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Paladine_PSoT posted:Probably because California's laws, taxes, and culture are toxic as gently caress. California is a huge state and the culture varies from place to place. I've lived in the Central Valley most of my life and in the Bay Area for the rest of it and they're quite different despite being ~60mi away. I can't really comment on So. Cal. as the furthest I've ventured in that direction is Bakersfield and it's still pretty much like the rest of the Central Valley. Personally, I very much prefer the Bay Area. ***edit*** Well, I took loving forever to actually reply. You pretty much nailed it some posts down. MC Fruit Stripe posted:Real talk. How do you deal with motivation issues? ***edit2*** Many years of I.T. (and probably gaming) have been catching up with me. I ended up ordering that keyboard that Lum had mentioned in one of the last Megatheads. So, just wanted to say Thank You for the recommendation. Amazon says it should be here Thursday, so I'm looking forward to using it. TWBalls fucked around with this message at 23:18 on Aug 28, 2013 |
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evol262 posted:How often do you get candidates who go off on how idiotic it is that DNS has more security-related record types to try to bandaid various problems (DNSSEC, DKIM, SPF, et al) than address-related, and that 99% of these record types could be handled with TXT (which is almost never human-readable anyway)? I've been around awhile and even I had to think for a little bit to come up with 5 record types. The last one I thought of was SPF... A, CNAME, PTR, MX... uhhhhhhh...  Chalk it up to not dealing with it that much. That's one I might have done deer-in-headlights under pressure.
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Aug 28, 2013 23:22
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Aug 28, 2013 23:24
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Caged posted:Cheat with the AAAA record. When I read that question my answer was honestly "A.... AAAA.... umm..."
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Aug 28, 2013 23:29
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I got to A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, TXT and SRV but don't ask me to explain the last two. Never considered PTR.
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Aug 28, 2013 23:38
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GOOCHY posted:I've been around awhile and even I had to think for a little bit to come up with 5 record types. The last one I thought of was SPF... Windows guys should be able to answer SRV to that question. Caged posted:I got to A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, TXT and SRV but don't ask me to explain the last two. Never considered PTR. SRV is easy, and you rarely have to mess with them. Just resource records for services. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc961719.aspx holy crap there are a lot of dns record types http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_DNS_record_types skipdogg fucked around with this message at 23:42 on Aug 28, 2013 |
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GOOCHY posted:I've been around awhile and even I had to think for a little bit to come up with 5 record types. The last one I thought of was SPF... SPF is a DNS record type. I don't really touch external DNS very often either. It's a decent question, but depending on the position I wouldn't think it would be an automatic disqualifier.
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Just putting thoughts together right now but I want some additional input for the OP updates. What do you guys look for in an ideal candidate in <name position>?
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Dilbert As gently caress posted:What do you guys look for in an ideal candidate in <name position>?
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Dilbert As gently caress posted:Just putting thoughts together right now but I want some additional input for the OP updates. Show the Rouge Ale CL ad.
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Well I am trying to keep it as constructive as possible, so... If you had to replace your current position with someone what would you look for, or what advice would you give?
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Dilbert As gently caress posted:Well I am trying to keep it as constructive as possible, so... If you had to replace your current position with someone what would you look for, or what advice would you give? Have a jobs-to-avoid/humor section 
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GOOCHY posted:I've been around awhile and even I had to think for a little bit to come up with 5 record types. The last one I thought of was SPF...
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Tab8715 posted:Have a jobs-to-avoid/humor section I would rather have to spend a weekend to help others avoid things and be better IT folk than read pages and pages of bitching to say "drat that sucks" But seriously open to any suggestions regardless the position you work on, seriously any help is appreciated I am not omnipotent help me out from lowest to highest, if it helps someone out it is worth it IMO. PM me or post here if you want Also would anyone care if I keep this Luna avatar, I just can't change her... Dilbert As FUCK fucked around with this message at 04:16 on Aug 29, 2013 |
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My answer for the DNS question would go like this: I don't know about 5, but I know a few... There's the basic A record where you have 'name > ip address', then you have CNAME's which are effectively nicknames that point to the A record, so if the ip address updates you only have to update one A record. Ummmm, then I know there's TXT records which I don't really know what they are, but I've used them before to do those 'prove you own this domain' things with google analytics and the like, so I'm working under the assumption they exist just as an extra information store... then... I know there's some mail specific ones that I can't think of right now, mail isn't my strong suit anyway. Like DNS I don't do particularly well with protocols that are older than I am! But pretty much I've just worked with A records and CNAMEs whenever I've done DNS stuff.Which I would consider a pretty good answer, because I show what I do know, and more importantly know what I don't know, and freely admit it, but with some knowledge of what they might be, and how I came to those conclusions.
