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[geminigirl]

We had a meeting about hurricane preparedness today at work, and were reminded that we should save all our documents to the network drive, not just the local drive...

Geniuses that we are, I asked "where's the server, in the phone closet, right?"

"Yes."

Our phone closet which gets damp any time it rains, and causes problems with our telephones...

If something happened to our office, there's a pretty good chance that our server would get blown away with it. I don't trust our IT guy enough to think we've got current back ups...I think it's time for offsite back ups. I'll break out the CDs tomorrow and burn my important stuff onto there.

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[datagoddess.livejournal.com]

Speaking as a professional IT backup domme, um, goddess, I think you're doing the right thing :-)

[geminigirl]

I'm not a geek by most standards, but I'm more well versed than your average luser. I don't trust our IT guy...period. Waaaay back, around when I first started, and they were updating some stuff on our network, the guy was coming to do something to my computer and said to me, "What's your password?" Um, no. I don't go around telling people passwords...if you need me to log back in as a user, you tell me to do that. It was just a clear and obvious security thing. (Course there's also the fact that now we all have the same password...I could go to anyone's computer, type in their username and login. Morons.)

Thanks for your vote of confidence. I seriously doubt anything serious will happen to machines at work, but I admit to not having a lot of my stuff backed up, so it's not a bad idea now anyway.

[datagoddess.livejournal.com]

Ok the password thing is just wrong. I never ask for passwords (and usually I'm logging in as an administrator), I always ask the person I'm working with to log in. If they offer it, I accept, but asking is just wrong.

And I'd say your IT guy needs a swift kick. No matter how small the environment, there are basic security measures that should be followed.

Has he at least installed antivirus software?

[geminigirl]

Yes. There's antivirus software...couldn't tell you the last time it was updated though.

He does need a swift kick. I don't like him, I don't trust him. I think he's manipulative, and often gives us less information than we need, and less control than we could handle, so that we need to call him in to take care of minor problems.

If I hadn't figured out what the administrator password for my machine was, I'd probably still be without acrobat reader, and winzip (and a few other things, but we're not supposed to know about those.)