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LochNessMonster posted:So after not getting a raise I now get to fill in a personal development plan (mind you, not an improvement plan). And to boot, I'm going to guess this survey isn't anonymous either. One of my previous companies pulled a "manager/company review" and made it so you had to log into a portal to do it. I actually put a comment in the comments section to the effect of "do you really think you're going to get honest answers to these questions about management?" This was an Indian outsourcing company, with all the top-down hierarchy that implies. To their credit, they responded that only HR would have access to actual identities, not that I believed it would make a difference. MF_James posted:Haha I would have told them to get fukt (as it seems you did) no one is allowed to see anything that confirms my salary ever. You guys are making me feel old. My first computer was a Sinclair ZX80 with 1K RAM. Hooked up to the TV and had a membrane keyboard. It ran Basic from cassette tapes. I still have it, actually. No ide if it still works. One after that was a Texas Instruments 99 4/A. Cassettes *and* cartridges. Radio Shack TRaSh-80s at school. Then dad finally got a Xerox 8086 (faster than an IBM PC, which was just and 8088) with ah *optical* mouse and a *hard drive*, neither of which I had seen before. Still DOS, but had some sort of GUI file manager. High school had Apple IIs. Then I discovered Macs and Windows 3.1 came out when I was working at Rockwell international as an intern, and at a school district. That would have been in the 386 era. System 7 had just come out for Macs. I also played the Sears version of Atari's Pong II, just to get in my retro gaming cred.
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funmanguy posted:Fun day to find out that our backup generator isn't switching on when power goes out. You know what's a better time? When the dingleberry electricians working on your new UPS install drill a hole through a wall into the cabling for the existing UP battery bank, killing it, and the generator fails to start. They had to rent a generator/UPS on a trailer for like a month while they fixed it all. At least they implemented regular monthly tests after that fiasco lost the company a good chunk in sales (luxury retailer!), down time in the distribution center, and whatever programs and systems reacted badly to sudden improper shutdown. 22 Eargesplitten posted:This thread won me brownie points with my manager because I heard about Meltdown before anyone else, which meant I was the one to tell him about the potential security vulnerability on our VMs. This was right before my PIP ended too. Pretty sure that’s not why I passed, but it didn’t hurt. Same here, bit for the issue with the patches and PulseSecure.
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Darchangel posted:You know what's a better time? When the dingleberry electricians working on your new UPS install drill a hole through a wall into the cabling for the existing UP battery bank, killing it, and the generator fails to start. They're lucky somebody didn't loving die.
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Argh who the gently caress is qualified enough to be an electrician touching UPS systems but still manages to drill into cables.
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funmanguy posted:Fun day to find out that our backup generator isn't switching on when power goes out. Which was about 10 days after we last had that "fixed" And a month after only getting one phase when it kicked on. It had worked just fine a few times in between. Yeah we have a lot of power outages. Internet Explorer posted:It's hilarious to me the number of times I've heard this story. It's hilarious the number of times I've had to tell this story. We lost power for 6 hours last week. Why the gently caress the entire IT department needs to stick around for 6 hours waiting for the power to come back on is completely beyond me.
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Darchangel posted:And to boot, I'm going to guess this survey isn't anonymous either. It’s not a survey but a plan for “my personal growth” this year. I’m supposed to discuss this with my manager.
