Posts by Fatman 2400 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Apr 2008
Doesn't fly at WROK PALCE.
NO C level twat (hmmm, perhaps I should use another term, since the majority of the C levels here are female) twit can over rule what the CIO decides the rules should be. End of discussion. The owner has her back on that one. "C" levels that do not abide are promoted to a position at another company.
Don't feel bad, you are not alone:
http://www.tampabay.com/news/business/energy/officials-must-decide-if-crystal-river-nuclear-plant-is-needed/1249178
A perfect example of why it is better to leave complicated repairs to the experts.
BTW, Progress Energy was merged into Duke Energy recently. The original plan was for the Progress CEO to take the CEO position of the merged company. Look what happened to him:
Johnson’s abrupt removal July 2, just hours after Duke closed the merger, is the subject of the probe launched July 6 by the commission and a parallel investigation started by the North Carolina attorney general. (emphasis is mine)
source: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/08/08/3438059/duke-energy-submits-1900-pages.html (para # 7 under 'Early Doubts')
From the article: ....install Poison Ivy on victims' Windows machines.
I am so glad that my employer has gotten itself off that trouble plagued WindblowZE platform, and transitioned to Linux.
While this is a Java vulnerability the end result is that if you are using WindblowZE, you have been had.
I view the use of WindblowZE as the difference between doing oxy-acetylene welding in a concrete building as compared to doing it in a wood frame structure. All it takes is one spark to bring the building down in flames. Now how many times have we seen WindblowZE go up in flames???
NO, sorry, I don't. I live in one of those USA "at will" states. Which simply means that if your employer says "Goodbye", then you are out. Unless you are in a sensitive role, most douche bag employers do not want a contract, as it could be used against them. Now, when dealing with a more reputable employer, things may be different.
Note in my comment, I used the term: douche bag employer. for me this has a special connotation - one who is sleazy, underhanded, and cares only on how much they can shaft you. I spoke to my brother who has a douche bag boss. They want him on salary, so they do not have to pay the overtime. A little math will quickly tell if that "pay raise" doesn't amount to a pay cut once you figure in the compulsory overtime.
Try again.
It has been my experience that when you are working for a douche bag employer, and you are leaving to accept another position, you must do the following:
1) hand over any and all keys to the premises,
2) in front of the douche bag, and in the presence of witnesses, force the douche bag to change your password immediately,
3) inform the douche bag that you want your final paychecks sent to your residence,
4) inform the douche bag that they are NOT to contact you for ANY reason, what ever problems they were having are no longer your problem,
5) collect your possessions and leave immediately, and if the relationship is that strained, have a police officer present to insure a peaceful departure.
Then be very glad to be rid of those douche bags. Refuse to help in any way former colleagues from that place. You do not know if you are being "set up". The fact that you left under adverse conditions is fair warning that they can not be trusted. Lastly, do not bother with "exit interviews", they don't give a fuck as to why you left, and they are probably looking for some excuse to disparage you.
We 'merkins have a recent example of this, the shit imposed on us by W, which Obama has decided not to undo.
Can you trust the authorities not to screw the common man if they can get away with it??? I don't.
Welcome to the `Police State of Amerika`, your papers please!!!!!
Hey 'Reg, I have asked about a bullshit icon before, any chance of it ever happening???
You know that is the real reason behind the DOJ's clumsy raid on Megaupload.
I bet the piggies at the MAFIAA member labels and film studios shit bricks at the prospect of seeing their snouts taken out of the revenue stream food chain if Megabox were actually launched.
Shit, it doesn't take a fucking rocket scientist to see that if artists could completely bypass the pigs at the trough the record labels; and sell directly to consumers, who the fuck needs the labels any more???? What value do they add to the equation??? I can easily see what they subtract from the equation. Talk about a monumental shift in the game. But, the fucking labels, run by the dinosaurs that can not appreciate new technologies, are facing being left behind.
Do I feel sorry for those bastards? Fuck NO!!!!
Actually, he was close.
A commonly found term for those evil organizations is MAFIAA.aka Music And Film Industry Association of America.
Some have suggested that the I may suggest other words, like Incompetent or Idiot; while the first A might be better expressed as Assholes.
Ah, another soul that does not drink the kool-aid. How refreshing to see an enlightened and informed viewpoint.
Perhaps, it is because of that clarity, I like working for my current employer.
Each one of the wanna-be PHB's who spoke "cloud" at a C level executive session, got 1) {metaphorically speaking} their ass reamed by a 10 meter diameter tunnel boring machine, and 2) summarily fired for incompetence.
Our IT department enjoys ripping any "cloud" proposal to shreds; in fact, we have turned it into 'sport'. You just have to feel sorry for those PHB's, being led out of the executive conference room, trailing blood from `what used to be their ass`!
