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I feel spoiled now with my <4 miles to work
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# ? Sep 10, 2013 18:38 |
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evol262 posted:I know it's not your fault, but keeping HP-UX servers going and eBaying hardware when a 3 month development push onto commodity hardware would probably cost less than your support contracts every year is We have 250+ people in this office and 2 bonded T1's for internet. Management is stagnant, to say the least. "It works." But it's slow (we have agents using our internally hosted servers for daily transactions. Some things take 3 minutes to do and they get furious.
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# ? Sep 10, 2013 18:47 |
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TWBalls posted:Ouch. I'm not familiar with the area, but it the distance alone is terrible. This was my commute for 3 years (Moved about ~6mos. ago, so I'm only 8Mi away now): The worst commute I ever had was over a decade ago when I was in manufacturing: Commutes aint poo poo until you need to get a boat involved. Edit: Working with infant abduction systems, I spent 3 years with a commute of either LA to the Bay Area or Las Vegas ~60% of the time. My personal record was 8 consecutive weeks of showing up for work Monday, getting on a plane, then getting home Friday. Plus on call rotation. Paladine_PSoT fucked around with this message at 19:15 on Sep 10, 2013 |
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I thought my commute was bad. 77 miles door to door each way, but it's straight up I-35 and takes just over an hour.
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# ? Sep 10, 2013 19:16 |
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skipdogg posted:I thought my commute was bad. 77 miles door to door each way, but it's straight up I-35 and takes just over an hour. Two hours every day commuting actually is bad.
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# ? Sep 10, 2013 19:26 |
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evol262 posted:Two hours every day commuting actually is bad. is it?
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# ? Sep 10, 2013 19:34 |
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I'm curious as to where Google comes up with their time figures. They say 1hr 8mins for the commute to San Ramon, but on average would take 1hr 45mins. They also estimate 1hr 58mins for the trip to Salinas, but would often take me 3hrs. I guess they don't figure in heavy traffic? Double those figures for the round trip, 5 days a week and that would explain why I was such a cranky bastard.
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# ? Sep 10, 2013 19:36 |
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Paladine_PSoT posted:The worst commute I ever had was over a decade ago when I was in manufacturing: Being paid enough to afford to to live on Whidbey and commute to Redmond daily aint poo poo :P EDIT: I missed the first part of your post and assumed you were some MS guy complaining about his commute in his tesla S
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# ? Sep 10, 2013 19:52 |
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Nebulis01 posted:Being paid enough to afford to to live on Whidbey and commute to Redmond daily aint poo poo :P Ha! Whidbey is nice. If I was sure I'd be working from home for the conceivable future I'd move up there in a heartbeat.
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# ? Sep 10, 2013 19:59 |
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Maneki Neko posted:Ha! Whidbey is nice. If I was sure I'd be working from home for the conceivable future I'd move up there in a heartbeat. Getting married on Whidbey next summer
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# ? Sep 10, 2013 20:06 |
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Mierdaan posted:Getting married on Whidbey next summer Congrats! I got married in Kitsap Memorial State Park this past May. I really do love this state.
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# ? Sep 10, 2013 20:09 |
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Walter_Sobchak posted:is it? You have to consider what it's worth to you, both in terms of actual costs and the mental toll. I'm guessing folks have a longer commute to save on rent, but does that really justify the additional gas/wear and tear (or even the need to have a car in the first place), parking costs, and most importantly, the limited personal time you give up during the work week? Between 6.5 hours of sleep and an 8.5 hour workday, the difference between having 8.5 hours (15 min/way commute) and 7 hours (1 hour/way commute) a day to yourself is pretty loving substantial.
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# ? Sep 10, 2013 20:19 |
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I swear nobody in this loving company knows what a patch panel is. Walljacks are wired straight into switch ports. To top it off, every 4-10 cubicles are split into "DEPT-ZONEx", and those go to a small switch hidden in a cubicle wall. Then each switch goes to another switch in a closet in that building. What's the justification for doing this? Everywhere else I've ever been every walljack goes to a patch panel in the same rack, or the rack next to the rack with switches in it. And there are never rinky-dink switches dividing up groups of 8 users.
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# ? Sep 10, 2013 20:19 |
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:Between 6.5 hours of sleep
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# ? Sep 10, 2013 20:31 |
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Bob Morales posted:
Likely, someone didn't want to pay for all the runs to go back to the closet.
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# ? Sep 10, 2013 20:36 |
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Walter_Sobchak posted:is it? I have a 2.5 mile/15 minute commute via bicycle. Yeah it matters.
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# ? Sep 10, 2013 20:43 |
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Walter_Sobchak posted:is it? I wouldn't even mind working 10 more hours, but gently caress commuting, especially by car when all you can do is drive.
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# ? Sep 10, 2013 20:56 |
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I wouldn't do it under normal circumstances, I don't want to get into it, but my net commute time is basically zero.
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# ? Sep 10, 2013 20:58 |
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I just looked up how far my sister has to go from Corvallis to Eugene, I can't imagine putting up with that drive.
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# ? Sep 10, 2013 21:15 |
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I don't miss this commute My 5 mile commute by side road is a huge quality of life boost.
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# ? Sep 10, 2013 21:35 |
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I work 65hours or so between 2 jobs, plus have on average 13 hours of commute. Yes, wasting half a day in my car commuting sucks and it's going to slowly drive me insane. I do not recommend it to anyone at all and to do everything in your power to avoid commuting over 30 minutes a day.
