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Feb. 12th, 2004 11:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sobriqueIt seems like I've been causing user terror lately.
We're in the process of 'redesigning' user areas. Essentially, there's a lot of crap strewn over filesystems, which nobody really knows who they belong to. So we're re-organising. The idea being, that anything we identify as being a 'keeper' we place in a legacy data directory, and make this read only. After 6 months, we point out that it's been read only for 6 month, and they haven't used it, and do they still need it, can we archive it? Anything that's still active, they copy into a work in progress, or otherwise stashed directory.
Sounds simple right?
Well, the user I'm migrating tonight, I was planning to move all of '/usr2/dev' (the stuff that 'belongs' to his group). After an email discussion, they said 'well, actually we only need this list of directories'. My response? Well, ok. I'll delete the rest then. It'll be on our backup for 6 months should it prove that you were wrong.
Oh dear. This has caused a panicced email through managers, department heads, and various levels of my bosses. Perhaps because my cavalier attitude to 'fuck it, if it's not important, then WHAT THE FUCK IS IT DOING THERE'. Which I don't think was that cavalier, because I did send him an email to say ... well ok. But if you don't want it moved, I don't want it laying around my filesystems like a turd, (and yes, I'm paraphrasing a bit) so I'll clean it up.
Ah well. Back to plan A, which was what was going to happen all the time, which was to copy the whole lot, and give them 6 months to decide.
It's not the fact their concerned that bothers me. After all, nothing got deleted, nothing's even been moved yet. It was the rant to various levels of management with "I suppose this is OK if you're not customer focussed". (That's again, paraphrased from memory, but as literal as I can remember).
And I can't really reply, because ... well that's a CLM. (Career Limiting Manuever).
So I put it here:
"FUCK OFF YOU ASSHAT. I'm sorry that I'm a bit too busy to kiss your stinking arse. I made clear to you what my intended actions were. I specifically checked my intention, and all it would have required was an 'actually, we're not sure, so lets continue with the ORIGINAL FUCKING PLAN'.
You don't pay me to kiss arse. That's what salepeople are for. You pay me to do a job and be competent at it, and that's what I did. Fuck off, you arrogant management reject, and stick your backstabbing mails right where they belong."
Some days, I hate users.
What am I talking about: All days I hate users.
Today, in the carpark, there's a car with 3 copies of a security notice.
They each say, approximately "Your car doesn't appear to have a parking permit. These are available from the security office. Please get one.".
For some reason, I think that someone "just doesn't get it". A parking permit. That is, permission to park here, on our site. And the guy has _quite clearly_ ignored multiple copies of this notice (the parking permit thing has been going around a year now, and I've seen that car most mornings).
So what do they plan to do about it? Stop him from driving his car onto site? There's a security barrier at the main gate, but the other gates at start/finish time, are wide open. Clamp him? Tow him? Or just continue to whine. You know, it wouldn't surprise me especially if it were someone who didn't even work here, but was just taking advantage of the free parking that's usefully close to Rugby town centre.
On the radio this morning, there was an article (is that actually the right word?) about cloning. It seems that they've just recently managed to clone a human embryo, for use in growing stem cells. And of course, the whole anti-cloning factions stir once more. The application of this research, is that they've managed to clone tissue samples, that can be transplanted without rejection.
That's very cool. I mean, my sister has diabetes. A cure for that is now almost in reach.
Now is it just me, or did I entirely miss the arguments about why cloning is bad? There was the usual rant about designer babies, and how it's utterly evil to do that. I don't really see it that way. I can't exactly see a point in making clones, but I don't see that there should be any specific prohibition against it.
I can sort of see a morality argument, that if you clone for 'spare parts' you're dehumanizing those cloned for that purpose. But that's a different matter, essentially no different to forced labour, that kind of thing.
I reckon, the ability to repair the human body is only a good thing. I wouldn't mind living for a few hundred years in good health. Hell, even if I only get the 'standard' span, but am fully fit and able for all of it, I'll be content. I don't really fancy the idea of spending the last ten years of my life dealing with arthritis, organ failure and heart disease.
No technology has an inherent morality. Nuclear fission is really useful, but can also be used for horrendous atrocities. Doesn't make the technology of itself wrong.
Started a mini flame war on one of the communities to which I used to subscribe. Some troll had posted a 'your vote counts' linky thing. But in a community where it's so completely irrelevant and offtopic it's untrue.
They actually reacted hurt too, at me being rude. (For those that give a toss, link is here).
Ok. Rudeness is usually earned. I think that posting off topic American Election spam, in a completely unrelated forum is fucking disgustingly rude. If I gave a flying fuck about the American Elections, I'd be reading a different community, and would be offended at seeing it twice. As I don't, and I haven't, I've _opted out_, I don't care, I don't want to know.
There is no offtopic in a personal LJ, because ... well on topic is whatever the owner of it decides. But in communities, where subscriptions are made with certain expectations, that's just trolling.
Looks like I'm not the only one getting that.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
stelas appears to have picked up some spam in his journal.
Which is rather funny really. Christian spam. In an LJ. Instelas's LJ.
And to digress a little, found a myers briggs test, that I mentioned previously.
It's a little more LJ-able and so here it is:
Take Free Myers-Briggs Personality Test
And just to waste a little more of your time:
[Poll #247580]
Whew, I'm grumpy today. It's probably due to having been told off earlier.
Edit: I also emailed this tolostdreamer666. And it got bounced back for bad language. I guess NTL object to the use of the word managers.
Edit again: A collegue has just sent me a link to the Mini ITX website. Lil computers, in strange enclosures. I particularly like the idea of hiding a whole PC in a windows XP box...