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NZAmoeba posted:My answer for the DNS question would go like this: It'd depend a lot on the nature of the position, but I'd consider that an outstanding answer for any kind of helpdesk job and minimum acceptable for a junior admin. Beyond that point you're going to be the guy that has to create those "weird" NS and MX and PTR and SPF records that all the junior guys hand-wave away, but which will still totally break everything if you gently caress them up  I've posted this 10 times before but I feel like DNS is really, really poorly understood by people for how important (and to be honest, easy) it is.Agree that admitting what you don't know is a million times better than trying to bullshit.
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NZAmoeba posted:Like DNS I don't do particularly well with protocols that are older than I am! Having no idea how old you are, but working on that you're younger than DNS (which will be 30 years old in a few months), saying you don't do well with protocols that are older than you are might not be the best idea. You're effectively ruling out IPv4, ICMP, TCP... Dilbert As gently caress posted:Stuff Keep it. You've already named your vSphere lab after ponies. Frankly I'm quite upset that you've not yet assigned Fluttershy or Derpy to anything. If I were hiring for my current position, which is basically "hey, go find a way to do x, then do it / document it / give global engineering the docs. Then go find a way to do this." I'd be looking for someone who was visibly excited about tech. Not gadgets and cellphones / tablets and the likes, but someone who was enthusiastic when describing different DNS records. Someone who could talk for 30 minutes straight about BIND. Storage deduplication - how does it work, plus pros and cons. Why would you change block sizes? I'd want them to tell me exactly how they'd handle a VM migration getting stuck at 10%. What's the algorithm that RAID 5 uses for parity? Explain MXTCP to me. Go fail over that ASA over there. Linux permissions - go. What's the FTP Control channel? No, I mean, at a packet inspection level, what would you see? And you know, of course, I'd be being an absolute arsehole. 99.99% of candidates would hate me, and you'd be able to tell that. But, having done exactly the above in interviews before, I've found that 0.01% guy on more than one occasion. None of them knew all of it, but all of them had this excitable tone when running through their train of thought. That's what I've always looked for when involved in hiring. Does he work in IT, or does he love IT? Love always wins, and friendship is magic.
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evol262 posted:VMware player will actually do this (if you want a free solution). VBox doesn't do nested virt at all. This does seem to have worked. Thanks again. Cross-posted to the home lab thread.
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Docjowles posted:I've posted this 10 times before but I feel like DNS is really, really poorly understood by people for how important (and to be honest, easy) it is. Absolutely true and absolutely crazy. When DNS was a major part of my job, people tended to regard us as priests of the mysterious oracle, even though we actually ran stock BIND and managed our zone files with vi and RCS. In the current job I'm not involved in DNS, but the people who are don't understand it, repeatedly screw up, and refuse to rework their processes because they're afraid they'll break something worse. Come on, guys, it's all text files at the core, or it can be. Know your stack!
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Internet Explorer posted:SPF is a DNS record type. One which I've never seen used in the wild and I'm not sure how widely supported it actually is. Everyone I've seen puts SPF in TXT records. And I'll just agree with you guys on how easy DNS is as well as how critical. It's one of those things that's hard to believe how ignored it is by otherwise intelligent people in the business.
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Speaking about DNS and how I totally hosed something up - I use the wrong KMS key in my images and ended up with 50 KMS hosts before I knew what the hell was going on.
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I accepted the position in Virginia and all my onboarding paperwork has cleared, so I gave written notice. It is nice being at a level where people come to you with  instead of you having to seek them out. I am a fortunate man. I am simultaneously excited and sad. I have history here, a "brand" in the company, and am recognized for my work and accomplishments by management and many in the business. After nearly 8 years, 4 departments, and 6 promotions, I think it is a good time to go. Leave them wanting more, etc.Now to make sure I don't screw over my people here during the transition. I foresee some complications with the deployment I manage that they will need to be apprised of, but may lack the people to handle it after I am gone. Really unfortunate timing for them.
