A bit off-topic, but what are you guys listening to while working (if you listen to anything during the day)? Looking for something new to listen to while working.
Rush Limbaugh. Oh wait...that's the person two offices down that he streams from his personal phone on high.
Also, what is it about a Monday that makes users not smart. They're fine the rest of the week generally but on Monday it seems that you have to retrain them on the easy stuff.
"He's sulking in his tent like Achilles! It's the Iliad?...from Homer?! READ A BOOK!!" -Handy
Perfect example of why documentation is great. Also the reason why my Xerox printer was messing up last week. I set the printer to a static address outside of the workstations, just like the rest of the printers. This morning it is claiming duplicate IPs. My pings respond, the web login does not but a Windows share connection requests a password but lists a hostname of a computer in the UK. Check the firewall and find out that the IP range for our VPN connections starts at the printer static IP. Nobody thought it was a good idea to write this down somewhere but seeing how we don't even have the login and passwords for all of our switches it doesn't surprise me. I just hope I never have to reconfigure them.
Because if you're going to attempt to squeeze that big black monster into your slot you will need to be able to take at least 12 inches or else you're going to have a bad time...
A bit off-topic, but what are you guys listening to while working (if you listen to anything during the day)? Looking for something new to listen to while working.
Depends on my mood, but generally I've been listening to Trance lately. No words and pounding rhythm help me focus while I'm coding.
A bit off-topic, but what are you guys listening to while working (if you listen to anything during the day)? Looking for something new to listen to while working.
Depends on my day. When I have users pissing me off, I tend to throw on Chimaira or Meshuggah, maybe a little old school Ministry or mod flanders consipracy. When I need to be hyper-focused and speedy with something really technical, I may throw on some old DnB or something like Clutch, Toadies, or Red Fang. If I'm just trying to ignore everything else around me and just multitask, I like something more heavy-shoegazer-esque like Cult of Luna, Rosetta, Isis, Mouth of the Architect, Pelican. And when I'm in a good mood, it's something like Tool, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Puscifer, White Zombie.
The people here who really know me know my mood by my music alone. Of course, due to the nature of my musical preferences, I have to keep the volume pretty low, just out of courtesy to the people who wander by. I've never really been asked to, I just know that most people don't enjoy what I do, so I try to keep that in mind.
What's great is that my boss (who shares the office with me) listens to very different music: Rush, Wilco, Yardbirds, classic rock, weird feminist type stuff like Annie DeFranco, etc. If you stand directly in between our desks to get a full audio, it's the closest thing to an aneurysm that you can safely experience. For instance, he's right now listening to something that sounds like a showtune while I'm listening to Snot... very interesting to say the least.
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While I agree that being insensitive is an issue, so is being oversensitive.
The two things that I despise the most about my job are dealing with copier purchase/support contracts/leases and Symantec Renewals. I fucking hate Symantec with an uncanny passion. Their renewals department is enough to drive one to the brinks of insanity. For the past 4 years, I have worked with them to consolidate all of our licenses to end on June 30 and get every license to finally list the correct business name since our agency changed it 7 years ago. Every year, they would forget to do something; I tried to be optimistic and look it as getting a little closer to having it all correct.
Last year, I spent over 6 months working with 5 different people (across 2 different resellers and Symantec themselves) trying to get them to correctly take care of it all. During that time, two people had their employment terminated for whatever reason and I wasn't informed, which involved several weeks of unanswered emails and phone calls. So I had to start the process over each time with each person telling me that I had to pay the full price instead of the renewal price because the licenses were technically expired; each time, it would take over a week of emails and phone calls to get them to understand the situation, which involved me having to prove that someone screwed up and they need to take care of it. Each time, I was misquoted for one item here and one item there and then saying that another item was never purchased in the past... It was pure madness.
Fast forward to today. Usually, Symantec sends reminders about 2-3 months prior to a support contract expiring, which did not happen. Fine, whatever, let's just get this over with because everything should be set this time around. Nope, no sir, but of course not. I'm looking directly at the last PO which shows the purchase of 14 support licenses. They're trying to tell me that I only have 10. Thus begins Act III of my eternal battle saga with Symantec. I already pulled all of my support for their shitty Endpoint product. Next chance I get, I'm getting rid of every Symantec product possible.
Moral of the story: if you every have the option to choose between Symantec and another product, choose the other product. Once you are in, they know how big of a pain in the ass it is to switch backup and AV products, so they fuck with you until you just get fed up and pay the money they would like instead of the money they deserve. *deep breath* I despise them sooooo dearly
While I agree that being insensitive is an issue, so is being oversensitive.
