My organization's pretty dumb too, they have a default password which everyone is "expected" to change. You can pretty much take a stab on how many people actually changes them.
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RE: Security... not quite getting it
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RE: 20 mins...
wonder whether its worth doing business with these people having to go through all that crap.
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20 mins...
I was running ICT Disaster Recovery for my organization and one of our tasks were to educate key stakeholders on the importance of uptime of key ICT components. So here I was summoned by the CEO of this plant that churns out a gazillion dollars worth of fuel products for a presentation. It's my 15th presentation so I figure that I'm an old hand at it.
This CEO is old school and he wants to have the presentation done during his "Management Commitee" update with the rest of the General Managers. So I arrived on time. 9am sharp, (this was after 40 min cab ride to the airport, an hour plane ride, and another 2 hours to get to the plant)
Yet, I was ready to go... but 30 mins later was told that my slot was moved back for more pressing matters. One of the systems went down and they needed to find the root cause, so I had my aha moment there.
One hour passed, another hour, and lo and behold they moved it after lunch. (Oh, I forgot to tell you guys that MC updates can last the whole day)
I was pretty pissed off by then but kept my cool when its my turn at 430pm. Explained the importance of Business Impact Analysis to identify crucial ICT dependencies to business outcome, the legalities of not being able to deliver your product to customers in the event of system downtime...
20 mins down the presentation and after all that travelling, waiting, the CEO looks at me, looks around the board room and exclaimed.
"Oh my Plant does not need ICT to run, you may go now."
Till this day, I still haven't figured out why I was summoned in the first place.
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RE: The Time Space Continuum
hahahah excellent, i was afraid the forum is turning into some technical solution panel.
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RE: The Time Space Continuum
had a similar problem a number of years ago. We were so caught up in the whole "framework" that the architects worships like its the 10 commandments. Essentially an XML based wrapper written in COM which is horrendoesly slow. Anyhow, finally screwed the powers that be and worked with ORACLE BULK INSERT worked our way down from an estimated 2 weeks to 2 hours.
Still, 60GB is time warpingly big, you've gotta somehow work out a one time load which will definately take hours, and subsequently come up with an algorithm to load only the deltas via a hash lookup. Hopefully the data is not contiguous and can be chunked up into manageable chunks. Can't imagine any system that generates 60GB of text based data per day.
Suspect that its probably accumulated data from donkey years ago.
Dumbasses upstairs will understand once you compare the figures and effort requirements. Else, hire a russian with a Doctorate in Nuclear physics to explain to the bosses. They have this "halo" effect that makes top brasses listen. Unfortunately, upper management looks down on developers unless you're a CEO of your own fortune 500 company. Here's other people that has halo effects.
- Caucasians with British accent that wears a white suit
- Hire Carly Fiorina to do the presentation
- If you're in Asia, hire any Caucasion. For best effect, get an Irish cause most Asians can't understand the accent, but they'll agree to anything a caucasian says.
Good luck!
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Chickenshit Management
Ever faced chicken shit management? You know, the type that fears signing anything, even for an approval to attain a LAN line.
They'd ask dumb questions like, why do you need it for? You already have internet at home and in the office we work.I once worked in a bank's IT dept where they delivered a server to our office, except the delivery man didn't put it up properly so it blocked the way in. So I voluntered my self and a buddy of mine to move it aside. Before I could even touch the server the departmental manager screamed at us for actually suggesting it.
Never mind that folks had to move sideways just to get into the office and there's an even bigger risk that people might trip and tip the box. His answer was a simple, "You know much that cost, and how I WILL be in trouble if anything happens to the server".
So the machine stayed there for 2 days until the movers came back and pushed it 5 feet to a corner. Till this day, he still falls in my book as the most cowardly manager ever.