National IT Service Provider Day 2024
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Of late I have been trying to curtail some of the access to my resources. I am down to a single IP address for client connections others whereas I used to maintain two.
The much newer requests for wireless network access became too much about a year ago when I placed an additional node in for my mom. She now gets 150 megabytes of wireless and the neighbors beyond her want those access credentials. I'm afraid this isn't possible. I don't trust the judicious use of my resources by those I do not know well. There is too much out there which would get me in trouble to make some guest node with anonymous access. It's simply not feasible to court illegal network behaviors.
I maintain a well provisioned server cluster with redundancy of critical systems and failover should the need arise. This has only been needed once in 20 years of operation. My cluster is on it's 4th iteration and is thus far the most sophisticated software arrangement I have implemented.
Today is National IT Service Provider Day. It is observed each April 22 annually.
The day is about IT service providers and their contributions to business and commerce in the nation. I must admit my contributions to business become increasingly less as time goes on.
However, I am right on any hardware or software issue which may arise and will firewall hacking attempts by interlopers in a heartbeat.
The literature would have you think that the field of IT has existed for centuries. My personal spin on this would be the 1960s with Grace Hopper and those early bit switch operated monstrosities. I entered the picture right about the PDP 11/73 and Microvax series. So though I am old there is much about IT which predates my existence. I predate the personal computer by a number of years.
There is alot to be said for being tech savvy. I was able to enjoy a rewarding career from which I recently retired because the university degree programs did not provide realtime skills whereas I had a full repetoire which put the theory laden college graduates with whom I competed for available positions to shame.
So love them or hate them technological devices are here to stay. Whereas I once claimed to be a generalist I no longer pursue this designation. It seems that I have gravitated toward the server/workstation model even though I began working on notebooks with these ham like hands of mine. I decline to use smart phones as internet devices because they are even smaller than the notebooks I also shun.
There has been a lot of water under the bridge since I began as an IT professional around 1979. This was when I departed the navy and began doing work in electronics. When I was placed before a keyboard and it was determined that I was a natural at doing algebra with word like constructs it was on.
The rest — so we say — is history. Happy National IT Service Provider Day.