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Docjowles posted:Digging up this old post for an obscure protip I ran into today. If you back Rundeck with mysql, holy poo poo, create these two indices immediately:
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And deletes themselves are slow so you want to get ahead of the problem.
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Internet Explorer posted:Confluence works great for documentation. Has a full history, audit trail, and ability to compare changes between versions of pages easily. But on the whole it's pretty clean and easy to use and understand.
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SEKCobra posted:Love how this guy apparently started wearing suits 24/7 because one user respected him.
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Jan 5, 2017 17:37
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Sounds like a great way to get mugged/ridiculed.
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Jan 5, 2017 18:45
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It takes the attention away from his ridiculous, unkempt facial hair.
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Jan 5, 2017 18:51
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MF_James posted:... Currently we have sharepoint for IPAM, network maps and high level stuff like that... I am so triggered right now.
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At a change review meeting today I sarcastically congratulated everyone on successfully completing their budgets without any input from IT (since none is really needed) Cue the shitstorm: every department head @3pm posted:Hey we just got back from holiday and realized that we haven't done any budgeting yet even though it's due on Monday. We're going to need you to run projections for next years budget on literally anything that has a button or switch or screen. Especially printers. Also, we need it by COB today. Thanks! I'm gonna need all the comp time I can get to use on top of the 5 days bereavement leave..
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Jan 5, 2017 21:01
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An e-mail from a recruiter came in. Their client is hiring Windows 10 deployment techs and mentions being confident that applicants can learn the skills on the job. Required: Computer Science degree I bet it pays $15/hr too 
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Jan 5, 2017 21:20
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air- posted:An e-mail from a recruiter came in. Their client is hiring Windows 10 deployment techs and mentions being confident that applicants can learn the skills on the job. How is this poo poo not criminal yet? You don't need a goddamn college degree to deploy Windows.
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Jan 5, 2017 21:24
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Vargatron posted:How is this poo poo not criminal yet? You don't need a goddamn college degree to deploy Windows. How on earth do you think that would qualify for an actual criminal offense?
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Jan 5, 2017 21:28
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While you don't need a college degree to deploy Windows, the number of jobs available are still limited and there's no shortage of unemployed with college degrees. So, rather than open the position up to those with and without degrees, it's better for them to limit the pool and latch on to someone who is potentially in more debt and therefore more desperate and less mobile.
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Jan 5, 2017 21:37
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Hence why I mentioned potential abysmal pay and I bet it's contract too.
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CLAM DOWN posted:How on earth do you think that would qualify for an actual criminal offense? It was hyperbole.
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Jan 5, 2017 22:34
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air- posted:An e-mail from a recruiter came in. Their client is hiring Windows 10 deployment techs and mentions being confident that applicants can learn the skills on the job. When I was looking last I kept getting offers for these types. $14/hr and you need your own car, in New York City.
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Jan 5, 2017 22:44
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air- posted:An e-mail from a recruiter came in. Their client is hiring Windows 10 deployment techs and mentions being confident that applicants can learn the skills on the job. I'm curious what kind of skills will be learned in this position.
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Jan 5, 2017 22:52
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Vargatron posted:It was hyperbole. They don't have hyperbole in Canada. They traded it for a smug sense of superiority.
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RFC2324 posted:They don't have hyperbole in Canada. They traded it for a smug sense of superiority.
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Frank Viola posted:I'm curious what kind of skills will be learned in this position. How to not get swindled into a poo poo job for one, hopefully
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anthonypants posted:Which province are you from? He's clearly from Toronto
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adorai posted:Generally speaking, the first part of your statement is helped IMMENSELY by ensuring the business runs efficiently. This presumes that the business is already well run enough that the persons in charge of staffing and compensation understand how IT as an organization can best help the business and how individuals within the department are contributing toward or working against those goals. Those aren't a given and there are a lot of dysfunctional organizations out there that create perverse incentives and are then shocked when their employees act perversely. It's a top down, not bottom problem and complaining about individuals acting selfishly or cynically often misses the real problem, which is that the corporate structure is probably encouraging that. A small example from some well intentioned ownership: I work for a VAR where all of the engineers do both pre and post-sales work. Our bonus structure has gone through a few permutations and one of them involved a bonus split where you got a flat bonus if you hit your target number of post-sales days, but you had a variable (and potentially much higher) bonus that was based on helping to close sales. Additionally, if multiple pre-sales engineers worked on a project only one got credit as the principal architect. We make 75% of our money from sales and only 25% from services, so in theory prioritizing pre-sales work for the engineers should translate into more sales, and more money, and higher bonuses for everyone. Instead what you got was engineers arguing over who got what pre-sales work, being unwilling to ask for help when they were overloaded because they didn't want to lose principal architect standing on any deal, BOMs and SOWs that were rushed and sometimes incorrect, and a dearth of people to actually do the implementations because everyone was trying to load up their calendar with pre-sales leaving a few people stuck doing all of the post-sales (and trying to work through rushed SOWs and incomplete BOMs) and getting lower bonuses because they never had time to sell anything. It was a mess and thankfully ownership recognized it fairly quickly and changed things so that everyone gets a targeted bonus based on overall company profitability. Now most of those problems are gone because the incentives are different. In a small company like mine it's pretty easy to tell when you've incentivized bad behavior because the ownership is very involved day to day, but as companies get larger and there are more middle management layers it's easy for a department to end up really dysfunctional due to poor or absent management, but still be functional enough to keep everything from just falling apart.
