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So I'm in a weird situation here, and hoping some of you could provide some advice. I'm relatively fresh out of grad school with a master's in Information Science. I got hired in June by a small software company in Boston that is currently transitioning from a startup into something a bit larger (currently we have around 40 employees, plans are to hit 90 by December 2016). We currently have no process whatsoever for setting up new hires with computers, and getting up and running with our software and required programs is outlined in a couple of wiki articles but not formalized at all. I've taken it upon myself to take over hardware provisioning, and I'd also like to have deployable images for OS X and Windows so new people can skip the trial and error process of getting set up. Is there an industry standard way of doing this? Creating an image from one master Mac is easy enough, but that approach can get really labor-intensive when you start to add more and more users. Any advice? This is pretty much baby's first IT job outside of help desk work in college, but I landed in a weird, undefined spot due to my background (BA in English, MS in Info Science).
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Sep 10, 2015 13:53
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Internet Explorer posted:WDS or MDT is more than enough for 40 to 90 people, especially of half are Macs. I wouldn't worry about SCCM unless you are planning to grow a ton very quickly and you have lots of free time now. I'm probably going to end up being the dedicated IT guy here, so while it would be easy to just do everything local, I would prefer to start developing skills I can take elsewhere if needed. The main issue here is that we have almost nothing recorded in terms of policy or procedure, which was ok when the company was 3 dudes in a garage but is completely unsustainable moving forward. We hired a new kid last week and he still doesn't have a work computer, let alone know how to set up our absurdly complicated Eclipse configuration.
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Sep 10, 2015 15:25
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FISHMANPET posted:So, what about the people that aren't developers? This is almost exactly what I'm planning for. We have engineers out the wazoo but we'll be picking up a lot of marketing / HR folks in the near future, and the ones we already have I wouldn't trust with a TV remote let alone a brand new laptop. This is also just training for myself - I have no idea where this company is gonna be in two or three years, so the more job skills I can start to develop, the better. i'm working on a proposal for my boss to let me set this stuff up. I'll be spinning up a Windows Server VM with MDT 2013 in our Google Dev cloud, and purchasing a Mac mini along with OS X Server so I can administrate either operating system. There are four of us in the company that use Linux (myself included), and any new engineers who want to use that will probably know enough to get set up on their own. It's a little scary because literally nobody has done anything like this at the company yet. We don't even have a working inventory of our IT resources yet.
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Sep 11, 2015 14:52
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Has anybody here heard of a program called Covenant Eyes? One of our sales dudes dropped off his laptop for a fix and mentioned offhand that his church requires that he use it. On cursory research, this looks like some kind of activity tracking software, but can this poo poo monitor keystrokes / mouse movement too?
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Aug 30, 2017 16:22
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H110Hawk posted:I wouldn't allow it on a corporate laptop either citing something something NDA something something Trade Secrets. Talk to Legal, have them make the policy decision. We have no "Legal" to talk to and I'm the lone IT guy (80 person company) but ho-lee poo poo I'm getting this scrubbed off the dude's laptop asap. Hopefully once his internet shame nanny is gone he won't start cruising porn at work.
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Aug 30, 2017 18:17
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So I've been lurking this thread for a while but wanted to chime in with some super excellent career news - I was promoted to Systems Administrator at my current company back in August, up from "Applications Specialist". The pay absolutely did not line up, however, and after some other coworkers got promotions as well I found out I was being waaaaaay underpaid. One night I drunkenly blasted out my resume to like twenty different positions, got four calls the next morning, and just recently have lined up a new job as a dev ops engineer with a 50%+ pay bump. It was kind of insane to me how fast the job market here moved (I'm in Boston). I had no idea and was here puttering away for peanuts when all this time the cloud / dev ops gravy train was just waiting for me to hop on board.
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Dec 12, 2017 16:37
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Sickening posted:Migrating office 365 tenants is a dog poo poo process and I wouldn't wish this on my enemies. JFC Microsoft. The further along in my career I get the less I have to work with Microsoft in any capacity and it's been grrrreat
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Dec 12, 2017 18:09
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After reading about a bunch of folks who had some bad times with recruiters, I feel like I should offer some unsolicited advice: when working with a recruiter, never disclose your previous salary (especially if it was crap). Research market rates for the position based on location (glassdoor, etc), and shoot for higher than that even. Recruiters who receive a percentage of your first years pay as a fee are incentivized to get you the highest salary they can, that part isn't your job anymore. Disclaimer: I'm in devops in Boston, ymmv, etc
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Jan 9, 2018 15:08
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Hey, have any of you had experience moving a company from scattered docker containers into a full-fledged Kubernetes solution? We've got several dozen containers spread across like three different rackmount servers and I'm looking into possible solutions for wrangling it all, but it feels like there are six million pieces of middleware to choose from and it's a bit daunting.