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There are a bunch of other products out there, but can't give a viable option off the top of my head. We've been making a hard push for the cloud lately, and we're hoping to start going to a cloud backup for the weekly backups and just stick with differential local backups. I just honestly feel completely tooled over and betrayed by Symantec with how they've treated us over the last 10 years. At this point, almost anything is better. It's not like we're a big shop: 15 servers with 2 TB of data. With that in mind, I think there are a lot of options available on a small business level that we could try out without busting our budget into pieces.
While I agree that being insensitive is an issue, so is being oversensitive.
Speaking of AV: We're in the process of moving from Kaspersky to Vipre (through GFI MAX). I'll let you guys know how it works out.
Kaspersky is a solid antivirus but tends to hog a bunch of resources and needs babysitting to be happy. The GFI solution removes the need for an AV server (av client connects to the cloud and reports to us) and is cheaper. We'll see how it stands against Kaspersky's spotless protection record though.
We have ESET NOD32 AV, used to be Symantec and then the other IT guy went with ESET since he liked it. For backups I might check out the MS one once out Backup Exec runs out.
Because if you're going to attempt to squeeze that big black monster into your slot you will need to be able to take at least 12 inches or else you're going to have a bad time...
We have ESET NOD32 AV, used to be Symantec and then the other IT guy went with ESET since he liked it. For backups I might check out the MS one once out Backup Exec runs out.
Hmm that ESET looks nice.
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ESET is pretty good AV but you might wanna check out their support forums for any weird bugs; their v4(?) GUI did strange things on server 2003 sometimes and I dunno if that ever got fixed.
I'm running on 4.x and haven't seen any issues. The remote admin console is nice and gives a ton of information. I don't think we have any sort of support contract since we haven't had any real issues. There seems to be a good amount of info on their forums though.
Because if you're going to attempt to squeeze that big black monster into your slot you will need to be able to take at least 12 inches or else you're going to have a bad time...
Fantastic. I was just informed that one of our executives is quite unhappy with me because I constantly recuse myself from any chit-chat conversations with her (I find her very rude and condescending). I've maintained a professional approach by trying to email but I never get any responses. Now I'm told that I need to go use my "southern charm like crazy" on her. Basically I have to start kissing her ass in order to maintain good relations with the executive staff. *sigh* Know what this all started with? I think fighting belongs in hockey; she does not. That's it. Seriously, it's that stupid. She basically just laughed in my face, told me I was an idiot and that I needed to grow up (without using exact words), so I don't have casual conversations with her anymore and that's why I'm in trouble.
While I agree that being insensitive is an issue, so is being oversensitive.
Fantastic. I was just informed that one of our executives is quite unhappy with me because I constantly recuse myself from any chit-chat conversations with her (I find her very rude and condescending). I've maintained a professional approach by trying to email but I never get any responses. Now I'm told that I need to go use my "southern charm like crazy" on her. Basically I have to start kissing her ass in order to maintain good relations with the executive staff. *sigh* Know what this all started with? I think fighting belongs in hockey; she does not. That's it. Seriously, it's that stupid. She basically just laughed in my face, told me I was an idiot and that I needed to grow up (without using exact words), so I don't have casual conversations with her anymore and that's why I'm in trouble.
Fantastic. I was just informed that one of our executives is quite unhappy with me because I constantly recuse myself from any chit-chat conversations with her (I find her very rude and condescending). I've maintained a professional approach by trying to email but I never get any responses. Now I'm told that I need to go use my "southern charm like crazy" on her. Basically I have to start kissing her ass in order to maintain good relations with the executive staff. *sigh* Know what this all started with? I think fighting belongs in hockey; she does not. That's it. Seriously, it's that stupid. She basically just laughed in my face, told me I was an idiot and that I needed to grow up (without using exact words), so I don't have casual conversations with her anymore and that's why I'm in trouble.
What about boxing?
GROW UP SON.
Honestly, you should get another job. This would be the point I walk out on a job. Or, alternatively, not give a fuck and shrug because people will have opinions no matter what.
You talking to her? Not going to change a damn thing, she's already made up her mind about you. All you're going to do is reaffirm to her that she's the boss and you will do anything to kiss her ass.
Fuck that, you're my peer, respect me or go pound sand. I'm a pretty angry guy sometimes, though.
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So does amazon's OpsWorks only automatically update your custom chef recipes before running other recipes if it's been some certain amount of time?
I updated a recipe, pushed to github, told opsworks to run only that recipe and it pulled down the update and ran it. I fucked it up though, so I fixed it, pushed to github again, and told opsworks to repeat the deployment. This time it did not pull down my most recent update, it just kept re-running the old broken one until I manually told it to update custom recipes.
