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Vulture Culture posted:Show, don't tell. Awesome phrase and one I'll try to keep in mind. Right now I'm trying to write an Indeed headline or a LinkedIn summary that fits in the default window, so I'm strapped for characters. Specifically, I've got "A Windows System Administrator capable in Linux and Networking." Capable isn't a very hard sell, but it's about as hard as I deserve. Honestly, I am just trying to get pinged by as many recruiters as possible right now, hopefully I'm careful enough with keywords and am specific about products I've used that they aren't crap. I just got on Indeed and have gotten some great responses already. I don't know anything about getting recruited on LinkedIn because it has never happened to me.
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Roargasm posted:Awesome phrase and one I'll try to keep in mind. Right now I'm trying to write an Indeed headline or a LinkedIn summary that fits in the default window, so I'm strapped for characters. Specifically, I've got "A Windows System Administrator capable in Linux and Networking." Capable isn't a very hard sell, but it's about as hard as I deserve. I use 'Skilled'. I feel like it sounds better. And I never said *how* skilled so I'm not lying.
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Antioch posted:I use 'Skilled'. I feel like it sounds better. Similar vein, I actually dropped out of highschool. I leave anything education related off of my resume and, when asked about my education, I usually go into "well, college wasn't really an option for me financially..." and talk a bit about being a cook from 18 to 25. Nobody has ever actually asked me directly if I've graduated from highschool. But, yeah. It's kind of sad that we're still in an era where "being able to intelligently discuss everything under skills" puts you above 90% of the competition. We were interviewing candidates for a senior linux admin recently and the talent pool is really, really dry around here. We had one guy with C/C++ on his resume and I didn't even get a chance to ask him simple C questions because he immediately cut me off to tell me how he doesn't really know that much about programming languages. Hmm. That this guy made it past the phone screen says something about the talent pool, I guess. We ended up way overpaying a midlevel candidate for the senior position because he was the only person who didn't completely bomb every portion of the technical interview, at he was at least up front with me (and on his resume) about not being very strong with the network side of things. For all of our other candidates I did the networking portion of the technical interview and being able to describe a subnet mask was about as far as anybody got, despite having a variety of networking related terminology proudly displayed under "skills and technologies".
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So is the consensus that if you want to get on recruiter's radar you need to fill that skills section with specific bullshit like NETAPP, CISCO, LAMP? I'm only looking for architecture and management roles at this point so should I fill it with RISK MANAGEMENT, LEVERAGING VERTICALS, SYNERGY ARCHITECTURE?
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whaam posted:So is the consensus that if you want to get on recruiter's radar you need to fill that skills section with specific bullshit like NETAPP, CISCO, LAMP? I'm only looking for architecture and management roles at this point so should I fill it with RISK MANAGEMENT, LEVERAGING VERTICALS, SYNERGY ARCHITECTURE? When I'm evaluating a candidate, I take the "skills" section with a grain of salt (if there is one, your work history should tell me what your skills are). If it's not mentioned in the work history, I've found SKILLS=SOMETHING I READ ABOUT ONCE.
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whaam posted:So is the consensus that if you want to get on recruiter's radar you need to fill that skills section with specific bullshit like NETAPP, CISCO, LAMP? I'm only looking for architecture and management roles at this point so should I fill it with RISK MANAGEMENT, LEVERAGING VERTICALS, SYNERGY ARCHITECTURE?
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FortiNet's GUI is messy but if I can use it I expect most anyone can. I've managed FortiGate 90D units for about the last five years and have mostly good experiences with them. I've switched over to their CLI for most everything.
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Chickenwalker posted:Can someone recommend me a good firewall/IPS appliance? Something with a user-friendly GUI but the ability to tweak and customize from the CLI if necessary. Looking at Untangle and Barracuda currently. Palo Alto. The UI is dead simple.
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Dick Trauma posted:FortiNet's GUI is messy but if I can use it I expect most anyone can. I've managed FortiGate 90D units for about the last five years and have mostly good experiences with them. I've switched over to their CLI for most everything. Yeah, the GUI is a confusing mess of "what the hell is THIS doing HERE?" The CLI is a much better interface, plus if you use their management appliance or any other type of configuration management tool, pushing scripts is pretty straightforward using CLI commands.
