I had to laugh when I read your response - I'm taking night classes for my MBA right now!
But to answer your question I found FlipDog to be, hands down, the best job board!
E.g. on Monster/Dice et al I search for "network" in the Seattle area and I get about 5 to 15 hits, most of them pretty lousy entry-level positions.
The same search on FlipDog netted me about 150 positions, half of which were actually semi-relevant!
The only problem I had was cycle time. FlipDog actively goes out and searches company websites for positions so a "new" position listing may actually be a week or so old and/or already filled (esp. in this economy).
I did, however, find my new job there! (When even good local head-hunters who have worked wonders in the past couldn't.)
but wouldn't it be funny if the missing minutes were just Nixon concealing from his wife the fact that he'd been yuk-yukking it up with his beer buddies about his latest sexual conquests...?
Not to rain on your job-seeking parade but I know all of the above plus Netware 2.x through 6.x, NT all the way back to 3.50, AT&T Sys-V (not that anybody cares any more) and DG's AOS-VS and it STILL took me a year to find a new job.
Admittedly I have been pretty picky, I probably could have gotten a job in a month or so if I just took the first thing that came along, but who wants to do tier-one tech support?!?:(
Thank god I've never been laid off...
(Well, okay, I'll admit it, I was once - but I was only 12 years old.:)
It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a flock of binders!
But seriously, documentation is key to anything like this. I know most sysadmins wail and moan and gnash their teeth at the very thought, but good documentation is almost as important as good backups!
YMMV but it might actually be worth picking somebody as the "doc-meister" to learn ALL of the systems and have the other admins submit config changes etc. to this person on an on-going basis.
This also helps prevent the common admin trick of just printing out tons of scripts to fill the binder and saying "See, it's all documented, right here" - except it doesn't actually help anybody understand anything!
This way if the documentation lead can't understand it then you know a replacement admin won't either and changes can be made before it's really needed.
If I had mod points I'd give you one.
I've always wondered why FPS make me feel nauseous almost immediately and I never understood how other people could play them for hours unaffected.
...in Portland. And I live in Seattle! The Seattle show was sold out by the time I heard about it and I actually drove to Portland with my girlfriend to see it. Was it worth it? Totally. This guy's hilarious! I don't know how well it translates into book format (a lot of sight gags) but be sure to catch his play if he comes to your town.
Unless you know for a fact that your performance needs are minimal, you better do a bunch of research and discuss the future needs of the company with the powers that be or your head WILL be handed to you on a platter.
Cat-5 can do Gigabit nowadays, WiFi does about 20Mb if you're lucky (yeah, I know 802.11a can burst up to 74Mb, but you gotta be sitting on top of the damn AP to get that! How many sys-admins can sit on the head of an AP anyway?:).
If you're looking at 802.11b for range then you'll be looking at a real-world max of about 2Mb. Again, fine for browsing and the occasional download but impossible for a business with real bandwidth needs like databases and poorly designed accounting apps. Not to mention the schmuck who delights in creating 50Mb PowerPoint presentations.
Think twice, then a couple more times. Then investigate every app you're using now and every app you expect to be using in the next couple of years, then go have a beer and come back to thinking about in a day or so. Repeat as many times as it takes to update your resume'...
I'll ask you what I asked somebody else above.:) Could you post more info on your project, or, if you'd rather not broadcast the details to the world, send them to me @ sd-at-itwerx-dot-net?
This external antenna design sounds interesting. Could you reply to this with more info on how that was done? (Or if you'd rather not share it with the world my email is sd-at-itwerx-dot-net).
Don't give them an option. This does pre-suppose that your contract gives you full rights to the software of course. I own all the rights to every database and utility I've ever written, and while none of them have been sufficiently general-purpose enough to actually be worth releasing I have the legal right to do whatever the heck I want with them.
Now I wouldn't go shoving it in their faces. Heck, I wouldn't mention it at all. But if you release it six months or a year after it's finished - A. They might never know, and B. Even if they do pitch a fit there's nothing they can do if you own the rights to it.
"A man observed by the celebrated Dutch physician Hermann Boerhaave took his meals at a table that had been cut away in a semicircle to accommodate his circumference"
No kidding. I never saw him, but my Grandmother has stories about this. (But I weigh all of 170# without any flab at all.:)
I've been thinking about putting up "Keep Right Except to Pass" signs along the left side of the interstates where I live. (Along with those "Fine for Littering" signs). I went so far as to get the specs off the web, but when I found out how much it was going to cost for angle-iron/other hardware and the signs themselves I decided I'd wait until I could afford enough to be meaningful.
