Every day, I log into one of my several computers (both Mac and Windows) and the first window or windoid that is there greeting me is the “There are new updates ready”. Plus, to add insult to injury, every application I launch displays a message that a new version is ready.

Good grief. If things start going south on one of my laptops, I’ll never be able to trouble shoot and figure out where the culprit is.

So, WTF do you do when this happens nearly every day?

• Accept the download and hail-merry it. (Which is what I do too often)
• Never accept the download and keep running with Windows95
• Plan on just allowing it to only update your system on Friday night. (That way you have the entire weekend to recover and rebuild if necessary.)
• Research each request and make an informed decision. (What we all should do, but, then 8 hours later you’d never get any real work done.)
• Change the settings in the control panel to just update at say 3am in the morning, reboot and plead ignorant bliss when on the phone with tech support.

Or a combination of all of the above. Which, is basically what I do. I decide how much pain I’m interested that day, how much time I have and how dumb I want to play when calling support.

Have fun out there…. it’s the wild-wild west of code!

Posted: April 23rd, 2008 under Personal, Rants.
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One week ago, I began my new career as a corporate data security specialist. My new company’s has been inundating me with information to get up the speed quickly on the products. I was worried at first that I wouldn’t have enough to do. Well, my worries quickly faded as the week went on. I quickly realized that there just wasn’t enough time in the day to absorb everything.

The flood gates were opening and I was feeling drowned with a lot of information. I was tasked with learning everything I could about corporate data security, data governance, server data permissions and so on. When I first accepted the position, I thought I knew a lot about servers and the day-to-day management of a Windows Server infrastructure. Well, turns out, I didn’t know as much as I thought.

I’m only a week into learning how to demonstrate and install the products. The great thing is the amount of information and support available.

Posted: April 22nd, 2008 under Data Governance, Personal, Sale Engineering, Security, Software, Technology, varonis.
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