You need to hire older workers when the younger workers are too busy re-inventing the wheel without the experience to know how to build a better wheel.
Prohibitive software is software that IT doesn't install and maintain. If there's no special exemption, it's automatically uninstalled once a month or whenever it shows up on the monthly Nessus scan for manual uninstall.
IE11 is the standard web browser and locked down tighter than a virgin nerd's ass at my job. Some techs misuse their admin authority to install Firefox or Chrome. Those installations are automagically uninstalled via the prohibitive software script each month or manually uninstalled after management sends out spreadsheet of IT techs with prohibitive software installed on their systems.
A coworker went a step further by requiring his customers to order and pay for their replacement parts through Best Buy so he can pick them up. No money comes out of his pocket for the replacement parts and he doesn't get stuck with a $300 video card because someone cancelled the job.
Either way, if he's looking for battery powered, neither are gonna cut it... it's either tablet, laptop, or a board that goes with mobile CPU like Intel Atom X5 series.
If you're going with a traditional motherboard, a PicoPSU will take a 12V DC input from batteries.
That sounds like something Casey Neistat wanted in the Samsung Dex: the ability to use it as a regular cellphone and then plug it into a docking station or PC to continue working on the cellphone.
"The trick is to fail to do your job until shit's about to blow up. Or sometimes, after shit has blow up, so management thinks you're super critical."
Yeah, that's real miracle work, creimer.
No, that's a shitty way to run an IT department. The miracle work is cleaning up the operations to have it conform to enterprise standards so everyone and everything is an interchangeable cog.
I wish I worked at the same place as you - in about 2 months, I'd completely automate away your entire reason for existing.
Not sure why you want to automate a job that will disappear when the contract ends. As an IT support contractor, I'm here today and gone tomorrow.
Their mode of operation is if its not broken or onfire, ignore it until it does catch fire. What puzzles me is the network ops manager and their manager think this team is magic because they solve amazing problems all the time, [...]
The trick is to show up with a fire extinguisher and a replacement server just before the server halt and catches fire.
If everyone did preventative maintenance and nothing catches on fire, management would start laying off techs.
If you're going to have people fallback on pen and paper, they need to be trained to use pen and paper. I worked at a restaurant when a power outage took down the ordering stations. The restaurant kept doing business until the power came back online an hour later, as sunlight through the large windows and emergency lighting illuminated the interior. The kitchen kept on cooking with gas-powered appliances and emergency lights. The wait staff struggled to calculate bills and make change with only one calculator in the entire building. Management added backup power to the ordering stations a week later.
There are some where the IT infrastructure could not handle one specific system going down, and that is not a technical issue, but something else which usually is called "gross negligence".
Technically, that's known as a single point of failure.
The term "gross negligence" doesn't come into play until a lawsuit is filed. Since no one died and/or injured from this outage, a gross inconvenience doesn't rise to gross negligence.
Oh wow, a 20 year old "self help" book written by a hack fraud that went bankrupt is your font of wisdom?
Taken with a grain of salt. If you want to shoot the messenger without listening to the message that's your business. You're missing out on a lot of good insights.
You're fucked. Financially, mentally, and physically.
I'm better off today than I was ten years ago before the Great Recession.
Here's the passage. Not quite the way I remembered it.
Remember one thing, when you pose... a lot of little guys have one habit. And they hide away when they pose. When they do an arm pose, they do like this. The big guy will come right out with his arm. Never do that, never hide away.
IIRC, that was actually a Windows NT4 problem, patched in the late 90s.
Everyone else says the crash bug was in Windows 95, which is Windows bolted on top of DOS. WinXP was based on NT. IIRC, NT4 wasn't stable until 4.5 came out.
Right up to the point, where you find out that you've been signing required job contracts for years that say the company owns everything you'll ever make, some $RIGHTSHOLDER demands payment for some obvious part of your business, you got priced out of the market by incumbent players willing to take a hit to get rid of you (or prevent you from getting established in the first place), you can't get a loan to start the business due to it being "a bad investment" that doesn't give ROI next quarter, or some legislative change happens that effectively gives the incumbents a legal monopoly, and forbids you from participating. (OK, sure you can participate, but the bar to entry has been moved much higher should you still choose to reach it.)
That sounds bad. Try a different business model next time.
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You need to hire older workers when the younger workers are too busy re-inventing the wheel without the experience to know how to build a better wheel.
...but that's not what "prohibitive" means. Surely you mean "prohibited"?
Prohibitive: (especially of a law or rule) forbidding or restricting something.
Prohibited: that has been forbidden; banned.
Which one of these words do you think applies to government IT?
(BTW, this isn't my usage. So don't blame my short bus education.)
"prohibitive"? ...What?
Prohibitive software is software that IT doesn't install and maintain. If there's no special exemption, it's automatically uninstalled once a month or whenever it shows up on the monthly Nessus scan for manual uninstall.
IE11 is the standard web browser and locked down tighter than a virgin nerd's ass at my job. Some techs misuse their admin authority to install Firefox or Chrome. Those installations are automagically uninstalled via the prohibitive software script each month or manually uninstalled after management sends out spreadsheet of IT techs with prohibitive software installed on their systems.
Hahaha I had to do the same thing.
