I know, it is frustrating dealing with the non-IT people sometimes, but I will still keep trying to reach them and stop them making these brain-dead choices.
The problem with communicating the complex issues of IT to people in simpler terms is that people just simply don't want to know. After doing it for years on end with no change in the behaviors, you either realize they don't care and stop trying, or you leave the field. I can explain to you all day why that email you got from the Nigerian prince isn't real, but if you don't care and still send all your money to the prince, I can't stop you.
Considering that there have been several updates sent out by MS that bypassed the no reboot policies on WSUS recently, it does not surprise me that this caused major manufacturing costs.
It isn't always IT that causes your system to reboot.
Also, the above story sounds kind of fishy; MS has moved to a update release schedule of one Tuesday every month, why would anyone in IT need to patch the system every week? Is it running some other software that needs patches more often?
What many non IT people, such as yourself don't seem to understand is; it isn't us doing that.
-We are forced to get everyone's approval for changes to be made; management has learned through past experience that any change can blow up, and when it does, would you want to be the one the managers are glaring at when things blow up? -Many of the things we do can blow up in pretty big ways. Creating a distribution group, or forwarding a mailbox can if done wrong take out the whole email server, would you trust people without the proper training to do it on their own just because "it's easy!"? -We "guard" this information because frankly, it is pretty complex stuff, it is much more complex than you give credit for. Also, many times it is for the security of the network, to prevent attack and prevent data breaches. -We in IT are saddled with an enormous amount of rules. Depending on the industry, Sarbanes/Oxley, HIPPA, rules from managers, rules from C-levels, laws governing security of personally identifying information, whatever I may have missed. You may not understand these laws, but if they are broken, the company we work for could very easily stop existing, we could go to jail, or be held personally/financially responsible for the issue. These laws/rules from on high pretty much have a gun against our head to prevent you from using the latest shiny, or doing whatever you want on the network.
My coworkers already think I am a magician...I walk in the room and suddenly their error isn't happening anymore. I don't attempt to change their opinion though.:)
I am giving up 15 points of moderation in this conversation to reply to this, and will probably be marked flaimbait for it, but it is worth it.
Abortion is not a personal freedom any more than murder, it is debatable that a fetus feels pain, or is intelligent; but you cannot debate if it is life, for if it was not alive, you wouldn't need an abortion.
I'm not terribly concerned about New York, but New Orleans shouldn't have been resettled after the hurricane...that place drew the short straw badly...
I don't know, I'd be pretty pissed if something I ordered with an expected delivery of late Nov/early Dec still wasn't delivered by the 26th of Dec, and all I got from the contact is insults.
The guy's Christmas gifts are in limbo, and he is being insulted by the person he bought the item from.
Same experience moving back to MD from NM for me. The weather man always stands in front of NM, so people really thought we had returned from Mexico...
One acronym. TSA. How do you bring the fuel for this thing on an airplane? Can you think of a single business person who doesn't bring their laptop on work trips?
On monitors, I would add: Go dual 24", or bigger if you can. The second monitor can be used for documentation, or to see the assignment being broadcast from the teacher workstation, while allowing the student to work on the other computer. KVMs, or reverse switches would be handy here too. If you get the Dell or HP monitors, you will even have extra connections you could drop down for the laptop users.
Is it so hard to buy a generator trailer with the car? They could even make it a turbine of some kind, or some super efficient gas engine. Some of the cars have this option, so I couldn't be the only one to think of it.
So, when the win32k.sys bug is fixed, Safari will magically become fixed too? You don't see that it is a bug in Safari that exposes win32k.sys to the internet at all?
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I can't agree with you more, and this is why I never want to be an IT manager, I know my limitations, and I could never do the job. :)
I'll be quite happy to still be in the trenches when I retire, and you can take the dealing with people if you are good at it.
I know, it is frustrating dealing with the non-IT people sometimes, but I will still keep trying to reach them and stop them making these brain-dead choices.
The problem with communicating the complex issues of IT to people in simpler terms is that people just simply don't want to know. After doing it for years on end with no change in the behaviors, you either realize they don't care and stop trying, or you leave the field. I can explain to you all day why that email you got from the Nigerian prince isn't real, but if you don't care and still send all your money to the prince, I can't stop you.