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Mar 30, 2018 20:04
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I feel kinda silly for asking, but can somebody explain the origin of YOTJ? Like I get that it means "leave your job" or whatever, but what does the acronym stand for?
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May 1, 2018 14:31
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I came from a weird background. I've got almost five years of experience, with no certs. Learned everything on the job. I got a bachelor's in English in 2010 and was delivering pizzas and working in warehouses until I got my poo poo together and went to grad school for information science. The masters degree got my foot in the door but as far as I'm concerned it was more useful as a life reboot than anything. I just cracked six figures back in January when I started a new position as a devops engineer. It's crazy to me how recently I was busting my rear end in an Amazon warehouse for peanuts, and now I'm making a solid living working with AWS. Time is a weird flat circle. Which is to say, anyone feeling down about your career prospects, you can totally start over if you're willing to learn.
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May 4, 2018 14:07
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Sepist posted:What's the best antivirus? Being on Linux. (Non-joke answer: Windows Defender if you're on Windows. For Mac I have no clue.)
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May 24, 2018 15:34
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Darchangel posted:Everybody knows Macs don't get viruses. A year in university tech support will teach you the exact opposite. I think it must be all of the stupid file-sharing stuff college kids used to be into.
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May 24, 2018 22:28
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So yesterday I interviewed a dev ops candidate who showed up in a drat t shirt and cursed like a sailor the whole time. The guy seemed like he knew what he was doing but his behavior and appearance really irked me. At least show up in a button down shirt and comb your hair.
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May 25, 2018 14:22
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George H.W. oval office posted:What do y’all use for a central KB management tool? Our environment has plenty of documentation for things but it’s essentially a dump of various word and excels in a file share. It’s driving me mad trying to look up configurations and general knowledge of these servers. Confluence, usually. Our devs have switched over to keeping their docs in github though, which seems like an interesting approach.
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May 25, 2018 14:23
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The Fool posted:Sharepoint ahahahahahahahahahaha
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May 25, 2018 18:46
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Last time I had a burger I cooked the patties in my sous vide unit and then sizzled them up all nice and crispy in a ripping hot cast iron pan. Good poo poo. I'll get down with any old burger though. But Shake Shack is way too expensive for what you get.
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May 25, 2018 21:01
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DizzyBum posted:I cook my own burgers at home. The price I'd pay for a burger at Five Guys is enough to buy like 2 lbs of ground beef, and then I have homemade burgers for days. Yeah they basically fill up the cup with fries, dump it in the bag, then fill it a few more times for good measure. They're never crispy enough though!
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May 25, 2018 22:19
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That sounds too good to be true, but good on them if they're for real
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May 27, 2018 02:39
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Unlimited vacation, bitches
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May 29, 2018 20:20
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Ok, so yes, "unlimited" is a stretch. The rule of thumb is like 3-4 weeks but nobody's keeping track. In my particular position there's never any crunch time, and I'm pretty much on-call in name only. In six months I've had only one off-hours incident.
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May 29, 2018 20:44
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My insurance premiums are like four hundo a month but everything my wife and I need is a $25 copay away. The company pays 100% of the premium if you're single though. Re: finances and honesty, my wife knows I make twice what she does but I handle all the finances myself since she can't be bothered. I basically just tell her to deposit x% of her checks into our joint account based on income distribution between the two of us, and we make all of our monthly payments from that account. That way everything is equitable and we both get the leftover pay in our personal accounts to do whatever with. It took a while to set up (I spent several hours loving around with spreadsheets) but I always know how much we're making and where our money is going.
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May 31, 2018 22:39
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Re: apple monitor power button, Not sure, but the new MacBook pros with the touch bar hide it in the fingerprint sensor. Unrelated but they also have absolutely the worst keyboard I've ever used on a laptop. Zero key travel so you can't tell if you're typing correctly but also clicky and loud as gently caress.
