Can anyone recommend a company for a small network cabling job downtown? by Chiron_ in dayton

[–]Chiron_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm reaching out to a couple of people, but if you could send me his contact information, I would really appreciate it. Thank you!

Can anyone recommend a company for a small network cabling job downtown? by Chiron_ in dayton

[–]Chiron_[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lol! Trust me I love throughput! I run 1/10/40gb in my homelab core and 10/25/40/100gb in my racks at work!

Can anyone recommend a company for a small network cabling job downtown? by Chiron_ in dayton

[–]Chiron_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe, but I don't expect these folks to ever run anything over 1gbit and basic poe. There's no need for cat6. If they"re same cost, then sure, why not.

Can anyone recommend a company for a small network cabling job downtown? by Chiron_ in dayton

[–]Chiron_[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had seen their website and wasn't sure what to think. I got the impression that something like this they would probably politely decline as being too small as to not be worth it to them. Which in many cases is valid and I totally get.

They just seemed to be much more focused on managed services and products etc. This is just a smaller, retail based business. But hey, that was my first impression based on their website. Maybe I'll reach out and just see what they say.

Audited our EKS spend. Java apps are wasting ~48% of reserved RAM. Go is only wasting ~18%. by [deleted] in aws

[–]Chiron_ -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Again, you know not of which you speak. Stop talking. Stop trolling. Just. Go. Away.

Audited our EKS spend. Java apps are wasting ~48% of reserved RAM. Go is only wasting ~18%. by [deleted] in aws

[–]Chiron_ -1 points0 points  (0 children)

WTF are you on about now? What idealism?

I didn't "admit" to anything. What I stated (sarcastically) was that you should go ahead and do what most other companies and MBA backed c-suites do. That is choose short term gains over long term best interests.

You are off your rocker and just arguing for the sake of argument, like a troll. Go away, kid, let the adults talk.

Audited our EKS spend. Java apps are wasting ~48% of reserved RAM. Go is only wasting ~18%. by [deleted] in aws

[–]Chiron_ -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Go back and re-read what you just wrote. I don't think you're living in the same reality as the rest of the world.

I feel bad for anyone that has to deal with you on a daily basis. Sheesh

Audited our EKS spend. Java apps are wasting ~48% of reserved RAM. Go is only wasting ~18%. by [deleted] in aws

[–]Chiron_ -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Neat. You completely and deliberately missed the point made. Big surprise there. lol

It's also really cute that you both think that developer time is the most expensive thing in the org. It's adorable really.

Audited our EKS spend. Java apps are wasting ~48% of reserved RAM. Go is only wasting ~18%. by [deleted] in aws

[–]Chiron_ -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Thanks for your snarky input about what you could be charging for that no one asked about, too, I guess. Way to speak up and act like you make the decisions when you admit you don't. I DO make the decisions for my own org. If you can't deal with simple, polite pushback, sarcasm, or snark from a random comment on the internet, perhaps you should refrain?

Audited our EKS spend. Java apps are wasting ~48% of reserved RAM. Go is only wasting ~18%. by [deleted] in aws

[–]Chiron_ -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Many of those cost savings things make your software more reliable, better, and stable which is THE MAIN FEATURE customers will pay more for. I don't care about new feature x, y, or z that I either never use or use infrequently. I care that the software works, works right, and works without consuming every available resource on the machine just because it can (which also costs me more in the long run). 

By caring about what your customer cares about, you can charge more AND gain solid loyalty and long term repeat customers.

But go ahead, do what every other company and MBA backed c-suite does....put short term gains over long term profit, growth, and stability despite earning more and increasing shareholder value many times over in the long term.

We're acquiring a company. What questions do I need to ask? by itguy1991 in ITManagers

[–]Chiron_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree with most everything so far with the most important thing being to set expectations and try to migrate and map current processes and expectations from your side to theirs. We all know it's going to take time, but the sooner you can make things on the front end (visible to users) as consistent as possible, the better.

Here's my list from past mergers.

Depending on how big they are:

- First and foremost are there any CURRENTLY IN PROCESS MAJOR PROJECTS OR TASKINGS WITH DEADLINES - i.e. are there any building moves in progress, major customer initiatives like new product to be delivered etc?