Back some years ago, I encountered a reel of acetate based magnetic recording tape that probably was made in the 1950's.
That stuff did not even survive being played at a slow speed of 3-3/4 inches per second.
The binder was so badly dried out that the oxide coating literally flaked off on the playback head. The transport deck was just coated with oxide. Fortunately, this particular reel did not contain anything of importance; but it made it clear that any attempt to recover material stored on other tapes must be done by people skilled in the art.
The motion picture industry has the same problems with old film masters.
I would suggest that the MAFIAA leadership is probably shitting bricks over that requirement.
Ponder this possibility:
The MAFIAA, unable to use civil courts and remedies to smack down Megaupload, convinces the US DOJ, to engage in this clumsy operation solely for the purpose of smacking Megaupload down. There is documentary evidence to that effect, and now, according to the NZ courts, must be disclosed. Now what the fuck does the MAFIAA do? If this documentation does get released, it could result in a shit storm for the MAFIAA; while if it doesn't, then the NZ courts are not likely to play ball.
Here is the interesting aspect, if the docs get released, and the suspected smoking gun is found; would the MAFIAA members face the possibility of civil suits from DotCom. The prospect of seeing varied MAFIAA leaders (metaphorically speaking) hung by the balls in public, is just too delicious.
BTW, is `hangthembytheballs.com` available???
From the article:
As noted by NZ’s LawGeekNZ blog, the disclosure would cover communications between US authorities and the MPAA and RIAA on behalf of copyright owners..
That alone would make for some interesting, and potentially embarrassing reading. Could it be that the MAFIAA doesn't want the rest of the world to know that they `own` the US Government.
In the 1970's I had considered getting into radio, and quickly dismissed that idea as misguided.
I quickly found out all about having to kiss the asses of advertisers, and why, commercial radio is incapable of anything better than Top 40.
It was pointed out to me that commercial radio is a business that exists solely for the purpose of serving up an audience to advertisers. Any deviation from the "approved" Top 40 hitshit list would be grounds for termination. Consequently, commercial radio, is incapable of innovation.
I was fortunate to find that in my area was a non commercial station, where the hosts were given the freedom to pick what music genre they wanted to explore, and the depth to which they could explore it.
I remember speaking to my uncle about this "experiment", and as a commercial broadcaster, he said it would never work. Funny, they have been on the air for over 30 years. I wonder if the AM station he worked for is still around?
Just what the labels want, people lapping up the crappy audio quality for music.
To me, when the Amazon price for a CD is only $1.00 more than a digital download; and having known someone who got fucked by "plays for sure", I would rather have the CD, at least I don't have to worry about that server being shut down.
What a bunch of fucking ID10Ts.
Hey 'Reg, how about a dopey teenager icon?
I propose the following legislation:
In the event of a security breach at a facility supplying critical services, including, but not limited to, power, communications, water, sanitary sewer, fuel pipelines, healthcare facilities and transportation facilities; the CEO and CIO, and where employed, the CSO shall be executed by firing squad in the event of a preventable breach.
Need I say more?
That opens up a whole new can of worms.
Just how would a BOFH react to a female boss? What if she were:
1) a real `ball busting` bitch?
2) hot as hell, and smart to boot?
3) a lesbian?
4) the big boss' daughter? (wife?) (sister?)
5) younger than the BOFH?
6) just as devious as the BOFH?
7) not afraid of duking it out at the `boys club`?
8) out for revenge, as the BOFH had caused her husband (father, brother, etc) a shitload of grief?
9) could drink the BOFH and PFY completely under the table?
Any takers?? Simon, you listening?
Because, dear boy, you sometimes have to explain things to people who sign your paycheck!!!!
It is one thing to take your cheap shots at some damager, who is nothing more than hired help; but insulting the owner of your company is a serious career killing move.
Also, sometimes you have to play nice with (l)users, if you want to get ahead.
Damn it man!
Get creative.
Arrange for a generator accident. (i.e. NEVER manually switch the power to the generator from the utility; with the front of the transfer switch OPEN.)
Arrange for him to perform an elevator inspection (I believe you Brits call it a 'lift'?); with a faulty upper limit switch. He will experience how it feels to have his head jammed between the top of the cab and the top of the shaft. If that can't be done, and you are in one of those old building with a motor-generator set for the elevator power, then tell him to check the belt tension. Pray that his tie gets yanked into the pulley grooves.
Arrange for the fool to perform a test of the Halon system. And make sure that the doors close quickly, so he gets trapped inside.
Tell him that there is some water trapped in the refrigerant lines between the air handler and the outside compressor. Hand him a hacksaw, and tell him that he needs to cut a slot in the copper tubing to let the water out.
I mean, shit, get creative; and rid yourself of such a clusterfuck mangler.
Because the damagement types buy into the sales weasel's pitch, hook, line and sinker, and do not have the understanding to properly comprehend the implications of going to the cloud, except it will increase the size of their bonus.
