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NippleFloss posted:People also said that EMC would kill VMware and that obviously didn't pan out. I doubt Dell will rock the boat too much in that respect either. Kill? You mean sell it off?
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Tab8715 posted:Kill? You mean sell it off? Meaning there was a panic that EMC would try to close off the VMware ecosystem to privilege EMC products or otherwise cripple VMware in service of the parent company. Think of things like VSAN or VAAI or converged infrastructures like FlexPod or SmartStack where there's a clear conflict between what EMC the storage company and VMware the software company who want to support many storage vendors equitably. VMware mostly won those fights and remained largely independent. I'd suspect the same to happen with Dell.
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Oct 12, 2015 20:46
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The BBC are reporting that VMware is keeping its independence. So hopefully it stays like that.
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Oct 12, 2015 21:06
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Sure they will, for all of a year or two while everything shakes out.
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Oct 12, 2015 21:13
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NippleFloss posted:Meaning there was a panic that EMC would try to close off the VMware ecosystem to privilege EMC products or otherwise cripple VMware in service of the parent company. Quite the opposite has happened. VMWare and EMC are pretty solidly silo'd from one another - to the point where a VMWare support engineer screamed bloody murder at an EMC support engineer over their shoddy diagnosis-by-the-numbers they were doing on a critical outage conference call.  "Wait. ANOTHER SP collect? He just DELIVERED one! WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU'LL REJOIN THE CALL IN 2 HOURS AFTER THE COLLECT IS DONE? DUDEGUY'S COMPANY PAYS YOU FOR THIS BULLSHIT? HOW DID WE EVER BECOME YOUR SUBSIDIARY FOR CHRIST'S SAKE-"For all the frustration of the outage, my team laughed mightily at the exchange.
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Welcome aboard EMC and VMware friends! May all our redundancies be bountiful
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Oct 13, 2015 01:05
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God could you imagine how hosed up the IT world would suddenly be if VMWare imploded?
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Oct 13, 2015 01:17
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psydude posted:God could you imagine how hosed up the IT world would suddenly be if VMWare imploded? The first impulse would be to move everything to the cloud. That'd be fun to watch :popcorn:
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Tab8715 posted:The first impulse would be to move everything to the cloud. That'd be fun to watch :popcorn: A cloud running on what 
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Oct 13, 2015 01:28
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psydude posted:A cloud running on what 3xT1 pipes, that's what. Why does our database run slowly I thought we provisioned a huge cloud server it should be faster than what we had before!
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Oct 13, 2015 01:49
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psydude posted:A cloud running on what
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Oct 13, 2015 06:08
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I'm not sure where else to ask this: Is it normal practice to use Excel to query data straight from SQL tables for the purpose of analysis? This is a situation where the application that creates the data has inadequate reporting features and I'm going in manually.
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Yup. I'd recommend using an account with read-only rights to that DB, but you are definitely not the first.
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Oct 13, 2015 13:46
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Hooray! CDW can finally start selling Dell hardware. I can get rid of our annoying useless Dell rep and work with our competent helpful sales reps at CDW. Your mileage may vary of course, either company is only as good as the rep you get to work with. Although there seems to be way less turnover at CDW.
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Oct 13, 2015 16:17
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Swink posted:I'm not sure where else to ask this: Sure! ODBC is your frenemy.
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Oct 13, 2015 16:18
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Existential crisis: I am sick, but I barely do anything anyway and I work from home, so being sick has no actual bearing on my work. Why even be sick?
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:Existential crisis: I am sick, but I barely do anything anyway and I work from home, so being sick has no actual bearing on my work. Why even be sick?
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Vulture Culture posted:This is why I can't enjoy NY winters anymore. I'm already staying home, now I just have a shitload of snow to shovel. Last place would close if it smelled like a storm. Where's my drone snowblower?
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Oct 13, 2015 17:31
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Some days it's nice opening up a laptop to swap a hard drive out.  This is what I thought I'd be doing every day when I started in IT...
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Oct 13, 2015 17:33
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Japanese Dating Sim posted:Some days it's nice opening up a laptop to swap a hard drive out. Seventeen years later, I'm back in developing web products. 
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Oct 13, 2015 17:37
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Today is a good day. Looks like I'll be joining this thread now. Currently an Information Security Intern but got hired on full time as an IT analyst. The job is basically an internship as I will spend 4 months per department in 3 different IT departments learning all the crap they do. However, it is full time and pays twice what I make now with benefits and bonuses.
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Oct 13, 2015 17:40
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Japanese Dating Sim posted:Some days it's nice opening up a laptop to swap a hard drive out. I dunno, back when I was working desktop I absolutely hated personal computers just because I had to deal with them all of the time. Now that I rarely ever touch them at work (outside of my own work laptop), I actually enjoy tinkering with my computers at home again.
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psydude posted:I dunno, back when I was working desktop I absolutely hated personal computers just because I had to deal with them all of the time. Now that I rarely ever touch them at work (outside of my own work laptop), I actually enjoy tinkering with my computers at home again. Yeah - that's what I was trying to get across. Most of my work here is maintaining images, basic server admin stuff, etc. - I very rarely need to actually open up a tower/laptop, so I had fun swapping out a drive today. And it's nice that it still takes very little time.
