I ride my bicycle, walk playing Pokemon Go, drink high ABV beer, hang out with the kid. I just took up disc golf and love it. A great excuse to go walk a mile, throw frisbees while drinking beer, and letting the kid and dog run circles in an open field.
Posts made by s.hackleman
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RE: Stress Relievers
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RE: Web Camera for Remote Server Room
When I setup my old server room I just hooked a cheep webcam via USB to a old Windows Client computer I had laying around. I then installed some cheap software (Webcam Monitor I think) that would take a picture when ever someone walked in front of it, save it to a file share, then email me the pic as an attachment. I then pointed the camera at the door at face height, turned the lights off, and left it. I could RDP to the box to check in, and I had a email and photo log with time stamps of everyone that walked in.
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RE: macOS 10.13 High Sierra Coming with APFS Filesystem
@rojoloco said in macOS 10.13 High Sierra Coming with APFS Filesystem:
Isn't the file system change dependent on whether or not you install the OS on an SSD?
Late 2013 Macbook Pro with a 1 TB SSD here, installed filesystem on update by default.
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RE: macOS 10.13 High Sierra Coming with APFS Filesystem
@scottalanmiller I haven't been working on anything big in the last couple days. I also updated to VMWare Fusion 10 Pro from 8. It has made my dev VM's noticeably more snappy. I'm not 100% sure if that is the file system, VMWare's hardware changes, or spooky magic, but I'll take it.
On another note why is everyone now Skipping version 9? iPhone 8 >iPhone X (10), VMWare Fusion 8 > 10, Windows 8.1 > 10... What is going on?
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RE: macOS 10.13 High Sierra Coming with APFS Filesystem
I didn't even realize mine changed. The update took about 45 min, rebooted twice. I didn't think it would change the file system without me doing a backup and offline update. Just checked, and sure enough I'm on APFS.
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RE: Learning Git
We use Bitbucket here. It is super cheap for small teams. We got JIRA and Bitbucket full versions running on in house servers with support for under $100 a year if you have less than 10 users.
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RE: How do you do Escalation?
So 2 accounts it is. I have always been in enviroments where there was only 1-2 admins so I wasn't sure. Thanks guys.
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How do you do Escalation?
In a Windows AD environment where you have a larger group of people who are administrators what is the best practice for handling privilege escalation? If you put everyone who would need to be an administrator in the Administrators group, then you expose more of a threat to email and browser attacks because they are running as Domain Admin for daily tasks. If you lock them down to just users, then give them a single Administrator Credential everyone knows the password too to escalate when needed, you give them anonymity within the network and lose personal logging. The only other way would be give each power user 2 accounts 1 user, and 1 admin, but that doesn't seem like the best answer either. What is the norm out in the business world?
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RE: What did you have for lunch or dinner today?
I took some farmers market acorn squash, cleaned out the seeds and stuffed it with uncured bacon, grass fed butter, and maple syrup. roasted them for about an hour, then topped them off with a local goat cheese and a touch of hot sauce. That is my lunch all week, and I can't complain.
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RE: Fire fighting to project balance
@wirestyle22 Our stuff is more setup and config. For example, we want to manufacture a new widget. So many things have to be setup and configured before that process can start. We get contacted at the last second. Then we end up troubleshooting an emergency issue that could have been scheduled. I think SLA's may be the way to go, even if it is just 4 hours, it may prevent task switching as being moved off project work 3-5 times a day is pretty common.
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RE: Fire fighting to project balance
@scottalanmiller said in Fire fighting to project balance:
@s-hackleman said in Fire fighting to project balance:
@dashrender said in Fire fighting to project balance:
This is like the HR problem often talked about around here. i.e. it's not IT's job to keep user's from surfing non work related websites, it's management/HRs job.
Same goes here, it's your boss's job to get with those other managers so the company can be efficient. Those managers should sit down and discuss the issues. And the management over the top of them all should welcome it because it makes the company as a whole more effective and efficient.
I guess that is where the disfunction exists. The other departments don't care they met their goals. Why do they care if it was hard for our team, we still got it done, we are just not happy about it.
Likewise, why do you care if they get what they need?
No one cares unless they care about the business as a whole. What I'm hearing is "they are willing to hurt the company and the company doesn't care". Is that a good assessment? If the company owners dont care, you shouldn't care either.
From the company stand point it got done, and done on time, so quit complaining. How it got done, or the fact we are being driven insane seems secondary, and our problem. I think SLA's may be the right direction, what is an SLO?
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RE: Fire fighting to project balance
@dashrender Ok sure, I get that my manager should talk to their manager, but from a policy standpoint that our team controls, is there anything that could if nothing else, help this situation.
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RE: Fire fighting to project balance
@dashrender said in Fire fighting to project balance:
This is like the HR problem often talked about around here. i.e. it's not IT's job to keep user's from surfing non work related websites, it's management/HRs job.
Same goes here, it's your boss's job to get with those other managers so the company can be efficient. Those managers should sit down and discuss the issues. And the management over the top of them all should welcome it because it makes the company as a whole more effective and efficient.
I guess that is where the disfunction exists. The other departments don't care they met their goals. Why do they care if it was hard for our team, we still got it done, we are just not happy about it.
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RE: Fire fighting to project balance
@dashrender said in Fire fighting to project balance:
@s-hackleman said in Fire fighting to project balance:
but it would be nice to know a week before hand that x task needs to be done by Friday, instead of, "OMG Fix this Now, because we are already in the process."
This implies that they are making changes that they know will affect your stuff and that you'll need to make changes to accommodate them. But is that true?
They know it needs to take place, but they forget, until the last minute and the system isn't working.
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Fire fighting to project balance
I am working in a technical team doing development. We are currently fighting a battle and I would like some input and advice on. Like everyone we fight task switching. We have projects that take time and planning, and development that can take 30-60min to get settled in and comfortable to even start working on. At the same time we have groups emailing us with "tickets" but they wait until the last minute to let us know, then we have to do it now, or the company looses money. The issue is there is no negative feedback for them doing this, so they keep doing it. The issues are technical enough that we need to be the ones to handle them, but it would be nice to know a week before hand that x task needs to be done by Friday, instead of, "OMG Fix this Now, because we are already in the process." If we push back too hard, then the groups will stop calling us, and attempt fixes and work arounds on their own, which will just make more work for us in the future. How do you balance this in your work environment?
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RE: Need help with a batch file
Sounds like permissions would be the first place I would look. Does task scheduler attempt to run the program as you, or as a service account?
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RE: Need help with a batch file
@tracy_burton said in Need help with a batch file:
@s-hackleman
This won't work as it needs to be running all the time. As transactions come into the collection server, they need to be posted to the ERP server immediately.To solve that we use staging and queue tables in SQL. Sounds like you have the best solution for this issue, just sucks that it gets hung so often.
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RE: I grabbed an Android TV box...
I tried the ASUS one when it first came out. I may have been to early on the bandwagon. I tried it, apps would crash, or just not work. When I called support I had to be escalated twice before I found anyone who even knew what the product was, then they just said they didn't know how to help me. After a week, i returned it for a refund, and best buy had stopped selling them. It was cool, it just didn't work for me.
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RE: Need help with a batch file
To avoid this we run programs like this as a scheduled task. So the program runs the process once then closes. Then you schedule it to run every 15-60 minutes. You can this watch your logs and alarm if the process ends in an error code. Just a different way to skin the same cat.
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RE: Crypto currency will be considered a terrorist threat soon...
@travisdh1 said in Crypto currency will be considered a terrorist threat soon...:
Do any of us doubt that that's where the government is headed?
They can try...