Best posts made by quicky2g

Maybe I should move to Colorado and work for Webroot...

http://www.webroot.com/us/en/company/careers/

https://hiring.accolo.com/jobs/Broomfield/Colorado/Network_Engineer/386572935/job.htm

I bet he was drinking PBR. He's white trash and in trouble lol

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Throw "Senior" somewhere in the title or a higher number like IT Specialist 2 to show some seniority. Always looks good on a resume.

I used iPhone and Android extensively over the years...jailbroken, rooted, etc. Hardware advantage seems to fluctuate. Apple seems to have less bloatware in general (Excluding the Nexus phones).

I think file system management and video file playback is the biggest deal breaker for me. I just can't stand converting a video file in iTunes. Why can't I easily copy over the original video file and just play it?!

Also love programs like FolderSync where you can backup pictures and other files to a network share on a schedule without cloud services like Dropbox or Google Drive. I even did SSH port forwarding on my router so I can sync with SFTP to my Linux server when I'm away from home.

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I believe everyone is at fault here, the son, the father, and AT&T. Everyone already mentioned why the father and son our at fault, but AT&T should have proactive monitors that send out redflags once a data bill hits a certain threshold. Especially if the family's typical phone bill is $150 and all the sudden is $2000. That should send a redflag somewhere and something should be done to ensure the customer really wants to accept the outrageous data charges.

But they did, right?

a single text message

how much hounding does one need. The message was sent and received and they didn't care. I don't see how AT&T has any more responsibility here. They have the status on the phone itself, they have an account status AND a courtesy, but unnecessary, text alert that they were being foolish. How many layers must AT&T do?

I would think an alert at every GB over the limit would be appreciated by customers.

I don't think that it would. Maybe some, but only some. And whether or not it would be appreciated doesn't in any way make AT&T at fault.

What I would like to see is companies give their customers the options of what to do when data runs out.

"You have met your data cap What would you like to do?"

1. Continue using data (warning, you will be charged per GB of data you use!)
2. Upgrade to next tier of data plan
3. Disable data until your next billing cycle.

I get text messages from Verizon at 75, 80, and 95%, so that is kinda option 1. They actually offer the upgrade to next data tier option via text message, but not the option to disable my data.

But I can do all of that with my phone now, right? It would be a redundant service?

You say that like redundancy is a bad thing.

And sure -- you and I know how to go into our phones and turn off the data bits until we want them on. However, the average user may or may not know this. If the carrier can do it, why not let them do it for those who can't be bothered to do it, or don't know how to google for it?

Because it isn't their job to do it

Why isn't it? They are the service provider. They would come out the hero in this case. AT & T could have "saved" their customer from their kid and disabled data, rather than giving the customer a heart attack by way of a $2k bill.

I seriously doubt they'll want to stay with AT&T after paying $2k.

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A "System Administrator" manages a system
A "Network Administrator" manages a network

Administrator means you manage everything.

Networks are systems - unless you only manage networks then I wouldn't go with network administrator, I'd instead go with systems administrator because that covers everything.

I've seen piles of systems admins that barely have a clue what a VLAN does.

OOOOOoooooo me!!!! lol

Holding out for Samsung Galaxy S7+. Upgrading from Galaxy Note 3. Hoping for a 6inch screen, SnapDragon 820, 4-6GB RAM, SD card slot (Can't believe they removed it in Galaxy S6 and Note 5), plus fingerprint and iris scanner.

Anyone get a new phone for Christmas???

My girlfriend lost 50 pounds last year in about 2 months. She cleans houses for a living so she's already very active. The difference was food prep and doing the Insanity workout. She pre-made all her meals and snacks on Sunday so during the week she had healthy stuff to eat instead of junk food. It's so easy to get busy with life and default to crappy food and eat too much of it. The food part coupled with Insanity made her shed the weight really fast. We went on runs together a few times a week too. The healthy food made my energy level go up and my heartburn went down. It's too bad her back got injured...slipped disc. Chiropractor got her better but we lost the routine and she lost motivation for the food prep.

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@Kelly said:

Scott, something that makes these discussions with you more difficult is that you appear to consider your experience to be normative, and it is anything but. Perhaps I'm misinterpreting your comments, but in this, and other threads, it comes off that way.

I have the same issue with many of the people on SW - I've worked with thousands (literally) of people with specific titles, no enterprise barrier, pay scales ... all that are defined as "impossible" by the SW crowd. Which is more accurate... a few thousand people saying that something is impossible or a few thousand people proving that it is very possible and not even realizing that it was considered "hard" by the other group?

