Best posts made by Reid Cooper

So you left the old job, right? Why would you consider returning?

@dbeato said in Bonus: when SAM was against KVM:

Things change very often, probably at the time it was not something a lot experienced and worked with.

Five years is certainly a long time in the lives of KVM or Xen.

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Don't forget about LibreOffice.

When it doubt, throw it out. Short and to the point. Hiring managers are generally only going to skim your resume.

Sometimes when using Windows 10 I am unable to access applications that are installed. The idea, since Windows 8, is that you hit the Windows key and a search tool pops up and you start typing and it brings up the applications that you want. I am used to this and it mostly works great.

But now that I am on Windows 10 from time to time the search stops working completely. I hit the Windows key, the search bar comes up, I type in what I am looking for (same programs that work normally) and it just searches for forever unable to find anything. When it works it brings up a list nearly instantly. But about 10% of the time, it cannot find anything at all. Once it gets like this, I have to reboot and try again.

Has anyone seen this or know what I might be able to do to address it?

TGIF everyone. Almost there...

Digital Ocean has really made a name for themselves making incredible documentation. In the past year they've become really famous for it. Very well written, well maintained, tested. It's probably their best marketing tool.

Fluke makes great stuff. Hard to go wrong with their stuff in your "go bag." And another vote for a large USB stick. And if you can find a small screwdriver kit with a lot of different sizes and types and don't forget about Torx.

Hearing of IT peeps that get ignored except when things go wrong and never recognized for making a difference or contribution is way too common. IT is nearly a brand for "not really a part of the organization."

For how many shops is $500 something that can just be ignored? When I see posts it seems like people are constantly fighting to get the budget for a single Windows Server license even when it is pretty necessary. Spending an extra $500 anywhere, no matter what it is on, does not seem like it would often be trivial. If a company only need the $500 license, then it can only have three servers, tops. How many companies are both so small that they only need three servers maximum but have enough discretionary income that they do not see $500 as a somewhat significant line item?

That free book on Functional Python is just begging for some experimentation there.

That site was so busy it took me a second to realize that it wasn't Lowe's site.

@DustinB3403 said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:

Using the classic IPOD spew, I've been asked to sit in and listen, and when asked to respond and I call the proposal a pile of horse waste, I'm the one getting the dirty stares from the person who might actually be buying the horse pile.

Instead of calling the solution a pile of horse waste, do you ask the presenters how they overcome obstacles? For example you might ask some of these questions...

• What is the value of the extra, high cost hardware to the business when redundancy is reduced - basically, how does this save the business money while more is being spent.
• How do they overcome the natural risks inherent in a single point of failure given that dual controllers is a known risk; and have paperwork on that risk ready to go.
• Ask them how they overcome the risks of SAM's dependency chain risk additions.
• Ask them how since what they are proposing adds risk & adds cost how they feel it could be viably suggested. What factors justify being more costly and more risky. Ask them, not the customer, where the improved value is.
• Ask them why moving from a redundant design to a non-redundant one with more cost and more things to fail and more dependencies is justifiable.
• Ask them what happens when the SAN fails.
• Ask them why they feel that the servers are fragile when they are provably safe, and why the SAN is safe when it is obviously risky.

Let them answer, instead of accusing them. Your presentation makes all of the difference.

If you are really, really confident, then you can play the "what kind of fool do you think my boss is" card. Stand with, not against, management. Imply that your management would never be fooled by such an obvious marketing tactic. Don't put management on the emotional defensive.

In many cases like this the environment might be small enough that you could just remove the switch. Doesn't solve everything, but lowers the cost and removes something that could otherwise fail.

Used to make sense to build your own, but it has been a while since I have seen a situation where I would recommend that.

It is listed as a Trojan, specifically a Remote Access Trojan or RAT. So definitely a file. But the commands that make it scary are in DNS, not in the Trojan file. I think that that is why they use that term. But it is pretty confusing and misleading.

@wirestyle22 said in Trying to get accurate disk usage info from CentOS:

@BRRABill said in Trying to get accurate disk usage info from CentOS:

@Tim_G said in Trying to get accurate disk usage info from CentOS:

Didn't realize it was that small, so used to Windows.

@scottalanmiller no comment on this? You are the KING!!! of comments when people say this.

I know because it's been said to me numerous times!

I just realized I know Scott's triggers pretty well at this point lol

RAID 5!!!

runs away

I think an important aspect here is to remember that you are trusting Vultr to run your infrastructure, but are second guessing their settings.

Did this become a... wait for it...

PowerShell bash session?