@Devintrix , congrats and happy lifes with your wife. this joke is for you :)

Dear Tech Support:

Last year I upgraded from Girlfriend 7.0 to Wife 1.0 and noticed that the new program began running unexpected child processing that took up a lot of space and valuable resources.

In addition, Wife 1.0 installs itself into all other programs and launches during system initialization, where it monitors all other system activity. Applications such as PokerNight 10.3, Drunken Boys Night 2.5 and Monday Night football 5.0 no longer run, crashing the system whenever selected.

I cannot seem to keep Wife 1.0 in the background while attempting to run some of my other favorite applications. I am thinking about going back to Girlfriend 7.0, but un-install does not work on this program.

Can you help me please?

Thanks,

Joe

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Dear Joe:

This is a very common problem men complain about but is mostly due to a primary misconception. Many people upgrade from Girlfriend 7.0 to Wife 1.0 with the idea that Wife 1.0 is merely a “UTILITIES & ENTERTAINMENT” program. Wife 1.0 is an OPERATING SYSTEM and designed by its creator to run everything.

It is unlikely you would be able to purge Wife 1.0 and still convert back to Girlfriend 7.0. Hidden operating files within your system would cause Girlfriend 7.0 to emulate Wife 1.0 so nothing is gained.

It is impossible to un-install, delete, or purge the program files from the system once installed. You cannot go back to Girlfriend 7.0 because Wife 1.0 is not designed to do this. Some have tried to install Girlfriend 8.0 or Wife 2.0 but end up with more problems than the original system.

I recommend you keep Wife 1.0 and just deal with the situation. Having Wife 1.0 installed myself, I might also suggest you read the entire section regarding General Partnership Faults (GPFs). You must assume all responsibility for faults and problems that might occur, regardless of their cause. The best course of action will be to enter the command C:\APOLOGIZE. The system will run smoothly as long as you take the blame for all the GPFs.

Wife 1.0 is a great program, but very high maintenance. Consider buying additional software to improve the performance of Wife 1.0. I recommend Flowers 2.1, Jewelry 2.2, and Chocolates 5.0.

Do not, under any circumstances, install Secretary With Short Skirt 3.3. This is not a supported application for Wife 1.0 and is likely to cause irreversible damage to the operating system.

Best of luck,
Tech Support

More sysadmin focused but y’all get this stuff and I need a rant.

TLDR: Got the wrong internship.

Start working as a sysadmin/dev intern/man-of-many-hats at a small finance company (I’m still in school). Day 1: “Oh new IT guy? Just grab a PC from an empty cubicle and here’s a flash drive with Fedora, go ahead and manually install your operating system. Oh shit also your desktop has 2g of ram, a core2 duo, and we scavenged your hard drive for another dev so just go find one in the server room. And also your monitor is broken so just take one from another cubicle.”

Am shown our server room and see that someone is storing random personal shit in there (golf clubs propped against the server racks with heads mixed into the cabling, etc.). Ask why the golf clubs etc. are mixed in with the cabling and server racks and am given the silent treatment. Learn later that my boss is the owners son, and he is storing his personal stuff in our server room.

Do desktop support for end users. Another manager asks for her employees to receive copies of office 2010 (they’re running 2003 an 2007). Ask boss about licensing plans in place and upgrade schedules, he says he’ll get back to me. I explain to other manager we are working on a licensing scheme and I will keep her informed.

Next day other manager tells me (*the intern*) that she spoke with a rich business friend whose company uses fake/cracked license keys and we should do the same to keep costs down. I nod and smile. IT manager tells me we have no upgrade schedule or licensing agreement. I suggest purchasing an Office 365 subscription. Boss says $150 a year per employee is too expensive (Company pulls good money, has ~25 employees, owner is just cheap) I suggest freeware alternatives. Other manager refuses to use anything other than office 2010 as that is what she is familiar with. Boss refuses to spend any money on license keys. Learn other manager is owners wife and mother of my boss. Stalemate. No upgrades happen.

Company is running an active directory Windows Server 2003 instance that needs upgrading. I suggest 2012R2. Boss says “sure”. I ask how he will purchase the license key and he tells me he won’t.

I suggest running an Ubuntu server with LDAP functionality instead with the understanding that this will add IT employee hours for maintenance. Bosses eyes glaze over at the mention of Linux. The upgrade is put off.

Start cleaning out server room of the personal junk, labeling server racks and cables, and creating a network map. Boss asks what I’m doing. I show him the organized side of the server room and he says “okay but don’t do any more”.

... *sigh* ...

IF LIVES DEPEND ON A SYSTEM

1. Code review, collaboration, and knowledge sharing (each hour of code review saves 33 hours of maintenance)

2. TDD (40% — 80% reduction in production bug density)

3. Daily continuous integration (large code merges are a major source of bugs)

4. Minimize developer interruptions (an interrupted task takes twice as long and contains twice as many defects)

5. Linting (catches many typo and undefined variable bugs that static types could catch, as well as a host of stylistic issues that correlate with bug creation, such as accidentally assigning when you meant to compare)

6. Reduce complexity & improve modularity  -- complex code is harder to understand, test, and maintain

-Eric Elliott

Just wow. I am amazed by what just happened.

A year ago my parents decided to switch from desktop to laptop for convenience. Knowing their needs, i bought them one without an OS and installed Ubuntu 16.04 on it. The thing is that if you do a regular maintenance of the laptop once a year at their partner company, you get additional 4 years of warranty (this offer is amazing).

So today was the day I brought the laptop for this maintenance for the first time. They make you a profile on their support website where you can track shit regarding your device, super convenient. First thing I notice that the login page was not https. Awkward, but there is no sensitive data here so i let it pass. Naturally i forgot my password, so I requested a new one and guess what? I recieved it in plaintext via mail. A tech repair oriented company does this, my god.

I went there, gave them the laptop in question and got a piece of paper, where they wrote that the laptop is in their hands now, and the current physical state of the laptop, and blabla.

I got home and I read what the guy wrote among other things: THE OPERATING SYSTEM IS NOT LEGAL.

How the fuck is Ubuntu not legal??? What the fuck is this shit? I sure as hell didn't torrent it or bought a booteged copy on the streets.

Me when I get put on a legacy system maintenance project

Story time:
Yesterday I wanted to go to the theater with my girlfriend. It was her idea because as a student you can get reduced tickets for the play, but only via the online store exactely two hours before the play starts. We had already tried two weeks before but with no success. So this time I said i want to be on my pc with a proper browser and not a mobile version like last time. So we are sitting at home me in front of their website on one screen and with a clock on the other screen. Two minutes realy i hit refresh and I get a selection for the reduced tickets, nice.

You would think.

After selecting the amount. ERROR: Can not get your tickets. I was like fuck they are already sold out because it's a popular play. But hey let's try again. I got one ticket but not the second one, okay strange lets try again, same ERROR again. WHAT the FUCK, no feedback what so ever. My girlfriend had then the idea that they maybe restricted the amount for reduced tickets to one (does not state this explicitly but hey lets give it a shot). Use second browser select one ticket. ERROR can not get you the amount of seats. Rage level near to a 1000 why did it work two minutes before but not anymore. Trying around for five more minutes finally got the second ticket.

Now the real fun begins.

Proceeding to checkout should not be that hard you would think, but you need to be registered for that. Okay so let's do that. The salutation is not required neither is the address for the tickets but you need to have a company name??!!!!! The fuck?? I am not self employed and neither are a most other people around here so why is this field mandatory? Beeing a little under stress I decided to found the "asdf" company with my girlfriend.

Now one would think checking out is easy. Not so fast.

After accepting the terms of service another ERROR, unable to accept your data. What data? I did not input anything new? Where does this come from? Ok never mind I am going to pay with credid card that must work!
ERROR: Internal paymentservice initialization failure! Sorry what? I thought maybe I was to long idle in this browser and they do not reserve the tickets for so long (which would be no surprise to me at this point). Let's try again. Nope same error.

Now my rage level was really over 9000 but we really wanted to go so I decided to call the customer SUPPORT. Or better to say I had a answering maching telling me for ten minutes how sorry they are that this takes so long, yeah you bet. Then and this is now really great: the support guy asks me: "What error do you see? Internal paymentservice initialization failure?" I was like, okay he knows this so they need to know how to handle it. FUCK NO. "Sorry I can't help you. This is our payment system maybe they (IT) are doing some maintenance I can't halp you. Call the theater directly good day." Sorry what just happened, you fuckers are the vendors for the tickets for nearly all big events around here and the theater explicitly states to call you for tickets but you can not help me? Like hell.

This process took 25 very frustrating minutes and I was really angry and wanted to quit, then I saw that there is also a paypal option which I had not tried. With very little hope i selected everything for the payment, registered with paypal and they told me I already had an account. So reactivated this five year old account payed with all the mobile passwords and tans to finally, after 30 fucking minutes, get a pdf file for a ticket. Repeated the last step for the second ticket and with some time left to get there we were off.

my story so far

Hey guys. i just wantes to share my story becoming something i think is like a dev.
I was always interested in solving problems. my grandfather has a company with a bit over a 100 employees. one day i decided to start working there. he needed someone to build up the erp system (mostly maintenance). about a month after i started he decided to get a new erp system because the one he had would not fill his needs. not knowing how big this got i told him that i want to build it up. from getting the orders over production with machines to billing.
he agreed. after a short time we knew that even this new system does not fullfill our needs. but it was so damn expensive. i told my grandfather: trust me, i am handling this. no further costs. and i started to learn programming. i learned night and day (visual basics.net, sql, c#). since then i wrote about 8 additional modules for the system in coorperation with the users. today, 3 years later we are far ahead our market in terms of transparency and information flow. i worked very hard for this and it is a great feeling to see that the things i do help my colleagues and are used.

i never learned this stuff in school and i know that i cannot tell that i am a professional programmer.

but when someone asks me i tell them i am a programmer because my solutions work and i think i deserve to call me that.

thanks for reading :)

So I used to do some freelancing in web development last year, nothing too fancy just some simple PHP websites. Comes the worst meeting in my life. So I am from India and we have a lot of long lasting business here being passed on over generations. TL;DR the guy was the owner of a very old business which was actually very huge and the guy was educated too, so I assumed that he'll be sensible as compared to other people.

The meeting was in an expensive cafe and he paid for it, he even told me upfront that meeting is on him. Great, right? So we sit down, order some coffee and then start discussing what he needed.
The guy needed an ecommerce website built with backend and logistics system integrated. We discussed possible designs for the website and stuff too and so far the deal looked promising to both of us.
I explained him the cost estimate and told him that I would email him the final quote from myself once we discussed server cost and shit.
So now comes the bargaining part where he asked me to give him server and domain for free.
At this point, I suspected that he didn't know that servers and domains are not something that you make. You have to purchase and renew them periodically.
So I told that guy that he didn't understand the cost estimation and explained to him that X is the cost of making this fucking thing and Y is its monthly maintenance cost, if he wanted annually could be done too. And this Y did not include server and domain costing.
Now came the fucking tide, the guy straight up turned to his shit and told me I am lying and trying to con him. So I gently asked him if he had ever gotten any website made. To which, he said No, but he knows how the costing works.
I was like "Bitch?". So I calmly tried to explain that that's not how websites are done, delivered and maintained.
He didn't seemed to be understanding and kept on fucking repeating that he knows his shit and blah blah.
At this point, I was like "Okay. Fuck this dude then. I can find another project. " and then I told him that he'll need to find someone according to his needs.
Interestingly enough, the guy called someone and then walked out of the cafe while talking on phone. I waited for 5 minutes and he didn't come back so I decided I would pay for my coffee and leave. Turns out the guy had paid his bill before my arrival and ditched me with the excuse of the call.

But oh well, I think working with such an idiot would have been much worse than paying for that coffee.

So I looked at our dashboard and noticed a banner mentioning scheduled maintenance set for 7:00 AM. And I thought to myself, "I never released an update, and even if I had, the maintenance would be performed 15 minutes after the build finished, not at 7:00 AM." So I emailed my coworkers, asking if they had put up the banner, no, no. I started pulling my hair out trying to figure out what caused this banner to be created. Was there some old job that was just now running? I combed through the server logs, thousands of entries later, and I found the banner was installed by some user with the IP 172.18.0.1...which was the local machine. I went through all the users on the system, running atq to see if anyone had jobs scheduled. And there was one job scheduled, under the root user. At that moment, I legit thought to myself, "have we been hacked? How is that possible?" It's wasn't! Then I looked under /var/spool/atjobs to see what the job actually was. And then I saw it. My weekly updater cron job had installed updates and had scheduled a maintenance window to reboot the system. And I smiled, realizing that my code was now sentient.

