examples to get the creative juices flowing And finally at number one how I use Linux for theoretical physics While writing his master's thesis Jonas Hedgeman a physicist in Germany gained access to a workstation running scientific Linux and This story find out why he loves Linux for science That's it for the top five this week. Thanks so much for joining me and I'll see you next time