Capacity planning: "Based on our performance monitoring over the last 6 months, (show the charts you've made) we have 4 systems that will require additional disk within six months at a cost of $x, and two that need additional memory immediately. My projections go out to a year based on current growth rates of our service." What, you don't have performance monitoring statistics? You'd better start now. And learn how to do projections based on business growth rates.
Bottlenecks: "When we look at the end to end system, it seems that our primary bottleneck is in our backed SQL database. Transactions take 1.2 seconds to complete, while the rest of the system completes in.2 seconds. We'd like to spend $$ on a DBA to go over and optimize the queries."
Costs: "Running our entire data center costs $y per month. The electric company is due to raise rates in 3 months (yes, you call them and ask!) so our costs will increase to $z. We think we can offset that cost by calling the server manufacturers and ensuring that our warranty will cover things if we reduce our air conditioning by 3 degrees. We also have 6 servers coming off of warranty in 6 months. The cost to replace them will be $x which includes migration costs, and the cost to extend the warranty is $y."
Or in other words, most people on cell phones are intelligent enough to realize they are not driving under perfect conditions and react accordingly.
I think you have "cause" and "effect" backwards here. Drivers on cell phones drive so noticeably bad, that all the other drivers back up and avoid the selfish moron. Cell phone users are also the ones that tend to think they have a right to jam themselves in the passing lanes and then drive slower, thus jamming up traffic all around. Again, they're too damn selfish to just shut the fuck up for a few minutes and get to their destination.
Use AD. Even though folks will fuss and whine about AD being not pure LDAP, for all intents and purposes it is, and we've got lots of Linux and other *nix boxes using it for authentication. And remember, you can always extend AD for your custom applications easy enough. It's simple enough that MCSEs can run it.
If this guy isn't in a position to know how much the university is spending on licenses, then he definitely does not have the power to influence the decision. He clearly thinks more of his position than everyone else does.
Just remember the biggest downside to being a Java developer: Java is the language of "Your job is being outsourced to India. Please train your 14 replacements within the next 4 weeks."
Anyone else having the issue where the H1B candidates that are interviewed (over the phone, natch) are not the same people that show up on the first day at work? That's the new scam. The staffing companies specializing in the H1B candidates are using shills for the interviews.
OK, so you can either be a security dick and "haughtily" tell people of their errors, etc, or you can actually help the sysadmins. And I don't mean help by slapping your polished report on the managers desk and think you're helping by listing all the things they've done wrong. No, get down in the trenches. Build a relationship with the engineers and sysadmins, so that you work together. They'll start coming to you before they make mistakes asking you to help them double check their work. I worked at one shop where the security team was just like this. We'd work with them on what we did, and prevented tons of mistakes before there was ever an issue and things moved to production. Then you have the security team I work with now, who we simply call "Team No." They're pretty useless, everyone hates ever having to deal with them. They're the type that when you ask for help designing a secure system will respond its not their job. When you question them they'll haughtily respond "I know what I'm doing, I'm a CISSP!!!" Big freakin' deal, I respond, so am I. But the net result is without cooperation, they'll never truly be able to secure our systems.
Please be the kind of security guy that is a help not a hindrance. And then I'm sure you'll start going home at the end of the day feeling much better about yourself.
My God I thought it was horrible. Mostly in the way they felt that just had to use every reference they could possibly find from the original show and mess with it. Fry's dog? check... and so on. It just ruined so many of the older stories that should never have been touched again.
Worse than that, this keyboard has that really crappy layout with the short backslash key and the huge enter key. I despise that layout of keyboard.. I'm going to stick with my old but trusty IBM beat someone to death with it keyboard. That thing hopefully never will die.
Another group in my company is using Hibernate and absolutely hates it with a passion, due to all the bugs they have to work around. The lead architect who doesn't code likes it, but the other architects who still code don't, along with most of the programmers.
Every time I hear everyone whining about "broadband adoption rates" I just think that they don't get it. Lots of people don't want broadband. Lots of people don't even care about Internet access. Sure it would be nice to have availability everywhere, but when the measurement is of how many people use broadband, that doesn't say much of anything.
Definitely farm it out. Bad graphics will kill a site, and good enough graphics no longer are good enough. Find a skilled professional. And I say this as someone who is absolutely horrible with graphics. Since the guy is the one IT guy for a small business, I'm pretty sure the website doesn't have hundreds of pages, so it's not like this should be such a huge job and cost thousands.
This brings up an interesting point. I keep my mail server in my house. Have for years. Makes it a lot easier just in case, they have to come to ME to serve the secret warrant for my email. Not just go to an ISP or gmail. I wonder if that gives me any true additional protection or not.
From what the parent post seems to say isn't "disagreeable" or saying "school sucks" or the "principal is a weenie", but it's illegal activity that was going on. And usually there are fines and punishments attached to illegal activity.
Hehheh... Actually, they own a few less domains as of today. I finished moving the remaining ones I own to another registrar. That is how you punish this sort of activity. Do they actually lose money by scooping up those checked for domain names? Maybe, I'm not so sure that's the case. But I do know that by moving domains from them they do lose hard $$.
