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22 Eargesplitten posted:Not trans, but that seems like a good idea. My ex's deadname was still on a couple of her tech things despite her having every reason to change it and with how many systems have settings outside SSO that would display an old name it might be better to start fresh. For the record I pretended to not notice the systems that showed her deadname until she mentioned it to me because it seemed like a "if you want me to know you'll tell me" thing. Yeah paypal requires a ton of proof, my wife is in the same situation still I believe. I think paypal requires updated ID, documented proof of name change, and your name to *also* be changed in an associated bank account as well in order to even consider making the change. And they can still arbitrarily deny you after all of that.
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Im close enough to Madison that I've known a few people that have gone to work for Epic. They seem to pay decent and have good benefits for the region, and having any Epic experience can open up a lot of doors for you in hospitals if thats your jam. The friends I've had that worked there seemed to like it well enough. The only negative I've heard about them is that they are 100% dedicated to butts in seats. Like even if you work there 10+ years in office and show what a star IT employee you are they'll never let you work remote.
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You should react the same way to a Healthcare IT recruiter as you do to a nice-looking person handing out pamphlets in front of a Scientology building. Cross the street, don't make eye contact. Those are years of your life and months of unpaid overtime that you'll never get back.
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Cenodoxus posted:You should react the same way to a Healthcare IT recruiter as you do to a nice-looking person handing out pamphlets in front of a Scientology building. Cross the street, don't make eye contact. Those are years of your life and months of unpaid overtime that you'll never get back. In Healthcare InfoSec currently and can confirm
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You couldn't shanghai me to work in a hospital. I would find a way to escape. Working for literally the state at a university right now, the pay is poo poo but the plasma physicists have a cake baking rotation going on and there are some seriously fancy gizmos on and off the network. "Why is port 4500 open on this?" – "Oh, that's where space instruments send their data. Sorry, the IP address is hard coded into the firmware for the life time of the instrument"
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Antigravitas posted:You couldn't shanghai me to work in a hospital. I would find a way to escape.
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Antigravitas posted:You couldn't shanghai me to work in a hospital. I would find a way to escape. The fancy gizmos are one of the things I miss most about my first job. One of the bigger projects we worked on used Magnetohydrodynamics. The rebar in the concrete floor ended up permanently magnetized by the time the project was closed down. CRT monitors had a life expectancy of three to six months before the field wrecked them. Disposing of old hard drives in a plasma waste furnace was cool, too. Pile of old HDD went in, chunk of slag the size of a deck of cards came out.
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The building is built around some of the labs because the equipment is multiple stories high. I have to take annual laser, radiation, and general work safety courses. There's a telescope dome on one of the buildings. Some hallways always smell of burnt metal. The workshop runs on €€€ CNC machines. My office has two 380V three-phase power outlets, a dedicated row of easily accessible fuses (plus its own RCCB) and a washbasin (for the blackboard). And exactly one Gbit Ethernet socket. I'll grant them this, it's not your everyday IT workplace.
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BaseballPCHiker posted:Im close enough to Madison that I've known a few people that have gone to work for Epic. My SiL pivoted from being a rad tech to doing IT support for Epic's radiology software and spent a couple weeks up at Epic HQ for training. She loved it, and thought it was so neat. Whimsical themed rooms everywhere, nap pods, campus bicycles, poo poo like that. Folks eat that poo poo up but most of us see through it.
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Blurb3947 posted:A $500 device that costs $100/month? Yeah, I can't really advise anybody to get a standalone 5G device with another data plan just for backups. Either a router that you can USB tether your phone to, or a way of getting your Wi-Fi hotspot your phone puts out into a second WAN on your router. Or if it's just you that needs to stay connected, join the hotpot and call it a day.
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We have a remote site that's in the middle of sticks. Fortunately it's fairly well engineered to be able to do its job with no link to the outside world because that cable dies a few times a year. However just in case it has a 3G backup (it's LTE now but when installed 3G was still a thing), just so remote techs can get in and check critical information. Once early on someone hosed up and when the main link died.. everything tried to pump data through the cellular link. It didn't work.
