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Mistakes are made. In related news... Lawn care error kills most of Ohio college's grass http://www.wral.com/lawn-care-error-kills-most-of-ohio-colle...
One of the lessons from my college days (informally acquired, take with appropriate quantities of salt) was that walking barefoot was as much a risk for chemical exposure as puncture wounds.
https://twitter.com/DEVOPS_BORAT/status/41587168870797312 "To make error is human. To propagate error to all server in automatic way is #devops." Frankly, I'm surprised things like this don't happen more often. Kudos for the incident management. Also a big plus for having working backups, it seems.
I wish that account was still updating.
https://twitter.com/DEVOPS_BORAT/status/41587168870797312 "To make error is human. To propagate error to all server in automatic way is #devops." Frankly, I'm surprised things like this don't happen more often. Kudos for the incident management. Also a big plus for having working backups, it seems.
@DEVOPS_BORAT is actually very insightful in about 1/5 tweets. Snide for sure, but there are quite a few good points in there if you read carefully: "In devops we have best minds of generation are deal with flaky VPN client." "Single point of failure in private cloud is of usually Unix guy with neckbeard." These are gold. Edit: based on the above advice I once grew out a neckbeard while going through a multi-month ro…
But not English, I can't make sense of them.
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It's not a standard across the board, but I've found academic institutions to be more honest about their technological mistakes (outside of large-scale breaches) than the private sector.
I worked at a company for several years that provided software to the IT groups in the higher ed vertical. What I found is there are two types of people in higher-ed IT (and they often congregate at different campuses): First are the people who believe in the mission. They are really good, and are willing to take a cut in pay for some combination of social good, great working environment, etc. These kinds of people t…
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But then that leads to people automatically clicking "Yes" to the "Are you sure..." dialog. Though even I would pause at "Are you sure you want to reformat 12,500 machines including this one?" ;-)
Having people type in some sort of auto-generated confirmation key might give them pause, seeing as the technique is seldom used.
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>best minds of generation are deal with flaky VPN client So true. I'm on the receiving side of this..."No you can't work on that multi million deadline project of yours...the only way to fix the VPN is to re-image the machine back at head office [an international flight away]". Me..."Could you repeat that?" And thats a Cisco Enterprise VPN...(turns out IT was right...re-image & avoid conflicting software is the only…
Are you calling yourself one of the best minds of our generation?
https://twitter.com/DEVOPS_BORAT/status/41587168870797312 "To make error is human. To propagate error to all server in automatic way is #devops." Frankly, I'm surprised things like this don't happen more often. Kudos for the incident management. Also a big plus for having working backups, it seems.
I wish that account was still updating.
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You know what? Fuck them. Fuck higher education completely. Undervalued and underpaid is the name of the game for any important IT roles in that shit hole of an industry. Disclaimer: dev at a university.
To be fair, a lot of the people working in support roles in academia are pretty much unemployable in the real world. They show up at 10 am, take constant smoke breaks all day, and leave at 3 pm. When I was in physics (which used the main university servers for most things) we had a sysadmin who was in charge of some printers and a couple of server boxes. He had inherited those boxes from a former student who set them…
Certainly not everyone is like him - but I'd wager every university has at least a couple of people like him (we definitely had one, again, in physics)
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>best minds of generation are deal with flaky VPN client So true. I'm on the receiving side of this..."No you can't work on that multi million deadline project of yours...the only way to fix the VPN is to re-image the machine back at head office [an international flight away]". Me..."Could you repeat that?" And thats a Cisco Enterprise VPN...(turns out IT was right...re-image & avoid conflicting software is the only…
Are you calling yourself one of the best minds of our generation?