This story takes place while I was a consultant working for a firm out of Texas. For this gig I was sent to a training facility to be their SysAdmin. I arrive on site at the correct time, and am let into the building. The staff member asks why I’ve shown up, and I respond [...]
About 12 years ago I worked for a shipping company as sysadmin. As such, it was my responsibility to make suggestions on how to protect, improve, etc. all IT equipment. We were coming up on labor union contract talks and I had given the C-level a lot of things IT needed before the talks began. [...]
Those are bottle of urine, can you imagine the smell of that room. via: [Reddit\techsupportgore]
I work in a medical facility where we run a few procedure rooms for operations, etc. The PCs in the room are outfitted with a large 40″ medical grade LCD screen for viewing high-resolution diagnostic images and/or X-Rays. At the time of this story, the screens were about 6 years old, and they have seen [...]
Found this over the weekend, via Wired.com. I have to say, these are definitely the stuff of nightmares as a sysadmin – heck, we had water dripping on a few servers a couple years back, and THAT was disastrous enough! via: [Wired]
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First off I will say that I work for a very large retail corporation who makes billions annually and has a very large IT department but only a handful work on the actual Network side of things. I’m in the Network category, all 25 or so of us. I deal with the store side of [...]
Where I work, we spent about 3-4 years (before I joined) as a startup in wild west mode. There was no IT, there was no rules, you just did whatever as long as it worked and the company stayed afloat. Since I came along (and a few others behind me) we’ve managed to squash a [...]
Sophos had a little issue this week. After a typical update – since AV products update frequently – update, their AV was then detecting various updater agents (like the one that Sophos uses) as malware, called “Shh/Updater-B” and was quarantining or deleting those components, rendering Sophos completely without updating capabilities (ya know, so it could [...]