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MC Fruit Stripe
Nov 26, 2002

around and around we go

skipdogg posted:

Or you're going to end up running the entire place.
He's doing too much for that to happen. You need to adopt the Stripe model. Hold perfectly still while everyone else around you self detonates and fail your way up the ladder.

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Virigoth
Apr 28, 2009

Corona rules everything around me
C.R.E.A.M. get the virus
In the ICU y'all......



This is even more bizarre when you realize how high the med school suicide rate is and there is some legit survival of the fittest going on with them.

cage-free egghead
Mar 8, 2004
Any of you run any sort of dashboards or something similar on some spare screens? I've got an old TV that won't be put back out into deployment that I'd like to hang on the wall to monitor... things?

Comradephate
Feb 28, 2009

College Slice

cage-free egghead posted:

Any of you run any sort of dashboards or something similar on some spare screens? I've got an old TV that won't be put back out into deployment that I'd like to hang on the wall to monitor... things?

My boss spent 6 months trying to get IT to mount TVs around our work area so we can set up dashboards. 6 months later and he still hasn't done anything with them.

So, no, we don't run any sort of dashboards.

Ham Equity
Apr 16, 2013

The first thing we do, let's kill all the cars.
Grimey Drawer

cage-free egghead posted:

Any of you run any sort of dashboards or something similar on some spare screens? I've got an old TV that won't be put back out into deployment that I'd like to hang on the wall to monitor... things?

We have rotating SolarWinds status screens set up using full-screen Chrome and a tab-switching extension.

cage-free egghead
Mar 8, 2004

Thanatosian posted:

We have rotating SolarWinds status screens set up using full-screen Chrome and a tab-switching extension.

We have been slowly migrating to SolarWinds RMM and I forgot they had a dashboard and that Revolver extension is exactly what I needed for some other web stuff. Thanks!

capitalcomma
Sep 9, 2001

A grim bloody fable, with an unhappy bloody end.

cage-free egghead posted:

We have been slowly migrating to SolarWinds RMM and I forgot they had a dashboard and that Revolver extension is exactly what I needed for some other web stuff. Thanks!

It really impresses non-IT staff to have the Solar Winds SAM and NPM summary pages up on 40" screens around your work area, it looks like something they'd see in a movie.

...until they notice red icons, and demand to know if we're "down". Or being hacked.

Nuclearmonkee
Jun 10, 2009


capitalcomma posted:

It really impresses non-IT staff to have the Solar Winds SAM and NPM summary pages up on 40" screens around your work area, it looks like something they'd see in a movie.

...until they notice red icons, and demand to know if we're "down". Or being hacked.

"Probably"

Naramyth
Jan 22, 2009

Australia cares about cunts. Including this one.

Thanatosian posted:

We have rotating SolarWinds status screens set up using full-screen Chrome and a tab-switching extension.

Tab switching extension is a good idea. We haven’t really done rotating screens here but we have tons of PCs with all sorts of pi reports out there

Sepist
Dec 26, 2005

FUCK BITCHES, ROUTE PACKETS

Gravy Boat 2k
7 new cybersecurity related job posts on Capital One website today!

Sickening
Jul 16, 2007

Black summer was the best summer.

Sepist posted:

7 new cybersecurity related job posts on Capital One website today!

:bisonyes:

Zorak of Michigan
Jun 10, 2006


capitalcomma posted:

It really impresses non-IT staff to have the Solar Winds SAM and NPM summary pages up on 40" screens around your work area, it looks like something they'd see in a movie.

...until they notice red icons, and demand to know if we're "down". Or being hacked.

I need to read some measurement theory so I can use the right words to criticize people who only want to measure or report on foregone conclusions.

LochNessMonster
Feb 3, 2005

I need about three fitty


cage-free egghead posted:

Any of you run any sort of dashboards or something similar on some spare screens? I've got an old TV that won't be put back out into deployment that I'd like to hang on the wall to monitor... things?

Grafana and Kibana.

Jaded Burnout
Jul 10, 2004


I'm sorry, how the gently caress much?

feedmegin
Jul 30, 2008

Jaded Burnout posted:

I'm sorry, how the gently caress much?



