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22 Eargesplitten posted:I need to get out of CO before the next winter hits. Where should I be looking for good job markets with mild winters? Humidity isn't an issue, I'd prefer someplace not huge (<=150k people), and I'd rather not live in California, but at this point I'm desperate. I'd also rather it not get up to 110 like Austin, but again, I'm desperate. Portland, Oregon is also a fun place to work with a lot of neat startups everywhere -- not as warm as the other places, but their winters mostly stay above freezing. Also getting very expensive near the city, but bike transportation is super-easy if you're in good shape and you might not even need a car depending on where you live. I'd probably pick Palm Beach County, I love that whole area around Delray/Deerfield. Dirt-cheap taxes, too.
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On the subject of regional tech economies has anyone done IT in Vegas? How's working for a major Casino/Hotel? I've been eyeing a few positions from MGM Resorts.
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Thanks for the suggestions. I love CO, but sadbrains gets to be a bitch for both of us in the winter. I'll look into Florida and the RTP. I happen to still have the contact information for a goon who would probably still love to refer me to his company in the RTP, so that's a plus. I've got family around Atlanta, I'd consider it. I've only driven around there a little bit, but it seems like there's a lot of small towns shoved into a big city. Granted, my grandparents lived in the Druid Hills area, so it could be completely different in areas that aren't so ridiculously expensive. My wife and I are very much small-town people, which is why I mentioned the size thing. Denver is way too big for us, for a frame of reference. That's my hesitation with Atlanta, as well. Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill are all around the right size for us.
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Tab8715 posted:On the subject of regional tech economies has anyone done IT in Vegas? How's working for a major Casino/Hotel? I've been eyeing a few positions from MGM Resorts. I've worked for a tribal casino, in slots and in IT. If you get a job at MGM, you might meet a guy named Corky who introduced me to VMware. In the casino business, expect to work with a lot of poorly designed proprietary applications. Any specific questions?
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Thanks for the suggestions. I love CO, but sadbrains gets to be a bitch for both of us in the winter. I'll look into Florida and the RTP. I happen to still have the contact information for a goon who would probably still love to refer me to his company in the RTP, so that's a plus. I've got family around Atlanta, I'd consider it. I've only driven around there a little bit, but it seems like there's a lot of small towns shoved into a big city. Granted, my grandparents lived in the Druid Hills area, so it could be completely different in areas that aren't so ridiculously expensive. Don't sleep on Richmond... it's a great bang for the buck town and has a decent IT community. Lots of user groups, decent start up community as well.
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Thanks for the suggestions. I love CO, but sadbrains gets to be a bitch for both of us in the winter. I'll look into Florida and the RTP. I happen to still have the contact information for a goon who would probably still love to refer me to his company in the RTP, so that's a plus. I've got family around Atlanta, I'd consider it. I've only driven around there a little bit, but it seems like there's a lot of small towns shoved into a big city. Granted, my grandparents lived in the Druid Hills area, so it could be completely different in areas that aren't so ridiculously expensive. Yeah I think you'd do well in NC. Good opportunities, and you can cruise out west toward Asheville and pretend you're in Lyons or something when you need a break from the "big city" life of RTP. As someone who came to CO from Boston, and has since moved back... if Colorado winters give you sabrains, for the love of god, do not move north of Virginia. CO winters are like getting to be an uncle vs a parent. You get all the fun of snow, but then 24 hours later it's 50 degrees, all the snow melts, and you're back to normal. If you do have to shovel, it's light and fluffy and takes no effort. Contrast this with much of the nation where it snows in late November, never once melts until April, and is wet and heavy as gently caress to move around.
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As someone who recently moved from the Ft. Lauderdale area to the Denver area I would never loving ever go back.
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Jan 7, 2016 07:21
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Internet Explorer posted:As someone who recently moved from the Ft. Lauderdale area to the Denver area I would never loving ever go back. Same, except from Atlanta to Denver.
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Jan 7, 2016 07:35
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I really can't get into consulting again, my soul can't handle it, but I need to start making some extra money on the side. I know the answer is go back to doing some consulting again. 
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Jan 7, 2016 08:51
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KillHour posted:You don't need STP if your network doesn't have any redundant links! How the gently caress did you find hubs in a production network in 2015? I've been doing this for 8 years now and I have never seen a hub. Ever. I refuse to believe they exist.
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Docjowles posted:Yeah I think you'd do well in NC. Good opportunities, and you can cruise out west toward Asheville and pretend you're in Lyons or something when you need a break from the "big city" life of RTP. If I needed to settle down and for whatever reason needed to be on the east coast, I'd do NC in a heartbeat. Good food and beer, climate isn't to horrible except for a couple months in the summer.
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Kirios posted:How the gently caress did you find hubs in a production network in 2015? I've been doing this for 8 years now and I have never seen a hub. Ever. I refuse to believe they exist. They also had a workstation with a 5.25" floppy drive running some ancient scientific equipment.
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Jan 7, 2016 14:29
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Dark Helmut posted:Don't sleep on Richmond... it's a great bang for the buck town and has a decent IT community. Lots of user groups, decent start up community as well. If you can Snag-a-job (see what I did there?) with Dominion, you're in like sin. That company will take good care of you like it's the 90's.
