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I've been in IT for 35 years and my daughter became a teenager at about the rise of MySpace and Facebook (thank heavens smart phones were too new for her to have one). And she hit a rebellious streak. I used some software to track what she was doing online and adjusted my router to block sites. Part of the software was a keylogger, so I was able to get her and her lowlife boyfriends passwords to some sites. When I saw something objectionable, I'd tweak the computer and/or her accounts. My best was when I hacked her Facebook page and changed her status from "married" (to this loser) to "widowed"...changed her profile picture to one of my dog, and changed her password. I'm divorced, but she asked her mom "How does he know all this stuff", to which she replied, "do you realize what your father does for a living?".

My nefarious ways paid off for me though. While she was away with her cousins on spring break, I logged into HIS Facebook account and he happened to be on at the time....chatting it up with two different girls at the same time. Within 5 minutes, he had asked them BOTH 'how many boys have you f---ed". Saved the conversations. When she got back and had a little attitude with me about how great Michael was, I printed the conversations off, handed them to her and said "this is how much he missed you". She got beet red....but my problems with Michael were now a thing of the past.
 
KCFlyer said:
I've been in IT for 35 years and my daughter became a teenager at about the rise of MySpace and Facebook (thank heavens smart phones were too new for her to have one). And she hit a rebellious streak. I used some software to track what she was doing online and adjusted my router to block sites. Part of the software was a keylogger, so I was able to get her and her lowlife boyfriends passwords to some sites. When I saw something objectionable, I'd tweak the computer and/or her accounts. My best was when I hacked her Facebook page and changed her status from "married" (to this loser) to "widowed"...changed her profile picture to one of my dog, and changed her password. I'm divorced, but she asked her mom "How does he know all this stuff", to which she replied, "do you realize what your father does for a living?".

My nefarious ways paid off for me though. While she was away with her cousins on spring break, I logged into HIS Facebook account and he happened to be on at the time....chatting it up with two different girls at the same time. Within 5 minutes, he had asked them BOTH 'how many boys have you f---ed". Saved the conversations. When she got back and had a little attitude with me about how great Michael was, I printed the conversations off, handed them to her and said "this is how much he missed you". She got beet red....but my problems with Michael were now a thing of the past.
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Oooh hoo hoo...we should have a brew sometime. I see a worthy brain to pick.
 
KCFlyer said:
I've been in IT for 35 years and my daughter became a teenager at about the rise of MySpace and Facebook (thank heavens smart phones were too new for her to have one). And she hit a rebellious streak. I used some software to track what she was doing online and adjusted my router to block sites. Part of the software was a keylogger, so I was able to get her and her lowlife boyfriends passwords to some sites. When I saw something objectionable, I'd tweak the computer and/or her accounts. My best was when I hacked her Facebook page and changed her status from "married" (to this loser) to "widowed"...changed her profile picture to one of my dog, and changed her password. I'm divorced, but she asked her mom "How does he know all this stuff", to which she replied, "do you realize what your father does for a living?".

My nefarious ways paid off for me though. While she was away with her cousins on spring break, I logged into HIS Facebook account and he happened to be on at the time....chatting it up with two different girls at the same time. Within 5 minutes, he had asked them BOTH 'how many boys have you f---ed". Saved the conversations. When she got back and had a little attitude with me about how great Michael was, I printed the conversations off, handed them to her and said "this is how much he missed you". She got beet red....but my problems with Michael were now a thing of the past.
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Bravo.
 
What do you do in IT.

I am a network specialist though, I have been slowly learning HTML and CSS.
 
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La Li Lu Le Lo said:
What do you do in IT.

I am a network specialist.

I have been slowly learning HTML and CSS.
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I have said my job description should be "other duties as assigned". The formal term is systems admin, but I manage EMR software, troubleshoot hardware, software, and network problems, train, manage security, encryption and viruses, and pretty much anything that people can't figure out. I started out at EDS in Dallas, working on IBM System 34/36/38 for the banking industry. Moved to the AS400 and took a job of "technical marketing", which pretty much meant tell lies about what your product could do to support the sales reps, then fix the problems that you knew were going to happen but couldn't say because that's not what marketing was all about. Got really good and making graphs. It's amazing how a reduction from 25 milliseconds to 15 milliseconds can be portrayed to look like something noticeable. That only lasted a year until my conscience got the better of me and I went back to the "honest" world of data.
 
