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Well, thanks to friends and professional connections I am now in the running for positions at Google, HP, Lexis Nexis, SunTrust, NACR (large Avaya reseller/partner), and Peer1. ...I think I might be able to get something out of all this. 
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skooky posted:One of our larger customers has had memory errors over 3 years for a particular slot on an 8 year old server and have just now decided to log the issue as a "high severity" case. Replaced a DIMM, memory error came back, no biggie, we'll replace the mobo as that's literally the only other part we can replace. Customer incident manager comes back with a long-winded email with these choice quotes. The fact that he wants a written assurance from you is fine, but the fact that he's functionally illiterate is not. Also the fact that he seems to be stringing computer words together without any idea how they relate to each other (Mother board! Corruption! Operating system! Firmware! Inaccessible dive!) Send a photo of a pear looking at a youtube video covering motherboard replacement
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mewse posted:The fact that he wants a written assurance from you is fine, but the fact that he's functionally illiterate is not. Also the fact that he seems to be stringing computer words together without any idea how they relate to each other (Mother board! Corruption! Operating system! Firmware! Inaccessible dive!) Don't let this detract from the fact that the idiot asking for "pear reviewed" stuff IS functionally illiterate, but by a hilarious stroke of luck there is something relevant: http://www.uoguelph.ca/peartool/ "Peer Evaluation, Assessment, and Review" A broken clock is still right twice a day!
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He's not just functionally illiterate, he also knows nothing about what a system board replacement entails. None of the stuff he's "concerned" about is an issue. What a moron.
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Holy poo poo everyone at TechCrunch is loving retarded: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/11/aol-crunchbase-cc-flap/ OH HAY WE'RE COOL AND OPEN USE AND HAVE A CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSE. WAIT WHAT, YOU'RE USING OUR DATA? STOP IT. Oh, we can't tell you to stop it because we don't understand the two loving sentence explanation of how the license we released our content under works? I see.
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Powdered Toast Man posted:Well, thanks to friends and professional connections I am now in the running for positions at Google, HP, Lexis Nexis, SunTrust, NACR (large Avaya reseller/partner), and Peer1. Peer1 seemed pretty cool; never worked directly for them myself but some of us sysadmins squatted in their spare cubicles for a while after my old company sold 'em our DC and all our dedicated poo poo, so I worked around their folks for a while. Several of our good admins also went over to them over the years. They also had a beer tap in their break room. 
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Nov 6, 2013 23:26
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I despise web developers that don't know the difference between POST and GET and when you should use each. A page that someone may want to link someone else to? Lets use POST for the query instead of GET! Surely nobody will want to copy the url to a friend to pull up this posting!
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Maniaman posted:I despise web developers that don't know the difference between POST and GET and when you should use each. A page that someone may want to link someone else to? Lets use POST for the query instead of GET! Surely nobody will want to copy the url to a friend to pull up this posting! It's a posting, of course you have to use POST. Duh.
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Nov 7, 2013 01:40
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An email from the boss: Humphreys, we need you to go this *website* I found and buy their 10 000 Facebook 'Likes' package. It will make us look better to our clients! 
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Nov 7, 2013 01:47
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Maniaman posted:I despise web developers that don't know the difference between POST and GET and when you should use each. A page that someone may want to link someone else to? Lets use POST for the query instead of GET! Surely nobody will want to copy the url to a friend to pull up this posting! 
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Nov 7, 2013 02:01
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Maniaman posted:I despise web developers that don't know the difference between POST and GET and when you should use each. A page that someone may want to link someone else to? Lets use POST for the query instead of GET! Surely nobody will want to copy the url to a friend to pull up this posting! It's funny to me that you picked the annoying example, rather than the reverse situation that can allow a malicious user to destroy or poison your data.
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Powdered Toast Man posted:Well, thanks to friends and professional connections I am now in the running for positions at Google, HP, Lexis Nexis, SunTrust, NACR (large Avaya reseller/partner), and Peer1. I actually just started my new job at HP this week. Let me tell you, their on-boarding process is a pain in the rear end. Granted this is the first time I have worked for a company bigger than ~100 people, so my outlook is a little skewed. From what I have been told, my team is pretty insulated from the crazy corporate stuff, but time will tell. Also, always remember, its not necessarily what you know, but who you know. This will be the 3rd job in a row that I got because I knew people on the team that wanted to work with me again. Obviously you still have to be good at what you do, but keep in touch with people you have worked with since you never know when one of them will need to hire someone.
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I'm starting to think my boss is losing his mind. He mentioned on Monday that I was joining a bunch of other IT people as we convert a new location to our network next week. This is apparently an all weekend thing, and unlike everyone else, I have to drive the 8 hours to get there, while they fly. I'm not really upset about driving, its just the notice is really short for working over the weekend. Also I have a PS4 arriving on Friday.
