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Tigren: Oct 3, 2003

mayodreams posted:

I definitely agree that taxes, when used appropriately, are perfectly fine. However, I live in a region that is rampant with corruption, gun violence, high taxes, and lovely services.

# ¿ Feb 10, 2016 22:19

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# ¿ Apr 26, 2024 03:59

Tigren: Oct 3, 2003

Sickening posted:

Give me a reason for the port to be disabled.

It was me and yes, I am still a little sore about it.

If it's not disabled, someone might super glue a cable into it?

# ¿ Feb 19, 2016 00:22

Tigren: Oct 3, 2003

Docjowles posted:

At my last job we eval'd SumoLogic but found it unreasonably expensive compared to just building our own ELK cluster. Our CTO dramatically preferred capex to opex, though, so that may have played into it. The tool itself seemed fine.

Do you have any links to guides for shipping Windows event logs to ELK? Getting all of my new company's logs into ELK is on my 2016 todo list, and we have some production Windows hosts which I've not dealt with in the ELK world before. Everything I've been able to find via Google is from like 2012 and hacky as hell. Surely this at least kind of works on Windows by now? Is it as simple as installing Logstash on each server and using the Eventlog input?

I've never used it in production, only in labs, but check out WinLogBeat. It was super simple to implement and the Beats system is pretty nice.

# ¿ Feb 26, 2016 16:16

Tigren: Oct 3, 2003

Tab8715 posted:

I've been asked to assist a customer with implementing DevOps.

What the gently caress.

Don't give them too many Devops, just the right amount of DevOps. If you DevOps them too much, they may not be able to separate their Dev and their Ops from their current Ops and Dev.

# ¿ Mar 24, 2016 21:23

Tigren: Oct 3, 2003

SaltLick posted:

I've decided to quit my job next March and hike the Appalachian Trail. How much is this really going to hurt when I return to the work force? What's the "acceptable" amount of time off when you leave or don't have a job before you get raised eyebrows?

I did the same thing, but Pacific Crest Trail, and had no issues landing a job when I got back. If you've got the skills, you can pay the bills.

# ¿ May 4, 2016 23:56

Tigren: Oct 3, 2003

feedmegin posted:

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.

Sounds like an H1B excuse. We tried everything to find a competent, local talent, but there was no one qualified! We have to hire someone from overseas!

# ¿ May 16, 2016 15:10

Tigren: Oct 3, 2003

Cenodoxus posted:

Not for long. CMS has been retooling its payment structures and phasing in a value-based payment model for Medicare/Medicaid claims, which make up a hefty majority of most hospitals' revenue streams.

The end goal of the payment model shift is that providers stop getting paid for "what did you do to this patient" and start getting paid for "what did you actually fix" and "are you doing things to keep population you serve healthy".

MRI machines come in different sizes and strengths so cost really depends on how much resolution is needed. There are low-strength MRIs in the sub-1-Tesla range that are on the cheap end of the spectrum and super-high-powered machines on the upper end (9-10 T) that are in the multi-millions for just the machine itself.

Sometimes the room it's in costs just as much as the machine for a few reasons. MRIs are giant superconducting magnets, so they have to be supercooled by liquid helium around the clock. Shutting one down temporarily is more expensive and potentially dangerous than leaving it on 24x7. The magnetic field of an MRI is so strong that the entire imaging suite has to be carefully engineered around the device for safety so you don't turn the furniture into projectiles. YouTube has a lot of entertaining and frightening results for "MRI projectile". On a sadder note, in the early 2000's a child's head got crushed by a flying oxygen tank during an MRI procedure. A lot of money has to go into carefully controlling both the device and its surroundings.

Only a handful of companies make MRIs due to how complicated they are. They require so much engineering and oversight that some Silicon Valley startup couldn't just come in and "disrupt" the medical imaging industry like they do fitness trackers and light bulbs and WiFi toilets. They'd have to have hundreds of millions of real dollars (not VC valuation Monopoly money bullshit) to put toward R&D to make a real dent in anything and not get sued into oblivion if their machine either didn't work or gave bad results. (Theranos 2: Electric Boogaloo)

OK smarty pants, why do Texas Instruments graphing calculators still cost as much now as they did when I was in high school when any teenager's smartphone can do just as much if not more?

# ¿ May 20, 2016 21:17

Tigren: Oct 3, 2003

MC Fruit Stripe posted:

Ugh, god, you and me both buddy.

I've still yet to see a change control implementation work to anyone's benefit. Our current process is so broken that I just submit a ticket and then assume it worked through its process. Trying to track down all the stakeholders and get people to approve was proving to be a nightmare. Now if I have a change for the 30th, I put in a request on the 23rd and then wash my hands of it. I submitted it, I didn't check again, it must have been approved.