I could be. I did this OpsWorks ->My Stack -> Deployments -> Run Command
Then selected "execute recipes" and typed in the recipe and selected the layers to run it on. This worked the first time and used my updated cookbooks.
After that, after pushing updated cookbooks to github, rather than pulling down the new updates it just kept running that previous one. From the Run Command screen I had to select "Update Custom Cookbooks" and run that first, then "Execute Recipes". So it seems like maybe if you haven't executed recipes in X minutes/hours/days/somethings it will automatically update custom cookbooks, but if that has happened to recently then you have to manually do it. I'm just trying to verify that because that's what happened, but the opsworks docs say it never automatically updates. I've checked the history to make sure I didn't just accidentally tell it to update the cookbooks.
It's not a big deal, I'm just confused as to why it worked once without me telling it to update the cookbooks but not after that.
Fantastic. I was just informed that one of our executives is quite unhappy with me because I constantly recuse myself from any chit-chat conversations with her (I find her very rude and condescending). I've maintained a professional approach by trying to email but I never get any responses. Now I'm told that I need to go use my "southern charm like crazy" on her. Basically I have to start kissing her ass in order to maintain good relations with the executive staff. *sigh* Know what this all started with? I think fighting belongs in hockey; she does not. That's it. Seriously, it's that stupid. She basically just laughed in my face, told me I was an idiot and that I needed to grow up (without using exact words), so I don't have casual conversations with her anymore and that's why I'm in trouble.
What about boxing?
GROW UP SON.
Honestly, you should get another job. This would be the point I walk out on a job. Or, alternatively, not give a fuck and shrug because people will have opinions no matter what.
You talking to her? Not going to change a damn thing, she's already made up her mind about you. All you're going to do is reaffirm to her that she's the boss and you will do anything to kiss her ass.
Fuck that, you're my peer, respect me or go pound sand. I'm a pretty angry guy sometimes, though.
I need to retain this job until the Fall. I have one surgery left (planning for end of August, as I'm still recovering from the last one), and then I'll be heading out. Essentially, I just have to appease her enough so that she stops complaining to my superiors. Make them happy, and things are easier. Regardless, it's all rather stupid and childish.
While I agree that being insensitive is an issue, so is being oversensitive.
What's great is that my boss (who shares the office with me) listens to very different music: Rush, Wilco, Yardbirds, classic rock, weird feminist type stuff like Annie DeFranco, etc. If you stand directly in between our desks to get a full audio, it's the closest thing to an aneurysm that you can safely experience. For instance, he's right now listening to something that sounds like a showtune while I'm listening to Snot... very interesting to say the least.
Despite our audio differences, we just found a common ground: Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack. We both got all excited when More than a Woman came on and are looking forward to Night on Disco Mountain, followed by the 10:00+ rendition of Disco Inferno. Whomever thought that 70s Disco could help bridge a generation gap?
While I agree that being insensitive is an issue, so is being oversensitive.
One of the best perks of my job, being able to go through the scrap steel area and get all of the steel I need to weld myself 3 brackets for storing the hay elevator in my barn.
Because if you're going to attempt to squeeze that big black monster into your slot you will need to be able to take at least 12 inches or else you're going to have a bad time...
Fantastic. I was just informed that one of our executives is quite unhappy with me because I constantly recuse myself from any chit-chat conversations with her (I find her very rude and condescending). I've maintained a professional approach by trying to email but I never get any responses. Now I'm told that I need to go use my "southern charm like crazy" on her. Basically I have to start kissing her ass in order to maintain good relations with the executive staff. *sigh* Know what this all started with? I think fighting belongs in hockey; she does not. That's it. Seriously, it's that stupid. She basically just laughed in my face, told me I was an idiot and that I needed to grow up (without using exact words), so I don't have casual conversations with her anymore and that's why I'm in trouble.
What about boxing?
GROW UP SON.
Honestly, you should get another job. This would be the point I walk out on a job. Or, alternatively, not give a fuck and shrug because people will have opinions no matter what.
You talking to her? Not going to change a damn thing, she's already made up her mind about you. All you're going to do is reaffirm to her that she's the boss and you will do anything to kiss her ass.
Fuck that, you're my peer, respect me or go pound sand. I'm a pretty angry guy sometimes, though.
Get all that in writing so when you are fired you can sue the shit out of them.
One of the best perks of my job, being able to go through the scrap steel area and get all of the steel I need to weld myself 3 brackets for storing the hay elevator in my barn.
