@scottalanmiller said:

I would be in that much better of a position to find another job. One factor of flexibility is about risk reduction in life.

Denial, not just a river in Egypt!

You [moderated] up, and I mean [moderated] up, your [moderated] is grass. I am decoupled from my professional, personal, and online persona, nor do I entrench in anyone's fiefdom. You have combined it into one giant ball of wax. And your circle of folks you know is within the same industry you just got [moderated] canned from. You get a bad rep, your done.

@scottalanmiller said:

You need to work in the SMB for a while.

Seriously dude? Ain't you the one who worked for Citi for years?

During my time at Stream, we had a corporate mascot called Bendy. It was a smiling yellow faced bendy figure. It was supposed to symbolize "flexibility" but it turned into the most abused mascot on the planet. Impaled on sticks, bound and gagged in BDSM positions, and the ever-present doggy style pose. Any business, big or small, that demands you be "flexible" all the time is bending you over to [moderated] you up the [moderated].

@scottalanmiller said:

You said that, not me. I said it was too costly to have replace my resources engaged just so that I can disconnect - which would just be extra stress and reduce the point of vacationing.

Upon you, not them necessarily.

Face it, you are seriously addicted to working. You are jonesing for your next shift like Tyrone Biggums for his next hit of crack. If your phone was destroyed you would be exhibiting symptoms of withdrawal not unlike someone who is going through DTs.

Seriously, if someone cannot let go, it's a problem. What would happen if you got fired tomorrow?

@scottalanmiller said:

If you are lone IT or a CEO...... Are you really saying that they aren't that important?

Yes. Ultimately, yes.

CEOs do no work. A CEO could go missing or die and an organization will still function. See August Bush IV, who was too busy letting chicks die in his bed than to run the organization, yet attracted and safely had a merger with InBev.

A lone IT guy will either stay a lone IT guy burned out by the entire situation or does as I did make the entire environment hum to remove the need for the person. It's infinitely unhealthy to be in the former, and infinitely boring in the latter.

A paraphrase of the safety credo from AT&T would fit best. No service is so critical and no service so important that we cannot take the time and find a backup for your position.

@scottalanmiller said:

It's not addiction to enjoy what you do and it's not narcissism to take on senior roles that have dependencies.

Can you let go of work? Smells like addiction to me.

It's narcissism when you think you are so critical that you and only you can possibly be involved with things.

@scottalanmiller said:

@PSX_Defector said:

Any business worth it's salt can easily spread the load between others to ensure coverage. SPOF is bad, bad, bad.

No one implied SPOF. It is simply that the cost of mitigation for key staff can be far too high. Cheaper to give you another vacation than keep excess human capacity around when you can avoid it.

What good is that extra vacation if you cannot ever take it and be unavailable for any amount of time shorter than a nanosecond?

By saying you cannot take a vacation without being connected means YOU have become that single point of failure. Once again, you are just not that important.

@scottalanmiller said:

One of the things I have worked hard to do is to love my job as well as have my job and life be tightly integrated. Disconnecting from one means disconnecting from the other.

@alexntg said it best. You are addicted to working. If you can't let something go coughSWcough that means you have a completely unhealthy relationship. And it brings up megalomania, narcissism, or any number of personality disorders. The existential truth of the matter is that you are not that important. No one is. If a company folds because someone went on vacation means that the company was badly run.

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dominica said:

That's an unrealistic view for someone who is running or is vital to a company, especially a small one. One important person being unreachable for any length of time could be catastrophic.

Any businessman, sales person, marketing or critical IT staffer would be eliminated instantly. Pretty much no mid level or higher business position would want to be completely cut off. Too much risk, too much stress for no reason.

Even in large Fortune 100s, once you are out of the trenches, you need to be reachable.

Huh?

You know who I work for, no one cog is so critical that they can never go on vacation or be unaccessable.

Any business worth it's salt can easily spread the load between others to ensure coverage. SPOF is bad, bad, bad. Or you can be like me during my Spherion years, I made the network hum so well I could go away for a month without having a single issue.

@IT-ADMIN said:

I work with Vmware, so this info will be more Vmware specific.

http://www.vmware.com/products/converter

great, you are working in VMware, it is a big international company, !!! it is nice to take benefit from IT professional working in such big companies, happy to talk with such people, great thanks to Mr Scott who inform me about this excellent IT discussion forum

I work for a big V, but not Vmware.

They poach our people left and right though.

@scottalanmiller said:

@IT-ADMIN NTG is a VMware partner and a general virtualization / cloud consultancy too. VMware, Xen, HyperV, Zones, etc.