I've still never seen a better change control process than having one person be the gatekeeper for everything the team is doing. Can I update those DNS records with the registrar? Yes. Can I patch these standby nodes? Yes. Can we failover this cluster? Nah wait until after hours please. Boom. Boom. Boom. So much better.

How's the Phoenix deployment going?

# ¿ Jun 29, 2016 23:48

Tigren: Oct 3, 2003

ElGroucho posted:

People here always say "wack wack" for a \\company.com address, as in "wack wack company dot com"

I don't care for that at all

wack wack is just as bad as tack tack as in 'dig tack x ip address' instead of "dig -x"

# ¿ Jul 26, 2016 20:36

Tigren: Oct 3, 2003

Cthulhuite posted:

Who the gently caress says DC Controller?

My coworker. He also says Novella eDirectory.

# ¿ Jul 27, 2016 04:52

Tigren: Oct 3, 2003

Judge Schnoopy posted:

Working at an MSP I enjoyed the occasion when a client who didn't know anything about computers asked how / and \ were different, and why both are used when it's so confusing.

Turns out she really didn't want to know the answer when I started explaining it to her.

Why are both used? Why do we need a | to go both ways?

# ¿ Jul 27, 2016 18:57

Tigren: Oct 3, 2003

Dr. Arbitrary posted:

I might be talking out of my rear end, but I think in the big scheme of things, there's really room for only one, maybe two big cloud providers, and a bunch of small boutique cloud providers.

I think they're aiming to win this one so it makes sense that they're not pursuing profits.

There's really only one big cloud provider and the rest are playing catchup.

# ¿ Aug 12, 2016 16:13

Tigren: Oct 3, 2003

Docjowles posted:

Google image search "there I fixed it". That is DNS.

Now realize the entire internet and by extension modern society falls over when DNS goes down.

Welp.

vvv that was a good article

Saw this on twitter when I was able to get there for 10 minutes today

# ¿ Oct 21, 2016 23:39

Tigren: Oct 3, 2003

flosofl posted:

I like the concept and it is a god drat beautiful machine.

A little disappointed in the weak-sauce graphics, but I get it's a trade off for size and power-consumption (and cooling). If it's anything like the Surface Book, I can see being mostly satisfied with some frustrations and a nagging feeling it should be something a little "more" for how much it costs. (For the record, I feel the same way about the iPad Pro)

The digitizer itself costs, like, $2600.

# ¿ Oct 28, 2016 02:23

Tigren: Oct 3, 2003

Internet Explorer posted:

If I don't read your article I can't be held responsible for not dealing with it!

If Microsoft won't deal with it, why should you?

# ¿ Oct 31, 2016 22:41

Tigren: Oct 3, 2003

siggy2021 posted:

I'm at a casino night conference a consultant we've used is putting on. This is the first time I've been to one of these.

Some of these vendors explained what they do to me and I'm pretty sure they just blurted out buzzwords. After they vomited words on me for 5 minutes I still had no idea what they actually did. I took their free chachkis a D walked away.

I'm assuming this is typical?

If you've had a few drinks and don't have to talk to those guys ever again, it's fun to keep them going. So, what problem do you actually solve? Ya, but what use would I have for container orchestration for continuous integration? How can we bring your SaaS offering on site? Throw buzzwords back at them until one of your heads explodes.

# ¿ Dec 9, 2016 01:51

Tigren: Oct 3, 2003

CLAM DOWN posted:

That's fine, it's just that the free alternatives are utter trash compared to the real thing. Hopefully you can get a cheap copy.

Google Docs is perfectly acceptable and does everything you need to write resumes and print them to PDF. You might not get all of the obscure Excel and Word features, but what do you expect for free?

# ¿ Dec 26, 2016 21:44

Tigren: Oct 3, 2003

CLAM DOWN posted:

I do, for my indie hipster band album releases that are too underground to be on Spotify or Google Music

They're releasing on Bandcamp or cassette tape these days.

# ¿ Dec 27, 2016 04:27

Tigren: Oct 3, 2003

RFC2324 posted:

10:01:56 up 2480 days, 6:56, 2 users, load average: 0.01, 0.02, 0.00

Unused mysql server, we are trying to come up with excuses not to decomm it.

Setup a public Wordpress site on there?

# ¿ Jan 23, 2017 17:56

Tigren: Oct 3, 2003

Judge Schnoopy posted:

When interviewing a company for a bid, they included our logo in their powerpoint. I sat next to the marketing manager who gushed the whole time that they used the correct logo, in transparent png, with correct placing on the slide, and appropriate background to match. She wanted to throw out all other candidates and hire them on the spot for their attention to logo detail.

Everybody else in the organization is a loving monster for not paying attention to her rules.

It's really not that hard to understand why she's excited and truly appreciative of someone using her work as intended, right? Like, when users understand how to fill out a ticket form properly and don't require their hand held through the extremely self explanatory fields. Other departments, they're just like us!

