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Japanese Dating Sim posted:Working in academia on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving is nice. Faculty don't come in, which means their support staff don't come in, which means I have ??? to work on. Today is the day you hope something breaks terribly. That way its not the end of the world, its just an awesome challenge.
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22 Eargesplitten posted:I think people in here say twice your normal hourly rate, for the trouble of dealing with your own taxes and it not being stable work. Double? Quadruple if it's not like a 3-month, 4 hour a week project
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Nov 24, 2015 19:58
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Independent contracting/consulting is not "printing your own money" like people sometimes seem to think here. Unless you have very specific company, industry, or even technical experience, you don't exist in a vacuum so there is always someone willing to undercut you. So at least in my opinion there is no one flat multiplier. Like a job search, evaluate your competition as best you can and give a number that makes sense for you, knowing the higher you go the higher the chance of them saying no or finding someone else.
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Nov 24, 2015 20:08
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Moving on to the second phase of recabling the server room I'm focusing on cables between pieces of network equipment. There's a massive knot of blue cable hanging from the back of the rack so I started untangling it to find that it's actually four cables that run from the primary rack to the rack in the rear corner of the room. Found the end of a cable loom stuffed behind a cabinet that follows the same path. It has one cable in it that's not plugged into anything, and is zip tied closed every foot so as to discourage people from ever using it for something... useful. I measured the run and bought replacement cables of the proper length along with a pair of snips to denude this place of every goddamn zip tie I find. Racing the clock to see if I can completely clean up the server room's extensive cabling mess before they can me.
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Nov 24, 2015 21:03
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Dick Trauma posted:Racing the clock to see if I can completely clean up the server room's extensive cabling mess before they can me.  
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Nov 24, 2015 21:18
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Someone here can tell me... Does an Office 365 user need a Exchange Online license to send and receive from a shared mailbox?
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Nov 24, 2015 21:30
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Tab8715 posted:Someone here can tell me... Does an Office 365 user need a Exchange Online license to send and receive from a shared mailbox? Yes
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Nov 24, 2015 21:39
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Dick Trauma posted:Racing the clock to see if I can completely clean up the server room's extensive cabling mess before they can me. Haha why? gently caress that place if they are going to can you.
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Nov 24, 2015 22:54
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quote:I am willing to pay you to log in remotely and hold my hand through the process I just want to make sure I get it right, plus one of my interfaces on the ASA is not allowing out side internet connection.
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Nov 24, 2015 23:39
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Methanar posted:outside internet connection Well to be fair, he didn't say NONE of the interfaces are allowing an outside connection. And in fact, if one interface is outside facing and is up, and he's trying to open another interface to the same outside network for some stupid reason, there's his problem. You should still probably charge $300 / hr here just to be safe though.
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Nov 24, 2015 23:43
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I'm looking in to this New Relic thing for a potential job and while the server monitoring is neat and fast (at least compared to what we use at work), I don't have any web apps or web sites to monitor to check out that portion of the package. Don't suppose anyone knows of a python or ruby webapp that scrapes data or does stuff or something that I can install? Or some server thing that gets put under load.. Maybe I should set up a personal news group downloader thing..
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Nov 25, 2015 01:08
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This Amazon "leak"... how is it not a bigger deal? Is it one of those "evidence of no problem" would be impossible, so better play safe if "no evidence of problem" and reset passwords, even if perhaps unnecessary?
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Nov 25, 2015 03:07
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Alfajor posted:This Amazon "leak"... how is it not a bigger deal? Because odds are that its due to an Amazon owned mobile app somehow not securing itself properly, and then Amazon security finding out about it, and then just force resetting the passwords of anyone who used the app from date X to date Y on the off chance that something bad happened. Or, something similar to that effect. Some users are getting "reset your password" emails, not all users. If Amazon's central storage for credentials were compromised, that would be a huge deal and the response would be different.