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tokin opposition posted:If ya'llse were hiring for a junior sysadmin what certs and experience would be most enticing? Asking for a friend, who is also me. If you're looking to do on-prem, the MS Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate would look pretty great, maybe also Microsoft Office Specialist: Associate (Microsoft 365 Apps) since chances are an on-prem person might get escalated garbage in Sharepoint, Outlook, or other applications. VMware is probably still present enough that a VCP would be great if you can get the Stanly Community College course, or if there's other cheap ways to get the required course in. I don't habla Linux but my understanding is that an RHCSA cert is basically a money printing machine. If you want to do cloud, Azure Administrator Associate or AWS Sysops Associate are the standouts. CCNAs always look nice but IMO they aren't really required or helpful for day to day junior sysadmin stuff. In terms of experience, anything that goes into managing AD beyond password resets looks like sysadmin stuff: Group Policy, software installation policies, NTFS and share permissions management by security groups, etc. Managing backups and restore testing, either on-prem or off-prem, looks good. iLO/iDRAC configuration and management, basic Powershell or Python, managing SQL security/resizing/backups, etc. SCCM or SCOM, or any other large scale deployment/management/orchestration tools also helps. Learn to love padding your resume. As you study and prep for exams, find things you can do in your day-to-day that look similar to what you're learning, and fudge them into projects that you did. Doesn't matter if you run them to completion, just think about them and turn them into accomplishments. Making the jump from helpdesk/desktop to sysadmin can be a fuckton of "fake it 'til you make it" to make your experience look good if it doesn't come under a sysadmin title. It's a horrible and stupid system but welcome to capitalism If you want I'm happy to go more into detail either here or via PMs, I had to make the transition back in 2010-2012. Wasn't easy, but I learned a lot and it's helped make me a better IT professional In a topic shift - anyone here work for a cloud solution provider or as a cloud architect/engineer for a consulting company? I'm curious about your day-to-day, whether it's basically a cloud sysadmin or if you're doing interesting projects. I keep seeing consulting companies looking for cloud folks and while I'm happy where I am, it never hurts to know what the other side looks like.
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George H.W. oval office posted:Yea your phone or a Verizon hotspot will do the trick just fine without needing to do a satellite solution or support Elon Musk We wanted to get some Cradlepoint devices to keep at locations for backup circuits just to keep things going during Backhoe season, but one of our IT managers thinks that LTE/5G isn't good enough so he wants us to use Starlink. He seems to constantly forget that you need to mount that poo poo to a roof and run a cable into the building. We can't just drop it in the parking lot and run a cable through a window.
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Man I loved working with Cradlepoints back in the day. They made my life so much easier for remote sites. Well worth the $5-600 we'd have to spend.
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I worked at Hill AFB for about four years. You could do much worse. It’s close to SLC, Utah has tons to offer in outdoorsy stuff, and it’s easy to bootleg better alcohol into the state if you don’t feel like buying everything from local breweries
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Thanks Ants posted:Yeah, I can't really advise anybody to get a standalone 5G device with another data plan just for backups. Either a router that you can USB tether your phone to, or a way of getting your Wi-Fi hotspot your phone puts out into a second WAN on your router. Or if it's just you that needs to stay connected, join the hotpot and call it a day. Verizon had a promo where their 5G home internet device was only $25 a month, so I grabbed that and updated my network so that I have two uplinks with seamless failover. It's nice but my Comcast almost never has an issue. Still good to have redundant when I FT WFH.
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Imagine shelling out for a backup circuit so you can keep working. Wild. If there’s an ISP outage that’s free time baby
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Antigravitas posted:The building is built around some of the labs because the equipment is multiple stories high. I have to take annual laser, radiation, and general work safety courses. There's a telescope dome on one of the buildings. Some hallways always smell of burnt metal. The workshop runs on €€€ CNC machines. My office has two 380V three-phase power outlets, a dedicated row of easily accessible fuses (plus its own RCCB) and a washbasin (for the blackboard). One gigabit socket! That's rarefied air around here. There's a building I service with Cat3 wiring in the walls and the network speed is capped to 10mbps. The building is so old that asbestos abatement would cost more than just demolishing the building and rebuilding it.
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I have 3 internet connections, but mostly because a bit of a trek to get cell service if things go south.
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George H.W. oval office posted:Yea your phone or a Verizon hotspot will do the trick just fine without needing to do a satellite solution or support Elon Musk I've been waffling about getting Starlink and probably would have already done it if it wasn't for the "Musk" thing. At some point in 2022 or early 2023 I woke up to no internet connection or phone reception, seems like the only data line to my town went down for some reason. That meant no cable internet and no cell service for the entire area. I was wardriving all around town until I figured out what was going on, then decided to go home rather than drive half an hour to the next town over. TBH I would have been less concerned if it went down during the middle of the day rather than seeming like I was no-showing a fairly new job until what ended up being 11:30 AM. Also being completely cut off from the outside world (no car radio reception thanks to the mountains) was really spooky. I don't know if DSL was working, but CenturyLink wants like $50-70 a month for 3mbps down and gently caress that.
