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SaltLick posted:There was a goon in this very thread doing this exact thing and he pulled the trigger and left his miserable job. Do that. Did we ever hear back from the guy who was having serious medical issues from working like a maniac?
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QuiteEasilyDone posted:I'm not sure if it's a personal crisis speaking, but I don't think I can keep doping the work I'm doing anymore. I've hit a brick wall at the helpdesk level as it appears that no one wants to take a risk on hiring upwards someone without the papers, but has around 2 years experience in helldesk for mixed windows environments. I know a lot and talking with most people in the industry agree that I should move on to an administrator or engineer role be it junior or newish. The problem is I hit the HR wall and can't get over it. Things I hear is that I'll be told "Perfect" on the interviews, go in depth with what I'vew worked on, and then get a notification 2 weeks later that they'd like to pursue more seasoned candidates or take my application to a multilevel role to mean I want to apply to their helpdesk role. If I was bringing down 30 hours of OT a week, I'd be getting blackout drunk when I got home Friday night and when I woke up Saturday afternoon, I'd be phoning a call girl so fancy she would come with her own bag of blow.
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It's not 30 hrs of OT a week, it's more like I commute like poo poo, have an off hours shift (lengthening the time it takes to get to/from work) so that I spend 12 hours commuting working, or doing work related activities (well more 14 now that I'm covering for leavers till we get new hires) and add another hour onto that for basic daily maintenance.
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:Did we ever hear back from the guy who was having serious medical issues from working like a maniac? Who? Are we talking about potato head guy, whose boss threatened him alternately with violence and blackballing? I saw him in another thread in the forum, I think his lawyer told him to keep quiet.
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Up and leaving a job without another one lined up is generally a bad idea. Do you have vacation or personal time? take that so you can study and take the test. If not, look for something else with sane hours. Gaps in your resume aren't the worst thing ever, but what if you can't find something else? Then you are hosed.
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Find a job WHILE you have a job. Take it from a guy who talks to people all the time with NO job.
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Who? Are we talking about potato head guy, whose boss threatened him alternately with violence and blackballing? I saw him in another thread in the forum, I think his lawyer told him to keep quiet. I think that's the guy. I sometimes worry that we'll convince someone to quit an abusive job, they can't handle it and then they have a heart attack or worse.
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Tab8715 posted:For the last four(?) years I've been specializing in the Microsoft stack and occasionally dabbling in AS/400 stuff. It's okay but I found it strangely more entertaining when I worked with legacy HP-UX/Solaris Systems and troubleshooting 50+ interconnected cron jobs. If you're doing rhcsa, I'd skip Linux+. But guys with traditional unix experience don't usually have a lot of trouble getting in. I'd probably go to a generalist admin position that's Linux/windows at a smaller shop (they'll hire you to do 50% Linux work with hp-ux experience and a little luck in the interview given that it sounds like it's been a little while) and specialize more if you want to. Tab8715 posted:I'm comfortable spinning up VMs at home, studying and experiment but when it comes to trying to get a feel for the Linux Community, History or Ecosystem my eyes start to glaze over. The ecosystem is something (like windows) that you just get a feel for. Work with it and you start reading the Linux thread or hacker news or whatever, and you'll see trends come and go the same way as you already see it for windows if you read the windows threads.
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psydude posted:Security is already a lucrative branch. Consulting means you're also a revenue generator. To give you an idea, several pf our CCIEs make well north of 200k per year. flosofl posted:You're going to be W-2 hourly? skipdogg posted:What kind of consulting? You going to be flying every Sunday night and back home Friday afternoon? What's the workload like? I bet it's not a 40hr/week job. IS gigs pay really really well, but make sure you know what you're getting into. Is 100K a year really worth weekly travel and 60 hour workweeks?
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I still get a little bit excited when I log onto our UCS we got a month or two back. Such power in one place (waiting for you guys to come along with 2TB of RAM per server) 
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We bought a PowerEdge R820 with 4 E5-4657L v2 Xeons and 128 GB RAM to run Orcaflex, a marine calculation program. NUMA can't be disabled with this configuration, and Orcaflex isn't NUMA aware, so it would only run at 1% CPU due to scheduling and allocation issues. I had to remove one CPU, which disables another one and half the RAM. I just looked up the CPUs now, they are $6000 each, I was holding one in my hand and thinking "Sure, I'll just put this in some bubble wrap" So $12000 in CPUs and who knows how much in RAM, wasted.