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(Pretty much DNS job/team related) Is anyone here an DNS guru for a big corp (20k+ employees) Corporate DNS team job? I'm planning on joining a major [redacted]'s DNS team of about 6-8... From what I can see their 2 big projects are setting up Anycast BGP - between our data centers across our [redacted] country, and consolidation our like 10-15 DNS environments into a couple of InfoBlox Devices (including our Data Centers 8 diff versions of [redacted] (since it was designed by like 4-5 diff teams... One of the teams decided to name reverse zone files at "arpa.A.B.C in the ./forward folder... (no reverse folder exists :negativeman: ) instead of C.B.A.in-addr.arpa (which makes delegating a bitch when customer wants the DNS delegated to their servers, and has it setup on his server as the C.B.A.in-addr.arpa... Also if anyone is on a Big Company DNS team -- What type are certs/skill level are required... I've been pretty much a bind/named/MS DNS (  ) / for 10+ yearMy Skills: Python/Shell scripting is fine/intermediate, but I can make some nice scripts such as massive FCrDNS to see if these are still required/active customers. Example: Not sure where my Syntax is loving up code:The new manager told me they want CCIE for the SR Role... I just have my CCNP... I'm well versed in Wireshark-analyzing, Captures/Everything DNS (Except Anycast BGP though I have a much larger grasp, and it makes a lot of sense to me since our Mega Data Centers are spread across our Data Centers, and our corporate network is  as our internal networks routes to One coast, retrieves data, then sends it back all the way to the other coast... for every action (outside our OOB Network)Any advice would be great, as I basically just want to work in a specialized DNS department... and it's pretty much one of the few things left I enjoy in IT.... and Automating my Tasks with scripts 
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Nov 25, 2015 07:42
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Japanese Dating Sim posted:Generally speaking - Rackspace, yay or nay? It seems like an okay place to work but their stock price has been hit hard and revenue decreasing quarter after quarter. Hopefully, with their recent partnerships things will turn around or maybe a buyout will come to fruition. Which may certainly shake things up if you do become employed.
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For those of you who work in the software development side of IT (i.e. the part that tends not be discussed so much in this thread), I made a thread for you here so that we can talk about how the guys running our servers are a bunch of  (i love server guys I promise please don't lynch me)
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Nov 25, 2015 16:59
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Hirez posted:Any advice would be great, as I basically just want to work in a specialized DNS department... and it's pretty much one of the few things left I enjoy in IT.... and Automating my Tasks with scripts Sounds like you'd be a great fit and a lot of people don't know DNS beyond the hosts file and A/CNAME Records. The only thing I'd be curious about is if take this job, invest 2-3 years into and you get laid off - how difficult will it be to find another DNS technical role? Not that I'm saying I wouldn't take a job because it might be difficult to find one but it's something you probably be aware of.
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It's amazing how much you can get done when you throw caution to the wind and just power poo poo through in production. Who needs testing anyway?  
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Collateral Damage posted:It's amazing how much you can get done when you throw caution to the wind and just power poo poo through in production. Who needs testing anyway? Last time someone said "gently caress testing" at my work we lost 48k in revenue.
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Nov 25, 2015 22:37
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Kashuno posted:Last time someone said "gently caress testing" at my work we lost 48k in revenue. Yeah but just consider that 48k worth of on the job training and divide it by the number of people involved. Its a bargain!
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Kashuno posted:Last time someone said "gently caress testing" at my work we lost 48k in revenue.
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Collateral Damage posted:It's amazing how much you can get done when you throw caution to the wind and just power poo poo through in production. Who needs testing anyway?  And a little bit of holiday cheer / liquid courage 
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Nov 25, 2015 23:09
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poo poo I want a glass that says that with my company logo.
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Nov 26, 2015 01:03
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Virigoth posted:poo poo I want a glass that says that with my company logo. Glencairn makes them for you. If you can get them to return your emails. Costs around $8/glass with shipping from Scotland. ($10 for low qty, $7 for high qty.)
