In most cases policies are not generated by IT people but by management who expect them to be enforced by IT.
Regarding "explaining why" to people, it seems you have never done sysadmin work. Best example I can think of was from a post slashdots past, "Despite many warnings, most users wouldnt recognize a security issue if it was marching down the main street naked carrying a large sign saying "I am a security issue"
An example, As directed by managment, and against my strong objection I allowed a certain group of management users here to have full access to the home directory for their own staff. 2 weeks later one of them "accidentally" deleted 276 peoples home directories. Still one doesnt often get the chance to say "I told you so" as loudly and satisfyingly. It was a bit cruel to tell them the backup was corrupted though(-: still lessons have to be taught. I did restore the "fixed" backup a week later......
I think the problem as expressed here is that a small group of knowledgeable users, who probably could be trusted, are disadvantaged by the much larger group of tech challenged. If one gives these competent users rights, then next thing all the morons(Usually marketing, PR and beancounters) want the same access.
"All employees are responsible for the security and well-being of the office network." Yes but its usually not their job on the line when a network goes down badly, its the sysadmin who's ass is on the line.
"Also, be uniform in enforcement."
Of course, I LART (Involves a cattle prod) all users equally.(-:
Were not these policies explained when you started to work for that employer?
If so you behaved like an asshole. I am amazed at he number of dickwads(mainly seeming to be "developers") posting here who seem to think they are above policy.
Its simple, if you take employment in a situation where there are existing poilcies, you should bloody well follow them. If you dont like the policies DONT TAKE THE JOB.
Not exactly exploding, but I have repaired over a thousand P4 motherbords with bulging caps. I competely filled 2 standard supermarket bags with faulty ones.
As this issue was caused by faulty caps, any manfaturer could have had the same problem though.
And thtas why one shouldnt try and use personal anecdotes as a counter argument.
I recently bought a powermac g4 laptop to give OSX a try. (It was only $50!, I couldnt resist)
I have not been impressed so far, after a few days I went back to my winxp lapotop, and see no reason to not sell it on.
A friend of mine is fitting 3 of those jets to his ASW20 glider.
I stood 10ft behind one when it was running. It was suprisingly cool so close. The temperature at the tailplane of the glider is below 50 degrees C, so it wont effect the composite glass/carbon flying surfaces
Must be something to do with the air expanding out of a relatively small nozzle, causing rapid cooling.
For goodness sake, get a life and stop all this carping on about twitter. Your posts about twitter annoy me more than any of twitters actions. Matter of fact, I have never even noticed Twitter at all.
If you dislike him so much, why be his publicist? Hmmmmmm....
You barbarians! I'll sue you for every penny you've got! I'll have you hung, drawn, and quartered! And whipped! And boiled! Until... until... until you've had enough. And then I will do it again! And when I've finished I will take all the little bits, and I will JUMP on them! And I will carry on jumping on them until I get blisters, or I can think of anything even more unpleasant to do.
He didnt lose the finger, but had a fairly serious burns. He was probably lucky it happened so fast,(Literally in a flash). The smell of course was burning human!
Well said Bruce, I remeber back in 1977 when I was at tech school for the local Telco. There was a 50v power supply for exchanges back then, running from a huge battery, capable of 5,000 amps.
A lecturer was showing us some details of a connector strip when he got his gold wedding ring across the battery and earth. It was VAPOURISED off his finger!
I will never forget the smell!
I never wore a watch or ring again at work after that.
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Actually, it was a few months ago in a post here somewhere, thats not the first time...Good line though eh?
No, he just disappeared on a poof of logic.
See HHGTG, The babel fish.
Who was it that said;
"An apostrophe does not mean lookout there's an S coming"
In most cases policies are not generated by IT people but by management who expect them to be enforced by IT.
Regarding "explaining why" to people, it seems you have never done sysadmin work. Best example I can think of was from a post slashdots past, "Despite many warnings, most users wouldnt recognize a security issue if it was marching down the main street naked carrying a large sign saying "I am a security issue"
An example, As directed by managment, and against my strong objection I allowed a certain group of management users here to have full access to the home directory for their own staff.
2 weeks later one of them "accidentally" deleted 276 peoples home directories. Still one doesnt often get the chance to say "I told you so" as loudly and satisfyingly. It was a bit cruel to tell them the backup was corrupted though(-: still lessons have to be taught. I did restore the "fixed" backup a week later......
