@David Oh sorry, usually the agencies you're interested in will be able to tell you what degrees qualify for what positions, and at least for the bigger schools, there's usually someone there who can give you a pretty good idea as well.
But if you really want an IT job in intelligence or the D.o.D. sphere, join the service for 6 years. Gives you a big leg up in getting the position, and the government will pay for your degree on top (G.I. bill).
Oh, and get your head checked. Actually working for the government in a position like that is full of so much soul-crushing suck, no one who thinks they want to do it actually feels the same way after they've gotten in.
@David Depends. If you're real hot-shit, and have a security clearance, they'll overlook you lack of prior killingsmanship, but it's definitely one of those environments where prior military/intelligence experience is huge.
@David Ah well, if you already have one of those jobs, it'd be a step up... in pay... but I dunno why anyone wouldn't just want to go the corporate-whore route and get a better job, in addition to a better paycheck.
@PauskaSock Ah, t'was the shint. Thanks. I'll go post that nayway, since I got the question all queued up. does the sock puppet want to answer it for an accept and upboat, or should I answer it my self?
Oh you lost a week's worth of work because you left a file open on a remote server that mysteriously rebooted? Bummer. But at least you learned a lesson about saving your shit frequently.
@HopelessN00b Don't be fooled by the training mission though, once you've got the hang of the controls it's not particularly difficult to pass that one
@David You can always go into the sessions and share manager and close the sessions... a little more graceful than just bouncing the server, but ultimately, same effect. Unsaved changes are unsaved.
Spotted a minor flaw in the new /review system -- If multiple (non-moderator) users select the same automatic comment for a question it gets posted multiple times.
This can give the appearance that we're beating up on the user as they accumulate a stream of auto-comments telling them exactly the...
I kinda like the way it works now, TBH. I remember @MarkAnderson posting a link-only answer and having half a dozen people pile on with that comment through the review queue. Made my day.
As the title asks, I'm wondering if there's any standard or "best practice" for how to actually assign nameservers (DNS) and manage the nameserver configuration for client servers on a Windows domain.
I'm talking about the setting circled in the below image, in case the language of the question ...
I would like to build (or purchase) the smallest, quietest most energy efficient servers that I can for a low demand environment. These would only have a small disk for guest swap files, a CPU (XEON preferred), 32 Gb of memory and minimal graphics. The virtual machines need to be up but demand ...
@David Nope. I prefer to not have any other roles on my DCs, but DHCP is a fairly common role to throw on a DC, given that they're the center of your Windows network anyway.
@HopelessN00b yeah, but think about it from the PoV of a 1-rep user who posts a link-only answer honestly thinking they're helping -- One comment (with a bunch of upvotes from the other people leaving it) is better than a bunch of identical comments (which looks like we're all ganging up yelling at them)
@voretaq7 Honestly... I dunno how I feel about that. Yeah, maybe it can look like a bunch of people coming in for teh gangbangz, but on the other hand, having a bunch of different people say something is more persuasive than having one person say it, even if the one person has the number 3 beside what he said.
@MikeyB well in this case it's a glitch giving that impression. Everyone did what they were supposed to (@Iain left a comment, and the other reviewers all hit "recommend deletion" & I assume everyone selected the link-only auto comment)
@HopelessN00b It's kinda the same problem as the downvote gang-bangs (though those are worse because mods can't fix the 10000 downvotes a post earned after the author edits it to not suck anymore)
Here if I wasn't going to delete the whole answer it would just have meant clicking two X buttons instead of one to clear the comments after he fixed it
@voretaq7 Does that ever happen? Not been here a whole long time, but I've yet to see a question that deserves the downvote-pile-on ever improved to the point of being... well, worth existing.
@gparent I usually keep the window of a question I downvote open until I leave work for the day - if it gets fixed (or the OP responds to my comment on it) I'll revisit and vote as appropriate
The downvote pile-ons I've seen... well, participated in, are all for reasons of utter heinousness. And I typically bookmark, VTC and then come back for a delete vote after 3 days.
@voretaq7 I guess we'll have to disagree on that. A lot of the less clueful repeat-offenders clearly don't get the hint with 2 or 3 downvotes. Adding more downvotes could only help, I'd think.
@HopelessN00b if one or two and a close+comment doesn't clue them in they're not gonna get clue -- better they leave mumbling about how mean we are than leave after pitching a hissy on Meta
(remember - pitching hissy fits on Meta makes the guys with the blue names have to do work. We're sysadmins -- we HATE work!)
Read the FAQ usually means off-topic, which is a close reason (and an appropriate comment like "Your question is off-topic on Server Fault because of X <insert babble about better site if appropriate>")
@voretaq7 Weird, it's what my tooltip says. Should I post a bug report on mSO to have them look into why your downvote tooltip is displaying incorrectly?
Not why *I* have a problem with mSO. I think it's mostly the SO part for me. :)
Like I said, I think we're just not gonna agree on this, so you'll just have to suck it up and live with the fact that you're wrong, because I have the little blu... crap, I think I got something backwards in there....
Here's a challenge for you all... Client has standalone ESXi 5 server. I need to put the 6 VM's on it on a USB 2.0 external drive to be shipped to another data center (to seed the initial copy of VMWARE replication). How would you do it?
@voretaq7: I just saw that you reworded (and upvoted?) a question of mine which was unfortunately closed as off-topic about a month ago. Any particular reason for you caring about closed questions? :)
@voretaq7: I'm glad you say so, there seemed to be a few others who found it interesting (and some even responded) as well, I didn't understand why it was offtopic (and I didn't dare to ask after some people [in comments to the question] started argueing about how there is no such thing as a "hobbyist programmer").
well in the context of this site you're either a hobbyist/home user (off topic) or a professional system administrator -- we're unique in the Stack Exchange network in that we're one of the few sites specifically targeted at professionals working in a professional/corporate/enterprise situation. Your question got stomped on because you used the "H" word (*home*).
@FrerichRaabe in your case I'm going to assume this is for a company/corporate/professional use because you're essentially talking about documentation and change management, which isn't something hobbyists (or professionals kicking around on their personal machines for fun) usually bother with
(and if I'm wrong don't disabuse me of that notion :-)
@voretaq7: I didn't actually use the word "home" anywhere, but I guess "hobbyist" is close enough. ;-) I'm indeed doing this in a corporate environment - it just happens that we're a small shop and there's no full-time system administrator, instead it's just me and another developer trying to do some of the things. So in that sense we're amateurs (maybe that word would've been more appropriate).
@FrerichRaabe eh, you're effectively the system administrator then. It might not be your primary job role, but it's the one you're filling, and you're filling it in a professional capacity (getting paid, taking it seriously)
@WesleyDavid I was on a concall with their country support team today and offered to license our software and process for doing updates. Because, you know, when we do it it doesn't brick their hardware :)
I would like to build (or purchase) the smallest, quietest most energy efficient servers that I can for a low demand environment. These would only have a small disk for guest swap files, a CPU (XEON preferred), 32 Gb of memory and minimal graphics. The virtual machines need to be up but demand ...
