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Paladine_PSoT posted:Or a morning one, which is weird. Says you.
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Paladine_PSoT posted:Or a morning one, which is weird.
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QuiteEasilyDone posted:GODAMNIT people Taxes Don't Work That Way! That is in fact the way it work when going overseas for something like this. Verified by both parties I know personally who have went through it and speaking to my CPA when I evaluated doing it two different times prior to my son's birth. But hey, you've done overseas contract gigs a few times, so I am sure you are right and know all the intricate parts of tax law regarding residing outside of the USA for more than 330 days of the year.
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H.R. Paperstacks posted:That is in fact the way it work when going overseas for something like this. Verified by both parties I know personally who have went through it and speaking to my CPA when I evaluated doing it two different times prior to my son's birth. I'm guessing you're referring to how the first $92,000 is tax free? That's because that amount isn't a subtraction.
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Feb 19, 2014 02:32
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psydude posted:I'm guessing you're referring to how the first $92,000 is tax free? That's because that amount isn't a subtraction.
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Feb 19, 2014 03:26
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It's not a deduction, but someone earning $250k certainly won't have everything past $98k foreign earned income exclusion taxed at "the $250k bracket" as originally claimed. Any income in excess of the exclusion gets taxed at the normal rates for that level of income - some at the $90k bracket, some more at the $185k bracket.
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:It's not a deduction, but someone earning $250k certainly won't have everything past $98k foreign earned income exclusion taxed at "the $250k bracket" as originally claimed. Any income in excess of the exclusion gets taxed at the normal rates for that level of income - some at the $90k bracket, some more at the $185k bracket. Like I said, this is the kind of poo poo that people believe when they turn down a genuine raise because it "will cost them more" Edit: In other words, arranging an after work meeting with a recruiter who poached my name and resume out of somewhere who thinks he has a slot or ten avaliable somewhere with a "Ground floor of 40K and up" We'll see. Hopefully it's not that road warrior jr. Sysadmin poo poo like the last offering and a legitimate "This is the place you'll be working" kind of places. QuiteEasilyDone fucked around with this message at 04:11 on Feb 19, 2014 |
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So, I've got software development PM and Scrum experience, and I have an interview tomorrow at noon PST for an agile infrastructure PM position. If there's anyone out there who would be willing to jump on the phone with me and discuss some of the more theoretical minutia with me this evening or tomorrow morning, pm me. I'd feel much more comfortable in making the decision to switch discipline focus.
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Feb 19, 2014 04:11
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A deduction and a subtraction are two different things. A subtraction is an actual reduction in your AGI, whereas a deduction is what's taken away from the taxes you've paid.
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Feb 19, 2014 08:44
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adorai posted:Drinking one isn't weird, but buying a case of beer at 7am lets you witness the ultimate in judgemental looks. This makes me think of the prank of taking a bunch of booze and baby stuff to the checkout, not having enough for the baby stuff, and keeping the booze. Doing that at 0700 would no doubt amplify opinion.
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Does anyone here have any opinions on free/cheap (50$~) CCTV software? The kind that support RTSP streams and just works with every IP camera. I bought a camera, and the quicktime plugin has a two year delay, while the actual stream and phone app are nice and immediate.
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Feb 19, 2014 12:53
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Xprotect Go is free and supports tons of cameras.
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Blueiris is worth a look.
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Feb 19, 2014 13:40
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Is something up with the Adobe website right now? My internet is fine (lovely, but fine) but its telling me it'll take 11 hours to download a 134mb file.
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Feb 19, 2014 14:35
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Caged posted:Xprotect Go is free and supports tons of cameras. This seems to support only very few camera manufacturers, and absolutely no Others. Blueiris is pretty decent, but right now Milesight VMS seems nice, and it seems to be available for free.
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Feb 19, 2014 17:02
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SEKCobra posted:This seems to support only very few camera manufacturers, and absolutely no Others. I guess we have different definitions then. From the HCL: quote:Number of supported manufacturers: 100 Every major manufacturer of IP cameras is represented there. There's also the Universal Driver if you have an RTSP device that isn't on the list.
