I am defeated
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Yes, there is a ton of nerd rage, vendor follow ons and the like. That's the nature of IT, I've learned. The vast majority of the field isn't looking for great solutions or looking to learn continuously. I think all fields are like this, IT is just more vocal and social.
I think that there is no escaping that. No good way to filter it. You have to just accept that when crowd sourcing ideas you are going to get a lot of "random voices from the crowd." Name any large gathering of anonymous or semi-anonymous people where you would welcome all opinions?
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G'Day you lot,
Going right back to the OP. I understand where you are coming from as I have spent most of my life on a shoestring budget.
A lot of IT is done by the young-uns that have been around for less time and have poorly formed attitudes to prove it.
I see a lot of class divisions mainly pushed by the IT-Teenagers (read know-it-alls) and the IT people that don't have people skills but are very good at what they do. This class system is goverened by the very thing that irks me about managerial type bods, Shiny-new-device Syndrome.
The hilariously disturbing thing about this is that you can see this attitude as plain as day in the school yard. You are all there for the same thing, you all go about it in different ways, some parents buy the kids more things, yet the spoilt brats are never satisfied. Don't let them get to you @cakeis_not_alie. They are living the high life because of someone elses monetary skill, their house of cards fall.
I find most of the class issue is because a lot IT people can't grasp the following:
- Different business, different needs
- Money doesn't resolve your isssues
- Enterprise IT is fundamentally different to SMB IT
I'm sure that I don't need to cover those points in any detail as you and the rest of the community have all displayed various levels of understanding of these points.
I would personally preferr to McGuyver a solution for a small shop/department than spend money that isn't available, just because it's "best practice" or a neater solution. Sometimes what needs to be done and what can be done aren't the same thing.
I find it hard to understand how IT Pro's, who are supposed to be good at grasping concepts, can't grasp the concept that someone elses world doesn't work the same as theirs. Perhaps, I observed the wrong crowd (not here but else where) or perhaps they are the majority now.
The attitudes held by some IT pro's are s useful (and smelly) as ill-tempered, mutated sea bass.
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@scottalanmiller "Name any large gathering of anonymous or semi-anonymous people where you would welcome all opinions?"
Well, okay, fair enough. But I am not really looking for an anonymous or semi-anonymous gathering, I guess. I'm looking for something a little bit more grown up than an anti-scientology protest become vendor love-in. What's wrong with a place we put our real names to our words and live by them? You and I do it. Good or bad, our idiocy - and our brilliance - are on public record.
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@cakeis_not_alie What you are looking for is not found on ther Interent.
That's real world stuff for real people.Real people in a virtual world struggle. Most of the people presented to you are only as deep as your monitor.
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@nadnerB said:
I find it hard to understand how IT Pro's, who are supposed to be good at grasping concepts, can't grasp the concept that someone elses world doesn't work the same as theirs. Perhaps, I observed the wrong crowd (not here but else where) or perhaps they are the majority now.
They rather feel like the majority to me. Though I can accept that this could be me being crazy.
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@nadnerB "What you are looking for is not found on ther Interent.
That's real world stuff for real people.Real people in a virtual world struggle. Most of the people presented to you are only as deep as your monitor."
I don't know about that. SAM has his moments.
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@cakeis_not_alie said:
@nadnerB "What you are looking for is not found on ther Interent.
That's real world stuff for real people.Real people in a virtual world struggle. Most of the people presented to you are only as deep as your monitor."
I don't know about that. SAM has his moments.
lol, I did say "most people"
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@cakeis_not_alie by the way, you are wrong.
You are not defeated. You are deflated. Big difference.
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@nadnerB I thought SAM was "people". As in a collection of individuals that make up his post count. DOOM!
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Do voices in my head count as multiple people?
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@scottalanmiller "Do voices in my head count as multiple people?"
Only if they come with individual alcohol preferences.
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And they do!
