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What is the worst IT setup you have seen at a company? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I started a job at a university department. A previous admin had a habit of re-purposing desktop machines as servers. There were at least a dozen of them. The authentication server for the whole department was on an old Dell desktop. All of the partitions were LVM volumes, and the volume group consisted of 3 physical volumes: The internal SATA drive, a bare SATA drive in an external USB cradle, and an external USB SSD.

This is why we drink.

[–] Railison 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

I’ve often had the impression that universities are the best places to cut your teeth in IT. Even though the pay isn’t great, the environments are said to be some of the most complex you’ll encounter. Any credence to that?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

I had a student job with the HPC group at my university. I was working on adding features to some tools they built from the ground up, which was really fun. It's also nice to work with a bunch of PhDs that are really passionate about their area of expertise.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I think that there's something to that, at least in the case of large universities which are divided into many, many organizational units. They also offer student jobs, which allow good opportunities for learning.