When you think about it it's pretty funny. Seems almost like we are going full circle to the days of dumb terminals. Seems like most of the software I use these days is web based.

There is a reason I am focusing on networking and web development. :)

The money now is in big data and AI though.
 
La Li Lu Le Lo said:
When you think about it it's pretty funny. Seems almost like we are going full circle to the days of dumb terminals. Seems like most of the software I use these days is web based.

There is a reason I am focusing on networking and web development. :)

The money now is in big data and AI though.
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As we started the shift from proprietary "mainframe" systems, my old boss had said that the ONE thing proprietary systems had going for them was that one group controlled the changes. Today, one change in an OS can kill a different "app"...and it usually isn't discovered until AFTER the OS has been released.
 
KCFlyer said:
I have said my job description should be "other duties as assigned". The formal term is systems admin, but I manage EMR software, troubleshoot hardware, software, and network problems, train, manage security, encryption and viruses, and pretty much anything that people can't figure out. I started out at EDS in Dallas, working on IBM System 34/36/38 for the banking industry. Moved to the AS400 and took a job of "technical marketing", which pretty much meant tell lies about what your product could do to support the sales reps, then fix the problems that you knew were going to happen but couldn't say because that's not what marketing was all about. Got really good and making graphs. It's amazing how a reduction from 25 milliseconds to 15 milliseconds can be portrayed to look like something noticeable. That only lasted a year until my conscience got the better of me and I went back to the "honest" world of data.
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AS400, that was a beast.
State of the art, at the time.
You certainly are a 'legacy' programmer if you programmed this beast.
Kudo's to you KC!
By the time I understood FORTRAN and Cobal, it was obsolete, in the market.
Soooo many operating systems and programming languages, I just could not keep up with them.
Oh well, my bad.
Take Care,
xUT
 
My Dad was one of the people responsible for bringing USS in Pittsburgh into the age of computer control in the late sixties/early seventies. He was sent to GE 4010 school in Phoenix for a 6 month crash course in hardware and software for the new Basic Oxygen Furnaces they were installing at the time. He was into Electrical Engineering. Then they put DEC computers on heating and control aspects just about anywhere in the plant that could be used. They didn't have IT people then, they were called Industrial Engineers. We talked a lot but most of his world was way over my head then......He never got into PC's later on at home.
 
What is amazing is that I installed a micrioSD chip with 178GB in my Note8.
Crap. I bought 256k sims for my 8086 for $600.00 to run DOS.
Forget about GUI, that wasn't even on the table until the MAC.
My first 'hard drive' was 5Meg and $500.
Does anyone remember 8" floppies...?
LOL...:D
 
xUT said:
What is amazing is that I installed a micrioSD chip with 178GB in my Note8.
Crap. I bought 256k sims for my 8086 for $600.00 to run DOS.
Forget about GUI, that wasn't even on the table until the MAC.
My first 'hard drive' was 5Meg and $500.
Does anyone remember 8" floppies...?
LOL...:D
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I worked on the IBM System 36, which the primary backup media was 8 inch "diskettes". I worked for the graphic arts distribution arm of International Paper (the company is called Xpedex today) and when we got the AS/400, we housed it in KC and ran a real time interactive order entry system with remote branches in KC, Wichita, Omaha, Des Moines, St Louis and Tulsa. That AS/400 had less than 1GB of memory (main storage) which we could allocate to different job pools to process. Looking back, it was kind of incredible how much that dang machine did. . Disk drives were expensive as hell and housed in about 4 towers next to the CPU. Today I have more memory and storage on my iPhone than we did on that AS400
 
KCFlyer said:
Looking back, it was kind of incredible how much that dang machine did
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Not really. That was due to being purpose driven and being efficiently programmed. Computers today have a lot of bloat on them. For example... take Microsoft office. When we upgraded at work we had to have 8 gigs minimum and even with that it is still a pig. Think about that...... 8 gigs...... for office software.

To me it is not as amazing that the AS/400 did what it did as it is needing 8 gigs of RAM today to run office software.
 
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