If you click on 'review' after getting the strunk & white badge, it has the progress meter towards copy editor, but it also has a progress meter towards civic duty
Seems odd that aside from the post by Community and the fact that the election started, there's not a peep from anyone at SE on any of the election discussion. Didn't it say to ask questions with the election tag?
Sure.. I can understand that we're totally forgotten and need to email team@stackoverflow.com to get any attention during normal times.. but turning on an election, asking for questions, then not paying attention to the questions seems.. worse.
Every week/month or so they run a moderator-only chat, which if of course never when I'm awake, but anyway, during these chats you find out that they've released dozens of new moderator-only features, but they're never announced anywhere and there aren't even any obvious links to them
So the official communication really needs to be worked on
@ShaneMadden True. And some f them are only announced in the specific moderator chat room as well, so unless you're in there all day every day or you go in there and review the star wall before they fall off the bottom of the list...
I have a sneaking suspicion that it's genius, just very well hidden and in need of in-depth understanding. Until then, I'll curse at it like I know what I'm talking about.
ServerFault chat is rated PG-13 for language and suggestions of violence. Except when someone mentions SELinux. Then it's NC17 for rabid profanity and *ACTUAL* violence.
@WesleyDavid SELinux is shit. Wrapped in crap. Covered in poo.
It's a fantastic idea, but the implementation is busted - "Disable SELinux" is item #2 on the checklist for every admin I've ever met. (Item #1 is "Install Operating System")
@sysadmin1138 yes, but the BSD MAC framework is less painful to set up
Usually dealing with PHP apps that are breaking because of it. Or rather, breaking because they were coded in the form of spasmodic gerbils having seizures on the keyboard - and then AppArmor demands that they conform to at least a *loose* interpolation of secure.
@WesleyDavid I've done some with it. It takes intelligence to set up, but it actually does what it says on the tin and I didn't risk SAN loss. Won't stop SQL-injection, but will stop code-drops on bad parts of the filesystem.
There are no benefits that I can discern for using CentOS (or RHEL) over Ubuntu if you are equally familiar with using both OSes.
We use RHEL and CentOS heavily at work, and it's just painful -- we're building custom packages left and right because the OS doesn't come with them, and paid RedHat ...
I'm gunning for a Sr Windows admin position at a hosted service provider in the area - the thought of being responsible for patching hundreds of Windows servers without disrutpion to customers makes me feel like what Evel Knievel must have felt like when standing on the edge of the Grand Canyon with a rocket strapped to his back.
@voretaq7 What hurts your soul more? The Windows part or the hosted services part? =)
Hosted services has been a fascination of mine for a long time, in fact the name of my current business reflects that. I had hoped to get into that via bootstrapping, but a few bad contracts kinda sidelined me. Now considering working for someone else for the next few years.
for our machines / shared hosting environment I managed to win the CTO over to my side and basically told customers "This is the patch schedule. Don't like it? Buy a dedicated box you cheap bastards."
For the "fully managed" machines though, getting outage windows was insane
I read the security bulletins for stuff that affects our servers. Once one drops that impacts them, I start knocking on doors hat in hand looking for maintenance windows :P
@WesleyDavid My current company has quarterly windows - 1800 Eastern Friday until 0800 Eastern on Monday, the first Friday following the 15th of the mid-quarter months (Feb, May, Jul, Nov)
@sysadmin1138 Yeah, a large part of the time I bill for in managed services is sitting and reading the patches that affect what runs. I'm still waiting on the WSS 3.0 SP3 patch because it scares me spitless.
My curiosity has been how to clone live production systems and then test patches on them. I think the entire floor needs to be virtualized so you can snapshot the machines in question.
@voretaq7 So you patch and deploy in tandem? Meaning, it's not like you build up and destroy the test environment much then? Sounds to me like you built it, then it keeps rolling along just like the live side of things?
@voretaq7 Ohh... see, I think I'm too pedantic. I like to use systems that were freshly cloned from the prod environment if at all possible. So for firewalls, I'd make a script that is constantly dumping the config of live and applying it to test firewall. Same with switches. As for servers, I'd snapshot if possible.
