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Terry Childs Found Guilty
A jury in San Francisco found Terry Childs guilty of one felony count of computer tampering. The trial lasted four months. Childs now faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison.
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I noticed your sig.
Have you noticed that all of twitter's sockpuppet accounts have suddenly gone dead.
Do you think our beloved troll died?
I don't always use unix-like operating systems; but when I do, I prefer FreeBSD.
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Why bother
Supply name, rank, and serial # only. Plead the 5th and ask for a lawyer. This is why: Don't Talk to Police
Camping on quad since 1996.
No, being professional means knowing that the customer ultimately makes the final call. You can advise them until your face turns blue, but ultimately, they get to decide what they're going to do. I've worked many long hours and torn out lots of hair over situations where upper management ignored my team's advice and it bit us, but that's the breaks. Don't like it, run your own company using your own hardware and you can make the rules how you like. If you're administering somebody else's hardware, the administrative passwords belong to them. Terry Childs wasn't being professional, he was letting his ego get in the way of professionalism. He was so proud of his network design that he copyrighted it. He didn't trust his management not to screw up his baby, he was on call 24x7x365, nobody else had access. That's not professionalism. Professionalism is recognizing that redundancy is good and single points of failure are bad - including the administrator. If the current passwords go in a sealed envelope in the administrative assistant's safe every month, at least that way the company or department has a possibility of bringing someone in if you get hit by a bus or win the lottery and quit suddenly (and I HAVE, in the past six months, taken over a SAN where the totality of the turnover from the outgoing administrator was a list of switches, arrays, and storage controllers and the usernames/passwords to control them, ZERO documentation, with equipment I'd never worked with before, he turned in his notice on Monday of Thanksgiving week just before going on vacation for the remainder of the week, so there was one week for him to turn over all of his projects and environments he was working on to multiple groups). My boss isn't a system or storage administrator - but he has the required passwords to get in, even if it means he has to call a consulting company to come in and handle things until I'm replaced. I'm not afraid of losing my job - I bring needed skills to the job, I do quality work, I get along with my team members, and I also get along with the client management and they have confidence in my abilities. I've been with the same team less than a year and my contributions have allowed us to go from purely managing the operating systems for the client to managing the OS's, the hardware (including partitioning and virtualization), and the SAN, increasing the contract value.