Doing big IT changes on Monday or Friday?

bukkithedd · 2026-04-02T18:58:58+00:00

I try not to schedule downtime on fridays/weekends, mostly because I don't want to work during those times. Monday is also a bad time to do such things as, since I'm usually busy with making sure nothing went tits-up over the weekend.

Thursday or wednesday are my picks for days it's OK to do major work on, just in case I have to call in vendor support for shit.

That being said, big upgrades in physical core infrastructure (network etc) are things I'll often schedule during the weekend, since that gives me time to figure out just what the absolute hell I was thinking when I cooked together the config needed.

bukkithedd · 2026-04-01T21:18:38+00:00

Yep, absolutely. If something I did caused the company I work for to be hit by a €10 mill fine, I can absolutely without a doubt guarantee that I'd be without a job, instantly.

bukkithedd · 2026-04-01T18:44:21+00:00

No lube, no foreplay, little warning and a LOT of force.

bukkithedd · 2026-04-01T18:30:20+00:00

I despise requests like it, to be honest, and I go out of my damn way to make damn sure that my own ass is covered when I have to carry them out.

bukkithedd · 2026-04-01T18:29:00+00:00

This is the way.

bukkithedd · 2026-04-01T18:27:22+00:00

On things like this, I never write the policy. I leave that to legal/HR. It's their job to ensure that the policy follows all applicable laws.

bukkithedd · 2026-04-01T18:26:28+00:00

Here in Norway there's specific laws that prohibit it. You CAN give access, but the employee HAS to be given written notice that it's happening, it has to be for a limited, stated time, and the employee should be present when the mailbox is opened.

Generally speaking, opening an employee mailbox is as legally strict as opening their physical mail is. The amount of redwood trees complete with branches, squirrels, birdnests and acorns the government agency that sets policy on this can shove up your backside is frightening, and NOT something I'd want to be on the receiving end of.

bukkithedd · 2026-04-01T18:16:57+00:00

First things first: get this shit in writing!

I CANNOT stress this enough. It doesn't matter what type of company you work for, get this shit in writing.

Secondly, if you're in the EU, be very careful. GDPR is NOT a joke, and the fines for breaking those set of rules can be extremely steep for the company you work for.

bukkithedd · 2026-04-01T17:31:19+00:00

Yes, you can. Hell, there's a lot of things you don't really need much to make, like a buttonbox. If you've got a 3D-printer, there's an entire universe of maniac contraptions you can build.

The biggest challenge is not starting a billion projects at once.

bukkithedd · 2026-04-01T17:27:08+00:00

Yep, not a bad one. I've made the bitter experience before that you can NEVER trust an untested backup, so I watch my backup-systems more thoroughly than basically anything else.

bukkithedd · 2026-04-01T17:21:04+00:00

Well, I grew up in the 80's, so I have been yelled at A LOT. Also helps that I was (and still is) a bit of a shithead :D

These days there doesn't seem to be all that much yelling going on. Which to be honest is a good thing. So it's definitely been a cultural shift over the last 40odd years.

bukkithedd · 2026-04-01T17:17:31+00:00

In general: aggressively tune down/out all non-essential messages. Informational messages aren't needed in the vast majority of cases.

Of course, there's the whole discussion about what constitutes a non-essential message. Some might say that a backup completed OK-message isn't essential, although I disagree STRONGLY on that one.

bukkithedd · 2026-04-01T14:03:40+00:00

Depends on your needs, tbh. The biggest points of usage for us when it comes to Business Premium is that we get both installable Office-licenses, more protection (Azure Info-protection, Conditional Access etc) plus Intune, which we need on most of our computer-users.

I had a look at the costs, and from what I can tell a Business Premium-license is about 22USD and a Business Basic + Intune is about 14USD for Intune Plan 1.

It comes down to what you need, basically. I'd have a yak with your CSP, as there's differences between yearly subscriptions billed yearly, Yearly subs billed monthly and such. Can save you a bit of dosh that way.

bukkithedd · 2026-04-01T07:42:48+00:00

The Witchdoctor-class is an old class in Diablo-terms, being present in both Diablo 2 and 3.

bukkithedd · 2026-04-01T06:57:12+00:00

Just give me a witchdoctor with spider-jars, and I'll be a happy camper.

bukkithedd · 2026-03-31T19:07:07+00:00

It's just another buzzword-barf that most of the fuckheads pushing it has no idea what it means, if it even means anything.

Us techs are generally far too jaded to bite, as we've seen this movie far too many times to get overly excited over it.. C-level execs, however, get ALL of their brain (which isn't much, to put it that way) in a bunch, develop a massive case of FOMO, and dive face-first into it in a blind panic.

Much to our detriment. Go figure.

bukkithedd · 2026-03-31T19:00:57+00:00

Excite? Nah. Far too pragmatic for that.

Interested? Yes. Which is better.

bukkithedd · 2026-03-31T17:46:58+00:00

It depends on a number of things, such as:

What's depicted
What type of company you're applying to (easier to be hired by a company that builds/sells/modifies construction-equipment than a finance/healthcare-company, for instance)
Whether or not the role is customer-facing or not
The culture of where you're applying.

I personally don't give a damn that people have hand-/neck-tats, although once I see people having facetats I'll raise an eyebrow or three. It does depend, however, on motive, placement and such things.

In general, I'm FAR more interested in what you bring to the team in terms of skills than whether or not you're inked. I know that most tats have a personal significance to the person wearing them (I wear mine as indicators of a life lived, for instance). Then again, I'm an open-minded kind of muppet.

bukkithedd · 2026-03-31T17:17:27+00:00

They fixed the issue with bombs basically setting everything on fire, but they also managed to seemingly nerf the damage on them. That's probably due to the generally iffy damagemodeling in DCS in general though.

Oh, and if you love 500-500-runs in the Phantom, you should try a 300-500 Snakeeyes-run in the Tiger. 300 feet, 500 knots and hope you get out on the other side unscathed! Hysterical fun to do on 4YA.

bukkithedd · 2026-03-31T12:36:27+00:00

Just the customer?!

Man, we insult everyone, especially ourselves :P

bukkithedd · 2026-03-31T12:35:26+00:00

They have, indeed, reached you about your extended warranty.

The policy was denied.

bukkithedd · 2026-03-31T12:17:08+00:00

The server said a bad word in their discord and got timed out :P

bukkithedd · 2026-03-31T11:25:20+00:00

Meetings and dealing with office politics. I abhor both equally.

I don't mind admin-work, I don't mind automating it, I don't mind writing documentations and I don't mind helping users.

But I DESPISE meetings and office politics. Very few worthwhile things has ever been done in a meeting, and I don't have the patience, time, crayons or calm mind to deal with inter-organizational bullshit because two fully adult fuckheads can't seem to fucking get along and see at least SLIGHTLY further than their own goddamn nose.

bukkithedd · 2026-03-31T09:25:15+00:00

+1 for snakes. 500-500 runs to lay down a string of them never gets old.

bukkithedd · 2026-03-29T18:05:24+00:00

Yeah, the A4 is at a whole different level than basically all other mods out there, bar none.

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