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I was looking into Intel Anti-Theft to further secure the laptops we have, but I see they're discontinuing it? I have hundreds of laptops that are all exclusively HP, Intel, TPM and Bitlocker equipped. They aren't stolen as much as fired employees try to keep them, and it's just too much of a hassle to take them to court over a $400 laptop. But I'd still like to brick the thing to the point that it requires a motherboard replacement, to discourage that kind of stuff. Is there any BIOS-level solution that can substitute for Intel Anti-Theft?
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cross posting from BFCCaptain Walker posted:Background: I graduated from college in 2012 with an utterly useless degree and spent the following two years trying to find employment in Southern California. Work history includes a summer at a theme park (fired because I'm autistic and didn't understand that I was being given a verbal warning), "office assistant"/junior analyst at an SEO firm (fired when they realized they needed someone who actually knew SEO), and whatever menial office jobs the temp agencies could scrounge up. TL;DR I'm a self employed computer janitor and I need more work, please advise
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Captain Walker posted:cross posting from BFC Have you considered taking up landscaping?
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Methanar posted:Have you considered taking up landscaping? I had a brief stint in interior decorating, does that count
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So first, a certification will help a sales pitch. "You can trust me, I am CompTIA A+ certified, I know what I'm doing, I'm not just some teenager who likes to fool around with computers." Do you have a Facebook for your business? That'd be a decent place to start. Just brainstorming here: You might have some luck marketing towards other computer professionals: When Grandma calls up because Pornographic popups 'installed themselves' on your Grandpa's computer AGAIN, she doesn't understand that your specialty is OpenStack virtual infrastructure, you're a "computer guy" to her. Let me be YOUR computer guy. I'll clean the cat hair out of Aunt Shelly's laptop. I'll show your Sister in Law how to set up a Facebook account. I'll do the dirty work so you can enjoy your day off.
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Captain Walker posted:cross posting from BFC Maybe repackage yourself as a managed services provider, show up to small businesses and say "Hey how'd you like me to source and install your toner for you, buy and image your PCs for you" There's a lot of small businesses and startups that have minimal to no IT employees, hell, my company's branch in the UK has a 6-figure programmer changing out toner just because they didn't want to dish out for another full-time. But if you travel between a group of places checking up on them you could make bank.
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Are you good at it? Do you like it? Personal support, especially to customers who are sourcing you through the newspaper, doesn't sound rewarding in comp or in experience. And the market is actively working against you due to things like cheap disposable hardware and simple operating systems like iOS. I see personal PC support going the way of TV repair. IMO you're much better off holding a menial office job at a place that has a computer at it and learning/getting your A+ while you collect a paycheck. If you can't do that (I don't know if you're serious about being autistic or not) then go on disability or something. You're obviously working hard, but it's just not a good industry to be in. You would need a much longer work history to market to businesses.
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All good ideas. Becoming a MSP for very small businesses, as Zero VGS said, was basically the only idea I had for expanding, but I like Dr. Arbitrary's thought of marketing to other computer people. I particularly want to address Roargasm's post; I spent two years trying to find a menial office job, and since 2013 I've had zero luck beyond what morsels the temp agencies threw my way. I've been turned down by Best Buy three times and they seem to be going under anyway. Shouldn't clutter up this thread. Dedicated thread for my dumb 1st world problems is over here.
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Captain Walker posted:I've been turned down by Best Buy three times and they seem to be going under anyway. Don't feel bad. I worked for them 20 years ago, got fired by a GM who was pissed at me for answering corporates questions about how dishonest the place was, and to this day if I try their phone line application system, the moment I punch in my ssn it immediately responds with 'oops! we have no jobs at all available!'
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I went there yesterday to buy a mDP to DP cable and wound up explaining to the sales rep what Displayport is. At which point he told me I should probably check Amazon. 
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Oct 14, 2015 02:14
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Pfft, he should have said Monoprice.
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Pretty sure getting rejected from Best Buy is a great sign for your abilities! A couple months back my mom went to them to buy a new laptop* and paid to have them transfer her data to the new device. All of her music and a bunch of documents didn't make it. Their response was essentially "lol it's your fault, also there's nothing we can do and we won't issue a refund,  "* Despite asking for my advice, then rejecting all of the non-awful options I offered in favor of whatever $200 POS was on sale, because :moms:
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GreenNight posted:Pfft, he should have said Monoprice. You can buy their stuff on Amazon at a small markup from the Monoprice site but with Amazon's shipping. If you need one cord and have Prime it works out.
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True. If you bulk order from Monoprice, you can use eBates and get some cash back, which doesn't work on Amazon. Use ebates for all your newegg/monoprice/groupon purchases.
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GreenNight posted:True. If you bulk order from Monoprice, you can use eBates and get some cash back, which doesn't work on Amazon. Use ebates for all your newegg/monoprice/groupon purchases. This sounds like something that would get you sent to HR in a hurry.
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Another day, another all staff meeting with the CEO where he tells us that poo poo is hosed up in the oil business, and even more people have to be let go. I think we have had like 5 or 6 of them so far, but I'm still here. Until I'm not I guess.
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