Work IRC

[azurelunatic]

I have advanced from a little shaky to tired and somewhat headachey, but!

I am yet again the person who stuck their neck out about infrastructure stuff. As the somewhat inevitable result, I have been voluntold as the person who is now responsible for the workplace IRC server.

Mr. Wizard Beard has been involved, to find a corner on a box. (Mr. Wizard Beard is the person who will stab you if you drop one crumb in the server room that lives in the back corner of the office building that lb, Purple, and radius are all in.)

There are several retired IRC admins who spend time on the server, who might be bribed out of retirement with chocolate and/or jellybeans.

The existing VM has been up for nearly 2 years now with scarcely a bobble, so that aspect of it seems least likely to attract trouble.

Comments

[silveradept]

There is a disturbing trend of "since you are concerned about this thing, you can be the person that maintains it" in a lot of places.

[azurelunatic]

Yes.

There is also a disturbing trend of "well, IT doesn't need it, so surely nobody needs it" in support of Engineering.

[jamoche]

Along with "but why isn't everyone switching to this corporate thing that only works well on Windows and doesn't work on Linux at all?"

[azurelunatic]

And dismissing Linux users who complain about it as being malcontents who need to be ignored.