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This is free: https://www.draw.io/
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Proteus Jones posted:I think there are things it's OK to say "I'd google it" and other things you should know during an interview. If it's a networking related position, you should absolutely know how to subnet without google or IP calculator. Regardless, it's an easy skill to learn and demonstrates an understanding of TCP/IP networking. Yeah, I'd be really dubious of working with someone that couldn't subnet at all(in a networking position). It would be like working with an accountant that couldn't do math outside of a calculator or a spreadsheet.
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Dec 9, 2017 20:19
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LibreOffice Draw is pretty OK for making network diagrams when you don't want to pay any money.
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Dec 9, 2017 21:48
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SamDabbers posted:LibreOffice Draw is pretty OK for making network diagrams when you don't want to pay any money. Doesnt have to be free, just want it to be good, preferrably pretty and not in the cloud.
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Dec 9, 2017 23:13
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SamDabbers posted:LibreOffice Draw is pretty OK for making network diagrams when you don't want to pay any money. Lines are loving atrocious in Draw and if I had any money to spend I'd drop it based on the ugly lines alone.
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jaegerx posted:Vendor gear is great for cleaning your truck. You’re missing out. My wife and daughter use the shirts to sleep in. I chuckle whenever I see my daughter go to sleep in a Cisco/Azure Stack t-shirt, or my wife wearing the ugly orange "Stop Hank" shirt that Quest gave out. My kid loves the Ninja Microsoft one.
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Dec 10, 2017 03:44
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i use network notepad for network diagrams. I like it.
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Dec 10, 2017 14:28
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Thanks Ants posted:Yeah the Siemens Signia range are ridiculous in terms of their features. My father has profound hearing loss (too much time in Sherman tanks, and later "server room" levels of equipment noise 8 hours a day) and so I've heard of how amazingly expensive and finicky hearing aids are. But at least he can hear okay with them. I never considered them for my problem but maybe they could help. I'll check out an audiologist next year. For most of my life I've had above average hearing in almost all frequencies, but in my forties I started losing the high end. For someone that loves music it's frustrating.
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Any of you guys use Goverlan Reach? I'm using their 30 day trial right now and I absolutely love it. I've done everything from querying AD for stale users and computers to automating desktop hardware refreshes to basic help desk stuff with their remote access piece. I have been evaluating ManageEngine, Kaseya and I still have ConnectWise on my to do list. So far, I'm leaning heavily towards Goverlan. I love the product and their support team is fantastic. And it's only 50 bucks a month per admin and we have just two dudes in IT. Somewhat related - how is HP's Insight server app suite for monitoring and alerting on hardware issues? I'm guessing it is similar to Dell's OpenManage suite? If I can use that to cover alerting on the server infrastructure then I think I talk my boss into Goverlan over the competition.
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Dec 10, 2017 15:30
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Ehud posted:Any of you guys use Goverlan Reach? I'm using their 30 day trial right now and I absolutely love it. I've done everything from querying AD for stale users and computers to automating desktop hardware refreshes to basic help desk stuff with their remote access piece. i read this as Groverlan at first and immediately started picturing load bearing cable runs. 
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Dec 10, 2017 17:31
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Colonial Air Force posted:I've had pretty good success telling people I don't know off the top of my head, but I can Google really well. In interviews? I mean, I'm sure one or two like that in a technical is ok, but if it was a shutout like my SQL server experience, I doubt telling them I can Google is going to help much.
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Dec 10, 2017 18:06
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skooma512 posted:In interviews? I mean, I'm sure one or two like that in a technical is ok, but if it was a shutout like my SQL server experience, I doubt telling them I can Google is going to help much. Well certainly you can't answer that to every question.
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Dec 10, 2017 18:46
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skooma512 posted:In interviews? I mean, I'm sure one or two like that in a technical is ok, but if it was a shutout like my SQL server experience, I doubt telling them I can Google is going to help much. Any good tech interview is going to understand that google is a skill, and appreciate people who know that they don't know everything but can find it on google. They should be pushing to see how far you go before you answer 'google it' and how you think about it, not raw knowledge
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skooma512 posted:In interviews? I mean, I'm sure one or two like that in a technical is ok, but if it was a shutout like my SQL server experience, I doubt telling them I can Google is going to help much. There’s a enormous difference in a candidate the answers a question with “I don’t know.” vs. “I don’t know but I’d google whatever and try it in my lab.”
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Dec 10, 2017 20:51
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While in general I agree that showing a willingness and capability to search for answers in an interview is a useful trait I believe that a) “I will google it” is unlikely to get you very far if that’s literally all you say. If you can’t explain what you would look for based on things you DO know then you haven’t really displayed any thing useful and b) “I would google it” is not a good response to very basic questions like “do you understand subnetting” or “do you know anything at all about SQL.”
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Dec 10, 2017 21:14
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YOLOsubmarine posted:While in general I agree that showing a willingness and capability to search for answers in an interview is a useful trait I believe that a) “I will google it” is unlikely to get you very far if that’s literally all you say. If you can’t explain what you would look for based on things you DO know then you haven’t really displayed any thing useful and b) “I would google it” is not a good response to very basic questions like “do you understand subnetting” or “do you know anything at all about SQL.” Which is what I said originally.
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Dec 10, 2017 23:08
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Yeah, I definitely said 'google' a few times in a technical interview Monday, The interviewer was cool with it, because I knew the troubleshooting steps up to that point. It's only useful when you're able to rule stuff out first - googling something like 'Outlook won't open' as step one probably would have gotten me shown the door.
