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tokin opposition posted:I'd love to be able to put down robopsychiatrist one of these days, I wanted to grow up to be just like Susan Calvin as a kid I like the cut of your jib. A worthy goal. As a car nerd as well as a computer toucher, this both horrifies and delights me.
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I have a question for yall IT nerds. How does the FBI find actual good IT nerds to work for them? Everytime I've seen job postings for IT or Cybersec nerds for the FBI, you have to be atleast 23, with a bachelors degree, are able to pass a physical fitness test*, and are expected to work a 50 hour work week and be on call. I get being desperate for a job, but what 24 year old computer toucher with a bachelors degree is gonna apply for that? * Standards look to be over something like, 38 situps in a minute, a 54 second 300 meter sprint, 30 pushups, 2 pull ups, and a 12 minute mile. Which isn't so bad, but if you need a computer toucher why instantly disqualify the cheeto dusted fingers of goons? Defenestrategy fucked around with this message at 23:44 on Apr 5, 2023 |
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Defenestrategy posted:I have a question for yall IT nerds. The honor and pride of working for your country?
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jaegerx posted:The honor and pride of working for your country? Have you SEEN this country lately?
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Ex military who got an online degree while finishing up there 3-4yr enlistment will jump all over that.
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Defenestrategy posted:I have a question for yall IT nerds. half the people who work for the fbi are mormon. i would ask them
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Cyber Punk 90210 posted:Hey everyone, question for the thread How big we talkin? If you’re at a big place you can make some solid bank - I’ve been doing executive computer janitoring for gently caress it’s 10-15 years now for a couple fortune 100ish cos. What’s the bennies and incentive comp is going to be a big xfactor but you can get well into figgieland being the guy who can tell the cmo to reboot his loving laptop.
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Cyber Punk 90210 posted:Hey everyone, question for the thread I’d ask for 120 and settle for 100-110. And then pivot into something that doesn’t have to deal with executives. Also rip me getting called in after hours when you’re not oncall. Not a big problem, one of my teammates fixed it like 10min after I joined, but the way my company handles incidents just kills me. It doesn’t publish incidents as they happen within engineering (it’s “highly confidential” that a redis connection pool got maxed you see), it tends to only declare incidents if a manager’s manager notices it happening, and we’re bad at learning lessons from them because nobody knows about them. Even within incidents, there is rarely a decision log, there’s no dedicated incident manager, no list of what we know and what we don’t. We even have a quote unquote “incident manager” lady who does… none of that apparently. My first engineering company had an incidents slack channel open to engineering (security incidents excluded), a bot that set up the slack channel and zoom room, and asked that two specific people act as the incident manager and engineering lead on a given incident and trade off as time goes on. The incident manager does the OODA loop, the dev lead handles the technical resources. It was an amazing system. I really quite miss it! The Iron Rose fucked around with this message at 00:27 on Apr 6, 2023 |
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The Iron Rose posted:I’d ask for 120 and settle for 100-110. And then pivot into something that doesn’t have to deal with executives. If they wasn’t talking nyc that’d be one thing, but that’s Midwest money.
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Soylent Majority posted:How big we talkin? If you’re at a big place you can make some solid bank - I’ve been doing executive computer janitoring for gently caress it’s 10-15 years now for a couple fortune 100ish cos. What’s the bennies and incentive comp is going to be a big xfactor but you can get well into figgieland being the guy who can tell the cmo to reboot his loving laptop. the company is flirting with the 100's Soylent Majority posted:If they wasn’t talking nyc that’d be one thing, but that’s Midwest money. They might be in Hudson Yards 
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So I have an interview at noon tomorrow with PWC, over something called an "Cyber Managed Services - Threat Detection and Response - Specialist". After the poo poo show that was the county job interview, was not hired for thankfully, this seems to be more my beginner speed. Judging from the job description's fancy words seems like it could be beefier IT support reporting to the SOC. It also sounds like contract work, which also puts me on edge. But if the pay is right I would do it if it can give me real world experience. Example of what the posting stated: "Security Operations Center (SOC) experience Networking (including the OSI Model, TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, SMTP), System Administration, and Security Architecture; Incident Response Frameworks and Handling Procedures; Scripting language skills in Python or PowerShell; Vulnerability management and penetration testing of systems, applications, and networks; Information security, compliance, assurance, and/or other security best practices and principles; and, Windows, Linux operating systems logs." I'm currently brushing up on OSI basics and TCP/IP and DNS and SMTP stuff. Python and Powershell is a whole other story, but everything else I'm pretty comfortable with in knowledge. Required Education was just a HS Diploma though. That's the only thing that kinda throws me off as far as judging what to expect if pay comes up. Hope it turns out well. Sorry for the long post.
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Good luck! It sounds entry level so that's definitely a wishlist, don't worry if you can't speak to all the things there
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That doesn’t sound entry level to me at all.
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Just want to say, performing both residential in-house IT and commercial MSP tasks in a two technician shop as the junior tech for $35K is really frustrating. Especially when the owner also keeps dropping money on 13 year old Apple machines in various states of disrepair and gives me the sole task of reviving them in between tickets so he can attempt to sell them for $300-$500. I am allowed to run Manjaro instead of Windows on my main machine, though, so that's nice. Vile_Nihlist666 fucked around with this message at 04:46 on Apr 6, 2023 |
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Vile_Nihlist666 posted:Just want to say, performing both residential in-house IT and commercial MSP tasks in a two technician shop as the junior tech for $35K is really frustrating. Especially when the owner also keeps dropping money on 13 year old Apple machines in various states of disrepair and gives me the sole task of reviving them in between tickets so he can attempt to sell them for $300-$500. The gently caress? Does he expect you to make Hackintoshes just.....work or something? And on the cheap? Are these old rear end Macbooks or god forbid early iMacs that were circa 2009 all in one's with the LED monitors built in?
