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KillHour posted:Where do you live that 50k is standard for helpdesk? Austin, if the employer is high tech enough
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MJP posted:Manhattan, if you've got some experience. I was thinking it had to be either that or San Francisco. Going rate is like $30-35K around here. Edit: Or Austin, yeah.
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Apr 20, 2015 22:00
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KillHour posted:Where do you live that 50k is standard for helpdesk? It depends on the cost of living in the area and the actual responsibilities. Bloomberg in SF is paying more than that.
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Apr 20, 2015 22:00
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So, one of my colleagues, just got an IM from someone to give them a phone call, whereupon that person read an email out loud to my colleague asking for his thoughts about it.
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Apr 20, 2015 22:06
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flosofl posted:So, one of my colleagues, just got an IM from someone to give them a phone call, whereupon that person read an email out loud to my colleague asking for his thoughts about it. This is the modern version of the cat picture faxed, scanned, printed and shot with a digital camera, isn't it?
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Apr 20, 2015 22:12
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KillHour posted:Where do you live that 50k is standard for helpdesk? It's around that on Long Island, NY. Of course, because of poo poo like this: http://www.newsday.com/classifieds/real-estate/group-ranks-nassau-no-1-in-property-taxes-1.2840397 
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Apr 20, 2015 22:17
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chocolateTHUNDER posted:It's around that on Long Island, NY. Of course, because of poo poo like this: Nassau County: Ridiculously expensive with nothing going for it!
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Apr 20, 2015 22:28
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chocolateTHUNDER posted:It's around that on Long Island, NY. Of course, because of poo poo like this: The property taxes in Chicago are getting out of hand and that is what is forcing me out of the metro. The northern burb I live in has an average of $8.3k a year in property taxes, and the average house value is like $425k. You can't touch a house for under $300k and it will sorely need updating and work. The villages to the east and north of me are $10k on average.
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Apr 20, 2015 22:36
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How the hell does helpdesk make $50k in Austin? Doesn't Rackspace support start at 45k?
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Are there any good vendor neutral networking certifications? Years ago I got the Network+. I'm actually a server engineer but I've always had an interest in networking. I got one of those Mikrotik routers last week and got WPA2 EAP-TLS running at home. Also dual stack IPV6 as TWC offers it up. Or should I just shut up and go after a ccent or ccna? Which? I always find concepts easier to grasp vs memorizing commands so I've avoided the vendor specific certs. SSH IT ZOMBIE fucked around with this message at 23:44 on Apr 20, 2015 |
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Apr 20, 2015 23:42
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Everything I've heard and the course material I've read about the CCNA shows it to be a great course for learning networking in general, not just training on Cisco products. I should get off my arse and do it.
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Apr 20, 2015 23:45
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if you are looking to pick up concepts like bgp, ospf, route redistribution, zone based vs interface based firewalls, etc.., VyOS is a great product that runs on x86. You can spin up instances with as little as 128mb of RAM, which makes it possible to spin up a complete mock network on your PC without messing with GNS3.
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Apr 21, 2015 00:33
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SSH IT ZOMBIE posted:Are there any good vendor neutral networking certifications? Years ago I got the Network+. I'm actually a server engineer but I've always had an interest in networking. I got one of those Mikrotik routers last week and got WPA2 EAP-TLS running at home. Also dual stack IPV6 as TWC offers it up. CCNA is one of the highest ROA certs you can get (outside of the CCIE). Get your CCNA.
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Apr 21, 2015 02:20
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mayodreams posted:The property taxes in Chicago are getting out of hand and that is what is forcing me out of the metro. The northern burb I live in has an average of $8.3k a year in property taxes, and the average house value is like $425k. You can't touch a house for under $300k and it will sorely need updating and work. Come out west! Glenn Ellyn and Wheaton are still "reasonable" in some areas. I'm at about $4500 on a house I bought when the bottom dropped out of the housing market for about $270K on a 1/4 acre.
