It's a shame when us low on the pole IT guys have higher regulation and oversight than the fucking government we serve.
I work in government IT.
You can't even create local files [...]
Local files can be created but they need to move to the network in a timely manner. If the local file is left on the desktop for too long (might be 30 days), admin access is required to move or modify. I can move my own files, but regular users need to call the help desk.
[...] yet government officials are setting up insecure servers, getting accounts compromised, and falling for phishing scams that my 12 year old son would laugh at.
Politicians and political appointees don't follow the same rules as government workers and civilians.
I got laid off from eBay in 2009. A few years later I came back to eBay to do a PC refresh project. When I needed to fix a problem for a user and got prompted for an admin password, I typed in the old password and it worked. When I brought it to management's attention, they changed the admin password — and gave me the new admin password. When I had a job interview at eBay a few years ago, they were taking security more seriously as they were hiring remediation techs to fix the Heartbleed Bug.
I'm reading "Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley" by Antonio Garcia Martinez. The author and his two engineers leave the startup they worked at to create a startup at Y Combinator to create a better version of the Digg toolbar (remember toolbars?) for Google advertisers in 2010. I'm at the part where they get served with an intellectual property lawsuit, as one of the engineers wrote half of the code base at old startup. Fun times.
IT security guy...you know a 'rubber ducky' is a penetration tool?
I've heard about them, haven't seen them. My job in InfoSec is to fix problems. Scanning and penetration is a different department. I thought you meant thisrubber ducky.
Does IT get called when someone's keyboard gets disconnected then plugged back in or only for USB storage?
I don't know. I work with workstations and not with users. The workstations are locked down tighter than a virgin nerd's ass. If you create a file and leave it on your desktop for too long (all data is supposed to be stored on the network), you will need administrator access to modify the file.
If you don't know how to learn by the time you're 18-20 and in college (excluding a few low income / opportunity cases) you probably won't benefit much from college...
I went to community college twice. Once as a young person trying to figure out my place in the world, exiting with an A.A. degree in General Education and mediocre grades. A decade later as an adult working 80 hours per week and taking two classes per semester for five years, exiting with A.S. in Computer Programming and a 4.0GPA in my major. Going back to school as an adult was a lot easier than as a young person. Some people aren't ready for college when they're young.
Man, imagine how hard Google would have failed if it had been founded by Stanford CS students.
During the early years of Google, the two founders vetted all job candidates and reportedly refused to interview any Stanford University CS graduates. My incident took place in 2008 when Google was hiring 300+ people per week.
Mathematics isn't hard if it's taught correctly. However it is rare that it is taught correctly.
I went to community college with fifth-grade English and math skills but a college-level reading comprehension. I had a great English instructor who didn't criticize me because I told her a sentence felt right when I couldn't explain the grammar and got to me to understand grammar by the end of the semester. The remediation math class had a great team of volunteers who taught me fractions and got me up to speed to take algebra the following semester.
It is entirely possible to get a college degree, even an advanced degree, and not learn anything useful.
I had a roommate who took automotive design on the West Coast in the 1990's, had no interest in getting a job at the Big Three in Detroit, and racked up $25K in student loans because he was interested in cars. Fortunately, he worked in a grocery store warehouse for six years when he got married to a college guidance counselor. His wife got him into warehouse logistics for the higher paying jobs to pay off the student debt.
It's not about teaching you how to think, it's about teaching you how to learn.
Most students fail to become life-long learners and stop learning after leaving school. That's the kiss of death in a technical career. I had friends who threw away being software engineers because they were unwilling to learn new technologies after the dot com bust and settled for being drug store clerks.
In my case a Computer Sci degree morphed into an Information Science degree and it's done me well so far.
I never went to high school but I went to community college. My General Education A.A. degree got me into software testing. A decade later I went back to school and my Computer Programming A.S. degree got me into IT support.
So we need to cover stupid shit that people should already know. "This is how you turn on your computer"
When I was on the Google IT help desk, I had to walk a Stanford CS graduate student through the process of turning on his workstation because the computer labs always had someone standing around to turn the workstations on.
Bias is an inclination or outlook to present or hold a partial perspective, often accompanied by a refusal to consider the possible merits of alternative points of view. According to wikipedia,
Have you seen conservative bias? It's an alternative reality filled with alternative facts. When Obama was president, my Tea Party-loving, lily-white relatives in Idaho emailed clippings out of the right-wing echo chamber. I could prove every item was factually wrong in some way.
The problem is that so-called "liberals" don't use your one dictionary to select their behaviour.
I know how that goes. I'm a moderate conservative and I get crap from holier-than-thou crowd because I don't meet their definition of conservatism. One of the reasons why I'm no longer a Republican. I bailed out before the 2016 election.
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[...] "adopting a subset of C to smooth out C's rough edges" [...]
FTFY — A little trick I picked up from John Carmack.
The snowflake effect!
As a Gen X'er, that ain't news. That probably got started with the Baby Boomers.
It's a shame when us low on the pole IT guys have higher regulation and oversight than the fucking government we serve.
I work in government IT.
You can't even create local files [...]
Local files can be created but they need to move to the network in a timely manner. If the local file is left on the desktop for too long (might be 30 days), admin access is required to move or modify. I can move my own files, but regular users need to call the help desk.
[...] yet government officials are setting up insecure servers, getting accounts compromised, and falling for phishing scams that my 12 year old son would laugh at.
Politicians and political appointees don't follow the same rules as government workers and civilians.
I can't tell if the 'Silicon Valley Business Journal' is real or not, too.
