Phasor Burn

People think I joke when I say my job is to protect the computers from the users…

Well, guess what I’m doing right now? Cleaning up after some poor piece of code made 54+ million attempts to login to the ftp server. The ftp server fell over with a full disk due to 34GB of logs.

I might need to turn on the feature that blocks ftp/sftp logins after n failed attempts.

I was worried about accidentally locking out a customer if they had a bit of a bad time with a password etc. Now I know I need not worry, and just turn that feature on with a limit of say 1000 bad attempts before the offending ip is blocked.

Today I had a typical cycle of events when presented with a new technology to implement.

Ack, I’m in over my head. I’m an imposter, never will figure this out.

Cool. This makes sense now, after chasing down many different related pieces of info and absorbing it all, letting it seep into my brain.

So what? This is at the core just the same boring IT shit repackaged in a new way.

The next week will be the usual pain trying to implement, tripping over a myriad of incompatibilities punctuated by outright lies in the documentation, reworking it all at least three times before settling on a close-enough working solution. Fun stuff.

I must remember to heed my gut instinct in the future. My first 5 seconds evaluation of “run! don’t agree to that!” has proven correct once again.

Why didn’t I listen to it, 6 months ago?

Got to finish what I started but then no more.

My 5-second-eval has worked amazingly well for judging character of people I might be working with/for as well. I almost always listen to that kind at least.

Grumble bumble. Happy stabby Wednesday, everyone!