@ewwhite The product management company I worked for definitely required quite the mix of responsibilities from their full-time staff. And I can't imagine that a 10-person startup would be less so than a 300 person company.
It's stabby tuesday and my first support case of the morning is a brand new AOL email failure code that I've never seen before, but a thoughtful user somehow managed to dredge up.
I have to say, AOL has a freaking awesome postmaster help and troubleshooting system.
@JourneymanGeek So do I. But my house is not sufficiently large to handle the astonishing large amount of books that I own unless some were stored electronically.
@Wesley Better than glassdoor. Their system doesn't appear to work properly with the new TLDs and the help desk has to manually activate email addresses that use them.
@DanilaLadner what @mdmarra said re: exchange and server versions. Also, unless there are really very few users, putting SQL and Exchange on the same server, and making it a DC at that, is not the path to joy and happiness
@Wesley Amazon also takes about 3 eons to go through their recruitment process too. I submitted a single resume' submission to them in early September. They were just getting around to a 2nd interview with me on October 10th when I accepted the position at the new place
However it's pretty hard to preemptively stop someone from sending a ton of data to apache. Most things will just help limit the amount of resources consumed.
@tylerl Yeahhh... it's gonna be fun. No virtualization, about five different switch vendors, no documentation, no idea what is plugged where. Literally NOTHING is known about it.
@tylerl As I said, while the ddos is technically a layer 7 attack, an attacker doesn't care if your server will respond to it correctly or not. The data will still flood your pipe regardless of what you do.
I will undoubtedly regret this, like I have with an CA product in the distant past...but I'm going to try out their Nimsoft Monitor SNAP product: http://www.ca.com/us/lpg/nimsoft-monitor-snap/register.aspx Apparently it is free for up to 30 devices and has some pretty extensive features that are nice to have. I'm not a fan of Nagios/et al, and Spiceworks 7 has been pissing me off lately. ibCAsucksballs
@Cole I'm flattered haha. This job is currently perfect for gathering much-needed "real world" experience. It's probably not going to be my career one.
@Cole Yep...apparently. Believe me, in a few years from now I'm hoping I snag a much better job. For now, this job as a resume builder is the best I can do atm
@TheCleaner Spiceworks seems to be crashy for me, and the only way I can fix it is by starting over since I blindly installed the RC...which is non-upgradable :(
@NathanC well, it's pretty easy enough to backup settings and restore them, they are basic flat files, but still...their support always tells me "well try removing the device again" and half the time when things go down I don't get proper notifications.
But they rock in terms of being able to easily grab desktop info, like warranty remaining, dell service tags, etc. etc. So maybe I'll keep them scanning our desktops and go with something else for the stuff I want alerting on
again.... I am asking how many users could my setup handle base on others people experience. not if i am testing it in the right way. I want a baseline. — Jonathan Thurft11 mins ago
One of my proudest moments was last week when a kid lost their iPad (I work at a school) and I used the Fluke tester to find it by MAC address. Not sure if anyone else finds this humorous.
@Jeffrey Yeah, I've done things like that. Always loved it. Tracing a MAC address to a switch port, form port to patch panel, from panel to office drop.
I am struggling with paying double the cost for an inferior spec'd server hardware vs consumer hardware.
Basically the server costs about $8,300 + $1,500 Warranty 9x5 4 Hour response 4 Year = $9,800
6 Core Xeon 2.5GHz processor 12 threads, 32 GB RAM 1333Ghz, 2 TB of storage RAID 10 10,000RPM, ...
I had to wear a shirt and tie during construction. The IDFs were the only rooms in the building with power at certain times, just try to keep the contractors out when they need to charge their tools. (Really wasn't their fault)
I ended up using pfSense and two 100/20 Comcast connections. If your browser uses multiple connections for downloading you could get 200 megabits down. Speedtest.net did :-)
I worked 7 day weeks, 80 hours+, they took away my overtime so I'm looking for a new gig. I said I would spend 30 days training someone or writing up documentation.
I am struggling with paying double the cost for an inferior spec'd server hardware vs consumer hardware.
Basically the server costs about $8,300 + $1,500 Warranty 9x5 4 Hour response 4 Year = $9,800
6 Core Xeon 2.5GHz processor 12 threads, 32 GB RAM 1333Ghz, 2 TB of storage RAID 10 10,000RPM, ...
Is ADSL's UDP packet forwarding rate strictly linear to packet size?
The answer is "no, because of the variable nature of ATM AAL5 padding used in ADSL lines".
Since you aren't sure what encapsulation is used on the ADSL modem, I'll assume it's PPPoE, most providers use PPPoE for customer c...
@Wesley thanks for that. I'm not sure how they're going to make it, I'm going to do my best to pass the torch but it's not fair to turn IT into DBA/Sys Admin/Programmer in 30 days.
pauska ... this is true and I'm set up to do so, it's just being a programmer and working at start ups you're not used to thousands of people actually using your systems at a given time, you pretty much could lazily throw stuff at a wall without affecting anyone
any puppetDB users around? I found some issues with the new v1.5, now that puppetdb-ssl-setup creates PEM certs instead of JKS stores. PuppetDB won't even start. :(
I'm about to walk out on my 30 days, they decided to disable LDAP and remove SSO from Google Apps without talking to me. They spoke to a Google Engineer instead of just asking. Little do they know that nobody has a password set in Google Apps, only in LDAP.
heh, just got a call from our on-call ops. All servers in our datacenter have lost their management interface. Welp, I guess we test today if we really only run management on it.
Now they're saying they're planning on it, but they spoke to a Google Engineer before they spoke to me? They don't see why I'd have an issue with that... guh
They strong armed me and insisted I had an employment contract until July 2013, but it's July 2012 and I know that. It's out of kindness to my coworkers.
Programming, my strongest language is JavaScript (front/back end) but I started using Python and really like it. I know PHP but I prefer not to use it :-)
I am struggling with paying double the cost for an inferior spec'd server hardware vs consumer hardware.
Basically the server costs about $8,300 + $1,500 Warranty 9x5 4 Hour response 4 Year = $9,800
6 Core Xeon 2.5GHz processor 12 threads, 32 GB RAM 1333Ghz, 2 TB of storage RAID 10 10,000RPM, ...
I am struggling with paying double the cost for an inferior spec'd server hardware vs consumer hardware.
Basically the server costs about $8,300 + $1,500 Warranty 9x5 4 Hour response 4 Year = $9,800
6 Core Xeon 2.5GHz processor 12 threads, 32 GB RAM 1333Ghz, 2 TB of storage RAID 10 10,000RPM, ...
Is ADSL's UDP packet forwarding rate strictly linear to packet size?
The answer is "no, because of the variable nature of ATM AAL5 padding used in ADSL lines".
Since you aren't sure what encapsulation is used on the ADSL modem, I'll assume it's PPPoE, most providers use PPPoE for customer c...