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KennyTheFish posted:Palo Alto. The UI is dead simple.
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Vulture Culture posted:I don't think I'd recommend anything else at this point. How's it compare to Check Point and SourceFire?
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internet jerk posted:How's it compare to Check Point and SourceFire? Their sales can be a little weird. At a previous job, after a demo, our networking group sort of had a pair of them just show up at the door. We didn't order them. They were like "oh yeah, here, try these out for awhile. No rush. Send them back if you don't like them." I think we finally got around to testing them two or three months later and were sold within the week. Vulture Culture fucked around with this message at 18:33 on Jul 5, 2015 |
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Vulture Culture posted:I haven't used the Cisco+Sourcefire stuff. Cisco people using the Sourcefire-integrated ASAs don't seem to feel left out of the party versus Check Point and Palo Alto users anymore, but I haven't seen anybody really super-enthusiastic about them either. CP and PA both have really performant architectures with lots and lots of super-efficient hardware offload. Palo Alto's built-in app signatures are super-easy to work with (though sometimes the inference can be a little buggy; STOMP MQ didn't play nicely with whatever profile it detected, for example), the logging and reporting work really well (besides the fact that you sometimes have to crawl around the GUI to cross-reference logs from different subsystems; it might be worth deploying Splunk or something if this is something you do often). They make their product really easy to demo. Their support, from what I've seen, is a lot more competent than what you'll get from Check Point. And of course, PA's mostly sane and competent interface is the big sell. I've seen some of their demo's and am leaning towards replacing an aging ASA with a something from Palo Alto. In your experience how is their pricing compared to Cisco? Do they break down features to separate licenses and then charge you a ton depending on what you want or is it more of a pay for it all type deal?
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BaseballPCHiker posted:I've seen some of their demo's and am leaning towards replacing an aging ASA with a something from Palo Alto. In your experience how is their pricing compared to Cisco? Do they break down features to separate licenses and then charge you a ton depending on what you want or is it more of a pay for it all type deal?
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Anybody here with experience in cloud OSX offerings? Got some developers that want/need an apple OS environment they can use and I was looking at a few (https://www.macstadium.com , https://www.macincloud.com , https://www.xcloud.me , https://www.hostmyapple.com ). Just looking for some input from somebody that's done this. I did a pretty thorough comparison on those 4's offerings and they're all different in their own special snowflake way (pricing based on bandwidth, storage, dedicated server, etc) MacStadium looks to be the only real *legit* company, whereas the others look like little more than a basement business (could be wrong). I paid $25 for 1 month at HostMyApple (the cheapest available with root access) and already I'm waiting for them to turn it back on for me (because I installed updates, and I guess the server just didn't come back up).
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Fiendish Dr. Wu posted:Anybody here with experience in butt OSX offerings? Got some developers that want/need an apple OS environment they can use and I was looking at a few (https://www.macstadium.com , https://www.macinbutt.com , https://www.xbutt.me , https://www.hostmyapple.com ). Just looking for some input from somebody that's done this. I did a pretty thorough comparison on those 4's offerings and they're all different in their own special snowflake way (pricing based on bandwidth, storage, dedicated server, etc) MacStadium looks to be the only real *legit* company, whereas the others look like little more than a basement business (could be wrong). I'm sorry, but my Butt to Butt plugin made your post amazing. http://www.xbutt.me.  
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I'm a littie dissapopinted that they didn't buy macinbutt.com and redirect to macincloud.com because it's gonna happen a billion times.
