@pauska yeah, I work for an engineering firm up here, for about 1.5 months now. 15 minutes from the kids daycare, and we deal with Automotive, Entertainment (Amusement Park attractions), Military, and Aerospace as well as others
@ewwhite You were already pretty successful career-wise, so for you to say that must really mean something
@BigHomie I guess it's that nothing is guaranteed, and I have deeper issues to deal with (mentally, emotionally, confidence-wise) because of what's happened in my job past.
Keep hustling, though. I'm trying to convince a company that only hires full-time people to consider becoming a client.
In the fog of my disappointment last night, I wrote some stream-of-consciousness reply...
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I understand that the [company] team is close. That’s very apparent. And I can respect the desire to have a full-time dedicated resource on board. But I think things are a bit different on the systems engineering side (versus development). I’ve been working with small development teams, and see a certain trend when it comes to hiring and retaining systems folks:
- How do you find a sysadmin who has production experience, the right balance of deployment skills, good hardware chops, datacenter familiarity, internal/external customer soft-skills, who can learn quickly and is calm under pressure?
@ewwhite You got it man. I remember when I used to shovel snow and cut grass when I was just a young child runnin' wild, so many no's, but I didn't give up, them yeses felt great, one day I made over $200 shoveling snow, in a single day
@ewwhite thats what i cannot understand, unless you do not want to have your employee working for you for years. At least in some part of german work"culture" it is reasonable to assume that someone will work for you for a few years, if you treat him right and increase his pay sometimes.
meh, rephrase , one minute plz :)
Sure, some will jump ship, but unless your workflow, or the atmosphere of the company is bad, "normally" you would stay at least 2 or so years.. and only so it does not show on your resume that you switch jobs that often.
@DennisNolte Americans are different. There's no safety net here. The bond between employer and employee is tenuous, and people work under bad conditions. I've definitely stressed over being fired... avoiding taking vacations... hidden documentation or information in order to be "needed".
@ewwhite i knew that it was different based on the hire/fire mentality , but well, i still thought they (employee vs employer) would at least work reasonable with each other on higher pay jobs (sure enough low skill/wage work sucks here or there)
there's no such thing as a perfect job i guess. Overall mine until know were OK, after all i did choose them and quit myself rather than getting forced to search for something else. Guess i was lucky.
like the boss who hid an illegal Canadian wife in the apartment next door... or the firm that had a major SEC fraud situation going on during my tenure... or the company that forced employees to attend lunchtime "Introduction to Christianity" discussions...
@cole if it would not be in seattle i'd consider that too, but sadly i cant even answer a lot of the SF stuff so im most likely unqualified for the work he has.
@DennisNolte ...or it's a sign that you're being given too much work, and the cheap bastards you work for need to hire another couple employees already. Maybe that's just me, though.
@cole Not a bad place to be... money from the world's largest corporations, without necessarily having all the bullshit and bureaucracy of the world's largest companies.
query finish time: 5min normally, yesterday: ~50min, now: 6h and still running. and only about 100 different problems which could or could not relate..
that remembers me to finish my CCNA sometimes.. just in case someone actually needs to me to cisco stuff again.
@DennisNolte Sure, but more than that. "OH, you're having trouble finding a Word document? You've been hacked. We'll reimage your machine immediately. Can't login? Must be hacked. We'll reimage your machine immediately. Oh, your SQL server needs more disk space? Hacked. I'll reimage it right away."
@DennisNolte Kinda seriously. I say it, but no one takes me seriously when I do. Except for the really stupid users, who probably have infected themselves with something or other.
@DennisNolte I'm not a normal employee, and I'm TSed into my home network. My ass may be at work, but that doesn't mean I have to use the office network. :)
@DennisNolte Granted, we suck, but the way we handle that is to just add to the whitelist as users send in tickets for "can't access [site needed to do job]." If you go with a proxy service, they handle keeping the list up to date, which is why you keep paying them.
What is a good brand of dedicated NAS/NFS storage?
Rack mount, for serving PHP application files.
Heard about Synology, is it any good?
I need HA and Raid with hot-spares. It have to be rack-mounted, fast and rock-stable.
@pauska It's from "The World's End" if I recall, though "Gone Girl" was good - oh and may as well bang on again about how good "Nightcrawler", which opens on Friday, is - it really is great
Azure Event Hubs is a real-time, highly scalable, and fully managed data-stream ingestion service. As the onramp for stream processing in the cloud, Event Hubs enables publish-subscribe data distribution in a flexible platform-as-as-service (PaaS) model that can scale with your needs and provide a durable buffer between event publishers and event consumers.
someone needs to give me a devops dictionary.. this is getting too much
I mean, Hetzner's Server Auction - i7-3930, 64GB RAM, 2x 3TB SATA disks for 90 Euro...plus the cost of a windows license thorough Hetzner...same(ish) cost.
