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AS400 experience: Knowledge of the following commands: WRKUSRPRF
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:AS400 experience: Knowledge of the following commands: WRKUSRPRF Non-AS400 Experience: Walk Right Up to Supervisor Requesting Pronto Rebuild of Framework
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Apr 4, 2015 00:36
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Going to post this in the Job Fair thread, too, but wanted to drop it here first. My company is looking for a Senior *nix engineer. Awesome place to work (been there 10 months now), with tons of fringe benefits as well as real concrete ones (I got a bonus this year and it wasn't a subscription to the Jelly of the Month club or a donation in my name to The Human Fund). Details can be had by PMing me. Edit: must be in/near SE Michigan or willing to relocate. AlexDeGruven fucked around with this message at 02:09 on Apr 4, 2015 |
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Apr 4, 2015 02:06
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ilkhan posted:Your resume just got tossed for lying. Heh. When I went to IBM Enterprise everyone thought I was bullshitting them. I was the young pup in a sea of old men. 
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Apr 4, 2015 02:14
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Tab8715 posted:Heh. When I went to IBM Enterprise everyone thought I was bullshitting them. I was the young pup in a sea of old men. I was in my mid 20s when I started AIXing, next youngest person on the team was 52.
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Apr 4, 2015 02:21
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AlexDeGruven posted:I was in my mid 20s when I started AIXing, next youngest person on the team was 52. That's the feeling of being secure in the knowledge that the hardware will outlive the operators!
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Apr 4, 2015 04:07
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Sickening posted:Maybe it's just the way you tell the story but you sound like you didn't want to have anything to do with this guy and he probably thought "gently caress this place" when you showed him you could give a poo poo. I might be totally off base. It was the way I told the story. In my quest for brevity, I left out some salient details like sitting him down, making sure his login credentials worked, walking him through the hardware/software/config/etc. We spent some time talking about backups and then told him what was going wrong and why this needed to be done. Sickening posted:Maybe it's their first sysadmin role. Maybe they aren't experienced with whatever backup vendor been used. Maybe they are use to their team members not being resentful when they aren't part of the hiring process. All that being said when someone tells me a story about a day one employ left to sink or swim, only to never be seen again I for some reason think "who leaves a non-senior guy on their own the first day." Maybe I am just the type of person who would put in time to figure out where the new guy is and try to help. His resume and interview said it wasn't his first role, and everything he said indicated that this wasn't his first rodeo. If this was an intern, I would have done this a whole lot differently, but this was a guy with a solid resume showing up for a gig. Still: Sink or swim? It was updating drivers on a standard server type with Windows Server OS. If you can't update drivers on a window server and you got in the door on a Windows SysAdmin role then no, I absolutely don't want to have anything to do with you because you bullshitted your way through the interview process. (Also, like I said before, gently caress my manager for letting this guy get past him.) Gilok posted:What did you want him to do, exactly? "Update the drivers on this computer" is something any entry level tech should be capable of doing. If for some reason he isn't, he should ask for help, not break something and vanish. Communication is a part of having a job and being a functional person. In amazed at the stuff people defend here sometimes. This. My expectation is always that if you are feeling out of your element, raise your hand and ask for help. Instead he sat and hosed around on a console breaking poo poo until he (apparently) panicked and left. Belial42 posted:Sickening's got a drat good point. You don't abandon a non-senior hire on their first day. It also sounds like this was an issue that Agrikk had experience with. Rather than walking the new guy through the existing issue he threw him to the wolves of "figure it out". So the server gets hosed and time gets wasted. None of which would have been caused (theoretically) if Agrikk had walked the new guy through the issue. It was bad storytelling on my part. New Guy was walked through the issue, but my assumption was it was enough to tell him "Please update the drivers for X, Y, and Z components on this server." But I stand by my philosophy: If you are hired as a Windows SysAdmin, you should know how to update drivers. Period. He wasn't thrown to the wolves, any more than any of us have been given a problem to solve with a vague set of parameters and incomplete information. Except in this case, if anything, this guy had a specific task to accomplish for a specific problem that should have been in his skillset. Instead he comes by asking a basic question that he should have known the answer to and then disappears for a few hours without seeking help on a basic skill he should have possessed. Methylethylaldehyde posted:It was update drivers to a thing. I could do that on a loving AS/400 given a machine with google and 10 minutes of question time. Dude lied on his resume and booked it when he figured out he had no loving clue. This. All this. bitterandtwisted posted:re: backup chat. Also this. Sheep posted:"Let's entrust the most valuable operations to the least valuable person" sounds like a solid business strategy. Do you handle invoicing and payroll as well? You make a point, but you have to have them start somewhere. What would you have greenhorns do, work on the file server, database cluster or Exchange first? Backups don't cause outages when you gently caress them up. There just aren't backups that night. Odds are it won't matter because everything will not break that night. You get a good backup tomorrow night and your net is back in place and no one cares that yesterday's backup failed.