One of the best perks of my job, being able to go through the scrap steel area and get all of the steel I need to weld myself 3 brackets for storing the hay elevator in my barn.
Own a farm with not enough storage for equipment. Hay elevator is currently taking up half of the aisle in the barn. Easiest way to get it out of my way is to pully it up to the ceiling and hang it on some brackets. 3/4 of my work is a machine shop and they toss out a ton of scrap metal.
Because if you're going to attempt to squeeze that big black monster into your slot you will need to be able to take at least 12 inches or else you're going to have a bad time...
Here's a hiring question for anyone who's responsible for hiring: is it a must for an applicant to have a LinkedIn profile?
I've spoken with a few people who've stated that if an applicant doesn't have a LinkedIn profile, it causes employers to be skeptical, like "What is he/she hiding?" One person even stated that their employer won't consider someone at all if they don't have a LinkedIn profile, which I find ridiculous.
I got rid of mine a while back because it's basically just a social networking platform masked by being a professional. I was sick and tired of all these random friend requests, requests of people I used to work with that I would rather never have known, and stupid "Happy Anniversary" posts from people when it was my employment "anniversary." I just find the whole thing to be a big waste of time and incredibly lame. What I find is even more annoying is that some co-workers act all "Facebook and Twitter are for childish people with too much time," yet I see them on LinkedIn constantly. They'll lurk around trying to find out what people are doing and who else they can invite to their circle. And then if you don't accept a co-worker's friend request, they get all huffy-puffy; as I've stated before, I don't add co-workers to my Facebook account.
Anywho, I'm asking because I'm trying to prepare for the job searching and don't want to screw myself over because of my desire to not be involved in another social networking site. If it comes down to it and I have to, then whatever and I'll just have to suck it up.
While I agree that being insensitive is an issue, so is being oversensitive.
Any employer who worries about what social media someone has - I don't even know. Who gives a shit?
It's not their business, and I won't put their business on my Facebook/whatever.
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Really depends on the employer. The more extraneous stuff they "demand" ,the more likely it is they're either attempting to screen 500 potentials for easy ways into the trash or that they're not really that serious about filling the position.
I have told interviewers to their face that I won't give them my Facebook information because its personal and not professional. I was then not hired for said positions.
Sooooo...Win some, lose some?
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Really depends on the employer. The more extraneous stuff they "demand" ,the more likely it is they're either attempting to screen 500 potentials for easy ways into the trash or that they're not really that serious about filling the position.
I have told interviewers to their face that I won't give them my Facebook information because its personal and not professional. I was then not hired for said positions.
Sooooo...Win some, lose some?
That's 100% a "win some" situation. If my Facebook/Twitter/MySpace/Geocities accounts are a problem, then so is my entire personal-life. Employers are just completely overstepping their bounds in an economy that's been absolute shit for the lower and middle classes, so they feel they can get away with it. I know at least one state has (or tried) to outlaw that. I think it might've been Maryland.
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Rush Limbaugh. Oh wait...that's the person two offices down that he streams from his personal phone on high.
Also, what is it about a Monday that makes users not smart. They're fine the rest of the week generally but on Monday it seems that you have to retrain them on the easy stuff.
Depends on my mood, but generally I've been listening to Trance lately. No words and pounding rhythm help me focus while I'm coding.
These guys make some good mixes:
http://www.youtube.com/user/emncTV
The people here who really know me know my mood by my music alone. Of course, due to the nature of my musical preferences, I have to keep the volume pretty low, just out of courtesy to the people who wander by. I've never really been asked to, I just know that most people don't enjoy what I do, so I try to keep that in mind.
What's great is that my boss (who shares the office with me) listens to very different music: Rush, Wilco, Yardbirds, classic rock, weird feminist type stuff like Annie DeFranco, etc. If you stand directly in between our desks to get a full audio, it's the closest thing to an aneurysm that you can safely experience. For instance, he's right now listening to something that sounds like a showtune while I'm listening to Snot... very interesting to say the least.
We opened a little more than 140,000 last year.
Last year, I spent over 6 months working with 5 different people (across 2 different resellers and Symantec themselves) trying to get them to correctly take care of it all. During that time, two people had their employment terminated for whatever reason and I wasn't informed, which involved several weeks of unanswered emails and phone calls. So I had to start the process over each time with each person telling me that I had to pay the full price instead of the renewal price because the licenses were technically expired; each time, it would take over a week of emails and phone calls to get them to understand the situation, which involved me having to prove that someone screwed up and they need to take care of it. Each time, I was misquoted for one item here and one item there and then saying that another item was never purchased in the past... It was pure madness.
