What Are You Doing Right Now
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@johnhooks said:
@dafyre said:
@johnhooks said:
Well I could either be a savior there or it would be terrible. I can't tell yet.
A case of walking on water or swimming like a rock?
Moreso save them or be pigeonholed and not able to help them. They use virtualbox for their Virtualization. All windows servers are physical and they are running virtualbox on those.
The guy told me that Xen/XenServer and KVM were not good (I really don't think he's ever even heard of them but only said that when I mentioned them), and they don't have enough money to use them..........
He told me he's used Linux since 0.99 (I think it was a joke? But with him I'm not sure) and he kept saying he wants to use pfsebse for everything, but currently they're using off the shelf netgear stuff....
Doesn't even sound like an IT shop, sounds like some kid whose never been around IT trying to set things up off of things he say on a TV show.
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@Dashrender said:
@johnhooks said:
@dafyre said:
@johnhooks said:
Well I could either be a savior there or it would be terrible. I can't tell yet.
A case of walking on water or swimming like a rock?
Moreso save them or be pigeonholed and not able to help them. They use virtualbox for their Virtualization. All windows servers are physical and they are running virtualbox on those.
The guy told me that Xen/XenServer and KVM were not good (I really don't think he's ever even heard of them but only said that when I mentioned them), and they don't have enough money to use them..........
He told me he's used Linux since 0.99 (I think it was a joke? But with him I'm not sure) and he kept saying he wants to use pfsebse for everything, but currently they're using off the shelf netgear stuff....
huh - what would your position be? If you're under the guy who told you that - I think I'd have to run away. I suppose you could have a frank conversation with him. "Listen, I really like what I see in your company, but man, your IT stuff really is just not up to current standards. In order for me to take this position I'd have to have budgetary control of IT and autonomy." Without something like that is sounds like this guy would just run you into the ground.
Good luck.
Not up to any standards. Current not even being in question.
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@johnhooks said:
@Dashrender said:
@johnhooks said:
@dafyre said:
@johnhooks said:
Well I could either be a savior there or it would be terrible. I can't tell yet.
A case of walking on water or swimming like a rock?
Moreso save them or be pigeonholed and not able to help them. They use virtualbox for their Virtualization. All windows servers are physical and they are running virtualbox on those.
The guy told me that Xen/XenServer and KVM were not good (I really don't think he's ever even heard of them but only said that when I mentioned them), and they don't have enough money to use them..........
He told me he's used Linux since 0.99 (I think it was a joke? But with him I'm not sure) and he kept saying he wants to use pfsebse for everything, but currently they're using off the shelf netgear stuff....
huh - what would your position be? If you're under the guy who told you that - I think I'd have to run away. I suppose you could have a frank conversation with him. "Listen, I really like what I see in your company, but man, your IT stuff really is just not up to current standards. In order for me to take this position I'd have to have budgetary control of IT and autonomy." Without something like that is sounds like this guy would just run you into the ground.
Good luck.
That's kind of what I'm thinking. I have to see what the pay is. The job is an "IT Specialist" but they advertised they wanted Linux experience which is why I applied. It's a 90% windows shop so I don't know why they advertised that, because from how he described it they aren't going to change that. So unless the pay is out of this world, I think the decision has been made for me.
Even then, at best I'd think it would be a stop gap job. Bad shops are bad shops. The only case where bad shops make sense is when they are clearing house, actively eliminating the people who did things poorly and trying to bring you in to fix it or as part of the fix. If the top down management isn't aware that their IT is screwing the pooch and taken them for a ride then you are walking into both bad IT as well as bad management - that's not something that you can fix or will improve with time.
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Got my SW Inbox down to 740 thus far. It's barely onto 38 pages now, was 54+ when I started.
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First snow day of the year... At least for one school system in the house. Looking to see if the other school is out today also. .. And we are suppose to get more Friday.
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@gjacobse said:
First snow day of the year... At least for one school system in the house. Looking to see if the other school is out today also. .. And we are suppose to get more Friday.
Sounds like a MineCraft day to me!
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@mlnews said:
@gjacobse said:
First snow day of the year... At least for one school system in the house. Looking to see if the other school is out today also. .. And we are suppose to get more Friday.
Sounds like a MineCraft day to me!
ould be... But the deal is he can't get the PC version yet... but di does have the iPad PE version..
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Which we have a server for. He could go there and build and build like crazy
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@scottalanmiller said:
Which we have a server for. He could go there and build and build like crazy
he has about 30 worlds on his iPad.. trust me,.. he builds...
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Looks like someone with a bad professor and no idea how to do their homework: http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1399889-perl-script
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This one is a bit funny...
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Debating.
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I'm looking at a dead Kingston SSDNow 300, good thing they have a 5 year warranty, bad thing the employee didn't have a backup.
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@DustinB3403 said:
I'm looking at a dead Kingston SSDNow 300, good thing they have a 5 year warranty, bad thing the employee didn't have a backup.
Worse thing, employee was saving important things on their desktop computer, not the server.
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Personal computer.
So I doubt they have a server at their home.. but yeah.
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@DustinB3403 said:
Personal computer.
So I doubt they have a server at their home.. but yeah.
Oh, the work employee threw me - thought this was an office worker device, not a personal home device.
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@Dashrender said:
Worse thing, employee was saving important things on their desktop computer, not the server.
Easy now. It happens.
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@BRRABill said:
@Dashrender said:
Worse thing, employee was saving important things on their desktop computer, not the server.
Easy now. It happens.
Tell me about it - My boss is doing it RIGHT NOW! no matter how many times I tell her that if her system dies, the data is losts, she still has at least a few things that live on her desktop.
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I'm waiting for the scp of the backup vm to finish up, so I can latter import it to the XenServer. waiting.... waiting... waiting... 700GB over a Gb network link.
