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psydude posted:True/False: If someone is the senior network engineer in a NOC, I shouldn't have to specify that I need layer 1(!), layer 2, and layer 3 configured when I say "I need connectivity between this device and this management server with these IP addresses." Talk about title bloat, senior network engineer in a NOC. I bet their recruiters all have Director and VP titles too.
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:I might be talking out of my rear end, but I think in the big scheme of things, there's really room for only one, maybe two big cloud providers, and a bunch of small boutique cloud providers. There's really only one big cloud provider and the rest are playing catchup.
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# ? Aug 12, 2016 16:13 |
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I really should start talking to people at Salesforce on linkedin, their new HQ is downtown. I'd love to get on their cloud/datacenter infrastructure team.
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# ? Aug 12, 2016 16:19 |
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adorai posted:For those who have made the jump from tech to management, how do you keep your tech skills sharp when 80% of your day is taken up by decidedly non-technical things? I don't want to end up useless if my job goes away for some reason, but I also like the current path of career progression I am on (and the money it provides). If you're unhappy with the amount of time you're spending doing non-technical things, delegate some of it out to interested people on your team -- nothing says you're only allowed to delegate the technical tasks. It helps you suss out who's next in your line of succession, it helps other people develop non-technical skills that they want to develop, you're doing what you want, they're doing what they want, and everyone wins (as long as they want to do it). Need to define or improve a process? Deputize someone to lead it. Need a technical representative at a meeting that you just can't bear to attend? Grab someone who wants the visibility.
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# ? Aug 12, 2016 16:37 |
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I am witnessing the greatest meltdown of my professional career. I will have quite a writeup on this one. This guy is losing. his. mind. about not being able to access TFS. He's entering the wrong password. We know this because myself and all of his coworkers are like, yeah see I can access it using your account (when we set up a temporary password to demonstrate) - he's like, nope, that is not the issue. Have I mentioned that this is literally the guy's 2nd day of work? Oh man, I need to write this whole thing up, because this is glorious.
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:I am witnessing the greatest meltdown of my professional career. I will have quite a writeup on this one. This guy is losing. his. mind. about not being able to access TFS. He's entering the wrong password. We know this because myself and all of his coworkers are like, yeah see I can access it using your account (when we set up a temporary password to demonstrate) - he's like, nope, that is not the issue. Have you ever seen that bug on Windows where a random key will enter a different keystroke until you reboot the machine? I've seen it a few times on a few laptops and it will drive people to madness.
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# ? Aug 12, 2016 16:57 |
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Why does he have to enter a password at all though? TFS is tightly integrated with AD, logging into the workstation should be enough.
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# ? Aug 12, 2016 17:27 |
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Zero VGS posted:Have you ever seen that bug on Windows where a random key will enter a different keystroke until you reboot the machine? I've seen it a few times on a few laptops and it will drive people to madness. So you mean numlock on a keyboard without a 10-key pad?
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# ? Aug 12, 2016 17:30 |
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bull3964 posted:Why does he have to enter a password at all though? TFS is tightly integrated with AD, logging into the workstation should be enough.
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The Fool posted:So you mean numlock on a keyboard without a 10-key pad? Or a mis-aligned keyboard ribbon cable. I have gotten Dell refurbs where it was returned because it wouldn't type properly. I get it, it still doesn't type properly.....but only when it's hot. Pressing 't' types out 't5'. Pull the keyboard off, reseat the ribbon cable, and presto - I saved the company $1,000 on a laptop for 5 minutes of work.
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# ? Aug 12, 2016 17:48 |
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I'm curious if any of you have deployed iOS devices in a higher security corporate owned/controlled/managed on-prem MDM environment. It'd be cool if I could fire some questions at you via PM, if that's all right. Thank you!!!!
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# ? Aug 12, 2016 17:59 |
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I'm really broken up about the fact that one way or another, someone is going to pay me a lot of money next year, whether I stay or go.
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# ? Aug 12, 2016 18:58 |
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adorai posted:For those who have made the jump from tech to management, how do you keep your tech skills sharp when 80% of your day is taken up by decidedly non-technical things? Hahaha...
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# ? Aug 12, 2016 19:38 |
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CLAM DOWN posted:I'm curious if any of you have deployed iOS devices in a higher security corporate owned/controlled/managed on-prem MDM environment. It'd be cool if I could fire some questions at you via PM, if that's all right. Thank you!!!! We have kind of, it depends what you're looking to ask, we utilize SAP's Afaria as the MDM for a few thousand IPADs, I don't directly control afaria, but I know a bit about what's going on, and worst case I can try to ask questions for you.
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# ? Aug 12, 2016 19:47 |
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Curious if you guys face this. Do people outside of your team send you calendar invites and meetings without warning and without clearing them with you? I've got 2 just today. No, I can't be on that hour long troubleshooting call with development, and no I can't be on a 3 hour call with a customer who yeah they're really important but I've already got things lined up today and can't spare 3 hours. Is this common? I am seeing it more and more at my job.
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# ? Aug 12, 2016 19:48 |
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:Curious if you guys face this. Do people outside of your team send you calendar invites and meetings without warning and without clearing them with you? I get invites, declined and then my manager has asked why I'm not joining. Umm, I'm already booked? What's worse are meeting invitations without any sort of reminder.