Second, they hope to have moved on before the shit hits the fan. (as it eventually does)
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This is like someone in the 1970's expecting a Minicomputer to outperform a Mainframe. Its unrealistic and the idiots (read: Politicians) who think they know better than the Intelligence NCOs and Officers, as well as Officers who are not from our branch and have no frame of reference for what they're talking about dictating that they're right to the people who do use this stuff and have careers that could be made or broken by this, not to mention the people that could be killed if one of these systems isnt up to snuff.
Sound like the military's version of damagement????
At least, in the military, there is a solution for this that is somewhat problematic in the civilian world. My Viet Nam era buddies often called it fragging (for those who are too young: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragging )
And then the console screen flashes:
Windows for Extraplanetary Spacecraft must now reboot to complete the installation. Please remove all media and click "OK".
That poor thing, just sitting there, all alone with no one there to click on the "OK" button.
Life in eternity.........
Waiting......................
You seem to forget that there are constraints on the power budget of Curiosity. More flash memory equals less power for experiments, so there has to be a trade off.
Again, it isn't how much memory you have, but how you use it. Very efficient coding techniques get the maximum bang out of your hardware.
At lunch today, with my direct boss (the CIO) and the CEO/owner in attendance, this subject came up.
I posed this question to the CEO/owner:
If you, as the majority stockholder of our company, saw that your (non-stockholding) CEO inflicted this level of financial pain to the companies' net worth; what would you do about it?
Her reply was:
I'd do a "Ballmer" and make damn sure his ass was in the chair as it sailed out of the top (fifth) floor window. I would make sure that his employment contact had a clause in it that would allow me to get rid of him without severance pay or benefit in the event of such a serious clusterfuck.
Then she said:
Now, you know why I run this company, as opposed to just hiring some fuckwit to do it for me.
And more.
I propose a three strikes rule for those entities who engage in incorrect copyright infringement allegations.
First offense: $10,000,00 fine.
Second offense: a $25,000,000 fine plus the CEO is incarcerated for 30 days in a MAXIMUM SECURITY FACILITY.
Third offense: $100,000,000 fine, and all `C` level types are extraordinarily renditioned to some gulag in a remote part of the world for life.
Think they will "get the message???"
Quote: It would seem that the ESA, in announcing Mars Express' amazing new discoveries just days before Curiosity comes in to land (the imagery was actually taken in April) may be indicating that it is a tiny bit miffed by the fact that the Holden/Eberswalde/Ladon region didn't get beyond the shortlist.
I hate to be seen as a smug bastard, but you (the ESA) can send up your own probe and have a look-see, if you want. NASA probably won't mind.
BTW, fingers crossed for a successful landing, for Mars has this appetite for eating spacecraft `for lunch`.
Perhaps it did!!!
(Now to get my damagement bashing in; and this is just speculation, mind you.)
Perhaps the warning signs were there, but damagement, in its quest for ever increasing profits, decided to hold off replacing the drives. Could it be that they did not want their quarterly bonuses to take a `hit`??? The spreadsheet jockeys could not find a line item for replacement drives.
Icon that says it all.
I would not know about that; but these assholes seemed to have found a way out:
http://www.tampabay.com/news/courts/criminal/gossip-scuttles-dontae-morris-trial-hillsborough-judge-dismisses-jury-pool/1243583
BTW, the defendant is accused of 5 murders, two of them being police officers.
And it is these Luddites that often cause so dammed many problems for IT because they fail to understand how IT impacts their business.
Imagine a wholesale distributor who (IMHO, stupidly) migrates core billing services to a `cloud provider`, and has to deal with the aftermath of the cloud provider fucking up. Can you say insolvency??
Yet there are those members of damagement who only look at the spreadsheet, and see the line item cost for IT, and think: "We have to cut that, or else we won't get our quarterly bonus". I have seen it happen. My employer bought up such a company, and the first thing we did was to kick the asses of the entire `C` level suite out the door. The morale there was in the pits, as the employees did not give a shit about damagement, because damagement did not give a shit about anyone else but themselves.
One of the first questions we were posed with was: "What is going to happen to the remaining IT staff"? A lot of jangled nerves were soothed when they were told that the cloud was being ditched, and the outsourced IT functions were being brought back in house.
"Cloud??? We don't do stupid shit like that for core billing services." We don't want to put a core business function in the hands of a third party, whose only risk is having to refund a portion of your monthly bill for failure to live up to its SLA; while for the business, the risk has no limits. Bad proposition, IMHO.
Agreed!
But, not only did he `hit the nail on its head`; he used a 10kg sledgehammer to accomplish it.
I suggest that punishment of the C level ranks at RBS start with the CEO, and he should have his balls whacked with said sledgehammer. Then follow down the line as required.
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