@MichaelHampton I actually quit a job with a great IT team at a job I enjoyed, to take this position for the professional development opportunities (And frankly way more money than I'm worth) that their massive infra-project offered, and wast actually "|| <- that" close to storming into a board meeting and telling them shove the position back up their asses over this.
I'm still really pissed off that the comptroller... or accounting upper manager guy who had all that info out in plain sight for anyone who knew what it was to use "since forever ago" wasn't fired on the spot, and still has his job, making more money than me. >:/
Which doesn't bother me half as much as the other situation, because there is a least a basic level of auditing and logging and even security of the electronic stuff.
Line item 2,000 something on the list of shit I need to urgently change around here as part of the project. Literally, no exaggeration. Up to over 3,600 line item changes that need to be made to make the environment/company remotely secure or function in its IT assest.
So they know, and they're burning through a lot of $$$$ to make these changes they need happen, it's just you walk into something like that, and you know it's a longer term, multi-year project.... but I just couldn't conceive of anything being such... an indescribably "WTFF" state as a lot of the stuff here and I was... just floored. OH. MY. GOD., killmenow kind-of floor.
You're being paid to admin these systems, right?
You can do a couple of things.
First, you can just live with it, and pocket the easy money. Of course you're going to burn out fast.
Second, you can tell your boss exactly how much money it's costing the company to allow the users to trash their...
@MichaelHampton Oh yeah, and I'm happy here. I'm not really complaining, just venting, because, well, wow, I just gotta let some of that out or it'll build up inside and kill me.
Actually, my approach/outlook on that kind of thing (regarding that answer I can't upvote again, lol) is #2, followed by #1 if my warning are ignored.
"Hey you need to fix this, ASAP, thusly [...]. If you don't agree, that's fine too, I have no problems cashing the check for doing nothing but having my recommendations shot down by you."
I've yet to have anyone say, "great, keep cashing the checks for doing functionally nothing."
Yeah, but probably not for me. I came from a long series of one-man everything admin/IT guy (literally like, hey we need you to do professional-grade video editing/econding on Wednesday and stand up a SQL deployment on Thursday) working 80-100 work weeks and getting paid for 40 to a batshit-insane large datacenter with 6 nines uptime SLAs with a simialr work/pay set up (and 24/7 forced oncall responses of <5 minutes kinda deal - 0 life at all) to whoring myself out as self-employed consultant
to this place. If I was gonna burn out or toss myself off a building, it would have happened at least 8 years ago. :) This is a slow, relaxing pace in a more sane environment than I'm used to, sadly.
I just cope well by bitching/venting and drinking. In large quantities for both. :D
@MichaelHampton Kewl... moved a task from the old review system to the beta... not sure I like that... browsing the big list of those categories by time period and type of potential shit I found to be very effective at finding large amount of shit to fix or flag.
Anyway, I got like 4 hours 'til work time again, so I'munna sack out. See ya later, and thanks for listening to me vent.
In the new First Posts review, if you take an action on the question, I'm Done becomes available to click on. However, after taking the action, if you click the browser's Back button and then Forward again, I'm Done is disabled again.
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I'm not sure how I feel about this. When I edit an item I reviewed, my name is added to the question or answer for obvious rea...
Have an external domain name, that points to a NATed public IP which then directs to an internal service. All standard stuff.
Internally, this works fine with NAT reflection but I need them to go direct. Really don't want a full split-dns setup as there is only one record that matters, the rest of the domain is all external
So, if the domain name is mydomain.co.uk and the URL that I care about is myservice.mydomain.co.uk, can I create a zone for myservice.mydomain.co.uk with a blank (?) A record
So that [anythingelse].mydomain.co.uk and, indeed, mydomain.co.uk itself will just get forwarded as normal
When someone tries to interview them, you try to interview them right back - With apologies to Malcolm Reynolds A question came up on the SysAdmin subreddit asking how someone could be sure that the company was actually presenting itself accurately. I think that needs to be a concern for anyone interviewing for a new [...]
Hi. A while ago I was helped a lot here on a Friday afternoon with a Powershell question I had asked at SF. I was then told that, while such questions are on topic here, it might be a better idea to ask those questions at SO. In case anyone of you wants to earn some rep on SO, I have now done so with a new question I have.
@sbi Consider also the time of day. It's only just now coffee-making and breakfast time in the US east coast, and three more hours before the West coast rolls out of bed.
And that's if the sysadmins weren't up all night doing maintenance on something.
Finally, as I seem to be the only other person awake here now, I'll tell you I do Linux, and know little of PowerShell. So I can't really answer your question.
@MichaelHampton Thanks for looking at it, though. In general, I'd expect more input from SO than from SF — because SO has so much more users. I just thought that, since some of you did answer my question back then, those might be interested to answer on SO.
Anyway, I will now bow out again. Have a nice one, everybody!
2x servers, cloned from a template. Very little configuration done, though what was done was done at the same time, identically on each. Except I can't RDP to one, but I can the other 0.o
@MichaelHampton chuckle. Nice bit of kit but no way could I justify buying one. And no-way could I justify the school buying one but it's for a senior member of staff that does a lot of propectus work.
@pauska UAG was developed by a company, that MS bought, who used TMG (used to be ISA) at the core of an appliance. So UAG was always just TMG with some extra crap. Personally I can't believe they're keeping UAG around as it blows pretty hard. TMG was already a red-headed step child, and a joke of a firewall. It still doesn't support IPv6, at all.
@ChrisS I know, TMG is more pain than most other things in IT.. but UAG is kind of nice to support external clients with untrusted PC's.. We publish terminal servers etc
@Dan I'd double check anyways.. we often get problems with vm's not being sysprep'ed correctly after cloning even with customization specifications going in
Okay, @dan @michael @tombull I have a customer (the same one from yesterday) who wants to build an online store for their business. They are doing it in PHP, and one of the two IT people is going to do it.
I did a upgrade to FreeBSD 9.0 from 8.0 this past weekend. I love that I literally ran: 1. Shutdown all services 2. fetch kernel.txz and base.txz 3. cd / 4. tar xf kernel.txz and base.txz 5. Reboot
A couple schg flags tripped me, but those were quick to fix.
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