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Nov 7, 2013 04:00
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CitizenKain posted:I'm starting to think my boss is losing his mind. He mentioned on Monday that I was joining a bunch of other IT people as we convert a new location to our network next week. This is apparently an all weekend thing, and unlike everyone else, I have to drive the 8 hours to get there, while they fly. I'm not really upset about driving, its just the notice is really short for working over the weekend. Dang, he must have forgotten that you'll be out of town and unreachable this weekend.
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Nov 7, 2013 04:02
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CitizenKain posted:I'm starting to think my boss is losing his mind. He mentioned on Monday that I was joining a bunch of other IT people as we convert a new location to our network next week. This is apparently an all weekend thing, and unlike everyone else, I have to drive the 8 hours to get there, while they fly. I'm not really upset about driving, its just the notice is really short for working over the weekend. you're getting paid mileage right? Be sure and put in for that if you're driving. Assuming 8 hours = 400 miles = $~224 EACH WAY. (IRS milage rate is somewhere around 56 cents a mile) He'll have rather you flew. If you are not allowed to take the expense, you better not be going.
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nitrogen posted:you're getting paid mileage right? Be sure and put in for that if you're driving. Assuming 8 hours = 400 miles = $~224 EACH WAY. (IRS milage rate is somewhere around 56 cents a mile) The way they work around this is to say that it's a tax deduction. Which if you're single, have no kids, and don't own a house is basically next to useless.
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Nov 7, 2013 04:25
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I'm paid hourly while driving, we use rental cars and company pays for everything. It is one of the few things they get right, as they are fair with traveling. Also its all interstate driving, so I'll just put in audiobooks and stare at the majesty of eastern Wyoming as it flies by at 75. Good time to bring along my new camera I guess. Now it kinda makes sense why he asked a week or so if I had any major plans in the next few weeks.
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Che Delilas posted:It's funny to me that you picked the annoying example, rather than the reverse situation that can allow a malicious user to destroy or poison your data. HTTP request type has nothing to do with properly sanitizing your inputs to prevent injection attacks.  CitizenKain posted:I'm starting to think my boss is losing his mind. He mentioned on Monday that I was joining a bunch of other IT people as we convert a new location to our network next week. This is apparently an all weekend thing, and unlike everyone else, I have to drive the 8 hours to get there, while they fly. I'm not really upset about driving, its just the notice is really short for working over the weekend. Last time I had to travel several hours for work and work all weekend, I had two hour's notice; my boss literally greeted me one Friday with "Hi, go home and pack, you leave for Miami in two hours."  And this was at an entry-level $12/hr 0%-travel tier 1 tech support job, not a gig where you'd actually expect to have to leave town on short notice. (Didn't get paid for the travel time or per-diem or any expenses except the hotel room, either.)
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psydude posted:The way they work around this is to say that it's a tax deduction. Which if you're single, have no kids, and don't own a house is basically next to useless. He is still putting wear and tear on his vehicle. If the company isnt going to reimburse him for it, he should tell them to eat poo poo. Most companies will reimburse you for using your personal vehicle for business travel like this at the IRS rate. It's perfectly reasonable to do, it's not a goddamn domones pizza driver. FAKE EDIT: gently caress spelling reimburse. REAL EDIT: Here's a typical reimbursement policy, its for a university: http://businessoffice.truman.edu/ap/p&p/new%20travel.asp quote:Private Vehicle nitrogen fucked around with this message at 04:48 on Nov 7, 2013 |
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What is it with people and not wanting to ask for help? Seriously, I'm not going to think less of you because you ask me to help out. It's a poo poo load better than being "hey uhh dilbert, I dug myself into a hole. Can you get me out of my hole and then help me complete $task$, oh and the deadline is in 4 hours..."
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Dilbert As gently caress posted:"hey uhh dilbert, I dug myself into a hole. Can you get me out of my hole and then help me complete $task$, oh and the deadline is in 4 hours..." Nope! 
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SubjectVerbObject posted:The people I have seen who were really good PBX engineers and knew the back end OS stuff were either Linux Zen Masters or right wing gun nuts. I don't think they drank that much. If they got stressed they just shot something or reinstalled Slackware. pfff. All the cool Linux guys moved to gentoo a long time ago. Slackware stopped being my goto distro several years ago. 
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ratbert90 posted:pfff. All the cool Linux guys moved to gentoo a long time ago. Slackware stopped being my goto distro several years ago. Was Slackware ever good? (and not even the raving fanatics I keep for friends use Gentoo)
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Negromancer posted:I actually just started my new job at HP this week. Let me tell you, their on-boarding process is a pain in the rear end. Granted this is the first time I have worked for a company bigger than ~100 people, so my outlook is a little skewed. From what I have been told, my team is pretty insulated from the crazy corporate stuff, but time will tell. In what capacity? You still in the Seattle area?
