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And that is among the things that happened here late last month. It was induced by a power outage (which is the only thing they were not responsible for); it seems clear they used their battery backups improperly, and when those ran to exhaustion they didn't bring things down gracefully, and they had only a rudimentary power-back-up protocol prepared. Each of those are individual indications of incompetence and grossly neglectful management.

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They have slowly been eliminating troubles, but I suspect the root cause remains unaddressed. A bunch of people got spam yesterday from a little-used system, and the last time that occurred we got a "never mind" email promptly. Still waiting to see if that happens again.

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Well ... in general, I keep my working data local, rather than on the shared drives. I am dependent on the DFUAs for email, phone, printers, and internet. Those first two aren't crucial to what I have to do. Printing sometimes is, and I have had the incestuous coprophages render every printer on campus inoperable the morning I was to give my final, which is pretty much the nightmare scenario. Internet is a distraction, but one I enjoy.

 

The liberal arts types generally don't realize how abjectly bad our IT is, and that's the only reason things are the way they are.

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