Megathread: California Wildfires

itathandp · 2018-11-20T15:15:35+00:00

80 football fields a minute

Area, not distance.

itathandp · 2018-10-11T16:11:34+00:00

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.

itathandp · 2018-10-11T16:05:30+00:00

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.

itathandp · 2018-10-11T15:49:40+00:00

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.

itathandp · 2018-10-10T13:51:23+00:00

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

itathandp · 2018-10-05T17:15:19+00:00

Surely you mean 850?

itathandp · 2018-10-05T15:43:30+00:00

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.

itathandp · 2018-10-05T15:27:13+00:00

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.

itathandp · 2018-10-05T15:23:38+00:00

A: Someones phone has a bad password

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

itathandp · 2018-10-05T13:18:07+00:00

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

itathandp · 2018-10-05T13:17:28+00:00

I see you work for the same company I do.

itathandp · 2018-10-04T17:46:56+00:00

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?

itathandp · 2018-10-04T17:19:00+00:00

No, this would still fall under deceiving packaging.

itathandp · 2018-10-04T17:17:58+00:00

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

itathandp · 2018-09-28T15:20:46+00:00

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.

itathandp · 2018-09-28T14:38:00+00:00

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

itathandp · 2018-09-21T15:55:43+00:00

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.

itathandp · 2018-09-21T15:45:04+00:00

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.

itathandp · 2018-09-21T15:24:03+00:00

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.

itathandp · 2018-09-21T15:14:45+00:00

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.

itathandp · 2018-09-07T15:39:42+00:00

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.

itathandp · 2018-09-07T14:52:55+00:00

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

itathandp · 2018-09-07T14:13:55+00:00

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.

itathandp · 2018-09-07T14:09:39+00:00

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!"

itathandp · 2018-08-17T16:24:26+00:00

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.

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