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At an Internet-major co in my country, my VP Engineering told me "We don't run stuff downloaded from the internet around here" - I was proposing to trial a Solr
by ghoul2 5y ago
At an Internet-major co in my country, my VP Engineering told me "We don't run stuff downloaded from the internet around here" - I was proposing to trial a Solr/Lucene based search backend as a replacement for the awful MySQL based hacked-together search they then had.
I wanted to ask him if he got his copies of Apache/Mysql/php/Redhat on government stamp paper. Instead, I quit two weeks later.
- walrus01 5y agoMaybe they just installed it from redhat cd-roms or dvd-roms and never updated their systems, and considered it "trustworthy" because it came on physical media from the vendor. Have seen that more than once.
- handrous 5y agoMeanwhile, at the company that creates those disks: downloads images from the Internet, burns them to CD
- walrus01 5y agoexactly!
- handrous 5y agoMaybe the brilliant 5D chess move here would have been to download what was needed, then put it on a disc with a printed label. 6D Chess: set up an LLC to do this, and convince the place to buy the discs at significant markup.
- walrus01 5y agoOn a more serious note, when the VP of engineering or CTO or somebody similar takes such a dreadfully ignorant approach, it's a very good indicator that something is more fundamentally wrong and to jump ship. Such a person should be at least capable of understanding the modern concept of how something like a .deb file is authenticated based on its hash from the public gpg keys for the debian package server in question, or the equivalent thereof for redhat/centos.
- sitkack 5y agoThat could get you some jailtime if the org decides you are embezzling, witness poorly done versions of the this same scam.
- bluedino 5y agoI worked at a place where I couldn't download Linux and install it, I had to buy it from somewhere. I bought whatever the latest version of Redhat was, and then I downloaded the latest from their site (since I'd have to update anyway), and nobody questioned it even though I installed it way before the software actually got delivered. On the other hand, I bought the most expensive version I could ($139 vs $49 or $79, just to throw some money Redhat's way)
- raffraffraff 5y ago"We don't stand on the shoulders of giants here. We bake own cakes from scratch. See that DNS server? I wrote it in 8086 assembly."