Fast forward to today. Usually, Symantec sends reminders about 2-3 months prior to a support contract expiring, which did not happen. Fine, whatever, let's just get this over with because everything should be set this time around. Nope, no sir, but of course not. I'm looking directly at the last PO which shows the purchase of 14 support licenses. They're trying to tell me that I only have 10. Thus begins Act III of my eternal battle saga with Symantec. I already pulled all of my support for their shitty Endpoint product. Next chance I get, I'm getting rid of every Symantec product possible.
Moral of the story: if you every have the option to choose between Symantec and another product, choose the other product. Once you are in, they know how big of a pain in the ass it is to switch backup and AV products, so they fuck with you until you just get fed up and pay the money they would like instead of the money they deserve. *deep breath* I despise them sooooo dearly
Starting with server 2008, the windows server backup is pretty good and will do if you're on a microbudget.
Kaspersky is a solid antivirus but tends to hog a bunch of resources and needs babysitting to be happy. The GFI solution removes the need for an AV server (av client connects to the cloud and reports to us) and is cheaper. We'll see how it stands against Kaspersky's spotless protection record though.
Hmm that ESET looks nice.
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Wow. Just wow. That sucks man.
(And I think fighting does belong in hockey too)
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What about boxing?
GROW UP SON.
Honestly, you should get another job. This would be the point I walk out on a job. Or, alternatively, not give a fuck and shrug because people will have opinions no matter what.
You talking to her? Not going to change a damn thing, she's already made up her mind about you. All you're going to do is reaffirm to her that she's the boss and you will do anything to kiss her ass.
Fuck that, you're my peer, respect me or go pound sand. I'm a pretty angry guy sometimes, though.
I updated a recipe, pushed to github, told opsworks to run only that recipe and it pulled down the update and ran it. I fucked it up though, so I fixed it, pushed to github again, and told opsworks to repeat the deployment. This time it did not pull down my most recent update, it just kept re-running the old broken one until I manually told it to update custom recipes.
Then selected "execute recipes" and typed in the recipe and selected the layers to run it on. This worked the first time and used my updated cookbooks.
After that, after pushing updated cookbooks to github, rather than pulling down the new updates it just kept running that previous one. From the Run Command screen I had to select "Update Custom Cookbooks" and run that first, then "Execute Recipes". So it seems like maybe if you haven't executed recipes in X minutes/hours/days/somethings it will automatically update custom cookbooks, but if that has happened to recently then you have to manually do it. I'm just trying to verify that because that's what happened, but the opsworks docs say it never automatically updates. I've checked the history to make sure I didn't just accidentally tell it to update the cookbooks.
It's not a big deal, I'm just confused as to why it worked once without me telling it to update the cookbooks but not after that.
Get all that in writing so when you are fired you can sue the shit out of them.
Also, your boss is most likely a pansy.
You are not a typical systems administrator.
You know who else wanted to do away with fights in hockey?
I've spoken with a few people who've stated that if an applicant doesn't have a LinkedIn profile, it causes employers to be skeptical, like "What is he/she hiding?" One person even stated that their employer won't consider someone at all if they don't have a LinkedIn profile, which I find ridiculous.
I got rid of mine a while back because it's basically just a social networking platform masked by being a professional. I was sick and tired of all these random friend requests, requests of people I used to work with that I would rather never have known, and stupid "Happy Anniversary" posts from people when it was my employment "anniversary." I just find the whole thing to be a big waste of time and incredibly lame. What I find is even more annoying is that some co-workers act all "Facebook and Twitter are for childish people with too much time," yet I see them on LinkedIn constantly. They'll lurk around trying to find out what people are doing and who else they can invite to their circle. And then if you don't accept a co-worker's friend request, they get all huffy-puffy; as I've stated before, I don't add co-workers to my Facebook account.
Anywho, I'm asking because I'm trying to prepare for the job searching and don't want to screw myself over because of my desire to not be involved in another social networking site. If it comes down to it and I have to, then whatever and I'll just have to suck it up.
It's not their business, and I won't put their business on my Facebook/whatever.
I have told interviewers to their face that I won't give them my Facebook information because its personal and not professional. I was then not hired for said positions.
Sooooo...Win some, lose some?
That's 100% a "win some" situation. If my Facebook/Twitter/MySpace/Geocities accounts are a problem, then so is my entire personal-life. Employers are just completely overstepping their bounds in an economy that's been absolute shit for the lower and middle classes, so they feel they can get away with it. I know at least one state has (or tried) to outlaw that. I think it might've been Maryland.