Considering that there have been several updates sent out by MS that bypassed the no reboot policies on WSUS recently, it does not surprise me that this caused major manufacturing costs.
It isn't always IT that causes your system to reboot.
Also, the above story sounds kind of fishy; MS has moved to a update release schedule of one Tuesday every month, why would anyone in IT need to patch the system every week? Is it running some other software that needs patches more often?
That's because they were up until 3AM fixing the issues caused by the manufacturing department that won't ever let them reboot systems for updates....
I just love this bigotry disguised as sage knowledge...
What many non IT people, such as yourself don't seem to understand is; it isn't us doing that.
-We are forced to get everyone's approval for changes to be made; management has learned through past experience that any change can blow up, and when it does, would you want to be the one the managers are glaring at when things blow up?
-Many of the things we do can blow up in pretty big ways. Creating a distribution group, or forwarding a mailbox can if done wrong take out the whole email server, would you trust people without the proper training to do it on their own just because "it's easy!"?
-We "guard" this information because frankly, it is pretty complex stuff, it is much more complex than you give credit for. Also, many times it is for the security of the network, to prevent attack and prevent data breaches.
-We in IT are saddled with an enormous amount of rules. Depending on the industry, Sarbanes/Oxley, HIPPA, rules from managers, rules from C-levels, laws governing security of personally identifying information, whatever I may have missed. You may not understand these laws, but if they are broken, the company we work for could very easily stop existing, we could go to jail, or be held personally/financially responsible for the issue. These laws/rules from on high pretty much have a gun against our head to prevent you from using the latest shiny, or doing whatever you want on the network.
My coworkers already think I am a magician...I walk in the room and suddenly their error isn't happening anymore. I don't attempt to change their opinion though. :)
Probably, it has the same tone of ignorance as all the previous articles.
I am giving up 15 points of moderation in this conversation to reply to this, and will probably be marked flaimbait for it, but it is worth it.
Abortion is not a personal freedom any more than murder, it is debatable that a fetus feels pain, or is intelligent; but you cannot debate if it is life, for if it was not alive, you wouldn't need an abortion.
I'm not terribly concerned about New York, but New Orleans shouldn't have been resettled after the hurricane...that place drew the short straw badly...
I don't know, I'd be pretty pissed if something I ordered with an expected delivery of late Nov/early Dec still wasn't delivered by the 26th of Dec, and all I got from the contact is insults.
The guy's Christmas gifts are in limbo, and he is being insulted by the person he bought the item from.
HDMI will work perfectly well over a set of coat hangers. If you think you even need an actual HDMI Cable, you are fooling yourself :)
Same experience moving back to MD from NM for me. The weather man always stands in front of NM, so people really thought we had returned from Mexico...
Do not look into particle stream with remaining eye.
Yes. Just do a Google search.
One acronym. TSA. How do you bring the fuel for this thing on an airplane? Can you think of a single business person who doesn't bring their laptop on work trips?
On monitors, I would add: Go dual 24", or bigger if you can. The second monitor can be used for documentation, or to see the assignment being broadcast from the teacher workstation, while allowing the student to work on the other computer. KVMs, or reverse switches would be handy here too. If you get the Dell or HP monitors, you will even have extra connections you could drop down for the laptop users.
How much energy does it take to refine gasoline? You are comparing apples to oranges, stop it.
Is it so hard to buy a generator trailer with the car? They could even make it a turbine of some kind, or some super efficient gas engine. Some of the cars have this option, so I couldn't be the only one to think of it.
Perhaps if we could dump the anti nuclear nuts, and start building new plants, fossil fuels would be less of an issue?
So, when the win32k.sys bug is fixed, Safari will magically become fixed too? You don't see that it is a bug in Safari that exposes win32k.sys to the internet at all?
As I despise Safari, I never run it, even on a Mac, but this may have to do with some requirement of Safari's to run as administrator?
I was wondering why he was human height...even Thorin should be three to four feet tall, not five+
If this is true, you really need to think about your direction in life, that is the most ignorant comment I have seen in a while.
I couldn't get through the Silmarillion, is seemed it just kept repeating the same story over and over again with minor changes.