I just landed a new job that I'm pretty excited about. My current position moved slowly back from development into straight up IT, so I'm glad to be a software developer again.
My new company has good benefits and I know some people that work there and it sounds like they treat their employees really well.
If I didn't get this job, I might have given up on developer. There's so much work involved in dev hiring processes.
Does anyone have an updated comparison to share?
Does anyone else think a Gordon Ramsay esque TV show called IT Nightmares would be a great idea?
https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/lfoklv/does_anyone_else_think_a_gordon_ramsay_esque_tv/
The way I would see it is as mostly directed at business owners and getting them to understand the role of IT in their business.
"That's an HR problem, not an IT problem."
https://www.jobbank.gc.ca/jobsearch/jobposting/27734586
The title on the job site isn't really accurate. The website restricts what titles we can post, requirements, etc. We are not just looking for network admins. We have a couple different positions we need to fill. One of which will require VMWare experience.
International applicants accepted, with option to work remotely.
I am not a part of the hiring process, but I can try to answer questions. Might have to be through direct message though.
https://www.jobbank.gc.ca/jobsearch/jobposting/27439166
The current job posting is kind of lame, but we probably will have something better out in the future. We are actually hiring multiple positions, with different specialities. I can't say too much right now, but we have some exciting stuff on the horizon, and there is opportunity to get into some cool 'DevOps' style stuff.
I know I'm far from one of the top contributors to ML, but if there's something you feel comfortable with endorsing me on, please send me a message and I'll send you my LinkedIn url.
A couple of my topics:
https://mangolassi.it/topic/15305/salt-grain-to-retrieve-users-present-on-minion-windows
https://mangolassi.it/topic/18764/create-a-vm-on-vultr-using-terraform-on-gitlab
https://mangolassi.it/topic/19224/gitlab-install-on-centos-using-salt
Pluralsight has a free weekend promotion going on right now.
https://pluralsight.pxf.io/c/1197078/668288/7490
I'm a big fan of their courses, I find their videos to be high qualify and a great way to get an intro to something new.
However if you sign up for a free Visual Studio Dev Essentials account, I believe there is still a promo for 3 months of free Pluralsight.
I've seen some doubts around about how useful Salt would be for desktop administration, so I thought I would share my Salt grain that makes things easier for me. It gives you a list of users that have profiles on that minion. So the end result is that you can do this in your states:
{% for usr in grains['present_users'] %}
C:\Users\{{ usr }}\AppData\Local\Something:
file.directory:
- makedirs: True
{% endfor %}
This has only been tested on Salt 2017.7.1, and it will definitely break with the next major release because they are changing some things that it relies on.
To use this custom grain, create a _grains folder within your salt states folder/repo, then save this as a file there:
import socket
import salt.utils
if salt.utils.is_windows():
import salt.utils.winapi
import wmi
def presentusers():
if salt.utils.is_windows():
with salt.utils.winapi.Com():
wmi_c = wmi.WMI()
userprofiles = [x.LocalPath.split('\\')
for x in wmi_c.Win32_UserProfile()]
sysprof = ['systemprofile', 'ServiceProfiles']
userlist = [x[-1] for x in userprofiles
if not any(word in x for word in sysprof)]
return {'present_users': userlist}
return {'present_users': 'n/a'}
Then run salt '*' saltutil.sync_grains to sync the custom grain to your minions. Now run salt '*' grains.items to see your new grain
Job posting isn't up yet, so you guys are getting it first.
Custom Software Solutions http://www.cssionline.com is going to be looking for someone with DBA experience so assist with our reporting and business analytics solutions and well as other projects working with our databases. Some programming experience is definitely an asset. The person who fills this position will be working closely with one of our DBAs/Developers.
Experience in the following is an asset:
VB6/C#
MS SQL Server
Power BI
Email resume to [email protected]
I was looking at multiOTP, which looks like it would be a good free way of implementing 2-step authentication for RDP
https://github.com/multiOTP/multiotp/wiki
http://servilon.com/two-factor-authentication/
But I would imagine that in SMB, people would find it annoying to have to get a code every time.
And then I found this post that makes me think you could use the 2-step authentication in order to whitelist IPs
Maybe I'll try to lab it sometime
What impressed me about Insight was that I went through 2 account managers in a year and they all provided consistent excellent service. I figured they must have a really good training system in place.
Great experience with Insight Canada account managers. Not so great experience with CDW.
Ingram Micro and Synnex were ok, RMAs always were a pita.
@pmoncho said in Once off or short term remote access solution:
I have used Remote Utilities in the past. Not bad for 10 free systems.
https://www.remoteutilities.com - Per their licensing page
I've also used Remote Utilities before. It worked well and RDP mode was pretty slick. However, I don't believe it is designed around one time access.
I know this is more of an HR problem than an IT problem, but my boss is insisting.
I'm interested in having a a dedicated Android device for my soon-to-be two-year-old.
I'm not sure if I'm really comfortable with parental controls from any of the big players. I was thinking LineageOS and then a launcher with good parental controls. I've looked around a bit for a launcher, but I haven't seen a clear contender yet.
Are there any good launchers for kids that you would recommend, or any other apps to aid in parental control that I should look into?
@dashrender apparently someone wanted it because @msn.com is a short domain name and addresses referencing recent culture are still available.
On an unrelated note, I heard you can still get an @msn.com address is you sign up for MSN Premium
@scottalanmiller said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
Oblivion
Should be Morroblivion IMO, but I'm probably going to just be playing different versions of Morrowind for the rest of my life. Maybe Morrowind will be the first VR game I play.
At my new job we estimate 5/8 hours in a day for spending on your actual work.