The solution for this one isn't nearly as amusing as the journey.

I was working for one of the largest retailers in NA as an architect. Said retailer had over a thousand big box stores, IT maintenance budget of $200M/year. The kind of place that just reeks of waste and mismanagement at every level.

They had installed a system to distribute training and instructional videos to every store, as well as recorded daily broadcasts to all store employees as a way of reducing management time spend with employees in the morning. This system had cost a cool 400M USD, not including labor and upgrades for round 1. Round 2 was another 100M to add a storage buffer to each store because they'd failed to account for the fact that their internet connections at the store and the outbound pipe from the DC wasn't capable of running the public facing e-commerce and streaming all the video data to every store in realtime. Typical massive enterprise clusterfuck.

Then security gets involved. Each device at stores had a different address on a private megawan. The stores didn't generally phone home, home phoned them as an access control measure; stores calling the DC was verboten. This presented an obvious problem for the video system because it needed to pull updates.

The brilliant Infosys resources had a bright idea to solve this problem:

- Treat each device IP as an access key for that device (avg 15 per store per store).
- Verify the request ip, then issue a redirect with ANOTHER ip unique to that device that the firewall would ingress only to the video subnet
- Do it all with the F5

A few months later, the networking team comes back and announces that after months of work and 10s of people years they can't implement the solution because iRules have a size limit and they would need more than 60,000 lines or 15,000 rules to implement it. Sad trombones all around.

Then, a wild DBA appears, steps up to the plate and says he can solve the problem with the power of ORACLE! Few months later he comes back with some absolutely batshit solution that stored the individual octets of an IPV4, multiple nested queries to the same table to emulate subnet masking through some temp table spanning voodoo. Time to complete: 2-4 minutes per request. He too eventually gives up the fight, sort of, in that backhanded way DBAs tend to do everything. I wish I would have paid more attention to that abortion because the rationale and its mechanics were just staggeringly rube goldberg and should have been documented for posterity.

So I catch wind of this sitting in a CAB meeting. I hear them talking about how there's "no way to solve this problem, it's too complex, we're going to need a lot more databases to handle this." I tune in and gather all it really needs to do, since the ingress firewall is handling the origin IP checks, is convert the request IP to video ingress IP, 302 and call it a day.

While they're all grandstanding and pontificating, I fire up visual studio and:

- write a method that encodes the incoming request IP into a single uint32
- write an http module that keeps an in-memory dictionary of uint32,string for the request, response, converts the request ip and 302s the call with blackhole support
- convert all the mappings in the spreadsheet attached to the meetings into a csv, dump to disk
- write a wpf application to allow for easily managing the IP database in the short term
- deploy the solution one of our stage boxes
- add a TODO to eventually move this to a database

All this took about 5 minutes. I interrupt their conversation to ask them to retarget their test to the port I exposed on the stage box. Then watch them stare in stunned silence as the crow grows cold.

According to a friend who still works there, that code is still running in production on a single node to this day. And still running on the same static file database.

#TheValueOfEngineers

*looks for jobs in system administration*

For our client in $location we're looking for a Network and System Administrator ... to manage our local IT infrastructure (so far so good) ... that's Microsoft-based.

Fuck that company.

*looks further*

Requirements: deployment and maintenance of servers, backups and storage, updates, yada yada.. fine with me.
yOU wiLl mAiNtAiN WanBLowS sUrVaR sYsTeMs

Fuck that company too.

Does anyone here in Belgium even work with fucking Linux servers?! Or should I really relocate to the Netherlands to get something decent?!!

So, I found this :

Dear Tech Support:
Last year I upgraded from Girlfriend 7.0 to Wife 1.0. I soon noticed that the new program began unexpected child processing that took up a lot of space and resources. In addition, Wife 1.0 installed itself into all other programs and now monitors all other system activity. Applications such as Poker Night 10.3, Football 5.0, HuntingAndFishing 7.5, and Racing 3.6. I can't seem to keep Wife 1.0 in the background while attempting to run my favorite applications. I'm thinking about going back to Girlfriend 7.0, but the uninstall doesn't work on Wife 1.0. Please help!

Thanks ...Troubled User
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REPLY:

Dear Troubled User:
This is a very common problem. Many people upgrade from Girlfriend 7.0 to Wife 1.0, thinking that it is just a Utilities and Entertainment program. Wife 1.0 is an OPERATING SYSTEM and is designed by its Creator to run EVERYTHING!!! It is also impossible to delete Wife 1.0 and to return to Girlfriend 7.0. It is impossible to uninstall, or purge the program files from the system once installed. You cannot go back to Girlfriend 7.0 because Wife 1.0 is designed not to allow this. Look in your Wife 1.0 manual under Warnings-Alimony-Child Support. I recommend that you keep Wife 1.0 installed and work on improving the configuration. I suggest installing the background application YesDear 99.0 to alleviate software augmentation.

The best course of action is to enter the command C:\APOLOGIZE because ultimately you will have to do this before the system will return to normal anyway.

Wife 1.0 is a great program, but it tends to be very high maintenance. Wife 1.0 comes with several support programs, such as CleanAndSweep 3.0, CookIt 1.5 and DoBills 4.2. However, be very careful how you use these programs. Improper use will cause the system to launch the program NagNag 9.5. Once this happens, the only way to improve the performance of Wife 1.0 is to purchase additional software. I recommend Flowers 2.1 and Diamonds 5.0, but beware because sometimes these applications can be expensive.

WARNING!!! DO NOT, under any circumstances, install SecretaryWithShortSkirt 3.3. This application is not supported by Wife 1.0 and will cause irreversible damage to the operating system. 

WARNING!!! Attempting to install NewGirlFriend 8.8 along with Wife 1.0 will crash the system.

(see Wife 1.0 manual, Apologize, High Maintenance & Secretary with Short Skirt)

My windows laptop was having performance issues since last few days.
LAPTOP MAINTENANCE MODE ACTIVATED!
So scanned my whole system with an anti-virus, cleared unwanted data with Ccleaner, quick defragged the C drive, did system restore etc etc, still no luck.
Today I found out the reason: someone had turned the 'Power Options' to 'Power Saver'.

The only thing more dangerous than an alcoholic short-term-memory-challenged non-technical throw-you-under-the-bus IT director with self-esteem issues that are sporadically punctuated by delusions of superiority is one who fears for his job. Submitted for your inspection: a besotted mass of near-human brain function who not only has a 50 person IT department to run, but has also been questioned by the business owners as to what he actually does. So he has decided to show them. He has purchased a vendor product to replace a core in-house developed application used to facilitate creating the product the business sells. The purchased software only covers about 40 percent of the in-house application's functionality, so he is contracting with the vendor to perform custom development on the purchased product (at a cost likely to be just shy of six-figures) so that about 90 percent of existing functionality will be covered. He has asked one of his developers (me) to scale down the existing software to cover the functionality gaps the purchased software creates. There is no deployment plan that will allow the business to transition from the current software to the new vendor​-supplied one without significantly hurting the ability of the business to function. When anyone raises this issue he dismisses it with sage musings such as, "I know it will be painful, but we'll just have to give the users really good support." Because he has no idea what any of his staff actually does, he is expecting one of his developers (again, unfortunately, me) to work with the vendor so that the Frankensoftware will perform as effectively as the current software (essentially as a project manager since there will be no in-house coding involved). Lastly, he refuses to assign someone to be responsible for the software: taking care of maintenance, configuration, and issue resolutions after it has been rolled out. When I pointedly tell him I will not be doing that (because this is purchased software and I am not a system admin or desktop engineer) he tells me, "Let me think about this." The worst part is that this is only one of four software replacement initiatives he is injecting himself into so he can prove his worth to the business owners. And by doing so he is systematically making every software development initiative akin to living in Dante's Eighth Circle. I am at the point where I want to burn my eye out with a hot poker, pour salt into the wound, and howl to the heavens in unbearable agony for a month, so when these projects come to fruition, and I am suffering the wrath of the business owners, I can look back on that moment I lost my eye and think "good times."

At my balmer's peak and have nothing to work on... what am I supposed to do right now?

#usr/bin/rant

I'm working on this super fun project in which we can combine the newest technologies, and some not so new but fun to use, we are doing it with docker, ASP.Net core, Angular2, and suddenly the system maintenance guy from the client sends us an email like:

- Just wondering which content management system are you going to use currently we are using WordPress, Orange and Django which ease a lot adding new features and sections

So the PM and me are frustrated and scared that we are going to be forced to use something awful just to please this guy.

Our employee management system, for some reason, stored Testlists (I work in QA) linked to the user accounts that created them. Now after an colleague who worked there for five years left pretty much all our data was suddenly down the drain and nobody backed the fricking server up because, hey, whats the fun in that. Now all the tests need to be rewritten and other than the whole gui test automation of our product, maintenance of the same for another product, manually testing dev issues and training my new code monkeys to frickin not commit non working code to the trunk I have now also "Make a better Employee management system" (roughly translated those are the specs I've got) on my plate... I can remember back to the care free days of just before my boss asked me if I wanted to try to automate some of the test cases... How did I ever survive this paralyzing tranquility. Ha, surprise.
!rant, I fucking love the stress and juggling a shit ton of problems at the same time keeps ine on edge.

A few months ago I bought an e scooter to get from home to work.

The backstory to this:
My car broke down on the highway, my sister's car broke down on the highway and we didn't have another car apart of my dad's anymore.
Which means I had to look for another car. The cars between 1k-5k € are dogshit and when you want to register the car you have to have an appointment at a government building which happens to be closed when I'm getting out of my 8-5 job.
I had enough and bought an e scooter.

Now back to now:
In the beginning it was cool.
Could get anywhere I wanted to in combination with the Germany ticket. Except for the Netherlands where my beautiful girlfriend is.
There I can legally not use it but that's ok lol.

The German government is hyping e mobility and public transportation up, but for what?
E mobility currently sucks ass with all the shit laws for e.g. e scooters and when you want to transport it in public transport, people give you weird looks, the bus driver wants you to buy a bicycle ticket even if I can fold the e scooter and more. The scanners in the bus of the German buses cannot read my German ticket for some reason and every bus driver in my city knows that and they just look at it and are like "Ok, you're cool. Continue moving", but this old grandma looking ass bitch is like "No, according to the law you need to show it to the scanner and not to me". I fucking know. I've been doing this shit for a year and you know that but it doesn't work. It says to me that I need to show it to you instead of to the scanner bc this machine is fucking dumb and apparently I'm holding the people because I started a discussion with her. This driver ... ugh. The buses in my city come whenever they want as well.
Like sometimes 5 minutes earlier, sometimes up to 30 minutes later.
Inconsistent motherfuckers and I am the one making everyone wait? Suck my donkey kong balls.

German trains... well you know how that goes. It doesn't. It sucks ass.
Every single fucking train line has a problem. Either a previous train has something, or staff is missing, or a technical error or the train driver's ass is itchy and needs scratches from his assistant. There's always something.

When I want to travelled home from my gf I spent not lying 8 fucking hours on the trains on Sunday.
Normally it takes max. 5 hours with a train and 3-4 hours with a car.
I can also go on a rant because of the Dutch train system because it also sucks, BUT they are reliable. They are there when they say they are gonna be there. 99% of the times.
In Germany it is somewhere at 10%.

Now I realized that e scooters are uncomfortable and expensive toys who need maintenance just like a car but nonetheless they are reliable unlike the public transport.
In the winter it will be even worse.

Electrical cars are way expensive and affordable electrical cars you need to keep charging every few baby steps.

I also looked at 125ccm motorcycles which you can drive if you upgrade your existing car driver's license, but ngl that's a scam. Not worth it at all.

And that's why I am looking for a traditional car now. E mobility is not there yet in Germany and public transport is not doable at this moment.

!coding

I used to be a sysadmin, which meant I was in charge of quarterly server patching. My team managed about 2500 servers, running various flavors of linux and legacy unix. The vast majority(95% or more) ran Linux(SLES). Our maintenance window was always in the overnight-- 10pm to 6am --so the stroke of 10pm would be a massive cascade of patching commands sent to hundreds of servers.