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Feb 19, 2014 17:08
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Caged posted:I guess we have different definitions then. From the HCL: Well most of the software I've checked out so far had about 3x the manufacturers, and since my camera is from a China-manufacturing German Startup selling cheap cameras, plus their newest models, support is scarce. I have to say, most of the free software does support Instar tho, some even the model I have. And all of them let me add it via RTSP, I'll give that Universal Driver a shot now then.
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I think it's possible we are thinking of different ends of the market when we hear the word 'camera'. I tend to associate it with people like Axis, not the UI/software lottery that happens on eBay.
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Caged posted:I think it's possible we are thinking of different ends of the market when we hear the word 'camera'. I tend to associate it with people like Axis, not the UI/software lottery that happens on eBay. Obviously Axis is the main player, but it's a price range I am not so happy with on my private budget, and also this startup makes rather good products and I'm glad I gave them a shot. Hell, they have better support than almost anyone else in the market. And that at a price way below anyone short of dx.
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If after an interview you are offered a tour of the facilities, that is a good thing, right?
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What's the usual progression from Helpdesk for somebody wanting to eventually get to a Network Admin role?
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Doing a gug on working in IT tonight if anyone is interestedFiendish Dr. Wu posted:What's the usual progression from Helpdesk for somebody wanting to eventually get to a Network Admin role? Understand how the systems in place work to ensure user productivity, understand user relations with technology and how applications/servers work together. Spend your time on helpdesk understanding the technology and how users interface with technology; and bone up on certs. 22 Eargesplitten posted:If after an interview you are offered a tour of the facilities, that is a good thing, right? Generally yes.
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Fiendish Dr. Wu posted:What's the usual progression from Helpdesk for somebody wanting to eventually get to a Network Admin role? Get the hell off helpdesk unless you're at the kind of company which has good mobility. Find an operations position. Get to touch Cisco stuff. Get a CCNA. Parley your experience and cert into a jr. admin role. Continue careering.
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Fiendish Dr. Wu posted:What's the usual progression from Helpdesk for somebody wanting to eventually get to a Network Admin role? Depends on the company. At an msp I went from help desk to network engineer.
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Is it a good sign if you have a 1 hour meeting at noon and the interviewer pushes his 1 oclock to continue the questions and answers?
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Dilbert As gently caress posted:Generally yes. Paladine_PSoT posted:Is it a good sign if you have a 1 hour meeting at noon and the interviewer pushes his 1 oclock to continue the questions and answers?
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Paladine_PSoT posted:Is it a good sign if you have a 1 hour meeting at noon and the interviewer pushes his 1 oclock to continue the questions and answers? Probably a yes on that one  I finally managed to yotj out of help desk and will be assuming an operations role at my university, specifically in support of the WiFi network. This will be my first time in ops, and I'm really excited but also nervous. Can anyone share some thoughts or resources on what it takes to be successful in a role like this? I know there is going to be a LOT to learn at the start, so I'm planning on just being a sponge for a while, but other than that I'm not sure how best to go into this next stage in my career.
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evil_bunnY posted:More or less. It means they give a poo poo, but the reason it's going long might be because they're trying to pick between you and another potential. I'll take consideration as encouraging
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I had a bad day at work today. Not to go all e/n about it, but sometimes it seems like I know nothing. I feel like I'm asking the sysadmins/POS analyst to fix things that I should know. Even if it turns out it's not something I should know. They're pretty nice about it--they still answer the questions, but when I go out to ask I can just feel them thinking "come on, man, again?" Then there was just dumb stuff. One store had a power outage last night and couldn't turn on equipment today (server, router, registers, phone system, music system) so they dispatched an electrician (presumably at a very high cost), and it turns out it was just some battery back-ups that probably should have been caught by me. Again, it's not like I got in any kind of trouble, but it feels like they're now thinking that I can't be relied on (and not in a "aw shucks I let down the team" kind of way, more "hmm, maybe they'll think they no longer need me around" kind of way). It didn't help that my supervisor was out today, so I was dealing with the next supervisor up. And then I couldn't get some guy connected to the network. Like, he called and said he couldn't connect, and all I could think to have him try was to reboot. I just let that one go and essentially told him to deal with it, so nobody really knows about that one. Like there's probably plenty of other things I could have tried but I was drawing a blank. 
