I work as a tech, and usually for other businesses. While i do have my own laptop, i often work at other machines.
This is why i usually try to use as little third party programs as possible, and try to almost everything i can with the tools provided by the OS. That OS is Windows, most of the time.
I've got a little folder of tools which i have on a USB stick (mostly sysinternals, putty, etc.). I keep all settings on defaults. I usually change the background image to my companies logo, though;)
While this might sound very strange to someone who works with only one machine all the time, this has given me the ability to work as fast on other machines as on my own. It's an entirely different approach, and probably not suitable for software developers, but it worked out very well for me.
It's called "Quality Assurance". You should read about it.
Imagine what would happen if Microsoft would ship patches without testing them at all - even with their extensive QA process, problems slip through their fingers. With no QA process, hell would be loose.
Cat5e on the other hand fully, officially works with Gbit Ethernet. And at least here in switzerland, i have seen anyone wiring plain old cat5 (without the e) on the last 5 years.
It depends. I work in a Small Business, and for Small Businesses. With a maximum of 50 people in a company, you know everyone. Things might be different in a big company, when you're no longer "Joe Smith from the IT Dept." but instead "Employee #0815".
I never had issues with file sharing programs.
I did have a bandwidth hogging issue though, with Zattoo (a legal P2P TV application). During major sport events, our internet broke down. I sent an email that zattoo shouldn't be used by multiple people at once, and instead they should listen to these events by radio, or watch it in the conference room.
Issue resolved.
Oh, and you think productivity breaks down when people are watching a sports event? It does for a moment, but most of them will catch up on it on the same day. Not everyone.
I don't know about big corporations, but in a small business, you need to trust every employee you have. That doesn't mean leaving the admin passwort to "1234", but it means to only implement measures which are necessary.
As a side effect, when other people in the company trust you, they will come and ask you for advice. This is usually before they fuck up.
An issue i encountered often is: "I need program x to do z, but i'm not allowed to buy it".
Under normal circumstances, people might've looked for a warez copy of it, and instead finding viruses or spyware.
In this case, you usually have two ways to go
"Theres the alternative solution y, which is open source, i can install it for you"
"I don't think that theres another program than x that can do this, i will talk to your superior"
Employees are people too. If you let them waste maybe 10 hours in a year watching important sports events, they're happier. And happy people work better.
The problem is, that the whole story is two sided.
It's very hard to maintain an open attitude when working in IT. Especially when you're doing Internal IT only (i mostly work for our customers, and do our internal IT as a side job).
People fuck up, and are afraid of the consequences when they fucked up - thus they will try to find something else to blame.
IT People fuck up too, and are afraid of the consequences when they fucked up - thus they try to find someone else to blame.
The consequences are that Users and IT People don't trust each other. And this is bad, very bad.
IT is something to make your users more productive, and help them to get their work done faster. A restrictive policy usually won't help you with that. My company has a very open IT policy - and i think it helps with both morale and problem resolution.
We even allow our employees to plug their own laptops into the company network. Yes, it's risky. But the problems incurred and benefits reaped are a better than properly securing this (e.G. buying 802.1x switches and segmenting clients into VLANs according to their identification).
Remember - IT is an internal service to make the company work better. IT is not an end, it's a means to achieve an end faster. You as an IT guy should think about "how do we get our employees to be more productive" and not "how do we restrict them as much as possible so that i can sit around and read dilbert all day long".
Your translation is mostly on spot, but "Brötchen" has an Umlaut too. "Broetchen" for those without the appropriate keyboards.
They don't really speak standard German in Bavaria either - and Swiss German is different for all the major german speaking regions of switzerland (The people from Zurich mock the swiss german from the people in Bern, and those in Bern mock the swiss german from those in St. Gallen).
Even with this scheme there are many other ways to get a verified account. She could ask a big brother/sister of a friend, get one of these premade credit cards from the post box, etc. pp.
I'm just gonna have to hit you over the head with this:
You can't rape people on the internet. You can't hurt them. You can't harm them. The worst you can do is send them dirty pictures. And they can't harm a child which knows more or less what's what.
You fucked up your daughters education. If she can read, but can't handle the cold, harsh reality out there, it is YOUR fault, YOU screwed up.
Go fix your fucking mistakes and leave the internet alone.
System i and System p are the same hardware. That's official information.
There's a system license code which tells the FSP firmware on what it runs. Theoretically, it's possible to change the system license code.
With the new System i5 520+, you can enter an activation license to activate the full CPU in the basic 1 way systems, they're usually restricted to 21% of their 1.9Ghz P5 CPU. For just 20k, you get an activation code for the CPU;)
CS, as in computer science, is the wrong thing to teach to all pupils. Cars are everywhere, and we aren't teaching combustion engine theory to kids either.
Basic IT skills, on the other hand, are important. Especially the distinguishing between concepts and implementation. And how to help yourself in problems.