Before I was brought into the process, it made use of the automation product we were tasked by mgmt to use: Bigfix. It's a real piece of shit. Though we had 2500 or so servers, this environment was dominated by windows. All our vcenter servers ran it, and more importantly, our bigfix nodes were all windows machines. That meant that while we're trying to patch, the bigfix servers would get patched by the windows team. This would cause lots of failed and timed out patching, because the windows admins never quite understood that taking down the automation infrastructure would cause problems.

As such, I got tired of depending on a bunch of button-pushing checkbox-clickers who didn't know shit about shit, so I started writing an ssh-wrapped patching system. By the time I left for my current job, patching had been reduced to a single command to initiate each group's patching and reboots, and an easy check to see when servers come back up. So usually, the way it worked out was that I would send patching orders to 750 machines or so, and within about 5 minutes, they would all be done patching, and within another 20 minutes all the ones that required rebooting but about 5 would be done rebooting.

The "all-nighter" which happened every time was waiting for oracle servers to run timed fscks against a dozen or so large filesystems per server, because they were all on ext3/4, which eats complete shit. Then, several hours later, as they finished, I would have to call the DBAs to tell them to validate their shitty servers.

About slightly more than a year ago I started volunteering at the local general students committee. They desperately searched for someone playing the role of both political head of division as well as the system administrator, for around half a year before I took the job.

When I started the data center was mostly abandoned with most of the computational power and resources just laying around unused. They already ran some kvm-hosts with around 6 virtual machines, including a cloud service, internally used shared storage, a user directory and also 10 workstations and a WiFi-Network. Everything except one virtual machine ran on GNU/Linux-systems and was built on open source technology. The administration was done through shared passwords, bash-scripts and instructions in an extensive MediaWiki instance.

My introduction into this whole eco-system was basically this:
"Ever did something with linux before? Here you have the logins - have fun. Oh, and please don't break stuff. Thank you!"

Since I had only managed a small personal server before and learned stuff about networking, it-sec and administration only from courses in university I quickly shaped a small team eager to build great things which would bring in the knowledge necessary to create something awesome. We had a lot of fun diving into modern technologies, discussing the future of this infrastructure and simply try out and fail hard while implementing those ideas.

Today, a year and a half later, we look at around 40 virtual machines spiced with a lot of magic. We host several internal and external services like cloud, chat, ticket-system, websites, blog, notepad, DNS, DHCP, VPN, firewall, confluence, freifunk (free network mesh), ubuntu mirror etc. Everything is managed through a central puppet-configuration infrastructure. Changes in configuration are deployed in minutes across all servers. We utilize docker for application deployment and gitlab for code management. We provide incremental, distributed backups, a central database and a distributed network across the campus. We created a desktop workstation environment based on Ubuntu Server for deployment on bare-metal machines through the foreman project. Almost everything free and open source.

The whole system now is easily configurable, allows updating, maintenance and deployment of old and new services. We reached our main goal for this year which was the creation of a documented environment which is maintainable by one administrator.

Although we did this in our free-time without any payment it was a great year with a lot of experience which pays off now.

Being assigned an old system that has scarce/cryptic documentation and uses global variables for everything. Not a maintenance nightmare at ALL.

Here we are, three years later. Our system breaks down at the slightest load. An architecture is hardly recognizable anymore. The code consists of methods that have been refactored beyond recognition. The so-called architects came and went, leaving behind an ever-growing fiasco. Wrong decisions are concealed, criticism of them dismissed as ignorance. Our clients are on the verge of having us all killed. Daily crisis meetings are the norm. The remaining developers skulk around the unmaintainable code like emaciated ghosts. Everyone who has even the slightest chance to escape takes a parachute. Our dailies are made up of lies to cover up yesterday's lies. Our Mondays have become days of dread, because that's when the weekend disaster news has to be analyzed. Yet there are still developers who turn a blind eye. Who recommend this and that workaround in a good-humored tone. The code consists only of workarounds. Sarcasm has replaced any normal discussion. Reasonable suggestions on how to basically refactor the whole thing are rejected for cost reasons. In the process, our entire budget is eaten up by maintenance costs. Middle management should be put up against the wall. Why am I still here? This deceptive feeling that one could still turn the tide. This is eating me up.

I took a job with a software company to manage their product, which was a SaaS property maintenance system for real estate, social housing, etc.

There was no charge to real estate agents to use it but maintenance contractors had to use credits to take a job, which they pre-purchased. They recharged their credit costs back to the real estate agent on their invoice).

Whether this pricing model is good or not, that's what it was. So, in I came, and one of the first things management wanted me to deal with was a long-standing problem where nobody in the company ever considered a contractor's credits could go into the negative. That is, they bought some credits once, then kept taking jobs (and getting the real estate agent to pay for the credits), and went into negative credits, never paying another cent to this software company.

So, I worked with product and sales and finance and the developers to create a series of stories to help get contractors' back into positive credits with some incentives, and most certainly preventing anyone getting negative again.

The code was all tested, all was good, and this was the whole sprint. We released it ...

... and then suddenly real estate agents were complaining reminders to inspect properties were being missed and all sorts of other date-related events were screwed up.

I couldn't understand how this happened. I spoke with the software manager and he said he added a couple of other pieces of code into the release.

In particular, the year prior someone complained a date on a report was too squished and suggested a two-digit year be used. Some atrocious software developer worked on it who, quite seriously, didn't simply change the formatting of that one report. No, he modified the code everywhere to literally store two-digit years in the database. This code sat unreleased for a year and then .... for no perceivable reason, the moron software manager decided he'd throw it into this sprint without telling me or anybody else, or without it being tested.

I told him to rollback but he said he'd already had developers fixing the problems as they came up. He seemed to be confident they'd sort it out soon.

Yet, as the day went on more and more issues arose. I spoke to him with the rest of the management team and said we need to revert the code but he said they couldn't because they hadn't been making pull requests that were exclusive to specific tickets but instead contained lots of work all in one. He didn't think they could detangle it and said the only way to fix was "play whack-a-mole" when issues came up.

I only stayed in that company for three months; there was simply way too much shit to fix and to this day I still have no idea the reasoning that went on in the head of anyone involved with that piece of code.

What was supposed to be an inoffensive shutdown during the weekend for maintenance became a nightmare today. The storage went to the space thanks to a system admin who was supposed to know what is doing. Since there is no power button I just pulled the power cord, he said.

With a recent HAProxy update on our reverse proxy VM I decided to enable http/2, disable TLS 1.0 and drop support for non forward-secrecy ciphers.

Tested our sites in Chrome and Firefox, all was well, went to bed.

Next morning a medium-critical havock went loose. Our ERP system couldn't create tickets in our ticket system anymore, the ticket systems Outlook AddIn refused to connect, the mobile app we use to access our anti-spam appliance wouldn't connect although our internal blackboard app still connected over the same load balancer without any issues.

So i declared a 10min maintenance window and disabled HTTP/2, thinking that this was the culprit.

Nope. No dice.
Okay, i thought, enable TLS 1.0 again.

Suddenly the ticket system related stuff starts to work again.

So since both the ERP system and the AddIn run on .NET i dug through the .NET documentation and found out that for some fucking reason even in the newest .NET framework version (4.7.2) you have to explicitly enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 or else you just get a 'socket reset' error. Why the fuck?!

Okay, now that i had the ticket system out of the way i enabled HTTP/2 and verified that everything still works.

It did, nice.

The anti-spam appliance app still did not work however, so i enabled one non-pfs cipher in the OpenSSL config and tested the app.

Behold, it worked.

I'm currently creating a ticket with them asking politely why the fuck their app has pfs-ciphers disabled.

And I thought disabling DEPRECEATED tech wouldn't be an issue... Wrong...

I have an idea and I want some feedback.

I'm the only web developer and I've been updating our systems so they can be maintainable. Previously we have used Wordpress for landing pages which is complete overkill So here's the idea:

Static sites for landing pages and any forms that would need to filled out would be on a separate site.

Ok so here me out. First the landing pages barely need any maintenance so using pure HTML/CSS/JS wouldn't be a problem. This means I can strip away all of the crap from Wordpress and make the load times faster. Second all of the landing pages forms would be hosted in a single place making analytics easier for the reporting system.

Really I just despise Wordpress and am trying any practical reason to not use it as much as possible. Oh and don't worry I'll use preprocessors and minify the production files.

I've worked on a year to replace an old legacy system after years of shitty maintenance. We're almost there. So damn fucking close.

Trying to setup a staging server boss says just use AWS, system admin doesn't like that thought because it doesn't involve him so waited all day for 3 VM's and still not ready... All I need is 3 blank CoreOS VMs nothing fancy like even doing the cloud config no. Anyone else has colleagues scared of moving out of the private high maintenance servers in the basement?

!rant

So, when I was young, I wanted to be a freelancing nomad. You know, live the live, work remote and travel.

But I didn't have the bones to pursue that. After 10 years of struggling as a normal "programmer", I did a little of everything. I did normal boring "erp maintenance" in C#, Oracle and some legacy stuff called Visual WEB GUI , which was fun, but required a full 9,5 hours work day, 8:00 am to 6:30pm, and the bosses where squares, and I was young and wanted to try something out of the corporate world.

Then I did some work for a newly funded consulting company that used python, Django, and postgresql, but the bosses promised a lot and delivered none, (I was supposed to work backend and have frontend support, which I did not have, and that hurt my productivity and bosses instead of looking at what they promised but did not deliver, they just discounted my salary 3 months in a row, so Bye bye MFs!!

Then I did some remote work for some guys, that, I managed to sustain for a whole year, the pay was good, the stack was simple, just node.js and pug templates, that gig was good, but communication with the bosses was hard, and eventually things started to get hard for them and me, and we had to say farewell to each other, I miss those guys. This is the only time I remember having fun working, I could work whenever I wanted, I only had to reach the weekly goals, and then my time was mine, I could work from home in the odd hours, or rent a chair in a co working space if I wanted to socialize.

Then fate got me one big gig with a multinational company, and I could hire some people, but I delegated too much and was asking too little of myself, and that project eventually died because I did not know how to negotiate.

So, I quit the whole entrepreneur idea, and got a public job at my University, I was a public employee with all the perks, but none of the fun, I just had to clock-in, work, and clock-out. That experience led me to discover a lot of myself, I worked as a public employee for a year and a half, and in that time, I discovered more about myself than what I learnt in 27 years of previous life experience.

Then, I grew bored of that life, and wanted some action, and I found more than enough fun in a VC funded startup ran by young narcissists that did not have a clue of what they were doing, I helped them organize themselves into "closing stuff", you know, finish the things you say you have finished. Just to give you an idea of what it was like before I got there, the were working for 3 months already on this project, they had on paper 50% of the system done and working, when I tried to use the app, I couldn't even sign-up without hacking some database commands, (this was supposedly done). So I spent a month there teaching these guys how to finish stuff, they got, Sign Up, (their sign up was a mess, it is one of those KYC rich things, that financial apps have), Login, and some core functionality working in a month, while in the previous 4 months they only did parallel work, writing endpoints that were not tried, and an app that did not communicate with the backend. But the bosses weren't happy with me, because I told them time and time again that we were not going to reach the goal they needed to reach to keep receiving funds from the investors, and I had to quit before it became a mayhem of toxic employer/employee relationship.

So now I decided to re-engage with life, I have funds to survive about a month and half, I have a good line of credit in case I need some more funds, and the time of the world.

So wish me luck!!! And I'll be posting often, because I would like opinions, hear from people with similar life experiences and share anecdotes.

Next post, it's going to be about how I discovered taskwarrior, and how implemented my first weekend following some of the aspects of GTD to do all my housekeeping chores, because, I think that organizing myself will be key to survive as a freelancer nomad.

I manage the infrastructure of an application. Responsible for setup, maintenance and upgrades of all the associated servers, databases, filesystems and tuning. The business area is responsible for maintaining the content and structure of the app.

A couple of weeks ago, the business area started asking me for the system admin passwords in an attempt to integrate a remote service. The reason was because he didn't want to store his own credentials in Jenkins. Imagine the shock when they were told no.

Then a week ago, they asked for the password again so they could update a properties file. Again, the answer was no.

We sent them an email yesterday asking for their change management number so we could make the change to the properties file. They were absolutely shocked to find out that we hadn't already updated the file because they had already deployed their code changes to go with the properties file last Thursday. They submitted the request to us on Friday.

Getting real tired of people screwing up and pointing the finger back at me.

