If done properly IT is a revenue center. Other departments must internally account for "paying" for IT services.
That's called chargeback (or showback if there's no actual money moving around), and it does not qualify in any way or form as "revenue".
"IT chargeback and IT showback (memo-back) are two policies used by information technology (IT) departments to allocate and/or bill the costs associated with each department's or division's usage." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
We're not talking about complex financial statements here, this is just very very basic accounting. IT is a cost center.
when faced with quality evaluation showing there is no benefit, refusing to not withdraw an opinion or commitment shows poor leadership and a stubbornness that wont benefit business at all.
That's just people being people. Instead of being in their face and expecting logic to win them over, as a consultant your job is to find a way for them to save face while walking away from one of their previous decisions - including jumping on the grenade yourself once in a while. If you become good at that, you'll always make shit-tons of money.
I wonder if he knows that I'm planning on telling the FTC and his investors about this "AI" company.
Nobody likes sour grapes. Learn from this and move on, otherwise you're just sentencing yourself to a lifetime of bitterness and angst.
"Whoever is righteous let him be righteous still Whoever is filthy let him be filthy still Listen to the words long written down When the man comes around" https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Practically every mistake in IT is recoverable, except for failing to manage customer expectations.
Ok, let's see: 1) Threatening to expose hackers AND using the same password everywhere including in your unpatched CMS (HBGary Federal) 2) Botch manual deployment of a trading algorithm and lose $440 millions in 45 minutes (Knight capital) 3) Do not handle race conditions properly and expose patients to doses of radiation 100x higher than expected (Therac-25)
The best CIO I've met was a music major, he even played in a symphonic orchestra for a while. He got started in IT because he wanted to design his own DSP.
I tell you that this type of attitude is PREVALENT today in IT. Apathy.
I don't think this is an IT problem, I think this is a people problem. Recently we paid an obscene fee to get a report from one of those big management consulting firms. The report had the logo of one of our competitors in the footer, and they made a typo in all instances of our company name in the text. And they sent it 2 weeks late.
Sometimes it feels like I'm in a video game and a majority of people around me are NPC.
Implementing SAP Outsourcing Outsourcing your SAP implementation
Whenever I talk to someone from a company that uses SAP, I always ask if they are satisfied with SAP and would choose to use them again.
So far, this many have said yes: 0.
For comparison, this is the number that have said they are happy with Oracle's ERP: 0.
I'll see your Oracle ERP and raise you one Peoplesoft, a true marvel of software engineering, where database tables have intuitive names such as PSPRSMDEFN or PSFLDFIELDDEFN (those are real names).
For instance, often systemctl reports a daemon as failed while it's not, or suddenly decides that it didn't start because of some mysterious arbitrary timeout while the daemon just needs some time to run a maintenance tasks at startup time.
So you didn't RTFM or your distro maintainer didn't set the option in the unit file correctly?
The distro maintainer is the company that created systemd. Thanks for playing.
Wrong. The journal is easier to search since you can pass time ranges and other filters to journalctl and get back only those events
It's been possible to do that with insanely sophisticated tools such as "grep" for 30+ years.
And anyways, we pay a shitload of moneys to Splunk so we can a lot more than that on basic log files (pie charts, trends, etc); the systemd journal just makes it more difficult to have the same splunk rules.
One more instance of systemd trying to do everything and doing it wrong.
So the short answer is: Yes, systemd makes things unnecessarily complex with little benefit.
That matches my experience - losing a lot of time trying to figure out why things don't work. The improved boot time is lost several times over.
I completely agree. Troubleshooting is really a bitch with systemd, much more time-consuming. For instance, often systemctl reports a daemon as failed while it's not, or suddenly decides that it didn't start because of some mysterious arbitrary timeout while the daemon just needs some time to run a maintenance tasks at startup time. And getting anything of value out of the log is a pain in the ass.
Quite often I end up writing control shell scripts specifically to be called by systemd, because this junkware is too fragile and capricious to work with actual daemons. That says a lot about the overal usefulness of systemd.
Nothing has been gained with systemd, at least not on servers.
We can have friendly relations with employees without crossing that line.
Unfortunately that's no longer for you to decide where the line is. Most people know that pulling out your dick in front of your intern is unacceptable, but what about touching the bare skin on the back when you take a group selfie? or what about complimenting a coworker on their outfit? or what about walking around in your bathing suit at a company pool party? It depends.
Just like male teachers cannot afford to be alone with a student (female or not), it has become somewhat a gamble to be alone with a female coworker. It's even now risky to have sex with someone you met in a bar while both are drunks, because consent is becoming subjective.