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# ? Aug 12, 2016 20:01 |
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Thanks Ants posted:Lmao some shitheel middle manager has signed a contract to move all out our support ticketing and documentation to Connectwise/Labtech. I can only find terrible reviews, it uses a Windows client to do most of the interaction, and our support team exclusively use Macs. Yeah.. have fun with this, Connectwise is ok if not a little bloated but LabTech is a tire fire. The agent silent installers still do not work for us after a year and the client is un-navigable garbage.
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# ? Aug 12, 2016 20:09 |
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I decline meetings all the time.
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Thanks Ants posted:Lmao some shitheel middle manager has signed a contract to move all out our support ticketing and documentation to Connectwise/Labtech. I can only find terrible reviews, it uses a Windows client to do most of the interaction, and our support team exclusively use Macs. I didn't mind the Windows Client but I found it adequate for a basic ticketing system.
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# ? Aug 12, 2016 20:20 |
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Tigren posted:
Personally, I think there's enough room for more than one provider and I don't see either these companies buying out the other.
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# ? Aug 12, 2016 20:23 |
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I accept all my meetings but only show up the interesting ones
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# ? Aug 12, 2016 20:25 |
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Tigren posted:
I'm surprised IBM is so much larger than Google.
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Methanar posted:I'm surprised IBM is so much larger than Google.
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# ? Aug 12, 2016 20:35 |
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The worst part of being able to do most of my job without interacting with users is that it makes me want to procrastinate harder when I do.
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# ? Aug 12, 2016 20:36 |
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:Curious if you guys face this. Do people outside of your team send you calendar invites and meetings without warning and without clearing them with you? I've gotten a rep over the years as a 'fixer', I get invites about crap all the time. They're just invites, not federal subpoenas, you can decline them. Application teams try to drag us (infrastructure) folks into stuff all the time. I usually just decline and ask them to reach out if an issue that our team handles is identified.
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# ? Aug 12, 2016 20:46 |
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skipdogg posted:I've gotten a rep over the years as a 'fixer', I get invites about crap all the time. They're just invites, not federal subpoenas, you can decline them. Application teams try to drag us (infrastructure) folks into stuff all the time. I usually just decline and ask them to reach out if an issue that our team handles is identified. Yup, it's nice to have a reputation as that guy that can fix anything, but then you get invited to everything even if it's not vaguely related to what you do.
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# ? Aug 12, 2016 20:49 |
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it's about 5 'til 4pm, when I would normally be walking out the door. I instead have at least 3 hours of work left I have to complete today. not coincidentally, that's how long I was in meetings today.
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# ? Aug 12, 2016 20:54 |
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Tigren posted:
I wish we could use AWS, I find it much nicer than Azure. Unfortunately I'm in Canada at a Financial Institution, and security wise we'd rather not have any data on American servers. So Azure it is.
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Antioch posted:I wish we could use AWS, I find it much nicer than Azure. Unfortunately I'm in Canada at a Financial Institution, and security wise we'd rather not have any data on American servers. So Azure it is. Did Azure open their Canadian datacentres yet? We're in the same boat, no way we'd use an American cloud provider. MF_James posted:We have kind of, it depends what you're looking to ask, we utilize SAP's Afaria as the MDM for a few thousand IPADs, I don't directly control afaria, but I know a bit about what's going on, and worst case I can try to ask questions for you. Thanks, will send you a PM!
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# ? Aug 12, 2016 21:06 |
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CLAM DOWN posted:Did Azure open their Canadian datacentres yet? We're in the same boat, no way we'd use an American cloud provider. It wouldn't matter anyway.
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# ? Aug 12, 2016 21:11 |
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brought some changes to a screeching halt today because no one decided to notify us until an hour beforehand and nope thats not how planning works guys
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# ? Aug 12, 2016 21:19 |
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Oh hey, have you ever had a transformer get struck by lightning right outside your office? Let me tell you about jumping 5 feet in the air! Shits LOUD.
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# ? Aug 12, 2016 21:22 |
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psydude posted:It wouldn't matter anyway. That's an amazing emote
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# ? Aug 12, 2016 21:30 |
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Methanar posted:I'm surprised IBM is so much larger than Google.
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# ? Aug 12, 2016 21:40 |
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Antioch posted:I wish we could use AWS, I find it much nicer than Azure. Unfortunately I'm in Canada at a Financial Institution, and security wise we'd rather not have any data on American servers. So Azure it is. Good news, a Montreal region is in the works: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/in-the-works-aws-region-in-canada/
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# ? Aug 12, 2016 21:45 |
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Antioch posted:I wish we could use AWS, I find it much nicer than Azure. Unfortunately I'm in Canada at a Financial Institution, and security wise we'd rather not have any data on American servers. So Azure it is. ASM in all honesty was terrible but ARM is the bee's knees.
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# ? Aug 12, 2016 21:51 |
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HPE isn't on that list, despite their commercials on TV saying they're the largest lol.
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# ? Aug 12, 2016 21:54 |
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Update on my ridiculous alert system. I found out that they get sent to people who have to create tickets for each one. I'm the devil.
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# ? Aug 12, 2016 22:13 |
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skipdogg posted:HPE isn't on that list, despite their commercials on TV saying they're the largest lol. Every cloud provider says they're biggest, badiest, bestest, etc. It's annoying and gently caress marketing/sales.
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Tab8715 posted:ASM in all honesty was terrible but ARM is the bee's knees. Yeah I have a 3 day ARM course coming up in September, I'm looking forward to seeing how much better it is than ASM. We're mainly focusing on using big compute rather than corralling the infrastructure guys into getting decent VMs spun up. Erwin posted:Good news, a Montreal region is in the works: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/in-the-works-aws-region-in-canada/ This is good news.
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