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We even go so far as to divide our vertical/account SEs from our practice SEs. The vertical sales engineers have their bonus calculated on the performance of the account managers they support, while the practice sales engineers (me) have theirs based upon meeting targets for their specific practice area.
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Jan 6, 2017 03:38
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Has anyone ever come across a large company (Thousands of Employees) that had an internal IT Policy to ban the use of RDP to servers only use Console Access for VM Management? I've never personally come across it until today. Is this really a legitimate thing or paranoia? I'm under the impression with MFA, Network Security Boundaries, Rights Management, etc. it's a non-issue.
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Jan 6, 2017 03:51
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Tab8715 posted:Has anyone ever come across a large company (Thousands of Employees) that had an internal IT Policy to ban the use of RDP to servers only use Console Access for VM Management? My guess would be that it's to prevent people from setting up their own jump boxes to bypass other security measures.
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Jan 6, 2017 03:57
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Tab8715 posted:Has anyone ever come across a large company (Thousands of Employees) that had an internal IT Policy to ban the use of RDP to servers only use Console Access for VM Management? super common in the finance world
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Tab8715 posted:Has anyone ever come across a large company (Thousands of Employees) that had an internal IT Policy to ban the use of RDP to servers only use Console Access for VM Management? We do the opposite for security reasons, and heavily use things like RDWeb, RemoteApps, RDG, etc
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Tab8715 posted:Has anyone ever come across a large company (Thousands of Employees) that had an internal IT Policy to ban the use of RDP to servers only use Console Access for VM Management? Well, it opens your network up to more potential attack vectors as well as bad administrative practices and there's very little reason you need to be logging on to a server desktop regularly, so yea, it's certainly a thing some very security conscious shops do. Micro-segmentation will make it even more common.
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Sepist posted:My first round of interviews with presidio went very well so hopefully I'll be having my second one in a few weeks. Are you going into presales or something? Our vertical SEs might as well be smarter account managers, but the rest of us still do product demos and proofs of concept for customers.
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Yea presales. My old boss who has the same job there said it's completely hands off.
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It's definitely something to consider. Once you head down that road, it's kind of hard to come back.
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CLAM DOWN posted:How on earth do you think that would qualify for an actual criminal offense?
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You can apply and get hired for jobs that you do not meet all of the requirements. If you have relevant experience an employer is not going to throw your resume out because you are missing a computer science degree.
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lampey posted:You can apply and get hired for jobs that you do not meet all of the requirements. If you have relevant experience an employer is not going to throw your resume out because you are missing a computer science degree. I had a discussion after the interview for my current job with the cio about how i was unqualified for my position. I sold him on my ability to grow into it and got the job.
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big money big clit posted:Well, it opens your network up to more potential attack vectors as well as bad administrative practices and there's very little reason you need to be logging on to a server desktop regularly, so yea, it's certainly a thing some very security conscious shops do. Micro-segmentation will make it even more common. Well, yes of course it's a vulnerability but is it really bad enough to the point where we're personally limiting our ability to manage our own environment? It's analogues to "security through obscurity!". I'd agree too that you shouldn't as a best-practice RDP'ing into servers on a regular basis use Remote Powershell or Windows Remote Admin Tools ( https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=45520 ).
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Tab8715 posted:Well, yes of course it's a vulnerability but is it really bad enough to the point where we're personally limiting our ability to manage our own environment? It's analogues to "security through obscurity!". As a linux admin I'm actually kind of jealous of the Windows remote tools. They are pretty slick.
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Jan 6, 2017 15:58
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Tab8715 posted:Well, yes of course it's a vulnerability but is it really bad enough to the point where we're personally limiting our ability to manage our own environment? It's analogues to "security through obscurity!". This is my life!
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Tab8715 posted:Well, yes of course it's a vulnerability but is it really bad enough to the point where we're personally limiting our ability to manage our own environment? It's analogues to "security through obscurity!". Turning off a service/attack vector isn't "security through obscurity" at all, though.
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Cool. Issues in Level3 and our ticket system can't be reached. I'm not on call, so I can just sit back and have an excuse not to do anything important till its resolved.
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JHVH-1 posted:Cool. Issues in Level3 and our ticket system can't be reached. I'm not on call, so I can just sit back and have an excuse not to do anything important till its resolved. Water wet, etc.  
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I remember earlier in this thread some of you had some great suggestions for questions to ask during interviews but I can't seem to find it among the nearly 700 pages here (or maybe it was even in the ticket thread  )Anybody have some good questions they like to ask, or be asked, in interviews? I have an interview for my first IT job in a few hours and feel like it may be a little beyond my skill range right now but they asked one of my teachers to recommend a student so they know I'm still learning. I know that saying you'd Google an answer, or ask IRC/Stackexchange/SHSC, is better than flatly saying you don't know - any other tips on how to handle technical questions you don't know the answer to?
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