You should check out our new product rolling out soon. Crazy backend, but we also do all those fun hypervisors. All because the company we bought for this has some irrational hatred towards Vmware.

Now that I'm Hyper-V certified, I'm being slowly sucked into the shit.

All I know is the big V's cloud isn't as cheap, but it's considerably more advanced and robust than all the others. Plus our bandwidth is top notch. Rackspace uses cheaper bandwidth.

We spin you up right.

@IT-ADMIN said:

@PSX_Defector said:

@IT-ADMIN said:

yes Sir i'm an arabic speaker, did you heard about Morocco before

Just Morocco Mole.

ooooooh, great i didn't imagine that morocco is well known even to US citizen

Oh I've taken many a trip down the Marrakesh Express, شكرا بزاف

@IT-ADMIN said:

@PSX_Defector said:

@IT-ADMIN said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@IT-ADMIN said:

in the future we can think about hosting our data (files) in the cloud, but what about Application server, this is the problem we cannot install our application in an outside server in the cloud,

For legal reasons?

honestly i don't know, but i think that the IT company that sold us this application will not accept to install it in an hosted server as far as i can see

Then you don't tell them, silly.

I can tell you that using a hosted server would solve your issue pretty well. It would give you a point to relay both offices off of to bridge the networks together. Our company also gives you the option of naming your server whatever you want. So match it to your naming convention within your current environment, use it as your VPN/Application server, and have the company install it as if it was within your own environment. Most of these kinds of things, the guys installing it are complete and utter morons, they will never figure it out.

Or, if push comes to shove, just use a P2V utility like Vmware Converter on your current install, be it physical or virtual, spin up a cloud server and upload the image to it. No muss, no fuss.

hhh, i understand almost 50% of what you have said, i think that you used deep slang american language,

Wouldn't be the first time someone said my english skills were not up to par for non-english speakers. Imagine attempting to teach someone the Texas Two Step who has no idea where Texas even is.

I work with Vmware, so this info will be more Vmware specific.

http://www.vmware.com/products/converter

Use this to build a copy of your current server with the application installed. Upload it to your provider of choice. Then shutdown your old server, turn on the new server, then setup a VPN connection between your sites and the hosted server. Eliminate both the issue with dynamic IPs between your sites and host your application in a place where you can access it anywhere in the world. It makes things a lot easier and eliminates the vendor from knowing that you changed up the server.

@scottalanmiller said:

@art_of_shred I'm not familiar with "green" stoners. Most stoners that I know listen to country, not rock, strangely.

You haven't hung around enough stoners methinks.....

@IT-ADMIN said:

yes Sir i'm an arabic speaker, did you heard about Morocco before

Just Morocco Mole.

@IT-ADMIN said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@IT-ADMIN said:

in the future we can think about hosting our data (files) in the cloud, but what about Application server, this is the problem we cannot install our application in an outside server in the cloud,

For legal reasons?

honestly i don't know, but i think that the IT company that sold us this application will not accept to install it in an hosted server as far as i can see

Then you don't tell them, silly.

I can tell you that using a hosted server would solve your issue pretty well. It would give you a point to relay both offices off of to bridge the networks together. Our company also gives you the option of naming your server whatever you want. So match it to your naming convention within your current environment, use it as your VPN/Application server, and have the company install it as if it was within your own environment. Most of these kinds of things, the guys installing it are complete and utter morons, they will never figure it out.

Or, if push comes to shove, just use a P2V utility like Vmware Converter on your current install, be it physical or virtual, spin up a cloud server and upload the image to it. No muss, no fuss.

Hey, I may be many things, a hedonist, a misogynist, a roller derby girl, but I'm not a war criminal.

@Bill-Kindle said:

I guess that would depend on the job you were apply for no?

When I was at AT&T I got a call from a guy. Was helping him out and needed to email him something, so he gave me a email @vivid.com. I had to ask him if that was Vivid Video. Indeed it was!

He sent me a login to the FTP site. Let's just say I was set for certain videos for years.

@Carnival-Boy said:

I'm not alone. If you look at the job listings for VisualDNA (http://www.visualdna.com/careers/vacancy/?p_id=829), a hip London startup, you'll see that they actually request that applicants give details of where they can read more about you (forums, blogs etc etc).

Nope!

Once again, my internet life and my real life are separate, and never shall the twain meet.

Besides, do they really want to read my AdultFriendFinder posts?

You do know that the console would have given you the answer you seek for the PS command?

The output seems to say that you already set the mailbox to 100MB. Check it before you wreck it with:

Get-Mailbox <identity> | fl MaxSendSize