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I'm so glad I don't work in academia any more. When I did we had so many duplicate database systems because researchers are a highly territorial species so even if their fields overlapped a lot and they would all benefit from being able to easily cross-reference data they each had their own separate, isolated installations. All way behind on updates of course because while they'll begrudgingly pay for acquiring the system, good luck getting a researcher to spend even a cent of their precious grant money on maintaining it.
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xzzy posted:We're a strict linux-only group and an experiment needed a windows system to run some kind of precision measurement tool as that's the only OS it ran on. I love these kind of stories. unless it’s my shadow it that goes wrong
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Gucci Loafers posted:How long is this Google event going on for as I am as in Vegas. Is it free? No, it costs thousands of dollars.
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Gucci Loafers posted:How long is this Google event going on for as I am as in Vegas. Is it free? No, but you are not missing anything
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There is open testing at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway today for the upcoming 500, so I went down there for a couple of hours today. I took a table for my laptop and worked off the hotspot; legitimately got some work done. “Sorry, I can’t take a call right now, I’m at the track” is a valid excuse in this company. I took our weekly team meeting with the cars in the background. My boss didn’t care and was planning on coming down later. It’s gonna be hard to leave this pod.
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CommieGIR posted:No, but you are not missing anything drat, if anyone's around town but I'd be up for a 
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Question for the thread, when a job advert says they want an Expert, SME or someone with a solid understanding of X, Y and Z. What level of depth is expected during the interview? And how hard do you expect them to hit the ground running on the first day? For example, in Active Directory do you really want me to be able to explain each FMSO role in detail? When I open a Powershell terminal, do you expect me to just know the commands to do whatever to a domain controller off the top of my head?
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That greatly depends on who is interviewing you and whether it's a MSP. A MSP will want you to know random rear end 169.254 reserved IPs used in a bad DHCP exchange for a "windows SME" as well as FSMO roles; enterprise could give a poo poo. A MSP will want you to hit the ground running so you are profitable without training. You have some responsibility to deflect those kind of questions however. Asking for what kind of problems you will be solving and talking through how you would approach them, including "I'd ask jives." Soooo many people just do not do research.
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I was supposed to go to next this year but kids put a stop to that. Perhaps next year
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Twerk from Home posted:No, it costs thousands of dollars.
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Collateral Damage posted:It's the perfect scam, you get people's work to pay you thousands of dollars to listen to your sales pitch. Ftfy If anyone is there on their own dime you may as well introduce them to Bitcoin and your dear friend the prince of Nigeria because they're clearly natural suckers
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Had a meeting with my boss today where he told me that when they hired me they already knew he would be moving on to another position soon, and apparently the hiring discussions were largely centered around how they were looking at me as an eventual replacement. I'm floored and starting to wonder whose resume I actually sent them... My impostor syndrome is over in the corner masturbating furiously.
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devmd01 posted:There is open testing at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway today for the upcoming 500, so I went down there for a couple of hours today. I took a table for my laptop and worked off the hotspot; legitimately got some work done. “Sorry, I can’t take a call right now, I’m at the track” is a valid excuse in this company. I want to move back to Indianapolis because I’m too poor to live in Denver. How’s the IT/Cybersecurity job field there?
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Wired Network went down at the office today, wifi still worked (no idea how it's all on the same switches), the only solution was to physically unplug the switches and wait 10 minutes for everything to come back online and I feel like I'm going batty. This isn't normal, surely? A man who's been a consultant system administrator surely has some remote management, right? What the gently caress, I'm actually mad at how clownshow it is here
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Are the switches meraki? Seen that with those before.
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GreenNight posted:meraki? tokin opposition posted:Cisco the-office-pam-same-picture.jpg
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The Fool posted:the-office-pam-same-picture.jpg Far from it. We had issues where stacks of Meraki's management plane would crash and the only fix is to reboot the entire stack. There is no command line. If there is no GUI, you can't config anything on the switch.
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where is your sense of humor
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https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=who+owns+meraki&l=1
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Sigh, I know who owns who but come on. In other news our VMware reseller told us expect a 1.5x increase in renewal costs coming up. Everything is coming up Milhouse.
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GreenNight posted:Sigh, I know who owns who but come on.  quote:In other news our VMware reseller told us expect a 1.5x increase in renewal costs coming up. Everything is coming up Milhouse. 
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Even our execs that went to the Google NEXT with me are saying "Google won't shutup about their god damned AI (Gemini) and we're getting tired of it" Winning, Google, Winning.
