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[reldnahkram]

w00t!

ITS no longer sucks, virus scan now allows Chatzilla and my SMTP server to talk the the web.

Thank you deathbysnusnu.

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[miraling.livejournal.com]

I wonder why that tag didn't work...

[reldnahkram.livejournal.com]

Because I'm an idiot and wrote it in Normal, not Source, mode of Deepest Sender.

[miraling.livejournal.com]

ahhh, gotcha.

[nautiluspq.livejournal.com]

ITS no longer sucks
Wow. Never thought I'd see those words.

My opinion.

[deathbysnusnu.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Robin even killed all of the IRC blocking rules to let Chatzilla through.

It's not like they don't care or that they're incompetent. They're just a handful of people working 9-to-5 trying to keep a massive network running 24/7. A massive network which is being used by many people who don't know what a firewall is, use Internet Explorer, and probably wouldn't bother installing a virus scanner if we didn't provide them with one.

It takes less than two minutes for worms to penetrate an insecure machine on a high-speed connection.

They have their work cut out for them.

Remember, it's not like a company where they can choose the computers on their LAN and configure them as they desire. They're stuck with what we give them. Which, sometimes, is complete and total crap.

Generally, I think this year's approach to security was a good one: stretch the network to only cover secure machines rather than letting anything on and then doing terrible damage control as worm and virus activity overloads the whole thing. Unfortunately, our Campus Manager software (brought to you by the Ciscopoly) is a clunky patchwork of different things, some of which are a bit overzealous in quarantining machines.

Barring a few instances of not thinking things through, the professional part of ITS has been pretty professional this year.


As for the student part of ITS, well, you can keep worshiping me, I don't mind.

Re: My opinion.

[reldnahkram.livejournal.com]

When everything works, ITS is perfectly fine. But, and I guess this is a problem with being overworked, it often feels like they're slow to handle problems. Also, a little more beta testing would be nice (see: campus manager and horde).

I'm glad to see IRC opened up again. I'm also glad to see Firefox and other non-IE browsers appearing on public computers.