Wow. Reminds me of this:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1972380-vps-node-questions

Argh, he's intentionally asking a pointless question and intentionally calling servers "nodes" to try to confuse a support guy then being insensitive that the customer support guy isn't clear what he is asking. Grrrr...

Wow, yeah it took me a couple minutes to read it a few times to understand what he was asking. Once you input the correct terms it makes way more sense.

Then there's his attitude... that's a whole other mess.

I've been using tmobile family plan for almost 5 years now. Never any issues until I go to the deserts, which nothing works then not just tmobile.

@brrabill said in My K12 Non-Profit Volunteer Story:

@scottalanmiller said in My K12 Non-Profit Volunteer Story:

Age 3: Decided to go into software engineering as a career.

When you make claims like this, you have to follow them up with
"Stay thirsty, my friends"

My daughter is 5. I have recent knowledge of how 3 year olds are. There's no way you even knew what software engineering was. I think at 3 my daughter decided she wanted to go to the stars in a space ship (astronaut technically).... but I wouldn't list that as a competent career decision like you are doing. Really?

Maybe you can clear this up for me because I'm not the biggest hardware/raid buff and don't have that extremely deep level of hardware knowledge to the atom.

I typically go RAID 10 with spinning rust and RAID 5 in most SSD cases.... unless where the performance gain will actually make a difference and it's just that damn important to have the extra level of protection vs RAID5.

Anyways, to get to what I'm not clear on...

The biggest argument I've seen everywhere on RAID 5 + SSD's vs HDDs is that URE doesn't matter because SSD's work so fast (basically speaking, and maybe URE isn't the correct one to use, I can't remember at the moment). But doesn't the same exact amount of bits get processed?... Just faster? Everyone says a RAID 5 rebuild of high-terabyte drives will take FOREVER (with HDDs) and the changes of a failure go up. But I'm thinking to myself... wait, who cares about the time... isn't it about the amount of bits moving? Isn't it because of the massive number of bits moving that increases the chance of URE or whatever... not necessarily the time it takes to move them?

That said, wouldn't it mean that SSDs and HDDs with equal capacity experience the same number of bits moving during a rebuild... but the SSDs do it faster? Therefore, the chance of a bit flipping or <insert issue here> is the same in both. Oh, I'm not talking about mechanical failure, that's obvious. Let's keep that out of the equation in this particular thought experiment.

Thoughts on that SAM? Or am I just drifting off the road?

Wasted the whole day waiting at the passport "drop-in" office for my newborn son. Never again... NEVER again.

What made it worse is that after already waiting half the day in what resembles a doctors waiting room, when we were called up, i didnt have my drivers license... I left it at home in the photo copier!

What a nightmare day!

If only appointments weren't booked so far out...

What's funny is the people who say stuff like that are the ones with the most to hide... they just don't get it.

@scottalanmiller said in Spot the Fake Job Postings, Labor Day 2017:

@momurda said in Spot the Fake Job Postings, Labor Day 2017:

... or are you claiming that since SMB hiring people dont know IT their job adverts appear fake?

This might be the case, but APPEARING fake and BEING fake isn't the same. In this case, I'm 100% sure the job is fake. Especially after I pointed it out and they blocked me instead of explaining. Running completely fake ads to collect data, get workers on the line or similar is super common, to the point of being the vast majority of postings. We can't prove any specific ad is fake, but there are really handy tell tale signs and this one is over the top.

It's true that many legitimate SMB job postings might appear fake, but make are actually fake, too. Faking SMB jobs are less risky than faking big enterprise ones in many cases.

Well, you could always point them to your long lost rich uncle in Nigeria. Hook them up with his email and info!

That's crazy...

If I stop paying my internet bill, they will shut it off. Why should it be any different for the chamber of commerce for a different service?

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Tim_G said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just bought 4 round-trip plane tickets from LAX to ARN (Stockholm, Sweden). Staying for a week shy of 3 months. Should be a good summer!

Still going to work, remotely though.

Awesome! That's how to do it!!

When do you head this direction?

11 hour flight leaves May 30th, overnight flight, so hopefully the kids will sleep after it gets dark. It will be light when we take off and land so I'm excited for my daughter to see that. The last time she was too young to remember. She'll love it! Most of my wife's family lives in Sweden, it's been quite a few years since she's gone to see them.

We're coming back end of August. On the plus side, it's only a 2 hour trip back haha

@travisdh1 said in Why Are Search Engines So Fast?:

Hey baby, would you like to see my algorithms?

Only if they're bug free.

@wirestyle22 said in Spot the Fake Job Postings, A+ and Harvard Masters:

E-mail I received

[START]
I have a Full-Time PC Technician position in Eatontown NJ that your background looks great for. Ideally want A+ Certification, BS or Master’s Degree, windows experience, and ability to upgrade memory/storage, install drivers, and repair defective laptops. 60-70k Salary. If interested – send me back your most recent resume so we can get the process started.

Please see new bullet points below for requirements:
Looking for A+ Certified computer technician.
Looking to pay between 60-70k.
Technician must have his master’s degree, in a high tier college.
Technician should easily know his way around a computer or laptop. If I give him a laptop, ask him to upgrade the memory, storage, install drivers, and upgrade windows, he would be able to complete task with ease.
Can easily identify issue and repair any defective computers or laptops.
Able to manage a team of about 8-12 technicians.

Interview process – I will have a laptop with spare memory and storage handy. I will ask the technician to upgrade the memory and storage, so that I can see he easily knows his way around computers/laptops. I will than provide a thumb drive that has a windows 10 pro installed, and ask him to install windows 10 pro on this laptop that was once windows 7.