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Just sent my formal proposal to create a junior admin position beneath me to management. The verbal conversation was promising "we have the money so write it up". Here's hoping
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QuiteEasilyDone posted:I'm not sure if it's a personal crisis speaking, but I don't think I can keep doping the work I'm doing anymore. I've hit a brick wall at the helpdesk level as it appears that no one wants to take a risk on hiring upwards someone without the papers, but has around 2 years experience in helldesk for mixed windows environments. I know a lot and talking with most people in the industry agree that I should move on to an administrator or engineer role be it junior or newish. The problem is I hit the HR wall and can't get over it. Things I hear is that I'll be told "Perfect" on the interviews, go in depth with what I'vew worked on, and then get a notification 2 weeks later that they'd like to pursue more seasoned candidates or take my application to a multilevel role to mean I want to apply to their helpdesk role. Two things that may help. One is that on your resume list any projects that you were a part of that were above and beyond typical help desk responsibilities. I know when I made the jump from helpdesk to sysadmin it wasnt as big of a deal because I had already been doing a lot of that type of work without the pay and title. So if you configure anything on servers, provision servers, do advanced networking setup or troubleshooting, script in powershell or python, etc make sure to list it. Second and perhaps shady and ethically questionable is to just change your job title on previous jobs. If you were doing sysadmin work but it was a small company or something and they had you listed as Computer Network Tech or Helpdesk Tech just put system admin. If you're already doing that level of work without the title and can back it up with experience and knowledge just put that as your job title. Most job titles are meaningless in IT anyway. For example all of the "senior windows administrator" jobs that get forwarded to me by recruiters that appear to be little more than helpdesk/AD jobs.
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skipdogg posted:What kind of consulting? You going to be flying every Sunday night and back home Friday afternoon? What's the workload like? I bet it's not a 40hr/week job. IS gigs pay really really well, but make sure you know what you're getting into. Is 100K a year really worth weekly travel and 60 hour workweeks? This is a pretty common misconception among a lot of the customers I work with. It's pretty rare that anyone I know at my company or the other companies in the area works more than 40 hours per week, and if we do then there's comp time involved (plus consulting firms tend to be incredibly flexible with works hours due to their nature). Occasionally some projects will see you spending several weeks out at another customer site across the country, but that's generally a once or twice a year thing, and to me it's generally worth not having to drive to the same office every day and deal with the same environment. Like all things, it depends on the individual - if you're married and have young kids, or are taking care of a sick family member or something, then yeah, it can be burdensome. But if you're single and like to travel, it's great. With that being said, it's definitely a good idea to ask about these things in the interview, particularly in the technical phone screening when you're on the phone with an actual engineer that works there. psydude fucked around with this message at 14:41 on Aug 12, 2015 |
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psydude posted:This is a pretty common misconception among a lot of the customers I work with. It's pretty rare that anyone I know at my company or the other companies in the area works more than 40 hours per week, and if we do then there's comp time involved (plus consulting firms tend to be incredibly flexible with works hours due to their nature). Occasionally some projects will see you spending several weeks out at another customer site across the country, but that's generally a once or twice a year thing, and to me it's generally worth not having to drive to the same office every day and deal with the same environment. Like all things, it depends on the individual - if you're married and have young kids, or are taking care of a sick family member or something, then yeah, it can be burdensome. But if you're single and like to travel, it's great. When I was traveling as a consultant I'd typically fly in Sunday night or Monday morning and fly home Thursday afternoons. I typically didn't spend 40 hour work weeks onsite unless a shitstorm was brewing or if they basically bought an expensive resident to do staff augmentation. It's definitely worth looking into if you're single and/or want to travel. Also depending on your region you might spend a lot of time at "home base' too.
