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Negromancer posted:Yup, still in seattle. I am now a Sr DevOps Engineer on the cloud services team. Sup Cloud DevOops buddy - Microsoft instead of HP over here, but not for long thankfully. You gotta love managers who think "DevOps" means "you get an ops team and dev team all in one!" and forget that you can't commit to software release timelines while also actively working incidents. That's what pisses me off every day.
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nitrogen posted:Can someone explain to me why people that infect their orgs with cryptolocker aren't immediately fired? As the old guard retires there will probably be increasing computer literacy expected of staff, but it is going to be a long slog
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mewse posted:As the old guard retires there will probably be increasing computer literacy expected of staff, but it is going to be a long slog Computer stupidity is a career thing, not an age thing.
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computer parts posted:Computer stupidity is a career thing, not an age thing. that's my point. It's a thing because it's allowed. I'm ranting so badly today because I had two calls today, both with CTO's, one who didn't understand the difference between UDP and TCP, and the other who blames me for their failure to understand the difference between gigabyte and terabyte on a contract they signed.
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computer parts posted:Computer stupidity is a career thing, not an age thing. It's definitely an age thing. Boomers weren't expected to know how to use a computer because the PC revolution happened when they were already middle aged. Right now, the 60yo department head isn't going to lose his job for being computer illiterate, because his job is building widgets, not how to use email. As we go forward, these people age out and the excuses for destroying a network will become much less accepted. A baseline of computer literacy will be more strongly enforced.
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nitrogen posted:Can someone explain to me why people that infect their orgs with cryptolocker aren't immediately fired? Our's came through the user's gmail account, and our internet usage policy doesn't state that people cant check their personal email. That poo poo is now filtered, and the domains for the most common mail providers are black holed on our DNS servers, but no grounds to fire the person responsible.
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mewse posted:It's definitely an age thing. Boomers weren't expected to know how to use a computer because the PC revolution happened when they were already middle aged. Right now, the 60yo department head isn't going to lose his job for being computer illiterate, because his job is building widgets, not how to use email. As we go forward, these people age out and the excuses for destroying a network will become much less accepted. A baseline of computer literacy will be more strongly enforced. I wish I could believe this. I have several friends in their 20s-30s who are every bit as computer illiterate as my grandmother, and just as proud of it. I'm guessing my experience is not unique, however much I hope it is.
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mewse posted:It's definitely an age thing. Boomers weren't expected to know how to use a computer because the PC revolution happened when they were already middle aged. Right now, the 60yo department head isn't going to lose his job for being computer illiterate, because his job is building widgets, not how to use email. As we go forward, these people age out and the excuses for destroying a network will become much less accepted. A baseline of computer literacy will be more strongly enforced. Becoming this scares me more than literally anything else in the world.
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TWBalls posted:Oh, boy... Looks like Dell has updated their support site again. So far it hasn't pissed me off, but I'm sure it's only a matter of time. I know when they changed it the last time (probably about a year ago) and a ton of links were dead, that was pissing me off daily. I gave up on their support site back when none of the links would load/take over 5 minutes to load under Chrome. I started using ftp://ftp.dell.com/Pages/Drivers/ with ctrl+f to find what I want and have never looked back.
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nitrogen posted:Can someone explain to me why people that infect their orgs with cryptolocker aren't immediately fired? Being bad at computers is still a completely reasonable excuse in all bad organisations, and there are a lot of bad organisations.
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Misogynist posted:It's cool, we'll be just as incompetent in something new that we don't understand once we get up there in years. It's not that bad, I don't "get" twitter and I'm only 31
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I'm 27 and don't get Vine or Pinterest, but I do get Twitter. But I can create a Vine or Pinterest account and figure out how to use it, meanwhile my wife of the same age can't even handle Twitter, or really anything that isn't Word and Facebook.
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mewse posted:It's definitely an age thing. Boomers weren't expected to know how to use a computer because the PC revolution happened when they were already middle aged. Right now, the 60yo department head isn't going to lose his job for being computer illiterate, because his job is building widgets, not how to use email. No it isn't. I've got quite a few family members all younger than I (I'm only 34) that are computer illiterate. Most people are a lot like my brother, they don't care how it works or if they're doing it wrong, they just want it to work. (Yes, he's since bought a Mac and yes, he's asked me for help figuring out how to do stuff on it as well despite my lack of Mac knowledge). Hell, I can't even begin to count how many times we've gotten tickets for COWs not working when the issue was that they either: Didn't plug in the COW so now the battery is dead. or They didn't bother unplugging the COW before walking off, so now they've ruined yet another power cord. This isn't even 'computer knowledge', this is simply plugging/unplugging something, which has been around longer than computers have and they still can't get that right. quote:As we go forward, these people age out and the excuses for destroying a network will become much less accepted. A baseline of computer literacy will be more strongly enforced.