What's left? Only meet women while witnesses you both trust are present, only engage in relationships under a clear contract, and never drink. Looks like ISIS is onto something.
Bullshit. The New York Times and Washington Post, just to name two, have been regularly running articles pointing out the fallacies of the new tax cuts.
Wait, newspapers that openly promote the liberal agenda are against tax cuts? OMG
UBI is for the lazy leftists only. And the amount will never be enough to satisfy their jealousy.
Making sure everyone has a decent quality of life (at least for food and shelter) is not a leftist pipe dream, it's merely a sign that civilization is moving forward. It's the other end of the spectrum from the time when cavemen would leave weak people behind.
As for freeloaders and subsidized whiners, yes they will always exist. But they don't matter and their number doesn't grow; if you avoid the places where they hang out, they fade in the background. Just ignore them and don't reward the media who use them to generate traffic and ratings by falling for their clickbait, at some point they'll move on.
It's my experience that hyperlink abusers are just a nudge away from a stay in a padded cell. They're like people who argue loudly by themselves in the subway; it's best to avoid interacting with them and quietly move away.
It is by *far* more of a hassle than it ever helps!
Buy a real phone. On my S8, the autocomplete is fantastic. I'm a lazy and sloppy typist; I hit keys in the general area of the ones I need and it works, I almost never have to finish words and they're always properly corrected. It is so convenient than nowadays when I have a long email to write, I tend to use my phone instead of my laptop.
I agree with the other guy. Gawker was garbage. And I'd bet a dollar that if they had released tapes of Bill Clinton fondling a secretary against her will you would be the first in line to call Gawker evil.
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If done properly IT is a revenue center. Other departments must internally account for "paying" for IT services.
That's called chargeback (or showback if there's no actual money moving around), and it does not qualify in any way or form as "revenue".
"IT chargeback and IT showback (memo-back) are two policies used by information technology (IT) departments to allocate and/or bill the costs associated with each department's or division's usage."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
We're not talking about complex financial statements here, this is just very very basic accounting. IT is a cost center.
when faced with quality evaluation showing there is no benefit, refusing to not withdraw an opinion or commitment shows poor leadership and a stubbornness that wont benefit business at all.
That's just people being people. Instead of being in their face and expecting logic to win them over, as a consultant your job is to find a way for them to save face while walking away from one of their previous decisions - including jumping on the grenade yourself once in a while. If you become good at that, you'll always make shit-tons of money.
The biggest mistake any company makes? Treating IT as a cost center.
Unless your company sells IT services, by definition IT is a cost center. This is basic accounting.
There was a good Dilbert about this in 1997.
http://dilbert.com/strip/1997-...
I wonder if he knows that I'm planning on telling the FTC and his investors about this "AI" company.
Nobody likes sour grapes. Learn from this and move on, otherwise you're just sentencing yourself to a lifetime of bitterness and angst.
"Whoever is righteous let him be righteous still
Whoever is filthy let him be filthy still
Listen to the words long written down
When the man comes around"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Practically every mistake in IT is recoverable, except for failing to manage customer expectations.
Ok, let's see:
1) Threatening to expose hackers AND using the same password everywhere including in your unpatched CMS (HBGary Federal)
2) Botch manual deployment of a trading algorithm and lose $440 millions in 45 minutes (Knight capital)
3) Do not handle race conditions properly and expose patients to doses of radiation 100x higher than expected (Therac-25)
and the list goes on...
Don't hire a music major to be your CSO.
The best CIO I've met was a music major, he even played in a symphonic orchestra for a while. He got started in IT because he wanted to design his own DSP.
Some people are a lot more than their diploma.
I tell you that this type of attitude is PREVALENT today in IT. Apathy.
I don't think this is an IT problem, I think this is a people problem. Recently we paid an obscene fee to get a report from one of those big management consulting firms. The report had the logo of one of our competitors in the footer, and they made a typo in all instances of our company name in the text. And they sent it 2 weeks late.
Sometimes it feels like I'm in a video game and a majority of people around me are NPC.
Implementing SAP
Outsourcing
Outsourcing your SAP implementation
Whenever I talk to someone from a company that uses SAP, I always ask if they are satisfied with SAP and would choose to use them again.
So far, this many have said yes: 0.
For comparison, this is the number that have said they are happy with Oracle's ERP: 0.
I'll see your Oracle ERP and raise you one Peoplesoft, a true marvel of software engineering, where database tables have intuitive names such as PSPRSMDEFN or PSFLDFIELDDEFN (those are real names).
Runner up: anything from ASG.
The problem is there are a lot of old init scripts that have to be properly migrated
Why? They were not broken. They worked perfectly well since before the idiot who created systemd was born.
