sysadmin jobs in a bank are boring *until* something breaks. then things get real interesting very quickly. you face losing money so management breathes down your neck while you think fast and start flexing your skillset. it's fun and the time flies by, sometimes too quickly. personally, i love it :o

the most valuable learning experiences i had starting out were when someone took me under their wing. my first job was a contract for a major sporting goods company. a hired gun who also contracted but had his project delayed said, "we are going to take every case in the problem queue and work them together." this was not his job - he was happy to teach me, and boy did i learn.

at my next job, a guru who seemed to know everything from midrange to programming, netware, microsoft and telephony taught me occasional tidbits like binding a protocol to an interface in netware 3.1

if you keep your eyes open and demeanor positive and helpful, you are more likely to spot the willing to educate you. ask questions without being pushy. watch to see when they don't want to be bothered and offer to help.

two computers, two accounts. restricted user account for things like email, instant messaging, web browsing. admin account for network and printer administration. each has a 20" lcd

also water detection. it's pretty handy to know as soon as possible when your cooling system is leaking under the raised floor.

my thought exactly. emphasize ROI especially when it comes time to buy pesky things that maintain the business. selling redundancy can be hard, but one good outage will illustrate how important it is. i had a client who was running a small accounting office, so tax time was his critical uptime. no raid, not even mirroring. i scared the hell out of him by asking a simple question: it's april 14th and your server won't boot - what do you do?

sometimes you have to inform management that the worst can happen at the worst time.

it's theological conversations like this one that result in my abstaining from any religion this halloween, like every other day. dressed as myself, with no pants.

underscore incompetence. that is just ridiculous given the maintenance overhead involved with patching any found vulnerabilities down the road. let's hand out the password in clear text while we are at it. shoot me now

the public-facing internet

wait. what? why?

by height

it won't be as satisfying when i blow them to pieces?

dead uncle chester is going to regret leaving me that 12 gauge

hence nullifying the option of not suing robots

i'm in florida. i assume by "season" you mean when we either have hurricanes or we don't

reminds me of last night's scrubs

cox: it's worse. he's 25 and i heard him say "back in the day"
janitor: well ... he just dug his own grave, didn't he?

i tend to do that with most symantec products

i believe that is the fifth step in the simpson's debt collection procedure:

3rd Notice...
Final Notice...
*SOME GUYS ARE COMING?!!