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Thanks Ants posted:Argh who the gently caress is qualified enough to be an electrician touching UPS systems but still manages to drill into cables. I was told it was an apprentice/flunky/minion of the actual electrician. Should have clarified that. edit: I was at another facility at that time in my career, which was of course also affected by the outage insofar as no servers, internet, or minicomputers. The facility it occured at was out data center, IT, catalog call center, and fulfillment-to-customers warehouse/shipping center. I happened to be working at the corporate offices 15 miles away at that point in my career with them. Was an easy day after that, at least. Pretty much everyone went home early, including myself. LochNessMonster posted:Its not a survey but a plan for my personal growth this year. Im supposed to discuss this with my manager. It's probably just my previous situations, management, etc., but I distrust that will go well at all if the truth is told. Darchangel fucked around with this message at 23:51 on Jan 25, 2018 |
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Darchangel posted:You guys are making me feel old. My first computer was a Sinclair ZX80 with 1K RAM. Hooked up to the TV and had a membrane keyboard. It ran Basic from cassette tapes. I still have it, actually. No ide if it still works. One after that was a Texas Instruments 99 4/A. Cassettes *and* cartridges. Radio Shack TRaSh-80s at school. Then dad finally got a Xerox 8086 (faster than an IBM PC, which was just and 8088) with ah *optical* mouse and a *hard drive*, neither of which I had seen before. Still DOS, but had some sort of GUI file manager. High school had Apple IIs. Then I discovered Macs and Windows 3.1 came out when I was working at Rockwell international as an intern, and at a school district. That would have been in the 386 era. System 7 had just come out for Macs. I'm almost always the oldest so I like to play these games. The farthest back I can go is 1971, to the local Target that had the first arcade video game I'd ever seen. It was in the entryway, in a swoopy, wild looking fiberglass case. It was called "Computer Space" and I remember struggling to play, not only because I was so little but the controls were laid out in a weird way and who the hell knew how to play a video game? I don't think I ever saw anyone else play it, but now and then someone would stop to watch the "attract" mode. It boggles my mind to consider that it's 2018 and I'll probably play a computer game when my neighbor's wake me up in the middle of the night.
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Dick Trauma posted:I'm almost always the oldest so I like to play these games. The farthest back I can go is 1971, to the local Target that had the first arcade video game I'd ever seen. It was in the entryway, in a swoopy, wild looking fiberglass case. It was called "Computer Space" and I remember struggling to play, not only because I was so little but the controls were laid out in a weird way and who the hell knew how to play a video game? I don't think I ever saw anyone else play it, but now and then someone would stop to watch the "attract" mode. Wow, never heard of that one. Just Googled it, and that is definitely the funkiest of funky cabinets. Kind of Asteroids-ish gameplay. I would have been very young when that one came out. First one I remember is Night Driver or Space Invaders. Not sure which I saw/played first. Later favs included Asteroids and Lunar Lander, of course. Holy crap, I had no idea that Galaxian was originally from 1979... I'm a couple of years older than the Stranger Things characters, so that show is hitting me right in my youth. edit: not just play a computer game, but potentially play a computer game with other people from around the world!
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I haven't posted about something I'm actually working on in a long time. I just set up Ceph's RBD to act as block storage for a Kubernetes cluster. Now my pods can mount persistent volumes wherever they may live. yay code:
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Darchangel posted:Wow, never heard of that one. Just Googled it, and that is definitely the funkiest of funky cabinets. Kind of Asteroids-ish gameplay. I would have been very young when that one came out. I remember seeing Computer Space again years later, around 1977 or so. It was in the arcade game area of a movie theater (seems most every business had an area for arcade games) and it was in back, behind all the newer games, forgotten. I was eager to try it again, finding that I still sucked at it. No one knew that arcade games were on the verge of exploding in popularity, but by 1980 things went apeshit. I drowned in it for a while, but once my parents bought a C64 I quickly migrated my interests over to computers. That said, during my lost years at college I still poured a shitload of quarters into the video and pinball games at the student union building. So 1990 was probably the last year I spent any time playing arcade games.
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Methanar posted:I haven't posted about something I'm actually working on in a long time. How’s performance? I’m looking at ceph for some toy projects like a Dev kube cluster with a mix of raspberry pis and Nucs.
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Punkbob posted:Hows performance? Im looking at ceph for some toy projects like a Dev kube cluster with a mix of raspberry pis and Nucs. I don't know yet!
