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
Oh, I just noticed that it looks like the client is rethrowing an error that the server giving. In which case Process Monitor will only help you if you run it on the server.
@WrCombs you could try repairing .Net, there's a .Net repair tool out there. What version of .Net does this application require? And is this computer fully patched with updates?
You could also fire up Process Monitor and see what the program is specially looking for. It's probably checking the GAC and other locations for something.
Testing of it works on a new Windows User account is always worth a try on weird issues.
What I'm seeing is that the difference is when accessing the website via https vs http
When accessing via HTTPS it is making a get request like:
https://surgefactory.org/surgefactory/cv/cv.php?pageId=m1gy1&compId=TPASection_kuwsvacl&viewerCompId=TPASection_kuwsvacl&siteRevision=1196&viewMode=site&deviceType=desktop&locale=en®ionalLanguage=en&width=980&height=1124&commonConfig={"brand":"wix","bsi":"9b9fce50-825d-4402-9d87-59433086f848|7","BSI":"9b9fce50-825d-4402-9d87-59433086f848|7"}&target=_top§ion-url=http://www.pinnaclestructures.com/job-board/&vsi=6554a2ba-3d2b-4831-8c81-0a5ab9caa82c
Which must end up not being valid parameters because it returns the default template in https://surgefactory.org/surgefactory/cv/cv.php
Which includes an instanceid in the parameters. Add the instanceid to the first GET request and you get the same.
So for some reason the instanceid isn't added in the request when accessing the page with HTTPS
@jimmy9008 M365 is what covers the licencing, so Compute is your biggest cost, and it's just like compute for any Azure VM. Use Reserved instanced if you will have some VMs on throughout a 24 hour period. Use burstable VMs if a VM will be kept on continuously and doesn't need a ton of power. Or just turn the VMs off (deallocate) when not in use. At my last company, we found turning VMs off to be the most effective with the personal VM route. If using host pool, you would only keep enough VMs online to meet demand.
@jaredbusch one important migration is all it takes. The only way to have done it without downtime would have been to go from Akamai to another CDN then back to Akamai. We opted not to do the back to Akamai part.
You can't migrate between Akamai resellers without downtime. That's why we're no longer using Akamai.
@jaredbusch said in Need audio cable help:
I think What I need is two cables.
The standard 1/4 mono to 3/8 mini stereo as you both (and myself) found previously.
And then plug it in to the mic jack of this.
https://www.amazon.com/Kingtop-Adapter-Tablet-Headsets-Version/dp/B01I3A47I4
I would think that would work. When you have a separate mic input like we used to have, you could plug in headphones and use them as a mic. It's these new all input and output in one input jacks that are causing an issue, and I really don't know if you can find an input only one for phones these days.
@dashrender they reason they had to take it down was because they were basically freely giving out information that they and other companies have to pay for.
GitLab used to have a calculator public to see how much you would get paid, but they had to take it down due to external pressures.