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# ? Sep 10, 2013 21:35 |
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I don't have a car so I walk 45 minutes to work each day. I quite like it
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# ? Sep 10, 2013 21:47 |
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I consider all forms of exercise mere compensation for the delicious things I stuff my face with. I exercise a *lot*
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# ? Sep 10, 2013 21:53 |
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Dilbert As gently caress posted:I feel spoiled now with my <4 miles to work I feel spoiled now with my 1 mile to work. I do pay for it during the Summer though because I walk and it's uphill most of the way to work and gets unpleasantly hot.
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# ? Sep 10, 2013 22:03 |
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DrAlexanderTobacco posted:I don't have a car so I walk 45 minutes to work each day. I quite like it The biggest thing I think I miss from University is the ~30 minute walk. Nothing quite like a nice walk at the start and end of the day listening to music and enjoying the I wish I could do the same for work, but I need to go to too many sites with gear. Orcs and Ostriches fucked around with this message at 22:08 on Sep 10, 2013 |
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Dilbert As gently caress posted:I just looked up how far my sister has to go from Corvallis to Eugene, I can't imagine putting up with that drive. My last job was in Corvallis, the drive to/from Eugene isn't bad. There's never any traffic, 2 lane road. I commuted 1/2 hour into Corvallis from Lebanon. Rural commutes are great! Nebulis01 posted:Being paid enough to afford to to live on Whidbey and commute to Redmond daily aint poo poo :P At the time I was a factory worker manually assembling lifting equipment. My shift ended just after the last ferry, so it was 3 hours of Dennys waiting for the first boat to go home and sleep for 5 hours before turning around and coming back. Now I'm a mainlander working at MS. Life is funny that way.
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# ? Sep 10, 2013 22:41 |
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The number of junior positions that require 3+ years of experience is incredibly frustrating.
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# ? Sep 10, 2013 23:34 |
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Apply anyway. Remember these things are wish lists. The worst thing that can happen is you not working there which is already the current situation. You update your resume? Also reach out to any industry contacts you have and let them know you're looking for work. Personal networking is responsible for most peoples jobs. Oh and make sure your LinkedIn account is fully fleshed out. It's a major recruiting tool
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# ? Sep 10, 2013 23:39 |
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Erkenntnis posted:The number of junior positions that require 3+ years of experience is incredibly frustrating. This is common for sysadmin jobs, where you require actual skills to be considered for entry level. You should be able to find a job in a NOC/Helpdesk with much less or none, however, which will get you that experience. joe944 fucked around with this message at 00:33 on Sep 11, 2013 |
# ? Sep 11, 2013 00:26 |
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evol262 posted:System Z (and AS400 in general) happily runs Linux instances with languages and tools as modern as anything RHEL6 can throw at it. Yes, you'll have traditional COBOL/JCL stuff running on it somewhere, but they're not necessarily as antiquated as this makes them out to be. Holy poo poo. They came out with new hardware back in 2012. Looks like the mainframe isn't dead at all.
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# ? Sep 11, 2013 02:06 |
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How does one get into IT with the energy/petroleum industry? Does it pay fairly well? How are the benefits?
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# ? Sep 11, 2013 02:12 |
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Over a year I managed to go from a mind-killing 1.5 hr commute with 2 interchange points to a 30 min direct bus line by: changing jobs (to one slightly closer to town than (I later moved closer to town so now I can bike to work )
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# ? Sep 11, 2013 03:16 |
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Someone mentioned AS400. We actually have 10 grand budgeted into a new AS400 server this coming year straight from an IBM reseller. Woo woo! We've had a consultant around for the past six months upgrading our system/32 software to get it to integrate with Sharepoint.
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# ? Sep 11, 2013 03:34 |
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GreenNight posted:Someone mentioned AS400. We actually have 10 grand budgeted into a new AS400 server this coming year straight from an IBM reseller. Woo woo!
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# ? Sep 11, 2013 03:50 |
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GreenNight posted:Someone mentioned AS400. We actually have 10 grand budgeted into a new AS400 server this coming year straight from an IBM reseller. Woo woo! How are you integrating it exactly?
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# ? Sep 11, 2013 03:53 |
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Tab8715 posted:How are you integrating it exactly? Well first off, I have absolutely nothing to do with the AS400. I can install the end user client but that's about it. Saying that, I'm still in all the meetings. What we've done so far is have the AS400 dump our invoices and purchase orders to pdf on a network share, then Sharepoint imports them on a schedule to be shown on an internal website for end users. The consultant had to do quite a bit of behind the scenes work before we could even start that project. Going forward we'll be putting sales data, queries, etc, so users can run these reports themselves instead of asking IT to run them. We don't have blades. This is just a simple 4U server with an internal tape drive.
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# ? Sep 11, 2013 03:57 |
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How do I find and hire a person\company to develop some custom software? How does it even work? We want to develop a client facing site that performs some functions. I dont know any developers and have never had to hire them before. Where do I begin? What should I look out for? Should I test them with a small project first to see how they handle it?
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# ? Sep 11, 2013 07:20 |
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psydude posted:You were only making 120k overseas? Yeah, about 120k, w/ 401k, the uplifts were down to 5%, no clearance = no joy.
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# ? Sep 11, 2013 12:24 |
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Anyone have experience with windows phone 8 and intune. Intune works for our Apple devices but won't add the company account for windows phone.
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# ? Sep 11, 2013 13:51 |
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Las Vegas still lives and dies by the AS400. Almost every big resort uses MMS for ordering and LMS for hotel management. There is a company called Agilysys that makes trucks full of money selling support.
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# ? Sep 11, 2013 15:01 |