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Dec 10, 2017 23:18
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If you are an interviewer and you are asking questions about Googleable pieces of information in the first place, you clearly haven't thought your questions through at all
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Dec 11, 2017 00:06
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Vulture Culture posted:If you are an interviewer and you are asking questions about Googleable pieces of information in the first place, you clearly haven't thought your questions through at all Right? My line of questioning when interviewing consists of a few questions just to make sure they weren't totally bullshitting on their resume, and then questions to see how they think and how they will interact with people. I don't give a poo poo if they have memorized some specific command line to accomplish a specific task.
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Dec 11, 2017 02:10
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My life of memorizing arbitrary Linux commands has been a mistake.
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Dec 11, 2017 03:26
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If you guys don't mind tipping your hand and giving away your secrets, what are some of your interview questions? I've basically bullshit my way through every interview for the past few years. I just ask open ended questions and let them ramble until I shut them up or show them to their desk.
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Dec 11, 2017 03:38
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:If you guys don't mind tipping your hand and giving away your secrets, what are some of your interview questions? Why should I hire you? You’ve made a mistake, what do you do?
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Dec 11, 2017 03:43
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Tab8715 posted:Why should I hire you? I read this as "why should I hire you? I've made a mistake, what did I do"
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Dec 11, 2017 03:48
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How do you split a screen in vim?
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jaegerx posted:How do you split a screen in vim? Who gives a poo poo. Use a real editor instead.
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Dec 11, 2017 04:21
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:If you guys don't mind tipping your hand and giving away your secrets, what are some of your interview questions? “You’ve been tasked to make a change to the network that you feel is incorrect, what do you do?” “A coworker isn’t pulling their own weight and the supervisor doesn’t want to notice. How do you handle the situation?” “What port is IPsec payload traffic on?”
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1) I describe a weird problem, then ask, "Can you tell me where you would start in order to diagnose this issue?" and then follow up with, "why there?" 2) When under pressure to meet a looming deadline, can you tell me if you are more likely to make compromises to get it done on time or go past the deadline to do it right? Assume there is a business reason for the deadline. Why would you go that route? 3) General conversation to gauge if they are an rear end in a top hat. Really, I try to guide the conversation to places where I can ask questions that don't have a right or wrong, but give me an opportunity to follow up with, "why?" I am mostly interested to see if I like the way they think. Obviously there are a few knowledge bullet points they need to check off, but those are easy to ask and answer.
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Proteus Jones posted:Who gives a poo poo. Use a real editor instead. If you’re a Linux tech you’ve needed to split a screen in vim at least once in your life.
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A candidate this week mentioned how they spend a ton of time "reading about technology" as part of an answer to a different question. When I asked them, they couldn't name a single site or publication that they read, a topic they like reading about, or a single thing they've read about recently. Why even say that?
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Dec 11, 2017 05:14
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I read all about tech poo poo on this comedy forum, hire me please.
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Dec 11, 2017 05:23
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I read slashdot and digg. Hire me.
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Dec 11, 2017 05:28
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I moderate a couple of IT subreddi-oh yes, I WOULD like to meet security!!
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you ate my cat posted:A candidate this week mentioned how they spend a ton of time "reading about technology" as part of an answer to a different question. When I asked them, they couldn't name a single site or publication that they read, a topic they like reading about, or a single thing they've read about recently. Why even say that? Maybe they didn't want to admit that the majority of their reading comes from these here dead comedy forums wherein a tech thread with a posting superstar named Dick Trauma exists, oh and IRC...
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you ate my cat posted:A candidate this week mentioned how they spend a ton of time "reading about technology" as part of an answer to a different question. When I asked them, they couldn't name a single site or publication that they read, a topic they like reading about, or a single thing they've read about recently. Why even say that? A guy mentioned he was very passionate in general and had a home lab in an interview recently so I asked what he was working on in his lab. He backed up and said "oh it's just under construction at the moment", great, what are you constructing. "Oh, lots of 2016 stuff". I proceeded to ask him about a bullet point on his resume and he admitted he didn't really do that, another team did, but he was across the high level of what they were doing. We're still looking. SeaborneClink posted:Maybe they didn't want to admit that the majority of their reading comes from these here dead comedy forums wherein a tech thread with a posting superstar named Dick Trauma exists, oh and IRC...
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I don’t have a home lab. I have a laptop and aws gce and DigitalOcean accounts. Please judge me.
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adorai posted:1) I describe a weird problem, then ask, "Can you tell me where you would start in order to diagnose this issue?" and then follow up with, "why there?" Just reading these gives me flashbacks to interviews. I’m also reminded of the baseline test scene in Bladerunner 2049.
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poo poo I don’t think I’ve logged into the control panel on any of them in months. Terraform and ansible all the things.
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jaegerx posted:I don’t have a home lab. I have a laptop and aws gce and DigitalOcean accounts. Please judge me. "My home lab is in the cloud" would very much be me turning to the SDM with "well it's a yes from me!" if you could describe even a single project in there. edit: this seems like a good time to post that https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/ is a choice homepage if you have cloud to butt installed.
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Cirofren posted:"My home lab is in the cloud" would very much be me turning to the SDM with "well it's a yes from me!" if you could describe even a single project in there. I’ve got a lambda app in my github to yell curse words at me on my Alexa. It’s fun to wake up to Alexa screaming obscenities.
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