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Apr 4, 2015 05:04
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Gwaihir posted:That's the feeling of being secure in the knowledge that the hardware will outlive the operators!
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Apr 4, 2015 05:07
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ilkhan posted:Job security is knowing every other human being on the planet who knows how to run the poo poo has died of old age. Or that you can virtualize it with Linux on POWER and nobody needs you anymore!
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Apr 4, 2015 05:52
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I was 21 when I first started dealing with AIX on an RS6000 and also adminning an AS400. That was 15 years ago, and I don't remember much about either (well, I mean, Unix is mostly Unix), but I could still put them on my resume. Not sure I would though, I don't think I'd like to deal with either again.
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Apr 4, 2015 13:16
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Yeah the extent of my AS400 knowledge is knowing how to install Client Access and setup ODBC. No way would I want to sit there and pound out RPG all day.
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Apr 4, 2015 14:23
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I have a 17 year old AS400 textbook gathering dust on my shelf. Does that count?
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Apr 4, 2015 15:40
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Rassle posted:I have a 17 year old AS400 textbook gathering dust on my shelf. Does that count? I'm sure that it's still mostly accurate.
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Apr 4, 2015 16:06
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Agrikk posted:
Not really. These are the same people that were all like "did you time travel" when someone listed times that obviously meant things didn't happen the same day.
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Apr 4, 2015 16:22
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nice custom title
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Apr 4, 2015 16:29
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stevewm posted:Anyone have any recommendations for a proper and safe way to backup MS SQL databases off-site/to the cloud? Knowing nothing about your current backup infrastructure, One option might be to use AWS' storage gateway with Virtual Tape Library option. It allows you to mount an S3 bucket as a tape library that you perform backups to as if it were tapes in a library. You only pay for S3 storage you use.
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Apr 4, 2015 16:31
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stevewm posted:Anyone have any recommendations for a proper and safe way to backup MS SQL databases off-site/to the cloud? You could use Zmanda or CSB to back up the SQL database with incrementals, but with a 10mbit upload you may be cutting it close with only a 6 hour window. Get better internet.
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Apr 4, 2015 17:14
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GreenBuckanneer posted:Get better internet. This is probably the most logical first step here.
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Apr 4, 2015 18:42
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GreenBuckanneer posted:You could use Zmanda or CSB to back up the SQL database with incrementals, but with a 10mbit upload you may be cutting it close with only a 6 hour window. You seem familiar with these things. Do you use them? If so, I'm curious how you feel about them. Moey posted:This is probably the most logical first step here. Eh, while that's totally a valid step, there are a bazillion ways to deal with low bandwidth. For starters, the software mentioned above can both compress the data. Databases compress ridiculously well. Like 80% or more is very common. Lots of white space in a database.
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Apr 4, 2015 22:30
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ConfusedUs posted:Eh, while that's totally a valid step, there are a bazillion ways to deal with low bandwidth. For starters, the software mentioned above can both compress the data. Databases compress ridiculously well. Like 80% or more is very common. While this is true, it's 2015. Are you based out of somewhere super remote?
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Apr 5, 2015 20:44
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Moey posted:While this is true, it's 2015. Basically this. You'll probably solve more issues faster with a bigger pipe than trying to hack low-bandwidth alternatives in for each problem individually.
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Apr 5, 2015 21:40
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Moey posted:While this is true, it's 2015. Are you based out of somewhere super remote? If I remember correctly, the location in question is at the top of a mountain at a ski lodge or some such.
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Apr 5, 2015 23:02
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Moey posted:While this is true, it's 2015. Are you based out of somewhere super remote? There are some places in the town of 40,000 people that I ised to work with where the only option is DSL or T1 because the cable company can't service them. Mind-blowing.
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Apr 5, 2015 23:29
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Koskun posted:If I remember correctly, the location in question is at the top of a mountain at a ski lodge or some such. I'm really struggling to come up with a reason why a place that remote can't use RDP to access the application. There had got to be a solution to this issue that doesn't involve a shoddy WAN link and SQL.