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Apr 21, 2015 02:43
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if you were the manager hiring someone doing entry level database development stuff (like basic SQL stuff etc starting out) what kind of questions do you think you'd ask someone you were interviewing
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Tab8715 posted:How the hell does helpdesk make $50k in Austin? Doesn't Rackspace support start at 45k? Sounds about right. But, the compensation is the same whether you work from Austin or San Antonio. SSH IT ZOMBIE posted:Are there any good vendor neutral networking certifications? Years ago I got the Network+. I'm actually a server engineer but I've always had an interest in networking. I got one of those Mikrotik routers last week and got WPA2 EAP-TLS running at home. Also dual stack IPV6 as TWC offers it up. HR likes vendor certs on CVs!
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Apr 21, 2015 04:00
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Eonwe posted:if you were the manager hiring someone doing entry level database development stuff (like basic SQL stuff etc starting out) Difference between a clustered and non-clustered index. How to find something from set a that is NOT in set b.
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Apr 21, 2015 04:32
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What do you guys use for cable storage? I've sorted the cables by length and colour now, but I can't really find a decent solution for storing them in a sensible and compact way. I'm even considering buying tie hangers to hang them in the server room (we're an SME with one rack on-prem).
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Apr 21, 2015 12:41
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Tab8715 posted:How the hell does helpdesk make $50k in Austin? Doesn't Rackspace support start at 45k? They make it higher to keep you around while you learn to do system administrator work without the title, friendo
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Apr 21, 2015 16:13
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flosofl posted:Come out west! Glenn Ellyn and Wheaton are still "reasonable" in some areas. I'm at about $4500 on a house I bought when the bottom dropped out of the housing market for about $270K on a 1/4 acre. I work in Niles and I really don't want to spend an hour plus driving this way. Today's new low for the people at my company: someone stuck a paper clip into a wall socket in a conference room that tripped the breaker and took the conference phone offline. I no loving clue why an adult would ever do that. 
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Apr 21, 2015 16:51
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Eonwe posted:if you were the manager hiring someone doing entry level database development stuff (like basic SQL stuff etc starting out) We just went through hiring for two positions, both needing SQL knowledge. The first thing I did was draw two sets of objects on the board with a many to many relationship and asked them to describe how they would store them in a database. If there weren't three tables involved, they failed the SQL section. It was amazing how many people couldn't get that, and even more amazing how complicated the wrong solutions were. After that we did some hands-on with them sitting in front of a computer with a sample database, writing queries. I found that way more helpful than having them describe queries. You can watch how they whittle away at the queries to find the right data (and whether they spend too much time fumbling) vs. regurgitating a query onto the board and having to tell them whether it's correct or not. This is in addition to standard questions like meanieface mentioned.
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Apr 21, 2015 17:14
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mayodreams posted:I work in Niles and I really don't want to spend an hour plus driving this way. Conference over. Mission accomplished.
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Apr 21, 2015 21:05
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Gf has been working at a startup and the owner just laid down some bullshit concerning benefits, so she is looking for a new job in the Madison, WI area. Anyone looking for a C, C++, C#, Java, HTML, PHP, CSS, ASP.NET, SQL, Conjure, VB dev who speaks fluent Japanese? She has no problem with jobs anywhere in the country as long as she can work remote.
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GreenNight posted:Gf has been working at a startup and the owner just laid down some bullshit concerning benefits, so she is looking for a new job in the Madison, WI area. Anyone looking for a C, C++, C#, Java, HTML, PHP, CSS, ASP.NET, SQL, Conjure, VB dev who speaks fluent Japanese? Blunt advice: almost nobody in the world has any real competency in all of these languages put together. Don't spray all over your skills. She should pick what she's best at (or wants to work with the most) and stick with that. If it had to be .NET, PHP, or C(++, which is really a totally different language, but we can lump it together for now), which would it be? And webdev or app dev?
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Yeah I just copy/pasted from her resume. For the last year she's been doing straight Python, but before that was a year of Java, and before that Android app work in Japan.
