Posts by Confucious2 61 publicly visible posts • joined 2 Dec 2022
I was yelled at by a CIO for trashing their security.
She went red in the face as she asked my if I wasn’t told which buttons to press on my three day induction.
It was my first morning, the CFO called me in and told me to ignore her as I’d done exactly what he bought me in for.
The CIOs idea of security was telling people exactly what keys to press so, apparently, I shouldn’t have taken a hidden option and given myself qsysopr rights.
Many years ago I worked in finance and we had 3 PCs in a department of 24 and the finance system was on an AS400
Data was printed out from the AS400 and entered in to the PCs
I got a demo of RUMBA which could connect the PCs to the AS400.
Our IT department said they could install it on the AS400 but they knew nothing about PCs so tgat was up to me.
Obviously the first thing i did when I got it working was have a poke around.
When I asked them if I should be able to see a file containing everyone’s user name and password they said no such file existed. When I showed them part of the file they said I shouldn’t be able to see it and did move it somewhere I couldn’t access.
Things have got better since then…
It takes me 2 1/2 hours to get to the office. I wouldn’t have been able to take the job if I had to go in all the time. I do like going in occasionally and have a bi weekly meeting with my manager and we find it’s more productive in person so I tend to go in once a fortnight and it’s nice to see colleagues in person when I do.
It works for me and my employer.
Making people goin to the office unnecessarily is surely limiting their market?
I took a job during Covid where the office was 90 miles away. I went in once a week.
I moved house and the office is now 110 miles away and I started going in once a fortnight.
My manager said my change in working practice had been noticed, but as it was working it wasn’t a problem.
It very much depends on the job. I’m in my 60s and know what I’m doing, but it must be difficult for youngsters who are still learning.
I’d hate to not go in at all (tried that with another role, it didn’t last long) but my job was mainly remote from the start.
For me, it’s meant I could move to a lovely village in the countryside rather than live in a town with good train connections to London.
Forcing people to go back for no reason is pointless, but, if people are more productive in the office that is a good reason.
No one size fits all.
I’ve seen projects where the management is to scared to say no go even if they know it will be a disaster, so kudos to them for having the balls to do so.
But a go live in December? As others have said, that should have been enough for a no go flag months ago. It’s not just retail that have freezes in December.
I hope it works for them and the support staff don’t end up having to do even more overtime over Christmas and the NewYear.
I’m still not sure what all the fuss about Win95 was, it was Win 3.0 that made the real difference, that was the one I waited for and installed on the day of release and then had to figure out how to get Lotus123 to access all that extra memory.
That was a good day.
Win 95 just gave us a pretty interface but no real benefit that anyone could make use of.
I ran out of 50Gb years ago, next level is 2Tb which was £6.99 until they put it up to £8.99/ month.
I wasn’t happy, but pay for the convenience.
£70? Yippee - the lawyers will be the only ones making money while tying up the legal system on a case which will almost certainly fail. I’m not holding my breath.
The first 80486 computer my company got me had its memory soldered to the motherboard.
It had 1Mb but you could upgrade it by adding another 4Mb taking the total to 5 Mb - which was a bit pointless as nothing could access more than 4.
It was the first 80486 to cost less than £4k but, by the time they had upgraded the memory and the HD to a massive 100Mb it actually cost £5695
Luckily I wasn’t paying because that was quite a bit back then.
Lotus 123 was far,far better than Excel.
The only reason people moved to Excel is because IBM bought Lotus for Lotus Notes and stopped developing 123
Eventually Excel was the only option but still isn’t a full 3D spreadsheet like 123 was.
Lotus Improv was brilliant - until you added one more dimension and found 4Mb RAM wasn’t enough.
It’s the same as any other service.
You will get someone in that writes a business case that proves you will save millions by outsourcing.
A couple of years later, after you have, someone else comes in that writes a business that proves you will save millions by bringing it back in house.
A couple of years later, after you have, someone else comes in that writes a business that proves you will save millions by outsourcing again.
If you actually made 1/10 of the savings, after a few iterations they would actually be paying you.
I worked for a small company and we did grandfather, father, son backups daily.
So when our server was stolen, no problem, right?
Well, no, the director who did the backups himself and was sup to take the tapes home to his fireproof safe, didn’t. He left the tapes on top of the server, so the thieves nicked them as well.
D’Oh!
Slightly off topic, but I don’t know anyone who uses Apple Maps, here in the UK it is absolutely useless.
I try it occasionally as people say it’s improved a lot but still find it a waste of space.
My wife and I have 3 iPads and two iPhones between us and love everything about Apple - except Maps.
I was at a small company once and we did full grandfather/father/son backups onto tape.
It didn’t help us when some oiks walked in and nicked our server.
The director, who was supposed to take the tapes home each night and lock them in a fireproof safe, had got complacent and left the tapes on top of the server. Of course the oiks nicked them as well…
