@leahcrowell22 said in Google for Education and Google Certified Trainer:

@thanksajdotcom I really want to look more on the training/support side of things. The administration/infrastructure is something I'm willing too look into. But I'd rather be working with people in a real life setting.

The reason I ask is it's a huge difference in paths. One is much less people-oriented, the other much more, obviously. If you are much more interested in working with people, then a training route is going to be beneficial. However, in a lot of things, having experience in the admin/infrastructure side is important for training, but it also depends who you're training. If you're training end-users, that level of knowledge would be useful for you for comprehension, but outside of basics, you probably wouldn't use it day-to-day. Are you looking to train end-users, or technical users? That will also determine what path you choose.

I have some stories but they are all about NTG...:P

Note: I posted the time-stamped link but if you want to see my part, start at 26:36.

http://www.thanksaj.com/2014/08/review-webroot-secureanywhere-endpoint-protection/

I have also been promoted!
https://community.webroot.com/t5/Webroot-Discussions/AJ-wrote-a-review-of-Webroot-on-his-blog/m-p/139053
https://twitter.com/Webroot/status/499266317984481280
http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/559628-review-of-webroot-from-aj-stringham

Woohoo! Check it out!
A.J.

@IRJ said in A Job Description Done Right:

Sounds like a good job for someone who is pretty new in IT.

For everyone else, it sounds like this "We want to pay you entry level pay for server projects and deployments"

@coliver said in A Job Description Done Right:

@IRJ said in A Job Description Done Right:

Sounds like a good job for someone who is pretty new in IT.

For everyone else, it sounds like this "We want to pay you entry level pay for server projects and deployments"

I'm not sure I read exactly that. To me it reads, "If you take the job now, at next to nothing, "eventually" you will work up to making lots of money and specializing. "

The job actually is going to pay decent to start from what we briefly discussed on the phone, so that's not a bad thing. Also, from my brief conversation (I'll know more after tomorrow), it seems like the type of company that invests in their people.

About freaking time.

So I show up today and find out I'm on the schedule to speak! I had finished writing my presentation and brought all my stuff with me "just in case" but had no intentions of speaking today. I had written the speech but hadn't gotten a chance to rehearse it at all. Not once. It came out really well though! I won the "firecracker" award, which is for the person who spoke with the most feeling/most moving speech/most lively, etc. I was pretty happy overall.

@scottalanmiller said:

On the StorageCraft Blog Generalist or Specialist: Which IT Path is Right for You. My latest article posted while we were down in Austin and I have not had time to share it until now.

Interesting article.

I constantly explain this to users, helpdesk people, and people looking to get into IT. I see people going to school for CIS or CS all the time so they can "get into IT". I have actually looked at people before and said "no, don't go to school for IT" and I get confused looks like I just blew their mind, and not in a good way. Explaining that IT is a tool used to meet business needs and that the technical aspect is, to be perfectly frank, confusing to most people.

Mango Madness?
Mangos on Ice?
Mangos Locked in a Parking Garage? Oops...wrong convention...:P

There is a chance I will speak again this Saturday. It remains to be seen.

Last Plantronics review I'll do today, I promise!

So for my gamer friends out there, I have something I KNOW you'll love! I welcome you to The RIG. This thing works with your cell, computer, Xbox and now PS4 (see their website for more info on the PS4). What I love is that, especially for you FPS fans, you can adjust the volume on the headset to give more preference to in-game chat or in-game sound effects. Basically, you wanna hear some n00b going on about how lame you are or you wanna hear him sneaking up behind you? You decide! It can be used as a headset with your cell, with a simple button press to switch between the two inputs. The cord is crazy long, so no worries about being glued 6" from the TV. It powers all by USB and connects the same way other Xbox 360 headsets do. For the PC, it works just as well, and the USB is also its connection for more than just power. I've used this before when I was working helpdesk and it works great. It's comfy to wear, the sound quality for gaming and movies is amazing, and you really can't beat the price it retails at as $100. I could not be happier with this and for any gamer, if you're not looking to break the bank on a great headset, this one is definitely one I would seriously consider.

Thanks,
A.J.

Well done! Welcome to ML Sarah!

If you were left out of the loop, it isn't your fault. Could you have prevented some higher costs from being an issue? Yes, but ONLY if you knew. If you didn't know, it's nothing you should blame yourself for

@MattKing said:

@ajstringham You sir, are a genius; I might be sending you messages at random hours for food suggestions.

Always trust a fat man when it comes to food.

Did you get a chance to try it yet?

@MattSpeller said:

@Dashrender non-standardized keyboard layouts are the evil equivalent level of emperor palpatine.

You should see the Fujitsu POS keyboards they have at my store...OMG! I'll snap a pic next time I'm there...horrendous!

@Nic said:

I guess inkjet ink is no longer made out of unicorn blood

The technology has improved significantly. Even your upper-end consumer inkjet, like the HP OJ 8600 or Epson WF-4530 is plenty fit for an SMB. They've gotten more reliable. The HP OJ 8500 had print heads, but the 8600 fixed that issue by adopting an approach of a machine without print heads. Considering that print heads are often what goes first (that or the feed rollers) and are both most likely to break and most expensive to replace, doing this improved the model. While they still lack some of the business-grade features you find on actual business equipment, for a SOHO or the like, they work well.

@scottalanmiller said:

@ajstringham said:

Wouldn't hardware RAID be faster?

Not since around 2001 or so. It is actually slower. There is more horsepower in the main CPUs than there is in the embedded processors even on the best RAID cards. And the best cards only have a 1GB cache whereas software RAID has as much cache as you want to throw at it, 2GB is easy, 32GB isn't unheard of.

The idea that hardware RAID is faster comes from the Pentium 32bit era (1990s) when hardware RAID was new. Back then the main CPU(s) were so slow and overloaded that offloading the parity calculations was a big deal. It was in the Pentium Pro era (inclusive of the PPro, P2, P3 and Core processors) that the CPU(s) got so fast and were so rarely overloaded that software RAID passed hardware RAID in performance. So that could have been in the 1990s but was more reasonably in the early 2000s. Big systems like Power and Sparc systems never went to hardware RAID at all (and were always the fastest systems) because they always had stable operating systems with super fast CPUs and more of them.

Interesting. Good to know.

http://www.maximumpc.com/comcast_apologizes_overzealous_rep_who_made_cancelling_service_nightmare

Some people...can't take a hint apparently...lol

I give you exhibit A.