I actually didn't know who Joss Whedon was till after Firefly came out. wasn't a Buffy fan.
Seeing Firefly get the treatment from fox like that was criminal. I mean they are the station that took a chance on the Tracy Ullman show, MWC and Simpsons.
1. You've slipstreamed XP sp2 onto a cd to use in production? This is not a final release, it is a testing release. Testing and Release candidates do not belong in production.
2. A computer installed from the original CD's gets instantly owned on your network? Why are there viruses/trojans running free on your internal network?
While slipstreamed CD's are nice, I install from the original CD's all the time. Then i map to the share that holds the patches and run a script to install them. I don't have to worry about burning a CD everytime, making sure everyone that does loads has one and has gotten rid of old CD's or any of the administration involved in that.
Different admin styles for different admin's I guess.
The USPS is adapting. Tracking is offered for packages now. It's still cheaper than UPS, Fed Ex. And offers everything the primary commercial transfer companies do except for next day. Plus they deliver on saturday for no extra charge. Something that fed ex and UPS have comparatively recently offered. Any letter up to 1 ounce is frequently delivered across town in one business day for the current rate of 37 cents. (at least if moves that fast where i live) The USPS and the IRS are some of the most adaptive entities of the US government.
I set the SA Habeas scoring to 0 yesterday when I finally wised up to what was happening. SA gives Habeas an automatic -8 for whatever reason. I was going to lower my threshold to 2 but theres more legitimate emails that i recieve that I would have to whitelist. I would rather whitelist a legitamate sender using Habeas (i have none anyway) than constantly updating my whitelist.
Finally, local stores don't seem to understand their customers. Their stock is too low-quality to attract enthusiasts, too expensive to attract regular builders or bargain hunters, and their almost inevitably snotty sales staff, deluded into thinking their A+ certifications are worth a damn, have a tendancy to irritate the hell out of real geeks, and treat the laymen - the people who'd otherwise just be buying Dells - like they're unworthy of even setting foot in the store....okay, maybe that's a bit of an exaggeration, but honestly, buying a PC can be an intimmidating experience for someone that's not very knowledgable about them, and very few exployees I've seen in local stores seem to understand that.
Very well put. I usually buy from the local stores for a customer because I'm not a reseller. I've been that route and don't like it. All my work is pure service. I deal with one store almost exclusively now for emergency NIC's, Drives and the like. The reason for this is the other stores would try to talk me out of what I wanted or gave me difficulty with a return. But when it's time for my own non-emergency stuff I won't even buy from the store I like. Even including shipping I can get a better deal from NewEgg. I've talked with them about this and they know it's a problem. They make money on bench repairs, not hardware. Kudo's to them for making it work. It's not easy.
If you read one of my other posts under the parent you will see that Nothing gets in without what you describe.
Its what happens after its in that is the problem. Things are so compartmentalized here that things fall through the cracks.
Our team has a DB secondary to the main one that notes all the Ser#'s Names, contact etc. Ours is probably more current than the main one and has been used in the past to update the main one. A Networking team is responsible for setting up and keeping track of what server is connected to what port, etc. The problem is with communication. People have it in thier profiles when they are assigned equipment what needs to be done and who needs to be contatcted throughout. Notification for when they exchange equipment with another project or need to decomission equipment is part of the profile. But When you have people that are basically tenured in their positions you cant make them do anything. So we end up with a situation like i've described. After attempts to find out who's using it and who's in charge fail, it just gets shut off till somebody claims it.
It's easy to put down on paper what needs to be done. But if the people spearheading it and the people working on it don't give a damn, the plan is worthless.
Good on your Supervisor for keeping up. But, if you aren't notified of the changes how can you make note of them. That is our team's main difficulty.
Yeah it really is annoying at times. We've wasted whole nights on servers, calling in CE's and waking people up to get a server "back in production" only to find out from somebody that "Oh that project ended a few months ago but thanks." The group that oversees this mess never takes the time to follow up. Maybe they need a group to oversee them?
It should be but it isn't. theres a special group thats supposed to keep track of it all but they fall short of the task many times.
NOTHING comes in without the things you mentioned. It's just what happens after its there that causes the orphans to appear. We have a DB of it all but without the participants giving up info when necessarry it's useless.