Hey just brainstorming a business/ startup idea I may try out sometime down the line. I wanted to put it in writing available to my peers for review. If that sounds boring, sorry.

So I've had an idea and I know it's a million dollar idea because it's absolutely boring as fuck.

Recently I have been learning about NoSQL and it has gotten me pretty excited about unstructured data.

Now the first thing you should know about me is I like to make business software. I don't like games or social networks or blah blah blah, I like business stuff. One dream I have always had is to make THE business solution. I've noticed so many specific business solutions for very specific areas of work. Specific software for car washes, which is separate from the software for car maintenance, which is separate from the point-of-sales software, which is separate from the [...]

One of the problems with this is the inconsistency. Modular is good, but only if the modules are compatible. They aren't. Training needs to be provided for each individual system since they are all vastly different. And worst of all, since all of these different applications reach their own niche market, they charge out the butt for things that are usually very simple "POST a form over http(s)" machines.

I mean let's not get too dreamy here. My solution is an over-complicated form-builder. But it would be a game-changer for small and medium-sized businesses. Allowing users to build their own front-end and back-end disguised as a drag-and-drop form builder would be THE alternative, because they could bring all of their solutions into a single solution (one bill!) and since THEY are the ones that build what they need, they can have custom business software for the price of a spreadsheet program.

The price difference we could offer would be IMMENSE. Not only would we be able to offer "cookie-cutter" pricing as opposed to "custom" pricing, but since this generic solution could be used for essentially all of their systems, we aren't just decreasing one bill. We're decreasing one bill, and eliminating the rest entirely. We could devastate competition.

"BUT ALGO", you scream in despair, "USERS AREN'T SMART ENOUGH TO DRAG AND DROP FORM PARTS TO MAKE A FORM"

I mean ya true. But you say that like it's a bad thing. For one, we can just offer a huge library of templates. And for another, which is part of the business plan, we can charge people support dollars to help them drag and drop their stupid fucking forms!! Think of the MONEEYYYY YOU COULD MAKEE BY EXPLAINING HOW TO COLLECT FIRST AND LAST NAMEEE. Fuck.

The controls library would be extensible of course. You would be able to download different, more specialized controls if you need them. But the goal would be to satsify those needs with the standard collection of controls (Including interesting ones line barcode scanner and signature input and all that). But if all else fails, maybe someone made an open source control for you to implement and ignore that stupid donation button. We all do.

This could PURGE the world of overpriced and junky specialized business software, and best of all, it's aimed at smaller businesses. With smaller businesses making more profit, they will stay afloat better and may start to compete with their larger foes. Greater for the entire economy.

Anyways, I'm sure it's full of holes. Everything always is. But I still think it's something I'll try before I die.

I have two potential client meetings next week. The first one now knows she needs a website (but I have no clue what her budget is), I think she wants me to host the site as well as do site maintenance. The second potential client I'm working using the barter system (but I think she will end up owing me some money at the end). We will see how they both go.

Without a doubt it has to be the internal company search engine/file finding tool @thewamz and I wrote.

The company has a wide UNC network with files scattered all over the place and they need a way to keep track of where the files get moved to (they can and do get moved). The original tool was written in Java/Tomcat and didn't use any frameworks or utilities beyond custom written ones, no orms, and the SQL was just raw strings. The program didn't take into account that files might be moved or deleted so it never removed anything from the database, it just kept adding files and never removing them.

It however never stores files itself, just links to files elsewhere on the UNC network.

It took six months to get it into what might be a stable beta or release candidate state. The user interface is good, very simple and intuitive, the whole thing was rewritten in python/django, there were issues with utf 8 (and mysql not fully supporting utf 8 in its own utf 8 mode), we added a regex search mode (which was sorely lacking), the search used to take up to fifteen minutes however we sped it up to less than a minute (worst case when a user simply puts "^$" as the regex search). It has a multi threaded design which does some checks to ensure it doesn't spawn too many threads and get stuck in constant Gil switching. Still some bugs to fix, like moving the processing of results returned by the server in a web worker so that the content widget doesn't lock up processing millions of search results and moving the back end to use asynchronous python might gain a performance boost. But on the whole I think the system is ready to replace the older system that all the users are frustrated with and constantly complain about.

However the annoying bit is... How to actually get the new system online, while I am responsible for the development of tools and their maintenance, I am not responsible for their initial deployment and that means I have no idea when (or even if) my new tool will even ever be released :/

Have you ever gotten a task where you have to modify some existing code, and to get it to work the way it needs to you have to write some ugly ass code?

And I'm talking FUGLY ass code. The kind where every brain cell you have screams to refactor it all so that your code won't be so ugly and you can live with yourself. But you only wrote it that way because some numbnuts who was fired a year ago designed it that way, and left zero commentary or documentation on his reasoning ("sELf-dOcUmeNtiNg cOde, bRuH!").

It doesn't pose any sort of risk with regards to security or resource management or efficiency, or really even faulty logic. It just looks fucking awful, my brain can instantly see better ways to design it and I don't want history to tie my name to it.

But also the system is being gutted and retired within a matter of months, so maintenance won't even be a concern; and you know that you have a lot of other large tasks that need your attention too, and to refactor will ultimately prove to be a time sink.

I mean ultimately, I know what I need to do, but I guess it's a pride thing. Just makes me feel icky.

Just received an email from a high maintenance client - this is verbatim what I've just read:

"If I could pull out my Windows vista and then plug in a newer windows system without any stress I'd go for this. Do you do this service? I could pay you for an hour to come my business, Unplug, Plug in and sort this out etc etc. It sounds like a quick job to me."

Note I'm a software developer, nothing to do with day to day IT support stuff. The client's business property is a 45 min drive from my own.

So basically, according to my client I can charge a single hour (£85.00 +vat) for a 90 minutes round trip, to migrate their PC to a newer operating system and move all their data and apps over and then setup the new OS. All for £85.00 +vat. All excluding the fact I

What the literal heck. I'm face palming all over the place.

When you have some important system maintenance planned but your body says "not this time wolke" and just gives you 3 days off with sickness :<

So I started a new job back in April with a the developer on a government project being developed by a reputable international organization, lets call them R. Once the project reaches a an acceptable release stage, maintenance, changes and integration into the eco system falls to me. This project started about 3 years ago and the original team from R was "changed" because they claimed the product was ready for go live when it wasn't.

My job since then has mostly been analyst and QA work identifying issues with conversations like this:

Me to Client: I don't think this feature is working as it should be.

Client: You're right.

R.dev: This feature is working according to signed off SRS and assumptions register.

Client: Yes but the SRS and assumptions are wrong.

Me: Facepalms. Oh this other feature isn't working correctly either, this should generate A according to SRS but I'm getting G.

R.dev: Yes but that would take a major change to the system.

Me: [Blank stare]

R.dev: Ok, we can give you E.

Client: OK we corrected the errors in the SRS and the assumptions register we've signed off on this, please use these going forward.

R.dev: OK we reviewed and made changes.

Client: Um, these are wrong the calculations are off.

R.dev: We did it according to your SRS and assumptions register.

Client: Oh, wait, these formulas are wrong.

Me & R.dev: [Blank stares furiously]

Client: The sponsor won't pay the next stage until you reach an acceptable release. Fix these critical issues and we can worry about the rest in support.

R.dev: ... OK, we will deliver by X date.

[7 Days to delivery of changes]
R.dev: We postponed development till (deliveryDate + 8) when we meet with the sponsor.

Me: But that's when we should start the next UAT for go live for the New Year...

I left a management job for this so I could code more. 180 issues later I still haven't seen the source code... fml

Silver Lining: Still gettin' paid though

Snek unreachable from ipv4. Will continue working on it tomorrow. I've had corruption and it affected several parts. It required some heavy maintenance, even had to reboot the server in Rescue mode what works very nice at Hetzner actually. The next time I'll be less worried if such problem happens.

I've resolved quite some issues by letting create perplexity the ultimate diagnostics scripts, and based on that information, scripts for fixing the system. So custom made repair scripts for my system! Happy that I did, because in the end I've seen how much check and fix issues it were. All network information that it gathered to diagnose the issues, was 8000 lines. Dear lord. .

Anyone out there building / maintaining their own propietary CMS? Is it worth the hassle, or would switching to an open-source system be better?

This piece of junk is old and built with almost no design in mind. Now that we have to maintain it for 150 websites, it's becoming a huge support and maintenance pain.

So sick of dealing with stupid stuff, I'm just about ready to drop the whole thing and build on WordPress.

I am the responsible for the atlassian Suite at work, as I maintain the systems, set them up, and stuff.

One day, our crowd (the authentication and authorization application) just went crazy. At like lunch time it could not connect to the AD anymore. No reasons. Throwing XSRF errors (cross site scripting), because http would connect to https. "won't do it, fuck you" it told me. Out of the blue. Noone changed anything. And yea, seriously. Noone did.
It just refused to connect (as connecting to AD is connecting yourself with you own api. And refusing yourself talking to yourself). It runs behind a proxy. Therefore http/https. Well, this worked for years. But out of sudden not anymore.

Yea. Fuck you.

It was reported some hours later, at like 3pm, as people could not login to the applications using crowd as authentication and authorization server.

Tried to debug the system, where nothing was did, to make it work. At best time to fail.

First workaround: if you are logged into one of the other applications of atlassian, just refresh the site, so your SSO token gets a refresh and you are signed on again.

Then I searched more and more. And more.
But nothing worked, nothing helped.

So I addressed an emergency maintenance, take down the whole Suite, restart crowd, to apply some changes to it's settings, not knowing what happening then, because all connections of SSO will then be released. Sent out the mail like 30 minutes beforehands.

While waiting for the window, I just typed my credentials... And redid, and redid, so to type and being bored.
Three minutes before the window...

It just worked again.

Well. Wtf. Serioudl
Just came back.

No Intrusion, no changes at all. Just came back, as nothing has happened.

Kind of best part of this story... A headhunter messaged me on my way home to offer me a job as an Atlassian Suite SysAdmin for a company, at kinda the double of my salary.

At first I was thinking to go there, and when someone then asked me sth about Atlassian just start to laugh and then leave still laughing...

But then I very nicely respond that I dont want to cry at work. And wished him best luck.

I am doing some bad upgrades now on our Suite. Very painful.
And I looked into the start scripts. Some Look like the untalented intern tells another one to write scripts. Seriously wtf.

Today I followed the guide to Update a confluence and change database to Postgres. Didnt work, Postgres error.
Try it again, jquery won't load. Next try, tomcat not starting anymore. Did same thing. Every fucking time.

Yea. Maintenance window to get a nice new export soon. Will only take an hour.

To switch database in confluence, you need to set it up very fresh. And then Import your export.
Export takes an hour at our system.
Importing maybe the same time. Hope it will work (hint: Nope).

Oh, can be nice also. Just tell the Bitbucket to migrate databases, there is a fucking setting for it. Enter new database, ready, go, finished.

At least they don't raise costs very much every kinda year.
Oh sorry, yes, they do.

My dad used to write DbaseII programs for the Marines in the 80s (logistics officer, was moving the batallion’s local copy of maintenance records to digital in parallel with the mandatory file card system), then went on to manage enterprise-level software development programs as a government contractor when he got out, so he has a pretty good sense of what goes on in my small, 1-man web shop, and has even advised on best practices at times. Mom knows the basics from years of observation.

Recently my dad also became a business partner in a venture we’re working on launching, so for that particular project he has a *very*clear idea of what goes on and where things are at.

Running unit tests on a peer review. Why have unit tests if people don't run them? That said: our system guy wants us to start doing agile TDD. This would not be a problem if we weren't a maintenance shop and the code base doesn't really allow for TDD.

!rant

I had that installation of windows 3 to 4 years now.
I'm using a third party software for backup so everyday at 23:00 the backup service starts. The image is stored on a second HDD.
First i want to point out that i set up the windows maintenance around that time too. So any updates should occur then and i remember finding my PC at login screen couple of times meaning a restart had taken place.
Everything was fine all this time.
Couple of days ago i returned home late around 2 am to find a blue screen saying that the computer did not boot property the last time. Had two options, just restart or try to fix.
Of course i will fix it, come on.
Everything failed. Everything. Even safe mode won't boot.
Who cares i have the back up system image. Boot from the bootable usb stick and restore. Well nothing is happening. It's just freezing at 5%. Cancel. Try again. Cancel. Verify the image. Success! Try again! Nothing.
Damn. Im really tired, off to bed.
Woke up tried fixing and restore but to no avail.
Fuck it i will just install Windows fresh. I was set up after an hour or so installed the necessary drivers and such. Let's see that image of any file i want to get back.
Image is corrupted. What the fuck? How? Damn it. Mount and recovery also failed.