Negotiating often works. Ferinstance I negotiated for three day weekends, every weekend. (Yes, I only work 32 hours a week). I looked at my salary vs my commission and the fact that Mondays and Fridays were the slowest days for me and discovered that I would only lose out on a couple hundred dollars a month. My boss was happy as he still gets 90% of my 40-hr a week productivity and I'm happy because I get 50% more time off. I do still come in on Mondays once in awhile when we have projects that require it of course, but that's not even once a month.
So yeah, especially in today's economy, your employer might be more flexible than you'd expect (as long as you do the math and present it in an appropriately business-like manner/perspective:).
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I was a Y2K consultant back in the (not so distant) day. And while the problem was more real than most would have you believe, (trust me on this, I was involved in some of the high-impact areas like utility infrastructures and healthcare, it could have been pretty bad), I swear we had just as much hassle dealing with the PHB's who'd read his stuff as we did handling the real issues!
The guy is a rabble-rousing fear-monger!
It's quite possible that the folks present in the initial surge of Internet adoption have learned to be more efficient too.
Not to mention that the median age group has had a lot more computer training at school now than a decade ago.
The bigger portals (Yahoo etc.) are better designed now and more widely known as well.
Lots of possible explanations for a whopping 7-minute reduction!:)
Let each person's home directory be their website, then just point the Apache virtual servers to the users' respective homes. Remember, of course, to add the Apache user itself to each user's personal "group" so it can see their stuff.
Super easy, I've been doing it for years. ('Course now somebody's going to point out some huge security flaw in this arrangement and I'll be kicking myself from here to breakfast...:)
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I had to laugh when I read your response - I'm taking night classes for my MBA right now!
But to answer your question I found FlipDog to be, hands down, the best job board!
E.g. on Monster/Dice et al I search for "network" in the Seattle area and I get about 5 to 15 hits, most of them pretty lousy entry-level positions.
The same search on FlipDog netted me about 150 positions, half of which were actually semi-relevant!
The only problem I had was cycle time. FlipDog actively goes out and searches company websites for positions so a "new" position listing may actually be a week or so old and/or already filled (esp. in this economy).
I did, however, find my new job there! (When even good local head-hunters who have worked wonders in the past couldn't.)
Good luck!
but wouldn't it be funny if the missing minutes were just Nixon concealing from his wife the fact that he'd been yuk-yukking it up with his beer buddies about his latest sexual conquests...?
Not to rain on your job-seeking parade but I know all of the above plus Netware 2.x through 6.x, NT all the way back to 3.50, AT&T Sys-V (not that anybody cares any more) and DG's AOS-VS and it STILL took me a year to find a new job. :(
:)
Admittedly I have been pretty picky, I probably could have gotten a job in a month or so if I just took the first thing that came along, but who wants to do tier-one tech support?!?
Thank god I've never been laid off...
(Well, okay, I'll admit it, I was once - but I was only 12 years old.
It's a bird!
It's a plane!
It's a flock of binders!
But seriously, documentation is key to anything like this. I know most sysadmins wail and moan and gnash their teeth at the very thought, but good documentation is almost as important as good backups!
YMMV but it might actually be worth picking somebody as the "doc-meister" to learn ALL of the systems and have the other admins submit config changes etc. to this person on an on-going basis.
This also helps prevent the common admin trick of just printing out tons of scripts to fill the binder and saying "See, it's all documented, right here" - except it doesn't actually help anybody understand anything!
This way if the documentation lead can't understand it then you know a replacement admin won't either and changes can be made before it's really needed.
If I had mod points I'd give you one.
I've always wondered why FPS make me feel nauseous almost immediately and I never understood how other people could play them for hours unaffected.
TSIA (Title Says It All)
Almost subtle in its boldness.
Off to the troll-torture chambers wi' ye!
...in Portland. And I live in Seattle! The Seattle show was sold out by the time I heard about it and I actually drove to Portland with my girlfriend to see it. Was it worth it? Totally. This guy's hilarious! I don't know how well it translates into book format (a lot of sight gags) but be sure to catch his play if he comes to your town.
