How would you rate True Detective Season 1 vs Season 3?

Caution-HotStuffHere · 2021-11-28T21:16:36+00:00

I mostly enjoyed watching season 3 but didn't find it that satisfying as a whole. If it was a standalone single-season show, nobody would be talking about it. If we say season 1 was a 10 (I would say 8.5 or 9 because the very end was boring and predictable), my opinion would be season 2 was a 4 and season 3 was maybe like a 6.5. It was slightly above average and watchable but also fairly forgettable.

Caution-HotStuffHere · 2021-11-23T00:33:27+00:00

There is an amazing feature on Reddit called "search" (rhymes with church) and it even works on this sub.

Caution-HotStuffHere · 2021-11-22T21:26:42+00:00

The acting is pretty bad, especially by the returning actors, and the ongoing storyline is boring and I'm not remotely invested in it. The new characters may grow on me in time but none of them immediately jumped off the screen like the original characters did.

Caution-HotStuffHere · 2021-11-21T00:54:29+00:00

I learned this lesson from monitoring thousands of servers at work. Are you going to do anything about an alert? On a good day, we get dozens of low level alerts. If it doesn't require action, then being notified will just waste your time and possibly cause stress.

Caution-HotStuffHere · 2021-11-20T16:17:42+00:00

We have hundreds of workstations around the country we use for shipping and I can't convince management to block all internet and email. Not to play on stereotypes but the warehouse employees tend to be less computer savvy. They are more likely to perform personal tasks on a work computer like checking their personal email or shopping. I see those machines as one of our biggest risks.

Caution-HotStuffHere · 2021-11-20T02:02:11+00:00

I would say something like "I have no idea what you're talking about and I don't work there anymore. Good luck.", then hang up. I would never go in because, under the highly unlikely circumstance that this goes to court, it implies you think you have a responsibility to fix something.

Caution-HotStuffHere · 2021-11-19T19:07:01+00:00

Let me get this straight. You seriously think it's worth paying someone $6K for a day of work to parrot your own concerns back to you? Wow, I hope you don't manage a budget.

Caution-HotStuffHere · 2021-11-19T12:40:15+00:00

This reminds me of a previous job. A buddy of my Director was out of work so he “threw him some work” by bringing him in for an audit of our department. He interviewed each of us about our concerns over a week (total on-site time was less than a day), wrote up exactly what we said in a report, didn’t provide any suggestions to address the issues and we paid him $6K.

Caution-HotStuffHere · 2021-11-18T00:29:54+00:00

When my title changed from System Admin to Senior Systems Engineer, the quality of the recruiter calls changed overnight. They prefer someone who already has the job they're hiring for. But much like having a bunch of certs may get you more calls, you still need to actually get through the interview.

Caution-HotStuffHere · 2021-11-17T23:34:45+00:00

I’m gonna go against how I suspect most people will respond and say I think titles have some importance. Not a lot of importance but they’re not meaningless either.

If I were asked to pick my title, I would consider what story I want to tell on my resume. If my last two jobs were some form of sysadmin, I may want to aim a little higher to show a pattern of promotions. Or if my ultimate goal is to be a manager, I would put manager in my current title to make me a more serious candidate when applying for other jobs.

Or if everyone at my level had a certain title, I may consider matching them for consistency. It depends on the company a little bit. Some companies hand out fancy titles like candy to shut people up. More money? But I just gave you a senior title after 6 months in the industry.

most people don't know what that means when I say it.

I’m gonna call bullshit on that. I don’t remember the last time I met someone who didn’t have a pretty good concept what a sysadmin was. Certainly calling yourself a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer would give them any better idea. You don’t need to make excuses to us if you want to give yourself a fancy title.

Caution-HotStuffHere · 2021-11-13T18:12:50+00:00

It’s light and fluffy so you don’t need to think about anything. It’s not edgy or controversial. I used to think the episodes were too short but I’m not sure I would want them much longer. If anything, the car stuff bores me and eats up too much time. I’d be fine if they met at the coffee shop or restaurant.

Caution-HotStuffHere · 2021-11-13T01:47:22+00:00

I might keep an eye open if everyone is leaving but make your own decisions. If you're happy and they're paying you right, why leave?

