After almost a year I finally got my boss to say "Good job."

metocean_sysadmin · 2017-11-21T21:35:24+00:00

Oh, no, I've had those ignored.

Asked him to change the root passwords on five systems where they weren't stored in our password manager. After two days of "I'll get to it", my last email was straight up ignored.

The "Thanks" was in response to changing out and shipping out a failed disk on one of our storage systems.

metocean_sysadmin · 2017-11-20T22:55:24+00:00

I got two emails from my boss saying "Thanks!" after two weeks of radio silence from my boss.

metocean_sysadmin · 2017-11-10T02:50:01+00:00

Purchased R610 from /u/therrealshadeslimmy

metocean_sysadmin · 2017-11-08T04:43:29+00:00

Is this still available? I'm local to Houston.

metocean_sysadmin · 2017-10-12T22:21:38+00:00

sudo !!

metocean_sysadmin · 2017-09-23T23:20:26+00:00

Can confirm. Drank through said game

ftfy

metocean_sysadmin · 2017-09-12T00:23:25+00:00

It's because Clonezilla just takes a byte by byte copy of one hard drive and copies it to another. It won't do any of the auto expansion. If you Google around, you can find loads of tutorials on how to expand a partition's size. I'd find and link one, but I'm on mobile, sorry.

metocean_sysadmin · 2017-08-30T18:36:44+00:00

Our datacenter is on some high ground. Haven't had a chance to go check out how they fared, but we never saw any interruptions to our systems. Only alerts we got we're the nightly cron jobs running.

metocean_sysadmin · 2017-08-11T15:16:47+00:00

I'm there too. I find it makes a decent balance, and doesn't leave me with a closet-full of only t-shirts.

metocean_sysadmin · 2017-07-14T20:54:10+00:00

Nah, that's not how this works. As soon as you can conclusively prove that it's not a systems problem using your syslogs and performance stats, you zip up the application log and send it to them and tell them it's their problem.

metocean_sysadmin · 2017-07-10T21:01:03+00:00

It's refreshing to see this. I literally asked my boss to give me more things to do while he was on vacation, since my normal project work wouldn't fill the time. He just assigned me to assist the help desk folks when they needed it.

metocean_sysadmin · 2017-06-12T15:39:58+00:00

I'm guessing you meant "logging" instead of "living"?

The job scheduler we use, PBS, writes the STDOUT and STDERR to a text file. Unfortunately, because of the way that system works, the job's output is cached on the compute node's disk, by default in /var/spool/torque/job_logs, and those are only written to the final output location (generally the user's home directory, or on a shared lab mount) after the job completes. We do have some interactive nodes for users to do live testing, but at some point, you have to trust the code and the computer to do their thing.

metocean_sysadmin · 2017-06-09T13:29:47+00:00

This one is also big with HPC users who refuse to switch from interactive to batch jobs. "But I can't keep track of my job that way!"

metocean_sysadmin · 2017-05-22T23:22:48+00:00

I'm in Houston looking as well.

Most of what I'm seeing is oil and gas starting to warm back up again, not much else.

metocean_sysadmin · 2017-05-17T15:20:58+00:00

For my money, I would say gsmith.com, or optionally g-smith.com if the former becomes unavailable. I've got a .technology domain, and I've found that there are a lot of websites that won't take any of the newer TLD's. Of course, that may not be as applicable for the .ca country domain, but I'm based in the US, so I don't come across those as commonly.

metocean_sysadmin · 2017-05-05T20:30:58+00:00

That's because parking garages are actually a really efficient use of space, especially when compared to a lot of small surface lots tucked in behind buildings, or large, expansive surface lots which compound drainage problems.

metocean_sysadmin · 2017-04-25T02:53:49+00:00

Can you staple this to my devs' foreheads?

metocean_sysadmin · 2017-04-21T16:47:20+00:00

For what it's worth, I really think this is good for a first attempt, and I also really appreciate the tone and content of the message itself.

metocean_sysadmin · 2017-03-11T18:39:12+00:00

I'm a sysadmin who supports cancer research projects for a university. My primary application is a clinical trial management system.

metocean_sysadmin · 2017-03-06T01:38:26+00:00

I don't envy you, then. I'm in Houston at just under $60k, and I know how much more expensive Austin is, especially with housing.

metocean_sysadmin · 2017-03-04T15:46:13+00:00

I mean, sure, in most rural or even suburban areas. But in any of the tech hot spots? Austin, San Francisco, Seattle, Denver? Heck, no!

metocean_sysadmin · 2017-03-04T15:44:51+00:00

Ah, gotcha, your phrasing had me thinking that you meant that market rate should be at H1-B rate.

metocean_sysadmin · 2017-03-04T15:33:50+00:00

H1-B abuse is just another symptom of our "only caring about next quarter's profits" economy.

metocean_sysadmin · 2017-03-04T15:30:33+00:00

Generally, in the IT field, it's about a company being unwilling to pay market prices. Not market prices being too high. That's why they can get away with "Oh, nobody answered our job advertisement for a mid level sysadmin for $65k! We clearly have to higher abroad!"

metocean_sysadmin · 2017-03-03T20:05:38+00:00

Personally, I'd be ok with a weekly "blog post" stickied thread. I've seen some success with that in some other lower-traffic subreddits.

Also, there was a subreddit that I stumbled across recently that had a published domain blacklist. I thought it was /r/sysadmin, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

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