Databases are the same. Make a snapshot in SQL Server or dump the whole thing to a new server just moments before needing it for test.
and sometimes changes do sneak into production, but you discover them in a hurry when the preflight script says "Oh yeah, I'm going to step on your firewall configuration. You might want to look to that."
@voretaq7 I've had exactly 2 4-hour windows in the past 12 years. One was because they were demolishing our offices and management was the one pushing us to do it now now now.
That's one of the items. The soft skills have gotten a lot better. I also need to get more familiarity with Windows, which I lack after 12 solid years of Solaris and Linux support and low-end administration.
Nah. No certs here and haven't had time to pursue them. I'm starting to think that the job needs to get shoved back down to its regular 8 hours regardless of mgmt expectations and hit the books more.
@WesleyDavid True. And I need to study Cisco anyway for those new Cisco switches I got in. Just about to pull the trigger on some basic Cisco books once my paycheck clears.
@WesleyDavid I don't want to know what unspeakable things might live on that old 2k3 server. All it's done for almost 6 years now is route traffic off a 20-unit public computer lab in our employment-services unit.
It's completely physically segregated on its own network, thankfully.
@AdrianK Okay, still thought, it's not a quantum leap by any stretch. I was just thinking, if you got RHCE (you've got teh bwainz already) then you could command a nice price and get some nice interviews.
Make 2012 the year of AndrianK. Get yourself primped and preened.
@WesleyDavid Oh yeah. It's more than time for that. Probably gotta beef up the Windows side a little though considering I'm in Redmond's backyard and all. Most of the full-on Unix people I know around here are jealous that Windows is only 1% of my job.
@AdrianK Yeah. Now, do you say that because you see a lot of jobs that you want, but might not get because of lack of Windows? I mean, from my perspective in the SW, a Linux/UNIX-only guy could make a freaking mint and get his choice of work any day of teh week.
@WesleyDavid Yeah. Every ad I see around here is primarily Windows with Linux/Unix as a nice-to-have. The only straight-up *nix ones are for Sage4 Seniors or niche specialists.
But you're right on the Cisco stuff. The really good ones have either RH or Cisco experience as a requirement.
@MarkHenderson Okay, want to know something scary? I have a folder full of bookmarks of keywords and phrases that I've found that are full of crappy questions. I've got thousands of posts I can flag. >:-D
A spate of employee suicides back in 2010 led to management installing nets on the sides of its buildings to stop staff jumping. - how is that a solution???
I might need some editorial help. I'm writing a blog post about content filtering and IT's role in policing it, and I think I'm getting way out of hand with the use of obscure words, alliteration, figures of speech and perhaps allusions. I need an objective pair of eyeballs. =)
Well, in a bizarre twist of events I'm actually covering for one of our customers (A network manager) today. So, it's a bit like stepping back in time but the school only has 500 kids!
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Ok. Is anyone looking for a really junior engineer? The guy who posted serverfault.com/questions/293217/… got kicked out by his mum (she's weird) and is now homeless and jobless.
I study for things then struggle to be arsed with the exam. Problem is, I've always got away with it and nobody seems to care so there's no real pressure to actually bother
I've gone through the whole CCNA series along with the security, voip and wi-fi and then some into the CCNP.
I've got the ECDL certs, first person to get it at my college, as I tested our exam centre before we opened it to outsiders. I got a remark back from the marker that the question on viruses wasn't actually asking for sample code
Ah, I have a "Level 3 Advanced Diploma in Systems Support"
@RobMoir Haha, class. I did mine while drunk
I passed my CV over to a uni friend of mine for proof reading. She was shocked that I'd put my qualifications and education as a small paragraphe at the end with barely any information.
She wouldn't have it that potential employers care more about what I've been doing in IT for the last 7 years than what I did at school
Does she work in a uni or is she a student? Either way, she'll find out when she gets into the real world. No one cares much about exams you did x years ago, they want to know what you've done lately
a few more places have asked what you've done since then but even then they want to tick a box to say you've got "a degree or equivilent" and don't actually want to hear all about the details of a 2:1 in liberal studies 20 years ago.
To be honest most people I know get jobs directly because of work they've done and contacts they've made - quallies are very important in your early-20's though