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Apr 5, 2015 23:33
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Thanks Ants posted:I'm really struggling to come up with a reason why a place that remote can't use RDP to access the application. There had got to be a solution to this issue that doesn't involve a shoddy WAN link and SQL. It seems like the importance is placed on the connection to the app gui over the connection of the data, which seems rear end backwards.
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Apr 5, 2015 23:36
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I've been trying out Freshdesk and Zendesk at work and I kinda feel like Freshdesk sucks. Zendesk seems much more straightforward. What are you guys' preferences?
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Apr 5, 2015 23:44
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Chickenwalker posted:I've been trying out Freshdesk and Zendesk at work and I kinda feel like Freshdesk sucks. Zendesk seems much more straightforward. What are you guys' preferences? I like zendesk a lot. My only beef is that their pricing scheme has left some things to be desired. Up to 3 agents is 6 bucks a month. 4 agents is 120$ per month. If they tiered their pricing to make more sense it would be a hands down choice for anyone that needs a simple helpdesk ticketing system.
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Apr 5, 2015 23:46
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Zendesk works for us, probably overkill but we got on it when it was a lot cheaper than it is now. I've looked at so many helpdesks that outside of ones that are just loving terrible, or the ones where 'ticketing system' means 'shared Exchange mailbox', 90% of the system is how you integrate it within your company, how you train your techs and employees to use it, and how good you are at writing rules and responding to changes in your organisation. For example, having your techs tag each ticket with the hardware/software/service that was at fault sounds great, but it becomes useless as soon as you become so hands-off that new things don't make it onto the list to be picked from. A lack of a helpdesk system is very rarely the cause of a dysfunctional support department.
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Apr 5, 2015 23:48
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I haven't had to bitch about a ticketing system in a while, but fuuuuuuuuck. Cherwell is such a steaming pile of poo poo.
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Apr 6, 2015 00:18
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Moey posted:While this is true, it's 2015. Are you based out of somewhere super remote? There are plenty of reasons a location may have poor bandwidth, and geography is just one. Don't have to live somewhere super remote to be a cheapskate, for example.
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Apr 6, 2015 00:52
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Bob Morales posted:There are some places in the town of 40,000 people that I ised to work with where the only option is DSL or T1 because the cable company can't service them. Mind-blowing. One of our satellites can only get a 1.5mb T1. It's a few miles north of the largest city in the state, in a major metropolitan suburb. When I went to go set it up before it went live the T1 wasn't even hooked up yet so I brought a verizon mifi with me and laughed when speedtest said it was 4 times faster than the T1 they were getting.
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Apr 6, 2015 01:04
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spankmeister posted:nice custom title Wouldn't know. I have them blocked by default but it's nice to know I touched a nerve with someone enough for them to throw money away on something I'll never see 
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Apr 6, 2015 01:21
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So we're utilizing an ancient version of Frontrange ITSM and the company is (finally) looking to upgrade. Anything to look forward to in Frontrange ITSM/Heat at its latest revision? What we have is barely tolerable garbage, but its hard to tell if its inherent to the application or if its due to our terrible ITSM specialist.
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Apr 6, 2015 01:33
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chemosh6969 posted:Wouldn't know.  DONT WORRY GOTCHA COVERED BRO you can probably guess where the link goes
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Apr 6, 2015 01:44
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go3 posted:
It's just a link to an image for me.
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Apr 6, 2015 04:20
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chemosh6969 posted:It's just a link to an image for me. The link in the title-text. Don't worry, anyone who thinks to take you seriously only needs to follow that link.
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Apr 6, 2015 04:37
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AlexDeGruven posted:I was in my mid 20s when I started AIXing, next youngest person on the team was 52. I'm in my late 20s and I greatly enjoy reminding the people on my team that I was barely alive in the 80s. I'm going to be a little bummed when I'm no longer able to troll my team just by mentioning my birthyear.
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Apr 6, 2015 15:35
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flosofl posted:The link in the title-text. Don't worry, anyone who thinks to take you seriously only needs to follow that link. I meant I have images turned to links, so they don't load in posts.
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Apr 6, 2015 15:51
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chemosh6969 posted:I meant I have images turned to links, so they don't load in posts.
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Apr 6, 2015 19:36
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ilkhan posted:The link he posted was a screenshot of your avatar. The 2 lines at the bottom are spoiler'd links to your dumbass post. I am pretty sure that he knows exactly what the previous posters are talking about. Don't bother.
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Apr 6, 2015 20:09
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