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The Greenville, SC area was pretty cool. It seems up and coming, although not sure how strong the tech industry specifically is there.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:If you can Snag-a-job (see what I did there?) with Dominion, you're in like sin. My biggest problem with Richmond was that every IT job there amounted to working for The Man. Now, if I could find a VAR or a consulting firm there that would take me at my current salary I'd definitely move back. Area's so god damned cheap (and no traffic!).
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psydude posted:My biggest problem with Richmond was that every IT job there amounted to working for The Man. Now, if I could find a VAR or a consulting firm there that would take me at my current salary I'd definitely move back. Area's so god damned cheap (and no traffic!). These two statements are at odds, you know... Our salaries are lower, for sure, but at least to me that is balanced out more than equitably by our housing being HALF that of NOVA/DC and I can get anywhere in my city within 20 minutes. Cap One is still huge here but there are a lot of alternatives. Cushy, slow-paced state jobs, Federal Reserve, tons of small/medium businesses, and a growing startup community.
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KillHour posted:they keep barrels of HF just chilling in the open 
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So we are going through a normal network security audit today and the auditor gave me a list of things I need to show proof for. I am going through the list and I got this. Screenshot of the BUILTIN/Administrators on the Domain Controller 
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Sickening posted:So we are going through a normal network security audit today and the auditor gave me a list of things I need to show proof for. I am going through the list and I got this. No pic but I'm assuming it's something really bad like Authenticated Users or Everyone
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mayodreams posted:No pic but I'm assuming it's something really bad like Authenticated Users or Everyone There are so such thing as local users/groups on domain controllers. (or hasn't been in a long time)
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Jan 7, 2016 17:46
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Sickening posted:There are so such thing as local users/groups on domain controllers. (or hasn't been in a long time) Oh right. I totally read that wrong. The Struggle is Real today. I am demoting unused Domain Controllers to find that someone installed Chrome on them, most likely to bypass the IE security. welp.
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mayodreams posted:Oh right. I totally read that wrong. The Struggle is Real today. I am demoting unused Domain Controllers to find that someone installed Chrome on them, most likely to bypass the IE security. welp. This is why you don't put gui's on domain controllers anymore.
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mayodreams posted:Oh right. I totally read that wrong. The Struggle is Real today. I am demoting unused Domain Controllers to find that someone installed Chrome on them, most likely to bypass the IE security. welp. Should probably be more careful with admin access to your DCs
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CLAM DOWN posted:Should probably be more careful with admin access to your DCs I've only been here like 4 months and the MS infra, particularly AD, is a disaster. I'm slowly fixing these types of things.
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Sickening posted:This is why you don't put gui's on domain controllers anymore. I was just about to say that. I love server core because of the reaction less experienced IT people have to it. Oh, a command prompt... I guess I'll poo poo up some other server. Of course there's other security issues and stuff, but the kind of person who's going to install chrome on a DC isn't going to bother to convert a server to full gui.
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Sickening posted:So we are going through a normal network security audit today and the auditor gave me a list of things I need to show proof for. I am going through the list and I got this. Just grab a blank sheet of paper and sign it.
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Before I took over, our DCs (all of our windows servers, really) had firefox or chrome, adobe pdf reader, adobe flash, and the Java JRE. I was brand new to the IT game and even I know it was ridiculous.
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You guys should try out application whitelisting for real, especially on DCs.
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Ya'll made me want to check our DC's. All that's on them is vmware tools and ad tidy.
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I found break_time_at_the_toyota_plant.wmv on my DC. It was porn.
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And I just found out our level one help desk guys are logging directly into DCs to do AD management. loving seriously.
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GreenNight posted:Ya'll made me want to check our DC's. All that's on them is vmware tools and ad tidy. Why would you need ad tidy on your domain controller? Why would't you just run that from your workstation?
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Sickening posted:Why would you need ad tidy on your domain controller? gently caress if I know. I uninstalled it. Probably was my boss though. He doesn't like to put admin tools on his workstation saying "it slows it down" so he just rdp's into every server.
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mayodreams posted:And I just found out our level one help desk guys are logging directly into DCs to do AD management. loving seriously. GreenNight posted:He doesn't like to put admin tools on his workstation saying "it slows it down" so he just rdp's into every server. 
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:I was just about to say that. I love server core because of the reaction less experienced IT people have to it. Oh, a command prompt... I guess I'll poo poo up some other server. Does server core punt you to powershell by default? Because switching between bash and windows command prompt is annoying, but going to powershell is much less so. e: I'm moving to Samba DCs on BSD for my lab network because I'm a sadist
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psydude posted:Does server core punt you to powershell by default? Because switching between bash and windows command prompt is annoying, but going to powershell is much less so.
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GreenNight posted:Did I mention his normal network account is Enterprise Admin? you're hurting me, pls stop
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GreenNight posted:Did I mention his normal network account is Enterprise Admin?  this is wonderful
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Yeah, I even offered to create a VM for him that has all the admin tools installed that he can RDP to, but noo that would be a waste of resources.
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