That's it. I did not lose any important files. I save everything on a different drive and also the backup.
But I'm wondering what had gone wrong.
My guess windows rebooted when the backup was running. If that's the case shouldn't be a check if such service is running?

People always say thet you should not quit your job before you have the next job lined up, but what if you plan to do freelance? This is my dilemma.

A bit of context (rant).

My current job is my first official job. Small company, VERY HIGH staff turnover rate. I have been here for 2 and a half years. My commute on a good day is < 20 mins, and money is relatively good.

During the last 6 months, all devs above me resigned, which lead to the system maintenance being passed on to the few devs left. Our biggest system is a legacy system (Windows CE), and new clients are actively signed up and new features requested. The codebase is not even worthy of being called spaghetti, changes break every client, I need to wash my hands every couple of minutes. Seriously, I would rather maintain obfuscated code. It is like a bunch of highschoolers wrote the system, though I think they would have done a better job.

Management is nice and understanding, but the state of the codebase is killing the spirits.

I fill my nights and weekends moonlighting to keep my mind off of the 'daymares' at work. I have never been a team player, and thrive on my own. I have been thinking quiting and going full freelance/contract the last couple of months. Should things not work out, I can always go job hunting (see issue in par. 1)

!Rant

TL;DR - Getting married can lead to installing life malware.

MARRIAGE SOFTWARE....

A young husband wrote this to a Systems Analyst -
(Marriage Software Div);

Dear Systems Analyst,

I am desperate for some help! I recently upgraded my program from Girlfriend 7.0 to Wife 1.0 and found that the new program began unexpected Child Processing and also took up a lot of space and valuable resources. This wasn't mentioned in the product brochure.

In addition Wife 1.0 installs itself into all other programs and launches during systems initialization and then it monitors all other system activities.

Applications such as "Boys' Night out 2.5" and "Golf 5.3" no longer run, and crashes the system whenever selected.

Attempting to operate selected "Soccer 6.3" always fails and "Shopping 7.1" runs instead.

I cannot seem to keep Wife 1.0 in the background whilst attempting to run any of my favorite applications. Be it online or offline.
.
I am thinking of going back to "Girlfriend 7.0", but uninstall doesn't work on this program. Can you please help?

.... The Systems Analyst replied:

Dear Customer,
This is a very common problem resulting from a basic misunderstanding of the functions of the Wife 1.0 program.

Many customers upgrade from Girlfriend 7.0 to Wife 1.0 thinking that Wife 1.0 is merely a UTILITY AND ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAM.

Actually, Wife 1.0 is an OPERATING SYSTEM designed by its Creator to run everything on your current platform.
You are unlikely to be able to purge Wife 1.0 and still convert back to Girlfriend 7.0, as Wife 1.0 was not designed to do this and it is impossible to uninstall, delete or purge the program files from the System once it is installed.

Some people have tried to install Girlfriend 8.0 or Wife 2.0 but have ended up with even more problems. (See Manual under Alimony/Child Support and Solicitors' Fees).

Having Wife 1.0 installed, I recommend you keep it Installed and deal with the difficulties as best as you can.

When any faults or problems occur, whatever you think has caused them, you must run the.........
C:\ APOLOGIZE\ FORGIVE ME.EXE Program and avoid attempting to use the *Esc-Key for it will freeze the entire system.

It may be necessary to run C:\ APOLOGIZE\ FORGIVE ME.EXE a number of times, and eventually hope that the operating system will return to normal.

Wife 1.0, although a very high maintenance programme, can be very rewarding.

To get the most out of it, consider buying additional Software such as "Flowers 2.0" and "Chocolates 5.0" or "HUGS\ KISSES 6.0" or "TENDERNESS\ UNDERSTANDING 10.0" or "even Eating Out Without the Kids 7.2.1" (if Child processing has already started).

DO NOT under any circumstances install "Secretary 2.1" (Short Skirt Version) or "One Nightstand 3.2" (Any Mood Version), as this is not a supported Application for Wife 1.0 and the system will almost certainly CRASH.

BEST WISHES!

Yours,"
Systems Analyst.
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I'm not sure if this is a repost - if it is I apologise, but it's too good not to share.

Least favorite enterprise software (so far) is Oracle JD Edwards (but more specifically the integration between systems).
Unfortunately a board member was friends with an employee who recommended JDE. It required full time maintenance and a few years later that employee left and the company wrote off over a million dollars to go back to the old (but slightly updated) system.
Following that, a board member (the same one I think) agreed to have another friend's security business install CCTV across the branches. The project was not scoped and no thought had gone into it, making a real mess for the IT department to sort out (provided hardware was under spec'd, existing networking equipment needed replacing, etc)

Who do these upper management people think they are that they can make decisions based on little fact or research and expect the people beneath them to just magically make work.
The huge salaries of those people is not justified. We're the real workers who actually get stuff done so the pay and appreciation should be spread accordingy.

Rant over.

Why on earth would anyone agree to work in a company that sends your code to some other team to check it then you get stupid comments like yes it works great but make the code look like the code in that system we made 10 years ago so everything can look the same. Easier for maintenance.

That is not how programming works ...
Code has an essence to it...
You cant just make me break the ...

Honestly id rather work for less money and never have my code questioned on the bases that “it should look like...”

TL;DR how much do I charge?

I'm freelancing for the first time; regularly, I get paid a salary.

I'm freelancing as a donation: the hours I put into this work directly translate to deductions in my tax. I don't get paid any money directly.

I'm doing some web-based enterprise software for an organization. Handling the whole process from writing responsive front-end code to setting up the server and domain for them and even managing myself. So full stack plus dev ops.

My normal salary is $31 an hour and at work I do less. I largely do maintenance for existing applications plus some very minor new systems design. I don't do any server management (different team) and I damn well didn't buy the domain names for my company. So I think it's safe to say I'm taking on a drastically larger role in this freelance gig.

My moral dilemma is the organization will basically say yes to any price - because they don't pay it, the government will (up until the point I pay 0 taxes, I suppose)

I've done some minor research on what other freelancers charge for somewhat similar things and I get pretty wildly varying results. I've seen as low as $20/hr but I really doubt the quality of such a service at that price.

I'm thinking around $50 USD an hour would be a fair price. For even further reference besides my actual salary, I will say that I am in a urban / suburban part of Florida, where developers are very hard to find locally.

Is $50 too high? Too low? This is a very complicated system with (frankly excessive) security practices and features. Before this they had a handful of excel spreadsheets in a OneDrive folder.

I feel sorry for windows users their can not live without antivirus and installing system every year.. you just need to spend on maintenance does it reminds something?

Ooh this project.. So I was put in charge of creating new pages, and general maintenance as the site was already built by a previous dev on the team before i joined the company. I take a look at the design, fairly strange forward quick analysis most of it bootstrapable, some custom code is needed for some parts so no issues there.

Looks at the code, only the bootstrap grid system is being used, the rest is custom code, an additional 9K lines of CSS and 526 lines of JS. What the hell is this.

We’re only random people living in random places, speaking random languages, eating random food, sleeping, studying and working random hours. Traveling to random points on a sphere.

Just random range is different.
Just random stuff happens on crossroads of two random dots and the entropy speed ups or slows down.

Nothing special at all.
Just a finite state machine iteration.

I mean the amount of effort we put into explanation of infinity is outstanding.

What if there is no infinity at all ?
What if infinity is just misunderstanding of our interpretation of the world around us. It’s just pixels, resolution, gaussian splatting, quantum state, you name it.

Hey man the world is flat. Just put it to the 2d space. How many space you need from a simulation perspective where your patient eyes can only see up to certain amount of light particles per second on a shitty lens.

Propose a world optimization techniques by slowing down subject perception, tiredness introduced. Compress memory, sleep introduced. Limit neurons, cpu power assigned. Deploy on cloud - put it to life. Exit 0 body failure. Exit 1 suicide. Kill -9 killed by tty from ip EARTH.X.Y

What you can do to make the world around this planet alive? Make it blink.

We developers are lazy and I believe that nature is even more lazy than us.

You think you’re going to elevator right now ? You’re going to the preloader. Looking at the window equals playing video from playback. Never goes live, just precomputed fsm. Cars, trains, airplains ? Preloaders everywhere. Highways to split traffic to cities and communication. The road and cities planning department is a matrix maintenance department. And don’t get me started about space.

Space is empty because it’s not even finished. So they put it all behind glass called milky way. You know how glass looked 500 years ago ? It was milky so it’s milky way so we don’t see shit.

If the space would be finished I’ll be starting writing this text from mars, finished it and sent from earth but no it’s light years guys, light years is not a second for a matter. Light year is a second of the the injected thoughts exchange only. Thoughts of the global computer called generative AI that they introduced on local computing devices called cloud.

Even the preloader system is not present, they left us with the one map and overpopulated demo. What a shit hole.I bet they’re increasing temperature right now to erase this alpha build and cash out. Obviously so many bugs here that his one can’t be fixed anymore. To many viruses.

Hope for 0days to start happening so we can escape using time travel or something.

I bet they cut a budget or something, moved the team to other projects. Or even worse solar system team got layoff off because we are just neurons that ordered to do it. And now we’re stuck in some maintenance mode, no new physics no new thoughts to pursue, just slow degeneration. I would pay more for the next run and switch to other galaxy far far away where they at lest have more modern light speed technology.

What do you think about it Trinity ? Not even worth wasting your time for that. No white rabbit this time.

I do not recommend this game at this stage of early access.
- only one available map despite promises for expansions over the years no single dlc arrived,
- missing space adventures
- no galaxy travel mode only a teaser trailers of what you can do in other “universes”
- developers don’t respond to complains
- despite diversity of species and buildings at first sight world looks to generic
- instead of new features bots with mind manipulation, AB testing and data harvesting was introduced
- death anti cheat mode installed

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Gutter Tune Up: Affordable Gutter Services, Gutter Tune-Ups, and Metal Roofing in Wisconsin

At Gutter Tune Up, we’re dedicated to offering high-quality and affordable gutter services to homeowners throughout Wisconsin. Based in St. Francis, WI, we specialize in everything from gutter tune-ups in Milwaukee to metal roofing installations, ensuring that your home is protected from the elements. Whether you need a routine gutter cleaning, repairs, or a complete upgrade to your roofing system, our experienced team is here to help.

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Your gutters are essential to protecting your home from water damage. When they become clogged or damaged, it can lead to costly repairs. That’s why Gutter Tune Up offers affordable gutter services that ensure your gutters function properly and continue to protect your home year-round.

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Gutter Tune-Up Milwaukee: Ensure Your Gutters Are Ready for Any Weather
Living in Milwaukee, you know how unpredictable the weather can be—from heavy snowfalls in the winter to torrential rain in the summer. Regular gutter tune-ups are essential to keeping your home protected from water damage. At Gutter Tune Up, we specialize in gutter tune-ups in Milwaukee to ensure that your gutters are clear and functioning correctly, no matter what the weather brings.

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When it comes to roofing, many homeowners in Wisconsin are opting for metal roofing due to its exceptional durability and long-lasting performance. As an experienced metal roofing contractor, Gutter Tune Up specializes in installing and maintaining high-quality metal roofs that can withstand the harsh Wisconsin climate.

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At Berkshire ITS Limited, located in Maidenhead, UK, we specialize in offering a wide range of IT services tailored to meet your personal or business technology needs. Whether you require computer diagnostics, expert IT consulting, managed IT services, robust cybersecurity services, or on-site IT support, our dedicated team of professionals is here to help. With years of experience in the IT industry, we ensure that your systems are always running at their best, secure, and well-supported.

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Every business and individual has unique IT requirements. That’s where our IT consulting services come in. At Berkshire ITS Limited, we offer strategic guidance on how to improve your IT infrastructure, streamline operations, and make the most of your technology. Our experienced consultants work with you to understand your specific goals and challenges, recommending customized solutions that enhance efficiency, reduce costs, and improve overall system performance. Whether you need advice on upgrading your network, implementing new software, or planning long-term IT strategies, we’re here to help you navigate your options.