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How bad must the red tape be at my place that my boss decided to give me a $600 AP to DTLS tunnel from my house to work rather than ask our firewall team to add an additional image to our ASA firwall to support my laptop. I was just about to buy a 5ghz N router too since mine is only 2.4, but this controller based AP also allows you to add one "home use" SSID that doesn't get tunneled.
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Turnquiet posted:I accepted the position in Virginia and all my onboarding paperwork has cleared, so I gave written notice. It is nice being at a level where people come to you with Congrats, if you are in the Tidewater area hit me up! Also just document, document and document prior to leaving and review it with the important people. Also you may want to see about doing some contract work, e.g. I will work on projects for 5 hours max a week at 125hr, if it is okay with your new company.
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Dilbert As gently caress posted:Congrats, if you are in the Tidewater area hit me up! Glen Allen, north of Richmond. It will be nice to see seasons again as Phoenix is just bright and hot. Offering consultancy services sounds like a good idea, I may look into that.
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Internet Explorer posted:SPF is a DNS record type. I knew that - that's why I posted that it was the last one I thought of after a few minutes of thinking about it. Didn't want to Google it and cheat.
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What do "real companies" (~1000+ employees) typically set their exchange mailbox quotas to? We use <500MB which seems pretty small for this day and age, especially since employees are directed to archive to their local harddrive.
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Alereon posted:What do "real companies" (~1000+ employees) typically set their exchange mailbox quotas to? We use <500MB which seems pretty small for this day and age, especially since employees are directed to archive to their local harddrive. Well, I am on the DoD @mail.mil platform, which has several million users and growing, and my mailbox is currently 1.3GB, but not everyone has DoD money. 500MB does seem low if you allow large attachments, which is what uses up most of a persons mailbox quota. I'd venture to say 750MB-1GB is plenty as long as you are limiting attachment sizes and have a policy that people should be storing documents on the network.
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Alereon posted:What do "real companies" (~1000+ employees) typically set their exchange mailbox quotas to? We use <500MB which seems pretty small for this day and age, especially since employees are directed to archive to their local harddrive. We generally roll out 2GB mailboxes for our clients, rarely get issues aside from three letter titles who usually want/need more. Oh right +1000 can't say I know what is the limit for those. Dilbert As FUCK fucked around with this message at 18:51 on Aug 29, 2013 |
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30k+ employees - not sure what everyone else is provisioned for but I have a 25GB mailbox.
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I work for a major telecom and my mailbox is 150mb - we are suppose to use personal folders. Also, no zips for attachments and a limit of 8mb.
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Yeah we spend a lot of time e-mailing around PDFs and scanned documents so <500MB goes pretty drat quick, and I really try to avoid local archiving so I can access data I need via OWA. Other users tend to just lose poo poo and require me and others to forward them copies of e-mails, which is annoying. Thanks for the feedback folks, I mostly wanted to know if bigger mailboxes were obviously stupid for some reason before I consider writing a business case.
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What's the actual technical limitation of having large mailboxes? Is it just space?
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Only one day left at this job! 
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Tab8715 posted:What's the actual technical limitation of having large mailboxes? More space needed on your (assuming) Exchange server, and Outlook really doesn't like big OST files.
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5000+ user 2010 install, no limit, with about 100 extremely large mailboxes taking over 30% of the space (1.5TB of 5 TB total).
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Alereon posted:What do "real companies" (~1000+ employees) typically set their exchange mailbox quotas to? We use <500MB which seems pretty small for this day and age, especially since employees are directed to archive to their local harddrive. Before we outsourced to what was BPOS and is now Office365 it depended on how important the person was. Management got 1GB. Normal workers got 500Megs. Task workers got 250. Attachments capped at 10mb. Now everyone gets 25GB cause we give no fucks
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Caged posted:More space needed on your (assuming) Exchange server, and Outlook really doesn't like big OST files. What's nice about outlook 2013 is you can tell it only to cache a certain date range of mail to your OST and it will go and fetch directly from the server for anything beyond that. True, you don't have your full mailbox offline with you, but it virtually eliminates issues with large OST files.
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