@thecreativeone91 said:

@PSX_Defector Yep that's it. Never seen it though.

Well, if you know the purpose of the movie, you would understand why it could be construed as a bad thing to say.

Not to say it's not funny, but it's horribly inappropriate.

@thecreativeone91 said:

We used to be called 'the Toby's" at one place I worked. I can't remember what movie it was from though.

Your name is TOBY!

@g.jacobse said:

This one could be for @thanksajdotcom

Looking for a answering machine that will allow the message to be changed remotely.

Doesn't have to be fancy - just that it allows for the manager to call in and change the announce message.

Edited To clarify:

• Analog - phone line (POTS)
• Media - digital or what have you.

Why not use Asterisk? Hook up an FXS card to the box, have it route to a VM box. Easy peasy if you already have one on site.

If not, shouldn't take but a few minutes to setup one or even setup one in the cloud for that.

@thanksajdotcom said:

@PSX_Defector said:

@thanksajdotcom said:

@scottalanmiller said:

And if you look at their website, their idea of a "system engineer" includes requiring an A+ and a high school diploma. I don't think "high end" defines this place. I'm sure they are a fine, low cost MSP. But as AJ knows, they are struggling to pay entry level rates. Not the sign of a place able to afford good Cisco people, even in a market like ours where Cisco people are routinely out of work because they are a dime a dozen these days.

They aren't struggling. That's good pay for Syracuse for entry level. Besides, after six months you go up to $15.

I was looking at a job at Cisco direct as Level 3 UCS engineer paying close to $55 an hour.

$15 is not good pay for a Cisco certified goon.

Most people who start here aren't Cisco certified. They are trained to become Cisco certified.

So they offer shit pay and vague promises of certifications in the future?

Like I said, I was looking at a job for L3 UCS engineer, uncertified, for $55 an hour. Imagine what I would get if I was certified? Even the big red V's L1 networking engineers made more than $15 an hour.

Gain your experience, get your certs, and get the hell out. This place, like Scott said, is a weak company. Take them for a ride and then get the hell out.

@thanksajdotcom said:

@scottalanmiller said:

And if you look at their website, their idea of a "system engineer" includes requiring an A+ and a high school diploma. I don't think "high end" defines this place. I'm sure they are a fine, low cost MSP. But as AJ knows, they are struggling to pay entry level rates. Not the sign of a place able to afford good Cisco people, even in a market like ours where Cisco people are routinely out of work because they are a dime a dozen these days.

They aren't struggling. That's good pay for Syracuse for entry level. Besides, after six months you go up to $15.

I was looking at a job at Cisco direct as Level 3 UCS engineer paying close to $55 an hour.

$15 is not good pay for a Cisco certified goon.

@scottalanmiller said:

@thecreativeone91 said:

@scottalanmiller said:

big red V

Who is that?

Not to be confused with the big pink V.

It's only the big red V a few days of the month.

@scottalanmiller said:

@PSX_Defector said:

The big red V may be dumb, but even they can implement it with stability and speed says something else.

Only that they throw money at it. Or use it in a specific way that works. Or happen to be on firmware that does what is needed.

Cisco acknowledged the problem, but didn't have a fix for it.

Considering the big red V is a bunch of cheap motherfuckers, that certainly ain't it. Our previously cushy deal with HP should have easily kept us swimming in blades for x86 and Itanium for a long time. Guess they wanted a change or we got them super dirt cheap.

Firmware is a big problem with the platform, I will agree there. Long development cycles for issues, no sense of urgency, etc. etc. But our standard at the time was simple, UCS chassis, B200 blades, some IOMs and a combined ethernet/fibre channel fabric connected to NetApp SANs, we didn't seem to have much of an issue. Some even had their beautiful Nexus switches in there, a thing of elegance.

I had never seen one of the platform's before I began a large environment upgrade. I had no problem supporting it, neither did my colleagues.

@scottalanmiller said:

@thecreativeone91 said:

Uh Oh. a local datacenter I do contract work with is looking to replace the AS/400's (or whatever they call it now since they keep changing the name) with Cisco UCS gear.

One bad decision after another I see. The IBM i (hopefully they don't actually run on AS/400s from the 1990s) is solid, but a pretty poor business decision. It was obvious that it made no sense for any workload even when it first released. Someone was getting IBM kickbacks. Even IBM doesn't use those. Not even the departments that build them.

