Another "How to Piss Your Admins Off" article...

[phrogg.livejournal.com]

This is ridiculous.

I've never had anything but the utmost respect for Wired as a whole (ignoring, for a minute, some of their bloggers) I subscribe to their magazine, i read some parts of their website. But this just makes me want to hate them:

"How to Traverse Corporate Firewalls"

Do these people think we block websites just to piss them off? Do they even consider the fact that we block certain sites for a reason?
Granted, some web filters are a bit overzealous, but if a needed site gets blocked, usually all it takes is a call to IT to get that site excluded from the filter.

In other news, i started training my replacement today. This guy is a rock, and has only basic knowledge of system administration. Not sure how he even got this job, with the "skills" he's shown (i had to show him how to open AD). It's going to be an interesting place, once i'm gone. Remind me to change my cell number.

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[shifuimam.livejournal.com]

Of course, if you're like my company and you're stuck with WebSense on top of a firewall, all the proxy sites are blocked, too. I can use archive.org if I really need to see something, but since WebSense monitors all outgoing traffic on a per-user basis, it's not really worth it.