Reminds me of how screwed up the health care website was when it first launched and how Google and a few others wanted to fix it because it wasn't an impossible task for them but was for others.

@gjacobse said:

Might get one,.. most likely be the Apple model since we have had a Apple since the 3gs.. and since we still have the full AT&T unlimited plan (though it went up).. likely to stay there too.

I was on the AT&T unlimited for a while too. Had a work discount and was paying $105/month for a phone and tablet with 450 minutes. My data usage was only 2.5GB max on 1 month in 2014. Switched to the mobile share plan. Unlimited minutes, text, and messaging. Did the 4GB plan but support gave me 6GB for $5 less for being a "loyal customer". Also has rollover data so I usually have 10-12GB per month. Only paying $75 total now. Might be worth looking into if you don't have high data use like me.

Which do you like more and why?

Excellent! Exactly what I was looking for! Thanks!

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I'm really liking how easy it is to setup. Just want to see some security review by a trusted security person before I go ahead and roll it out. Anyone seen a review on it from someone like Steve Gibson, Brian Krebs, or the like?

If you haven't read up in the FAQ yet, check it out here: https://www.zerotier.com/tech_faq.shtml -- especially the security section.

What kind of use case are you seeing for it?

I did Wireshark on the traffic yesterday. All I saw was encrypted data inside a UDP packet. Not sure if there are any vulnerabilities or security holes in the dependent applications.

@Minion-Queen said:

Most of our meals will be at the Hotel and let me tell you the food is good. Even the Gluten Free is good! The Chef and I are working on the menu to include lots of Mango goodness There will be some time to explore some awesome places to eat.

There will be of course a trip down the road to Nick Tahou's (sorry due to the amount of people flying in getting to Steve T's would be expensive).

Dinosaur BBQ is walking distance from there. There isn't really anything in Rochester that has better BBQ. Worth the walk from the hotel.

@scottalanmiller said:

Family Guy. SP is okay but it doesn't draw me in. I can't figure out why I love one and find the other mostly boring. I love SP the Movie and think the creators are brilliant and find it hilarious from time to time, but mostly I don't find it interesting. FG I love every single time. They are both rude, crass, political, social, have the same underlying motivations, have intelligent but gross humour, etc. So I have never figured out, other than the artwork, why I like one and not the other generally.

It almost comes down to Stewie vs. Cartman lol

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Ease of use and channel selection is why I haven't left cable yet.

Those are exactly the reasons I don't have cable/satellite anymore.

it wasn't easy to use?

Not really. Content was very hard to find when I wanted it, there were these loud intermissions on every channel every few minutes. Not easy to use at all. Much less so then clicking a button and instantly having the content you want without crazy loud breaks.

So you have a legal way to get shows anywhere near original release date without those loud breaks?

Why would I want to watch them near their release date? That just seems silly to have to wait a week for an episode... if I just wait a few months I can watch the entire season as I want to much more enjoyable that way.

So no water cooler talk for you then.

I'm not sure I see the appeal.

I'd probably lose my shit if everyone ruined Walking Dead episodes for me Monday morning lol.

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Zabbix is like Cacti.... Only better! lol. I actually started with Cacti at my last job when I was only monitoring the Network switches. Then I started using Zabbix to monitor the Servers, and then Zabbix added in SNMP stuff for network devices, and I haven't been back to Cacti since.

Once I get my Zabbix server up and running again, I'll get a demo of it set up so you guys can see some live data. 8-)

I fell in love with Cacti because of the 10 second polling intervals and spine multi-threaded polling. Can Zabbix do the same? Think I tried getting 10 second polling intervals with Zabbix a while back and had trouble figuring it out.

It should be able to. It has a few places where you can set the timers for it. But 10 seconds... Yeowch. That's a ton of data, lol.

IIRC Cacti only stores the data in the RRD files, right?

Yea RRD files. I usually do 10 second intervals and store it for a month. Usually ends up being 80MB per graph.

Wouldn't mind winning $1.5 billion

But didn't realize how much work it is after winning

http://twocents.lifehacker.com/what-to-do-with-the-money-if-you-actually-win-tonights-1752573569

This thing is looking pretty slick:

http://www.auramedia.tv/

@scottalanmiller said:

I've seen Graphana doing one second on huge environments with tons of sensors.

Never heard of Graphana. Will have to check it out. Only thing I've seen that does 1 second intervals (Other than custom scripted stuff) is Flowalyzer but only used that for troubleshooting not long term graphing.