I know why they do this. The last guy’s core job was Ask Jeeves, but he was involved in and at least touched all those other technologies. HR looks at last guy’s resume, figures those are the skills needed, posts a mess.
SOURCE: Been the last guy, seen my replacement posting.
Said it the day Broadcom bought them, they’re going to squeeze the smaller customers out. This behavior is by design.
Because they’re shitty little sites no one has ever heard of?
clients have included
Whoop dee do. Yes, I’m sure the scum that were name dropped threw a couple of shillings in the pile.
And what kind of crazy revelations will come of this?! Well, maybe if something actually comes out, you’ll have your story.
What if the pass is only temporarily stored in a db table, then instantly hashed and dropped? Obviously, I’m no db admin. :(
I’ll explain slow. MS offers a native way to manage updates, both for servers and workstations. It’s called Windows Server Update Services (WSUS).
Assuming you have your shit together as a Windows admin, you’re running the infrastructure on Active Directory (AD). WSUS is how you control and roll out Window’s updates in an AD environment.
No surprises, no bullshit. Roll updates however it works for your org.
Questions?
If the company is not using WSUS, or the like, to manage updates, that’s on the IT department.
This is it right here. The new system has to talk to the old database which has a character limit for that field. Untold amounts of money and effort would be required to update the back end.
Always assumed this fiasco was started by high electric bills:
https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/article293084614.html
Only in first-world countries did everyone have a phone and the Earth’s population was half what it is now.
Shenzen’s supply chain is hardly all on Apple’s behalf or behest.
Water is created and destroyed by biological and other natural processes. Here go photosynthesis:
6CO₂ + 6H₂O + Light → C₆H₁₂O₆ + 6O₂
SOAP calls
Now that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time.
Some might be surprised how many systems are still running on AS400s. IBM still makes and maintains IBMi, the modern iteration. My last company wrote our flagship product for these machines, all green screen. Our customers would sometimes move to our GUI product and jump right back to the prompt menus. Hey, if you gotta move fast and have a bulletproof system, text menus are the only way to fly!
By my god, the skill set for running and programming those beasts touches on almost nothing I’ve learned in 30+ years of IT work. Wish I had got experience in that part of the company, seen some solid job posts for that sorta tech.
People keep saying to keep these XP machines off the internet. I seriously doubt there’s much threat, especially for even older OS’s like 98 and 95. It’s the very devil just trying to browse with them, nothing much out there is going to be able to attack them. Security through obscurity indeed!
In any case, we’re no longer in the Wild West days when people had machines hooked directly to the internet and a firewall was a third-party addon. LOL, ZoneAlarm anyone!
We all have a basic firewall built into our routers so unless you deliberately expose services you’re fairly bulletproof to scanners. I remember scanning for Win2000 machines in blocks of IPs, long after it was defunct. Plenty were out there!
Outlook is pretty damned bullet proof, Teams, OTOH, is a fucking mess. I can see IT wanting to keep everything in the same ecosystem, that’s perfectly sane, but I’m certain Zoom can be setup to honor AD credentials. We set it to use Google SSO.
Lina Khan
That woman is the most important bureaucrat in the United States. Jesus, she’s fighting Wall Street and Silicone Valley, and winning. This election is, by far, more than about Harris vs. Trump. Khan will be #1 on the chopping block if Trump wins.
If you’re not familiar, get to know her:
That was my take, and I hope we’re both right. I’d kill for glasses that auto-focus as readers. I wear contacts most of the time when outside, so maybe not such a savior for me.