Thats Brexit for you, it's €10/$12 :sun:

Jaded Burnout
Jul 10, 2004


feedmegin posted:

Thats Brexit for you, it's €10/$12 :sun:

noooooo hyperinflation

The Nastier Nate
May 22, 2005

All aboard the corona bus!

HONK! HONK!


Yams Fan
can anyone recommend a good training course for a CISPP certification? If my boss isn't going to pay me more maybe I can convince them to squeeze some extra money out of professional development.

Sickening
Jul 16, 2007

Black summer was the best summer.

The Nastier Nate posted:

can anyone recommend a good training course for a CISPP certification? If my boss isn't going to pay me more maybe I can convince them to squeeze some extra money out of professional development.

https://www.reddit.com/r/cissp/comments/al8kep/cissp_16week_study_guide_resources_and_links_to/

More info than you could ever want to know.

The Nastier Nate
May 22, 2005

All aboard the corona bus!

HONK! HONK!


Yams Fan

thanks, any recommendations for good practice tests?


VVV sorry, i missed it the first time. im not an idiot, honest

The Nastier Nate fucked around with this message at 14:53 on Aug 7, 2019

Dead Goon
Dec 13, 2002

No Obvious Flaws



Click the link.

AlternateAccount
Apr 25, 2005
FYGM

The Nastier Nate posted:

can anyone recommend a good training course for a CISPP certification? If my boss isn't going to pay me more maybe I can convince them to squeeze some extra money out of professional development.

The official Sybex guide isn't terrible. The boson practice tests are reported to be the best. I did a lot of Kaplan ones, and they were at best a somewhat accurate representation.

This is also sub-perfect but.... iirc, I don't think I saw any or very many things on the test that weren't referenced on here somewhere: https://www.scribd.com/document/416563995/CISSP-8-Domain-Notes

MC Fruit Stripe
Nov 26, 2002

around and around we go
A ha! I say again, Reddit is a valuable resource.

e: Someone's going to reply to this as though I'm saying read every post and every comment in r/sysadmin. To which I respond - wow, you're telling me you read every reply in SH/SC?

MC Fruit Stripe fucked around with this message at 20:23 on Aug 7, 2019

The Fool
Oct 16, 2003


MC Fruit Stripe posted:

A ha! I say again, Reddit is a valuable resource.

e: Someone's going to reply to this as though I'm saying read every post and every comment in r/sysadmin. To which I respond - wow, you're telling me you read every reply in SH/SC?

I approach reddit and sa pretty much the same way.

Ignore the front page, bookmark a handful of useful threads/subreddits and never look at anything else.

MC Fruit Stripe
Nov 26, 2002

around and around we go

The Fool posted:

I approach reddit and sa pretty much the same way.

Ignore the front page, bookmark a handful of useful threads/subreddits and never look at anything else.
I only read what I want to read, AITA?

(3 platinum, 7 gold, 27 silver)

22 Eargesplitten
Oct 10, 2010



So, uh, anyone know anything about working at Google as a contractor? I got hit up by a recruiter for a position as a developer support specialist in Boulder. 1 year contract.

klosterdev
Oct 10, 2006

Na na na na na na na na Batman!

22 Eargesplitten posted:

So, uh, anyone know anything about working at Google as a contractor? I got hit up by a recruiter for a position as a developer support specialist in Boulder. 1 year contract.

Are you going to be a TVC contracted directly by Google, or through a company contracting with Google? My experience working there was really positive. The free high-quality food every breakfast and lunch was nothing I've ever experienced before or since. Big thing to keep in mind though is that even though they may call you Googlers, was always warned how actual Google employees have a tremendous amount of power over TVCs if they want you gone. The actual Google employees I interacted with regularly though were usually pretty great. $Company I was directly working for had some rot unfortunately, which is how I ultimately left.

PBS
Sep 21, 2015

klosterdev posted:

Are you going to be a TVC contracted directly by Google, or through a company contracting with Google? My experience working there was really positive. The free high-quality food every breakfast and lunch was nothing I've ever experienced before or since. Big thing to keep in mind though is that even though they may call you Googlers, was always warned how actual Google employees have a tremendous amount of power over TVCs if they want you gone. The actual Google employees I interacted with regularly though were usually pretty great. $Company I was directly working for had some rot unfortunately, which is how I ultimately left.