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evobatman posted:We bought a PowerEdge R820 with 4 E5-4657L v2 Xeons and 128 GB RAM to run Orcaflex, a marine calculation program. I feel like this is something that should have been checked in advance.
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I'm not super familiar with how NUMA works with the software (I thought it was an OS-level thing), but maybe try virtualizing the system and see if that abstracts it away for you?
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NUMA is a hardware feature, it is never going to be a BIOS setting. The 4657v2 does have the fastest system bus of that generation though. From the website that app looks very much a desktop only piece so throwing server hardware at it seems a little foolish. I guess you can use HyperV to run a Windows instance per NUMA node and a copy of the app in each. I'm not sure I would not have just tried out Amazon or Azure hosted desktop first, RDPv8 is pretty spiffy these days. Then it is a lot easier to follow hardware upgrades.
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MrMoo posted:NUMA is a hardware feature, it is never going to be a BIOS setting. I've seen problems with some NUMA latency in memory-bound applications under early HT/QPI implementations on 4-socket boxes, since some memory would be extremely distant (2 hops away from the CPU), but I think since Sandy Bridge there are more than enough QPI links to fully connect a 4-way box. I'd be really surprised if this ended up being strictly a NUMA issue.
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Vulture Culture posted:Memory is always going to be a different distance from the CPU, but I think in this context it refers to cross-node interleaving. According to ARK, that specific processor has 2 QPI links. I think you need an e7 proc for more than that.
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Docjowles posted:Probably moving to OpenStack for management of VM's (not sure if I consider this good or not
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adorai posted:Out of curiosity, how many guests does that service?
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Chickenwalker posted:You can disable NUMA from the BIOS menu on HP Z820s
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So I've got to be doing something right cause I'm getting a roughly 75% application to callback ratio and I've so far scheduled three on site interviews since the last straw broke for me last week at my current helldesk. Let's see where this all goes
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QuiteEasilyDone posted:So I've got to be doing something right cause I'm getting a roughly 75% application to callback ratio and I've so far scheduled three on site interviews since the last straw broke for me last week at my current helldesk. Let's see where this all goes Make sure to mention in your interviews that you're looking for an environment that encourages continued education and you're eager to put in time for certifications. Mention a cert in particular that you want first. It's the next best thing to actually having the certs.
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I worked help desk for 3.5 years and left my job a few weeks ago. Trying to move up in IT (eventual long term goal is Exchange/Messaging admin) and am avoiding any more help desk as I think I've done enough for 10 lifetimes and it doesn't help my career at this point. I got my A+ last week to help a bit with the job search for now, the market in my area demands one to get past many HR screens. I've been looking at Desktop Support jobs and have two interviews this week, but a friend today (who happens to be a NOC Manager) said he has a NOC operator job opening and could probably get me in pretty easily. I actually do not really want to do Desktop Support since it is so similar to Help Desk, but view it as a stepping stone. I haven't though about NOC before but I've had a few recruiters also email/call me about NOC openings. So basically I am wondering between Deskside Tech vs. NOC Operator, has anyone had experience with either/both?
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Meta Ridley posted:I worked help desk for 3.5 years and left my job a few weeks ago. Trying to move up in IT (eventual long term goal is Exchange/Messaging admin) and am avoiding any more help desk as I think I've done enough for 10 lifetimes and it doesn't help my career at this point. As a NOC operator, you'll typically be involved with monitoring and triaging issues and possibly opening and dealing with tickets as a Tier 1 escalated to the NOC. You may or may not do some minor tasks or troubleshooting against a run-book. You'll probably be dealing with IT personnel and not end-users (although that can be an whole other pain in the rear end). Know your networking basics. IPv4, how masks work, TCPvUDP, that kind of stuff. This is a step towards networking and infrastructure, so if you have an interest I'd say go for it.
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flosofl posted:You'll probably be dealing with IT personnel and not end-users (although that can be an whole other pain in the rear end). This is how I imagine the techs at Rackspace feel about us. End-users typically think they know more than you, and are very wrong. IT personnel often do know more than you, and when your poo poo is loving up, they don't have time for it. Meta Ridley posted:I worked help desk for 3.5 years and left my job a few weeks ago. Trying to move up in IT (eventual long term goal is Exchange/Messaging admin) and am avoiding any more help desk as I think I've done enough for 10 lifetimes and it doesn't help my career at this point. If you're fully qualified for the job description, you're over qualified. Aim higher!