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Jun 1, 2018 14:23
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Does anyone have experience with setting up Freeradius and Kerberos to run together? I've been stuck trying to containerize this for way too long and I wonder if there are any alternatives for the use case (setting up authentication to Unifi network in office).
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Jun 5, 2018 21:17
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nielsm posted:On meeting room signage, we have an iPad based setup for some years now, and many of the devices have changed shape. If they are bulging they should be taken down immediately?? Holy poo poo
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Jun 8, 2018 14:11
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Anybody have any general advice / words of encouragement for picking up the pieces after a layoff? I was happily plugging away as a devops engineer at a startup for almost two years and they had to shrink head count to stay funded, so I got the boot along with about 8 others (in a company of about 60). I'm working on lining up interviews but only have a month of severance to work with, which feels low. Honestly I'm just feeling antsy because I know I'm not going to work tomorrow and I really liked my job.
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Sep 30, 2019 04:07
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I did actually spend some time setting up a Kubernetes POC at that last job, but we had nowhere near enough resources in play for me to justify its continued use. This was about a year ago - does anyone know if k8s networking has gotten less convoluted since then? In any case, I have two phone screens lined up for the next two days, along with about six or seven recruiter calls. I'm telling myself that the previous company was a sinking ship and I'm going to come out of this with a raise (and maybe a pseudo-severance bonus if I can get a job in less than a month). One other thing - and I can never tell if this differentiates me in a good or a bad way - I got into this position in a loopy way. I was an English major in undergrad, started working tech support in grad school (as an information science student), and taught myself everything I knew on the job as I slowly morphed into a sysadmin. So I've maybe got more soft skills than the average bear, but because I'm self-taught there are occasional bits of fundamentals that can give me trouble. Necronomicon fucked around with this message at 14:08 on Sep 30, 2019 |
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Sep 30, 2019 14:02
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TheCog posted:If its any comfort, I'm on a devops team where no one went to college for this poo poo. My team lead was a line cook who went to culinary school and got into being a sysadmin when he decided he didn't want to do that anymore. The most senior person on our team and resident expert on k8s was a music major who worked as a windows sysadmin to make ends meet before transitioning to devops. We have a mechanical engineer and a history major. The good news is that in software there are a lot of non-traditional backgrounds and that's probably not a mark against you except in some very corporate environments. One of my favorite things to tell people who ask me what I do is mention some prior employment with Amazon. They ask me what part of the company I was in, and I respond "the warehouse". It's certainly been a long, strange road to get here. Edit: For what it's worth, I've already lined up four more phone screens for this week with more to come, so I'm feeling pretty jazzed about my chances. There are some companies in the I couldn't care less about, and I told one recruiter to gently caress right off with military poo poo, but I'm genuinely excited about one or two of them. Necronomicon fucked around with this message at 23:44 on Sep 30, 2019 |
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Sep 30, 2019 23:37
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NPR Journalizard posted:I would just like to take a moment to appreciate power bi for making me look like I know what im doing. I know its pretty basic stuff, but hooking into a live website and pumping out a dashboard is pretty cool, and is amazing to the managers. I recently gave a Terraform demo (in a terminal, w/ verification on the AWS console) during a sprint review, and I got a pretty lukewarm reception, despite the amount of labor it would save. Later in that sprint review, a dude automated a simple login/verification process with Selenium, and drat near got a standing ovation. Which is to say - god drat terminal-based demos are awful and invisible work is frustrating sometimes. I think I learned a lesson - if you're trying to show someone how effective boring-looking tools can be, use the cooking show approach. Have your process visible at first, but keep one in the oven for later so you can show your results without any wait time.
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Oct 2, 2019 15:59
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CLAM DOWN posted:I got to decommission the last physical print server at my old job. I was allowed to throw it into the hardware recycling bin as hard as I could. I climb the staircase and fire it down. It felt so good. thank you for letting me live vicariously through my ultimate fantasy
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Oct 2, 2019 23:29
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5er posted:Our process costs from $0.25 - $1.25 to destroy a drive depending on a person's coordination, and is a great way to spend a Saturday afternoon That sounds like a blast.
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Hot drat my layoff is finally at an end. I start a new role on Monday, where I can finally just do cool devops poo poo and not have to worry about office IT issues or tech support anymore. The salary isn't quite what I was hoping for but it's still a 20% bump from my last position, and there's no on call rotation. Now I can get back to ignoring recruiters and not answering the phone.
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