It does all of those things. You just need to learn how to use the tools. For starters try,
> journalctl -b -u -o verbose
Please point out the improvement over "cat".
For instance, often systemctl reports a daemon as failed while it's not, or suddenly decides that it didn't start because of some mysterious arbitrary timeout while the daemon just needs some time to run a maintenance tasks at startup time.
So you didn't RTFM or your distro maintainer didn't set the option in the unit file correctly?
The distro maintainer is the company that created systemd. Thanks for playing.
Wrong. The journal is easier to search since you can pass time ranges and other filters to journalctl and get back only those events
It's been possible to do that with insanely sophisticated tools such as "grep" for 30+ years.
And anyways, we pay a shitload of moneys to Splunk so we can a lot more than that on basic log files (pie charts, trends, etc); the systemd journal just makes it more difficult to have the same splunk rules.
One more instance of systemd trying to do everything and doing it wrong.
Drop this selinux shit. It's too complicated and causes more problems than it solves.
I think the utility called audit2allow summarizes well the immense "value" of selinux.
generate SELinux policy allow/dontaudit rules from logs of denied operations
https://manpages.debian.org/un...
The first time I heard about it I thought it was a prank.
So the short answer is: Yes, systemd makes things unnecessarily complex with little benefit.
That matches my experience - losing a lot of time trying to figure out why things don't work. The improved boot time is lost several times over.
I completely agree. Troubleshooting is really a bitch with systemd, much more time-consuming. For instance, often systemctl reports a daemon as failed while it's not, or suddenly decides that it didn't start because of some mysterious arbitrary timeout while the daemon just needs some time to run a maintenance tasks at startup time. And getting anything of value out of the log is a pain in the ass.
Quite often I end up writing control shell scripts specifically to be called by systemd, because this junkware is too fragile and capricious to work with actual daemons. That says a lot about the overal usefulness of systemd.
Nothing has been gained with systemd, at least not on servers.
We can have friendly relations with employees without crossing that line.
Unfortunately that's no longer for you to decide where the line is. Most people know that pulling out your dick in front of your intern is unacceptable, but what about touching the bare skin on the back when you take a group selfie? or what about complimenting a coworker on their outfit? or what about walking around in your bathing suit at a company pool party? It depends.
Just like male teachers cannot afford to be alone with a student (female or not), it has become somewhat a gamble to be alone with a female coworker. It's even now risky to have sex with someone you met in a bar while both are drunks, because consent is becoming subjective.
What's left? Only meet women while witnesses you both trust are present, only engage in relationships under a clear contract, and never drink. Looks like ISIS is onto something.
Bullshit. The New York Times and Washington Post, just to name two, have been regularly running articles pointing out the fallacies of the new tax cuts.
Wait, newspapers that openly promote the liberal agenda are against tax cuts? OMG
When will we have good adaptive learning algorithms and weak AI in highly functional yet cheap humanoid form?
How do you think your iPhone was manufactured
I don't see why that bit's particularly important.
When cars came out people didn't say "wait till they get rid of them thar new-fangled wheels and put legs on them, as God intended".
People also didn't consider buying sex cars.
UBI is for the lazy leftists only. And the amount will never be enough to satisfy their jealousy.
Making sure everyone has a decent quality of life (at least for food and shelter) is not a leftist pipe dream, it's merely a sign that civilization is moving forward. It's the other end of the spectrum from the time when cavemen would leave weak people behind.
As for freeloaders and subsidized whiners, yes they will always exist. But they don't matter and their number doesn't grow; if you avoid the places where they hang out, they fade in the background. Just ignore them and don't reward the media who use them to generate traffic and ratings by falling for their clickbait, at some point they'll move on.
you mean like those cat walkers?
It's my experience that hyperlink abusers are just a nudge away from a stay in a padded cell. They're like people who argue loudly by themselves in the subway; it's best to avoid interacting with them and quietly move away.
Next battle to settle: vi vs emacs.
vi won a long time ago. Now the new war is atom vs sublime.
It is by *far* more of a hassle than it ever helps!
Buy a real phone. On my S8, the autocomplete is fantastic. I'm a lazy and sloppy typist; I hit keys in the general area of the ones I need and it works, I almost never have to finish words and they're always properly corrected. It is so convenient than nowadays when I have a long email to write, I tend to use my phone instead of my laptop.
I agree with the other guy. Gawker was garbage. And I'd bet a dollar that if they had released tapes of Bill Clinton fondling a secretary against her will you would be the first in line to call Gawker evil.
There are many more crappy "me too"
^ trigger warning