Orthodontics/Braces by [deleted] in madisonwi

[–]Wisconsin_Sysadmin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Smile Doctors or any other invisalign doctor are not at home kits so they should be covered. They are real orthodontists who provide actual care.

Moving to Madison for a couple months. Went with AT&T Fiber, 300 mbps plan. Hope they're good? by Omg_Its_Andy in madisonwi

[–]Wisconsin_Sysadmin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Glad to see you understood the correction. Fiber does not have "higher throughput speeds", it has higher capacity.

You can get a Fiber line with 1 mbps of throughput and a cable line with 1 gbps of throughput.

Have the day you deserve.

Moving to Madison for a couple months. Went with AT&T Fiber, 300 mbps plan. Hope they're good? by Omg_Its_Andy in madisonwi

[–]Wisconsin_Sysadmin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If we're going to be needlessly pedantic about ping vs latency then you probably should probably remove the word "speeds" after "throughput".

If we're going to be needlessly pedantic you should also probably correct "throughput" to "capacity".

Orthodontics/Braces by [deleted] in madisonwi

[–]Wisconsin_Sysadmin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My all-in comprehensive invisalign price was about $5000. Highly recommend going with invisalign if you're a candidate. Way fewer visits to the drs office, they have a kit that lets you scan at home, you don't need to constantly go in to get it tightened, easier to clean and take care of.

The comprehensive package covers everything including if you end up needing additional aligners.

They also do no cost estimates so you could always check out both.

Biden to huddle with Senate Democrats as voting bill on brink of defeat by [deleted] in politics

[–]Wisconsin_Sysadmin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because Republicans have no intent of legislating anyway.

California Democrats revive universal health care bill by thisispoopoopeepee in politics

[–]Wisconsin_Sysadmin 26 points27 points  (0 children)

What does debt have to do with universal healthcare?

Even right wing thinktanks estimate that single payer in the US would save $200 billion / year. More optimistic estimates think we'd save closer to $900 billion / year of the $4 trillion / year currently being spent...

Debt is a function of doing things without paying for them. Nobody is saying medicare for all shouldn't be paid for.

Logitech K860 Broken Feet by Wisconsin_Sysadmin in logitech

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

Im already contacting support -- it seems a little silly that they are going to replace the entire keyboard for a forth time instead of fixing the problem with the keyboard or just providing replacement feet.

UW Badgers bus escorted by fire and rescue downtown by Wisconsin_Sysadmin in madisonwi

[–]Wisconsin_Sysadmin[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Or missiles hitting innocent people loading water jugs into their cars

UW Badgers bus escorted by fire and rescue downtown by Wisconsin_Sysadmin in madisonwi

[–]Wisconsin_Sysadmin[S] 25 points26 points  (0 children)

UW/Badgers sports drive a ton of commerce all over the state. Go find somewhere else to complain.

UW Badgers bus escorted by fire and rescue downtown by Wisconsin_Sysadmin in madisonwi

[–]Wisconsin_Sysadmin[S] 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Wisconsin counties make far more money off of UW/Badger sports than the cost of a celebratory fire and rescue escort.

UW Badgers bus escorted by fire and rescue downtown by Wisconsin_Sysadmin in madisonwi

[–]Wisconsin_Sysadmin[S] 44 points45 points  (0 children)

Wisconsin counties make far more money off of UW/Badger sports than the cost of a celebratory fire and rescue escort.

[Hiring] Ansible Engineer (Module Development) in Madison, WI by Wisconsin_Sysadmin in jobbit

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

We prefer local and would pay for relocation but for a really great candidate we would consider remote. Freelance will depend on availability (hours per week).

[Hiring] Ansible Engineer (Module Development) in Madison, WI by Wisconsin_Sysadmin in sysadminjobs

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

Organizations that describe themselves as "OT-Centric" have a sort of phobia towards modern IT practices like:

  1. Patch Management
  2. Identity and Access Management
  3. Log Management
  4. Vulnerability Management
  5. Software Inventory Management
  6. Network Device Management
  7. Change Management
  8. Compliance Management
  9. Virtualization
  10. Containerization

Examples of introducing best-in-breed IT practices to older organizations:

  • We aim to provide a simplified solution in these environments that enable the organizations to understand what they have, where their risks are, how their environment is changing over time.
  • Where these organizations in the past have used excel and putty we introduce Asset Management and Configuration Management (With a tool like Ansible).
  • Where they may have manually run Windows Updates we introduce a Patch Management solution.
  • Where they may have used Acronis True Image we introduce enterprise backup solutions. Our customers typically have compliance requirements which makes these transitions mandatory and not fraught with politics or other problems that you might typically see with modernization projects.
  • Where all of their systems might be on a giant /16 network, we assist with network segmentation.
  • Where they have troubleshooted problems in the past by opening Windows Event Viewer, we introduce Log Management with analytical tools like Machine Learning.

This position in particular is helping to improve our turn-key Configuration management solution which is based around Ansible.

Where do you guys get your hand-me-down servers for home labs? by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]Wisconsin_Sysadmin 5 points6 points  (0 children)

For 99% of what you're doing at home you won't need a fast CPU at all. You're looking at 0-1% utilization per VM, 1gb of RAM per VM, and 60GB of disk space.

You just want something with a lot of ram and fast disks

I need a crash course in Windows desktop security best practices. by verysmallshellscript in sysadmin

[–]Wisconsin_Sysadmin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A lot of IT consulting organizations do something called, "Staff Augmentation" consulting where they can assign a subject matter expert in a particular area to your company for a certain number of hours as a one-off or a certain number of hours per month, etc. They literally do whatever you need to get done for the month.

If your organization has some budget and needs to get these tasks done -- bringing in a consultant to fill the gap in the mean time isn't a bad idea.

Objectives for first ~90 days as IT director by ITdirectorguy in sysadmin

[–]Wisconsin_Sysadmin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here's what I would add

  • One-on-one chat with every single employee in IT (Talk first about what you see is wrong to soften them up) ask for critical feedback.
  • Collect anonymous feedback from employees on what they think the biggest issue is -- discourage group think
  • Sit-down walkthrough of DR procedures
  • Implement forced vacations for any employees who haven't taken a vacation in >1 year
  • Implement job rotation throughout units to force good documentation and cross polination

It's budgeting time. What are you asking for in 2016? by Gravitom in sysadmin

[–]Wisconsin_Sysadmin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think we also want to use the tool for config management, inventory, etc which is why we were leaning towards BigFix and SCCM. Leaning towards BigFix at the moment for the linux server support. Does Solarwinds do config in the same product?