The problem with most people vs. IT today is, that they don't even have a basic grasp on how their computer works. And i don't mean theory about hard disks, cache, etc.
Many users don't understand where their files are. If you change the default open path in word, they won't find their documents again. Why? Because they don't understand the filesystem tree.
We should start at a much, much lower level. And get people up to speed on how to use technology.
For SMB customers, i usually use 2 seperate RAID1 sets.
Why? Because SMB customers usually use their stuff looong beyond the expected lifetime, and don't have any support contracts. If a RAID controller dies, you're usually in trouble - because a replacement without a contract costs more than a new machine. If you use RAID1, you usually don't have to worry about that, since you (usually) can just plug them into a normal controller.
I work for a rather small ISV, and do internal IT as a side job to customer deployment.
I've setup a really simple policy, where every user has a choice:
a) Internal IT maintains your computer
Or rather the automated deployment system. You don't get any rights, at all. If anything breaks, it's my fault.
b) You maintain your computer
The user maintains his machine. Windows Update / Virus scan is still monitored centrally, but can be configured by the user. You install all your programs on your own. You have local admin rights. If you break anything, my "help" will consist of deploying an empty windows image.
Of course this is only the official standpoint - most developers choose to maintain their own machines, and i'm willing to help with problems where i can still see the light at the end of the tunnel. Most administrative staff has a rather locked down computer.
This isn't in the USA, so everyone has complete, unmonitored internet access - i don't see a problem with this. If someone hugs to much bandwidth, i will tell them. I don't care what sites they surf on. Why should i?
Their direct superior will always know if their work performance is acceptable or not. If someones surfs porn for 7h a days, and does all his work in the remaining hour, should this be a problem? No, i don't think so.
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I work as a tech, and usually for other businesses. While i do have my own laptop, i often work at other machines.
;)
This is why i usually try to use as little third party programs as possible, and try to almost everything i can with the tools provided by the OS. That OS is Windows, most of the time.
I've got a little folder of tools which i have on a USB stick (mostly sysinternals, putty, etc.). I keep all settings on defaults. I usually change the background image to my companies logo, though
While this might sound very strange to someone who works with only one machine all the time, this has given me the ability to work as fast on other machines as on my own. It's an entirely different approach, and probably not suitable for software developers, but it worked out very well for me.
It's called "Quality Assurance". You should read about it.
Imagine what would happen if Microsoft would ship patches without testing them at all - even with their extensive QA process, problems slip through their fingers. With no QA process, hell would be loose.
Yes, you can, and maybe it will work.
Cat5e on the other hand fully, officially works with Gbit Ethernet. And at least here in switzerland, i have seen anyone wiring plain old cat5 (without the e) on the last 5 years.
It depends. I work in a Small Business, and for Small Businesses. With a maximum of 50 people in a company, you know everyone. Things might be different in a big company, when you're no longer "Joe Smith from the IT Dept." but instead "Employee #0815".
I never had issues with file sharing programs.
I did have a bandwidth hogging issue though, with Zattoo (a legal P2P TV application). During major sport events, our internet broke down. I sent an email that zattoo shouldn't be used by multiple people at once, and instead they should listen to these events by radio, or watch it in the conference room.
Issue resolved.
Oh, and you think productivity breaks down when people are watching a sports event? It does for a moment, but most of them will catch up on it on the same day. Not everyone.
I don't know about big corporations, but in a small business, you need to trust every employee you have. That doesn't mean leaving the admin passwort to "1234", but it means to only implement measures which are necessary.
As a side effect, when other people in the company trust you, they will come and ask you for advice. This is usually before they fuck up.
An issue i encountered often is:
"I need program x to do z, but i'm not allowed to buy it".
Under normal circumstances, people might've looked for a warez copy of it, and instead finding viruses or spyware.
In this case, you usually have two ways to go
"Theres the alternative solution y, which is open source, i can install it for you"
"I don't think that theres another program than x that can do this, i will talk to your superior"
Employees are people too. If you let them waste maybe 10 hours in a year watching important sports events, they're happier. And happy people work better.
The problem is, that the whole story is two sided.
It's very hard to maintain an open attitude when working in IT. Especially when you're doing Internal IT only (i mostly work for our customers, and do our internal IT as a side job).
People fuck up, and are afraid of the consequences when they fucked up - thus they will try to find something else to blame.
IT People fuck up too, and are afraid of the consequences when they fucked up - thus they try to find someone else to blame.
The consequences are that Users and IT People don't trust each other. And this is bad, very bad.
IT is something to make your users more productive, and help them to get their work done faster. A restrictive policy usually won't help you with that. My company has a very open IT policy - and i think it helps with both morale and problem resolution.
We even allow our employees to plug their own laptops into the company network. Yes, it's risky. But the problems incurred and benefits reaped are a better than properly securing this (e.G. buying 802.1x switches and segmenting clients into VLANs according to their identification).
