You have an IT department for a reason...use it. If someone tried pulling this kind of crap at one of the sites I manage (and people have tried), you'd be packing the hardware in the trunk of your car and taking it home with you. It's in your best interest, as well as your peers and clients, to follow whatever policies are in place. Maybe if you tried collaborating with your IT department you could have made this whole thing easier on yourself. More than likely there would have been someone willing to take your requirements and run with it to get your desired service up and running while making it compliant with whatever polices are in place.
You gotta play, man. Start with the easy stuff...Red Hat, Mandrake (the AOLs of Linux). Get used to them, welcome them as friends. Then move on to the the real stuff...Gentoo, Slackware, even the *BDSs. Love them, and they will love you. BUT...remember them all and all you learn.
I am drunk and must sleep...argh...
Yeah, thank god for Windows. I spend more time patching and securing our Win boxes than I have ever had to with our *nix boxes/servers or Cisco equipment. Those bastards at Microsoft will keep me employed forever...gotta love them.
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Strange, for as long as I've been wandering around in a trench I've never really thought about that...guess we find something new to think about every day.
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Been wearing nice trench coats myself for years. Nothing like walking into a place and having everyone turn around and look at you with a worried expression.
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You have an IT department for a reason...use it. If someone tried pulling this kind of crap at one of the sites I manage (and people have tried), you'd be packing the hardware in the trunk of your car and taking it home with you. It's in your best interest, as well as your peers and clients, to follow whatever policies are in place. Maybe if you tried collaborating with your IT department you could have made this whole thing easier on yourself. More than likely there would have been someone willing to take your requirements and run with it to get your desired service up and running while making it compliant with whatever polices are in place.
A little of this:
http://kingdomofloathing.com
Coffee and this in the morning and you're good to go.
You gotta play, man. Start with the easy stuff...Red Hat, Mandrake (the AOLs of Linux). Get used to them, welcome them as friends. Then move on to the the real stuff...Gentoo, Slackware, even the *BDSs. Love them, and they will love you. BUT...remember them all and all you learn. I am drunk and must sleep...argh...
Yeah, thank god for Windows. I spend more time patching and securing our Win boxes than I have ever had to with our *nix boxes/servers or Cisco equipment. Those bastards at Microsoft will keep me employed forever...gotta love them.
Strange, for as long as I've been wandering around in a trench I've never really thought about that...guess we find something new to think about every day.
Been wearing nice trench coats myself for years. Nothing like walking into a place and having everyone turn around and look at you with a worried expression.