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One of the supercars crashed into the server room. Or Tony just got a job there.
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I believe that was just a turn of phrase with regards to the previous poster.
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Ugh, I just saw a lawsuit settlement in my company's future. A customer service rep was just fired a day after putting in her FMLA paperwork to schedule paternity leave while being 8 months pregnant. No write ups, no discipline of any kind after 4 years. She also happens to be a minority. Even if she did something stupid it would seem like only an idiot would fire her now and not wait until after her leave. I bet the settlement is going to eat a chunk of my 2017 expansion budget!!!
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Aug 3, 2015 23:58
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Sickening posted:paternity leave while being 8 months pregnant And a Transgender as well, wow.
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Aug 4, 2015 00:10
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Sickening posted:Ugh, I just saw a lawsuit settlement in my company's future. A customer service rep was just fired a day after putting in her FMLA paperwork to schedule paternity leave while being 8 months pregnant. No write ups, no discipline of any kind after 4 years. She also happens to be a minority. Jesus, how can they be that stupid. That's about as smart as the new VP of Engineering right before my dad retired. My dad used to use those little tape recorders for all meetings so he could transcribe notes later and then annotate them with ideas he wrote down during the meeting. The new VP flat out said, "we're getting rid of our older engineers because they cost too much and younger engineers are cheap". A call to his lawyer, a couple meetings with HR, and my dad walked out with a huge severance, an early retirement package a few months later. The absolutely golden thing was, he joined a small engineering consultancy and one of his first contracts was at that company, doing the same thing for almost twice as much.
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Aug 4, 2015 00:17
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baquerd posted:And a Transgender as well, wow.  
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Aug 4, 2015 00:27
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RadicalR posted:Welp, this sounds like a good story. Are you okay? Haha I'm fine, I'm fine. I was referring to the counter-offer story! It's paraphrased from Blade Runner. When you're ready to leave you need to just leave. Counter-offers are poison. 22 Eargesplitten posted:One of the supercars crashed into the server room. Or Tony just got a job there. This drab thing paid a visit today. 
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Aug 4, 2015 00:40
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Dick Trauma posted:Haha I'm fine, I'm fine. I was referring to the counter-offer story! It's paraphrased from Blade Runner. When you're ready to leave you need to just leave. Counter-offers are poison. You've been through so much, anytime you say anything negative it triggers half the thread.
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Aug 4, 2015 01:23
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The Fool posted:You've been through so much, anytime you say anything negative it triggers half the thread. More like "any time you say something negative, we assume it has to be even worse than the earlier stories if you're complaining about it now".
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Aug 4, 2015 02:47
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Sickening posted:Ugh, I just saw a lawsuit settlement in my company's future. A customer service rep was just fired a day after putting in her FMLA paperwork to schedule paternity leave while being 8 months pregnant. No write ups, no discipline of any kind after 4 years. She also happens to be a minority. hahaha oh dear god that wont go well
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Aug 4, 2015 03:54
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My boss gave up after spending four hours this morning trying to figure out how to get AD sync working with FreeRADIUS. He walked out of his office and declared that Linux was worthless because they "change things all the time" since "they let anybody change the code." Coworker: Why does the Linux company let so many bugs in? Why do they do it free? Boss: There's not just one company called "Linux," there are lots of companies: Red Hat, CentOS, Ubanto . . . I really need to get out of here.
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Aug 4, 2015 03:54
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Sickening posted:Ugh, I just saw a lawsuit settlement in my company's future. A customer service rep was just fired a day after putting in her FMLA paperwork to schedule paternity leave while being 8 months pregnant. No write ups, no discipline of any kind after 4 years. She also happens to be a minority. Lots of people get screwed like this and don't sue.
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Aug 4, 2015 03:58
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beepsandboops posted:My boss gave up after spending four hours this morning trying to figure out how to get AD sync working with FreeRADIUS. He walked out of his office and declared that Linux was worthless because they "change things all the time" since "they let anybody change the code." im assuming you mean ubuntu, in which case don't all of those guys just run edited versions of Linux? I can understand how someone would look at all the different versions and just go "man, I hate those Linux guys" especially without a deeper understanding of what Linux really even is
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Aug 4, 2015 04:17
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Dick Trauma posted:Haha I'm fine, I'm fine. I was referring to the counter-offer story! It's paraphrased from Blade Runner. When you're ready to leave you need to just leave. Counter-offers are poison.