Isn't Dark Energy responsible for the expanding universe while Dark Matter the explanation for gravity being stronger than expected at larger distances? Two different things there... both dark though.
As a thought experiment, how is this any different than SpaceShipOne? Lots of geeks cheered when private enterprise started doing space travel. And now just because private philanthropy is providing a very capable telescope, suddenly it's why isn't the gummint paying for this? Let's take money away from widows an orphans on this...
Wow, how many of you people are going to miss the part where they say... "At the previous PIERS meeting in Cambridge, MASS, USA, 2006 we presented the design and methodology of an ongoing double-blind controlled laboratory study with the objective to estab- lish whether RF during mobile phone use had any direct effects on:..."
Uhhhh... Its a low voltage line. Well below anything capable of creating a spark. Your car probably has these same sensors in the fuel tank unless you drive something from before '82.
The first Windows XP was something that was avoided by most for over a year. Win2k was stable, rock solid, why upgrade for the eye candy? And now everyone believes XP is the second coming or something. Just hurts your head sometimes...
OK, let me expand on this further. You make simple mistakes on your resume. I see this constantly when hiring engineers. Guess what? There's someone else in the pile that is as good as you think you are, only he doesn't make stupid mistakes. Guess who gets hired? It's this guy because I can trust him to do more with the job, such as producing quality documentation.
And hey, that guy showed up in a sloppy suit. I might keep him on the pile, but the next interview comes in nicely groomed. He's already passed the no stupid mistakes rule on the resume, and now he's just as good technically as the other interview. This guy is our new top candidate, because not only can he do the job and the quality documentation, I can have him interact with customers instead of keeping him locked up somewhere because he's not presentable.
Is that fair to the guy no never even got called back who was "perfectly qualified"? Hell yes it's fair. What about the sloppy guy who could do the job but didn't get it either? Tough. Grow up.
Dude, with all your spelling mistakes, I hope nothing you're doing is mission critical. If I saw your resume and you spelled things like "suite" and "cloths" it'd be circular filed so fast...
Howzabout Bandwidth. Does anyone actually believe there is basically a complete second internet that mirrors the first all to send it to some room an San Francisco? That if I ping my neighbor's router that traffic gets copied, along with every other little bit, out to the NSA?
I'd have a very tough time believing that they're routing all backbone traffic through something like this.
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Capacity planning: "Based on our performance monitoring over the last 6 months, (show the charts you've made) we have 4 systems that will require additional disk within six months at a cost of $x, and two that need additional memory immediately. My projections go out to a year based on current growth rates of our service."
What, you don't have performance monitoring statistics? You'd better start now. And learn how to do projections based on business growth rates.
Bottlenecks: "When we look at the end to end system, it seems that our primary bottleneck is in our backed SQL database. Transactions take 1.2 seconds to complete, while the rest of the system completes in .2 seconds. We'd like to spend $$ on a DBA to go over and optimize the queries."
Costs: "Running our entire data center costs $y per month. The electric company is due to raise rates in 3 months (yes, you call them and ask!) so our costs will increase to $z. We think we can offset that cost by calling the server manufacturers and ensuring that our warranty will cover things if we reduce our air conditioning by 3 degrees. We also have 6 servers coming off of warranty in 6 months. The cost to replace them will be $x which includes migration costs, and the cost to extend the warranty is $y."
Or in other words, most people on cell phones are intelligent enough to realize they are not driving under perfect conditions and react accordingly.
I think you have "cause" and "effect" backwards here. Drivers on cell phones drive so noticeably bad, that all the other drivers back up and avoid the selfish moron. Cell phone users are also the ones that tend to think they have a right to jam themselves in the passing lanes and then drive slower, thus jamming up traffic all around. Again, they're too damn selfish to just shut the fuck up for a few minutes and get to their destination.
Wow.
Freedom of speech must be restricted to guarantee a Democracy society? Is everyone in Canada high?
Use AD.
Even though folks will fuss and whine about AD being not pure LDAP, for all intents and purposes it is, and we've got lots of Linux and other *nix boxes using it for authentication. And remember, you can always extend AD for your custom applications easy enough. It's simple enough that MCSEs can run it.
If this guy isn't in a position to know how much the university is spending on licenses, then he definitely does not have the power to influence the decision. He clearly thinks more of his position than everyone else does.
Just remember the biggest downside to being a Java developer: Java is the language of "Your job is being outsourced to India. Please train your 14 replacements within the next 4 weeks."
Waitjustaminute.... The Huffington Post is right wing? Who are you, Stalin?
Anyone else having the issue where the H1B candidates that are interviewed (over the phone, natch) are not the same people that show up on the first day at work?
That's the new scam. The staffing companies specializing in the H1B candidates are using shills for the interviews.
OK, so you can either be a security dick and "haughtily" tell people of their errors, etc, or you can actually help the sysadmins. And I don't mean help by slapping your polished report on the managers desk and think you're helping by listing all the things they've done wrong.
