What Are You Doing Right Now
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
This discussion seems to have prompted a bit of "you have to do it like this" as if there is only one answer to all IT (which is high availability and on premises) without anyone asking what the needs are. The lack of asking about needs, but the abundance of "there is only one way to do it" makes me think that a lot of people think that IT doesn't involve any decision making.
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2002138-hyper-v-virtualization
that one guy literally just used that Boeing needs redundant parts in airplanes as his excuse for why he won't even consider the business needs of his customers!
Yeah, it was way out of line.
Turns out that he's local here.
I see, but then it begs the question as to what was the purpose of the comment.
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Reading that thread about Hyper-V now to see what all the fuss is about.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
In all honesty, if you were his customer, his sold you multiple servers and you read that statement... tell me you'd not be considering a call to a lawyer.
Dollars to donuts he's a VAR and gets paid for the sale of the extra gear.
Ya but hes 20 years in IT, so he knows.
http://www.interstructure.net/About-Us.html
Take a trip and visit him.
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@dbeato @scottalanmiller Over the last year (so much growth has happened during year 3 of IT), I've come to question the allure of redundant-and-failover-everything. I think the question (for that particular thread) should be "what do you need," rather than the statement "do this." Does this business actually need a second copy of [whatever it needs] waiting to take over if the first copy is unavailable? How is the previous question answered for different parts of the business: Does everything need such failover ability, or only some aspects of the business?
Where I am, it would suck if our T620 in the local office blew up tomorrow, but we wouldn't go out of business. Our internal operations (customer facing stuff would largely be unaffected) be crippled for a bit until we got new hardware going; however, it wouldn't make sense to have bought two T620s just to have one sitting there waiting for the other to fail, which catastrophic failure like that is pretty unlikely. But Eddie! Load balancing blah blah! I'd have to look at NewRelic, but I don't think our Hyper-V host has ticked above an average CPU usage of 3% ever. We simply don't have enough load to make spending money for extra equipment to balance the load.
I'll stop rambling, but it just seems the scare tactics of "what do you do when everything fails all at once?" or "what do you do when your one single server fails?" are just that, scare tactics. They are questions that should be addressed, but not defacto reasons to have two of everything.
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This jet lag is ridiculous with kids.
Not only almost half a day time difference, but battling the midnight sun is also a challenge.
My daughter is at least starting to fall asleep a little later in the day, but still waking up at 3am.
We are all sleeping at different times it seems. I read it should take about one day per time zone to adjust, so hopefully by the weekend thing will get better sleep wise.
With kids, I think I'd rather deal with the noon moon.
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It's. 4:30am and its like it's 10am... It's light out, coffee is served, some breakfast...
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Having DDNS working at home is so nice. Spin up a VM and simply use the hostname to connect.
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@Tim_G said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
This jet lag is ridiculous with kids.
Not only almost half a day time difference, but battling the midnight sun is also a challenge.
My daughter is at least starting to fall asleep a little later in the day, but still waking up at 3am.
We are all sleeping at different times it seems. I read it should take about one day per time zone to adjust, so hopefully by the weekend thing will get better sleep wise.
With kids, I think I'd rather deal with the noon moon.
Welcome to my life.
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@Tim_G said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
This jet lag is ridiculous with kids.
My wife feels the same. But, IMO, she lets the kids sleep too much.
You have to be an asshole and make them do shit after the first couple days that forces them to no sleep too soon.
This 1 day per timezone this is simply bullshit.
The human body can adapt quite easily when made to do so.
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Waiting on our web application to crash. Luckily nothing yet.
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Good morning everyone.
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@scottalanmiller Good afternoon! Getting to the close of my day.
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@scottalanmiller Morning!
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Morning all, busy day today.
We have a lot of interns coming in and I have orientation for them.
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@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dbeato @scottalanmiller Over the last year (so much growth has happened during year 3 of IT), I've come to question the allure of redundant-and-failover-everything. I think the question (for that particular thread) should be "what do you need," rather than the statement "do this." Does this business actually need a second copy of [whatever it needs] waiting to take over if the first copy is unavailable? How is the previous question answered for different parts of the business: Does everything need such failover ability, or only some aspects of the business?
Exactly. And asking that question is what that guy posting was responding to when he said "some people in this forum may not like this."
Asking "what do you need" and designing a solution based on need is our jobs. What that guy said "some people might not like" is that he suggests not doing our jobs and just overselling solutions to make a quick buck.
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At least 50% of what is said in my office is "Bless you" because we just sit in the basement all day sneezing.
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@scottalanmiller Good morning
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Morning all y'all!
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Just found out that a few hours ago a friend's ex OD'd and died. Not friends with the girl that died in any way, but damn... they only were apart a few weeks.
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Good morning!