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Methanar posted:I don't know yet! I was also looking at netbooting the pi’s and mounting iscsi off the ceph iscsi interface so that I could just have a bunch of diskless pis as worker nodes. Edit I mean at that level the bigger issue is gonna be the nic so I don’t know why I’m worried. freeasinbeer fucked around with this message at 00:31 on Jan 26, 2018 |
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Punkbob posted:I was also looking at netbooting the pi’s and mounting iscsi off the ceph iscsi interface so that I could just have a bunch of diskless pis as worker nodes. Hm it looks like there isn't a 32 bit arm CoreOS version. So you can't put that on a Pi. I was going to suggest looking at Matchbox to PXE bootstrap bare metal hardware, although a Pi probably doesn't have enough memory to do useful things while keeping the whole OS in memory anyway. You could still do an Ceph iSCSI backed filesystem with iPXE though. Seems like a good project to me.
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:I think you guys are maybe overreacting a bit about skooma512's interview. They're not doing this to him. When a government job like this opens up, and it's (I am assuming) a little more junior and will have tons of applicants, it's very common for them to knock out these interviews in a couple of massive blocks. Frequently they'll bring in an impartial interviewer from another city or agency, and a few IT people from the city he's applied to will have cleared their calendar. This is not a 6 month hiring process for a new director, this is 2 days of interviews and we're taking the best guy at the end of it. If skooma can't make one of those dates, he's not going to get the job, but it's no one's fault, it's simply the process for these kinds of jobs.
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Methanar posted:Hm it looks like there isn't a 32 bit arm CoreOS version. So you can't put that on a Pi. That was the plan. NetBoot pxe(as far as I know iPXE doesn’t work on pi) and load am iscsi config via tftp based on MAC address. Edit is there a 64 bit coreos arm image, pi3s can boot that.
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Methanar posted:I don't know yet! Please post updates in whatever thread you deem relevant! I'm getting ready to deploy a Ceph cluster to present block storage, too, and would enjoy comparing notes.
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Punkbob posted:That was the plan. NetBoot pxe(as far as I know iPXE doesn’t work on pi) and load am iscsi config via tftp based on MAC address. Looking again, I guess not. It's not listed as available under any of the distribution channels for CoreOS. Supposedly there was a project 2 years ago to port CoreOS to 64bit ARM, but the github repo for that has vanished.
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Methanar posted:I haven't posted about something I'm actually working on in a long time. I’m running openebs on mine. It’s dope.
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Methanar posted:Looking again, I guess not. It's not listed as available under any of the distribution channels for CoreOS. Fedora Atomic maybe if you wanna stick with containeros?
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Okay now you people are just making up products.
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jaegerx posted:Fedora Atomic maybe if you wanna stick with containeros? There is an arm64 build of hyperiotos, which is docker focused rpi release.
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What a weird day. I was brought into a business strategy meeting as the token engineering input. Two hours later I walked out and apparently I single handedly designed our group's messaging for the next couple years. Definitely a highlight of my career thus far. See: a few posts back about being paid to come up with solutions. That being said, I expect it will be poked full of holes and modified (rightfully so) and I'll get very little to no credit.
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Punkbob posted:There is an arm64 build of hyperiotos, which is docker focused rpi release. https://blog.hypriot.com/ brb buying 20 000 rpi3 for my datacenter e; and custom rackmount kits and electrical harnesses
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Methanar posted:https://blog.hypriot.com/ http://www.bitscope.com/blog/FM/?p=GF13L Denver 13th November 2017, BitScope Designs, developer of BitScope Blade, an infrastructure platform for Raspberry Pi available globally via element14, has built a large Raspberry Pi cluster for a pilot conceived at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). BitScope Blade Reloaded at element14 The 750 node cluster, comprising five rack mount BitScope Cluster Modules, each with 150 x 64 bit quad-core Raspberry Pi ARM boards and integrated network switches is the first step in a program run by the New Mexico Consortium (NMC), an organisation of three NM Universities and led by LANL. Edit2: That is an older article they apparently took it up to 3000 total. freeasinbeer fucked around with this message at 03:22 on Jan 26, 2018 |
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I should say I run openebs on my personal. For production run gluster or just use your cloud provider block storage.