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FISHMANPET posted:I'm a littie dissapopinted that they didn't buy macinbutt.com and redirect to macincloud.com because it's gonna happen a billion times. "It was a million to one shot, doc"
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Fiendish Dr. Wu posted:Anybody here with experience in cloud OSX offerings? Got some developers that want/need an apple OS environment they can use and I was looking at a few (https://www.macstadium.com , https://www.macincloud.com , https://www.xcloud.me , https://www.hostmyapple.com ). Just looking for some input from somebody that's done this. I did a pretty thorough comparison on those 4's offerings and they're all different in their own special snowflake way (pricing based on bandwidth, storage, dedicated server, etc) MacStadium looks to be the only real *legit* company, whereas the others look like little more than a basement business (could be wrong). e: They also have a power management API, which sounds relevant to your current situation. Someone is also manning support 24x7. Vulture Culture fucked around with this message at 18:50 on Jul 6, 2015 |
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mayodreams posted:I'm sorry, but my Butt to Butt plugin made your post amazing. http://www.xbutt.me. This made me laugh too hard at my desk. That is amazing. MacInButt Vulture Culture posted:We're one of MacStadium's biggest customers, if not the biggest. They're a great company, a bunch of really hard-working guys. They have a lot of non-Mac hosting offerings at a really great price too, but they don't advertise them. Speak to Jason and tell him that Jeff from Rabbit referred you. If you're planning on more than a few boxes, he'll give you whatever you need to evaluate them. That's awesome to hear, thanks. I've already killed it twice (this time by simply enabling internet sharing for apache? wtf?) and am waiting on them to turn it back on. Pretty dumb. MacStadium was my pick for the one to with for the long haul. We have a mini here on prem that the devs used but they were asking about cloud (hehe butt) offerings, so I just signed up for HostMyApple to try some stuff out before messing with the devs mini. (also, RabbitMQ?)
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You still can't virtualize OS X per the licensing, correct? Are these hosting companies just warehousing stacks of mac minis and calling it the cloud?
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Erwin posted:You still can't virtualize OS X per the licensing, correct? Are these hosting companies just warehousing stacks of mac minis and calling it the cloud? Relevant: 
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(Unless they changed it) you can virtualize it in ESXi, as long as it's running on Apple hardware. Macstadium appears to offer true virtualized OSX running on Mac Pros, and others may as well, but some are also offering slices on MacMinis or MacPros or dedicated Macs. Apple is terrible.
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Erwin posted:You still can't virtualize OS X per the licensing, correct? Are these hosting companies just warehousing stacks of mac minis and calling it the cloud?  FISHMANPET posted:(Unless they changed it) you can virtualize it in ESXi, as long as it's running on Apple hardware. Macstadium appears to offer true virtualized OSX running on Mac Pros, and others may as well, but some are also offering slices on MacMinis or MacPros or dedicated Macs. Most of them offer dedicated mac mini's or pro's. At the moment, our dev's mini is sitting on somebody's desk. They can vpn into it and all that, but they're looking for something with redundancy, which I don't even think these "cloud" offerings can do that.
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Has anyone shipped IT equipment from USA to UK? I need to loan a stack of USA laptops to the UK, but I don't want them to think I'm like an importer or something and charge VAT tax. We already paid sales tax in the US for them. How would I go about sending a bulk package like that and who's the best for it between USPS/FedEx/UPS?
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FISHMANPET posted:(Unless they changed it) you can virtualize it in ESXi, as long as it's running on Apple hardware.
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Zero VGS posted:Has anyone shipped IT equipment from USA to UK? I need to loan a stack of USA laptops to the UK, but I don't want them to think I'm like an importer or something and charge VAT tax. We already paid sales tax in the US for them. How would I go about sending a bulk package like that and who's the best for it between USPS/FedEx/UPS? This isn't worth the hassle, in addition to the paperwork that needs to be filled out, the cost of the shipping, and going through customs and paying VAT, they could buy cheap laptops in the UK there and throw them in the trash when they're done. I work for a big global company, and it is almost never worth it to buy something in the US and ship it somewhere else after fees, duties, customs, taxes, etc. We did ship a bunch of equipment from the US to Costa Rica, but we used a service to handle that. It was a few pallets worth of stuff and was expensive as poo poo. But for our global locations like Hong Kong, Brazil, UK, France, we buy stuff for those offices, in those countries. It's much easier.
