IT BS thread

My guess is @CaptAmerica is correct. There were some internet connective issues earlier this week across the Country though by most all network providers and my be the cause of sync issues. Anyone remember double take and synchronizing?

I still look at Sharepoint as a group collaborative software and not so much a true document management system. I am the Technical Specialist of the Electronic Content Management Systems (ECMS) team at work. My Certified Document Imaging Architect cert reads Architect from 25 years ago before the "Architects" got their panties in a knot and made it change to Architech under threat of a lawsuit before more than a couple hundred of us got it. Was about the time of my certs for NT 4, Netware CNE 4.11, Citrix Winframe, blah, blah, blah. Haven't gotten any certs since then, don't need them and no desire to play that silly game.

Gartner has been used for a long time for their quads for presales engineering and analysis back in the day. They feel Sharepoint is a document management system from the last evaluation in Oct. 2019



If that makes you feel any better. But it depends on your needs analysis, workflow and business processes. I spent the last 12 years migrating data from more than 1,000 different systems around the Country into the OpenText IDM bucket. So that we could move it all into Hyland OnBase. Because it meets our needs, doesn't mean it fits yours.

Wut?!

When I first moved to Mn. the first thing everyone taught me was Iowa jokes. Don't make me go there

Although if you think Sharepoint sucks you obviously never have worked with Oracle UCM (Universal Content Manager). It makes (now IBM) Filenet look good. Let alone SharePoint.

 

Well, I'm actually here as a clueless user venting.


I'm trying to bring some sanity to my groups documentation. Right now it's spread across PDFs, personal OneNote files, and a SharePoint site or two.

All the SharePoint configuration is done by our IT overlords, so I have very little control over it. I need it to sync with Teams and sync offline reliably because we spent a lot of time in the field without good internet. But those folders have been randomly popping up over the last few months, one in Feb and one in December, so I'm not convinced I can trust it.

 

Some things are better, some are worse.

Overall, teams just feels like it's not done yet.

 

Yeah the meeting functionality is so good it's hard to believe the same company also runs Skype.

But like the teams wiki functionality. Last I checked, you can't search a teams wiki. Their user voice page for teams has had an issue for 3 years and 6600 votes requesting it, and it finally got added to the backlog this Feb, so maybe ....someday?

It's just frustrating as a user to have things that work get replaced with less functional things. I made some really kick-ass SharePoint stuff in 2012-2013 and near as I can tell, some of that is impossible now.

 

Teams is great provide you completely migrate from Skype. We still don’t have Teams functioning in our CAG environments and it’s a freaking mess talking between the two.

 

Anyone use the ZFS filesystem? I've been using it for a few years on my laptop. Now that it has native encryption on Linux, I'll most likely use ZFS over LVM/LUKS in the future.

 

I use it on my home server, but hadn't gone as far as to laptop it.

I like it though.

 

Felt like some Wednesday OC.

 

Especially when you set it for text to be green And sure as hell not talking about iPhone...

 

Oh good, I never learned JavaScript

 

We are replacing all Java code as fast as we can. Apparently one of our contract vendors is a specialist in converting Java-based systems to HTML5. All I know is that they go from having 137 vulnerabilities to near zero by the time they’re done.

Makes me happy.

 

Oh. So, I learned C instead.





But I do mostly python right now, and if its C, its embedded.


I didn't realize java was that bad though.

 

There’s a poster on the wall in our Linux shop. It reads:

I had a problem and I used Java to fix it.

Now I have 137 problems.

 

I recall when Sun announced that they had developed code that would run on any OS platform.

Thought BS and still think I was correct.

Retired from the Navy not long after that and an Air Force guy started not long after that where I now work for the last 20 years. Websphere and Java (Write once debug forever) and Perl script as complicated as he could get. On purpose.

He retired at the first of the year. Thank God. Liked him but like OIS didn't know how to do much of anything in the real world, only what you could or couldn't do. Not actually do anything or solve problems in a collaborative environment.

His Java was so convoluted it was security though obscurity. And no documentation. Of course.

My youngest sister was an early hire at EMC and was the manager of the worlds largest computing power in the research lab. When I had an issue with a script would ping her and she would run my sh script by David Bourne himself.

Fuck Sun, yachts, Java and Oracle. Just saying...

 

I've worked with people like that too. Reading his code was a nightmare. The guy knew better, but he knew our boss didn't care, so he just cranked out mediocre code as quickly as possible. If statement after if statement - running on a micro controller. So glad I wasn't on that project, and that I got to write my own code.

Where I'm at now they're alllll about procedure and documentation. Sometimes I feel like they've gone off the deep end to where they think only about the document and forget about what the customer actually needs.

 

We run Fortify on EVERYTHING. We've canned support contractors who couldn't write cleanly and pass a code review.

I love our security suite.

 

I'm liking ZFS from Sun/Oracle. So at least they have one good thing going.

Wish I had more patience to learn more code. I can write some decent shell scripts but that's about it.

 

Thats because it came from Sun originally.

The hope now is that Oracle doesn't screw it up.