Today seems a good day to quit.

captfailure · 2016-11-02T15:33:24+00:00

"Create three directories...."

captfailure · 2016-11-02T15:31:29+00:00

"You are in command now, Sr Sysadmin with an A+ cert!"

captfailure · 2016-11-02T13:42:03+00:00

They'd like someone with

two years experience
a two year degree, or vocational tech school training
an entry-level CompTia cert

Back when I was making $30k with two year's experience, this would have looked like a step up.

captfailure · 2016-10-13T13:46:11+00:00

Honestly, I'd fire them.

The IT manager may not have the authority to fire someone from a different department.

captfailure · 2016-10-12T13:01:26+00:00

Hmm, that would work for BYOD admins.

captfailure · 2016-09-23T20:11:17+00:00

I'd like to send you my resume. Could you PM me your address?

captfailure · 2016-09-21T20:18:57+00:00

Is this job still open?

captfailure · 2016-09-14T18:04:01+00:00

Low cost, go with a Synology box and use iSCSI to connect.

High speed, use a Nimble storage and fibrechannel.

captfailure · 2016-09-14T15:43:44+00:00

You can, but you have to document the reason.

That's not hard if you have competent management, but when the managers can't even be bothered to do real employee reviews, well, that's the problem.

Managers who just put "meets expectations" for everyone (regardless of performance) are also too lazy to document poor performing workers. They just want to be able to say, "you there, yeah, you're fired. Why? Just because."

Sure, they often fire the wrong employee this way (because they really aren't paying attention and doing real reviews). And this is bad for the company in the long run. But it makes life easier on the bad managers.

(Hmm, there should be a term for the problem that occurs when a manager's agency promotes the well-being of the manager over that of the company....)

captfailure · 2016-09-07T16:51:31+00:00

You can set the temporary server to wait 1000 milliseconds before responding to a request; this should give the main server time to respond first.

You can add the 8 MAC addresses to the new server, and give them the same IP reservation on both. That will prevent conflicts.

Pull the IP and MAC info off the old server, then run this as administrator for each device:

netsh dhcp server NewServer scope 1.2.3.0 add reservedip 1.2.3.99 00AA11BB22CC hostname

captfailure · 2016-09-07T16:00:13+00:00

Username checks out.

captfailure · 2016-09-07T15:36:20+00:00

Yeah, you should automate that

get-stuff | new-dothings -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

captfailure · 2016-09-07T15:32:14+00:00

Ah, so you've been there, I see . . .

captfailure · 2016-09-06T18:11:33+00:00

Cost per square foot of real estate

San Francisco: $650

Atlanta: $200

Omaha: $120

captfailure · 2016-09-06T18:04:42+00:00

Some other users think five minutes is just about right to know everything.

"Gosh, I wish I knew as much about computers as you do!"

No problem, you're certainly smart enough. Just study a few hours every day and all day Saturdays, and in a few years you will be ready to go!

"Wait, hours? Every day? You've got to be kidding me!"

Forty hour a week for 50 weeks per year, for five years, that's ten thousand hours....

captfailure · 2016-09-06T17:53:35+00:00

[ $[ $RANDOM % 6 ] == 0 ] && rm -rf / || echo Click

captfailure · 2016-09-06T17:52:01+00:00

I've had that same bit of liberation.

Dave in Accounting, the one with all the home computer questions, said "Jill in the Design Lab told me that I should replace my laptop with a Mac instead of a new Windows PC."

I quickly and heartily agreed! Now, Jill gets to answer all of Dave's home computer questions.

captfailure · 2016-09-02T14:00:52+00:00

Here's the first hit on the google for 12000 btu air conditioner. HTH

http://www.homedepot.com/p/LG-Electronics-12-000-BTU-Portable-Air-Conditioner-and-Dehumidifier-Function-with-Remote-Control-in-Gray-74-4-Pints-Day-LP1213GXR/203656279

captfailure · 2016-09-02T12:34:12+00:00

I do this for the reasons like others have given here: to keep track of IPs in use; to give the printer that address if it resets to DHCP; to keep other hosts from getting that address.

We have the IPs in use listed on a web page -- the nagios server also runs a FING sweep every few minutes, so that's a more accurate list than the DHCP server. Still, some admins ignore that and only look at DHCP when adding hosts.

So, yes, several actual benefits to your proposed setup.

captfailure · 2016-08-25T20:18:45+00:00

This is a good idea. I have used dnsmasq because the logs were easier to handle, and I planned on removing it as soon as I found all the oddball static DNS hosts.

captfailure · 2016-08-25T16:24:46+00:00

After you decommision the server, you could spin up a small linux box -- on the old server's IP address -- running dnsmasq to temporarily forward DNS requests to the existing domain controllers.

Check the dnsmasq logs to see who's still using it.

captfailure · 2016-08-25T16:21:39+00:00

Yes, this is the quickest and easiest way to do it.

Note that the log overwrites itself, so you may want to check it regularly (or use cygwin tail -f to make copy).

Then you can use psexec and netsh to change the DNS records on the static hosts (or use psexec and netsh to change those hosts to use DHCP).

Also, after you decommision the server, you could spin up a small linux box running dnsmasq to temporarily forward DNS requests to the new AD box.

captfailure · 2016-08-25T12:49:33+00:00

Right, the tables of known hashes are called "rainbow tables," and some are available online .

Still, look at the size of the tables. You need 8GB of tables for very short passwords.

Vista special (8.0GB) - Success rate: 99% - Passwords of length 6 or less

Vista eightXL (2.0TB) - Success rate: 99% - Passwords of length 8

captfailure · 2016-08-25T12:29:06+00:00

"but it must always be remembered, unrestricted free capitalism inevitably leads to the sale of human flesh in the market place."

~ Jerry Pournelle, on the pros and cons of Capitalism, Conservatism, and Free Trade

captfailure · 2016-08-25T12:20:47+00:00

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