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FISHMANPET posted:I'm 27 and don't get Vine or Pinterest, but I do get Twitter. Vine is Video Twitter. Pinterest is "Like"ing things on Facebook consolidated to one website.
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Helushune posted:I gave up on their support site back when none of the links would load/take over 5 minutes to load under Chrome. I started using ftp://ftp.dell.com/Pages/Drivers/ with ctrl+f to find what I want and have never looked back. For the most part, I usually just grab the cab file (From here) with all of the drivers and then import it into MDT, but occasionally still hit up the site to download individual updated drivers/BIOS/FW updates. I really should start using that FTP page instead.
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mewse posted:It's not that bad, I don't "get" twitter and I'm only 31 Really, #AnythingThatUses #HashtagsAndOtherPunctuation @ReallyBugsMe #ForSomeReason. One thing not pissing me off today: The continued joy that is VMware. I am in the middle of deploying 20 VMs for a new project and I am planning to have them spun up by the end of the day. Purchasing, racking, cabling, configuring, installing 20 1U pizza boxes via remote colo smart hands folks is not something I ever want to do again. Kids these days don't know. They just don't know... Something pissing me off, though? Our DNS system (when it's working) is totally hosed (and it currently isn't working). For some reason, this 20,000 person company decided to go with a home-brewed DNS management solution that some guy cobbled together using a MySQL box and some perl. And this DNS system just poo poo the bed due to a storage problem in one of our data centers. There are so many things wrong with this I don't even How hard would it be to migrate to active-directory integrated DNS? Holy poo poo guys, we have something like twenty domain controllers scattered throughout our enterprise. Is that redundant enough for you? No? The machine hosting the MySQL box is better, huh?
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mewse posted:As we go forward, these people age out and the excuses for destroying a network will become much less accepted. A baseline of computer literacy will be more strongly enforced. Right about the time we also get to experience the paperless office, yes siree. Misogynist posted:It's cool, we'll be just as incompetent in something new that we don't understand once we get up there in years. My mother was once CIO for an entire school district and now sometimes even the most intuitive functions of her cell phone absolutely baffle her. Someday I might be just like her, and it is a terrifying thought.
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Sirotan posted:Right about the time we also get to experience the paperless office, yes siree. See also: the 32 hour work week. There will be no "changing of the guard" when the boomers retire/die. Technology was supposed to make our lives easier, but it hasn't. Mostly this is because we focus our technological efforts towards consumer products. So, instead of working less, we work more because we suddenly have to dedicate more time and money towards consumer technology. Think about this, 30 years ago your phone was a simple static device that was attached to a wall in your kitchen. It made phone calls and nothing more and did not require a class at the tech college to operate it. Now your phone is a computer with a host of applications, all of which require time and money to understand and utilize. It's not just phones, it's everything, televisions, cars, even refrigerators. This is all very overwhelming and as such, we are becoming more and more specialized to deal with the vastness of our technology.
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FISHMANPET posted:I'm 27 and don't get Vine or Pinterest, but I do get Twitter. gently caress me, I've committed way too many useless startup facts to memory since I started working at one.
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Misogynist posted:Pinterest's biggest demographic is women in the Midwest, so that doesn't surprise me. Interesting, because my GF LOVES pinterest... and we live in the midwest I had also never heard of pinterest until she brought it up. I'm also of the generation that started growing up with computers, albeit not as advanced as they are now, I was 5 when we got a 286, maybe slightly younger. I have zero desire for twitter/vine/wtfeverflavoroftheyearis. Although snapchat I'm marginally interested in and might start using. I have literally never even loaded the twitter or vine websites and probably half of the other social media crap except facebook, myspace(what happened to you pornspace), and linkedin.
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I'm on a conference call and one of the guys keeps saying the word Cloud, and I'm mentally replacing it with the the word Butt.
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MF_James posted:I'm also of the generation that started growing up with computers, albeit not as advanced as they are now, I was 5 when we got a 286, maybe slightly younger. I have zero desire for twitter/vine/wtfeverflavoroftheyearis. Although snapchat I'm marginally interested in and might start using. Twitter is great for knowing when service providers are having issues they're not talking about, I use it for that all the time.
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sanchez posted:Twitter is great for knowing when service providers are having issues they're not talking about, I use it for that all the time. Haven't had to deal with outages from comcrap in a while, but thanks for the insight!