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We're hiring for a junior sys admin (I've posted the opening in the jobs thread), and I got two very interesting resumes today. One is a young lady currently going to school for a degree in IT. On her resume she lists experience with breeding goats. Another is an older gentleman with absolutely no IT experience, but he's been a butcher for 11 years. I think I'm going to hire both of them and start my goat meat empire here in IT.
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Apr 22, 2015 15:47
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You wouldn't be the first person here to clean blood out of a server rack.
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Apr 22, 2015 16:18
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We used to say that the computers won't run right until there's been a little blood spilled on the rack as a sacrifice. I haven't done hardware for a decade but I assume they still don't bother to round the edges on a lot of stuff because it'd cost money
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Apr 22, 2015 16:20
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Has anyone here deployed Samsung Knox as corporate-owned/issued phones (ie. non-BYOD)? Was wondering if I could PM you a few questions.
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Apr 22, 2015 17:54
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Jeoh posted:What do you guys use for cable storage? I've sorted the cables by length and colour now, but I can't really find a decent solution for storing them in a sensible and compact way. I always wind up bagging them. Quart or gallon bags lets me gather them together and sort of file them in a drawer.
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Bhodi posted:We used to say that the computers won't run right until there's been a little blood spilled on the rack as a sacrifice. One of the only things NCIS got right about computers. Cisco seems better about it than most manufacturers, when I had to assemble a router from them most of the corners were rounded.
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Colonial Air Force posted:We're hiring for a junior sys admin (I've posted the opening in the jobs thread), and I got two very interesting resumes today. That beats the electrical wholesaler and suit fitter (neither with relevant experience) that I got. Quote of the day at work today: "That ping probably just cost £350k" ahhh progress
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Eonwe posted:if you were the manager hiring someone doing entry level database development stuff (like basic SQL stuff etc starting out)  I got the job and its a huge raise
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Apr 22, 2015 20:51
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Congratulations! Do they serve mutton?
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Is anyone here familiar with systems for tracking equipment's physical location within a building? Like maybe small GPS, radio telemetry, or maybe even bluetooth? We're having a problem with equipment borrowed from I.T. not being returned. It's not being stolen, mostly just passed around within the college, or stashed somewhere after an event and forgotten about. The college has decided I.T. should track these items instead of holding the person who borrowed them responsible, and I've been tasked with finding a solution. All the stuff I find on google is for large equipment though, and not really feasible for stuff like conference phones and wireless microphones.
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Hungry Computer posted:Is anyone here familiar with systems for tracking equipment's physical location within a building? Like maybe small GPS, radio telemetry, or maybe even bluetooth? We're having a problem with equipment borrowed from I.T. not being returned. It's not being stolen, mostly just passed around within the college, or stashed somewhere after an event and forgotten about. RFID tagging. Take a look at Ekahau. They do RFID over WiFi for real time location. Proteus Jones fucked around with this message at 02:14 on Apr 23, 2015 |
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Thanks, that looks promising. For some reason I was under the impression mobile RFID scanners would need to be within a couple meters to work, but some quick searching has proved me wrong. The last place I worked, a large petro-chemical plant, actually used radio telemetry tags designed for tracking wildlife on some of their more expensive field electronics. I was kind of considering that, if only because I would get to walk around with one of those giant tracking antennas.
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Spraypaint it bright pink and chain it to a brick like a gas station bathroom key.
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I'm trying to write up a college class for my local community college district and I'd like to hear some opinions. It's Introduction to Virtualization Technology and the idea is that it'll be a quick dip into the shallow end of the pool of a variety of platforms. The main goal is that at the end of the course, a student will be able to run VMware Player or VirtualBox on their laptop, have a basic idea of virtualization concepts and have some basic familiarity with vSphere, HyperV and maybe XenServer. Has anyone seen a class like this before or maybe a book that fits this general role? I've never done this kind of thing before so it'd be nice to not have to blaze my own trail.
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Does anyone know how to make a full screen program in general or Windows remote desktop in particular start on a secondary monitor? As it is now, I usually have to drag my ticket window to the secondary, or put the remote session in windowed mode and drag it to the secondary screen.
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