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pram posted:I just got this email To be fair 15 years Linux sysadmin is quite possible. that's around when Linux hit the mainstream.
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Danith posted:So last week I was sitting around doing things and my boss came up and said our remaining AIX system is now my baby, here's the root password, and the AIX admin has been let go. Check that it doesn't have telnet and ftp enabled by default in inetd in TYOL 2014 like the one I just set up a few months ago did 
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Che Delilas posted:At the end of the day, it's your call of course. But I'm telling you a Master's is a waste of time and money for breaking into this industry. You need basic ability to code and some basic knowledge of fundamentals, and you will learn specific poo poo on the job as you go. Try to get some more opinions of people who are actually working in the industry, and not just academics, too (in other words, don't just take my word for it). For what it's worth, I'm a senior software engineer and I have a (somewhat crappy) BA in History. I got here via networking and a part-time job at uni. (Easier when the industry's hot like in 1998 when I got my first job, but on the other hand we have a tech boom right now, soooo...) Once you've got that first job and have a bit of an industry track record, your degree doesn't matter at any place you'd actually want to work. Seriously.
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Fiendish Dr. Wu posted:Sql script works great on server - Push to git! Puppet agent grabs the file and tries to run it - fails! Copy file from local machine to server, run from powershell - fails! Errors out the rear end. hosed up invisible characters. IBM437 encoding? Copy raw text from git and save new sql query, run from powershell - success! Turns out git was changing our line endings by saving files with CR and not a CRLF. This did the trick https://help.github.com/articles/dealing-with-line-endings/ Just wanted to share this a-ha moment. In related news git is native to Linux rather than Windows. 
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ChickenWing posted:Hey, are application developers allowed in this thread or is it haraam for me to come in here and start talking about my Spring middletier and how vexing our backend guys are some times. I can't seem to find a "working in software development" megathread and i pine for a sense of community. Well, we do kind of have our own whole subforum in the Cavern of Cobol 
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Dick Trauma posted:When I saw "RFC 1918" my first thought was "Maybe it's the Treaty of Versailles!" That was 1919, fellow history degree haver 
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Dark Helmut posted:I'm 40 and played Q2 with my cube neighbors over IPX at a Fortune 500 company. And we had a dedicated gaming LAN behind a locked door where we played all the early halflife mods like CS and TF. Yeah - bear in mind a 40 year old now was born in 1975 and has therefore quite possibly been playing video games since they were a toddler. 
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CLAM DOWN posted:Uh I'm pretty sure this depends on where you are. If you terminate an employee here under normal circumstances, labour law requires you to pay them potentially a significant amount of severance if they've been around for a while. If they quit of their own accord, no compensation is required. Shocker, America is a dystopian corporate hellhole. I'm not sure I ever heard 'severance' in an American-company context.
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Sickening posted:One guy for example has his associates at a community college for an IT thing. Great! His graduation date was in 2011 and he doesn't have a job on his resume from then on. What did you do in that time? Were you chilling with the parents? Did you backpack Europe? Did you get locked up for smoking the green? Did you do work you weren't proud of? Jail?
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KillHour posted:So ~the future~ is Unix jails that have been around for decades? Except jails have never been completely isolated, the idea is containers can be. Run ps in a chroot and you see all processes on the system, not just stuff started within the chroot. If you're root in the chroot you can kill off non-chroot processes, etc. Containers do namespace magic so it really looks to a process like nothing exists outside its container.
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Tab8715 posted:For that have worked or are working at Amazon has anything changed since the the NYT Article-Fiasco? To be fair, Glassdoor for anywhere tends to be negative because people will only post there if they want to bitch (except when company management 'encourages' people to post positive reviews there, but that tends to be obvious  )
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adorai posted:While I do not advocate age discrimination, I do believe that hiring a 20 something for senior anything is worth at least some additional scrutiny. I remember when I was 26, and while I didn't exactly have poor judgement then, I know that it has only gone up from that point. Honestly, hiring a manager in a diner shows poor judgement on its own. At least do it in a formal setting so that the future subordinates know the interview wasn't just a sham. My second job out of college, I was a 'senior software engineer' at 22. Because everyone at the company was a senior software engineer, because it helped when dealing with people at other companies sometimes who might get snooty about talking to a junior guy. Granted, the company was only like 14 people so it's easier to do that kind of thing.
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22 Eargesplitten posted:This technology company doesn't allow .docx resumes to be uploaded. On a scale of 1-10 how much should this concern me? Is it a Linux-oriented company? Is so thats a good sign
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nielsm posted:Only accepting the old, binary OLE compound document formats, and not the newer at-least-kinda-open ones, that's a good sign? I was thinking more 'ASCII', actually.
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Half the servers I manage are named after condiments. I was forbidden to call one of them gentlemans-relish  The other half are mostly warships. Again, erzherzog-franz-ferdinand was apparently not going to fly.
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SSH IT ZOMBIE posted:Is putting your minimal accepted salary on your resume normal now? Last 5 resumes that came in for an open position all had it. That seems a terrible idea if so because you have now told the company youre applying to the maximum they have to offer you.
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CloFan posted:Anyone here use Cylance for AV? Note that Cylance turn off live lookups for their competitors for those tests. I.e. intentionally cripple them.
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H110Hawk posted:https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/drown Probably 'compatibility'. -no-ssl2 has been a build option for OpenSSL for ages, though, so if you're sensible (like me!) and you're shipping your own version of OpenSSL for some reason you turned that poo poo off as soon as it became clear SSL2 was broken-by-design and don't have anything to worry about right now.
