Get the point across to management that you are already overworked and understaffed. Clearly the IT dept management is not getting this across well enough if they are still slashing budgets. Does IT have a real representive when these decisions are made? Perhaps, someone should have some balls and suggest the CEO or upper management take a paycut.
In all honesty, maybe you should look into letting disasters creep up and then blame it on being underbudgeted and understaffed. After all you can only push a person so far, if you work your ass off and initech ships a few additional units you probably don't benefit from it. If you have the option/luxury of having a desirable skillset if this doesn't work you can just go elsewhere.
Ie, the next time a virus outbreak occurs blame it on lack of funding or better yet, not enough staff to make sure that AV and patch management is in place and working properly.
Basically, I have a windows XP cd with a slipstreamed SP2 install and the newest patches on hand. I basically reinstall, reset the accounts and tell them to go on there merry way generally. I won't even charge for this if its friends usually because there is little or no work involved.
However, when people need to save data I charge $50 flat (or a bottle of good bourbon) for friends and $90/hour for business.
clearly the proof is in the pudding to indicate otherwise.
Compare open source products to commercial counterparts on cve.mitre.org
Apache 1.3 to IIS
Exchange to postfix/qmail (nobody still uses sendmail I hope)
etc
statistically Open source IS more secure despite market shares (apache vs IIS).
This has been done before to some degree with a robot called Iron Willie by a company called Predator whom used the robot to create low deflection cues and empirically measure how "accurate" cue designs were.
Predator Cues are to pool what high dollar putters are to golf. These cues utilize a pie wedge design in the shaft combined with a stiff taper and lightweight, short ferrule to decrease deflection and maximize energy transfer to the cueball. Many people report a 10-20 percent improvement when they start using a predator shaft on their cue. In fact, more professional players choose to play with predator shafts without sponsorship than any other cue on the market.
The truly exciting thing about this invention is the fact that it will be used to create better pool equipment for independent testing. this robot will be much more flexible than iron willie and will be able to measure the performance of cues on a much lower level I'd imagine. Plus, i imagine the robot to be much more flexible than iron willie who simlpy can be setup to shoot the same shot over and over.
Pool is such a complex game that it will be very difficult for the robot to get such concepts as sacrifice safeties and intentional fouls. Other games like one pocket, the pool equivalent of chess, will be really difficult to grasp for a computer since its very common to "sacrifice" a ball to your opponent for the good of the game. Read more about one pocket here
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Get the point across to management that you are already overworked and understaffed. Clearly the IT dept management is not getting this across well enough if they are still slashing budgets. Does IT have a real representive when these decisions are made? Perhaps, someone should have some balls and suggest the CEO or upper management take a paycut. In all honesty, maybe you should look into letting disasters creep up and then blame it on being underbudgeted and understaffed. After all you can only push a person so far, if you work your ass off and initech ships a few additional units you probably don't benefit from it. If you have the option/luxury of having a desirable skillset if this doesn't work you can just go elsewhere. Ie, the next time a virus outbreak occurs blame it on lack of funding or better yet, not enough staff to make sure that AV and patch management is in place and working properly.
Basically, I have a windows XP cd with a slipstreamed SP2 install and the newest patches on hand. I basically reinstall, reset the accounts and tell them to go on there merry way generally. I won't even charge for this if its friends usually because there is little or no work involved. However, when people need to save data I charge $50 flat (or a bottle of good bourbon) for friends and $90/hour for business.
clearly the proof is in the pudding to indicate otherwise. Compare open source products to commercial counterparts on cve.mitre.org Apache 1.3 to IIS Exchange to postfix/qmail (nobody still uses sendmail I hope) etc statistically Open source IS more secure despite market shares (apache vs IIS).
Security software marketed at big businesses is the absolute worst. Risk management software, what the hell is that? Compliance tools?
This has been done before to some degree with a robot called Iron Willie by a company called Predator whom used the robot to create low deflection cues and empirically measure how "accurate" cue designs were. Predator Cues are to pool what high dollar putters are to golf. These cues utilize a pie wedge design in the shaft combined with a stiff taper and lightweight, short ferrule to decrease deflection and maximize energy transfer to the cueball. Many people report a 10-20 percent improvement when they start using a predator shaft on their cue. In fact, more professional players choose to play with predator shafts without sponsorship than any other cue on the market. The truly exciting thing about this invention is the fact that it will be used to create better pool equipment for independent testing. this robot will be much more flexible than iron willie and will be able to measure the performance of cues on a much lower level I'd imagine. Plus, i imagine the robot to be much more flexible than iron willie who simlpy can be setup to shoot the same shot over and over. Pool is such a complex game that it will be very difficult for the robot to get such concepts as sacrifice safeties and intentional fouls. Other games like one pocket, the pool equivalent of chess, will be really difficult to grasp for a computer since its very common to "sacrifice" a ball to your opponent for the good of the game. Read more about one pocket here
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