@ajstringham said:

I'm not a Doctor Who fan

Congratulations and good luck on the new position.

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@ajstringham said:

@Reid-Cooper said:

@ajstringham said:

I'm not a Doctor Who fan

Not...yet?

Getting better.

Did anyone mention "career stage" in this discussion? Wouldn't it make sense that earlier in your career that the numbers should be smaller and later in your career that they would get longer? LIke your first job might be 9 months. Your second a year and a half. Your third is three years. Your fourth is five years. And on and on?

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I find the unread to be what I use. But few people mention me, so maybe that is why.

Meraki was okay back when I last used it. Free, so could not complain.

AMD's Gizmo 2.

Ditto

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Well, my first interview is Tuesday, even before my final pay check is due

Congrats. Doing what?

Branch IT support for a Fortune 500 company in Columbus, OH. Lots of opportunity for promotion from within the company. Also, the same company my brother-in-law works for, so it was easy to get my name in front of the proper people instead of having to get past HR first.

Knowing people helps... My first ever IT job I got of my own recognizance, turns out I was friends with the guy's kid, ha ha ha.

I'm too much of a homebody to ever know anyone. All of my friends are all over the country now

So next time you job hunt... look where your friends live!

Indeed

I've yet to get a job in IT that was not through my contacts

Contacts are really the big secret of IT jobs. Seems like most everyone gets their jobs this way, often even newbies.

FreeBSD 1.0 was released on Nov. 2nd, 1993. So ten days ago the FreeBSD celebrated its 21st birthday. If FreeBSD was a person, it could drink in the US now. Hard to believe that FreeBSD has been around for so long.

On the same day, but in 2014, the fourth release candidate for FreeBSD 10.1 was released. The latest release is nearly ready now.

http://www.networkworld.com/article/2835771/opensource-subnet/article.html

That's certainly where you need to start. Don't let the job define you, define your own career.

It is amazing the scope of some bugs that are missed for so long. Too much code and too few eyes on it.

Another vote for the ELK stack.

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@scottalanmiller Yes, I actually did. I needed context.

I did too but at times I was about to give up because they were posting faster than I could keep up

I had no hope.

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I have seen the same thing. Often VoIP reliability simply outperforms traditional phone types. VoIP gets so much more modern infrastructure and has so much more resiliency, mostly in the ability for the end users (customers) to enact their own redundancy strategies whereas traditional phone types required complete dependence on a single vendor to supply all reliability and if they failed to do so there was little recourse leaving little incentive for them to do a good job.

InfoWorld takes a look at six business class Google Chromebooks. Not often that we see a Chromebook head to head so I thought that this one would be interesting.