IT BS thread

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.

 

Yeah, right. As soon as Oracle acquired Sun "the organization I used to be in" started porting everything from Sun servers running Solaris to HP and Dell boxes running Red Hat. I mean, within the same month we got that project started. Based on how Oracle did business, we knew Sun was dead.

How right we were.

 

when your company uses a *.company.com cert and puts it everywhere and the application people don't even understand certs.......and it expires in 1 month......this is going to be a giant cluster fuck

 

Shitfuck. The home system I built almost 11 years ago won't boot.

What's the point of building a monster system if it won't last?

 

11 years? Core 2? Sorry for your loss, but that is like 200 years old in human years.

 

I've taken her apart and put her back together again. It's looking like the quad 9550 Yorkfield (core 2) will overclock no more.

Already planning my next monster beast that should last 12 years. Since I don't really game it's going to basically be an office PC that also serves as a NAS.

 

I was using my overclocked 4790K as a NAS. Wasn't really worth it with the power consumption and amount of heat it radiated. Bought an older ThinkPad x240 to use instead. Small footprint, low power, low heat, built in battery. Came with the dock, so plenty of USB ports with Ethernet jack. It's only a i5-4200U, which is plenty for a file server.

 

There was a time when I got fed up with the longevity of the mainstream boards, even the better brands seemed to crap out on me after 3 years, so I started using Intel-branded boards only. Had great luck with the high-end ones, and the quality difference was noticeable. A bit more expensive, but super stable. That and a quality PSU. The rest of the stuff is easy to swap out if there is an issue.

 

Just got my FIL's old Core 2 duo booted and working (reasonably quick, too), and there's a 5th gen i5 at their house they haven't even turned on in 3 years. Plan is to turn the duo into an HDD box (for the time being) and then use the i5 for PC stuff. Need places to recover files to, and I ought to be able to make due until I figure out what I need.

I also have a 12 year-old laptop here that boots, but is slower than snail sex.

 

This was an Asus Maximus II. The board looks new. If the CPU hadn't shit itself the thing would probably keep going another 11 years.

 

Since when does Java = Javascript?

 

My last 2 boards were the Sabertooth series, apparently before Asus quality went downhill from what I hear. Afaik, both the boards and CPUs are still good.

Before that, I had a couple Biostar boards, only good for a couple years.

 

Hate. All. Java.

And Macs.

And cloud service providers.

 

JavaScript ain't going away anytime soon since literally every front end is built on it.

/Posted from my Macbook Pro