No, get down in the trenches. Build a relationship with the engineers and sysadmins, so that you work together. They'll start coming to you before they make mistakes asking you to help them double check their work. I worked at one shop where the security team was just like this. We'd work with them on what we did, and prevented tons of mistakes before there was ever an issue and things moved to production.
Then you have the security team I work with now, who we simply call "Team No." They're pretty useless, everyone hates ever having to deal with them. They're the type that when you ask for help designing a secure system will respond its not their job. When you question them they'll haughtily respond "I know what I'm doing, I'm a CISSP!!!" Big freakin' deal, I respond, so am I. But the net result is without cooperation, they'll never truly be able to secure our systems.
Please be the kind of security guy that is a help not a hindrance. And then I'm sure you'll start going home at the end of the day feeling much better about yourself.
My God I thought it was horrible. Mostly in the way they felt that just had to use every reference they could possibly find from the original show and mess with it. Fry's dog? check... and so on. It just ruined so many of the older stories that should never have been touched again.
Worse than that, this keyboard has that really crappy layout with the short backslash key and the huge enter key. I despise that layout of keyboard.. I'm going to stick with my old but trusty IBM beat someone to death with it keyboard. That thing hopefully never will die.
Another group in my company is using Hibernate and absolutely hates it with a passion, due to all the bugs they have to work around. The lead architect who doesn't code likes it, but the other architects who still code don't, along with most of the programmers.
Every time I hear everyone whining about "broadband adoption rates" I just think that they don't get it.
Lots of people don't want broadband.
Lots of people don't even care about Internet access.
Sure it would be nice to have availability everywhere, but when the measurement is of how many people use broadband, that doesn't say much of anything.
Definitely farm it out. Bad graphics will kill a site, and good enough graphics no longer are good enough. Find a skilled professional. And I say this as someone who is absolutely horrible with graphics.
Since the guy is the one IT guy for a small business, I'm pretty sure the website doesn't have hundreds of pages, so it's not like this should be such a huge job and cost thousands.
This brings up an interesting point.
I keep my mail server in my house. Have for years. Makes it a lot easier just in case, they have to come to ME to serve the secret warrant for my email. Not just go to an ISP or gmail.
I wonder if that gives me any true additional protection or not.
From what the parent post seems to say isn't "disagreeable" or saying "school sucks" or the "principal is a weenie", but it's illegal activity that was going on. And usually there are fines and punishments attached to illegal activity.
Hehheh... Actually, they own a few less domains as of today. I finished moving the remaining ones I own to another registrar.
That is how you punish this sort of activity. Do they actually lose money by scooping up those checked for domain names? Maybe, I'm not so sure that's the case.
But I do know that by moving domains from them they do lose hard $$.
Isn't Dark Energy responsible for the expanding universe while Dark Matter the explanation for gravity being stronger than expected at larger distances? Two different things there... both dark though.
As a thought experiment, how is this any different than SpaceShipOne? Lots of geeks cheered when private enterprise started doing space travel. And now just because private philanthropy is providing a very capable telescope, suddenly it's why isn't the gummint paying for this? Let's take money away from widows an orphans on this...
Wow, how many of you people are going to miss the part where they say... ..."
"At the previous PIERS meeting in Cambridge, MASS, USA, 2006 we presented the design and methodology of an ongoing double-blind controlled laboratory study with the objective to estab- lish whether RF during mobile phone use had any direct effects on:
Uhhhh... Its a low voltage line. Well below anything capable of creating a spark. Your car probably has these same sensors in the fuel tank unless you drive something from before '82.
The first Windows XP was something that was avoided by most for over a year. Win2k was stable, rock solid, why upgrade for the eye candy?
And now everyone believes XP is the second coming or something. Just hurts your head sometimes...
OK, let me expand on this further.
You make simple mistakes on your resume. I see this constantly when hiring engineers.
Guess what? There's someone else in the pile that is as good as you think you are, only he doesn't make stupid mistakes. Guess who gets hired? It's this guy because I can trust him to do more with the job, such as producing quality documentation.
And hey, that guy showed up in a sloppy suit. I might keep him on the pile, but the next interview comes in nicely groomed. He's already passed the no stupid mistakes rule on the resume, and now he's just as good technically as the other interview. This guy is our new top candidate, because not only can he do the job and the quality documentation, I can have him interact with customers instead of keeping him locked up somewhere because he's not presentable.
Is that fair to the guy no never even got called back who was "perfectly qualified"? Hell yes it's fair. What about the sloppy guy who could do the job but didn't get it either? Tough. Grow up.
Dude, with all your spelling mistakes, I hope nothing you're doing is mission critical. If I saw your resume and you spelled things like "suite" and "cloths" it'd be circular filed so fast...
Howzabout Bandwidth. Does anyone actually believe there is basically a complete second internet that mirrors the first all to send it to some room an San Francisco? That if I ping my neighbor's router that traffic gets copied, along with every other little bit, out to the NSA?
I'd have a very tough time believing that they're routing all backbone traffic through something like this.