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Collateral Damage posted:Plenty of places in the world where oil companies aren't the dominant employer in the area. Yes, but 'the entire country of Norway, most of which's wealth comes from North Sea oilwells' is a bit more than 'local'. (though Norway does, I believe, have reciprocal freedom-of-movement stuff with the EU so he's not as hosed as he would otherwise be) Edit: btw 'I call HP Elite support and they tell me they only support HP m.2 drives which of course are 40% more expensive.' is obviously not surprising at all. That's not the same as HP saying other drives physically won't work, they're just saying they're not motivated to help you with that. feedmegin fucked around with this message at 16:41 on Mar 8, 2016 |
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Methanar posted:Alberta spotted. I already posted this, but he said 'Also, gently caress you recruiter calling from London asking me to move from Norway to Sweden'.
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Sprechensiesexy posted:You don't have contracts that cover this kind of poo poo? Under influence on the job = fired. Surely committing literal felonies on the job also = fired.
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BaseballPCHiker posted:Had the interview with the law firm for the "Lead Exchange Admin" today. Bullet dodged, although I wouldn't be a good fit either. They're doing an Exchange migration from 07 to 13 and want someone with firsthand experience doing that before. I've only ever done an 03 to 07 and that was at a simple one node site. My limited understanding is that the partners at law firms often do all the management stuff themselves (poorly, because they've had a career as lawyers, not managers). So you probably got 'the lawyer that happens to handle all the HR stuff on the side'...
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Turtlicious posted:E2: I'm going to drink this whole bottle of Glen Fiddich, and then write Cover Letters, hopefully someone will get a laugh or something I don't know. I'll print them out on 220lb card stock, that way you can't fold it, bend it or shred it. Come now, that should be fold, spindle or mutilate
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psydude posted:Speaking of America, how different is the British version of a CV from a resume, aside from length? Got contacted by a multinational based in the UK and they requested one. Not very? At least I've written both (British guy who's worked in both the US and Britain) and it's been the same structure.
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alg posted:Workers rights actually own. Yeah...assuming you're the worker in this scenario and not, like, a CEO, why is 'this country has more workers' rights' bad?  Having rights is good.
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lampey posted:If you are printing it use A4 paper instead of letter. Because it is longer on a CV it is normal to include high school information even for people with advanced degrees, and to include hobbies. A CV can include references where a resume would omit them. It is not unusual for a CV to include a photo even for jobs that have nothing to do with physical appearance. A lot of personal information that would be inappropriate on a resume is expected on a CV, age, marital status, number of kids, nationality. Excuse me but this is all complete bullshit do you even know how to British bro
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Vulture Culture posted:What? Even IBM doesn't do this anymore. I have had a job where I had to wear a suit and tie to work every day, but that was a software/management consultancy in New Jersey. (I  'd out of it as soon as I could, mind you)
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My current office's dress code is 'make sure your nerdy t-shirt and jeans don't have visible gaping holes in them, and maybe wear shoes', and I've even been in violation of that.
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DigitalMocking posted:It was their user database. You could probably have got good money for that on Silk Road!
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, a field labeled CVV2, fully populated for probably 80% of the records.
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Also, uh, 'entry-level' consists of words with meanings, guys. 'We require everyone to have 4-5 years experience in a similar role' is not that meaning because that means you have to have already entered, half a decade ago! Like, I have to wonder if this was some kind of troll.
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gfsincere posted:They aren't judges, so...what? A hangover from the British Parliament, which was/is a court of law (the phrase 'court' derives from the actual mediaeval version, i.e. a king plus his advisors, which is what Parliament is as well) and back in the day could literally pass legislation to have people judicially executed. This is why Congress can subpoena people too - that's generally a judgy sort of power.
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flosofl posted:Agreed. Hello fellow non compsci degree haver with 20 years in the industry - its not the mid 90s any more. Just because it wasnt too hard for us in the dotcom boom does not mean its equally easy for todays kids given how everyone and their dog has been pushed to get a degree since. Its like the boomers complaining how people dont have the gumption to work their own way through college and buy their first house at 25 any more.
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Langolas posted:19 credits left on mine with an emphasis on ME history. Yay history Sup fellow history major crew Edit: Oxford University, if we're comparing colleges. Mine was built about half a millennium before your country even existed so suck it feedmegin fucked around with this message at 12:39 on Jul 29, 2016 |
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ratbert90 posted:I don't want to sound like a prick, but how the hell are you a "senior Linux Systems Administrator" with little Linux experience? 'Linux, Windows, eh it's all tech poo poo and basically the same anyway' - his HR department
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PBS posted:Anyone else have 37.5 hour weeks? Works out to about 120 hours less work than someone working 40 a week over the course of a year. Standard over here in the UK.
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SEKCobra posted:Nah, you just gotta marry someone and stay with them for - I think - 3 years. It's going to depend on the individual country - there is no such thing as EU-wide citizenship per se, you are an EU citizen if you are a citizen of an EU member country. Also the Schengen agreement and the EU are not synonyms, though I guess they'll get a bit closer once the UK has left.
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Woogles posted:I can't flipping wait to move to Canada next year (hopefully.) Doing it with my employer's assistance and my wife has a very sought-after skillset so we should be fine. You will be a very unsafe distance from President Trump, dude.
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Internet Explorer posted:Jesus. Coffee is like the business world's equivalent of Mad Max's chrome huffing. Every single study out there shows how it has one of the best return on investments you can make in your employees. I worked for a place that stopped providing free coffee. Shortly after they also stopped providing paychecks.
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:I can't believe it took me this long to think of it, and this is going to sound like a weird idea to some. But I've started recording important conference calls with OBS. Just a simple screen and audio capture. 3MB per minute. Depending on where you live, that might illegal, you know...
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