What Are You Doing Right Now
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
What drives me crazy isn't how little people know about IT basics (doesn't know that he needs to specify his OS, doesn't know that he needs to specify a version, doesn't know that teaming is not a single thing, doesn't know how to team on his OS, thinks that virtualization is silly and not needed, thinks teaming is done on the hardware and on and on...) but then goes to a community that he's clearly never read and asks for basic "I dont' know what I'm doing at all" level advice and then totally disregards advice when given. I think we call this an ask-hole.
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1989042-nic-teaming-on-hp-proliant-dl360e-gen8
12 years in IT, eh? I kinda think that is long enough to have learned the difference between incoming and outgoing NICs...
...Further proof that most of the credentials claimed by SW members are total BS.
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@RojoLoco ! I just now viewed his profile.
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@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
What drives me crazy isn't how little people know about IT basics (doesn't know that he needs to specify his OS, doesn't know that he needs to specify a version, doesn't know that teaming is not a single thing, doesn't know how to team on his OS, thinks that virtualization is silly and not needed, thinks teaming is done on the hardware and on and on...) but then goes to a community that he's clearly never read and asks for basic "I dont' know what I'm doing at all" level advice and then totally disregards advice when given. I think we call this an ask-hole.
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1989042-nic-teaming-on-hp-proliant-dl360e-gen8
Bah! You beat me to commenting about the inbound and outbound NICS :P. Reading something like that is what's needed on a day when you think you know nothing.
LOL, yeah. I mean everyone has their gaps, but how you react to advice and stuff matters. But seriously, it drives me crazy when people pop in to ask a question and are clearly way in over their heads, but still act all self righteous and don't listed to advice. And it isn't like this is just my advice, he's clearly never read a single thread on the subject. How lazy does he have to be to be doing this as a job and have researched so little and then react that way to people trying to help?
His post does strike me as "please do my homework k thx." I'd be happier to see "I've read X, Y, and Z, and I still don't get it. Please help deliver me from cluelessness."
Yes, exactly. There are good ways to approach this like "I'm so confused. This is what I came up with, how far off am I?"
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@Texkonc said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
What drives me crazy isn't how little people know about IT basics (doesn't know that he needs to specify his OS, doesn't know that he needs to specify a version, doesn't know that teaming is not a single thing, doesn't know how to team on his OS, thinks that virtualization is silly and not needed, thinks teaming is done on the hardware and on and on...) but then goes to a community that he's clearly never read and asks for basic "I dont' know what I'm doing at all" level advice and then totally disregards advice when given. I think we call this an ask-hole.
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1989042-nic-teaming-on-hp-proliant-dl360e-gen8
He never claimed that he like physical, you assume that. I get why he wants the security camera on a spare hardware so it doesnt tax the the others software on the older machine.
He never said he hate virtualization. You assume that since he didnt mention it and talks about moving it off another system.No, I assumed that because he explicitly gave "don't want to tax other systems" as a reason to be on bare metal - which makes no sense at all. He responded to me asking why it wasn't virtual with that, which is gibberish because those reasons don't suggest bare metal at all.
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I don't think he really has any concept of modern IT. Probably mostly just the old stuff they teach you in class that's not really relevant anymore.
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So Jira just got classified as a total fail. Moving on to Asana.
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@Tim_G said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I don't think he really has any concept of modern IT. Probably mostly just the old stuff they teach you in class that's not really relevant anymore.
That would explain the virtualization. But he should have known how to ask questions, how to look things up, how to listen to advice (he improved in later posts, at least) and the Ethernet bit he should have already known.
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My head hurts now.
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Me whenever @scottalanmiller jumps into a discussion involving installing to bare metal:
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faceplants on desk
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@Kelly said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Me whenever @scottalanmiller jumps into a discussion
involving installing to bare metal:FTFY. lol.
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@scottalanmiller I was this guy not too long ago and sometimes I revert back to being this guy now. I think if you listed what the benefits of virtualization are he would be more receptive as he most likely doesn't know them, kind of like if you started talking in-depth about SAN's to me--I'd have very little to add and I probably wouldn't understand most of it. I don't get the impression that this guy is trying to be bad at receiving help even though he is, just like I am sometimes even though I don't mean to be. It's just a matter of ignorance.
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His About Me says it all.
"Overall daily management of the IT department where I'm a one man IT team that daydreams of Body Surfing and sip'n margaritas by the pool.
I'm told all the time that i'm NOT your typical IT guy and I like that."
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Not typical has in "you have no clue how insane you really are".
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@Kelly One of his biggest triggers for sure lol
btw @scottalanmiller I have a need for high throughput on a production application server housing 75 TB. My best practice Raid 5 configuration is really going to shine
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Kelly One of his biggest triggers for sure lol
btw @scottalanmiller I have a need for high throughput on a production application server housing 75 TB. My best practice Raid 5 configuration is really going to shine
RAID0 would be so much faster!
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller I was this guy not too long ago and sometimes I revert back to being this guy now. I think if you listed what the benefits of virtualization are he would be more receptive as he most likely doesn't know them, kind of like if you started talking in-depth about SAN's to me--I'd have very little to add and I probably wouldn't understand most of it. I don't get the impression that this guy is trying to be bad at receiving help even though he is, just like I am sometimes even though I don't mean to be. It's just a matter of ignorance.
Problem is, it's not my job to explain the same basics over and over again. They are well documented and he's a decade past it being okay to make this mistake. Really, explaining it without someone asking is quite condescending. If he disagrees with the industry, he's free to ask and that's the proper response.
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Kelly One of his biggest triggers for sure lol
btw @scottalanmiller I have a need for high throughput on a production application server housing 75 TB. My best practice Raid 5 configuration is really going to shine
RAID0 would be so much faster!
75 TB is a lot of data to RAID... Anything over 12 TB shouldn't be raided and should be just straight pass-through and set up as individual drives.
Edit: not serious!!!!
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@Tim_G said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Kelly One of his biggest triggers for sure lol
btw @scottalanmiller I have a need for high throughput on a production application server housing 75 TB. My best practice Raid 5 configuration is really going to shine
RAID0 would be so much faster!
75 TB is a lot of data to RAID... Anything over 12 TB shouldn't be raided and should be just straight pass-through and set up as individual drives.
We've been on this forum for awhile now and we know when each other is being sarcastic but it doesnt translate well in text. Sorry!
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@Tim_G said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Kelly One of his biggest triggers for sure lol
btw @scottalanmiller I have a need for high throughput on a production application server housing 75 TB. My best practice Raid 5 configuration is really going to shine
RAID0 would be so much faster!
75 TB is a lot of data to RAID... Anything over 12 TB shouldn't be raided and should be just straight pass-through and set up as individual drives.
and you have a great beard. I didnt realize it before i saw that spiceworks thread