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A promotion came in - moving from government helldesk to government cybersecurity in a few weeks, just waiting for someone to start in 2 weeks to backfill me. No paperwork signed yet, hoping I can negotiate a pay bump.
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chin up everything sucks posted:government cybersecurity
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My boss also wanted us to explore Starlink, but when I investigated it, IIRC I found that you couldn't actually talk to any of their reps and ask questions until you had already bought something and we immediately abandoned that idea. That was like a year ago though
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There's other sat isps you can look at, the latency is gonna be killer no matter whose sky boxes you're talking to
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Starlink latency is way better than the alternatives though.
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Wibla posted:Starlink latency is way better than the alternatives though. at the cost of the night sky
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Vargatron posted:One gigabit socket! That's rarefied air around here. There's a building I service with Cat3 wiring in the walls and the network speed is capped to 10mbps. The building is so old that asbestos abatement would cost more than just demolishing the building and rebuilding it. The absolute galaxy brains used Y-cables to split Cat5e into two 100Mbit sockets per office. We complained until this was reversed and put office switches into each office…
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Vargatron posted:One gigabit socket! That's rarefied air around here. There's a building I service with Cat3 wiring in the walls and the network speed is capped to 10mbps. The building is so old that asbestos abatement would cost more than just demolishing the building and rebuilding it.
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Antigravitas posted:The absolute galaxy brains used Y-cables to split Cat5e into two 100Mbit sockets per office. We complained until this was reversed and put office switches into each office… the dorms when I was at uni were wired this way.
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having gotten gigabit internet last year i could never go back
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Antigravitas posted:The absolute galaxy brains used Y-cables to split Cat5e into two 100Mbit sockets per office. We complained until this was reversed and put office switches into each office… Yeah, I've seen that a lot too in old buildings. A lot of the construction here dates back to the 50s.
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kensei posted:Verizon had a promo where their 5G home internet device was only $25 a month, so I grabbed that and updated my network so that I have two uplinks with seamless failover. It's nice but my Comcast almost never has an issue. Still good to have redundant when I FT WFH. It's going to be different depending on what is available. The mobile service here isn't great so I could never justify having it as a permanent subscription. My plan for outages is to try and get by tethering my phone for a couple of days and then activate an ISP on the second fibre I have who can normally get it enabled within two working days if for whatever reason the main ISP can't restore service or has gone bust or whatever. For some of the people we work with we've got a lot of mileage out of 5G Teltonika routers configured with ZeroTier so the NAT on mobile services becomes irrelevant. Cheap for what they're capable of as well.
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George H.W. oval office posted:Imagine shelling out for a backup circuit so you can keep working. Wild. I do contracting so no connection means I’m not getting paid. But you’re right. An extra ISP is overkill for the few times a year I lose internet for a few hours. Otoh it’s all company expenses so tax deductible and all.
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22 Eargesplitten posted:I've gotten the same Linkedin message. gently caress Wisconsin, if I want to become an alcoholic I can do it just fine here in Colorado.
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I guess they have to justify their wacky campus somehow. BUTTS. IN. SEATS.
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The hospital system I used to do work in is transitioning to Epic for their EMR, and it's been a total clusterfuck from what I've heard. Hundreds of millions down the drain so far supposedly from contacts I still have there. I see job postings for Epic all the time also and just gloss right over them.
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skipdogg posted:My SiL pivoted from being a rad tech to doing IT support for Epic's radiology software and spent a couple weeks up at Epic HQ for training. She loved it, and thought it was so neat. Whimsical themed rooms everywhere, nap pods, campus bicycles, poo poo like that. Folks eat that poo poo up but most of us see through it. I've been to the Epic HQ for training and it is a great campus. It's what I imagine Google would be if they were a healthcare company. Definitely a lot of kool-aid up there but they make a (relatively) great product, and the training/support is top notch. Unfortunately it's in Wisconsin so that nixes any desire to work for them.
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We have probably 20+ Epic positions open at the health system I work at. Once you get those Epic certs you can basically go work at any hospital that runs Epic as there is always a need for you.
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