Unless you know for a fact that your performance needs are minimal, you better do a bunch of research and discuss the future needs of the company with the powers that be or your head WILL be handed to you on a platter. :).
Cat-5 can do Gigabit nowadays, WiFi does about 20Mb if you're lucky (yeah, I know 802.11a can burst up to 74Mb, but you gotta be sitting on top of the damn AP to get that! How many sys-admins can sit on the head of an AP anyway?
If you're looking at 802.11b for range then you'll be looking at a real-world max of about 2Mb. Again, fine for browsing and the occasional download but impossible for a business with real bandwidth needs like databases and poorly designed accounting apps. Not to mention the schmuck who delights in creating 50Mb PowerPoint presentations.
Think twice, then a couple more times. Then investigate every app you're using now and every app you expect to be using in the next couple of years, then go have a beer and come back to thinking about in a day or so. Repeat as many times as it takes to update your resume'...
I'll ask you what I asked somebody else above. :) Could you post more info on your project, or, if you'd rather not broadcast the details to the world, send them to me @ sd-at-itwerx-dot-net?
Thanks!
This external antenna design sounds interesting. Could you reply to this with more info on how that was done? (Or if you'd rather not share it with the world my email is sd-at-itwerx-dot-net).
Thanks!
Couldn't have said it better myself! :)
Is your wireless gear 802.11a or 802.11b...?
You're sick and tired of IT and are ready to change careers... (Hey, you can always change your mind, right?)
If you email the judge, CC the reporter too:
randerson@seattleweekly.com
Don't give them an option. This does pre-suppose that your contract gives you full rights to the software of course. I own all the rights to every database and utility I've ever written, and while none of them have been sufficiently general-purpose enough to actually be worth releasing I have the legal right to do whatever the heck I want with them.
Now I wouldn't go shoving it in their faces. Heck, I wouldn't mention it at all. But if you release it six months or a year after it's finished - A. They might never know, and B. Even if they do pitch a fit there's nothing they can do if you own the rights to it.
"A man observed by the celebrated Dutch physician Hermann Boerhaave took his meals at a table that had been cut away in a semicircle to accommodate his circumference"
:)
No kidding. I never saw him, but my Grandmother has stories about this.
(But I weigh all of 170# without any flab at all.
I've been thinking about putting up "Keep Right Except to Pass" signs along the left side of the interstates where I live. (Along with those "Fine for Littering" signs). I went so far as to get the specs off the web, but when I found out how much it was going to cost for angle-iron/other hardware and the signs themselves I decided I'd wait until I could afford enough to be meaningful.
and a whole bunch of other stuff too. (E.g. client domain, WINS [yech], Samba node type, time servers etc.)
Go read some DHCP docs...
Negotiating often works. Ferinstance I negotiated for three day weekends, every weekend. (Yes, I only work 32 hours a week). I looked at my salary vs my commission and the fact that Mondays and Fridays were the slowest days for me and discovered that I would only lose out on a couple hundred dollars a month. My boss was happy as he still gets 90% of my 40-hr a week productivity and I'm happy because I get 50% more time off. I do still come in on Mondays once in awhile when we have projects that require it of course, but that's not even once a month. :).
So yeah, especially in today's economy, your employer might be more flexible than you'd expect (as long as you do the math and present it in an appropriately business-like manner/perspective
I was a Y2K consultant back in the (not so distant) day. And while the problem was more real than most would have you believe, (trust me on this, I was involved in some of the high-impact areas like utility infrastructures and healthcare, it could have been pretty bad), I swear we had just as much hassle dealing with the PHB's who'd read his stuff as we did handling the real issues!
The guy is a rabble-rousing fear-monger!
It's quite possible that the folks present in the initial surge of Internet adoption have learned to be more efficient too. :)
Not to mention that the median age group has had a lot more computer training at school now than a decade ago.
The bigger portals (Yahoo etc.) are better designed now and more widely known as well.
Lots of possible explanations for a whopping 7-minute reduction!
Yes, well, suexec DOES help. :)
Here's a link to Apache's own info on security (including suexec).
Let each person's home directory be their website, then just point the Apache virtual servers to the users' respective homes. Remember, of course, to add the Apache user itself to each user's personal "group" so it can see their stuff. :)
Super easy, I've been doing it for years. ('Course now somebody's going to point out some huge security flaw in this arrangement and I'll be kicking myself from here to breakfast...
Just look on their main page.
Sorry, I should have mentioned that.