What Are You Doing Right Now
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Is it just me or does every time that HPE posts that their s*** [moderated] don't stink really make me want to buy Dell? I've been a pretty big HPE guy for a pretty long time, and I'm to a point where I really don't feel comfortable using them for anything, mostly based off of their own comments on things.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Is it just me or does every time that HPE posts that their shit don't stink really make me want to buy Dell? I've been a pretty big HPE guy for a pretty long time, and I'm to a point where I really don't feel comfortable using them for anything, mostly based off of their own comments on things.
Yeah, classic bad sales minions all the way after you posted about the VMAX. I remember that story, one RAID controller shot the other one in the head, right? Then you have the Australian government, where the latest stories are reporting that they had TWO, so no SPOF, and they still went down. Two stories within a relatively short time span of VMAX going down, and they're claiming the lower end models are so much better that nobody should be worried about it.
Uhm..... color me unimpressed with their logic, here's the door, don't let it hit you on the way out. Those sales minions specifically
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You guys must be reading SW threads.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
You guys must be reading SW threads.
How'd you guess?
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
You guys must be reading SW threads.
In Motha Russia, SW reads our threads.
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Taking a break from the postfix stuff to refresh knowledge of NAT, and to learn how to configure NAT on an ASA 5505 (finally).
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Just finished a technical phone screen, I feel it went well. Fingers crossed!
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@Texkonc said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just finished a technical phone screen, I feel it went well. Fingers crossed!
Good luck.
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@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Taking a break from the postfix stuff to refresh knowledge of NAT, and to learn how to configure NAT on an ASA 5505 (finally).
Wow, how much do I despise Cisco gear..... we had an ASA something here, paid a ton of $$$$$$$$$$ to "activate" it (subscription fee BS), then discovered that after many hours of attempted configuration, it wouldn't do something we totally needed it to do.... so we have a brick worth thousands of dollars (pay the shipping and it's yours, get this POS out of my building). I'd love to see Cisco crash and burn permanently, never to return. Even if "nobody ever got fired for buying Cisco", I sincerely hope that the ones who bought it got the severe beatings they deserve.
TL;DR - Cisco can suck every kind of *** that exists. My condolences to you for having one.
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@RojoLoco I really don't understand how they get shortlisted so often. I'm sure that there are loads of times that they make sense to deploy, but I keep never finding it.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco I really don't understand how they get shortlisted so often. I'm sure that there are loads of times that they make sense to deploy, but I keep never finding it.
It's truly cathartic to see you post that. I'm not far from getting C-levels to sign off on letting me go "Office Space" on this damned Cisco garbage. I will have to try not to enjoy smashing it too much.
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@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco I really don't understand how they get shortlisted so often. I'm sure that there are loads of times that they make sense to deploy, but I keep never finding it.
It's truly cathartic to see you post that. I'm not far from getting C-levels to sign off on letting me go "Office Space" on this damned Cisco garbage. I will have to try not to enjoy smashing it too much.
http://www.smbitjournal.com/2016/10/no-one-ever-got-fired-for-buying/
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@RojoLoco I'm thankful for the networking knowledge I gained while doing my CCNA studies during my career change; however, as far as configuring / understanding-existing-configuration is concerned, this is a pain.
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@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco I'm thankful for the networking knowledge I gained while doing my CCNA studies during my career change; however, as far as configuring / understanding-existing-configuration is concerned, this is a pain.
For a regular networking guy (as in, NOT cisco based certs), the ASA series is the stuff of nightmares. If/when I smash this thing on video, I'll be forced to stay out of the shot so my arousal won't be obvious... Seriously, I can't think of anything I'd rather destroy than that friggin' POS Cisco firewall.
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Yes i also hate Cisco. the sub fees, the expense. The people that require it to connect to their networks (vzw, others). Everything about them is terrible compared to just about everything else in most situations.
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@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco I'm thankful for the networking knowledge I gained while doing my CCNA studies during my career change; however, as far as configuring / understanding-existing-configuration is concerned, this is a pain.
For a regular networking guy (as in, NOT cisco based certs), the ASA series is the stuff of nightmares. If/when I smash this thing on video, I'll be forced to stay out of the shot so my arousal won't be obvious... Seriously, I can't think of anything I'd rather destroy than that friggin' POS Cisco firewall.
ASA is the worst of it all.
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I'm working in a very simple environment. One office network and one data center network connected via VPN, and we have ASAs and Dell Switches. If I've learned anything from this gig, it's "more than just Cisco stuff can provide good network services." Albeit, we had to replace a Dell Switch because of a botched firmware upgrade, but other than that, the switch switches just as well as my cisco lab switches.
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I'm drinking a bit of this green pistachio heaven.
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Bah. N00b'd it up again and chose the wrong reply link :P.
