On 12.10.11 05:28, gene heskett wrote: > Since emc is part and parcel to your daily work, I think I'd take the > above, and a suitably sized attitude adjuster when I went to talk to your > network admin.
Tempting as it is to march in with a very large spiral flute tap in fist, it can sometimes be worthwhile to lubricate the attitude readjustment with the best semblance of charm that a technologist can muster. When the very same sort of nonsense interfered with technical browsing at my last workplace, mild references to "false positive triggering in the network policy software", had the sysadmin on-side within minutes. (And nothing moves a sysadmin fast, at least not in your favour.) While R.V. Jones, who headed up Scientific Intelligence at M.I.6 from 1939-1945, resorted to procuring quinces for a "brass-hat" who had the power to grant access to the mosquitoes he needed for a critical photo-reconnaissance mission (and who was a jam-making nut), we hopefully don't need to go as far as the skulduggery of spooks, to coax bureaucracy into fruitful action. [1] Erik [1] OK, I've just finished reading "Most Secret War". I admit it. -- Anything can be impossible, given sufficient bureaucracy. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