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There should be a gangtag for my fellow LLM haters Every time I see $x has AI now it just makes me want to stop using it
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GreenNight posted:Far from it. We had issues where stacks of Meraki's management plane would crash and the only fix is to reboot the entire stack. There is no command line. If there is no GUI, you can't config anything on the switch. If it's Cisco it could be some of their bullshit rebranded Logitech switches from a decade ago! Those pieces of poo poo were my first introduction to modern networking with VLANS and all that. It's a good thing I've forgotten most of that, the Cisco consultants my employer had had set it up had not only got us to buy bullshit, but they had us buy bullshit that had memory leaks when spanning tree issues came up because they managed to create an actual loop with the physical cabling. They also couldn't diagnose it, so we had recurring network outages until I rechecked their wiring diagram with where the cables actually went. I wish I could name and shame, but I killed those brain cells years ago.
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tokin opposition posted:There should be a gangtag for my fellow LLM haters perhaps the truth is somewhere in the middle
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tokin opposition posted:There should be a gangtag for my fellow LLM haters I went to a vendor conf recently and half the talks were about AI. I skipped all of those, except the parts about it in the keynote. Those were enough to make me throw up a little in my mouth. All the people I spoke who did attend those said they all had overlap and none of them were really interesting at all.
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tokin opposition posted:There should be a gangtag for my fellow LLM haters I recently bought an Nvidia GPU that was marketed as "AI Enhanced" but it actually does make the framerate smoother when you enable DLSS and I swear to god this is literally the first usage of AI where I went "wow, that is actually useful".
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Soon they'll put AI on the blockchain to create exciting NFT's.
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I emailed our Google Workspace account manager a while back to ask if we could split our licenses so some were monthly commitment and some were annual to account for seasonal employees. They spent ages wanting to arrange a meeting which I eventually caved in on, and took 30 minutes to say that what I wanted wasn't possible but I could buy through a reseller and they could offer it. The account manager got in touch again today to try and tell me all about Gemini 
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mllaneza posted:If it's Cisco it could be some of their bullshit rebranded Logitech switches from a decade ago! Do you mean Linksys or did I black out?
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Organic Lube User posted:Had a meeting with my boss today where he told me that when they hired me they already knew he would be moving on to another position soon, and apparently the hiring discussions were largely centered around how they were looking at me as an eventual replacement. My manager told me to apply for a promotion and he’d give it to me based on completing my degree, not because I’ve done any real work since I started here. Actually a bunch of time I’ve spent at work has been on classwork and they’ve given me the green light to do it as much as I want until work ramps up later this year. I’m sure I’ll be grumpy later when everything is on fire but for now I’m enjoying it
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Hotel Kpro posted:My manager told me to apply for a promotion and he’d give it to me based on completing my degree, not because I’ve done any real work since I started here. Actually a bunch of time I’ve spent at work has been on classwork and they’ve given me the green light to do it as much as I want until work ramps up later this year. I’m sure I’ll be grumpy later when everything is on fire but for now I’m enjoying it Awesome, sounds like a cool manager. I've got another month of training and shadowing, and they'll pay for any certs I wanna do afterwards. Gonna spend as much time in courses on the clock as I can.
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Both my IT jobs have been very liberal with people doing career and education advancement as long as the job got done too. The rest of my jobs have been much more focused on accounting for production time. It’s been refreshing
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tokin opposition posted:Cisco Do you have BPDUguard turned on on the Cisco switches? I've seen knuckleheads shut out sections of a wired network because some goober plugged in a little Netgear switch from home so they could plug in another device and it causes the main Cisco switch to freak the gently caress out. If you pull up the interface statuses and it's showing err-disabled it could be getting got from that direction.
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It's cool when people enable things like BPDU guard but don't set a timer for turning the port back on, you end up with a 48 port switch where people assume 30 of the ports are dead.
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Submarine Sandpaper posted:That greatly depends on who is interviewing you and whether it's a MSP. A MSP will want you to know random rear end 169.254 reserved IPs used in a bad DHCP exchange for a "windows SME" as well as FSMO roles; enterprise could give a poo poo. A MSP will want you to hit the ground running so you are profitable without training. What if it's not a MSP but some huge F500 or a large consulting firm? Gucci Loafers fucked around with this message at 21:56 on Apr 11, 2024 |
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I'm configuring a Dell N4032F switch for my house and as someone who has never configured Dell switches before I appreciate that I can download the latest firmware without having a license or maintenance.
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