@wirestyle22 said in Well, that really, really sucks.:

@dafyre said in Well, that really, really sucks.:

@travisdh1 said in Well, that really, really sucks.:

@stacksofplates said in Well, that really, really sucks.:

@travisdh1 said in Well, that really, really sucks.:

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!

<in voice of Robin Williams>: Goooooooooooood Morning Mango Lasssiiiiiiiii!

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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

the Congo

Huh? Okay, where in the world has Scott NOT been? That might be an easier question to answer.

Better to ask Carmen Sandiego

Lol I used to watch that way back in the day

Now I've got the song stuck in my head...

@art_of_shred The customer is not always right?

@scottalanmiller said in Well, that really, really sucks.:

@dafyre said in Well, that really, really sucks.:

@RojoLoco said in Well, that really, really sucks.:

@BRRABill can't be any worse than GA...

Only strange law in GA that I'm aware of is that a beer joint can't be closer than 100 yards to a church property or something like that (but that may just be a city ordinance)...

Because churchgoers and beer....

Eh... Everybody in my town used to go to Bob's Beer, Bait, Tackle & Baptist Church. Go to church, get Beer, Bait, & Tackle. Every 5th Sunday, there's a fish fry out back.

@mlnews Children: 1, Parents: 0

@mlnews said in Drupalgeddon2 Kicks Off:

CVE-2018-7600 or Drupalgeddon2 is a significant vulnerability in the Drupal Content Management System currently being attacked on a mass scale.

Drupalgeddon2 "is under active attack, and every Drupal site behind our network is being probed constantly from multiple IP addresses," Daniel Cid, CTO and founder of security firm Sucuri, told Ars. "Anyone that has not patched is hacked already at this point. Since the first public exploit was released, we are seeing this arms race between the criminals as they all try to hack as many sites as they can."

Somebody here on ML posted a link about that, I think. We got a head of the curve on that one (and we have several Drupal servers here!).

@johnhooks Yeah... You can also dnf install url://to.mypackage.com/mypackage.rpm and it will install without you having to go and download it by hand first. (It has been a while since I tried Fedora, so I don't know if you could do that with Yum or not)

@scottalanmiller said in SMB vs Enterprise:

I love both sides of things, SMB and enterprise. Two very different challenges. I'd hate to only have done one or the other. But if I had to choose, enterprise is the place to be. Especially as someone with a family. When my daughter was born, I was given unannounced, paid paternity leave for weeks. And when that was over I was sent home to work from home for a year to be with her. Not many SMBs doing that kind of stuff.

I'd be surprised if that was the norm for the majority of enterprise companies, though. I really would.

Maybe he should talk to my friend Darryl. Or his brother Darryl, or his other brother Darryl?

Read: (Ow, my head hurts after reading that SW thread).

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https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/05/lg-ultrawide-curved-monitor-ubuntu-ryzen

That's pretty awesome.

I would like to know how expensive it is.

I don't. I think I just heard my wallet scream just looking at the picture.

Even if you keep all your eggs in one basket, it might not be a bad idea to have a backup and buy a few chickens, just in case your eggs don't make it home. At least if you have 3 chickens, you'll get three eggs a day-ish.

I also like your point abotu the "avoid total loss" in regards to the retirement years. At our current jobs, most of us should have some sort of retirement plan. If not we should find some way to set money aside for the long term. Even if it is a low and slow return, over a number of years, it can snowball into quite the amount.

@dustinb3403 said in Should I stay or should I go now?:

@scottalanmiller said in Should I stay or should I go now?:

@Some_user said in Should I stay or should I go now?:

I've never had final decision authority.

So go create some. Go volunteer with a non-profit to head their IT. Make some decisions. Build your experience.

This sounds fun, until you realize you're the guy that the non-profit is relying on. . .

That will encourage you to do a good job of it.

@MattSpeller said:

Disclaimer: It'd be kinda mean so up front I suggest redacting all the names

How about a "collection of excellent questions"

I think Matt has a good point... We should change the name to protect the idjits... I mean innocent.

@gjacobse said:

The Colossal Clan of Curious Cousin Clarence.

There... quick, somebody rename that thread!

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Marketing Firm Exactis Leaked a Personal Info Database With 340 Million Records
https://www.wired.com/story/exactis-database-leak-340-million-records/

Once the fuckbags that let this shit happen get strung up and publicly tortured.... then these breaches will finally stop.

Publicly flogged twice for each record leaked. Fined, $100,000 for each record leaked ($99,000 of which goes to the person whose records were leaked), and the entire C-Level team fired if this was discovered and not reported for more than 36 hours.

@scottalanmiller That is where keeping your IT Skillset and knowledge up to date come into play. At my last job, I got sent to 1 training seminar over the course of ten years... My current IT knowledge was all built around things that I did at home, in my own time, when I had any to speak of.

Just because the old way of doesn't something has a newer counter part doesn't mean the old way is necessarily shoved to the wayside right away.

@dustinb3403 said in New Job:

@penguinwrangler said in New Job:

Woot! I got a new job today! Turned in my resignation! I will be an assistant systems administrator for the Federal Government.

Oh great now I can never read another post from @PenguinWrangler because he'll be trying to weaken my encryption and steal my data.

Too late. He's already wiretapped your phones, hijacked your internet connection and is already downloading your internet history for the past 6 weeks.

@MattSpeller And we are exceedingly good at it too.

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Rumours of the Google Pixel 3.

I have a Google Pixel 2XL. A good phone, definitely top notch. I only have it because work provides me with a phone and they are with Verizon so that is how I got it. If they didn't I would still be with probably an LG phone. I honestly am thinking about going to the smallest Andriod phone I can get that still has a decent processor. Andriod Auto needs a good phone to work properly.

I have the same phone and I love it.

I love it too. No problems with it. I am just to the point that I am almost never without my tablet. So my phone just needs to be for communicating and only doing work when absolutely necessary. So I just don't like the bulk of the bigger phone anymore.

Oddly, I have gone the other way.... I have the Pixel XL (the first one), and I haven't touched my tablet for anything other than the occasional "does this still work" use.

@Dashrender Was most of that 4 days spent waiting for their systems to write your information to disk? lol.