Remember - IT is an internal service to make the company work better. IT is not an end, it's a means to achieve an end faster. You as an IT guy should think about "how do we get our employees to be more productive" and not "how do we restrict them as much as possible so that i can sit around and read dilbert all day long".
The one thing i've always wondered about this (i only do SMB stuff), is how you do _complete_ disaster recovery with one of these tapes.
So, basically you have a box full of tapes. With barcodes on them. So how do you restore the first server?
Your translation is mostly on spot, but "Brötchen" has an Umlaut too. "Broetchen" for those without the appropriate keyboards.
They don't really speak standard German in Bavaria either - and Swiss German is different for all the major german speaking regions of switzerland (The people from Zurich mock the swiss german from the people in Bern, and those in Bern mock the swiss german from those in St. Gallen).
If you eat the cake, you don't have it anymore. That's the point.
We have a similar saying here in switzerland:
"Du chasch nöd de füefer unds weggli ha"
"You can't have 5 cents and a piece of bread"
No.
Greetings from Switzerland.
Because by now, a 3GB SATA controller is cheaper than a PATA controller.
Supply & Demand.
Even with this scheme there are many other ways to get a verified account. She could ask a big brother/sister of a friend, get one of these premade credit cards from the post box, etc. pp.
I'm just gonna have to hit you over the head with this:
You can't rape people on the internet. You can't hurt them. You can't harm them. The worst you can do is send them dirty pictures. And they can't harm a child which knows more or less what's what.
You fucked up your daughters education. If she can read, but can't handle the cold, harsh reality out there, it is YOUR fault, YOU screwed up.
Go fix your fucking mistakes and leave the internet alone.
How can you talk like that when his daughter was almost raped?
I fail to see why MySpace should care about parents of their target group.
Exchange can forward email just fine. The Out-of-the-Box config allows this. Outside the organization.
You can also define externals contacts. You can install connectors to view Calendars from Notes Organizations, etc. pp.
Step spewing nonsense.
System i and System p are the same hardware. That's official information.
;)
There's a system license code which tells the FSP firmware on what it runs. Theoretically, it's possible to change the system license code.
With the new System i5 520+, you can enter an activation license to activate the full CPU in the basic 1 way systems, they're usually restricted to 21% of their 1.9Ghz P5 CPU. For just 20k, you get an activation code for the CPU
I suggest you to look into IBM's System i product line.
They've got a fancy Hypervisor in Hardware (called the FSP, flexible service processor). Linux is supported natively.
The Managment Console is running Linux, too.
I disagree.
CS, as in computer science, is the wrong thing to teach to all pupils. Cars are everywhere, and we aren't teaching combustion engine theory to kids either.
Basic IT skills, on the other hand, are important. Especially the distinguishing between concepts and implementation. And how to help yourself in problems.
The problem with most people vs. IT today is, that they don't even have a basic grasp on how their computer works. And i don't mean theory about hard disks, cache, etc.
Many users don't understand where their files are. If you change the default open path in word, they won't find their documents again. Why? Because they don't understand the filesystem tree.
We should start at a much, much lower level. And get people up to speed on how to use technology.
If these 3500 clients are on the same ethernet segment, you have other problems anyway.
Depends on what we're talking about.
For SMB customers, i usually use 2 seperate RAID1 sets.
Why? Because SMB customers usually use their stuff looong beyond the expected lifetime, and don't have any support contracts. If a RAID controller dies, you're usually in trouble - because a replacement without a contract costs more than a new machine. If you use RAID1, you usually don't have to worry about that, since you (usually) can just plug them into a normal controller.
I work for a rather small ISV, and do internal IT as a side job to customer deployment.
I've setup a really simple policy, where every user has a choice:
a) Internal IT maintains your computer
Or rather the automated deployment system. You don't get any rights, at all. If anything breaks, it's my fault.
b) You maintain your computer
The user maintains his machine. Windows Update / Virus scan is still monitored centrally, but can be configured by the user. You install all your programs on your own. You have local admin rights. If you break anything, my "help" will consist of deploying an empty windows image.
Of course this is only the official standpoint - most developers choose to maintain their own machines, and i'm willing to help with problems where i can still see the light at the end of the tunnel. Most administrative staff has a rather locked down computer.
This isn't in the USA, so everyone has complete, unmonitored internet access - i don't see a problem with this. If someone hugs to much bandwidth, i will tell them. I don't care what sites they surf on. Why should i?
Their direct superior will always know if their work performance is acceptable or not. If someones surfs porn for 7h a days, and does all his work in the remaining hour, should this be a problem? No, i don't think so.
Because most bigname vendors application demand their own server for certification.
Why? Not Microsoft's fault, but mostly vendors lazyness.
On the other hand, virtualization allows for better security by seperating unrelated roles completely without generating additional hardware cost.
Maybe _THEY_ planned this with HIV/AIDS too, but somebody in QA fucked up.
There's lots of literature/games/stories with fights between megacorps.
Notable for example Shadowrun.
This is where our society is headed...
How can stating facts be libel?