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Luna Was Here posted:im assuming you mean ubuntu, in which case don't all of those guys just run edited versions of Linux? I can understand how someone would look at all the different versions and just go "man, I hate those Linux guys" especially without a deeper understanding of what Linux really even is I mean, no. Linux is just the kernel, but that's pedantic. They all run slightly different kernel configurations (but that's pretty invisible to most software, and Ubuntu's linux-3.10 isn't that different from Fedora's, just some different checkboxes, basically). They all also run slightly different versions of the standard C library and openssl and everything else. Arch Linux's openssl probably uses different compile-time options than Debian's, and Debian (in particular, which carries through to Mint and Ubuntu) tends to carry a lot of distro-specific patches for various things. Software packages for SuSE may depend on libfoo.so.6 instead of libfoo.so.5, and crash or need a rebuild on Slackware (or for libfoo.so.6 to be installed). .so files are sort of comparable to .DLLs The software packaging philosophy in Linux is very different from Windows and OSX. But in general, FreeRADIUS 2.0 (or whatever) is identical across distros. There are a bunch of potential changes underneath it, but you won't see or have to know about those. Firefox, MySQL, Apache, and everything else (including the standard C libraries and openssl and whatever provides libfoo) are the same, and functionality/config file syntax/etc isn't changed across distros. Location might be (/etc/apache2 vs /etc/httpd is the big difference), but nginx is nginx. His boss misread how it works, and blamed philosophical slapfights for a failure to make a well-documented procedure which has nothing to do with distros (freeradius backed by ldap/ad) work. Also, all of those projects have well-defined development models. "Anybody" isn't committing code to freeradius and getting it packaged in Debian or rhel without reviews from the freeradius people, then the maintainer of the freeradius package on that distro, then the qa team for that package on that distro
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They didn't even offer me a counter offer.  I expressed that I was concerned with moving to SoCal because of the company burning cash, and all i got was just a bunch of "Well we have contracts coming soon" and "our industry is growing!"I am giving my two weeks later today. 
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Aug 4, 2015 18:30
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A voicemail from a pretty low-level person came in that's pissing me off. "Hey, vibur, I know you had your carpal tunnel surgery this morning but my computer is flipping out and I need it to work so could you fix it?" What part of "only responding to catastrophic, system-wide emergencies until Thursday" did you not understand? Also - flipping out? How about some details there, chief?
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Aug 4, 2015 19:17
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For the love of god don't respond to that until Thursday, otherwise nothing you say will carry any weight for the rest of time.
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Aug 4, 2015 19:18
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:For the love of god don't respond to that until Thursday, otherwise nothing you say will carry any weight for the rest of time.
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Aug 4, 2015 19:31
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ratbert90 posted:They didn't even offer me a counter offer. Good poo poo either way.
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Aug 4, 2015 21:43
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ratbert90 posted:"Well we have contracts coming soon" Oh, no, why did I bet the company payroll? Oh, Gil's in a lot of trouble. 
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Aug 4, 2015 22:06
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PIssing me off: Work ordered a bunch of poo poo-tier Asus laptops with Win8.1 that according to an email I saw, are to be all recalled. Recalled not due to safety or quality issues, but due to Asus doing some dodgy deal on Win8.1 licences and inability to upgrade to Win10 for specific models. I am not sure of the details, but all Asus F553MA-BING-SX985B models are being recalled nationwide. Not pissing me off: We will be getting some decent laptops now.
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Aug 5, 2015 02:21
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Pissing me off: VmWare ontop of UCS ontop of auto-tiered storage Let's play find the issue in 10000 layers of abstraction We can go deeper. TBH really only auto-tiering is pissing me off. 
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If that's the wrong way to do it then I'm doing it wrong too, because that's exactly how I have my poo poo set up. Just give me a SAN with a 3 tiers (flash SAS and NLSAS), couple of UCS chassis with blades, and throw ESXi on everything in sight, and I'm done by lunch. Hell I was done by like 10am today, and spent the rest of the day wondering why Castlevania 3's controls are less responsive than Castlevania 2's.
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SSH IT ZOMBIE posted:TBH really only auto-tiering is pissing me off.
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:Hell I was done by like 10am today, and spent the rest of the day wondering why Castlevania 3's controls are less responsive than Castlevania 2's. So you can repeatedly die to medusas in the stupid tower level. But at least 3 didn't practically require a copy of Nintendo Power to find the flame whip
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Vyatta. Nothing else to be said. It is pissing me off.
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evol262 posted:So you can repeatedly die to medusas in the stupid tower level. But at least 3 didn't practically require a copy of Nintendo Power to find the flame whip
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Aunt Beth posted:Whose storage are you using? EMC, VNX (maybe VNX 2), I'm not the storage engineer. I'm just not a fan of it. Users sip data. Infrastructure poison like reporting, ETLs, environment copies of applications, etc cause super high IO but performance doesn't need to be necessarily high, a lot of it is scheduled tasks. What ends up happening is those workloads end up on your best disk, your C drives and user data on slow disk. Then your VmWare snapshot based backups kick off. Your array's storage processors all peg out at near 100%, all your FC switch ports max out, VMWare snapshots start taking too long to consolidate while those ETLs are running, it decides to stun VMs. Hundreds of applications begin getting knocked offline. Systems begin hardlocking with IO failures in your event logs. This becomes a normal occurrence. It's pretty clear we're overcommitted on IO. No one wants to admit it. A bit of shuffling stuff around isn't going to save us. But honestly auto-tiering is a double edged sword, you really have to be careful what you put on it. All your systems need to play nice, no pigs, or if you are putting a resource hog on autotiering, it better be for on-demand use. Otherwise you're going to waste your best disk. SSH IT ZOMBIE fucked around with this message at 05:23 on Aug 5, 2015 |
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Thing that's pissing me off: Due to a headache I'm not very productive today, and I can't even hop on IRC for some idle goony banter since I powered down my VMware server at home to swap out a graphics card, and then I went to bed without swapping the card and powering the server on again, my "random poo poo"-server I run the IRC from is offline and can't be switched on until I get home. I'm just about ready to give up and go home, but I've got a sort-of important meeting at 13:00. 
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Crowley posted:Thing that's pissing me off: Due to a headache I'm not very productive today, and I can't even hop on IRC for some idle goony banter since I powered down my VMware server at home to swap out a graphics card, and then I went to bed without swapping the card and powering the server on again, my "random poo poo"-server I run the IRC from is offline and can't be switched on until I get home. Mibbit, yo. It's what all the cool kids use.
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Crowley posted:Thing that's pissing me off: Due to a headache I'm not very productive today, and I can't even hop on IRC for some idle goony banter since I powered down my VMware server at home to swap out a graphics card, and then I went to bed without swapping the card and powering the server on again, my "random poo poo"-server I run the IRC from is offline and can't be switched on until I get home. Spin up a digitalocean vm?
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Crowley posted:Thing that's pissing me off: Due to a headache I'm not very productive today, and I can't even hop on IRC for some idle goony banter since I powered down my VMware server at home to swap out a graphics card, and then I went to bed without swapping the card and powering the server on again, my "random poo poo"-server I run the IRC from is offline and can't be switched on until I get home. I’d vote for linode, but regardless, it’s all about the cloud. Maintaining a home server for remote access is for suckers, even before you factor in the electricity costs and how unreliable residential ISPs are about downtime and static IPs.
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poo poo pissing me off: customers with no ability to cope with things not going exactly right 100% of the time. poo poo breaks when you make changes to core network infrastructure, which is why we do this poo poo during maintenance windows and why we have provisions in place to roll back in the event something isn't working. And if you didn't bother getting upper management to approve a maintenance outage and to send out an email telling your users to deal with it, then that's on you.
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Wibla posted:Spin up a digitalocean vm? Digitalocean sales rep please go
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Ursine Asylum posted:I’d vote for linode, but regardless, it’s all about the cloud. Maintaining a home server for remote access is for suckers, even before you factor in the electricity costs and how unreliable residential ISPs are about downtime and static IPs. i dunno the cost to get a vps thats equal to my newish xeon e3 server with 32gb of ram would be way more per month then electricity and the internet here is pretty stable. Depends on where one lives I guess.
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Stealthgerbil posted:i dunno the cost to get a vps thats equal to my newish xeon e3 server with 32gb of ram would be way more per month then electricity and the internet here is pretty stable. Depends on where one lives I guess. This. I have a lot of crap running on my home server, it sips power and my residential Comcast has been fine. Hell, I have had the same IP since I moved almost 2 years ago.
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The machine running the ESX host is an old Dell XPS 420 on a 90 Mbit fiber. I suppose it would be cheaper to host it online, but I like being able to toss up a new guest when I want to fiddle, and it hosts my SSL tunnel, media library, and Crowley Jr.'s Minecraft server too.
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psydude posted:poo poo pissing me off: customers with no ability to cope with things not going exactly right 100% of the time. poo poo breaks when you make changes to core network infrastructure, which is why we do this poo poo during maintenance windows and why we have provisions in place to roll back in the event something isn't working. And if you didn't bother getting upper management to approve a maintenance outage and to send out an email telling your users to deal with it, then that's on you. Ayup. People switching to our CRM from their old one. Things are different. Don't have your callers submitting 300 tickets for features we don't have, that you KNEW we didn't have, and yet decided didn't matter. Especially when we have an alternative that actually works better.
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