@Chopper3 You know I'd totally forgotten that! I've actually just spoke to them and they're in no mad rush, so pressure is off a little. I think a car and two blokes should do the trick. I'd rather go myself, as I want to ensure it's as pictured
I figured pulling the cards/fans/PSU's would bring it down to a manageable weight
@cole eating out the other night we got talking to two pre-op F2M transgenders next to us, really nice people and I told them how positive your story is, hope you don't mind
@Chopper3 Well, I'd decided to leave, I just hadn't decided when - so I took the gamble when I figured I'd just deal with it if he put me on notice there and then
@BigHomie I don't hate them. I could use a could 5 guys burger every so often. Just not a favorite. They'r okay. Way better than fast food chain garbage like Bking or McDs
I have a fully configurated VM with Ubuntu 12.04 and Redmine 2.3.1; I want to upgrade to latest stable Redmine, 2.5: I can't do it via apt since it seems that 2.3.1 is latest available version in 12.04 repository. Is there a low-impact way to upgrade? Server is working with Redmine, backup and ma...
Anyone know of a good book/blog/anything that explains how ConfigMgr 2012 R2 and MDT 2013 work together? There's tons of stuff that explains how they work separately, but I haven't found much on how MDT works with ConfigMgr.
I got the cheapest VPS on Digital Ocean.
I followed this guide, everything works like a charm..
But now I want to serve multiple nameservers on the same ip, so I need to figure it out how this is really working.. I have basically no knowledge about dockers..
I read I can log into my dockers wi...
We are deploying in Chinese datacentre, it took us a while to get our account approved with Aliyun (some kind of Amazon AWS).
We are protecting all in and out data transfer but what guarantees that the OS itself hasn't been compromised? How do I check our Ubuntu has the same kernels and libs rel...
The trouble with that is it would stagnate quickly because we get new denizens that are awesome like @JennyD and @FalconMomot last year as a result of the main site's popularity and draw.
@Wesley Yeah, I've been part of communities that detached themselves from a larger... erm, cesspool, and that's exactly what happened. Stagnation, slow decline/death as no new blood comes in.
@Iain Not sure I'd agree... on IRC, you're not waiting on simple functionality for years because the SE developers don't consider chat a priority... you can script it up yourself.
@Wesley Naah, I just feel at home here in the Netherlands and consider myself Dutch pro tem. A number of EU free-market directives force the sovereign governments to "not hinder the free mobility of labor", so basically I can carry my danish citizenship around all the EU/EEC countries and have the same legal rights in any labor market as the native population, without discrimination
@voretaq7 ...kind of. Customers who email tickets in when their instances hit well defined and well published limits that they were warned about multiple times in advance and still ran their shit off the rails and "oh by the way we have an investor meeting in two days and we went viral so why aren't our databases databasing?"
@Iain By SO I mean "SO and all sister sites". The tools I have as a moderator at reddit are so much more powerful, I don't see how you guys tolerate it.
@Iain I did delete all of my accounts except SO and SF.
hi do I find max supported disk on Dell server (centos) using hpacucli.
I tried lspci, lsusb, but i don't know the right way.
System Information
Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
Product Name: PowerEdge R710
Base Board Information
Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
Product Name: 00NH4P
Version:...
@Iain that's nice. It's clear the designers abandoned ship early and don't have to live with the fruit of the decisions they made. Furthermore, they're unwilling to re-evaluate those decisions, so the quality continues to go down.
What is a good brand of dedicated NAS/NFS storage?
Rack mount, for serving PHP application files.
Heard about Synology, is it any good?
I need HA and Raid with hot-spares. It have to be rack-mounted, fast and rock-stable.
I got the cheapest VPS on Digital Ocean.
I followed this guide, everything works like a charm..
But now I want to serve multiple nameservers on the same ip, so I need to figure it out how this is really working.. I have basically no knowledge about dockers..
I read I can log into my dockers wi...
hi do I find max supported disk on Dell server (centos) using hpacucli.
I tried lspci, lsusb, but i don't know the right way.
System Information
Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
Product Name: PowerEdge R710
Base Board Information
Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
Product Name: 00NH4P
Version:...