Basically what happens is a project starts. They order a bunch of shit, we set it up, sometimes load it and it sits there. Many things can happen from there: 1. it gets used as intended. 2. Project dies and it is RTS'd 3. Project changes direction and orders more shit and the equipment is passed off on another group. 4. Project ends and they don't tell anyone.
Usually its the last 2 that give us orphaned servers. All of them are still monitored, patched and under contract. It just that after a while the reason for having it there becomes muddled because someone along the line forgets to let those responsible know when the server is not needed anymore or that responsibility has transferred to someone else. We're talking about close to 40,000 servers of various types and uses spread across 3 centers in the country.
So it can be easy for things to get lost. Whats a $15000 server when you are a multi-billion dollar company. Anyway, when all avenues of tracking down a server's owner fails there is an "outage" and if someone yelps we can find the info we need. If no one does it's backed up and RTS'd.
I didn't read the article but... Just publiclly annouce that people have 30-60 days to prove whats theirs and why it's there. Anything that isn't claimed is gone.
We have this problem in our datacenters at times. Projects end or people don't need the servers anymore and don't RTS them. Time comes when theres a problem or we need to know who owns a server. When nobody fesses up we just shut it off till somebody screams.
I've installed around 30 linux boxes for customers to do various things over the past 8 years. Never registered any of them.
In Fact a customer who I had from a previous company tracked me down because the linux firewall/dialup server they had running on a 486/66 lost the HDD and they wanted to know "what now?" Unfortunately I couldn't help them because i'm 100 mi away these days and my time is filled with other projects. But I gave them some suggestions.
Heh. I worked on a few Tektronix printers. They just seemed to be HP Laserjets with different firmware. Copy of the 4M to be precise. Of course HP used to use Canon engines so who knows.
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I actually didn't know who Joss Whedon was till after Firefly came out. wasn't a Buffy fan.
Seeing Firefly get the treatment from fox like that was criminal.
I mean they are the station that took a chance on the Tracy Ullman show, MWC and Simpsons.
sad decline of society i say.
B-52 is probably the best known example.
the design will be 100 years old when it is put out of service
Captain Kangaroo people at times if you ask me.
Well you fail in the "Competent Admin" category.
1. You've slipstreamed XP sp2 onto a cd to use in production? This is not a final release, it is a testing release. Testing and Release candidates do not belong in production.
2. A computer installed from the original CD's gets instantly owned on your network? Why are there viruses/trojans running free on your internal network?
While slipstreamed CD's are nice, I install from the original CD's all the time. Then i map to the share that holds the patches and run a script to install them. I don't have to worry about burning a CD everytime, making sure everyone that does loads has one and has gotten rid of old CD's or any of the administration involved in that.
Different admin styles for different admin's I guess.
I for one hope he decides to address the collected online members in this one too...
If you have a customer, and you depend on their money for your livelyhood, you WILL find a way to open their documents without going on a tirade.
maybe later after you have been working with them a few years you can have the opportunity to help them "see the light"
nobody gives a fuck.
actually if you have it run as a service there is no icon to go black.
The USPS is adapting.
Tracking is offered for packages now.
It's still cheaper than UPS, Fed Ex.
And offers everything the primary commercial transfer companies do except for next day.
Plus they deliver on saturday for no extra charge. Something that fed ex and UPS have comparatively recently offered.
Any letter up to 1 ounce is frequently delivered across town in one business day for the current rate of 37 cents. (at least if moves that fast where i live)
The USPS and the IRS are some of the most adaptive entities of the US government.
Since when is email a secure, private, guaranteed communications medium?
I set the SA Habeas scoring to 0 yesterday when I finally wised up to what was happening.
SA gives Habeas an automatic -8 for whatever reason.
I was going to lower my threshold to 2 but theres more legitimate emails that i recieve that I would have to whitelist.
I would rather whitelist a legitamate sender using Habeas (i have none anyway) than constantly updating my whitelist.
Did you meet yourself coming or going?
Finally, local stores don't seem to understand their customers. Their stock is too low-quality to attract enthusiasts, too expensive to attract regular builders or bargain hunters, and their almost inevitably snotty sales staff, deluded into thinking their A+ certifications are worth a damn, have a tendancy to irritate the hell out of real geeks, and treat the laymen - the people who'd otherwise just be buying Dells - like they're unworthy of even setting foot in the store. ...okay, maybe that's a bit of an exaggeration, but honestly, buying a PC can be an intimmidating experience for someone that's not very knowledgable about them, and very few exployees I've seen in local stores seem to understand that.
