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Hungry Computer posted:CIO is just playing it safe. That's because anti-virus is bad and does more harm than good. 
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ratbert90 posted:That's because anti-virus is bad and does more harm than good. AV causes autism.
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Jun 18, 2016 00:01
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GreenNight posted:AV causes autism. The anti vaxxers were just thinking about the wrong anti-virus this entire time!
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Jun 18, 2016 00:03
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ratbert90 posted:That's because anti-virus is bad and does more harm than good. 
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Jun 18, 2016 00:16
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First week working for a VAR is in the books. When they say the job isn't for everyone they mean it. Barely have time to take a poo poo
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Jun 18, 2016 00:59
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a degree is only proof that you were able to get enough money to attend school for a few years. everything else is up for interpretation and is why you have interviews and why most businesses keep hiring idiots
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Jun 18, 2016 01:18
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Sepist posted:First week working for a VAR is in the books. When they say the job isn't for everyone they mean it. Barely have time to take a poo poo Are you doing presales or post sales? Once you get used to it the work can be pretty rewarding. quote:a degree is only proof that you were able to get enough money to attend school for a few years. everything else is up for interpretation and is why you have interviews and why most businesses keep hiring idiots It's also quickly becoming the equivalent of a high school diploma with respect to being the minimum requirement to not flip burgers. Also, any education you get is what you make of it.
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Jun 18, 2016 03:53
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1000101 posted:Are you doing presales or post sales? Once you get used to it the work can be pretty rewarding. Ultimately it will be pre-sales, but the company had let go of their CTO who took their top 2 network resources with him (friends he brought in) so I'm doing pre-sales and engineering for now until we hire someone to take over the engineering side.
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Jun 18, 2016 03:59
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Yep. As I'm sitting here an hour past when I was trying to end this change window because a customer straight up didn't tell me about an extra switch they have, I'm keeping in mind that my company is basically paying me to travel around the world to various vacation spots for weeks at a time over the next few months.
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Jun 18, 2016 07:23
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go3 posted:a degree is only proof that you were able to get enough money to attend school for a few years. everything else is up for interpretation and is why you have interviews and why most businesses keep hiring idiots College owns, getting jobs out of college because of degrees owns, 
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Jun 18, 2016 07:39
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psydude posted:Yep. As I'm sitting here an hour past when I was trying to end this change window because a customer straight up didn't tell me about an extra switch they have, I'm keeping in mind that my company is basically paying me to travel around the world to various vacation spots for weeks at a time over the next few months. So did you manage to actually get a picture of an exec worrying a farm animal, or did you just photoshop one together while they were black-out drunk to swing that? Lucky bastard 
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Jun 18, 2016 07:51
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psydude posted:Yep. As I'm sitting here an hour past when I was trying to end this change window because a customer straight up didn't tell me about an extra switch they have, I'm keeping in mind that my company is basically paying me to travel around the world to various vacation spots for weeks at a time over the next few months. Sounds suspiciously like my job. Travel to awesome place, do job, have awesome food and drinks on the beach while company pays for it.
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Jun 18, 2016 09:47
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I just got an IT job for a company that uses Lotus Notes/Domino and it's been ages since I've done Domino housekeeping admin work plus no one here has manager access to anything we get to use. Do we have an ask sysadmin thread or should I just ask here? (Mail rules apparently don't work, where's the setting for that? Also for some reason every received mail gets a timestamp of when you actually yank it off the pop server instead of when it was sent. If I knew what specific settings I'm looking for there's a slight chance I could get the out of country admin to do some changes for us).
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Jun 18, 2016 13:51
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ratbert90 posted:I would say that more than half of the candidates I interview fail FizzBuzz by the way. Is this that test where you print a list of numbers and if its divisible by 3 you print fizz, 5 buzz, and both fizzbuzz? I have incredibly minimal coding experience, but wouldn't you just do an if check for if its divisible by 3 and 5 > Fizzbuzz, else 3 > Fizz, else 5 > Buzz, else neither > Number?