I think the problem as expressed here is that a small group of knowledgeable users, who probably could be trusted, are disadvantaged by the much larger group of tech challenged. If one gives these competent users rights, then next thing all the morons(Usually marketing, PR and beancounters) want the same access.
"All employees are responsible for the security and well-being of the office network." Yes but its usually not their job on the line when a network goes down badly, its the sysadmin who's ass is on the line.
"Also, be uniform in enforcement."
Of course, I LART (Involves a cattle prod) all users equally.(-:
Were not these policies explained when you started to work for that employer?
If so you behaved like an asshole. I am amazed at he number of dickwads(mainly seeming to be "developers") posting here who seem to think they are above policy.
Its simple, if you take employment in a situation where there are existing poilcies, you should bloody well follow them. If you dont like the policies DONT TAKE THE JOB.
If you change horses mid stream, you will soon be up the creek without a padlle, and then the balloon goes up. (-:
Guy walked into a bar and asked the barman for a double entendre-so he gave him one.....
Not exactly exploding, but I have repaired over a thousand P4 motherbords with bulging caps. I competely filled 2 standard supermarket bags with faulty ones.
As this issue was caused by faulty caps, any manfaturer could have had the same problem though.
And thtas why one shouldnt try and use personal anecdotes as a counter argument.
I recently bought a powermac g4 laptop to give OSX a try. (It was only $50!, I couldnt resist)
I have not been impressed so far, after a few days I went back to my winxp lapotop, and see no reason to not sell it on.
Oh no an AC is complaining about my post, whatever will I do.
Did it ever occour to you that what is obvious to you may not be obvious to everyone asshole?
A friend of mine is fitting 3 of those jets to his ASW20 glider.
I stood 10ft behind one when it was running. It was suprisingly cool so close. The temperature at the tailplane of the glider is below 50 degrees C, so it wont effect the composite glass/carbon flying surfaces
Must be something to do with the air expanding out of a relatively small nozzle, causing rapid cooling.
Yep. the music industry has in fact been a garbage recycling industry since 1990.
Yeh, in Australia the ACCC kicked their asses good.
The following was my reply to EBay's mail regarding the suspension of the "PayPal only" change, back in June;
"Let me be perfectly clear. If I am forced to use pay pal only I will stop using ebay completely forever and use another auction siye.
I am glad our government has prevented your blatant profiteering regading pay pal.
The arrogance of your company in attempting this frankly disgusts me."
Pity about my proof reading though ): I really should learn to type properly. It's only 34 years since I started learning.
I suspect they got a LOT of similar mails from users.
For goodness sake, get a life and stop all this carping on about twitter. Your posts about twitter annoy me more than any of twitters actions. Matter of fact, I have never even noticed Twitter at all.
If you dislike him so much, why be his publicist? Hmmmmmm....
I have often said that since the 1980's the Music industry has actually been a garbage recycling industry.
System admin-yes
Dont have many new hires so no.
Good onya Ray.
You must be part of the 1% of lawyers that 99% of lawyers make look bad. (-:
Keep at em!
If they do this, (To parapahrase DNA)
You barbarians! I'll sue you for every penny you've got! I'll have you hung, drawn, and quartered! And whipped! And boiled! Until... until... until you've had enough. And then I will do it again! And when I've finished I will take all the little bits, and I will JUMP on them! And I will carry on jumping on them until I get blisters, or I can think of anything even more unpleasant to do.
From the email address gov.alaska-tends to indicate she was using it for government contacts to me.
It is Thursday here in Australia.....
Unreasonable?????
I support 500 users on 28 hours a week part time!!
200 PC's, phone system, fax, copier the lot.
In this case I think it just doesnt work. (-:
Try an anti-glare screen protector, they give the same feel as paper and are great to write on.
If they gave Battlestar a larger budget, you would end up with a nice looking pathetically badly scripted show.......
He didnt lose the finger, but had a fairly serious burns. He was probably lucky it happened so fast,(Literally in a flash). The smell of course was burning human!
Well said Bruce, I remeber back in 1977 when I was at tech school for the local Telco. There was a 50v power supply for exchanges back then, running from a huge battery, capable of 5,000 amps.
A lecturer was showing us some details of a connector strip when he got his gold wedding ring across the battery and earth. It was VAPOURISED off his finger!
I will never forget the smell!
I never wore a watch or ring again at work after that.
>But what will I do with a 10 TB drive?
Just fit Windows 2010?