Very well put. I usually buy from the local stores for a customer because I'm not a reseller. I've been that route and don't like it. All my work is pure service.
I deal with one store almost exclusively now for emergency NIC's, Drives and the like. The reason for this is the other stores would try to talk me out of what I wanted or gave me difficulty with a return.
But when it's time for my own non-emergency stuff I won't even buy from the store I like. Even including shipping I can get a better deal from NewEgg.
I've talked with them about this and they know it's a problem. They make money on bench repairs, not hardware.
Kudo's to them for making it work. It's not easy.
If you read one of my other posts under the parent you will see that Nothing gets in without what you describe.
Its what happens after its in that is the problem.
Things are so compartmentalized here that things fall through the cracks.
Our team has a DB secondary to the main one that notes all the Ser#'s Names, contact etc. Ours is probably more current than the main one and has been used in the past to update the main one. A Networking team is responsible for setting up and keeping track of what server is connected to what port, etc.
The problem is with communication. People have it in thier profiles when they are assigned equipment what needs to be done and who needs to be contatcted throughout. Notification for when they exchange equipment with another project or need to decomission equipment is part of the profile.
But When you have people that are basically tenured in their positions you cant make them do anything.
So we end up with a situation like i've described. After attempts to find out who's using it and who's in charge fail, it just gets shut off till somebody claims it.
It's easy to put down on paper what needs to be done. But if the people spearheading it and the people working on it don't give a damn, the plan is worthless.
Good on your Supervisor for keeping up. But, if you aren't notified of the changes how can you make note of them. That is our team's main difficulty.
Yeah it really is annoying at times.
We've wasted whole nights on servers, calling in CE's and waking people up to get a server "back in production" only to find out from somebody that "Oh that project ended a few months ago but thanks."
The group that oversees this mess never takes the time to follow up. Maybe they need a group to oversee them?
Bloated Corprate america at it's finest.
no
"It's not our job"
It should be but it isn't. theres a special group thats supposed to keep track of it all but they fall short of the task many times.
NOTHING comes in without the things you mentioned. It's just what happens after its there that causes the orphans to appear. We have a DB of it all but without the participants giving up info when necessarry it's useless.
Basically what happens is a project starts. They order a bunch of shit, we set it up, sometimes load it and it sits there.
Many things can happen from there:
1. it gets used as intended.
2. Project dies and it is RTS'd
3. Project changes direction and orders more shit and the equipment is passed off on another group.
4. Project ends and they don't tell anyone.
Usually its the last 2 that give us orphaned servers. All of them are still monitored, patched and under contract. It just that after a while the reason for having it there becomes muddled because someone along the line forgets to let those responsible know when the server is not needed anymore or that responsibility has transferred to someone else.
We're talking about close to 40,000 servers of various types and uses spread across 3 centers in the country.
So it can be easy for things to get lost. Whats a $15000 server when you are a multi-billion dollar company.
Anyway, when all avenues of tracking down a server's owner fails there is an "outage" and if someone yelps we can find the info we need. If no one does it's backed up and RTS'd.
You are right.
Should have been +3 Interesting/Insightful
The post was just insightful questions no real information.
I didn't read the article but...
Just publiclly annouce that people have 30-60 days to prove whats theirs and why it's there. Anything that isn't claimed is gone.
We have this problem in our datacenters at times. Projects end or people don't need the servers anymore and don't RTS them. Time comes when theres a problem or we need to know who owns a server. When nobody fesses up we just shut it off till somebody screams.
I have found you...
sweet.
Thanks for the info.
I've installed around 30 linux boxes for customers to do various things over the past 8 years. Never registered any of them.
In Fact a customer who I had from a previous company tracked me down because the linux firewall/dialup server they had running on a 486/66 lost the HDD and they wanted to know "what now?"
Unfortunately I couldn't help them because i'm 100 mi away these days and my time is filled with other projects. But I gave them some suggestions.
Strangely enough your Microsoft Pen was not developed or manufactured in-house, only marketed.
That would explain the quality.
Heh.
I worked on a few Tektronix printers.
They just seemed to be HP Laserjets with different firmware. Copy of the 4M to be precise.
Of course HP used to use Canon engines so who knows.
Paraphrasing Spaceballs?
I thought that the H-Man remake was using the original scripts but just updated the Animation?