I will also have some defective machines handy to see if the technician can easily identify the issue. Than have an easy time repairing it.
[END]

So it's a benchtech position that allows an A+ Cert as the equivalency of a masters degree. You're supervising 8-12 other "technicians" but no supervisory experience is required. 70k for a bench position.

What

My reply e-mail: How on gods green earth is an A+ certification equivalent to a masters degree? This is a bench tech position paying 70k a year? Very confusing job posting

I don't understand why a Master's degree is required to "upgrade memory/storage, install drivers, and repair defective laptops". And on top of that, pay $70k. A+ is all you need to do that stuff. No need for a Master's degree. Anyone can watch 7-8 others do the same thing.

@nadnerB said in SPAM Emails Appearing to Come from Solarwinds:

I think I was a part a bunch of details they bought off Spiceworks.

wouldn't surprise me at this point anymore...

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

People yelling loudly directly in front of our door at 1:30am in Ukrainian. So loud it sounded like they were in the hallway.

Start yelling in some language they don't know!

@dafyre said in Why Linux is Hard for Windows Users but Easy for Newbies:

@Giggiux said in Why Linux is Hard for Windows Users but Easy for Newbies:

@Tim_G said in Why Linux is Hard for Windows Users but Easy for Newbies:

Basically, Linux is hard because it has trouble working with some hardware, and you spend all your time trying to make it work and end up leaving it in a frustrating way, going back to Windows.

OT: Last week I spent 2 days to install Nvidia GTX 980Ti's drivers on ubuntu (uninstalling nouveau)
But that's because I never did it before, now that I now how to do it probably it will take only 1 day and half

This kinda goes back to what @Tim_G was saying about hardware. Folks coming from Windows expect things to just work.

Yeah, it should... but since there's I don't know how many HUNDREDS of versions of Linux flavors... there's not enough people and resources to keep up with hardware support.

Now, if people could just stop creating a new Linux flavor every week and focus on the good main distros that exist, perhaps this wouldn't be an issue any longer.

@scottalanmiller said in Spot the Fake Job Postings, A+ and Harvard Masters:

@tim_g said in Spot the Fake Job Postings, A+ and Harvard Masters:

@wirestyle22 said in Spot the Fake Job Postings, A+ and Harvard Masters:

E-mail I received

[START]
I have a Full-Time PC Technician position in Eatontown NJ that your background looks great for. Ideally want A+ Certification, BS or Master’s Degree, windows experience, and ability to upgrade memory/storage, install drivers, and repair defective laptops. 60-70k Salary. If interested – send me back your most recent resume so we can get the process started.

Please see new bullet points below for requirements:
Looking for A+ Certified computer technician.
Looking to pay between 60-70k.
Technician must have his master’s degree, in a high tier college.
Technician should easily know his way around a computer or laptop. If I give him a laptop, ask him to upgrade the memory, storage, install drivers, and upgrade windows, he would be able to complete task with ease.
Can easily identify issue and repair any defective computers or laptops.
Able to manage a team of about 8-12 technicians.

Interview process – I will have a laptop with spare memory and storage handy. I will ask the technician to upgrade the memory and storage, so that I can see he easily knows his way around computers/laptops. I will than provide a thumb drive that has a windows 10 pro installed, and ask him to install windows 10 pro on this laptop that was once windows 7.

I will also have some defective machines handy to see if the technician can easily identify the issue. Than have an easy time repairing it.
[END]

So it's a benchtech position that allows an A+ Cert as the equivalency of a masters degree. You're supervising 8-12 other "technicians" but no supervisory experience is required. 70k for a bench position.

What

My reply e-mail: How on gods green earth is an A+ certification equivalent to a masters degree? This is a bench tech position paying 70k a year? Very confusing job posting

I don't understand why a Master's degree is required to "upgrade memory/storage, install drivers, and repair defective laptops". And on top of that, pay $70k. A+ is all you need to do that stuff. No need for a Master's degree. Anyone can watch 7-8 others do the same thing.

Why not? A BS degree is not required to be a nurse. But in a market flooded with out of work people, people tend to get more and more degrees. Those that do tend to have debt and be more desperate for work. So they tend to be easier to control because they are more scared of needing to look for other work. If you have a market filled with master's grads, hiring them for entry level work can help you keep them trapped in bad work situations. As an employer seeking low end labor, college degrees make candidates more likely to be desperate and controllable. So there is a real incentive to prefer that situation for work that is otherwise high turnover entry level stuff where low skills are needed.

Blah.

Okay yeah, I did some more digging and you all were right, it just simply wasn't mounted. The spreadsheet was not accurate.

So the system itself is only using 3.8 GB? it says "/" Didn't realize it was that small, so used to Windows.

@NerdyDad said in Looking at Ideas for a Grassless Backyard:

@Tim_G said in Looking at Ideas for a Grassless Backyard:

For the top one, the kids would be able to play while you work, but mosquitos and heat would still be an issue.

For the bottom one, just change out the glass on top for something opaque and we may be onto something. Bring in one good hail storm and that whole thing is busted up.

He'll need air conditioning... If you use something opaque for the top, you could stick on the RV kind of roof AC unit.

@stacksofplates said in Red Hat Ready for Release of Fleet Commander:

This seems like more work than just pushing this stuff out with some type of automation.

You could say that about AD too...

It may be better to just link to your Blog on your resume and mention you're an active member on IT discussion forums such as ML and SW.