It was a combination of similar events. He'd been caught taking video inside the company, walking around with his iPad up and recording. Evernote was the well known trigger. And he was a manager (still is just somewhere else). We are pretty picky about electronics. The sign at the front entrance says we're not allowed to bring in USB keys and other personal electronics (like laptops or wireless only tablets). But again, that is more to the "don't let personal devices access the corporate wired/wireless network" and "don't plug personal USB keys into your laptop or the servers". The company supplies hardened USB keys if necessary. Heck, we're not permitted to take pictures of servers in the data center. I have access to the data center archives so can use company approved server images (helps when we have remote hands out and we don't want the wrong server powered off).

I will say that the company deals with human lives in the US and Canada on a daily basis. We were even the subject of a recent Slashdot article :)

[John]

Not just no, but fuck no.

Having internal company correspondence, communication between groups and corporate offices will have valuable company information in Facebook's hands. We've had people walked out, fired, for using Evernote in meetings.

Remember what Zuckerman said.

[John]

I got so overwhelmed with Taiwan web server attack attempts that I finally blocked Taiwan on my old server. On the new server I use fail2ban with the additional configuration of permanently blocking IPs that repeatedly attempt to break in (that would be any ssh attempt).

[John]

"Based on the back cover."

[John]

Not sure why college is relevant. Quite a few of my peers here haven't gone to college and are in IT. Maybe a specialized branch requires college? On my team, half have college, half don't.

[John]

Heart attacks. Since they were of the "meat and potatoes" generations, plus a smoker and drinker (Dad did quit before I was aware that he smoked and Mom quit several years later), it's probably more of a bad diet sort of thing. While I'm not perfect, my diet is a bit better. We'll see eventually :)

[John]

Read my journal entry.

[John]

Don't drink (didn't voluntarily take a drink until 10 years ago at 47 and only have tried different drinks a couple of times a year since then), never smoked or done drugs, I do eat more junk food than I should, exercise regularly (3 times a week on the weights, bicycling most of the year). Divorced twice.

Both sides of my family smoked (Dad, Mom, Dad's Dad, Mom's Dad) although both Dad and Mom quit when I was young. Both sides drank and as I understand Dad's Dad was quite the drinker and a bit abusive.

On the other side, our family history shows a tendency of smaller in diameter veins so more susceptible to blood issues like blockages/heart attacks.

So yea, like I said. Advances plus I do better than my parents and grandparents so longer can happen. I'll post up in 10 years and see where I am then :)

[John]

Dad died when he was in his mid 50's. Grandad died when he was in his mid 50's. I'm in my mid 50's. Considering the advances and that I do exercise more and eat a bit better, I might last a bit longer than either of them. But not much longer.

So live life to its fullest and enjoy it while you can.

[John]

It's all linked to your account. Even Anonymous posts are linked to your account, post anonymously and you'll see if you have moderator points. You can mod other posts in the thread but not the one you posted "anonymously".

[John]

Now I'm curious. How do you make a job more attractive to women? I can think of a few things of course like sexist comments (I haven't heard a blonde joke in 10 years but there are a few opposite of sausage fest type comments; old girl's network for instance). But what job conditions make a job attractive to a woman?

[John]

*raises hand*

Sorry. Don't drink coffee either. I was raised a bit as a Mormon (family converted about the time I expect you'd start drinking tea, coffee, alcohol; around 14) and never got the taste as a "growing up" experience. The few times I've tried alcohol over the past 10 years, I find it still tastes like medicine and don't get the appeal. "Can you taste the woodiness?" No, really it just burns and tastes like I'm trying to cure a cold.

[John]

I have to agree. I deleted my linkedin account a year ago (a few months after folks started recommending me when they had no idea what my skill set was) due to the amount of spam, both email and by phone. Spam has gradually dropped to about one a week on average and no more phone calls.

[John]

You're assuming the custom application startup script on a linux system does the same thing on an HP-UX system which is where I have the issue. If exit code 5 on an HP-UX system means reboot the system and the system reboots over and over again, I would (and do) expect there to be some way of stopping it other than going into the management console, halting the reboot loop, and loading up the kernel in single user mode. That seems pretty broken. If the running of the application/service is so critical, it should simply not run or if it's critical to a followup application, there should be a message or signal to that script that tells it to not start up or just look for the service to be actually running before starting.

[John]

Dev created a startup script for their application and used an error code which upon exiting forced the HP-UX system to reboot. Which it did, over and over again. That's what happens when Dev uses Fedora to develop software on that is subsequently used on HP-UX (in this case). Still waiting on Dev to correct this.

[John]