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Jun 18, 2016 14:34
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Lilli posted:Is this that test where you print a list of numbers and if its divisible by 3 you print fizz, 5 buzz, and both fizzbuzz? I have incredibly minimal coding experience, but wouldn't you just do an if check for if its divisible by 3 and 5 > Fizzbuzz, else 3 > Fizz, else 5 > Buzz, else neither > Number? There are many approaches to this, some are more extensible, some more efficient, some very simple, etc. What really matters in the interview context is demonstrating that you have a basic ability to translate requirements to code and (depending on the interview style) the ability to explain your thought process and approach in a halfway intelligent manner. If you google around this question gets an unnecessary amount of debate. It's pretty ridiculous. It's also sad that anyone with more than a month of basic programming under their belt cant at least get a passing grade, but it definitely happens. please dont go there thread
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Ledenko posted:I just got an IT job for a company that uses Lotus Notes/Domino and it's been ages since I've done Domino housekeeping admin work plus no one here has manager access to anything we get to use. Do we have an ask sysadmin thread or should I just ask here? (Mail rules apparently don't work, where's the setting for that? Also for some reason every received mail gets a timestamp of when you actually yank it off the pop server instead of when it was sent. If I knew what specific settings I'm looking for there's a slight chance I could get the out of country admin to do some changes for us). Have you thought about flipping burgers instead?
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Jun 18, 2016 16:16
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flosofl posted:Agreed. Hello fellow non compsci degree haver with 20 years in the industry - its not the mid 90s any more. Just because it wasnt too hard for us in the dotcom boom does not mean its equally easy for todays kids given how everyone and their dog has been pushed to get a degree since. Its like the boomers complaining how people dont have the gumption to work their own way through college and buy their first house at 25 any more.
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Jun 18, 2016 16:22
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Ledenko posted:I just got an IT job for a company that uses Lotus Notes/Domino and it's been ages since I've done Domino housekeeping admin work plus no one here has manager access to anything we get to use. Do we have an ask sysadmin thread or should I just ask here? (Mail rules apparently don't work, where's the setting for that? Also for some reason every received mail gets a timestamp of when you actually yank it off the pop server instead of when it was sent. If I knew what specific settings I'm looking for there's a slight chance I could get the out of country admin to do some changes for us). Nice, what version of lotus notes?
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Methanar posted:Nice, what version of lotus notes? Version 9.0.1. Jaeger, I'm not sure what your problem is, but I wasn't taken on to do admin work for Domino, I just happen to have more experience with LN because everyone else has zero and they asked me to look into it.
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Jun 18, 2016 22:49
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Ledenko posted:Version 9.0.1. His problem is that Lotus Notes is terrible and you might rather be flipping burgers than deal with it.
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I like a good challenge, even if everything is stacked against us. No access to a domino/designer install, no one knows if anyone has any sort of access rights for changing anything and the actual admins don't give a poo poo about us. I think it's now been two weeks since I got my boss to ask for a database, the admin said he'll have it ready straight away and guess what. Oh, some users are using outlook and they're phasing that out, makes sense if the company is running Domino anyhow. I just want to help out because right now we can't even make automatic folder sorting, but it's possible it's a local config setting according to an IBM article I just found.
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Jun 18, 2016 23:12
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RFC2324 posted:His problem is that Lotus Notes is terrible and you might rather be flipping burgers than deal with it. And both are dead-end jobs, but at least burger-flipping has a future.
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Jun 18, 2016 23:12
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Lotus and Domino are still immensely popular in older companies and APAC.
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:And both are dead-end jobs, but at least burger-flipping has a future. At least you won't get 24/7 on call from the burger place.
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Jun 18, 2016 23:42
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In the last year I've used Notes, Groupwise, and Outlook 
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Jun 18, 2016 23:44
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alg posted:In the last year I've used Notes, Groupwise, and Outlook I used verse, why IBM thinks that is some new breakthrough product I have no idea. It's poo poo.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:I actually miss cabling. It was a tough job, where I was at best "uncomfortable" 12 hours a day. BaseballPCHiker posted:I use to do a lot of physical installs of satellite internet dishes, WISP antennas, Wireless AP deployments, etc where I would get to climb on buildings and install all of theses things and run the cable. I really miss it too. You got to work in a new place every couple of days and meet new people. Each building was its own unique puzzle that had to be solved. You guys are nuts. For my 6th anniversary in this job the week I spent two back-to-back 12's at one of our remote sites, without working AC, pulling cable and doing other hateful IT poo poo in closets and up on ladders and it was completely dreadful. (For reference, I am the sysadmin.) It didn't help that the job should have taken 8 hours and instead went 24 (+, we didn't even completely finish, lol), and as my boss became more and more frustrated, he got crabby and began to blame every little thing on me. It was the kind of week that is making me question my career choices.