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Negromancer posted:As much as I fought it, I am converted to ubuntu server as well. It just drives me crazy since Ubuntu was originally started as a "easy to use" linux desktop offshoot of debian, but now they hold a pretty good share of servers. Part of me would rather just use debian, but ubuntu has more packages for it. Yeah, Cent is great if you are controlling domains or firewalls, but the packages it comes with are ancient and not well suited for stuff like Android source hosting or modern Bugzilla/php stuff. Hopefully someday the Ubuntu certification won't be a laughing stock of Certs.
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ratbert90 posted:modern Bugzilla
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I compiled Bugzilla on CentOS edit: but it was certainly the biggest pain-in-the-rear end of anything I've done with our servers. Still I'm pleased with the OS. In a few years of doing this stuff, I've never had it cause a fault of any kind that wasn't user-error. I couldn't imagine using Ubuntu on a server. teethgrinder fucked around with this message at 00:28 on Nov 8, 2013 |
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gently caress compiling anything on Linux these days when you can just load up a Bitnami appliance all ready to go.
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PCI compliance. We had a breach last year some where in the card data environment and so visa is coming in to audit us this year. They've blown this poo poo off for around 10 months and now it's hurry up and get it done. We can't have the PCI vlan touch the VMware servers because of some bad magic or some poo poo. We're using jump boxes to get into the PCI environment and we're connecting to those with dameware. Why we're not going with a terminal server running max encryption and two factor authentication? Because someone could have a key logger installed on their PC. This whole thing is a clusterfuck and I highly doubt we'll pass this audit with flying colors. I'm beyond flabbergasted with dealing with this. We're taking all the advice from these consultants instead of making well informed decisions. God drat I need a drink
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namol posted:PCI compliance. We had a breach last year some where in the card data environment and so visa is coming in to audit us this year. They've blown this poo poo off for around 10 months and now it's hurry up and get it done. We can't have the PCI vlan touch the VMware servers because of some bad magic or some poo poo. We're using jump boxes to get into the PCI environment and we're connecting to those with dameware. Why we're not going with a terminal server running max encryption and two factor authentication? Because someone could have a key logger installed on their PC. This whole thing is a clusterfuck and I highly doubt we'll pass this audit with flying colors. I'm beyond flabbergasted with dealing with this. We're taking all the advice from these consultants instead of making well informed decisions. God drat I need a drink There is nothing like a bunch of PWC 23 yr olds fresh out of college telling you how to run your IT department.
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sanchez posted:Twitter is great for knowing when service providers are having issues they're not talking about, I use it for that all the time. I just installed a Twitter App in our ticketing system so that we could update during outages and maintenance windows. I was pleasantly happy with how simple it was.
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Misogynist posted:It's cool, we'll be just as incompetent in something new that we don't understand once we get up there in years. This is not bad in and of itself. But see, here's the difference. If I have a job where someone pays me money, and this job involves using some kind of tool, I will learn how to use that tool. Because that's my job. Staff whose job it is to notify the whole company about policy changes and events and mandatory meetings should know how to send an email without causing the exchange server to catch fire, is all I'm saying.
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I managed to drain the batteries on my headset twice today from conference calls I didn't need to be on.
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dotster posted:There is nothing like a bunch of PWC 23 yr olds fresh out of college telling you how to run your IT department. Holy poo poo, this. What we have due to PCI is insane.
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Web application not accepting email addresses with a dash as valid
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Helushune posted:I gave up on their support site back when none of the links would load/take over 5 minutes to load under Chrome. I started using ftp://ftp.dell.com/Pages/Drivers/ with ctrl+f to find what I want and have never looked back. Do not use that, it is no longer updated! Go to http://ftp.dell.com instead, they have messed it up with javascript and poo poo, but it's still quicker than the support web page.
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dotster posted:There is nothing like a bunch of PWC 23 yr olds fresh out of college telling you how to run your
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Goddamnit, something broke monitoring on at least one server and I only noticed that things went to hell because I needed to send an email. Apparently someone interpreted "this service is for small files only" as "hey, let's just upload a pair of 8 gig VM images onto this filesystem with only 15 gigs free, what could go wrong." Goddamnit, users.
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Bohemian Cowabunga posted:Web application not accepting email addresses with a dash as valid
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GentlemansSleepover posted:I have several friends in their 20s-30s who are every bit as computer illiterate as my grandmother, and just as proud of it. Pride in ignorance pisses me off so much, especially that curiously middle class anti-intellectualism focused on the sciences. People who sneer at anyone who reads trashy books, yet also boast of how little they understand maths or computers.
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