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This is what work has been like today:
blahblahtalktocoworkerblahblahblahlunchblahTOTALCHAOSblahblahphonecallblah
Seriously, there was this ten minute stretch this afternoon where the IT guy had just called to tell me two of the computers in our department have been "compromised" (read "the students are trying to disguise their illegal file sharing by borrowing our bandwith or something"), only one of the computers is registered to a guy who stopped working here two years ago, so I'm running around trying to figure out which one it is and shut it down, when a group of maintenence guys show up hunting a pipe that is apparently leaking into a downstairs classroom, all to the blaring soundtrack of the stairwell "anti-theft" alarm since somebody went out the door marked DO NOT ENTER-ALARM WILL SOUND. And then it all just magically vanished. Except for the computer problems. Which means they have to wipe my boss's hard drive. Again. For the fourth time in the eight months I've been working here. I'm starting to think that illegal file sharers deserve all the litigation the music industry can throw at them and then some. Or my boss needs to get it through his head that he really doesn't know anything about computers and just because software exists doesn't necessarily mean it's a good idea to put it on your computer. And that 9000 email messages in your Inbox will, in fact, clog up your computer. (Seriously. He was actually surprised when I suggested that might be one of the reasons his computer is so slow.) And that if software is discontinued in 1995, it maybe isn't a good idea to try and use it on a current system.
OK, perhaps not all of this is the fault of illegal file sharing.
But I hate this. Because now my boss will complain to me about how IT can't seem to keep his computer fixed. And then IT will complain to me about how my boss continues to do the things that cause his computer to break. The truth, much like myself, is somewhere in the middle; my boss really doesn't get some of the basic aspects of computer security, but NYU's computer security is pretty crappy -- there isn't even a firewall or a pop-up blocker. And did I mention this happens EVERY OTHER MONTH?
Yeah. OK. I just needed to get that out there.
blahblahtalktocoworkerblahblahblahlunchblahTOTALCHAOSblahblahphonecallblah
Seriously, there was this ten minute stretch this afternoon where the IT guy had just called to tell me two of the computers in our department have been "compromised" (read "the students are trying to disguise their illegal file sharing by borrowing our bandwith or something"), only one of the computers is registered to a guy who stopped working here two years ago, so I'm running around trying to figure out which one it is and shut it down, when a group of maintenence guys show up hunting a pipe that is apparently leaking into a downstairs classroom, all to the blaring soundtrack of the stairwell "anti-theft" alarm since somebody went out the door marked DO NOT ENTER-ALARM WILL SOUND. And then it all just magically vanished. Except for the computer problems. Which means they have to wipe my boss's hard drive. Again. For the fourth time in the eight months I've been working here. I'm starting to think that illegal file sharers deserve all the litigation the music industry can throw at them and then some. Or my boss needs to get it through his head that he really doesn't know anything about computers and just because software exists doesn't necessarily mean it's a good idea to put it on your computer. And that 9000 email messages in your Inbox will, in fact, clog up your computer. (Seriously. He was actually surprised when I suggested that might be one of the reasons his computer is so slow.) And that if software is discontinued in 1995, it maybe isn't a good idea to try and use it on a current system.
OK, perhaps not all of this is the fault of illegal file sharing.
But I hate this. Because now my boss will complain to me about how IT can't seem to keep his computer fixed. And then IT will complain to me about how my boss continues to do the things that cause his computer to break. The truth, much like myself, is somewhere in the middle; my boss really doesn't get some of the basic aspects of computer security, but NYU's computer security is pretty crappy -- there isn't even a firewall or a pop-up blocker. And did I mention this happens EVERY OTHER MONTH?
Yeah. OK. I just needed to get that out there.
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