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Sirotan posted:as my boss became more and more frustrated, he got crabby and began to blame every little thing on me. It was the kind of week that is making me question my career choices.
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Jun 19, 2016 17:29
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jaegerx posted:I used verse, why IBM thinks that is some new breakthrough product I have no idea. It's poo poo. alg posted:In the last year I've used Notes, Groupwise, and Outlook
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Jun 19, 2016 17:40
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Also GroupWise let you pull back sent emails and holy poo poo the screaming that entailed when we told users that was no longer possible after our migration to Exchange.
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GreenNight posted:Also GroupWise let you pull back sent emails and holy poo poo the screaming that entailed when we told users that was no longer possible after our migration to Exchange. I thought exchange does let you, but with some caveats(if anyone sees it or it leaves the org, it won't work)
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GreenNight posted:Also GroupWise let you pull back sent emails and holy poo poo the screaming that entailed when we told users that was no longer possible after our migration to Exchange. Yep people are begging for this, and send email at a future time. The hard cut to Outlook is gonna be super rough.
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alg posted:Yep people are begging for this, and send email at a future time. The hard cut to Outlook is gonna be super rough. Outlook lets you delay delivery, and you can recall a message if it hasn't been opened yet. GreenNight posted:Also GroupWise let you pull back sent emails and holy poo poo the screaming that entailed when we told users that was no longer possible after our migration to Exchange. Don't mislead your users, and you'll get less screaming 
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Jun 19, 2016 19:49
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I believe you even have to click on the recall message you get, so if you're going though them chronologically you'll read the initial email before the recall one and it won't be recalled.
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Aunt Beth posted:Because someone just finally showed IBM how to do AJAX or HTML5 programming and all their minds are blown with this bold new frontier of the World Wide Web.
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Jun 19, 2016 20:11
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Aunt Beth posted:Because someone just finally showed IBM how to do AJAX or HTML5 programming and all their minds are blown with this bold new frontier of the World Wide Web. IIRC Exchange ditched single-instance storage when they moved away from insisting on fast storage to allowing you to run on a bunch of SATA without issues. Their argument being that disk is cheaper than the CPU required to do all the dedupe calculations.
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Thanks Ants posted:IIRC Exchange ditched single-instance storage when they moved away from insisting on fast storage to allowing you to run on a bunch of SATA without issues. Their argument being that disk is cheaper than the CPU required to do all the dedupe calculations. Deduplication is also incredibly common on storage arrays these days so doing it less efficiently in Exchange didn't make much sense.
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Sirotan posted:You guys are nuts. For my 6th anniversary in this job the week I spent two back-to-back 12's at one of our remote sites, without working AC, pulling cable and doing other hateful IT poo poo in closets and up on ladders and it was completely dreadful. (For reference, I am the sysadmin.) It didn't help that the job should have taken 8 hours and instead went 24 (+, we didn't even completely finish, lol), and as my boss became more and more frustrated, he got crabby and began to blame every little thing on me. It was the kind of week that is making me question my career choices. Yeah I'm with you, the physical aspect of IT is easily my least favorite. Spending any amount of time in a data center loving sucks. It's noisy, the AC dries you out, and you never escape without at least one gash on your hand or smashed finger. I'm glad I've had to do it, and understand how, because it's important. I have a couple coworkers who, while excellent sysadmins in most areas, have had zero hardware exposure (one fresh out of college, the other in his mid 30's but shifting over from dev land to operations). Which can be a huge blind spot in troubleshooting and system design. Good luck getting the data center remote hands to do the right thing if you don't know what an SFP looks like or that there's more than one type of fiber. So I'm glad I have that knowledge. And glad I can mostly use it to instruct someone else on what to do
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Vulture Culture posted:The System Storage stuff has had some top-tier web interface stuff happening for a long time
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The SAN guys at my shop are the windows team and for whatever reason they love Netapps. I miss my XIV 
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