IT BS thread

Hi Dan! Welcome to TW.

 

Welcome

 

I am more in the Cisco/F5 space more than anything else. Just like a gazillion other folks. Good times

 

We have more F5s than I can count. Our network folks call them "job security."

 

They are indeed a special treat.

 

Just a helpful announcement, Microsoft is offering a free Python for Beginners course on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlrxD0HtieHhS8VzuMCfQD4uJ9yne1mE6

 

My desktop is running out of memory on photorectification runs. Damn 64gb setups are cheap now, though.

 

I like job security. Without Microsoft, Apple, Google, et al, and their crappy software/hardware what would we do, be productive members of society?

 

Microsoft and windows servers sure keep our vulnerability remediation program active. It’s the *nix ones that stress us out the most because that’s where most of our custom code lives. A high or critical vulnerability there means code changes, and the clock starts ticking on discovery. We get audited heavily on those, and rely on a lot of compensating security measures for added protection.

 

Love that custom code . . .

 

Looks like the guys who wrote it. “We couldn’t figure out how to fix the connection in HTML5 so we’re using Java...” (gunshot)

 

Code:

#!/bin/sh

# fix bad code
rm -rf /  

 

Oh my God, I'm laughing way too hard at this.

I'm up to my armpits in getting a security accreditation with DoD for connections on the new VA/DoD Electronic Health Record project - for a set of connections that HAVEN'T BEEN FUCKING ENGINEERED YET!! I swear, the people running this shit-show have no idea what they're doing, what they're looking at, and what it looks like when they actually get what they need.

I'd say "kill me now" but then I'd probably be resurrected as myself still working this fucking problem for another 50 years.

 

I've run that command


(on a test box that I was doing a bare metal restore on.



Not that exciting actually, but oddly satisfying.)

 

Fun to see how long the system will still run until it needs something not already in memory.

 

No such thing in this industry. There’s always going to be a disrupter to the status quo

https://avinetworks.com/

 

Oooooh. Why didn't I see this earlier. Industrial IoT cat herder checking in.

 

I have been asked to rename my organization at the end of a(nother) reorganization. My submission was "Security Hosting Implementation Team."

So far, it's passed two leadership review meetings.

I can't wait to see a door placard exclaiming that my team is "The SHIT."

 

Paper dispenser in every cubicle