Cisco UCS is more of the "proprietary, unnecessarily convoluted" garbage. It requires special knowledge and training with no upsides - and that means risk and cost. I can't even fathom letting Cisco in the door to discuss that stuff. Blades have been a known bad idea from day one. Cisco takes the bad idea of blades to an absurd level.

It blows my mind that any company would let a decision maker choose those and keep their job. I've never heard of anyone come up with a reason to have chosen them. No one ever has a technical benefit and I've never seen a shop that used them and didn't get burned in the end.

The big red V uses them pretty much exclusively with regards to the eCloud and Hosting product line, both physical and virtual devices and private cloud.

Why bother with FCoE when you can just use the much more stable FC or a much more robust protocol of iSCSI over Ethernet?

That said, I've never seen any problem like that with regards to WWNs and the vCenters. And we had lots of them, like over 1000 of them. Maybe you were using some strange firmware or something else. Sounds more like an implementation issue than a wholesale condemnation of the platform. The big red V may be dumb, but even they can implement it with stability and speed says something else.

@scottalanmiller said:

@thecreativeone91 said:

There should be no reason to reimage with a motherboard replacement (especially of the same model).

Even of a different model since there is no connection between the board and the RAID. Only issue is if the drives re-identify themselves. Same issue you have on every reboot of a Cisco UCS - a great reason to avoid that garbage.

Whaaaaaaaa? I've never seen a drive blow off a profile in UCS. What in the world have you been doing?

@PaulBunion said:

You know you are breaking the TOS here. You know you are breaking the MS license talked about before.

Actually, per C@C's TOS, that's perfectly fine. If he was "hosting" at home, he would be fine per Scott, but in violation of TOS for whatever ISP you are with for the most part.

Although I don't agree with Scott's analysis of the minutia of MS licenses with regards to it, he makes it sound like you can NEVER use Windows on a cloud provider unless you buy it from the cloud provider. Retail channels would allow some really permissible uses that you don't get from others like OEM or VL, like downgrade rights all the way down. And each version would have differences in how you get it. In this instance, a Datacenter version of Windows applied to a cluster which you cannot say for 100% certain has the right amount of sockets would fly in my eyes as a very grey use, probably against use. But if I went out and bought a retail copy of Windows Server 2012 R2 Enterprise it would fly just fine. Which brings us to the downgrade rights on Datacenter, which DOES allow one to downgrade to Enterprise or Standard if so required. Again, super, super grey area, probably not right. But it doesn't in my eyes rise to the level of arrrrrrrr matey.

This is a question better asked of a MS license guy over at another site.

@Bill-Kindle said:

Not to mention, but you may also be violating the TOC of your FIOS connection from Verizon since you are on a consumer plan.

Now here's something that I do know the law talkin' about.

No major ISP, from Google Fiber to AT&T to Comcast, allows "servers" on their residential connections. What constitutes a "server" is up for major debate. Needless to say, most don't care. They care more if you are slurping down bandwidth like me at an open bar.

And even if it was hosted on a residential connection, again, its breach of contract. The remedy from VZ et. al. would be to disconnect you. Not send you to the gulag.

@scottalanmiller said:

@PSX_Defector said:

At worst it's stealing. But misuse of a license would be better construed as breach of contract. You don't go to jail for breaching a contract, not in this country.

You can when it is piracy. Many people have gone to jail for that. You can say that all piracy is a breach of contract, that's valid. And you can say that that should never send someone to jail, and that's valid. But it's piracy. The software is being used where there is no license. A license only exists when used in the licensed way.

Eh, I'm no law talkin' guy, but it would seem to me that even under the evil piracy banner, it's still a civil issue. People going to jail would need to be tried and convicted in a criminal court. The ol' endaround of contempt that some pull is not jail, just someone using the legal framework in a new and novel way.

It depends on how the contract is written, and what is going on with it. Again, I'm no law talkin' guy, but I think what AJ is doing most likely floats in a serious grey area. And to add to the fact that this box is in Canada, again this would be breach of contract because of international boarders. We would need a Canadian law talkin' guy, like Saul Abootman, to better answer this question with regards to MS licenses and machines located within the commonwealth.