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Zero VGS posted:Has anyone shipped IT equipment from USA to UK? I need to loan a stack of USA laptops to the UK, but I don't want them to think I'm like an importer or something and charge VAT tax. We already paid sales tax in the US for them. How would I go about sending a bulk package like that and who's the best for it between USPS/FedEx/UPS? https://www.gov.uk/temporary-admission
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Zero VGS posted:Has anyone shipped IT equipment from USA to UK? I need to loan a stack of USA laptops to the UK, but I don't want them to think I'm like an importer or something and charge VAT tax. We already paid sales tax in the US for them. How would I go about sending a bulk package like that and who's the best for it between USPS/FedEx/UPS? confirming with skipdogg that this is a giant pain in the dick.
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BaseballPCHiker posted:I've seen some of their demo's and am leaning towards replacing an aging ASA with a something from Palo Alto. In your experience how is their pricing compared to Cisco? Do they break down features to separate licenses and then charge you a ton depending on what you want or is it more of a pay for it all type deal? The line items were the box, premium support services, threat prevention subscriptions, URL filtering subscriptions.
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I have an entry-level career question. Basically, I'm looking for opinions or recommendations on what to aim for given my background. I'm open to anything IT (or CS) related. I have a master's in education (counseling), which means I'm close to becoming a licensed psychologist. i don't have any IT experience except for odd jobs and personal experience. Is there any occupation at all where an advanced psychology degree and/or a license would be instrumental? I would prefer not to abandon all that investment... Perhaps 'user experience'? If so, how would you suggest I enter into that? Start at a help desk and try to jump toward that? Certs? Should I just learn programming and pray? And now for a question with hubris: if I just cared about money, what sort of career path in IT would you suggest? I'm mostly just curious, money is only a fraction of why I want to career change. Edit: VVVV Damnit. That sounds great. Tenacious J fucked around with this message at 00:18 on Jul 7, 2015 |
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Tenacious J posted:I have an entry-level career question. Basically, I'm looking for opinions or recommendations on what to aim for given my background. I'm open to anything IT (or CS) related. You were born a century too early: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robopsychology
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Those sound like really baller skills for a product manager to have if you can back that with the requisite business and marketing acumen.
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Tenacious J posted:I have an entry-level career question. Basically, I'm looking for opinions or recommendations on what to aim for given my background. I'm open to anything IT (or CS) related. Tenacious J posted:Perhaps 'user experience'? If so, how would you suggest I enter into that? Start at a help desk and try to jump toward that? Certs? Should I just learn programming and pray? Tenacious J posted:And now for a question with hubris: if I just cared about money, what sort of career path in IT would you suggest? I'm mostly just curious, money is only a fraction of why I want to career change.
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I appreciate the replies. I wouldn't call myself a great designer so perhaps UX is out then. I agree about the money. I'll do some digging into product management - I haven't looked into that yet, thanks. I'm really not shy about putting in some time to learn, I'd just rather avoid more post-secondary. A minimum wage help desk job while I self-teach is fine by me so long at the trajectory points in a fitting and comfortable direction.
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The very open term "cyber security" is about all I deal with any more. The ffiec is about 100% focused on that! and whatever agencies regulate medical firms probably are too. Learn about log management and aggregation and policy writing and you'll be able to find work.
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Erwin posted:Xserves were actually very pretty. It's a shame Apple stopped making them. Ugh. Yeah they were pretty, but anything where you can eject a disk by accidentally pushing on a large portion of the front of the server is just not designed by someone with any experience of how business IT functions. Case in point, my onsite tech a few days ago, when instructed to remove an old ESXi host, informed me a few minutes later that he'd pulled power on the wrong host. The one that was temporarily hosting all the VMs at that client.  Basically, make it easy for people to gently caress up and they will. Form should never trump function in servers of all goddamn things. (And because I don't particularly like Xserves, naturally I still have to support two of them running 10.5 and 10.6 hosting a lovely Sharepoint clone my client paid a fast-talking Mac zealot developer $1m to create. Actually one Xserve, the other one won't boot now. Why were they different editions of OSX? No clue! Especially since the point was that one would be a hot standby. Luckily that's the one that died. I can't wait for the other one to croak).
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Potato Alley posted:Ugh. Yeah they were pretty, but anything where you can eject a disk by accidentally pushing on a large portion of the front of the server is just not designed by someone with any experience of how business IT functions. Absolutely form over function. That reminds me that at the job where we had Xserves, they would sag under their own weight after a while in the rack. 
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