![]() So, maybe my advice is too dated, but it was easy to get experience when you keep working for startups, everyone would have to learn all sorts of skills to try and cover what we needed. COM bubble, then just bounced back and forth between IT and design positions. I came into IT in the late 90's, right before the. Small places where they're still learning too. I got a lot of my breaks working with small companies in the fields I've worked in over the year. Try some things, see what you like, maybe ask someone that works in something you are just interested in - people love to talk about themselves, and usually by extension what they do - ask, how they got into it or even do some volunteer work, helping out in a field you're interested in - if you think you could do it and like it, get on at the entry level. Started bringing in her own IT guy to patch her ancient garbage, and the outside IT guy would blamed me all the issues, like Windows 7 not working with plotter hardware and software designed for MS DOS 5, or a Windows 95 computer getting a virus because it’s EOL was years ago, and at that point there was a quit/fired situation.įor me, the biggest thing is, don't be afraid to try something new. I had to install Lotus 1-2-3 and WordPerfect 7 on those computers, because everyone in management had gotten used to them in the 90’s and the just absolutely refused to learn anything new.Įventually the manager of their manufacturing department got tired of me fighting them on how they couldn’t keep using ancient software and tech, and went ‘rouge’. They’d request a new computer and then tell me Windows 7 was unacceptable, and I need to put 98 on the new hardware - and considered and even told me, I was an idiot for not being able to get, for example, sound to work on a computer that was running an operating system 15 years older than its hardware. I spent the better part of a year trying, fighting tooth and nail, to make it at least manageable in the 21st century, but department heads were largely 60-70 year olds that couldn’t understand why, what they did in 1996, couldn’t just continue to be done now. ![]() Their accounting software was an old copy of MAS90 running in a Windows 2000 server. Connected over serial, to 30ish terminals were largely Windows 98 machines, running an unlicensed copies of Procomm Plus. ![]() Their entire ERM/CRM system was an uncompiled program, written in business BASIC, running on a PIII 500mhz server, that had SCO-UNIX 5.0 as the OS. I was system admin for a marine accessories company (boat covers, water skiing/tow bars, that sort of thing) around 2012. I also want to thank everyone who took the time to read this and comment about different approaches to this kind of situation when the management isn't being collaborative. It's better security wise but I still will try to push for a move towards a more modern, better, more secure standard like HTML5. We made the switch last night and moved this applications to a virtualized environment and exposing only those apps to users. Although you don't have to use this old version of Firefox you can use newer ones, I used this because it's the last version which has the "Allow and remember" option to run flash.ĭisclaimer: I obviously side with the many many many comments about this being a big security risk so normally, this isn't advised. ![]() ![]() Since there were quite a few comments requesting a source for Flash, you can get them from Adobe Flash Player, you have a ZIP section where you can select to download a specific version, the one listed in OP is the latest from 2018 which is AFAIK the latest one without the kill switch Firefox v58. Why do I even bother with this shit, this isn't my job, I've referred to what would happen via e-mail multiple times, get your shit together and do what needs to be done. No, you turd, you will not, you will complain to me to why no one can access said systems and blame me for it, f*ck off, alongside the Yesterday was working fine. Dear management, if you're going to hire a sysadmin, then listen to him/her.įFS, I just spent the last couple of hours downgrading a bunch of machines to Firefox 58.0b9 and downgrading to Flashplayer32_0r0_101 because management ignored my 3 Emails about Flash Player EOL and refusing to spend money for the contractor to switch from Flash to HTML5 (We use a bunch of internal Systems). ![]()
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