First day as a Microserf...
Jul. 19th, 2004 11:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walbournSo between jet-lag from my trip to NYC this past week, and the general lack of sleep that goes with getting up early for a new job I expected today was going to be a long day. Now that the day is finally over, holyshitiamtired...
NEO (New Employee Orientation) took up most of the day. Afterwards I went to my new office and spent the rest of the day trying to cram as much information into my head as possible while setting up my new laptop system. I learned two key technical lessons today: (1) you must enable a firewall before putting a Windows box on the Internet even within a corporate network--my laptop was infected with a un-repairable Stassar-like virus in the time it took to download the critical updates that required restoring the thing to factory settings and starting over--and (2) individual per-system firewalls screw everything up and you have to do a lot of work to figure out how to get 3rd party server programs to actually work with them enabled.
I'm an SDE working for WGGT's DRP. If you don't know what that means, don't worry... Microsoft is really into acronyms, but naturally the computer program that lists all the meanings of said acronyms is confidential information :> Basically I'm a developer working in the Windows Gaming and Graphics group as part of Developer Relations.
NEO (New Employee Orientation) took up most of the day. Afterwards I went to my new office and spent the rest of the day trying to cram as much information into my head as possible while setting up my new laptop system. I learned two key technical lessons today: (1) you must enable a firewall before putting a Windows box on the Internet even within a corporate network--my laptop was infected with a un-repairable Stassar-like virus in the time it took to download the critical updates that required restoring the thing to factory settings and starting over--and (2) individual per-system firewalls screw everything up and you have to do a lot of work to figure out how to get 3rd party server programs to actually work with them enabled.
I'm an SDE working for WGGT's DRP. If you don't know what that means, don't worry... Microsoft is really into acronyms, but naturally the computer program that lists all the meanings of said acronyms is confidential information :> Basically I'm a developer working in the Windows Gaming and Graphics group as part of Developer Relations.