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@cakeis_not_alie
A shoestring budget to me is a complete lack of funds in a company (probably meaning that the company is near bankruptcy - perhaps not). Everything else you described about making your solutions work are, like Scott mentioned, you being a good IT admin. It sounds like you are acquiring the funds you REALLY need. I was under the impression that you were going to management for NEEDS and you weren't getting those needs covered, but instead you getting them covered, which is awesome, that shows your skill as a negotiator. It's true that perhaps you shouldn't have to try as hard as you do, but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do.As for the whitepaper talk - I don't know about the rest around here, but I rarely hear about whitepaper/rules talk, not on ML. And I've never been lucky enough to work on the equipment you're talking about that really can pay attention to those rules.
I haven't spent much recent time on SW so I'm unfamiliar with your postings, your name to me here is pretty new. I look forward to future IT solution based discussions - it's one thing that's sorely lacking here on ML.
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@Dashrender said:
As for the whitepaper talk - I don't know about the rest around here, but I rarely hear about whitepaper/rules talk, not on ML. And I've never been lucky enough to work on the equipment you're talking about that really can pay attention to those rules.
I inquire about this type of thing whenever I am working with new products or services because seeing the responses will help me to decide how I want to handle it for my client.
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@cakeis_not_alie I fire clients that refuse to see IT as an integral part of their company. I do not want to work for them.
It does technically mean, that I only want clients that will spend money. Of course it does and it should. I am not running a charity. I am running a consultancy.
That does not mean I only want clients to spend money without thought. I present at least three solutions to any situation.
- The option that I feel will best work for the client knowing their stated business goal. Cost is only a factor of the decision, this option is sometimes the cheapest, sometimes not..
- A second option that I feel should work but has some kind of catch generally lower in cost than option 1 because of the catch.
- The option to do nothing and a discussion of the cost of doing nothing.
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@JaredBusch said:
@Dashrender said:
As for the whitepaper talk - I don't know about the rest around here, but I rarely hear about whitepaper/rules talk, not on ML. And I've never been lucky enough to work on the equipment you're talking about that really can pay attention to those rules.
I inquire about this type of thing whenever I am working with new products or services because seeing the responses will help me to decide how I want to handle it for my client.
Sure, but this isn't the same as having someone like, say John, through whitepapers in your face because you're doing something that isn't supported.
Cakeis was apparently feeling persecuted for posting that he was doing something that was against some whitepaper and someone kept throwing those in his face.
I rarely see this happening, but then again I'm also not hanging out in those groups where sticking to the letter of support is highly suggested for stability, support, etc.
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@cakeis_not_alie said:
The long story short is that I created a Starwind configuration that was unsupported. I did so for rational reasons. At the time, this was literally the only way to get what I needed to do done and meet the various requirements on the table. (Which don't need going into, nor am I going to rehash a 1.5 year old build at this juncture.)
I knew at the time of the build that Starwind didn't support storage heavy setups. Sure enough, I paid for it. The damned thing ate some LUNs. I had about 6 months of fighting with the damned thing tooth and nail before I got it stable.
It isn't running a config that is supported by Microsoft or by Starwind. I know that. I also know there aren't any real good choices for this client. Now that it's stable, i expect to see 6 years of service from this thing, but here are rules being broken in order to do what "shouldn't" be done with what's to hand.
I'm wondering, would you do this same solution again knowing what you know now?
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My guess is that yes, he would, only he would go straight to the working solution instead of the inbetween steps.
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@Dashrender "I'm wondering, would you do this same solution again knowing what you know now?"
No. Given what I know now I would never touch Starwind with a 50-foot pole. I would instead have gone into a back alley and sucked an unlimited line of dicks to get money for a better solution then ever be in a position to be reliant on Anton for anything, ever.
Now, if Anton weren't involved with the company, I probably would use Starwind again, in the exact same circumstances. But today there are far better options. 1.5 years can change everything in this industry.
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@cakeis_not_alie Related: today I learned that Spiceworks has an ignore feature: http://community.spiceworks.com/blogs/products/1785-community-preview-user-muting
This won't help the place become more friendly, but at least it will prevent me from righteously toothbrush shanking a few of them at the next Spiceworld. XD
Seriously though, it's amazing how big a difference such features can make. El Reg enabled it on the forums a while back, and they got a LOT better once you could clean off the worst of the trolls.