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Bob's Landscape & Irrigation Solutions LLC: Expert Installation of New Irrigation Systems in Fort Worth, TX

At Bob's Landscape & Irrigation Solutions LLC, we specialize in the design and installation of new irrigation systems that ensure your lawn and garden stay healthy, lush, and vibrant throughout the year. Whether you’re looking to install a system for a new property or upgrade an old, inefficient system, our team of professionals is here to provide reliable and efficient solutions in Fort Worth, TX.

Why Choose Bob's Landscape & Irrigation Solutions for Your New Irrigation System?
Located at 1465 Mil Oaks Ln, Fort Worth, TX 76135, Bob's Landscape & Irrigation Solutions LLC is the trusted name in new irrigation system installations. We are dedicated to delivering high-quality, sustainable irrigation systems tailored to meet the specific needs of your property. Here’s why we are the best choice for installing a new irrigation system:

1. Custom Design & Consultation
We understand that every lawn and garden is unique, and so are your irrigation needs. Our team works closely with you to design a new irrigation system that fits the layout of your property, ensuring your plants, lawn, and garden beds get the right amount of water. We take into account factors like plant types, soil conditions, and sun exposure to create a customized solution.

2. Efficient & Sustainable Systems
At Bob's Landscape & Irrigation Solutions LLC, we’re committed to sustainability. Our new irrigation system installations are designed to minimize water waste and maximize efficiency. We use the latest technology, such as smart controllers, water-efficient sprinkler heads, and sensors, to help you conserve water while keeping your landscape healthy.

3. Expert Installation
Our experienced technicians handle every step of the installation process with precision and care. From setting up the system and digging trenches to testing the system for efficiency, we ensure that your new irrigation system is installed correctly and functions optimally from day one.

4. Affordable & Transparent Pricing
We believe in providing high-quality services at competitive rates. Our transparent pricing ensures there are no hidden fees, and we offer free consultations and estimates to help you make an informed decision about your new irrigation system. We’ll work with you to stay within your budget without compromising on quality.

5. Ongoing Support & Maintenance
After your new irrigation system is installed, we don’t leave you hanging. We offer ongoing maintenance and support to ensure your system continues to operate efficiently year after year. From seasonal adjustments to troubleshooting, our team is always available to help.

The Benefits of Installing a New Irrigation System
Installing a new irrigation system comes with many advantages. Here are just a few reasons why you should consider upgrading or installing a new system:

Water Conservation: A professionally installed irrigation system reduces water waste by delivering the right amount of water directly to your plants, promoting healthy growth while saving water.

Consistent Lawn Care: With a new irrigation system, you can ensure that your lawn and garden receive consistent watering, even when you’re busy or away.

Time-Saving: A smart irrigation system can be programmed to water your landscape automatically, saving you time and effort compared to traditional manual watering.

As urban infrastructure projects venture deeper beneath city streets, the need for reliable compact power solutions becomes vital. An Industrial concealed socket system provides robust, low profile outlets integrated directly into tunnel walls, ensuring uninterrupted power for lighting rigs, ventilation units and monitoring equipment. In rapidly expanding underground networks—from subway expansions to utility corridors—the capacity to deliver stable power while minimizing spatial footprint drives both safety and efficiency efforts.

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In smart city initiatives, underground spaces host sophisticated sensor networks that track air quality, structural movement and lighting intensity. Each sensor node relies on local power access, making strategically placed concealed sockets indispensable. Modular socket clusters enable technicians to add or relocate outlets alongside fiber optic junctions and network switches, supporting rapid deployment of IoT devices without extensive wiring overhauls. This flexibility accelerates modernization efforts, letting urban planners upgrade systems in existing tunnels with minimal disruption to transit services.

Safety protocols in subterranean environments prioritize rapid isolation of faulty circuits. Concealed socket panels can house miniature protective devices that trip at the first sign of overload or short. Clear labeling and color coded terminals inside the enclosure guide service crews during inspections, while lockable covers prevent unauthorized access. These features ensure that power faults do not escalate into equipment failures or fire risks, maintaining safe operational conditions even amid high traffic subway platforms and service galleries.

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Energy efficiency targets in green transit corridors demand that distribution systems minimize losses. By positioning concealed sockets near loads, cable lengths shrink and voltage drops decrease. Grouped outlets can feed LED luminaires, emergency fans and platform charging stations for electric maintenance carts, all managed through local distribution hubs. In combination with power monitoring modules, these sockets feed usage data back to centralized control centers, enabling predictive maintenance and load balancing that support uninterrupted service.

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As cities push for resilient underground networks to meet rising transit and utility demands, the right power distribution approach becomes a cornerstone of project success. By choosing sleek, durable modules designed for harsh subterranean conditions, engineers deliver a safer, more adaptable environment for both equipment and personnel. For tailored industrial concealed socket solutions that support underground innovation, explore Nante.

Screen Usage Tracking at Work: Balancing Productivity and Privacy

Introduction
In today’s fast-paced, tech-driven work environments, screen usage tracking has become an essential tool for organizations aiming to improve productivity, security and efficiency. Modern organizations use these monitoring tools to track employee digital device activities because they need to ensure productive time usage. Screen usage tracking generates important privacy issues and ethical problems regarding technological implementation. The successful implementation of productive spaces must preserve worker privacy rights. The following article addresses all aspects of workplace screen usage tracking, including its advantages and disadvantages and proper implementation guidelines.

The Need for Screen Usage Tracking in the Workplace
The demand for screen usage tracking arises from several factors. Digital activity monitoring enables employers to confirm that staff members concentrate on their work tasks while they are at their desks. Remote work and hybrid models have become standard in workplaces because employees can no longer prove their productivity through office attendance. Employers need to monitor how workers spend their time at work because they want both performance outcomes and adequate time management.
Businesses operating in specific industries need to track their employees' activities to secure data because regulatory standards demand it. Through online activity tracking, employers achieve two objectives: they detect suspicious behavior right away and stop employees from accessing unauthorized confidential data. Screen usage tracking functions as an essential tool for both business efficiency maintenance and security protection of organizational assets.

Benefits of Screen Usage Tracking
Reduces Distractions
Employees lose their focus on work when there is no oversight system in place. Screen tracking ensures that employees are focused and using their time effectively, especially during work hours. Work hour restrictions on particular apps and websites through blocking mechanisms help employees stay focused on their tasks.
Enhances Security and Compliance
Employees lose their focus on work when there is no oversight system in place. Work hours require employees to remain focused while using their time effectively because screen tracking provides this oversight. Work hour restrictions on particular apps and websites through blocking mechanisms help employees stay focused on their tasks.
Data-Driven Insights
Screen usage data generates important information about employee work habits as well as employee engagement levels. By monitoring screen usage data managers can identify workers who require extra support and training along with identifying staff members who work excessively and those who perform above expectations. Staff management strategies and workplace performance benefit from these insights gained.

Future of Screen Usage Tracking in Workplaces
Screen usage monitoring will experience future evolution through technological developments that define how tracking occurs. These screen usage tracking tools will benefit from Artificial Intelligence (AI) because it brings both enhanced accuracy and usefulness. Artificial intelligence programming systems analyze staff behavioral patterns to generate forecast data which leads to predictive productivity improvement strategies.
Privacy laws together with regulations, will likely advance in their development. Organizations must discover methods to integrate employee rights protection systems with their monitoring strategies due to rising data privacy concerns. Organizations will adopt standard tracking policies based on transparency and employee consent to maintain ethical and legal handling of employee data.
Qoli.AI drives revolutionary changes in screen usage tracking through its leading AI technology solutions. Data-driven business decisions through Qoli.AI become possible because they provide up-to-the-minute employee performance and behavioral data while adhering to privacy limits. The platform integrates advanced technology to connect with workplace systems which provides employees with trustworthy monitoring solutions.

Conclusion
The implementation of work screen monitoring serves both positive and negative functions. Employment screen tracking enables productivity enhancement and security alongside operational efficiency at the cost of severe privacy issues and moral problems. The successful implementation of work performance enhancement requires organizations to maintain the proper balance between performance upliftment and employee privacy protection. The use of screen tracking tools benefits employers when they maintain transparency and gain employee consent, as well as develop ethical standards that protect employee trust and workplace morale.

Chimney & Stone Masonry LLC: Your Trusted Partner for Chimney, Fireplace, and Stone Services in Connecticut

At Chimney & Stone Masonry LLC, we pride ourselves on being Connecticut’s premier provider of comprehensive chimney, fireplace, and stone repair services. With years of experience serving homeowners and businesses in New Britain, CT, and throughout the region, our team is dedicated to offering top-tier quality in every aspect of our work. Whether you need regular chimney cleaning, fireplace inspections, or complete masonry installations, we are here to ensure that your property remains safe, functional, and aesthetically pleasing.

Comprehensive Chimney Services
A chimney is an essential part of your home, especially in Connecticut’s colder months, when a warm fire becomes a central part of family gatherings and daily comfort. However, like all systems, chimneys require regular maintenance to perform optimally and safely. At Chimney & Stone Masonry LLC, we offer a broad spectrum of chimney services to meet your needs:

Chimney Cleaning: Over time, chimneys can accumulate soot, creosote, and debris, creating a fire hazard and blocking the venting of harmful gases. Our chimney cleaning services are designed to remove all harmful buildup, ensuring a clean, safe, and efficient chimney system. Regular cleaning not only enhances safety but also prolongs the life of your chimney.

Chimney Inspection: Every chimney needs periodic inspections to ensure it is in good working condition. Whether you're preparing for a season of use or simply want peace of mind, our certified professionals perform thorough chimney inspections. We check for signs of damage, such as cracks, leaks, or other issues that could jeopardize your home’s safety.

Chimney Repairs: If your chimney has sustained damage from weather, age, or lack of maintenance, our skilled team can address a variety of chimney repair needs. From fixing masonry issues like cracked bricks and deteriorating mortar to repairing chimney caps and liners, we are equipped to restore your chimney to full functionality.

Chimney Installations: If you are looking to add a new chimney or replace an old one, Chimney & Stone Masonry LLC can handle your installation from start to finish. We use high-quality materials and adhere to the best industry practices to ensure your new chimney performs efficiently and safely for years to come.

Fireplace Services to Enhance Your Home
The fireplace is the heart of many homes, providing warmth, comfort, and a cozy atmosphere. Whether you are looking to restore an old fireplace or install a new one, Chimney & Stone Masonry LLC has the expertise to make your fireplace a focal point of your living space. We offer:

Fireplace Repair: Over time, fireplaces can experience wear and tear from constant use. Our team can fix issues like cracked fireboxes, damaged hearths, or malfunctioning dampers, ensuring your fireplace works safely and efficiently.

Fireplace Installation: Whether you're building a new home or remodeling an existing space, our team specializes in custom fireplace installations. We can design and install fireplaces that match your aesthetic preferences while meeting all safety standards.

Fireplace Cleaning: Just like chimneys, fireplaces require regular cleaning to maintain their performance. Our team will thoroughly clean the firebox, hearth, and chimney to ensure optimal airflow and a safe burning experience.

Stone Masonry Services
In addition to our chimney and fireplace services, Chimney & Stone Masonry LLC is also a trusted provider of stone masonry services. Our skilled masons can enhance the beauty and functionality of your home with custom stonework. Whether you’re adding a stone patio, retaining wall, or fireplace surround, we use high-quality materials and craftsmanship to bring your vision to life.

Stone Repairs: Stone structures, such as walls, chimneys, and walkways, can experience damage due to weather, shifting foundations, or natural wear. Our team offers stone repair services to restore the beauty and functionality of these features.

Stone Installation: Whether you're building a new feature or renovating an existing one, our stone installation services ensure that your project is completed with precision and attention to detail. We can help you choose the best type of stone to suit your style and budget.

Custom Masonry Projects: At Chimney & Stone Masonry LLC, we work with you to design custom stone features that enhance the aesthetic appeal of your home or business. From custom stone fireplaces to decorative stone walkways, we can create unique elements that reflect your personal style

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Infinite Auto Care: Expert Car Maintenance and Professional Auto Care in Ottawa

At Infinite Auto Care - Detailing and Automotive Services, we understand how important it is to keep your vehicle in optimal condition. Whether you're driving around Ottawa or heading out on a long road trip, regular car maintenance in Ottawa is essential for safety, performance, and the longevity of your vehicle. Our team of experts provides professional auto care in Ottawa, offering a comprehensive range of services to ensure your vehicle runs smoothly and stays reliable.

Located at 8 Rue Mitchell, Gatineau, QC J8P 2A5, we proudly serve Ottawa and surrounding areas, providing top-quality auto care that you can trust.