@thecreativeone91 said:

It is stealing. It's not subject to opinion. It is a fact!

At worst it's stealing. But misuse of a license would be better construed as breach of contract. You don't go to jail for breaching a contract, not in this country.

@thecreativeone91 said:

Give him a chance and get off your high horse.

Digs at AJ not withstanding, there's a reason why I don't respond to this guy's posts. He's pulling a Slade on us.

He posts things, people respond, and then everything is "fixed". He's asking basic Google-Fu type questions. We don't need a Slade here.

@thecreativeone91 said:

@PSX_Defector said:

Considering it drops off the ol' credit report after 10 years, not a big problem there. And if a company is that crazed that they will never consider anyone who had a BK ever, then maybe that's not a place to work. Other than financial companies, never heard of a BK being a barrier of entry for most F500 companies.

Every IT job I know of consider it an issue. Since we could easily get to the companies money as we have access to everything. Maybe for very small SMBs they don't care or for non IT. Even for sales folks it usually matters as they need company credit cards to buy meals for clients. And IT guys usually need Credit Cards as well to buy things.

That right there is grade A crack.

I've worked with plenty of folks in IT who had BKs, big companies too. I know plenty of sales drones who have had BKs. If you work for people who are so paranoid that they are afraid that they are gonna get taken by someone who had most likely medical bills, they are in for a sad awaking when they do get swindled. All because they thought they hired safe folks they instead didn't follow proper procedures and such, allowing a sales drone to have free reign over the Amex account.

Again, if they are that nuts, it's not a place I would want to work.

@thecreativeone91 said:

@PSX_Defector said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Because the can garnish your wages for life, it's still very worth it to them.

Not in Texas. Or Pennsylvania or North/South Carolina.

And not for life, because all it takes is a nice simple Chapter 7 to blow it all away. Even filing 13 would get rid of it.

Filling for bankruptcy will get you turned down for almost any job that does any kind of background or credit check. which all mine have. But after you file the judge will later hold a court case to determine whether you still have to pay or not.

Considering it drops off the ol' credit report after 10 years, not a big problem there. And if a company is that crazed that they will never consider anyone who had a BK ever, then maybe that's not a place to work. Other than financial companies, never heard of a BK being a barrier of entry for most F500 companies.

If you are insolvent, you can't get blood from a rock. Chapter 7 blows it away. 13, which most would be steered towards, would take the judgement into consideration and determine if they deserve more than other unsecured creditors. But it would most certainly be less than the full judgement. It's sometimes in their interest to get one hundred bucks today because they are gonna have a problem getting $100K in the next ten years.

@scottalanmiller said:

Because the can garnish your wages for life, it's still very worth it to them.

Not in Texas. Or Pennsylvania or North/South Carolina.

And not for life, because all it takes is a nice simple Chapter 7 to blow it all away. Even filing 13 would get rid of it.

@scottalanmiller said:

Surprising here, the Dev3 blew the BigDog away in UnixBench score!

One of the biggest things people don't know about VMs is that more doesn't always equal better.

We get all the time where someone throws more processors at a VM but then bitches when their performance sucks ass. The BigDog3 with its 8 procs might be all kewl and stuff, but it doesn't necessarily translate to better performance.

In this case, more than likely more people are on the BigDog clusters than the Dev. Performance will always come up better when it's not being oversubscribed.

@JaredBusch said:

Which of these would you all recommend for a classic ASP based website?

None, I would update my code.

Really, the only ones I know who did classic old school ASP are NetFirms and Enterhost. NetFirms pissed me off by not fixing shit in less than a month, Enterhost was pretty good but I think they got away from shared web hosting.

@thanksajdotcom said:

@PSX_Defector said:

Woo! I won. Won money at the casino, Staples sends me two color laser printers, got a new job for 10K more, and now a nice new cloud server!

Everything's coming up PSX!

Why did Staples send you two color laser printers, and what are they?

http://www.usa.canon.com/cusa/consumer/products/printers_multifunction/laser_printers/color_imageclass_lbp7110cw

Someone screwed up on shipping me the one I ordered. Only $99. One shows up at the doorstep, I haul it in, and twenty minutes later UPS drops another off at my door. Sweet.