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New acronym for what is basically just stupidity - SH Nerds Unite

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NOTE: I am a professional computer nerd. I don't spend my day-to-day fixing this and restarting that. I design resilient, high performance, integrated infrastructures that do complicated things and then I build them. The monkeys that report to me (they're actually brilliant sysadmins and not real monkeys but they all have the foresight of monkeys) do the day-to-day turning of knobs and fixing of doodads. This is a sort of techie nerd thing superficially but I think this can apply to almost any area of professional endeavor.

Technical background: For those that don't know, DNS is the name of the service that translates hostnames/domain names into the numeric IP addresses that everything on the internet actually uses to connect to pornhub or snipershide or democraticunderground or whatever. When you type in https://google.com your web browser asks DNS what the shit that means and DNS translates it into a set of numbers that looks something like 1.2.3.4. IP's are not really human legible so we use DNS. When DNS breaks people scream.

For actual years I've been dealing with a glitch where inside my network some computer's IP address to name mapping simply won't be resolvable by DNS at all and some have to be looked up certain ways for it to work but the real hell of it was, it was transient. It'd be bad with one hostname one minute and fine the next. I knew there had to be a misconfiguration in a DNS server somewhere but I don't run all of the DNS servers in my network, only some of them. Yesterday we finally found it while working on something else entirely. Server A used Server B as a secondary source of DNS services and Server B used Server A as the primary source of DNS service meaning that sometimes a dependency loop was created. This was caused by a former member of my team who quit because he resented the way that I always insist on really thinking things through and often taking the difficult route to making things better. He set it up like that without telling anyone basically out of a habit of approaching systems administration with a shortsighted, unwise, manual and piecemeal approach. It occurred to me while writing up the post mortem report and incident report that there was an acronym there, one that in itself defined wonderfully the thing it is an acronym for. SUMP: A pit that gathers gunk.

SUMP methodology eschews rigorous thought or even basic personal responsibility and tosses duty to the hyenas. The opposite would be something like "predictive, wise, automated, integrated" but the acronym doesn't work. So, I ask you all to chip in and help me come up with a suitable self-descriptive acronym which has something of the same meaning in the constituent words. Go.
 
This is zero help but my mind is working now.

The Worst Application Today

Can’t Understand Network Technology

Didn’t Integrate Computer Keystroke

Fucking Useless Computer Knowledge

Someone Help Information Technology

Some Underachieving Computer Key-logger Is Terminated

Rarely Ever Types Application Related Data


Obviously I’m no hacker, so this is all gibberish.
 
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Sounds like social phishing.

What's DNS again?
 
I've worked with folks who did the kind of stuff you're describing. Not because they were stupid or lazy, but because the idiots telling them what to do were.

We they called it job security.
 
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I’m an IT architect for infrastructure in a large company. You wrote this thread about a DNS issue that took you a long time to figure out. You ain’t much of a real IT infrastructure guy. Do you guys even use an enterprise level IPAM/DNS grid (like infoblox)?

Saying you use Microsoft AD/DNS is not a good answer for a large enterprise

I’d laugh if you said you use some open source tool or Linux server running BIND

You should be controlling your clients/servers that are joined to the domain with GPO to force primary/secondary DNS resolvers

Use a conditional forwarding zone for things out of your enterprise.

Do you design and build of any cloud or hybrid cloud infrastructure?

Do you have any experience on a design level with VMware cloud foundation and SDDC vSAN clusters (LCM,vCenter7.x,vRealize suite, VCF, vSAN on HP synergy, SRM, VMC on AWS)???

How bout your scripting and coding automation skills?
 
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^^^I forgot NSX—T and Palo Alto—^^^

This is the last place I’d ever be discussing IT lol
 
I’m an IT architect for infrastructure in a large company. You wrote this thread about a DNS issue that took you a long time to figure out. You ain’t much of a real IT infrastructure guy. Do you guys even use an enterprise level IPAM/DNS grid (like infoblox)?

Saying you use Microsoft AD/DNS is not a good answer for a large enterprise

I’d laugh if you said you use some open source tool or Linux server running BIND

You should be controlling your clients/servers that are joined to the domain with GPO to force primary/secondary DNS resolvers

Use a conditional forwarding zone for things out of your enterprise.

Do you design and build of any cloud or hybrid cloud infrastructure?

Do you have any experience on a design level with VMware cloud foundation and SDDC vSAN clusters (LCM,vCenter7.x,vRealize suite, VCF, vSAN on HP synergy, SRM, VMC on AWS)???

How bout your scripting and coding automation skills?
^^^I forgot NSX—T and Palo Alto—^^^

This is the last place I’d ever be discussing IT lol
I don’t know what any of this means….

I do know XXX on my computer always delivers great results for my “micro softy”
 
Gaia And You

How Others Manage Offices Systems

Computer Operation Coding Key

Varible archival graph Integrated network accelerator (sounds like some nerd shit)

Tagged image telemetry system
 
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Framework Integrated System Technology Memory Encoding, pretty sure DirtD had something to do with making this software.


I can sure make up some bullshit that sounds like something to other know nothings 🤣
 
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NOTE: I am a professional computer nerd. I don't spend my day-to-day fixing this and restarting that. I design resilient, high performance, integrated infrastructures that do complicated things and then I build them. The monkeys that report to me (they're actually brilliant sysadmins and not real monkeys but they all have the foresight of monkeys) do the day-to-day turning of knobs and fixing of doodads. This is a sort of techie nerd thing superficially but I think this can apply to almost any area of professional endeavor.