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Jiro posted:The gently caress? Does he expect you to make Hackintoshes just.....work or something? And on the cheap? Are these old rear end Macbooks or god forbid early iMacs that were circa 2009 all in one's with the LED monitors built in? Yes. iMacs, Minis, Macbooks, all from 2007-2014, primarily. Haven't counted but AT LEAST 100, all told, and he keeps adding more. Basically salvaging parts from the poo poo to rescue others. No SSDs to be installed though, except for the flat-screen 27 inch models which he thinks are special... even though they are all 2012-2014. A photo before he basically doubled this with minis:  And that's just the storage room. He has stuff offsite, in his office, and in the operation manager's office. Vile_Nihlist666 fucked around with this message at 05:25 on Apr 6, 2023 |
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Apr 6, 2023 05:13
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maybe he should fix them himself. jesus
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johnny park posted:maybe he should fix them himself. jesus I wish. We're not even an Apple shop! But he seems to think Apple=sales for some reason. He's super out of the loop, but he did this without consulting the rest of us. Keep in mind, I actually cleared that whole shelf in that picture, and he predictably hasn't sold poo poo. Yet he keeps bringing poo poo in. Vile_Nihlist666 fucked around with this message at 05:22 on Apr 6, 2023 |
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I pity anyone who spends $500 on an Intel Mac. I'm pretty sure Apple is going to drop OS support for them like a hot rock in the next year.
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Someone is always dense enough. But there's not as many as he thinks are out there.
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Do you work for the angry guy in nyc on YouTube?
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Vile_Nihlist666 posted:Can't say I'm familiar with who you're referring to. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Rossmann
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If someone’s buying a decade-old iMac they deserve what they get really
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I worked for Apple EMEA support back in '09-'10 those 1st gen iMacs with the at the time fancy big screen were notorious for having yellowed screens or clusters of dead pixels. Was a nightmare in getting them serviced and or having the screens replaced. My condolences to you.
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I worked as an Apple certified repair tech from 2014-2018 and have opened a bunch of iMacs from that era. My advice? 
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Oh, THAT dude. No, but I have definitely seen his videos before.
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Here's the status as of 7:03am. Not sure where they moved the 4 foot tall stack of minis to. There were more than the ones pictured here.       
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Defenestrategy posted:I have a question for yall IT nerds. They struggle to fill IT and tech analyst roles because of this. Well that, and the drug screen for marijuana. Comey said as much a few years back. But also what Big Fluffy Dog said, a lot of mormons. Oh and a lot of people who get out of the military, get their bachelors, and then go in for a few years before moving onto contracting or something without insane requirements. Have a panel interview, or like 4 mini interviews later on today for an entry level IT role. Hoping it's more just "Hey so we'd be working together, do you suck?" and not 4x "HEY TELL ME ABOUT A TIME YOU WERE A BAD ENOUGH DUDE TO RESCUE THE PRESIDENT? IN STAR FORMAT PLEASE." Because dear lord those are exhausting. Handsome Ralph fucked around with this message at 15:44 on Apr 6, 2023 |
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Handsome Ralph posted:They struggle to fill IT and tech analyst roles because of this. Well that, and the drug screen for marijuana. Comey said as much a few years back. On severl occasions I voted for the non-incumbent while the president was running for re-election. This saved him by sparing him the insane amounts of stress the president gets every day. Thereby adding many years to the President's life.
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On multiple occasions, I have successfully engaged multiple terrorist / non-state-actor threats in close quarters battle, blocking hostile mission objectives and/or protecting US or allied security assets*. * In airsoft.
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Zorak of Michigan posted:On multiple occasions, I have successfully engaged multiple terrorist / non-state-actor threats in close quarters battle, blocking hostile mission objectives and/or protecting US or allied security assets*. You might even think I'm a Big Boss.  Edit: Initial interview with PriceWaterhouse Coopers went really well, hopefully hear back not long after the Easter holiday. At the very least I'd possibly be making 8k more than what I made previously. And I'm really really excited at the prospect of working some Blue Team stuff for entry level. Hopefully I hear back with good news. Jiro fucked around with this message at 18:55 on Apr 6, 2023 |
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Pushing out 8 months of windows updates to every computer and just going “huh that’s interesting” when anyone asks about it. Feels good.
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Cyks posted:Pushing out 8 months of windows updates to every computer and just going “huh that’s interesting” when anyone asks about it. When I joined this place six years ago, they had only been doing critical windows security patches, for years. I don’t even remember how many patches they needed to catch up on, but it took something like five months of releasing big chunks of them before every server was caught up. Now, if it’s a released patch it goes. Lower environments Thursday after patch Tuesday, prod environment week and a half later.
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just got the "feral hogs" version of shadow IT. 100-200 client pdf documents uploaded to shadypdfconvert.ru, every day.
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We let users decide when to update and have to manually update parked laptops
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Our device management software is carefully engineered to pop an un-dismissable dialog at the most inconvenient times to force an OS update and reboot. Got a meeting in 10 minutes? get hosed, nerd.
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Louis Rossmann moved away from NYC btw. I think his shop is in Texas now. He is also broken up with the long term gf he used to have.
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Cyks posted:Pushing out 8 months of windows updates to every computer and just going “huh that’s interesting” when anyone asks about it. Learning a lot about why some of the bugs people call me about happen through this thread. JK I learned there’s a 50/50 chance the person calling mes lying about what’s going on like a week in
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