From: Robert Comer 

>I was thinking it was the cause of bipolar behavior.  You have good
>days when stuff works and you fix this or implement that think you are
>an IT god, and then you have days where nothing works, stuff breaks,
>and the boss takes a dump on you.

All too true!

>I keep a fairly tight ship and only throttle back those who really
>abuse their net access.  I suppose at some point an exploit will come
>along that will cause real damage that will have management wondering
>why it happened and why we didn't stop it.

Yeah, it'll happen, and I'll explain just why and what I have to do about
it.  I really don't have any say as long as I keep things running okay.

>Hey, I don't want you to get arrested! 

I wouldn't show you that kind of stuff!  I was talking about stuff that's
not for general consumption. (yet!)

>Any problems with the newer client and the older server?  I was of the
>mind that the opposite was generally better?

It's purring along like a kitten, no problems at all.  In general I've had
less problems with newer clients than servers, but overall, I really
haven't seen much in the way of version incompatibilities.  As long as the
client doesn't upgrade any of the server databases so it can't access them,
it should all be good.

--
Bob Comer



On Tue, 03 Apr 2007 15:36:49 -0400, Richard B.  wrote:

>On Tue, 03 Apr 2007 15:06:04 -0400, Robert Comer
> wrote:
>
>>I don't feel like it's job security!  More like a ticket to a rubber
>>room some of the time.
>
>I was thinking it was the cause of bipolar behavior.  You have good
>days when stuff works and you fix this or implement that think you are
>an IT god, and then you have days where nothing works, stuff breaks,
>and the boss takes a dump on you.
>
>>  It's really amazing what I see if I go through the logs -- lots
>>of shopping going on here.  Porn is about the only thing I can't let
>>go by.  it's pretty much company policy to let the users do what they
>>want as long as they keep doing their whole job.
>
>I keep a fairly tight ship and only throttle back those who really
>abuse their net access.  I suppose at some point an exploit will come
>along that will cause real damage that will have management wondering
>why it happened and why we didn't stop it.
>
>>The stuff I think is really cool, I couldn't show you. 
>
>Hey, I don't want you to get arrested! 
>
>>I don't even know what that does, haven't run across it.  But by the
>>name, maybe it's something our whole company might want to think about
>>it.  Is it like a VPN server for over the internet WAN's that has
>>compression?
>
>Check it out:
>
>http://www.riverbed.com/products/
>
>>I'm going to update most of my clients to 7.02, I already did mine. As
>>for the server, we're still the most modern in the group at 6.5.3, but
>>I did download the 7.0.2 Server version just in case I get up the
>>nerve to be the first again. (I was the first past 6.)
>
>Any problems with the newer client and the older server?  I was of the
>mind that the opposite was generally better?
>
>- Richard

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