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evol262 posted:The community and history also make my eyes glaze over. I'm into open source and everything, but the zealots and people who've never really had to make Linux do anything complicated comprise enough of the community that it's hard. I started IT life as a *nix admin, and I've never paid much attention to the community or the history. It's fluff and unnecessary information. What I need to do is get sendmail working. At no point does this require I have any knowledge about what dick measuring contest linux torvalds is engaging in today. Or what kernal developer hates the other. Or what version of ______ software was the first to integrate with PHP. Linux grognards bask in this meaningless knowledge that doesn't actually move you forward on the path to getting loving sendmail working. So I ignore them.
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gently caress recruiters. "We're a competitor and want you to work for us. We offer less pay, less systems access as you'll be on tier 1 and we want to relocate you to SoMD in the DC metro area, but the benefits are GREEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAT" "So you're paying me less, moving me away from my girlfriend, and offering me $1000 dollars extra to move all my worldly possessions down to the outskirts of DC for 10k less than I'm making now." Of course the less access and less pay parts come out after everything else and wasting a half hour of my time running the least structured interview I've ever taken part of.
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^^^^ Flipside: DC job market is awesome and you could jump ship very easily, but yes - gently caress recruiters regardless ^^^^ Guys; we're approaching my favorite time of year: end of fiscal year blowout buy everything time  I just got confirmation I get to basically re-spend my annual budget over the next 30 days.  edit: Any things I should look at that are just too cool not to consider - we're pretty stable generally speaking on infrastructure/licenses/environment? I'm going to replace our aging routing and switching infrastructure, but that'll eat up a third of it at most. Probably commit some of it to an AWS enterprise agreement... but that's about all I've got in mind. Help figure out whats worth pursuing. It's use it or lose it guys. Use it or lose it. Walked fucked around with this message at 16:29 on Aug 13, 2015 |
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My office was sending a bunch of Watchguard XTM 5s to recycling so I took home a couple to play with. Disregarding the software, they're basically rackmount 1U x86 boxes with 6x intel gigabit nics. So I turned one into my project box and performed the following:
I'm particularly satisfied with the processor replacement: the machine went from a 1 core 2GHz to a quad core 2.5Gz. After all this work I'm sitting here thinking "Why??" I don't need some suped up firewall for my one bedroom apartment. What the hell motivated me to create this thing
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Walked posted:^^^^ Flipside: DC job market is awesome and you could jump ship very easily, but yes - gently caress recruiters regardless ^^^^ CBT Nuggets subscription?
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Thanks Ants posted:CBT Nuggets subscription? Already have PluralSight, MSDN, and Oreilly Safari Books. But not a bad idea; I'll throw it on the list as a "why not"
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Walked posted:^^^^ Flipside: DC job market is awesome and you could jump ship very easily, but yes - gently caress recruiters regardless ^^^^ Spare pool + exact copy of prod env for testing.
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Walked posted:Already have PluralSight, MSDN, and Oreilly Safari Books. But not a bad idea; I'll throw it on the list as a "why not"
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mewse posted:My office was sending a bunch of Watchguard XTM 5s to recycling so I took home a couple to play with. Disregarding the software, they're basically rackmount 1U x86 boxes with 6x intel gigabit nics. Put RouterOS on it and A buddy of mine is developing DDOS defenses using some serious proprietary hardware and RouterOS. Like 10Gb sustained traffic mitigation. That or you could build a NAS, because reasons. Edit: oh!!! or you could install vmware on ubuntu and run a virtualized instance of Amahi (it's really fun to play around with) https://www.amahi.org/ GnarlyCharlie4u fucked around with this message at 20:04 on Aug 13, 2015 |
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mewse posted:My office was sending a bunch of Watchguard XTM 5s to recycling so I took home a couple to play with. Disregarding the software, they're basically rackmount 1U x86 boxes with 6x intel gigabit nics. I think what you did is neat. 
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