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Nov 26, 2015 01:29
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H110Hawk posted:Glencairn makes them for you. If you can get them to return your emails. Costs around $8/glass with shipping from Scotland. ($10 for low qty, $7 for high qty.) If they come with USB it could be the next goon purchase.
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Virigoth posted:poo poo I want a glass that says that with my company logo. Same. That glass is glorious  Thinking of buying those for my teammates as a Christmas gift...
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I remember a while back in one of these thread a utilization of 70% or so was cited as being optimal for sysadmins. Does anyone have any documentation showing this? I need this for a school project, TIA
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KennyTheFish posted:If they come with USB it could be the next goon purchase. I've thought about suggesting a custom pint glass with a witty saying/image printed on it for the next round of SHSC goon collectables, but was worried about the shipping logistics. Not sure what we'd put on it, my skills as an ideas woman pretty much end when it comes to creative writing. Sirotan fucked around with this message at 04:11 on Nov 26, 2015 |
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Nov 26, 2015 04:07
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It could be the larches memorial edition: "it doesn't concern you"
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JHVH-1 posted:Yeah but just consider that 48k worth of on the job training and divide it by the number of people involved. Its a bargain!
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Vulture Culture posted:But then there was that time a test plan went wrong and Knight Capital lost $500,000,000 and went out of business Did the Knight Rider get repossessed? 
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KennyTheFish posted:If they come with USB it could be the next goon purchase. USB drink stirrer? What? Try more booze in your diet.
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RFC2324 posted:I remember a while back in one of these thread a utilization of 70% or so was cited as being optimal for sysadmins. My brain isn't a CPU man.
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RFC2324 posted:I remember a while back in one of these thread a utilization of 70% or so was cited as being optimal for sysadmins. Does anyone have any documentation showing this? In highly complex organizations and projects, this can lead to a form of gridlock, where a circular dependency is introduced and it becomes literally unresolvable without someone stepping in and changing the parameters of the project. Here's a useful visual aid using traffic as a metaphor for throughput:  (All of the buses are unable to move, because each bus is blocked into the intersection by other buses going a different direction. Traffic will not move in any direction until someone decides to take an alternate route.) I don't know about any 70% number, but it sounds like the kind of rule of thumb that Thomas Limoncelli would use. Maybe it was in Time Management for System Administrators? Vulture Culture fucked around with this message at 17:55 on Nov 26, 2015 |
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Nov 26, 2015 17:51
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Typical rush hour in Vancouver tbh
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Vulture Culture posted:I don't know about any 70% number, but it sounds like the kind of rule of thumb that Thomas Limoncelli would use. Maybe it was in Time Management for System Administrators? I'm not really qualified to go into depth on the math, but it comes from queuing theory. One of the basic queues M/M/1 has a knee at around 70%. At that point you start getting proportionally more stretch factor than you gain in throughput. It's not safe to assume that your queue will be equivalent to M/M/1 though, so your mileage may vary.
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Vulture Culture posted:But then there was that time a test plan went wrong and Knight Capital lost $500,000,000 and went out of business I am still so pissed I didn't grab a whole stack of KCG mousepads when I had the chance. (I spilled beer on the only one I took )
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:I'm not really qualified to go into depth on the math, but it comes from queuing theory.
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Vulture Culture posted:Let's say, hypothetically, that this reply made me really interested in learning queuing theory. Where's a good place to start for someone whose last serious college math class was ten years ago? College algebra or college-level stats? Did you have any calculus? My own experience with queueing was very limited since I did more calc and physics but I want to say it was heavily rooted in statistics (probabilities and expectations). Resource sharing and scheduling are more general areas that you'll need some bits of, so bust out that operating systems theory book, too.
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keseph posted:College algebra or college-level stats? Did you have any calculus? I'm really intimately familiar with how things like resource sharing and scheduling work at a practical implementation level, but I've glossed over the theory until this point.
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