@Cole Doesn't much suck here. Just make sure you some good meds for the winter. Depression is a right bitch in the winter here. We go weeks without seeing the sun at all.
@Cole Nice. I should probably talk to my doc about that. I get pretty far down the sine wave in the winters too. Enjoying the outdoors here is a really good thing too. Take up hiking or snowshoeing or kayaking or canoeing.
The beers here are amazing. Some of the best in the world, and breweries per-capita is probably 2nd only to Portland, Oregon. There's a lot more jobs here in Seattle than Portland, and Portland's IT mix is tipped far more towards Linux than Windows.
@MichaelHampton Yeah, makes sense. Stack Ranking put the stake in the heart of that place. The asshat PMs took over and it's been a festering boil ever since.
@Cole First Hill is gentrifying. So it's not ghetto anymore, but it's close to down and the Cap Hill social scene.
@Adrian I still don't remember exactly where I was then, but I do remember being a minute or two walk from the McDonald's and Starbucks right between the two hospitals.
No problem. It's a kickass town in a lot of ways. First two things you need to know: The Stranger newspaper and KEXP 90.3 (kexp.org). That'll get you started. =)
My ISP provided me a hybrid DSL modem/router with a phone jack and 4 LAN ports. The DSL modem/router supports PPPoE passthrough, but it does not do PPPoE dialing. I also have a more powerful DD-WRT router with a WAN port and 4 LAN ports. The WAN port of the DD-WRT router is connected to a LAN por...
I'm looking at ordering a storage unit with 24 sas drives, dual controllers, power supplies. The controllers come in either iscsi or sas. I am not sure which is the better way to go. Has anyone had any experience with sas?
Better question is who implements an iSCSI SAN with only one connection.
Mine's got 4, I can pull 320MB+ if I cherry pick the test parameters.
@Cole CoD: Ghosts is being developed by the new "Infinity Ward". It's not the same people/company that developed all the old CoD games and MW series (even MW3 was started by old IW, and finished by new IW with help from TA). I don't have high hopes for Ghosts being anything more than MW2 on PS4/XBO (MW3 was so little more than MW2 - the story was terribly short, game play essentially identical, a real letdown overall).
my second week back - although I did almost nothing last week; sorted 8 months of emails and let my work laptop get itself up to date, IM'ed with a lot of people who saw me pop up, spoke to the sports team and two vendors - that was about it, might have to do better this week :)
@MichaelHampton just go 100% v6 and get rid of nat altogether - you're fucked for some sites but still...
@Dan I have some outlook rules that dealt with a lot of them along the way, I probably normally do about 225/day before rules, probably about 80/day that need some degree of work - some of which I'd dealt with as I went, I think I had something like 6k in my inbox, so it took a couple of days, in total there were about 30 that I need/ed to deal with as a lot had kind of timed-out in terms of my input
@Dan First thing I do is tell new staff when they join that if they're sending me an email that they want me to keep but that I can ignore then they have to put '---' in the subject title and if they want me to respond to them to put a '+++' instead - this helps a LOT
@Chopper3 also starting the subject with /// if all info is in the subject line so that you don't need to open the email. E.g. "/// coming in late due to traffic".
My old place used to love sending us on Soft-Skills courses before the recession
To be honest, I loved them because it was a free night away (I was still living at home), a couple of days off work and I even occasionally got to sleep with a co-worker. What more do you want from a training course, eh?
@Dan I was the one who got him to start working at the ISP where I worked, then we spent about 3 months at desks right next to one another. Then we moved in together.
Seen similar -it's usually shitty web based training
It's probably barely worth £99 let alone the joke £2700. It doesn't include the exam or any practical training
Your money would be far better spent on Jeremy Cioras videos from CBT Nuggets. A couple of cheap old 2950's, and a copy of packet tracer will get you 90%+ of the way there.
If you're feeling a bit adventurous then find a real router or have a play with GNS3. It's faffy, but I've had GNS3 doing routing for real switches which is kind of fun
Is there anything as irritating as a customer who constantly badgers you while you're looking at an issue (I'm talking e-mails every 20-30 mins) and then never ever gets back to you when you fix it and ask for confirmation
Actually yes, people who order a product, it arrives damaged for whatever reasons so they go and rate it 1* on a website.
@ewwhite Sorry, here goes; while away a minion's bought 4 x dl380p (the 25 disk job) for a remote'ish site, usual maxed out hardware etc. running esxi 5.1 over dual 10Gbps NICs into a pair of nexus 5k's. Problem is he's not bought any fluffing storage, thinking we could just use the vmw VSA thing
@ewwhite now I've played with it, even sat with a vmw guy doing an eval on it, but this was about a year ago - I'm looking for some 'gotcha's for it - I know you can't run a VC VM on it and that you can't go from a 2-node cluster to a 3-node (there'll be 3-way on day one if I don't pull the plug), but what's going to bite us
I don't trust the VSA. It doesn't get much press either. I should tear it apart, though. It's surely Linux + DRBD-like replication. There are a lot of restrictions in use and design.
How many active hosts do you need? I'd be more inclined to use a left hand license or convert one box into dedicated storage.
@ewwhite My thoughts exactly - just don't really want to come back from 8 months off and rip the shit out of a guy that's actually done a good job of holding people away from me for that time - if you know what I mean, and yes I don't make a habit out of being nice to people :)
@ewwhite That's a good idea, I'll have a think, we need resilience though
Oh awesome, cheers guys! So it's definitely okay to use the default music (around 20 seconds of it) included with windows in a commercial project? I just don't want to get into any trouble, that's all :p
HTC and Samsung engaged in a little Twitter spat this weekend which rapidly turned nasty, while LG happily poked the warring giants with a pointy stick.
I'd also like to see Avalanche reveal Just Cause 3. Graphics and map of JC2, with the shop mechanics of Mercinaries 2 and destructability of BF3 and Mercinaries 2.
@Chopper3 Is there any specs for BF4 at the moment?
@Chopper3 It's often on sale on Steam, the plot and voice acting is awful, but if you add a couple of mods to it it's abosultely brilliant. The fanmade multiplayer mod is making good progress and there is likely to run a beta soon, which is always bonkers.
I'm looking at ordering a storage unit with 24 sas drives, dual controllers, power supplies. The controllers come in either iscsi or sas. I am not sure which is the better way to go. Has anyone had any experience with sas?
Sure, VirtualBox is a good point to start. Of course you can mix Windows and Linux servers. Sometimes it's only solution.
