General / Off-Topic Curious...are you in the [Elite] IT Field?

Alexander R

Alexander R
I work in the IT field, manage ERP education projects, been doing this since '95. The most interesting technical area for me in Elite is the persistent universe and how they will handle multiplayer. I really hope the networking code allows for large scale battles.

Large scale battles were never really possible in the Elite universe before, but I suspect we can get to at least 64 craft in the same local system at this point. That plus a further 20 or 30 NPC craft and the fireworks would be amazing :)
 

Memnoch

M
I'm one of the Sys. Admins for a unit involved in brain research and get my hands dirty at all parts of the spectrum from Outlook not working to Exchange and firewall issues. I've been in my current role for about 3 years now but have been in IT for about 15 years or so.
 

dannyboy

dannyboy
Another IT monkey here. Been doing it for about 10 years since taking a change of career path in 2003. I do all the fairly typical MS sysadmin stuff like AD, Exchange, and all the associated network & server stuff that comes with the territory.

No la-di-da fancy blue chip companies on my CV though. Instead I've worked for a succession of tinpot local firms, each slightly more chaotic to work for than the previous one.
 

Stoo

Stoo
I used to be an IT Manger (was MCSE+I etc etc) for some big players like BBC and Intel, nowadays I'm a full time user experience designer for web applications and sites.

Much calmer ;)
 

Scozia

S
CharlesN said:
OK, small play on words in the thread title...

I saw a couple other people who work in the IT field on another thread, so I thought I'd start a not-so-serious thread that wouldn't get too bogged down in the details of Elite design.

I am IT support at a large university in the US, going on 19 years now. Servers, workstations, software, hardware, network, mobiles, you name it.

Who else works in the IT field? Is there anything you're really looking forward to in Elite, from an IT point of view?
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i do exactly the same as yourself but at a college here in Scotland

from building workstations to putting together our latest VMWare host and SAN to sorting out the bosses blackberry :eek:
 

steveme

steveme
I'm a senior sftware tester for a client & server based software product with native and web components (sadly, not a game)

Looking forward to submtting some well written bug reports to the developers once the alpha comes around...

;)
 

Eckhart

Eckhart
I build longitudinal data analysis & visualisation systems. Very much on the developer side of IT.

Institutional operations managers, please implement PAAS sooner rather than later. :)
 

[Del]

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I'm a 3rd line Desktop Systems engineer, working for a global footprint multinational and it's clients. SCCM 2007/2012 is mostly the tool of choice in my role, but I get mixed up in the architecture and standards piece, as well as projects. Used to travel (have been around the world, literally), but now a happy teleworker.

I suppose what I'm looking forward to is seeing whether multi-monitor setups can be used, and how that's going to be handled. Having a panorama view through the windows of the cockpit would be wicked.

I was also intrigued by seeing the FD guys on one of the dev videos using (I think...) gamepads to play. I always played Elite with a joystick - so am intrigued to see whether the play encourages the use of one or the other.
 

Mentski

Mentski
I work with a charity that takes donated PCs, refurbishes them, and ships them out to African schools. I maintain the network, developing services to aid in the refurbishment process.

Also, every so often I take some of the donated stuff, and try to make use of it for other tasks. like some kind of Macgyvering Tech-Womble.
 

aelreth

aelreth
Not as senior as the rest of these guys here, I recently started in this field working for the government.
 

[Del]

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Memnoch said:
We use Altiris/Symantec at the moment and if we hadn't spent a lot of money on 7.5 and some training we would have gone with SCCM.
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We did a side-by-side appraisal of the SCCM and Altiris when we were looking at management systems, and even though we've stuck with Symantec for our AV, and therefore the pricing for Altiris was extremely competitive, SCCM was going to do everything we wanted - the file based imaging was the kicker, and we'd already been using WDS and MDT anyway, so we knew for the most part what degree of flexibility in OSD we wanted.

We had a couple of legacy Altiris platforms, but they were badly managed so we binned them off.

Still, Altiris has some lovely features that SCCM lacks...
 
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TheSimpsoid

TheSimpsoid
I'm a lumberjack and I'm okay. I sleep all night and I work all day...

... oh, ok, yeah, I'm in IT too.

Programmer (80x86 assembler) -> Systems Administrator -> IT Manager. All in covering 25+ years now :eek:
 

Craib

Craib
I work as an Infrastructure Manager for a large hosting company. Started as a Mac field engineer about 15 years ago.
 

RobFisher

RobFisher
I'm a programmer. Mainly I do integration of embedded software on digital video recorders which is quite a lot of debugging of a large codebase and not much writing new code. So I like writing tools in Python and even a bit of web development with Django and some database fun with ZODB.

One day I'd quite like to make a game. I can't do artwork so I've always had in mind doing something like Elite but with a command line interface. It would be very niche!
 

Matt

M
Formerly doing software engineering for IBM (Java, Web), now working for "a major search engine" which you probably use hundreds of times every day.
 

Crayfish

Crayfish
Systems administrator at a university in my day job and have a side business writing games for Android phones in my spare time.

Got my first job as a COBOL programmer in 1989.
 
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