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jaegerx posted:I should say I run openebs on my personal. For production run gluster or just use your cloud provider block storage. Glust this *points 2 dilz*
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CLAM DOWN posted:Glust this *points 2 dilz* Hey how do I install telnet again on a windows computer? I forgot.
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jaegerx posted:Hey how do I install telnet again on a windows computer? I forgot. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10
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nielsm posted:Being told you're wrong is one of the best ways to learn to be right. That's what distinguishes good IT people from the other kinds of people who like to be right. When told we're wrong about something we say "Really, how ?", not "gently caress you !" GnarlyCharlie4u posted:Has anyone tried Old Forester whisky? Shits fire yo, and fukkin cheap at <$20/bottle If you shop at Trader Joe's, check out the Lismore in the Scotch section. It's got a lot of flavor with a nice cinnamon-y finish. I call it a cheap Balvenie equivalent at $16.99. If you'd a Laphroiag drinker, try the Finlaggan for, I think $17.99. That's a decent peaty Scotch for a good price.
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mllaneza posted:If you shop at Trader Joe's, check out the Lismore in the Scotch section. It's got a lot of flavor with a nice cinnamon-y finish. I call it a cheap Balvenie equivalent at $16.99. If you'd a Laphroiag drinker, try the Finlaggan for, I think $17.99. That's a decent peaty Scotch for a good price.
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Are those single malts or blends?
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jaegerx posted:Hey how do I install telnet again on a windows computer? I forgot. I think this'll do it: pre:dism /online /Enable-Feature /FeatureName:TelnetClient
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Another Kubernetes update nobody asked for. Now I've got dynamic provisioning of Ceph storage block storage and formatting of the block storage according to pod requirements. Just deployed an elasticsearch cluster that was instructed to use fast-rbd as its storageclass and, bang. The resource scheduler saw that it needed storage, so it went ahead and made itself some. Still no word on actual performance yet. code:
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Darchangel posted:
This is 100% what I'm expecting too. Management/leadership change meant all these lovely things I was glad to leave behind me when I switched to this company. Already on my way out though. Punkbob posted:There is an arm64 build of hyperiotos, which is docker focused rpi release. I ran this on my rpi (1 model b with 256mb ram) and it ran surprisingly well. Although I must say I did only run Alpine containers on it to keep the old rpi from sweating it too much. Great way to start expermenting with Docker, the only thing you have to keep in mind is that you pull arm images from Docker hub. The normal x86/x64 ones will not run.
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LochNessMonster posted:This is 100% what I'm expecting too. Management/leadership change meant all these lovely things I was glad to leave behind me when I switched to this company. Already on my way out though. Yeah, that’s an issue. It in the last few months that’s gotten better with the new docker manifests that support multiarch. A lot of the baseline docker images now has arm and arm64 images that it will transparently pull for you. https://blog.docker.com/2017/09/docker-official-images-now-multi-platform/
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MF_James posted:First computer was a 386 running DOS, I forget which version, the guy my parents bought it from had installed a "GUI" on it, it had like 10 options, if you didn't want those you hit esc and got a DOS prompt. I still have my first computer too, a Spectravideo SVI-328 from 1983. It's packed up in its original box in my parents' basement.
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Internet Explorer posted:That is loving hilarious. *fart!*
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:Again, this is why I only answer salary questions with the plea "whatever you'll give me sir" while wringing my hat in my hands. If you want the job, show them. I've always just said my salary wishes are *more than i want to actually make* but i'm a little flexible. Usually it means I get a few extra days of holiday in exchange for them paying me a "little less". It's nice! I'm almost sure a couple jobs didn't call me back because of that requirement but whatever, I like having a few extra days to sit at home waiting for a boiler maintenance guy or some poo poo while playing video games. dogstile fucked around with this message at 15:31 on Jan 26, 2018 |
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