Comments on: What are REAL IT policies vs. What is actually enforced…

By: Karl L. Gechlik | AskTheAdmin.com

Karl L. Gechlik | AskTheAdmin.com — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:44:57 +0000

Thanks for reading Klemen!

By: Klemen Kecman

Klemen Kecman — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:36:38 +0000

WOW! Awesome article. As sysadmin/IT guy this is so true. Lots of times I seen that not listening to sysadmin/IT geek can turn out a disaster. But the article is ON POINT!

By: Be Nice to Your Sysadmin « Mack Diesel’s Musings

Be Nice to Your Sysadmin « Mack Diesel’s Musings — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 09:54:26 +0000

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By: Karl L. Gechlik | AskTheAdmin.com

Karl L. Gechlik | AskTheAdmin.com — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 14:14:59 +0000

Thanks for sharing with others Ryan it is what makes us civil after all :) Happy New Year!

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 18:41:49 +0000

Hahaha… this is awesome. I just forwarded a link to this blog to my entire company (BCC of course, and removing anyone’s name that is in a higher salary bracket).

By: AskTheAdmin

AskTheAdmin — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:14:44 +0000

Commenting has returned back to normal. :)

By: Kevin R

Kevin R — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 04:41:50 +0000

I'd like that to be the policy at my future workplace. Probably will be somewhat liberal because I'm going into software development after university and I can't imagine not having access to a command prompt to compile programs with make(well I can imagine it because IDE's on Linux tend to have support for the GNU compiler toolchain including make and company built in).
I agree there has to be control *to a point*. Then, remove the warning labels and the problem will solve itself (ie termination of employment, jail time, etc.).
My 2 cents

By: Mackenzie

Mackenzie — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:43:04 +0000

It's just a little comp security place, only about 60 or 70 employees. Less than 10 of them are HR/office assistant/accounting/etc…everyone else codes, runs servers, hacks, or some combination of those. The office-y people use Macs. Everyone else uses either Linux, a Mac, or both.

By: AskTheAdmin

AskTheAdmin — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:00:50 +0000

Thanks for stopping by Mackenzie and adding your 2 cents to make our Linux fans jealous! But like Michael said above most shops ratios of users to admins is like 50 to 1. I sometimes find myself feeling like a baby sitter or teacher telling them NO! Bad user! No access for you! Am I alone?

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:57:27 +0000

Granted that is DEFINITELY not the norm but sounds like a awesome work environment. We have to keep our interns (script kiddies) on a short lease. users no longer have admin rights to the box by default and it is given on a per need basis.

Where do you work Mackenzie?

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By: Mackenzie

Mackenzie — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:48:51 +0000

That "hack tool" one isn't true when you work at a company whose job it is to hack :P Also can't be demoted to a guest account when the company policy on computers is "here's a bunch of boxes containing monitors, keyboard, mouse, speakers, subwoofer, and a tower…which Linux distro should I burn for you?" We put our boxes together, install our OS, configure everything ourselves…we're all root of our own boxes. IT is for servers only…which well, a large chunk of this place is sysadmins, so…

By: AskTheAdmin

AskTheAdmin — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:51:15 +0000

Yup the guys around my shop enjoyed it as well. Maybe I should petition for an amendment to our Employee handbook.

By: Marko

Marko — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:25:51 +0000

Wow Joe that was an amazing rant! I just printed it out and handed it to my guys in IT and they were pissing n themselves it is so fucking true.

By: NinjaAdmin

NinjaAdmin — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:11:31 +0000

This is very on point!

By: AskTheAdmin

AskTheAdmin — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 01:21:40 +0000

Lets just say I did not need to associate little old women with S&M! I
was wondering why Knot sites were getting blocked thinkinng it was a
knitting thing.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 01:16:40 +0000

I'm shocked! ID fixed something quickly?

By: JoeG

JoeG — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:54:13 +0000

Looks like that did it, the issues i was having with ID seem to have abated for the moment.

By: JoeG

JoeG — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:53:21 +0000

Yeah I agree, the few times I've dug through the logs I've cringed at where some of my coworkers spend their time online. It's not so much that I don't have time to go through the logs, I just have better things to do, and if I feel like I NEED to do it then the time has come for more restrictive filters.

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:24:55 +0000

I agree this is pretty accurate. Honestly, I log EVERYTHING and look at almost nothing. The logs are really there as an evidence trail should something happen. I have had to use them, and I've been very happy I had them, but I really don't have time to look through that much data. Personally, I don't really care what websites you're visiting. If it is interfering with your work, your supervisor will find out without me telling them. The few times I've had to go through the logs I've ended up seeing things I wish I hadn't.

By: JoeG

JoeG — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:07:38 +0000

Wow when I wrote that I was just being funny, I'm flattered that you thought it was good enough for an actual article! Funny though it is, it's pretty accurate for all the SysAdmins that I know.

By: John

John — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:27:10 +0000

Well Said! I will never piss you off again I promise.