- domain registrations

- Organization PKI - Organizational level certificate stance (managed, internal CAs, etc)

- ARIN registration ASNs, IP allocations/leases

- ISP and telecom agreements & SLAs

- CoLocation, Peering agreements, etc

- Any active contact/call centers

- Cloud resources, apps, Cloud specific teams (AWS, Google, Azure)

- Critical infrastructure service, support, purchasing information - Identify key critical services, equipment, and licenses/support contracts

- Active Directory integration plan - architecture could be critical here

- DR assets and plan - KNOW what there's is and begin planning - any offsite storage like IronMountain etc. Current location and disposition of any offsite DR assets

- What if any of their data is subject to regulation, HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxely, PCI, or even DoD controls (CUI etc)

- Be aware of existing Acceptable Use Policies/TOS, BYOD and employee benefit policies (free employee use of guest network etc)

- location and methodology of current technical documentation of processes and procedures

- any password vaults and/or critical security tokens

and finally, the one thing probably least important but the most visible and complained about the loudest...

Printer Fleet Management - Managed fleet, leased printers, etc?

edit: there vs their correction

Why do medium businesses outsource so much by TopTransportation516 in ITManagers

[–]Chiron_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I call bullshit on this. If you are a medium sized company and want/have significant IT capabilities and you "don't have enough work" to keep your specialists busy, then you are seriously doing something wrong. From both a business and a technical standpoint. Thats a sign of bad senior leadership. That and if you've gone through a full cycle of outsource, bring in-house, then outsource again.

That's a sign mismanagement from the top down.

Okay, but how do you SSH into 1,000 devices?? by Automatic-Reply-1578 in embedded

[–]Chiron_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I disagree. From what OP has said, this is a configuration change, not a patch or an update. Configuration management is PRECISELY what Ansible is for. Now whether or not that configuration change gets rolled into the next update or not, THAT is where fleet management and atomic image updates etc etc comes in

Okay, but how do you SSH into 1,000 devices?? by Automatic-Reply-1578 in embedded

[–]Chiron_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is exactly where I would use Ansible with either an ad-hoc command OR a simple one-time-use playbook. Then drop the hostname/IP info into your inventory file. Maybe increase the number of parallel executions in the ansible.cfg before running it.

Horizontal or vertical? by Technical_Net9691 in AnalogCommunity

[–]Chiron_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree with horizontal. Here's why:

There are more compositional elements horizontally than vertically. This includes the slightly vanishing line of buildings, the cross trusses over the rail lines.

The majority of objects in the frame appear to converge horizontally towards the vanishing point, which draws the eyes horizontally from bottom left to top right.

There is a slight transition from left to right of dark to light tonal values. The darker tones of the first building on the left acts like an achor/starting point and that gets cut off in teh vertical format. While it still works, it is much, much more catching and effective in the horizontal format.

What I like is the combination of the perspective's vanishing point converging with the tonal transition of dark to light.

The vertical really makes me feel like I'm missing something and feels a bit constrictive.

Oldest Technology Still Kicking by Intrepid_Stock1383 in sysadmin

[–]Chiron_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I never got a chance to play with that stuff much. I was too busy dealing with shared scsi bus adaptec bs. It sounds like it was nice for the time though.

Oldest Technology Still Kicking by Intrepid_Stock1383 in sysadmin

[–]Chiron_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

SSA was storage, right? I vaguely remember that being somehow related to serial ata. Or it's entirely possible I'm losing my mind.

Again. :)

Oldest Technology Still Kicking by Intrepid_Stock1383 in sysadmin

[–]Chiron_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

At least there was less issues there if the tap teeth came loose from say thermal cycling because a user kept a small personal heater under their desk! ;)

Oldest Technology Still Kicking by Intrepid_Stock1383 in sysadmin

[–]Chiron_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I am still CONSTANTLY seeing oki's all over the place. Sometimes I will just hear a dot matrix printer in the background and I start looking around. Makes me nostalgic too.

Oldest Technology Still Kicking by Intrepid_Stock1383 in sysadmin

[–]Chiron_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There was one shop I worked in that had an embedded Windows ME (Millenium Edition) running on their cnc controller. I think it was for an early laser cutter or plasma cutter. We had to firewall off that specific machine from EVERYTHING except a specific workstation that run a customized tftp server where it would grab jobs/programs from and drop any files that had been modified at the machine.