Kokuyo - Slashdot User

How to get out of IT 0

Submitted by Kokuyo on Wednesday July 01 2009, @03:54PM

Kokuyo writes "Well, I've seen a few questions around here about how to get into IT. So why not ask for ideas and thoughts on how to get out?

Here's the thing: I am 28 years old and I've been in IT since I was seventeen (being from Switzerland, I didn't go through College or something similar but completed an apprenticeship). When I completed my education it was the year 2002 and you guys surely know what the market looked like at the time. Now I find myself in a company I don't like, doing things I don't like, working for people I don't like while getting a salary that is about three fourths of what is the norm.

I'm also in the middle of a bore-out, which doesn't make things any better. While I, at first, assumed it was the company, I've come to realize that I actually came to hate IT as such. I hate the hours, the psychology involved (always being at fault, never doing anything right, never doing enough, costing way too much... you know, the usual) and I just plain don't find the motivation in me to go on.

So where do I go? If at all possible, I'd like to get out of the office. I'm not a sales type, but I am good at improvising, learning on the fly and I like to think of myself as pretty handy with tools. What would you do in my place? And remember, I have rent to think of and no parents with a basement, so just going back to school isn't quite in my budget."

Big Brother ante portas in Switzerland-> 0

Submitted by Kokuyo on Monday May 18 2009, @02:30PM

Kokuyo writes "Well, yesterday Helvetians moved their lazy bums and put in their vote on new legislation requiring biometric passports. While the biometric passports were only a question of time (as we would have had to adopt them eventually due to the Schengen agreement), a disturbing part of this law is the creation of a central database for the data held in those passports. This clearly goes beyond the requirements of the Schengen agreement. I, for one, do not welcome our new biometric overlords; I WILL be getting a new passport before the biometric ones are rolled out. This, at least, gives me another ten years (as opposed to the five years the new, more expensive, passports will be valid for). A"
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Methods to catch file size explosions? 0

Submitted by Kokuyo on Monday November 17 2008, @06:27AM

Kokuyo writes "We've come across a certain problem for which there is an easy solution we cannot use: Users throwing gigabytes of data onto our home and group shares, filling them quickly. We do realize that quotas are meant to help you keep exactly this in check, unfortunately the users with most of the data load are VIP users such as the CEO, CFO and marketing and are as such exempt from quotas anyway.
Our approach today involves waiting for monitoring to warn us of full disks and then scouring the whole file system manually.

So my question to Slashdot is this: Without quotas and without company policies, how would you solve that issue on Windows 2003 servers?"