Car Maintenance Ottawa: Keeping Your Vehicle in Top Shape
Regular car maintenance in Ottawa is key to preventing costly repairs down the road. At Infinite Auto Care, we offer a full range of maintenance services designed to keep your car running efficiently and safely. Whether you're due for a routine oil change, brake inspection, or tire rotation, our professional team is here to help.

Why is Regular Car Maintenance Important?
Enhanced Safety: Properly maintained vehicles are less likely to experience breakdowns or accidents due to worn-out parts or poor performance. Regular maintenance helps ensure that your car’s braking, lighting, and engine systems are functioning properly.
Improved Fuel Efficiency: Well-maintained vehicles run more efficiently, which can save you money on fuel. A simple oil change or air filter replacement can help your car perform better and consume less gas.
Longer Vehicle Life: Regular care and maintenance can extend the lifespan of your vehicle, keeping it in service for many years to come.
Avoid Expensive Repairs: Small issues, if caught early, can often be resolved at a fraction of the cost of major repairs. Preventive maintenance is always more cost-effective than reactive repairs.
Our Car Maintenance Services in Ottawa Include:
Oil Changes: We offer high-quality oil change services using premium oils and filters, which are essential for keeping your engine clean and lubricated.
Tire Rotation and Balancing: Ensuring that your tires are properly balanced and rotated helps improve tire lifespan and driving safety.
Brake Inspections: Brakes are vital to your safety. We inspect and service your brake pads, rotors, and fluids to ensure optimal performance.
Fluid Top-ups and Replacements: We check and replenish essential fluids such as brake fluid, transmission fluid, power steering fluid, and coolant to ensure your car runs smoothly.
Battery Checks: A dead battery can leave you stranded. We provide battery testing and replacement to ensure your vehicle is ready to start every time.
Air Filter and Cabin Filter Replacement: Clean filters improve your vehicle's engine performance and provide better air quality inside your car.
Professional Auto Care Ottawa: Comprehensive Services for Your Vehicle
At Infinite Auto Care, our mission is to offer professional auto care in Ottawa that covers every aspect of your vehicle's needs. Our experienced technicians use the latest diagnostic tools and the highest-quality products to ensure your vehicle receives the best care possible.

Our Professional Auto Care Services Include:
Engine Diagnostics: If your check engine light comes on, our team performs a thorough diagnostic to determine the root cause of the issue. We then provide clear recommendations to fix the problem and prevent future issues.
Exhaust System Services: Your exhaust system is crucial for reducing harmful emissions and maintaining engine performance. We offer inspection, maintenance, and repair services to keep your system functioning optimally.
Transmission Services: Whether it’s a fluid flush or a complete transmission repair, our technicians have the expertise to keep your transmission shifting smoothly.
Suspension Services: Your suspension system ensures a comfortable and safe ride. We offer suspension inspections and repairs to keep your car's handling and ride quality at their best.
Custom Services: For those who want to enhance their vehicle’s appearance or performance, we offer customization services, from body kits to performance upgrades.
Why Choose Infinite Auto Care for Car Maintenance and Auto Care in Ottawa?
When it comes to car maintenance in Ottawa and professional auto care in Ottawa, Infinite Auto Care stands out as a trusted partner in keeping your vehicle running at its best. Here’s why you should choose us for your automotive needs:

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To schedule an appointment or learn more about our services, contact us today at +1 (819) 386-8114 or visit us at 8 Rue Mitchell, Gatineau, QC J8P 2A5. Let Infinite Auto Care keep your car in great shape with the best auto services in Ottawa!

GTA HVAC Services: Your Trusted Industrial HVAC Contractor in the GTA and Expert Office HVAC Repair in Toronto

At GTA HVAC Services, located at 1277 Wilson Ave, North York, ON M3M 3C6, Canada, we provide high-quality HVAC solutions for both industrial and office environments. As your reliable industrial HVAC contractor in the GTA and specialists in office HVAC repair in Toronto, we are committed to ensuring that your heating, cooling, and ventilation systems operate efficiently, creating a comfortable and safe environment for both employees and clients.

Whether you’re managing a large industrial facility or a small office space, our team of experts is here to provide the HVAC services you need to keep your space comfortable year-round.

Industrial HVAC Contractor in the GTA
As an industrial HVAC contractor in the GTA, GTA HVAC Services has the expertise and experience necessary to handle the unique demands of industrial heating, cooling, and ventilation systems. From manufacturing plants to large warehouses, we offer comprehensive HVAC services to ensure your industrial space runs smoothly and efficiently.

Our Industrial HVAC Services Include:

HVAC Installation: We provide customized installation solutions for large industrial facilities, including energy-efficient heating and cooling systems tailored to meet your specific needs.
Routine Maintenance: To avoid costly downtime and ensure the longevity of your HVAC system, we offer regular maintenance, including filter changes, inspections, and system calibrations.
HVAC Repairs: If your industrial HVAC system breaks down, our team is available to diagnose and repair any issues quickly and efficiently, minimizing disruptions to your operations.
Air Quality Solutions: We also offer air filtration, ventilation, and humidity control solutions to improve air quality and create a safer work environment in industrial settings.
With GTA HVAC Services, you can trust that your industrial HVAC systems will be running at their best, keeping your workers comfortable and your operations on track.

Office HVAC Repair in Toronto
At GTA HVAC Services, we also specialize in office HVAC repair in Toronto, understanding that a comfortable office environment is key to employee productivity and client satisfaction. Whether you’re dealing with heating problems during the winter months or cooling issues in the summer, our team is here to provide fast and reliable repairs to ensure your office remains comfortable year-round.

Common Office HVAC Issues We Repair:

Air Conditioning Problems: If your office air conditioning system isn’t cooling properly, it can create an uncomfortable working environment. Our team provides fast repairs to restore comfort and productivity.
Heating System Failure: When your office heating system breaks down, it can make the space uncomfortable for employees and clients. We offer quick heating repairs to restore warmth during cold weather.
Poor Air Quality: If your office is suffering from poor air circulation, excessive dust, or humidity problems, we can provide solutions such as air purifiers, ventilation repairs, and humidification systems.
Temperature Inconsistency: If certain areas of your office are too hot while others are too cold, we can identify and resolve issues with your HVAC system to maintain a consistent, comfortable temperature throughout the space.
Our expert technicians are well-versed in all aspects of office HVAC systems, and we offer office HVAC repair in Toronto that is fast, effective, and designed to minimize disruptions to your workday.

Why Choose GTA HVAC Services?
Experience with Industrial and Commercial HVAC: Whether you need industrial HVAC contractor services in the GTA or office HVAC repair in Toronto, our team is experienced in handling a wide range of HVAC systems, from large industrial units to office-sized systems.
Fast and Efficient Repairs: We understand the urgency of HVAC repairs, especially in industrial and office environments. Our technicians are committed to providing prompt, reliable service to get your systems back in working order as quickly as possible.
Energy-Efficient Solutions: At GTA HVAC Services, we offer energy-efficient HVAC solutions for both industrial and office spaces, helping you save money on energy bills while reducing your environmental footprint.
Comprehensive HVAC Services: From installation and maintenance to repair and air quality improvements, we offer a full range of services to keep your HVAC systems running smoothly and efficiently.
Serving the GTA
Whether you’re looking for an industrial HVAC contractor in the GTA or need office HVAC repair in Toronto, GTA HVAC Services is here to help. We provide reliable, professional HVAC services for a wide range of commercial and industrial applications, ensuring that your space stays comfortable, safe, and productive year-round.

Secure Your Home with Battery Backup Solutions from Origin Solar, Roofing, and Generators in St. Petersburg, FL
At Origin Solar, Roofing, and Generators, we understand how important it is to have a reliable power source, especially during power outages or unexpected events. That’s why we offer state-of-the-art battery backup solutions to keep your home or business running smoothly, even when the grid goes down. Based in St. Petersburg, FL, we are committed to providing dependable energy solutions that ensure you never have to worry about losing power again.

Why Invest in Battery Backup?
Power outages are an unfortunate reality, whether caused by storms, high winds, or other unforeseen circumstances. While generators are a popular backup power source, battery backup systems are quickly becoming the preferred choice for many homeowners and businesses. Here’s why:

Reliability: Unlike gas-powered generators that require fuel, battery backup systems are fully charged and ready to kick in immediately when power is lost, providing seamless energy during outages.

Clean Energy: If you have a solar panel system installed, a battery backup system works in harmony with your solar panels to store excess energy during the day, which you can use at night or during a power outage.

Environmentally Friendly: Battery backup systems are clean, efficient, and require minimal maintenance. They don’t produce emissions, unlike gas-powered alternatives, making them a more eco-friendly option.

Quiet Operation: Unlike traditional generators that can be noisy, battery backup systems operate silently, making them perfect for residential and commercial properties that require discreet operation.

Cost-Effective: Over time, a battery backup system can save you money by reducing your reliance on the grid and providing an uninterrupted power supply. Many homeowners see long-term savings due to decreased energy costs and fewer expenses related to power outages.

Our Battery Backup Solutions
At Origin Solar, Roofing, and Generators, we offer a variety of battery backup options designed to fit your unique needs. Our team works with top-tier brands and technology to provide reliable, high-quality systems that ensure your property is never left in the dark.

Solar-Powered Battery Backup: Pair your solar panels with a battery backup system to store excess energy generated during the day. This stored energy can be used during the evening or whenever the grid is down, making your home or business more energy-independent and sustainable.

Stand-Alone Battery Backup Systems: If you don’t have a solar system, we offer stand-alone battery backup options that store electricity from the grid, providing an instant power supply when you need it most.

Custom Solutions: We understand that every property is unique, which is why we offer custom battery backup solutions tailored to your energy needs. Whether you need backup power for a small home or a large commercial building, we’ll design a system that fits your requirements.

Why Choose Origin Solar, Roofing, and Generators for Battery Backup?
As a locally owned business serving St. Petersburg, FL, Origin Solar, Roofing, and Generators is dedicated to providing expert, personalized service. Here’s what sets us apart:

Expert Installation: Our experienced team ensures a seamless installation of your battery backup system, ensuring it’s integrated with your solar panels or power supply system for optimal performance.

Comprehensive Services: In addition to battery backup systems, we also specialize in solar panel installations, roofing services, and generator installations. We provide complete energy solutions to keep your home or business powered and secure.

Ongoing Support: We don’t just install your battery backup system and walk away. Our team is here to provide ongoing maintenance, troubleshooting, and support to ensure your system is always working at its best.

Customer-Focused: We pride ourselves on offering excellent customer service. Our team is dedicated to understanding your needs and providing you with the best solutions, no matter the size or scope of the project.

Serving St. Petersburg, FL, and Surrounding Areas
At Origin Solar, Roofing, and Generators, we serve homeowners and businesses throughout St. Petersburg and the greater Tampa Bay area. Whether you're looking to install a solar-powered battery backup system or need a stand-alone solution, we’re here to help you keep your property powered and protected.

Contact Us Today for Battery Backup Solutions
Don’t wait until the next power outage to think about backup power. Origin Solar, Roofing, and Generators offers reliable, efficient battery backup systems that will give you peace of mind, knowing you have a steady power source when you need it most

Reliable Water Heater Service by Pipe Doctor Home Services, Inc. in Woodmere, NY

A functional water heater is essential for the comfort and convenience of your home. Whether you need a hot shower, clean dishes, or warm water for laundry, a well-maintained water heater plays a crucial role in your daily routine. At Pipe Doctor Home Services, Inc., we specialize in comprehensive water heater services in Woodmere, NY, and surrounding areas. From repairs to installations and regular maintenance, our expert technicians ensure that your water heater operates efficiently and reliably year-round.

Why Water Heater Service is Important
Your water heater is one of the most important appliances in your home, and like any major system, it requires regular care to perform at its best. Here are some key reasons why water heater service is essential:

Improved Efficiency
A well-maintained water heater works more efficiently, using less energy to heat water. This can lead to lower utility bills, as your system won’t have to work as hard to produce hot water.

Increased Lifespan
Routine maintenance helps extend the life of your water heater. By preventing issues before they become significant problems, you can avoid costly replacements and keep your water heater in good working condition for years.

Safety Assurance
Regular inspections and maintenance help ensure your water heater operates safely. Faulty water heaters can pose risks, such as gas leaks or dangerous buildup of sediment, which can lead to malfunction or even cause fires.

