Posts made by siringo

good bye ruby tuesday, who could hang a name on you ....

it's tuesday morning!

just worked out why my right wrist is capoot!

too many years resting on a computer mouse, bloody thing is useless sometimes.

Tis firewood season and I have to use both hands to move a single piece of cut wood most times, just can't lift with my stuffed up right wrist.

oh, whoa is me ...

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

monday morning, all alone today. just doing stuff.

Good morning!

Yes, good morning, hello.

monday morning, all alone today. just doing stuff.

how things change.

years ago I was a contractor for the state police force. one saturday morning we were scheduled to upgrade the chief commissioners desktop pc.

there we were, (had to have 2 of us for on site for security reasons), working away, I was sitting in the chief's seat doing what had to be done, next thing, the door swings open and 2 protective security guys bust in, hands on holstered pistols, "what are you guys doing here" ....

this morning I helped a 7 y.o with log in issues with ABC reading eggs.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Went and got tacos this morning.

Morning tacos? Are they breakfast tacos? What do you put in them?

Yeah, breakfast tacos are the standard breakfast here in Texas. Typically eggs, cheese, potatoes and then either beans for people like me or sausage or bacon for others.

Ooooh, I remember when we visited Houston. Came down from the hotel room one morning, buffet breaky, never eaten so much bacon .....

trying to get some group policies to work while listening to lead belly!

tuesday morning. can't get going this morning.

try putting the switches in the 'arguments' field of the Action tab.

@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

binged the Matrix movies over the last 3 days. they left the last one wide open for 5th film.
still reckon the original is the best.

I reckon they should have left it at one. There was just something missing from the others that followed. Don't get me wrong, I have watched 2 & 3 and I did like them but I just feel that they were unnecessary.

eh. maybe, dunno. at least the follow ups were watchable.

i'll be back onto sbs now, see what new Scandi noir masterpiece I can wrap my eyeballs around.

binged the Matrix movies over the last 3 days. they left the last one wide open for 5th film.
still reckon the original is the best.

@scottalanmiller said in Migrating to xxxxx:

@siringo said in Migrating to xxxxx:

@scottalanmiller said in Migrating to xxxxx:

@siringo said in Migrating to xxxxx:

I believe it would be more useful to ask questions like 'how would you solve this?', or 'what's something you've done that you've taken great pride in completing?'
Questions that dig into how a person thinks and solves, rather than past job history.

Exactly, and anyone with business or interview training would tell you that that's kinda day one training in that stuff. If you are getting deep into specific skills, it suggests that no one interviewed you on being an interviewer, LOL.

I find even better than questions is just discussion. It's hard, but just dive in and get people talking. If they are passionate and knowledgable they will be able to talk and it is really hard to bluff conversation of a technical nature of any large period of time.

Ah. So that may be why I've been interviewing shitterly for the past 12 months.

I've been in the game for a long time, i've aqcuired lots of knowledge about business, technology and life and when being interviewed I probably don't appear all that interested? When asked about something I may seem half hearted, the thing is though, I've been in front of so many 'how the crap am I going to do this' moments that not much worries me anymore. I've learnt that almost everything can be solved, fixed, upgraded or replaced, all you need is time.

Sorry, this is way off topic.

I have a similar situation. There's no more panic. Just "let me do my job and get on with it." People sometimes see that as not taking it seriously when really, I'm just that much more on top of things.

This ^^^ absolutely.

@scottalanmiller we were talking on the weekend and my wife said, ' ... unless you move to Nicaragua, or some weird place like that...'.

I said I know a bloke who could put us up if you want to go.

@nadnerB yeah it was mate. Did my mental health some real good, feel like i've had a holiday to be honest.

had a great weekend.

went down to the city on Friday afternoon. got there about 8:30pm, met our son at the pub and had a great night meeting with his friends, drinking beer and listening to some alt country band outta nashville.

saturday was a free day and ended the day by over eating on thai food and rolling home.

sunday went and saw Rockwiz live and got to meet the presenters back stage.

now back at work.

@scottalanmiller said in Migrating to xxxxx:

@siringo said in Migrating to xxxxx:

I believe it would be more useful to ask questions like 'how would you solve this?', or 'what's something you've done that you've taken great pride in completing?'
Questions that dig into how a person thinks and solves, rather than past job history.

Exactly, and anyone with business or interview training would tell you that that's kinda day one training in that stuff. If you are getting deep into specific skills, it suggests that no one interviewed you on being an interviewer, LOL.

I find even better than questions is just discussion. It's hard, but just dive in and get people talking. If they are passionate and knowledgable they will be able to talk and it is really hard to bluff conversation of a technical nature of any large period of time.

Ah. So that may be why I've been interviewing shitterly for the past 12 months.

I've been in the game for a long time, i've aqcuired lots of knowledge about business, technology and life and when being interviewed I probably don't appear all that interested? When asked about something I may seem half hearted, the thing is though, I've been in front of so many 'how the crap am I going to do this' moments that not much worries me anymore. I've learnt that almost everything can be solved, fixed, upgraded or replaced, all you need is time.

Sorry, this is way off topic.

Thanks everyone for the input.

I had another play with rclone and got it to work, looks quite useful.

@Obsolesce said in Migrating to xxxxx:

@siringo said in Migrating to xxxxx:

But how do you/we get around the problem of an interview panel asking " so how much experience do you have with Ansible, Salt, AD etc"

Either don't interview for those positions, or get experience doing the stuff you want to be doing.

Sorry, I wasn't clear.

What I meant was, how de we, the interviewer, interviewee and industry, get around panels asking that style of question?

I believe it would be more useful to ask questions like 'how would you solve this?', or 'what's something you've done that you've taken great pride in completing?'

Questions that dig into how a person thinks and solves, rather than past job history.

@scottalanmiller Interesting.
But how do you/we get around the problem of an interview panel asking " so how much experience do you have with Ansible, Salt, AD etc"

If you're the interviewee and you say none and 90% of job respondents reply with none, that business is going to have trouble finding a suitable replacement, which becomes a business problem.

You have to remember the majority of businesses are small businesses without IT departments, they don't understand IT and an IT issue is usually a major headache.

I guess what I'm saying here is, is it a good idea to use technologies that aren't as well known Vs ones that are well known.

I'm not anti this or that, I don't care what anyone uses.

The last interview I went to I was asked "what experience do you have managing iPads in an MDM environment?" I answered none, because I had none. Then I inherited 2 sites that were managing iPads with an MDM and both sites I have improved and made the management of the iPads easier and more efficient than what was configured by the so called highly paid expert that set it up initially.

So I do agree with what you say about how an experienced IT person should be able to just sit down and figure it out, but it's hard to get that opportunity when applying for a new position, interview panels want immediate results most times.

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