A coworker went a step further by requiring his customers to order and pay for their replacement parts through Best Buy so he can pick them up. No money comes out of his pocket for the replacement parts and he doesn't get stuck with a $300 video card because someone cancelled the job.
He lives and works in Silicon Valley, consoling hurt computers and fixing broken users.
These days I console hurt workstations and create tickets for the local techs to fix broken users.
Either way, if he's looking for battery powered, neither are gonna cut it... it's either tablet, laptop, or a board that goes with mobile CPU like Intel Atom X5 series.
If you're going with a traditional motherboard, a PicoPSU will take a 12V DC input from batteries.
http://www.mini-box.com/s.nl/sc.8/category.13/it.C/.f
Home and Professional users are much worse off due to limitations of some settings and lack of an IT staff...
I haven't fixed anyone's computers in years since I started charging $300 per hour.
Not to mention the last place he worked at, he farted after lunch and this happened.
Lame, lame, lame. This is better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOS5gWzkXMA
That sounds like something Casey Neistat wanted in the Samsung Dex: the ability to use it as a regular cellphone and then plug it into a docking station or PC to continue working on the cellphone.
https://youtu.be/uOFDmbUlrT4?t=101
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/03/samsung-dex-is-a-galaxy-s8-dock-that-makes-your-phone-into-a-desktop/
"The trick is to fail to do your job until shit's about to blow up. Or sometimes, after shit has blow up, so management thinks you're super critical."
Yeah, that's real miracle work, creimer.
No, that's a shitty way to run an IT department. The miracle work is cleaning up the operations to have it conform to enterprise standards so everyone and everything is an interchangeable cog.
I wish I worked at the same place as you - in about 2 months, I'd completely automate away your entire reason for existing.
Not sure why you want to automate a job that will disappear when the contract ends. As an IT support contractor, I'm here today and gone tomorrow.
When is the last time Russian or Chinese produced a movie that became a global "blockbuster"?
How American movies would be blockbusters without Chinese funding and ticket sales?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/markhughes/2017/03/04/how-china-has-taken-over-the-worldwide-box-office-in-2017/
When is the last time you saw any large political protests in the US targeting any foreign leader?
How about Turkey's president Recep Tayyip Erdogan?
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/05/turkey-demands-apology-beating-up-us-protesters
Their mode of operation is if its not broken or onfire, ignore it until it does catch fire. What puzzles me is the network ops manager and their manager think this team is magic because they solve amazing problems all the time, [...]
The trick is to show up with a fire extinguisher and a replacement server just before the server halt and catches fire. If everyone did preventative maintenance and nothing catches on fire, management would start laying off techs.
If you're going to have people fallback on pen and paper, they need to be trained to use pen and paper. I worked at a restaurant when a power outage took down the ordering stations. The restaurant kept doing business until the power came back online an hour later, as sunlight through the large windows and emergency lighting illuminated the interior. The kitchen kept on cooking with gas-powered appliances and emergency lights. The wait staff struggled to calculate bills and make change with only one calculator in the entire building. Management added backup power to the ordering stations a week later.
There are some where the IT infrastructure could not handle one specific system going down, and that is not a technical issue, but something else which usually is called "gross negligence".
Technically, that's known as a single point of failure.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_point_of_failure
The term "gross negligence" doesn't come into play until a lawsuit is filed. Since no one died and/or injured from this outage, a gross inconvenience doesn't rise to gross negligence.
And everyone else is doing it too!
I didn't realized that the British celebrated U.S. Memorial Day weekend.
You got pwned. Just laugh like the rest of us.
I've been laughing for weeks.
Why do we give a flying fuck about Arnold's supposed wisdom, again?
I couldn't find a relevant Bill Clinton quote.
Yes, the 28 empty bottles under your futon you're hoarding for the 5 cent deposit?
That would count as one revenue stream.
Oh wow, a 20 year old "self help" book written by a hack fraud that went bankrupt is your font of wisdom?
Taken with a grain of salt. If you want to shoot the messenger without listening to the message that's your business. You're missing out on a lot of good insights.
You're fucked. Financially, mentally, and physically.
I'm better off today than I was ten years ago before the Great Recession.
Doesn't look like that's actually in the movie.
Here's the passage. Not quite the way I remembered it.
Remember one thing, when you pose... a lot of little guys have one habit. And they hide away when they pose. When they do an arm pose, they do like this. The big guy will come right out with his arm. Never do that, never hide away.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cX6nxOmIAOQ
IIRC, that was actually a Windows NT4 problem, patched in the late 90s.
Everyone else says the crash bug was in Windows 95, which is Windows bolted on top of DOS. WinXP was based on NT. IIRC, NT4 wasn't stable until 4.5 came out.
Right up to the point, where you find out that you've been signing required job contracts for years that say the company owns everything you'll ever make, some $RIGHTSHOLDER demands payment for some obvious part of your business, you got priced out of the market by incumbent players willing to take a hit to get rid of you (or prevent you from getting established in the first place), you can't get a loan to start the business due to it being "a bad investment" that doesn't give ROI next quarter, or some legislative change happens that effectively gives the incumbents a legal monopoly, and forbids you from participating. (OK, sure you can participate, but the bar to entry has been moved much higher should you still choose to reach it.)
That sounds bad. Try a different business model next time.
Couldn't find that anywhere.
A little art house film called "Pumping Iron" that came out in 1977. You may have heard of it.