Consistent Hot Water
A properly serviced water heater provides a steady supply of hot water when you need it most. Whether it’s for a warm shower or filling up a bath, you can count on your water heater to perform efficiently.

Common Signs Your Water Heater Needs Service
If you notice any of the following issues with your water heater, it may be time to call Pipe Doctor Home Services, Inc. for professional service:

Inconsistent or No Hot Water
If your water heater is producing inconsistent hot water or no hot water at all, there could be an issue with the heating element, thermostat, or sediment buildup inside the tank.

Strange Noises
Sediment buildup in the bottom of the tank can cause popping, banging, or rumbling noises as it heats. These noises are a sign that your water heater needs to be flushed and maintained.

Water Temperature Problems
If your water heater is producing water that’s too hot or not hot enough, it could be a sign that the thermostat is malfunctioning or that there’s an issue with the heating element.

Water Discoloration
If the hot water coming from your faucets is brown or rusty, this could indicate that your water heater’s tank is corroding, and the unit may need repairs or replacement.

Leaks Around the Unit
Any water pooling around your water heater is a cause for concern. Leaks could indicate a damaged tank or faulty connections that need immediate attention.

Increased Energy Bills
If your energy bills have spiked unexpectedly, your water heater may be working harder than necessary. This could be due to inefficiencies in the system that require professional attention.

Our Comprehensive Water Heater Services
At Pipe Doctor Home Services, Inc., we provide a full range of water heater services to meet the needs of homeowners in Woodmere, NY, and nearby communities. Here’s how we can help:

1. Water Heater Installation
If you’re in need of a new water heater, we offer expert installation services for a variety of systems, including:

Tankless Water Heaters
These energy-efficient units provide on-demand hot water without the need for a large storage tank. Our experts can help you choose the right size and model for your home.

Traditional Tank Water Heaters
Whether you need a replacement for an old unit or are upgrading to a more energy-efficient model, we provide reliable installation services for traditional storage tank water heaters.

Hybrid Water Heaters
Combining the benefits of a traditional tank with heat pump technology, hybrid water heaters are highly energy-efficient and ideal for households with higher hot water demand.

2. Water Heater Repairs
If your current water heater isn’t working properly, our skilled technicians can perform thorough diagnostics and provide efficient repairs. We can fix a variety of issues, including:

Faulty thermostats
Broken heating elements
Sediment buildup
Leaks and corrosion
Gas and electrical issues
Our team is trained to repair all types of water heaters, including gas, electric, and hybrid models. We use only high-quality parts to ensure long-lasting repairs.

GREEN ENERGIE HEATING: Your Reliable Heating and Plumbing Experts in Ely and Cambridge

At GREEN ENERGIE HEATING, we are dedicated to providing top-quality heating services, plumbing solutions, and gas installations throughout Ely and Cambridge. With years of experience in the industry, we offer a full range of services designed to keep your home comfortable, safe, and running smoothly. Whether you're in need of heating services, gas hob installation, or emergency plumbing, our skilled team is ready to assist you.

Reliable Heating Services in Ely
When it comes to heating services in Ely, GREEN ENERGIE HEATING is the trusted name in the area. We offer a comprehensive range of heating solutions, including installation, maintenance, and repair of central heating systems and boilers. Whether you need a new heating system installed, routine servicing to keep your system running efficiently, or repairs to restore warmth to your home, we have the expertise to handle all your heating needs. Our team works quickly and efficiently, ensuring that your heating system performs at its best all year round.

Expert Gas Hob Installation in Cambridge
If you're looking to install a gas hob in your kitchen, GREEN ENERGIE HEATING is here to help. Our experienced engineers offer professional gas hob installation in Cambridge, ensuring your appliance is set up safely and in compliance with all safety regulations. We take extra care to check for gas leaks and perform thorough safety tests to ensure your new gas hob operates perfectly. Whether you're upgrading your kitchen or replacing an old appliance, we provide efficient and safe installation services that give you peace of mind.

Emergency Plumbing Services in Cambridge
Plumbing issues can happen at any time, and when they do, you need a trusted professional who can respond quickly. GREEN ENERGIE HEATING offers reliable emergency plumbing services in Cambridge to address urgent plumbing issues as soon as they arise. From burst pipes and blocked drains to water leaks and more, our skilled plumbers are available to help you resolve the issue fast. We understand the stress that plumbing emergencies can cause, so we offer quick, efficient solutions to get your plumbing system back in working order with minimal disruption.

Comprehensive Plumbing Solutions in Ely
At GREEN ENERGIE HEATING, we also provide a wide range of plumbing solutions in Ely to meet your home or business needs. Whether you need a complete plumbing system installation, repairs, or maintenance, our team is equipped with the tools and expertise to provide high-quality plumbing services. From fixing leaks and replacing pipes to installing new fixtures and appliances, we offer professional plumbing solutions that keep your water systems running smoothly. We prioritize customer satisfaction and ensure every job is completed to the highest standards.

Why Choose GREEN ENERGIE HEATING?
Experienced and Certified Professionals: Our team consists of qualified heating engineers and plumbers with years of experience in the industry.

Comprehensive Services: Whether you need heating, plumbing, or gas installations, we offer a wide range of services to meet all your needs.

Fast and Efficient Service: We understand the importance of a quick response, especially in emergencies, and we’re committed to providing fast and effective solutions.

Customer-Focused: Your satisfaction is our priority, and we go above and beyond to ensure you receive the best possible service every time.

Get in Touch with GREEN ENERGIE HEATING Today
For all your heating services in Ely, gas hob installation in Cambridge, emergency plumbing in Cambridge, and plumbing solutions in Ely, GREEN ENERGIE HEATING is here to provide the expert service you need. Call us at +441638614625 or visit us at 37 Toyse Lane, Cambridge, CB25 0DF to schedule an appointment or to get immediate assistance. Let us take care of your heating and plumbing needs, ensuring your home or business stays safe, comfortable, and efficient all year long.

Reach out today to experience professional, friendly, and reliable service from the experts at GREEN ENERGIE HEATING!

HEV-Rescue Hybrid Battery Repair & EV Charging: Reliable Hybrid Car Service in San Diego and Trusted Hybrid Battery Shop in the Inland Empire

At HEV-Rescue Hybrid Battery Repair & EV Charging, we are dedicated to providing expert hybrid vehicle services for customers in San Diego and the Inland Empire. Whether you’re looking for a reliable hybrid car service in San Diego or searching for a hybrid battery shop in the Inland Empire, we are here to provide you with the best hybrid vehicle care and battery solutions. Located at 3235 Production Ave, Oceanside, CA 92058, we serve all of Southern California with high-quality services designed to keep your hybrid vehicle running at its best.

Why Choose HEV-Rescue for Hybrid Car Service in San Diego?
San Diego is a vibrant city with many eco-conscious drivers choosing hybrid vehicles to reduce emissions and save on fuel costs. However, like all vehicles, hybrids require regular maintenance and occasional repairs to ensure they operate efficiently and reliably. At HEV-Rescue, we offer specialized hybrid car service in San Diego, providing everything from battery diagnostics to performance checks for hybrid cars of all makes and models.

Our team of expert technicians has extensive experience working with hybrid systems, and we use the latest tools and technology to ensure your vehicle stays in optimal condition. From routine maintenance to more complex repairs, we offer a wide range of hybrid car services, including:

Hybrid Battery Diagnostics and Repair: If your vehicle is showing signs of battery issues such as reduced fuel efficiency or poor acceleration, we can diagnose and repair the battery to restore its performance.

Hybrid System Inspections: We perform detailed inspections of your hybrid car’s electric and combustion systems, ensuring both components are functioning as intended.

Routine Hybrid Car Maintenance: Regular maintenance is crucial to keeping your hybrid in top shape. We offer oil changes, tire rotations, brake servicing, and more to ensure long-lasting performance.

Choosing HEV-Rescue for your hybrid car service in San Diego means you are getting experienced technicians who specialize in hybrid technology and are committed to providing excellent customer care.

Hybrid Battery Shop in the Inland Empire
If you are in the Inland Empire and need expert hybrid battery care, HEV-Rescue is the hybrid battery shop you can trust. We specialize in hybrid battery repair, replacement, and reconditioning, offering high-quality service to keep your hybrid vehicle performing at its peak. Whether your battery is showing signs of wear or needs a complete replacement, we are here to help.

At our hybrid battery shop in the Inland Empire, we offer a range of services to meet all your hybrid battery needs:

Hybrid Battery Diagnostics and Repair: If your hybrid battery is showing signs of failure, our team will run diagnostics to identify the issue and provide efficient repair solutions.

Hybrid Battery Replacement: If your hybrid battery is beyond repair, we offer high-quality replacement batteries at competitive prices, ensuring your vehicle operates at its best.

Hybrid Battery Reconditioning: In many cases, we can restore your hybrid battery to near-new condition with our battery reconditioning services. This is a cost-effective option for extending the life of your battery without the expense of a full replacement.

Our hybrid battery shop in the Inland Empire is equipped with the latest technology and tools to ensure top-quality repairs and services. We work with a variety of hybrid car models, ensuring that we can meet your specific needs no matter the make or model of your vehicle.

Why Choose HEV-Rescue?
Experienced Technicians: Our team has extensive experience working with hybrid and electric vehicles, making us experts in hybrid car services and battery repairs.

Comprehensive Services: From hybrid car service in San Diego to hybrid battery shop solutions in the Inland Empire, we offer a full range of services to meet your needs.

SWIFT Facility Solutions: Comprehensive Office Maintenance and Cleaning Services for Your Business

At SWIFT Facility Solutions, we are dedicated to providing high-quality facility management and cleaning services to businesses in Houston and surrounding areas. Whether you're searching for office maintenance near me, commercial property upkeep near me, or eco-friendly cleaning near me, our team of experts is here to deliver tailored solutions that keep your business space clean, functional, and safe. We offer a full range of services, including commercial janitorial services, facility management services, and specialized cleaning options for your office and industrial needs.

Why Choose SWIFT Facility Solutions?
Office Maintenance Near Me
Keeping your office in excellent condition is crucial for creating a productive and professional work environment. Our office maintenance near me services ensure that everything in your office runs smoothly, from plumbing and electrical repairs to minor repairs and office upkeep. Whether it's fixing broken equipment or handling preventive maintenance, our team is here to ensure your office stays operational and efficient.

Commercial Property Upkeep Near Me
We understand that commercial properties require regular care and attention. Our commercial property upkeep near me services are designed to maintain the overall condition and appearance of your building. From routine cleaning to maintenance of building systems (HVAC, plumbing, electrical), we help ensure your commercial property remains in excellent condition, offering long-term value and a positive impression to visitors and clients.

Sanitation Services Near Me
In today's world, sanitation is more important than ever. At SWIFT Facility Solutions, we offer professional sanitation services near me to businesses looking to maintain a clean and healthy environment. We specialize in disinfecting high-touch areas, ensuring that your facility remains hygienic and safe for employees and customers alike. Our team is equipped with the latest tools and eco-friendly cleaning solutions to provide a thorough and effective sanitation service.

Eco-Friendly Cleaning Near Me
If you're searching for eco-friendly cleaning near me, SWIFT Facility Solutions is your go-to provider. We prioritize sustainability by using environmentally safe cleaning products and practices that reduce your business’s environmental impact. Our eco-friendly cleaning solutions help create a healthier workspace for your employees while minimizing harm to the environment, ensuring your business stays clean and green.

Commercial Janitorial Services
Our commercial janitorial services are designed to keep your office or commercial property clean and presentable at all times. From dusting and vacuuming to restroom sanitation and trash removal, our expert cleaning staff handles it all. We offer flexible cleaning schedules to meet the unique needs of your business, ensuring that your space is always tidy and welcoming to clients and employees.

Facility Management Services
At SWIFT Facility Solutions, we provide comprehensive facility management services that cover everything from routine building maintenance to handling complex systems management. Our team ensures that your facility operates efficiently by providing preventive maintenance, repairs, and system oversight. Whether it’s managing HVAC systems, overseeing security, or coordinating repairs, we provide seamless facility management that keeps your business running smoothly.

Office Cleaning Solutions
A clean office environment is essential for both productivity and the health of your employees. Our office cleaning solutions are designed to meet the specific needs of your workspace, including daily cleaning, carpet care, floor maintenance, and window cleaning. We use industry-leading equipment and cleaning solutions to ensure your office remains pristine, providing a safe and pleasant environment for your team and clients