Strange that they would be using public IP's and not NAT through a firewall - I thought we were open for having a few Win workstations open through the firewall ( which has since been 'corrected'). Only thing I have open is one port for SSH now.
Sent from my iPhone On Oct 18, 2010, at 11:30 AM, "William L. Thomson Jr." <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 11:14 -0400, A.Padilla wrote: >> It seems like they do outsource local > > Well technically I was outsourced LOCAL application development. I asked > them why they were not developing the stuff from within. They said > because we do not trust our own students. Which to a point makes sense, > but then again, rather trust outsiders? So much for school spirit :) > >> and yes, there is definitely a lot of MS and .net stuff in there, at >> least on the front end. Even the programs are moving towards using >> more C#, etc. World is always changing. > > Not surprised there, I was doing Java, and they were pretty inexperience > all around. In fact our biggest quagmire at the time, was the Windows > admin having problems getting Tomcat's connector to play nice with IIS. > Turns out it was an error in the documentation on apache.org at the > time. > > However since I could not touch the keyboard, (not that I really wanted > to touch any windows machine) I couldn't really help directly. Its funny > how you don't catch things at times being third party, looking over > someone's shoulder. At the time I did feel I would have caught it sooner > if I wasn't looking over the admins shoulder. > >> On the subject of the IT department, it's like most other >> universities. Most of the staff are part time (students) with admins >> being MCSE's etc. When I did research there, the professors I worked >> with only used *nix servers for research. > > Well those that retained my companies services for the contract weren't > part time. Though worked for grant funded departments, I first met with > and proposed to some board. They didn't seem to have any problems about > spending others money. Then the main principle I was working with got > promoted to another dept. Their replacement basically scrapped all > technology and applications developed, and reverted back to more > simplistic inefficient means. > > Kinda left a bad taste in my mouth, with the application never really > seeing the light of day. Other projects terminated before completion. > Basically just a waste of money and not an ideal project from my > perspective either. Client did not get a return on investment, and did > not result in more business after the fact. Lose lose all around :( > > -- > William L. Thomson Jr. > Obsidian-Studios, Inc. > http://www.obsidian-studios.com > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 > RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml > Unsubscribe [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml Unsubscribe [email protected]
