Tag: Computer/Programming

The new TaskZilla design looks great, my helping hand got familiar with the bugzilla templates quite fast 🙂

I feel the pressure from the top, merging everything into a project-based approach, more and more. And I still feel uncomfortable with that. I don’t like it, I want to work on a product, get feedback from the customers and enhance it. I know, that the potential of the product is much more, than currently, but there is no time to work on something like that. Everything has to happen during a (paid) project, crap.

Well, relocations are happening here, people are moving out of their rooms, to other blocks etc. and other people are moving in. Seems, that the people staffed for a project are "collected" to the same places. But this approach is not good for the people, who are staffed for several different projects. You can talk directly to the people of the project at your place, but it’s harder to talk to people of the other projects, because phoning them is not always successful and mail-responses take some time. TaskZilla smoothens this a bit, but… well, its not a nice solution. And much time is lost with moving, reconfiguring network access and so on. Luckily I’m not affected, but I feel some sort of isolated a bit, since few are left around me who work on the same project (and none, who works on the same product).

Last Saturday, there was a big "Personality Test" on TV. I took a look at it, to "find out more about me". Well, I’m a Rational/Inventor (german, detail). Expected something like this, but didn’t think that it fits that good. Only few things are wrong, ie. I don’t think, that I’m charismatic 😉 But that lies in the eye of the viewer.

Want to take a test yourself? Here (german).

Last Thursday they have shut down my corporate IT-Services (Mail, Intranet, etc.) because I have no migrated computer which fits into the corporate LAN. I’ve called the american helpdesk (yeah, 1 1/2 hours in an AT&T line), then installed a corporate software (I call it spyware), and had my services re-enabled. I de-installed this crap again then.
Next day, my services were off again…

Now an order for a third computer is on it’s way as well as a statement, why none of my two computers can be converted into a uniform image for the corporate network. I need them for development and in the corporate environment, there is no development environment. And I can’t fool around with network sniffing and so on which I need. Besides this I don’t trust them. My current environment has all security updates, patches, etc., I don’t browse with Microsoft tools and have a rather strict Intrusion Detection Tool (say firewall). Thus my computer should be one of the safest here. I don’t need anybody to tell me how to avoid worms and viruses. They have no chance to infect my system. No Outlook, no mail virus/worm. Firewall, no RPC-Worms and network attacks. Nevertheless an up-to-date virus scanner is active all the time.

The solution will be that my third computer will stay connected to the corporate servers all the time to prevent further shutdown of the IT services and sit still somewhere under my desk. Mail and other services will (hopefully) be available on my current computers then again and work can continue without disruption.

(Yeah, another computer for THIS!)