It's real. I don't recall when the name got changed. It used to be the "San Jose Business Journal" in the 1990's when I read it regularly.
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose
It is. I don't think "Slacker News" will ever take off.
I got laid off from eBay in 2009. A few years later I came back to eBay to do a PC refresh project. When I needed to fix a problem for a user and got prompted for an admin password, I typed in the old password and it worked. When I brought it to management's attention, they changed the admin password — and gave me the new admin password. When I had a job interview at eBay a few years ago, they were taking security more seriously as they were hiring remediation techs to fix the Heartbleed Bug.
I'm reading "Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley" by Antonio Garcia Martinez. The author and his two engineers leave the startup they worked at to create a startup at Y Combinator to create a better version of the Digg toolbar (remember toolbars?) for Google advertisers in 2010. I'm at the part where they get served with an intellectual property lawsuit, as one of the engineers wrote half of the code base at old startup. Fun times.
I doubt this book will replace Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure by Jerry Kaplan as my favorite Silicon Valley startup book.
IT security guy...you know a 'rubber ducky' is a penetration tool?
I've heard about them, haven't seen them. My job in InfoSec is to fix problems. Scanning and penetration is a different department. I thought you meant this rubber ducky.
Does IT get called when someone's keyboard gets disconnected then plugged back in or only for USB storage?
I don't know. I work with workstations and not with users. The workstations are locked down tighter than a virgin nerd's ass. If you create a file and leave it on your desktop for too long (all data is supposed to be stored on the network), you will need administrator access to modify the file.
A Rubber ducky?
I personally prefer to have a Hello, Kitty! 8GB USB stick. :P
Plug in an unauthorized USB stick at my job and security will be at your desk in five minutes to confiscate it.
I'm not going to keep going back and forth.
Yet you can't resist putting in the last word.
from what I've seen of your posting, you're not what you think you are. but you are something.
Nope, 100% asshole. :P
Eli The Computer Guy: Being An "Asshole" As A Technology Professional
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_YaNGzplbE
If you don't know how to learn by the time you're 18-20 and in college (excluding a few low income / opportunity cases) you probably won't benefit much from college...
I went to community college twice. Once as a young person trying to figure out my place in the world, exiting with an A.A. degree in General Education and mediocre grades. A decade later as an adult working 80 hours per week and taking two classes per semester for five years, exiting with A.S. in Computer Programming and a 4.0GPA in my major. Going back to school as an adult was a lot easier than as a young person. Some people aren't ready for college when they're young.
Man, imagine how hard Google would have failed if it had been founded by Stanford CS students.
During the early years of Google, the two founders vetted all job candidates and reportedly refused to interview any Stanford University CS graduates. My incident took place in 2008 when Google was hiring 300+ people per week.
Mathematics isn't hard if it's taught correctly. However it is rare that it is taught correctly.
I went to community college with fifth-grade English and math skills but a college-level reading comprehension. I had a great English instructor who didn't criticize me because I told her a sentence felt right when I couldn't explain the grammar and got to me to understand grammar by the end of the semester. The remediation math class had a great team of volunteers who taught me fractions and got me up to speed to take algebra the following semester.
People who get demoralized by math, probably shouldn't pursue a career in a STEM field.
When I hit a wall taking Introduction to Calculus, I bailed out on becoming a mathematician and later went into computers.
Hens usually lay more than two eggs at a time.
That doesn't make you not a piece of shit
No, I'm an asshole. Otherwise, I wouldn't be in IT.
It is entirely possible to get a college degree, even an advanced degree, and not learn anything useful.
I had a roommate who took automotive design on the West Coast in the 1990's, had no interest in getting a job at the Big Three in Detroit, and racked up $25K in student loans because he was interested in cars. Fortunately, he worked in a grocery store warehouse for six years when he got married to a college guidance counselor. His wife got him into warehouse logistics for the higher paying jobs to pay off the student debt.
It's not about teaching you how to think, it's about teaching you how to learn.
Most students fail to become life-long learners and stop learning after leaving school. That's the kiss of death in a technical career. I had friends who threw away being software engineers because they were unwilling to learn new technologies after the dot com bust and settled for being drug store clerks.
In my case a Computer Sci degree morphed into an Information Science degree and it's done me well so far.
I never went to high school but I went to community college. My General Education A.A. degree got me into software testing. A decade later I went back to school and my Computer Programming A.S. degree got me into IT support.
So we need to cover stupid shit that people should already know. "This is how you turn on your computer"
When I was on the Google IT help desk, I had to walk a Stanford CS graduate student through the process of turning on his workstation because the computer labs always had someone standing around to turn the workstations on.
If you can't parlay a liberal arts degree into a tech job, you're doing it wrong.
Bias is an inclination or outlook to present or hold a partial perspective, often accompanied by a refusal to consider the possible merits of alternative points of view. According to wikipedia,
Have you seen conservative bias? It's an alternative reality filled with alternative facts. When Obama was president, my Tea Party-loving, lily-white relatives in Idaho emailed clippings out of the right-wing echo chamber. I could prove every item was factually wrong in some way.
The problem is that so-called "liberals" don't use your one dictionary to select their behaviour.
I know how that goes. I'm a moderate conservative and I get crap from holier-than-thou crowd because I don't meet their definition of conservatism. One of the reasons why I'm no longer a Republican. I bailed out before the 2016 election.
And you're one of the users that never really fit in anywhere and wanted to be "like the cool kids" and this is the only place you can do that.
Seriously? Are you in high school or something?
Well maybe your Social Media sites also since you get to choose who you interact with and who can talk to you.
I have a Twitter account that I use to post announcements. That's for social media.