# ¿ Apr 28, 2017 19:34

Tigren: Oct 3, 2003

Agrikk posted:

I did some asking around and apparently a solid knowledge of the working of TCP is critically important in some circles here. The biggest problem, like everything else at AWS, is a question of scale.

Apparently when you have five million hosts serving up X number of instances over low latency networks, the traffic generated causes TCP to do funny things and all types of edge cases become the norm. we are looking for people to solve those funny things and/or write a new protocol stack from scratch designed for this environment.

Want to see something cool?

Watch "A day in the life of a billion packets" on YouTube.

It's a presentation from re:Invent a few years back on the networking challenges that the VPC and EC2 teams had to overcome. It's older, so our footprint was smaller, but it gives an interesting insight into what goes on under the covers.

Yay smart people!

For the lazy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd5hsL-JNY4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St3SE4LWhKo

Tigren fucked around with this message at 17:07 on May 4, 2017

# ¿ May 4, 2017 17:05

Tigren: Oct 3, 2003

Roargasm posted:

No this is normal now. If your office gives out free coffee I think it's OK to require personal phones for MFA

I'll gladly drink the free coffee, but will not use my personal phone for work related tasks. And I'm pretty sure threatening to take away the free coffee would not be the way to go to fix this issue.

# ¿ May 9, 2017 20:09

Tigren: Oct 3, 2003

Avenging_Mikon posted:

But it's not random, he said it's the employee ID. They're just standardizing length. I don't think asking people to remember their employee ID is asking too much?

You already make me remember my name, email, and phone number. Do I really have to remember another number?!

# ¿ Jun 23, 2017 22:32

Tigren: Oct 3, 2003

Tab8715 posted:

What's the phone debate?

I'd expect employers to provide one or reimburse.

Let's not do this one again. Read the thread if you really need to know.

# ¿ Jun 26, 2017 23:40

Tigren: Oct 3, 2003

GnarlyCharlie4u posted:

Why the gently caress is there a Starbucks add-in for Office 365 / 2016?

Same reason there was a Silicon Valley ad in the Ubuntu MOTD?

code:

=============================
Welcome to Ubuntu 17.04 (GNU/Linux 4.10.0-21-generic x86_64)

 * Documentation: [url]https://help.ubuntu.com[/url]
 * Management: [url]https://landscape.canonical.com[/url]
 * Support: [url]https://ubuntu.com/advantage[/url]

 * How HBO's Silicon Valley built "Not Hotdog" with mobile TensorFlow,
   Keras & React Native on Ubuntu
   - [url]https://ubu.one/HBOubu[/url]
==============================

# ¿ Jul 1, 2017 01:44

Tigren: Oct 3, 2003

orange sky posted:

Do you guys know of a way to get youtube results neatly in XML or JSON? There must be something like this but I can't find anything (besides a paid add in for excel called seotools).

Youtube API?

https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/getting-started

# ¿ Aug 15, 2017 19:09

Tigren: Oct 3, 2003

CLAM DOWN posted:

I hate these emails

We understand there may not be a need, project, or budget at this time, but we'd like the option of involving you in our issues if the need arises over the next 6 months. Please do the needful and fulfill the ask.

# ¿ Aug 15, 2017 22:33

Tigren: Oct 3, 2003

tomapot posted:

I'm here and my feet are ready to fall off, this place is massive. Not sure how much walking I've done since my fitbit won't sync but between that and the stupid heat crossing over to the expo hall I'm shot. Thank goodness for the vendor dinners and booth people fawning all over me,trying to sell me poo poo.

You guys going to Universal Thursday night?

Did you complete your buzzword bingo yet?

# ¿ Sep 27, 2017 05:36

Tigren: Oct 3, 2003

jaegerx posted:

Actually that’s probably perfect. I completely forgot about smokeping. Thanks.

Does fping do what you want?

# ¿ Oct 21, 2017 06:21

Tigren: Oct 3, 2003

anthonypants posted:

You don't think that's due to the nature of posting on the internet? To me, the fact that their post was not blowing up about how they were fired over a bullshit disagreement between them and their lovely boss speaks of their ability to be a functional adult. I'm sure like 90% of the stories in these threads are overblown for the audience. Don't take these things so personally.

This. We also miss out on the extremely important part of interpersonal relationships in these stories. We don't know Sickening's relationship is like with the manager. Just like sarcasm and nonverbal cues don't translate on the internet, nor do sensitive topics like change management and working overtime.

# ¿ Nov 16, 2017 22:31

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# ¿ Apr 26, 2024 03:59

Tigren: Oct 3, 2003

fishmech posted:

Every time there's an announcement of a new round of approved TLDs, I look for .fart to be one of them.

Bigwetf.art is available

# ¿ Dec 8, 2017 05:42

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