We're in the process of 'redesigning' user areas. Essentially, there's a lot of crap strewn over filesystems, which nobody really knows who they belong to. So we're re-organising. The idea being, that anything we identify as being a 'keeper' we place in a legacy data directory, and make this read only. After 6 months, we point out that it's been read only for 6 month, and they haven't used it, and do they still need it, can we archive it? Anything that's still active, they copy into a work in progress, or otherwise stashed directory.
Sounds simple right?
Well, the user I'm migrating tonight, I was planning to move all of '/usr2/dev' (the stuff that 'belongs' to his group). After an email discussion, they said 'well, actually we only need this list of directories'. My response? Well, ok. I'll delete the rest then. It'll be on our backup for 6 months should it prove that you were wrong.
Oh dear. This has caused a panicced email through managers, department heads, and various levels of my bosses. Perhaps because my cavalier attitude to 'fuck it, if it's not important, then WHAT THE FUCK IS IT DOING THERE'. Which I don't think was that cavalier, because I did send him an email to say ... well ok. But if you don't want it moved, I don't want it laying around my filesystems like a turd, (and yes, I'm paraphrasing a bit) so I'll clean it up.
Ah well. Back to plan A, which was what was going to happen all the time, which was to copy the whole lot, and give them 6 months to decide.
It's not the fact their concerned that bothers me. After all, nothing got deleted, nothing's even been moved yet. It was the rant to various levels of management with "I suppose this is OK if you're not customer focussed". (That's again, paraphrased from memory, but as literal as I can remember).
And I can't really reply, because ... well that's a CLM. (Career Limiting Manuever).
So I put it here:
"FUCK OFF YOU ASSHAT. I'm sorry that I'm a bit too busy to kiss your stinking arse. I made clear to you what my intended actions were. I specifically checked my intention, and all it would have required was an 'actually, we're not sure, so lets continue with the ORIGINAL FUCKING PLAN'.
You don't pay me to kiss arse. That's what salepeople are for. You pay me to do a job and be competent at it, and that's what I did. Fuck off, you arrogant management reject, and stick your backstabbing mails right where they belong."
Some days, I hate users.
What am I talking about: All days I hate users.
Today, in the carpark, there's a car with 3 copies of a security notice.
They each say, approximately "Your car doesn't appear to have a parking permit. These are available from the security office. Please get one.".
For some reason, I think that someone "just doesn't get it". A parking permit. That is, permission to park here, on our site. And the guy has _quite clearly_ ignored multiple copies of this notice (the parking permit thing has been going around a year now, and I've seen that car most mornings).
So what do they plan to do about it? Stop him from driving his car onto site? There's a security barrier at the main gate, but the other gates at start/finish time, are wide open. Clamp him? Tow him? Or just continue to whine. You know, it wouldn't surprise me especially if it were someone who didn't even work here, but was just taking advantage of the free parking that's usefully close to Rugby town centre.
On the radio this morning, there was an article (is that actually the right word?) about cloning. It seems that they've just recently managed to clone a human embryo, for use in growing stem cells. And of course, the whole anti-cloning factions stir once more. The application of this research, is that they've managed to clone tissue samples, that can be transplanted without rejection.
That's very cool. I mean, my sister has diabetes. A cure for that is now almost in reach.
Now is it just me, or did I entirely miss the arguments about why cloning is bad? There was the usual rant about designer babies, and how it's utterly evil to do that. I don't really see it that way. I can't exactly see a point in making clones, but I don't see that there should be any specific prohibition against it.
I can sort of see a morality argument, that if you clone for 'spare parts' you're dehumanizing those cloned for that purpose. But that's a different matter, essentially no different to forced labour, that kind of thing.
I reckon, the ability to repair the human body is only a good thing. I wouldn't mind living for a few hundred years in good health. Hell, even if I only get the 'standard' span, but am fully fit and able for all of it, I'll be content. I don't really fancy the idea of spending the last ten years of my life dealing with arthritis, organ failure and heart disease.
No technology has an inherent morality. Nuclear fission is really useful, but can also be used for horrendous atrocities. Doesn't make the technology of itself wrong.
Started a mini flame war on one of the communities to which I used to subscribe. Some troll had posted a 'your vote counts' linky thing. But in a community where it's so completely irrelevant and offtopic it's untrue.
They actually reacted hurt too, at me being rude. (For those that give a toss, link is here).
Ok. Rudeness is usually earned. I think that posting off topic American Election spam, in a completely unrelated forum is fucking disgustingly rude. If I gave a flying fuck about the American Elections, I'd be reading a different community, and would be offended at seeing it twice. As I don't, and I haven't, I've _opted out_, I don't care, I don't want to know.
There is no offtopic in a personal LJ, because ... well on topic is whatever the owner of it decides. But in communities, where subscriptions are made with certain expectations, that's just trolling.
Looks like I'm not the only one getting that.
stelas appears to have picked up some spam in his journal.Which is rather funny really. Christian spam. In an LJ. In
stelas's LJ.And to digress a little, found a myers briggs test, that I mentioned previously.
It's a little more LJ-able and so here it is:
| INFP - "Questor". High capacity for caring. Emotional face to the world. High sense of honor derived from internal values. 4.4% of total population. |
And just to waste a little more of your time:
[Poll #247580]
Whew, I'm grumpy today. It's probably due to having been told off earlier.
Edit: I also emailed this to
lostdreamer666. And it got bounced back for bad language. I guess NTL object to the use of the word managers.Edit again: A collegue has just sent me a link to the Mini ITX website. Lil computers, in strange enclosures. I particularly like the idea of hiding a whole PC in a windows XP box...
