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What is the Worst Tech Mistake You Ever Made?
"In the interest of full disclosure, this is mine:
I was working at a Fortune 50 bank as a consultant. I was due to go on vacation for a week and the company did not have webmail. I decided that I would try forwarding emails to my corporate account. (I know this was a bad idea, and probably against several corporate policies.) I set it up so that any email that came in would forward to my consulting company's account. My mistake was I also left Delivery Receipt on. This was not Microsoft, it was Lotus Notes. The system began forwarding the incoming mail to my account. But then it would get a Delivery Receipt, which in turn would be forwarded to my account, which would generate another delivery receipt, ad infinitum. When I got back from vacation they claimed I had brought down the email system for 4 hours. This incident caused the bank to stop allowing consultants to set up email rules. What's your story?"
Wow, you're pretty dumb.
Dont worry about it you were an American soldier. Blue on blues are not merely a risk - they're fucking compulsory.
As someone once in a non-US army who had the misfortune to go on exercises with you people I'd always expect this sort of screw up. We all knew we'd have been safer being cunting Russians. Americans always kill more of their own & allied troops than anyone else.
It's not depressing at all. Yes, millions of overpaid geeks are losing their jobs and having to settle for crappier ones, but millions of foreigners and lower-class people are rising up out of poverty and making something of themselves. This actually gives me a feeling of satisfaction, that the stereotypical "I'm smarter and better than you n00bies" geek is finally being humbled.
If there is a rise in 6-month education programs for IT people, that should tell you something about the increasing commodification of services and technology. Overpaid IT is like the watch repair shop. Once upon a time, people had their watches fixed when they broke, but then digitals came out and it wasn't worthwhile to repair anything except the most expensive ones. High-level tech workers have fought hard to protect their job security by pushing inferior, hard-to-maintain technologies (Unix, Windows, C...), and have managed to hold on surprisingly long, but they can't hold on forever. For most of them, I would recommend pursuing training in a new field before their salary drops below the point that they can't afford to anymore (at which point they'll really be screwed).
Shut the fuck up and have a nice day.
Someone made an installation program, to install on a floppy. It formatted A: to start.
Well, went to Japan, and someone lost the data on his harddrive on a NEC. It would seem that Japanese NECs are A: for the harddrive, and C: for the floppy.
Have you read my journal today?