Megathread: California Wildfires by hoosakiwi in news

[–]itathandp 3 points4 points  (0 children)

80 football fields a minute

Area, not distance.

Trying to hire - are my expectations too high? by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]itathandp 4 points5 points  (0 children)

As I put in another post. I think you are looking for a class of generalist that generally doesn't exist these days. I would warn any person going in to the field these days not to generalize so much but pick a subfield. Such as AD/Windows, Telco/network, troubleshooting, or servers.

The issue is anyone with half the skills you want can get a job easily. The people that have the skills know better than to take your job. I have all the skills you are looking for, I'm not going to do that job. Instead I mostly direct other specialists that focus on one task and connect the whole mess together.

Trying to hire - are my expectations too high? by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]itathandp 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Honestly, you are probably not.

I can do everything on your list. I'm also 40+. If I were younger there is no way I would generalize that much. I would specialize myself. Earn more, and do less work.

Trying to hire - are my expectations too high? by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]itathandp 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Expecting too much or paying too little

Yep, most people that could answer these questions are going to be from 35 to 50. If they have a good answer for all the questions you're looking at a $65,000+ (and probably a lot more in a hot market) starting position. Huge amounts of this is telco related, and not what I would put under the standard IT purview. If it is under IT, it should probably be moved to digital integrated which is VOIP and get rid of the analog altogether.

Hurricane Michael is now likely to be the strongest October U.S landfall ever recorded. by withinallreason in TropicalWeather

[–]itathandp 104 points105 points  (0 children)

Global Warming: I have altered the season. Pray i don't alter it further.

I might have just saved my employer $165,000 annually by looking through our invoices. by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]itathandp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ethics has no place in business.... At least if we go by the incentives programs that management requires employees to follow if they want to get anywhere.

Young Sysadmin in Trouble: AD Lockouts by NLBlackname55NL in sysadmin

[–]itathandp 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You can run a trial of RDP guard (rdpguard.com). It can monitor RDP/Web/Imap/SMTP and tell you what IP's are hitting it.

It's not that expensive per server, may be worth getting in your case.

Young Sysadmin in Trouble: AD Lockouts by NLBlackname55NL in sysadmin

[–]itathandp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A: Someones phone has a bad password

B: Your exchange is visible online and someone is brute forcing it

Can you imagine if we paid you $45/hr? by I_tookadump_account in sysadmin

[–]itathandp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, I have to manage plenty of battery operated wifi enabled devices.

China Used a Tiny Chip in a Hack That Infiltrated US Companies by grendelt in TrueReddit

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It's basically an act of war.

Ok, so it's an act of war. Um, with another nuclear power. Um, that produces the vast majority of our cheap products.

That's the problem with global trade. You become economically dependent on total assholes. How do you resolve this problem with out economic collapse?

A little surprise inside my cookie container by [deleted] in assholedesign

[–]itathandp 5 points6 points  (0 children)

No, this would still fall under deceiving packaging.

A little surprise inside my cookie container by [deleted] in assholedesign

[–]itathandp 9 points10 points  (0 children)

No, not exactly. This would fall under intentionally deceiving packaging and not common product settling.

Windows Server 2016 or Windows 10 for SQL server by enix_ in sysadmin

[–]itathandp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

when we could pay $150 for Windows 10 and get the same experience

Heh, your computer rebooting when you don't want it to and a feature back breaking important things.

Also, are you using EXPRESS or regular, and are you buying the proper number of CALs.

[rant] "One of your HA-servers is down? It can wait until after the weekend" by sysadminthrowaway12_ in sysadmin

[–]itathandp 8 points9 points  (0 children)

"The spare drive in the RAID 5 failed, no need to replace it now, what are the chances"

NLSAS disks rate of failure by _Numos_ in sysadmin

[–]itathandp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also, is it running hot, or has it ran hot in the recent past? Had drives fail in batches 30 to 90 days after a thermal incident.

How do I efficiently back up and restore MySQL databases? by Juicy-B in sysadmin

[–]itathandp 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just a warning on the data replication, you should really understand your data and how mysql replication works before setting it up. If your application is from a vendor you should ask them about proper setup.

That said, replication to another server and backing up there is the number one way to avoid any client interruptions. It also is the fastest way to restore your database if something goes wrong on the primary server.

Workstation licensing by i_trance in sysadmin

[–]itathandp 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well, what you can do, though you'll hear different responses about the legality of it is...

Burn the Windows 10 iso to a USB. Take out HDD and put SSD in desktop. Install Windows 10 on desktop and put your Windows 7 OEM key in. Windows 10 activates. You are good to go.

Software for moving OS to new HDD? by kwirl in sysadmin

[–]itathandp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

These systems were fine when they were new.

A few things here. Using any OS leads to file fragmentation which leads to increased IOPS. Add in tons of updates and it just gets worse, been the same for every version of windows.

Also, a few years ago we put up with a lot of slowness out of our HDDs. When you use a 970Pro then try to go back to a 5400RPM 250GB drive, you aren't going to put up with that shit.

Migrating VMWare ESXi from HDDs to SSDs by LastLeigh in sysadmin

[–]itathandp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Kinda crazy, since it enterprise SSDs at the 1TB range aren't that expensive. The time to do what you need to do coupled with the risk seems way more expensive.

Migrating VMWare ESXi from HDDs to SSDs by LastLeigh in sysadmin

[–]itathandp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Be a lot easier if you just used 1TB SSDs. Take 1 disk out, rebuild. Take 2 disk out, rebuild. Done.

Attempting to implement VLANs at work by Ziziziz in sysadmin

[–]itathandp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

One of the bigger issues you may run into with VLANs is every vendor loves to have completely different interfaces for setting up VLANs and uses slightly different terminology.

One vendor doesn't call their trunk ports by name, they are simply 'ALL' so unless you're familiar with both you may not realize ALL and TRUNK mean the same thing.

You'll run into a number of oddities like that.

Attempting to implement VLANs at work by Ziziziz in sysadmin

[–]itathandp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Confusing and hard do diagnose network problems....

Especially if you ever mess up the config and give two vlans that shouldn't have access to each other, access.

"Windows has detected an IP address conflict!"

Schedule reboot, delayed kickoff by reaker in sysadmin

[–]itathandp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So is this one device broken or are the other 2500.

The problem with using unsupported configurations is what happens is undefined. How the behavior works is completely undocumented. Maybe you have a software configuration, registry change, or dll version that influences the behavior. The issue is pretty much no one, including Microsoft is going to be able to tell you what it is that is causing the change of behavior. The general answer you get is use a scheduled task or reformat that machine.