You still got those perks as a contractor? Thought those companies we're being more careful about distinguishing between employees and contractors.

Internet Explorer
Jun 1, 2005





Alright so who wants to volunteer to fix the forums

Not it

22 Eargesplitten
Oct 10, 2010



klosterdev posted:

Are you going to be a TVC contracted directly by Google, or through a company contracting with Google? My experience working there was really positive. The free high-quality food every breakfast and lunch was nothing I've ever experienced before or since. Big thing to keep in mind though is that even though they may call you Googlers, was always warned how actual Google employees have a tremendous amount of power over TVCs if they want you gone. The actual Google employees I interacted with regularly though were usually pretty great. $Company I was directly working for had some rot unfortunately, which is how I ultimately left.

It would be through a staffing company, so I would have health benefits. Not sure how good they would be.

Reading into it some has tempered my excitement some, sounds like contracts never get converted, you have to phrase it a certain way on your resume/LinkedIn so it’s clear you’re not “really” an employee. And people you worked with aren’t allowed to give you references. But if I really get free breakfast an lunch every day still, that’s a not-inconsiderable bonus, it would be a QA-ish role that has “developer” in the name, and it should pay well.

CLAM DOWN
Feb 13, 2007




Internet Explorer posted:

Alright so who wants to volunteer to fix the forums

Not it

I don't think they're fixable at this point. That said, $225/hr 8hr min.

klosterdev
Oct 10, 2006

Na na na na na na na na Batman!

PBS posted:

You still got those perks as a contractor? Thought those companies we're being more careful about distinguishing between employees and contractors.

This was several years ago back when "Don't be Evil" was still their policy, at least on paper, so quite possible things have changed since then, do your research. Never heard of the references thing. Only perks I got were the free food, and access to the discounts page that Google managed to negotiate with various companies, but they weren't insignificant. Having free, high quality breakfast and lunch every day was not only good for my body, but saved me a lot of money.

You absolutely can't say you work for Google as a TVC. The magic word you want to use is "at". "I work at Google, for $Company"

Volguus
Mar 3, 2009

CLAM DOWN posted:

I don't think they're fixable at this point. That said, $225/hr 8hr min.

225 funny money or American dollars?

Nuclearmonkee
Jun 10, 2009


Volguus posted:

225 funny money or American dollars?

In dollary doos of course.

22 Eargesplitten
Oct 10, 2010



$2.25 per hour sounds pretty reasonable.

I think I’ll poke into Cavern of COBOL and see if they have any idea what the pay should be like on that. They said $36/hr, but that seems very low.

22 Eargesplitten fucked around with this message at 16:38 on Aug 8, 2019

CLAM DOWN
Feb 13, 2007




Volguus posted:

225 funny money or American dollars?

I accept payment in Canadian Tire dollars tbf

MC Fruit Stripe
Nov 26, 2002

around and around we go
We're cracking jokes about Canadian money, with the cost of living in Vancouver? C'mon people.

SeaborneClink
Aug 27, 2010

MAWP... MAWP!

MC Fruit Stripe posted:

We're cracking jokes about Canadian money, with the cost of living in Vancouver? C'mon people.

~¥100,000/mo

Gucci Loafers
May 20, 2006

Ask yourself, do you really want to talk to pair of really nice gaudy shoes?


What's up the veteran decade long IT Professionals blissfully unaware that if they right-click, choose the "Keep Text Only" it destroy the whole formatting on the email and be legible?

Sepist
Dec 26, 2005

FUCK BITCHES, ROUTE PACKETS

Gravy Boat 2k
Those are the people who don't put Expert understanding of Microsoft Office on their resume.

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NPR Journalizard
Feb 14, 2008

An opportunity has opened up at my company where I could move into the managed services area using azure, because we need someone certified and capable. Are there any certs, presumably MS based, that are better than others?

I found this one which I will start to work on, but would my time be better spent elsewhere?

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