Technical background: For those that don't know, DNS is the name of the service that translates hostnames/domain names into the numeric IP addresses that everything on the internet actually uses to connect to pornhub or snipershide or democraticunderground or whatever. When you type in https://google.com your web browser asks DNS what the shit that means and DNS translates it into a set of numbers that looks something like 1.2.3.4. IP's are not really human legible so we use DNS. When DNS breaks people scream.

For actual years I've been dealing with a glitch where inside my network some computer's IP address to name mapping simply won't be resolvable by DNS at all and some have to be looked up certain ways for it to work but the real hell of it was, it was transient. It'd be bad with one hostname one minute and fine the next. I knew there had to be a misconfiguration in a DNS server somewhere but I don't run all of the DNS servers in my network, only some of them. Yesterday we finally found it while working on something else entirely. Server A used Server B as a secondary source of DNS services and Server B used Server A as the primary source of DNS service meaning that sometimes a dependency loop was created. This was caused by a former member of my team who quit because he resented the way that I always insist on really thinking things through and often taking the difficult route to making things better. He set it up like that without telling anyone basically out of a habit of approaching systems administration with a shortsighted, unwise, manual and piecemeal approach. It occurred to me while writing up the post mortem report and incident report that there was an acronym there, one that in itself defined wonderfully the thing it is an acronym for. SUMP: A pit that gathers gunk.

SUMP methodology eschews rigorous thought or even basic personal responsibility and tosses duty to the hyenas. The opposite would be something like "predictive, wise, automated, integrated" but the acronym doesn't work. So, I ask you all to chip in and help me come up with a suitable self-descriptive acronym which has something of the same meaning in the constituent words. Go.
WTF. I know that there is a question in there somewhere. It appears however that I am not high enough on the autism spectrum to understand what it is.
 
Hmmm me thinks the op may not be getting the responses he was fishing for.
 
WTF. I know that there is a question in there somewhere. It appears however that I am not high enough on the autism spectrum to understand what it is.
I know if I could understand that I’d probably be making bank.
 
I am thinking based on the OP

Did
Not
Score

for how ever many years he has been alive, just a guess ;)
I mean money equals pussy every time and tech shit gets paid decent.
 
Hmmm me thinks the op may not be getting the responses he was fishing for.
And you'd be totally wrong. Sometimes the best way to get what you're looking for is to ask for something totally unrelated. In this case, I was looking for a classic SH dogpile combined with heaping helpings of sarcasm, assertions of superior skills and grown men generally acting like children all wrapped up in the spirit of camaraderie. Basically I wanted to make all of you act like all of you and it worked like a charm. The whole premise might be true but it was irrelevant to my goals. Call yourselves "manipulated". ;)
 
And you'd be totally wrong. Sometimes the best way to get what you're looking for is to ask for something totally unrelated. In this case, I was looking for a classic SH dogpile combined with heaping helpings of sarcasm, assertions of superior skills and grown men generally acting like children all wrapped up in the spirit of camaraderie. Basically I wanted to make all of you act like all of you and it worked like a charm. The whole premise might be true but it was irrelevant to my goals. Call yourselves "manipulated". ;)
I can do that and I don’t need to be manipulated, just ask if you want jokes...
 
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And you'd be totally wrong. Sometimes the best way to get what you're looking for is to ask for something totally unrelated. In this case, I was looking for a classic SH dogpile combined with heaping helpings of sarcasm, assertions of superior skills and grown men generally acting like children all wrapped up in the spirit of camaraderie. Basically I wanted to make all of you act like all of you and it worked like a charm. The whole premise might be true but it was irrelevant to my goals. Call yourselves "manipulated". ;)
So... No Bergers for sale then?
 
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So there's hot single moms in my area. Only 6 miles away... but once I click to connect, it says I won a raffle and need to enter my info?

I just want hot milfs,, can you help me out please? If not, I'll take 1k of the bergers.

Thanks
I used to work for the company that's responsible for more of that kind of stuff than any other. After a while of working there I found out that the pictures used in those ads, the ads were for the "dating" side of the house, came from the live webcam smut side of the house and had exactly zero to do with the actual members of the various dating sites. This had been something I'd long assumed but when I found out the details it kind of ruined the joke for me. At least until one of our engineers drove through a town in California with an actual population of like 63 people (something like that, terribly small) and decided to stop and do a "site check" to see what the ads would look like with the GeoIP resolving that town. He got an ad that basically said that every single adult female in town was a sexually promiscuous woman between 18 and 24. That kinda ruined the joke for him too. About a year later the CEO forwarded the following XKCD to everyone in the company with the question "Wonder if they're talking about us?"

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And you'd be totally wrong. Sometimes the best way to get what you're looking for is to ask for something totally unrelated. In this case, I was looking for a classic SH dogpile combined with heaping helpings of sarcasm, assertions of superior skills and grown men generally acting like children all wrapped up in the spirit of camaraderie. Basically I wanted to make all of you act like all of you and it worked like a charm. The whole premise might be true but it was irrelevant to my goals. Call yourselves "manipulated". ;)
As if there was any chance in hell that the guys in the pit were going to grow up and give you a real answer anyway. That is like throwing a dead cow carcass out in the desert and being proud that you “manipulated” the vultures who flocked to it.
 
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Shortsighted
Unthinking
Mindless
Pussy

All the tech stuff flew over my head, but I'm pretty good at insulting people and starting fights.
Buy a different vowel 😆
 
Still didn’t answer any of my IT questions. Just as I suspected. No real IT skillset 💩