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Our recently appointed head of security in the IT department just suggested that everyone should start typing https instead of http when using the internet because that is a lot more secure internet usage.
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zapateria posted:Our recently appointed head of security in the IT department just suggested that everyone should start typing https instead of http when using the internet because that is a lot more secure internet usage. That's assuming people actually type the http:// to begin with and not just type the name of the site they want and click the first google/askjeeves/bing result Humphreys fucked around with this message at 13:51 on Nov 7, 2013 |
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ratbert90 posted:pfff. All the cool Linux guys moved to Gentoo has been behind the times for years. Chef is still masked. RUBY_TARGETS constantly breaks portage. Use slack. Gentoo lost it when they stopped recommending stage1
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They're remodeling the other half of our building so my boss (IT Director) is way more concerned with what the drywallers and painters are doing, and right now he's standing outside telling the dumpster guy that he need to put some oil dry down because they just blew hydraulic fluid all over the parking lot. IT DOES NOT CONCERN YOU GET THE gently caress BACK TO YOUR DESK AND WORK ON SOME PROJECTS
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Well, it took five weeks for me to see my first incidence of this at my new job, but we've finally seen the first egregious CC game played. "Oh what's that? I don't like the answer IT gave me (even though it's totally accurate), so I'm just going to send an email to the head of IT and ask him to help me!"
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evol262 posted:Gentoo has been behind the times for years. Chef is still masked. RUBY_TARGETS constantly breaks portage. Use slack. Gentoo lost it when they stopped recommending stage1 Neerrrrddd Oh, wait.. 
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Crowley posted:Neerrrrddd No, that was still one of the nerdiest things ever written on this forum.
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Humphreys posted:That's assuming people actually type the [url]http://[/url] to begin with and not just type the name of the site they want and click the first google/askjeeves/bing result Point is he has no clue how https works, he just thinks you can add the s on whatever site you are on and it will work. The poo poo that pisses me off is that he actually has the "chief of security" title because he doesn't have any other responsibilities so he just "needed something" to defend his salary.
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evol262 posted:Gentoo has been behind the times for years. Chef is still masked. RUBY_TARGETS constantly breaks portage. Use slack. Gentoo lost it when they stopped recommending stage1 To be honest; these days I use Ubuntu for most of my work not out of choice but out of necessity. Android only supports being built in Ubuntu and I am far to lazy to get it compiling in Fedora.  Crowley posted:Was Slackware ever good? I started with Slackware in the early 90s. And I used it up until a few years ago. It works fine. I just like having a package manager these days.
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ratbert90 posted:I started with Slackware in the early 90s. And I used it up until a few years ago. It works fine. I just like having a package manager these days. I bought a 600-page Slackware book (with CD! OMG!) around '95 and tried to get into it. Nowadays I'm partial to SUSE. 
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stubblyhead posted:In what capacity? You still in the Seattle area? Yup, still in seattle. I am now a Sr DevOps Engineer on the cloud services team. ratbert90 posted:To be honest; these days I use Ubuntu for most of my work not out of choice but out of necessity. Android only supports being built in Ubuntu and I am far to lazy to get it compiling in Fedora. As much as I fought it, I am converted to ubuntu server as well. It just drives me crazy since Ubuntu was originally started as a "easy to use" linux desktop offshoot of debian, but now they hold a pretty good share of servers. Part of me would rather just use debian, but ubuntu has more packages for it. Part of me still loves CentOS, but they are so slow to update their official repo packages its a pain in the rear end.
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I've been told my last day is on Friday, so this doesn't piss me off as much anymore: E-mails from our MFCs, at least one of our apps, and from the customer contact forms on our website are getting sent to users' Junk E-mail folder in Outlook. Our Exchange admin says there's nothing he can do, and has instructed helpdesk/desktop support to have users whitelist these senders. Management believes this is satisfactory.
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Can someone explain to me why people that infect their orgs with cryptolocker aren't immediately fired? Hearing so many stories about how companies are getting multiple infections (sometimes from the same person) and I hear people spending so much energy on preventing infections instead of terminating employees who are too stupid to follow some simple security rules? I guarantee if people started getting canned over stupidity that is required to infect with cryptolocker, it'd probably do wonders.
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Oh, boy... Looks like Dell has updated their support site again. So far it hasn't pissed me off, but I'm sure it's only a matter of time. I know when they changed it the last time (probably about a year ago) and a ton of links were dead, that was pissing me off daily.
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nitrogen posted:Can someone explain to me why people that infect their orgs with cryptolocker aren't immediately fired? Computers are complicated! How was I supposed to know that the pope didn't really email me a file called "bank_transaction.pdf.exe"?
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