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Fiendish Dr. Wu posted:What's the usual progression from Helpdesk for somebody wanting to eventually get to a Network Admin role? I went Desktop -> Desktop/Net Admin -> Network Engineer. Smaller businesses/operations might grant you more exposure to a wider variety of stuff with less experience.
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I went tier 1 helpdesk to tier 2 helpdesk/desktop support to network admin to systems admin to team lead (basically most senior tech over infrastructure and helpdesk at a medium sized business)
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adorai posted:I went tier 1 helpdesk to tier 2 helpdesk/desktop support to network admin to systems admin to team lead (basically most senior tech over infrastructure and helpdesk at a medium sized business) psydude posted:I went Desktop -> Desktop/Net Admin -> Network Engineer. Smaller businesses/operations might grant you more exposure to a wider variety of stuff with less experience. How long did this take you?
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Tab8715 posted:How long did this take you?
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Thanks guys, awesome responses. Just trying to get an idea of where I'm headed.
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Tab8715 posted:How long did this take you? 6 years.
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At a major computer manufacturer, I had this career path: -1 year level 1 support on the phones -8 months call and communications coaching for the ~6 teams of level 1 agents at my site -6 months business analysis for the tech support for northern europe, I think it was about 8 call centers and 1100 agents. At this point the depression hit, and our site was shut down. Yay for socialist hell severance packages! Our choices were to move into sales or gently caress off, so I hosed off. It was a pretty fast career path, and the last 6 months were 90% bullshit office politics and 10% getting stuff done. As a level 1 support agent I could shuffle out tens of thousands of dollars of motherboards and computer parts without supervision, but as a business analyst I couldn't get one of my sites a $600 computer so they could get hands-on training. Right now I'm in a level 2 helpdesk position at an oil company, making twice as much as what I made as a business analyst. I get to travel to our other global sites (the Philippines are a pretty sweet place). I don't have much of a career path here because we're such a tiny IT department, but the money is good, and right now I need the stability of the position.
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Posting from the access layer   The firewall is doing deep packet inspection too. Before we upgraded all of the equipment and brought in the new ISP I had to pre-download all of the ISOs I might need that day at home ;_; Roargasm fucked around with this message at 13:47 on Feb 20, 2014 |
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evobatman posted:oil company Sheeeeit man, thats all you had to say.
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I am the SSO integrations leader for a BIG company with business units all over the world. I got a doozy of a problem from a site out in Russia where a bunch of re-activated contractors could not access some protected systems. When I got dragged into a big, high visibility conference call I got them to cop to these people not having used our SSO/network/anything for 9 months, and that the original network solution to connect non-business assets and networks was a convoluted mess of reverse proxies and redirects into our SSO infrastructure. All the while people are yelling at me that these $200/hr Russian contractors can't do their jobs and how it is SSO's fault (hint: it is never SSO's fault). A couple minutes after we got a network trace and we see some servers with .ru inserted into the redirects before our SSO page. I review our protection policy for that site and there is not a thing hosted in Russia for it. I tell the shrill business leaders that somewhere their stupid patchwork solution they haven't used in 9 months got hijacked and they are now likely feeding our credentials to a third party. I shut it down, move the whole issue to our incident response team, and tell them that I would be very happy to get them running again when they have a secure network path to our SSO infrastructure. After this, all the yelling, threats, escalations, they all just melt away. Suddenly the business and project managers screaming about deadlines and lost revenue and everything are singing my praises, sending out thank you and congrats emails to everyone around me thanking me for my support. That they are dead in the water until their network infrastructure team builds something is suddenly no big deal for some stupid reason. 
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