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It sounds like if you'd been my IT guy at the state agency, I'd have had a much better time - simply because I would have had intelligent arguments :) The reaso
by gatlin 15y ago
It sounds like if you'd been my IT guy at the state agency, I'd have had a much better time - simply because I would have had intelligent arguments :) The reason the printers were like this is some initiative by our dumbass Governor called "Team for Texas," I'm told. It's not my IT guy's fault but it is dumb IT policy which is definitely why IT people get bad reps (even if it's not their fault) which I think is related to the article.
I know the internal web app argument for IE6 but all of the apps were native Java apps on top of Oracle databases.
I can't imagine it would take more than a cursory look at Notepad++ to vet it.
My main point here was that the IT guys were clearly not trained or knowledgeable. My mother works for this same agency and she has a lot of stress because of their inflexible and archaic policies. If they're going to make her life hell in the name of "security" then I expect them to actually provide security.
As far as my current job, we're expected to maintain our own machines because if we had to file a request for every shared library we need, nothing would get done. So, we're trusted with maintaining our own systems but they bothered getting our root passwords. And then continuing to trust us. It's confusing.
- oz 15y ago"I can't imagine it would take more than a cursory look at Notepad++ to vet it." This, right here, is the issue. You simply don't know what is involved. "I can't imagine why you need to draw blood to see if I have AIDS, Doctor" The specific program is not the issue. IT in the enterprise is all about centralized/standardized management and configuration. Every deviation from the standard is gonna increase the burden of maintenance. How it normally works is that there is a single base OS / apps specification, and defined optional applications. EVERYTHING is tested against these, and guaranteed to work. This allows deployment against a global fleet to go smoothly. It's all about known quantities, which allows them to quantify everything. Please remember that no IT guy wakes up in the morning and says "Yay! How can I make gatlin's life suck today???" It's more like, "Oh shit, last months patches are not being installed on those PCs in accounting. I wonder if it's the SCCM [0] client?" You find out 8 hours later that there's a conflict between $NON-STANDARD APPLICATION and the SCCM client. Have fun scouring Technet and forums to find a solution. These are the things that fill us with dread. I'm not saying it's right. Just want you to see the other side. [0]- Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager