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Nothing like waiting until the day before you want to start making snow to turn on the controller PC and find out it won't boot. Thanks snowmaking team! E: Oh ffs! I asked when it was last booted up, he said "We tried a couple weeks ago but it was doing the same thing so we just shut it off."
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abigserve posted:Are you saying IT departments/IT infrastructure should be abolished or what? If so I think I agree Security can be one of those existential threats, especially if some very important work-in-progress is compromised. But making things too difficult for the users will just result in them moving someplace with less friction, where you have zero control and zero visibility. Everyone loses.
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Erwin posted:Or they can use one of several remote desktop apps on the app store that support a Remote Desktop Gateway, including the one from Microsoft. Right - but then it's "Where's my keyboard? Where's my mouse? I can't see poo poo on my iPhone! blah blah blah"
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Drunk Badger posted:I got a random recruiter email for a security position that seems interesting to pull me from my current job. I'm happy enough where I am to stay if it doesn't turn out to be a good move so I'm fine with moving on if there's some catch, but since this is my first time communicating with a recruiter, what should I look out for? All I know at the moment is that it's a 6 month w2 contract to hire. If you have the information, look up the actual company you'll be working for on Glassdoor and Indeed. Those sites have been very helpful during my recent job hunt.
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Bob Morales posted:Right - but then it's "Where's my keyboard? Where's my mouse? I can't see poo poo on my iPhone! blah blah blah" http://www.logitech.com/en-us/product/multi-device-keyboard-k480?crid=27 And you should be able to zoom.
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Basic or dumb networking question, how come when I perform a trace route from one VM to another on a different subnet I don't see the default gateway? Example, I enter "traceroute VM2" into the console of VM1. The network is 192.168.0.0/25 with VM1 192.168.0.2 and VM2 192.168.1.128. What I'm expecting to see is 192.168.0.1 as the first hop since this is the default gateway but what's return from the console is just that it got to VM2 immediately. What am I missing here? Disclaimer, this is over Hyper-v so I'm wondering if there's some bizarre virt networking things that are being applied but seeing a deviation from the typical ipv4 stack/rfcs/osi model is very weird...
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What's a good way of determining how much I should be making given the work I currently do and my work experience? I'm currently being underpaid for Angular + Django app dev for a Japanese IT consulting company in LA county (this includes daily use of Japanese for communicating with my boss). Before this I worked as a sysadmin/network admin/helpdesk monkey for a small company for three years, and before that back in college I worked for one of the administrative IT departments for four years. I know I'm worth a lot more than I'm making now, but I'm curious by how much. I've tried Glassdoor but salaries were all over the board so I wasn't sure how to parse all that info. And it doesn't help that I'm totally a jack-of-all-trades: I've been able to quickly pick up things as I go but I haven't yet found my niche. As a result I've found myself adapting to whatever IT-oriented opportunities I've found thus far. That said I think I've finally admitted to myself that app development is more my forte so I'll probably continue down that path for the foreseeable future.
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Nov 12, 2015 03:50
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Tab8715 posted:Basic or dumb networking question, how come when I perform a trace route from one VM to another on a different subnet I don't see the default gateway? How is VM2 192.168.1.128? Isn't the network 192.168.1.128/25 with the first addressable as 192.168.1.129?
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Nov 12, 2015 04:07
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Karthe posted:What's a good way of determining how much I should be making given the work I currently do and my work experience? Interview. Give salary requirements in line with what you think you'd be happy with. See how it goes. Maybe you're grossly underpaid. Maybe you're a little underpaid. Maybe not at all. We don't know how much you make, your experience level, or your skill level with anything. Go feel out the market. Getting fixated on the idea that you "should" be making some amount of money (which will probably be a little inflated, and which you may not get anyway if you're a bad negotiator, interviewer, or not as good as you think you are) isn't a great idea.
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My boss has been reading a lot of business-y self-help books (stuff like the 4 Hour Work Week) and relaying them to me. This week, he was lecturing me on how to control how people contact you, and to do it on your own terms. As an example of this, he pointed out an email he'd recently sent. It was an all-staff email that included his personal cell number in it 
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beepsandboops posted:My boss has been reading a lot of business-y self-help books (stuff like the 4 Hour Work Week) and relaying them to me. This week, he was lecturing me on how to control how people contact you, and to do it on your own terms. I guess there's something to be said about controlling your interactions throughout the day. Time Management for System Administrators goes into it quite a bit.
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Nov 12, 2015 06:34
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Karthe posted:What's a good way of determining how much I should be making given the work I currently do and my work experience? I'm currently being underpaid for Angular + Django app dev for a Japanese IT consulting company in LA county (this includes daily use of Japanese for communicating with my boss). Before this I worked as a sysadmin/network admin/helpdesk monkey for a small company for three years, and before that back in college I worked for one of the administrative IT departments for four years. If you're a bilingual developer, I sincerely hope you're making at least six figures. I'm a general network security admin (SIEM/firewall/network) and I'm already inching toward that myself. I have an associate's degree. Take that as you will.
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our security guy knows what's up. Beer and pizza make any Incident Response, Business Continuity, and Disaster Recovery policies meeting more tolerable.
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Tab8715 posted:Basic or dumb networking question, how come when I perform a trace route from one VM to another on a different subnet I don't see the default gateway? If they're on the same host and configured to do so, most hypervisors won't actually spit the packet out onto the wire expecting it to be reflected right back. They'll route it via a local loop back not only because doing so is faster but also because many network devices will refuse to reflect packets as an anti-DOS mechanism. Additionally, some routers will just drop TTL-expired packets without sending an ICMP response (or the ICMP response can be blocked by another firewall) as an attack/probing protection. While this wouldn't cause you to see the 1-hop response, it would explain apparent black holes in your route or not seeing an expected device in the route. flosofl posted:How is VM2 192.168.1.128? Isn't the network 192.168.1.128/25 with the first addressable as 192.168.1.129? They're on different subnets so they could have different subnet lengths, regardless the 128 is assignable and only really old legacy devices expect the "network" address to be reserved. keseph fucked around with this message at 21:07 on Nov 12, 2015 |
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keseph posted:If they're on the same host and configured to do so, most hypervisors won't actually spit the packet out onto the wire expecting it to be reflected right back. They'll route it via a local loop back not only because doing so is faster but also because many network devices will refuse to reflect packets as an anti-DOS mechanism.  Is there a way to prove this behavior is occurring? I suppose I could just snoop the loopback interface or is there something in the local routing table that'll show this behavior?
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Tab8715 posted:
It won't touch the routing table at all. Or loopback. It'll pass through the virtual switch. You could set up mirroring there, but the easiest way to "prove" it is that virtual switch traffic is CPU bound, and will exceed physical speeds. Do a trivial ftp transfer (of a large file) and clock it. It'll probably be 10G+ on a gigabit "adapter"
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After much tweaking I've boiled the projects part of my prospective budget down to a handful of highly simplified Powerpoint slides. No feedback yet from my boss if this is at all what she was hoping to see. My goal was to use verbiage that would direct them to at least do the minimum of what we need so she doesn't throw her hands up again and say "Looks like we aren't doing poo poo in 2016!" For O365 I presented only two options: Host email only, or get O365 e3. I'm hoping that they at least go with mail hosting. Replacing our 8 year old DC got its own slide and I didn't describe it as an option. I also did a slide for upgrading our Remote Desktop server and getting a proper gateway in place. The tough one is about getting our mail server hosted, and eventually our other VMs like Remote Desktop and the app server. Like the other projects I'm not presenting "do nothing" as an option, but comparing Azure, AWS and a hybrid hosted/local solution is difficult to do when the people making the decisions are pathologically averse to technological details. They want everything reduced to cost/benefit, small words, minimal bullet points and so I've rebuilt the slides over and over and I still don't think it's ready. In essence, I'm struggling with making it dumb enough for my boss.
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Dick Trauma posted:In essence, I'm struggling with making it dumb enough for my boss.
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Working in IT 3.0: In essence, I'm struggling with making it dumb enough for my boss.
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Dick Trauma posted:In essence, I'm struggling with making it dumb enough for my boss. I spent way too much time wrestling with this. When I lay out the implications of all the infrastructure changes we've made in the last year, I'm being too technical. When I boil it down to the bottom line, there's not enough detail. When I pick and choose, then it usually takes around 10 minutes for someone to start talking about the technical stuff I left out in a way that shows that they don't get it. My favorite was the preso I gave on how we were virtualizing Oracle. I thought it was pretty clear and comprehensive. I was encouraged by the lack of questions. A month later the DBAs asked me when the new farm would be ready. I asked what they meant. From my point of view, we were waiting on them to ask for new databases and servers, which would be built in the new VM stack. Nope. It turns out that they didn't know what virtualization was, and thought it meant that we were combining a bunch of physicals into one big superserver, and all they had to do was log into this magical 256-core, 8TB monstrosity, su to oracle, and start configuring databases.
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I'm hoping to get as much as possible out of the server room because my boss keeps emphasizing that disaster recovery is a priority. Our building is undergoing an annual power outage that is going to take all our services offline for about eight hours and people are up in arms about it. It was an opportunity for me to say "If we host services they aren't affected by what happens in our server room, or even our city." I don't want it to wind up like the last place where they were so obsessed with the phone system that I was told if it went offline for even five seconds I would be terminated. I want them to see that there are options that can be put into place now, before something happens that makes them freak out about their current recovery situation. It would help if my boss hadn't been canceling all our meetings the last eight months. 
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Nov 13, 2015 20:52
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Dick Trauma posted:I don't want it to wind up like the last place where they were so obsessed with the phone system that I was told if it went offline for even five seconds I would be terminated.
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 Holy poo poo. My boss just came to my office with the office manager in tow. She said we're firing five people today including the HR VP! She'd already told the office manager (of course) but at least she filled me in on it. No explanation. It's mostly lower level people but they're across several departments.The whole thing seems sudden and strange. Only one of them seems like they're redundant. The rest have real responsibilities. But I'm an outsider so I wouldn't be clued in to how much of this is performance related, or budgetary, or political. It also leaves me feeling even more that before long I'll be fired too. On the upside they said they're not going to be escorting people out of the building, and they're welcome to hang out and talk to their coworkers. But still... this is a small company and canning five people at HQ at once, including a department head is surprising. EDIT: Just let me get to a year so my resume still looks good.
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Dick Trauma posted:
Well the good news is that it shouldnt take you to long to update your resume. So you got that going for you.
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Nov 13, 2015 21:26
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haha, remember this? Dick Trauma posted:YOU FUCKERS
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Dick Trauma posted:Holy poo poo. As long as it's a layoff where multiple people are let go, it shouldn't affect you negatively as long as your story checks out. In the meantime, make sure you are cultivating meaningful relationships with different leaders there who can serve as references.
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No one talks to me here so I don't think that's going to happen. Might still get references from the bigwigs though, as long as firing me isn't punitive. I figure if I'm on the list they'll keep me so I can process this wave, and then cut me once it's done. They can go back to racking up scores of support hours from the MSP while floundering with no standards or accountability. EDIT: LET THE HEAD ROLLING BEGIN. HR VP is first.  EDIT2: She just came to talk to me briefly. Getting fired was a complete surprise to her. Not that I'm upset by it after how she treated me, but it makes me wonder that much more what's driving all these terminations. Dick Trauma fucked around with this message at 23:58 on Nov 13, 2015 |
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Poor DT. Can we just collectively find him a place to work that doesn't suck?
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presented without comment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZkAP-CQlhA
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psydude posted:Poor DT. Can we just collectively find him a place to work that doesn't suck? He doesn't have to worry about work anymore. He's living at a nice farm out in the country.
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mewse posted:He doesn't have to worry about work anymore. He's living at a nice farm out in the country.
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Fire Consumes Big Happy Farm Where Families Send Sick Dogs To Run Free And Play
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mewse posted:He doesn't have to worry about work anymore. He's living at a nice farm out in the country. More like a Village... 
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Dick Trauma posted:A whole buncha poo poo on this page Holy Jesus making GBS threads dick fucks. I will proofread your resume for free. Get the hell out. Please.
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Vulture Culture posted:presented without comment They've essentially murdered the squirrels or chipmunks who needed those for winter! THE BASTARDS!
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I wonder what sitting inches from a super high power microwave dish for months does to an acorn.
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Docjowles posted:I wonder what sitting inches from a super high power microwave dish for months does to an acorn. I'll give you a hint: it only took the squirrel one trip to fill it up this year.
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Docjowles posted:I wonder what sitting inches from a super high power microwave dish for months does to an acorn. On one hand, the acorns grow to the size of bowling balls. On the other, the squirrels can handle them just fine.
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Vulture Culture posted:presented without comment mmmm roasted nuts.
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