I think I need a >ca-click< device for our data-centre tours
BOFH: Backup server's failed? We have a backup backup server
I bloody hate SRTs (or Server Room Tourists as they're more commonly called). "And... what does this one do?" the new Boss asks, pointing at a server front panel. "That would be the frontend of the company portal," the PFY nods knowingly. "And this one?" he asks, gesturing to the panel below. "The redundant frontend for …
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Friday 16th August 2013 08:21 GMT Anonymous Coward
Classic!
"Anyway," the PFY says, taking the Boss around the back of a row of racks "Let's take a look at all the backend servers..."
The PFY then proceeds to introduce the Boss to the rear end of all the servers he's just shown him, pretending that they're the backend servers.
The Boss is so mentally taxed now that he's just nodding at NIC lights blankly.
Just brilliant!
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Saturday 17th August 2013 13:20 GMT jonathanb
Accounting just want to tick off a list of fixed assets to say they have seen them.
Ask for a numbered list of the assets they want to audit, and put numbered stickers randomly on the kit to match the stuff they want to tick off on the list. If you want to really impress them, pick some very old stuff on the list and tell them it has been scrapped.
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Friday 16th August 2013 15:21 GMT stephajn
Customer Torture
Now it appears the PFY's doing a Excuse-Calendar-like loose triple of: { { primary, secondary, tertiary, backup, redundant, sequentially-paired} { web, portal, financials, backup, authentication, ERP } { server, matrix, frontend, backend, core} }
I have done something like this with certain doofus customers from time to time. They want to appear smarter than me even though they just asked me where the lowercase keys on the keyboard are. Once they expose themselves to having that level of ignorance, then it is GLOVES OFF BABY!
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Friday 16th August 2013 18:16 GMT Herby
New multi box...
What is needed is a nice big box that has changeable displays, with LOTS of blinken lights. Of course there will be nothing behind the "curtain", but that's not the point. You need something that "The Boss" thinks is important (read expensive). In the end, it could probably be driven by a simple Raspberry Pi box.
I am told that old Connection Machines were pretty good at doing this.
As for Halon: Just have a "backup suppression device" that is tied to a LARGE klaxon. The kind that really force "The Boss" out. Indicate that the suppression is virtual as well, but VERY dangerous (life threatening).
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Saturday 17th August 2013 07:14 GMT amanfromMars 1
Sow a crazy mad, mad, mad, mad whirlwind ..... and reap CHAOS Reigns with Tempestuous Storms
Indicate that the suppression is virtual as well, but VERY dangerous (life threatening). ..... Herby Posted Friday 16th August 2013 18:16 GMT
And so it is in the real world of the politically incorrect and inept and corrupt, Herby, with new fangled remote control of command and entangling systems of operation with global operating devices for super surreal and sublime and stealthy servering and service of Advanced Intelligence Networking with Future Provision of Present Supplies for Replacement of Failed Past Programming Programs and Pogroms via Regular and Alternative IT and Media Distribution Channels/Waves/Clouds........ Beta Pathed Ways.
GCHQ Type SkunkWorks in Virtual Realms with Following Functions in Phorms, and easily plausibly denied and disowned, lest extant status quo systems be realised pwnd.
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Saturday 17th August 2013 10:56 GMT John H Woods
Boss Types
"And so it goes. I'm generally happy with a Boss who either wants to know nothing about the hardware and is happily ignorant OR with a Boss who wants to know every little technical detail and is able to provide intelligent insight into our activities, but a Boss who wants to know everything and yet still be ignorant is pushing the envelope as far as my patience concerned."
To enable one to select appropriate employment, all organizations should have X:Y:Z ratings (like NPK values for fertilizer) to measure these three categories.