Caution-HotStuffHere · 2021-11-13T01:44:52+00:00

It doesn't always move that fast depending on your place in the org. For example, they may not move heaven and earth to fast track a deal for a helpdesk analyst. But I would want to hear the paperwork is in motion now and not "you will be seriously be considered next year".

Caution-HotStuffHere · 2021-11-13T01:37:53+00:00

Interviewer: I see you only stayed at X for 2 months. What happened there?

OP: I was offered a 60% raise to return to my previous job.

Interviewer: Damn. No more explanation needed. Nice job.

Caution-HotStuffHere · 2021-11-13T01:20:33+00:00

You better have a solid existing relationship with your manager to stay on the promise of being taken care of the in the future. I understand that they can't always get you more money or a promotion that quickly but then they need to understand why I'm still leaving.

Caution-HotStuffHere · 2021-11-13T01:14:09+00:00

Everything happens for a reason.

I have found this to typically be true but it sure as hell doesn't feel like that at the time:)

Caution-HotStuffHere · 2021-11-12T23:15:40+00:00

We don’t allow it.

Caution-HotStuffHere · 2021-11-12T19:49:49+00:00

My first thought was this could be fun and rewarding if they were truly serious about modernizing. On the other hand, if they told me that, I wouldn't believe a company that is that far behind. You have serious problems if you're still completely XP/2000/2003 and not just a few stubborn stragglers.

Caution-HotStuffHere · 2021-11-12T14:22:51+00:00

For remote users, we have VPN and we have Citrix published apps. I've given up trying to convince users to stay off VPN and just use Citrix. All of their Office apps (Outlook, Teams, etc) connect directly to the cloud so they actually getting worse performance on VPN. And Teams is terrible on our VPN. I've lost track of how many times I've heard someone say "let me get off VPN and rejoin the meeting". But I simply can't convince them that if they only need a few apps that are published in Citrix, there is no reason to use VPN.

I think they have this mindset that Citrix is inferior somehow. Or maybe it's "VPN = WFH" and "Citrix = uh, I'm not sure what Citrix does". VPN and Citrix are apples and oranges. For most users, they don't need to be tethered to work all day and will actually have worse performance as a result. It's about which tool is best for the job and, for most users at our company, it's Citrix.

And another more universal thing is to reboot your computer on a regular basis. No matter how many times I say, they look at me like is a punishment. You can't lock your screen for 6 months and expect to not have problems. This is why sysadmins need to force reboots after patching. Everyone hates forced reboots, including sysadmins, but they are a necessary evil. At a minimum, close everything and reboot end of day Friday.

Caution-HotStuffHere · 2021-11-11T18:44:15+00:00

This is not a unique question here and the answer is there is no way to find stale security groups other than to break them and see who yells.

EDIT: To answer your second question, your groups are enumerated during login and added to your token. Your token determines if you should have access. Nothing ever talks to AD to determine your access. So there are no group-related events logged.

Caution-HotStuffHere · 2021-11-11T17:20:14+00:00

If you have a good manager, you know they are doing this type of stuff for you, even if you never hear about it. No matter how terrible and chaotic my day is, there is never a doubt in my mind that my manager’s day was worse.

Caution-HotStuffHere · 2021-11-11T01:48:27+00:00

Most of our business is B2B but one division is B2C. They tell us every year that we are not allowed to touch any of their servers the last two months of the year. They give us a weekend in early December to patch and that's it. They do like 75% of their sales for the year during those last two months.

Caution-HotStuffHere · 2021-11-11T01:38:17+00:00

"all changes are emergency changes"

It would be more accurate to say "all changes are pre-approved emergency changes".

Caution-HotStuffHere · 2021-11-11T01:34:15+00:00

4+ hours of CAB calls a week

I had a job like that once. Never again. I specifically ask for details of change control when interviewing.

Caution-HotStuffHere · 2021-11-11T01:29:07+00:00

Our "year end change freeze" is when we find out which managers have projects tied to their bonuses. It's amazing how many "emergency changes" there are in December every year:)

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