the irony of asking that at slashdot of all places.
linkedin is relevant -- just keep up with some coworkers and hr people so when you need a job you can reach out, or so that when your friends need a job you can reach out and hope they return the favor
what surprises me is that everyone else hasn't gotten caught doing this. Modern phones can take great pictures but this seems to likely to be the start of a diesel-gate-esque revelation where even apple ends up saying 'ok ok ok ok...we used a dslr, but the ad looked good, right?'
I liked my job ok -- I was a sysadmin at a medium sized manufactuer and was there about 2.5 years. After about 2 years I had automated and resolved a ton of things, so when we didn't have a project to work on, i had 15 hours a week of downtime. I'd play in powershell read IT news, read up on tech we had that I couldn't leverage due to licensing or whatever.
but I had lousy co-workers, and my boss was just...painful and frustrating to work for. I had taken on a lot of random support because a coworker would hem and haw and get nothing done. My boss was terrible -- she was the boss by default because she had been there so long. But she was sort of mean, a decade or better out of practice, horrible at troubleshooting, short-sighted at planning and purchasing, had lousy day to day PC and technical skills, and i just got so tired of being there feeling like I had peaked. So i hit up a buddy at a health system nearby and he got me in for an interview. I got an offer for a 25% raise and way better benefits, so away I went.
That was two years ago -- great decision. My boss is great (not much of a people manager, but a good overall manager otherwise), I work with some really smart, hard working people, have gotten a promotion and more money, and have been able to focus what I work on and increase my skill set.
it is pretty great for one-off scripts at the CLI, depending on your needs, because you can pipe between cmdlets to do a lot of work in a line or two. that being said, for bulk work you will want to dig into loops and functions with the ISE or VSCode or something as piping does not perform very well for large amounts of objects. i could mirror a user group access for just their AD finance groups to someone else with something like this (though it is probably a little bit off)
there are still some gui tools and powershell components that are not up to part, but really, powershell is where its at. anyone in the *nix world that is complaining about it, or still assuming the windows CLI is garbage, is really not very knowledgeable about what is available. I live in powershell for AD work, reporting events, moving files, monitoring services, manipulating data, comparing data....it can do almost anything these days. some people may not love the syntax, but i like that its verbose (usually, some of the cmdlets are kinda stupid long) because i can see it and have some damn idea of what the cmdlet is for.
I support an app that uses a ton of javascript -- their syntax/apis/functions are not bad, but they are not that obvious in what they are doing without some research. powershell is much clearer.
RE > But honest question: anyone who uses windows at this time, are still using microsoft shells? like cmd and powershell?
yes, i live in powershell. its very robust and functional as well as being well supported by microsoft and the windows powershell community. i cannot speak to powershell CORE, which is the cross platform edition. it has a lot of limitations in what is available compared to v5 that I use because it is based on.NET core. the powershell window in win 7 is not great -- i have to still use 7 at work for a little longer. it is much better in windows 10, based on this article still does not have some features *nix users would be accustomed to.
There are surely still too-many gui-only window admins, but that is probably more likely to be the case with SMB and MSP admins than it is medium or enterprise admins -- you can automate a lot of work and tasks in windows with powershell or group policies. You can do a lot of searching and reporting pretty easily as well once you get the data you want to work with. powershell is sort of great (if you are on v4 or higher). I've got dozens and dozens of scripts for monitoring services, processes, doing routine work, reporting on various events/data/user info, working with the device manager--all sorts of things.
> It's a horrible environment to get real work done on.
this is sort of ridiculous, we are stuck on windows 7 at work and I can get all of my work done without an issue--my last job had 8.1 which i liked better, what do you really get out of linux that is so great? I got frustrated with linux a long time ago and have never looked back--to each his own, right? windows is not perfect, and *nix has had several features MS has been stupid slow to incorporate, but come on, to act like it is worthless is just silly at this point.
> Recognise a Windows admin worth having a conversation with by the fact that he scripts most of his work using VB or C#
powershell. they should be scripting in powershell these days, which is kept up to date, has tons of built in functions and available modules for working in AD and just about anything on a wdinwos computer or server already available, and can take advantage of.Net libraries so you dont have to develop in c# to get something that powershell doesnt have as a native cmdlet. VB still has its uses, but the sort of stuff my coworker does in VB is way easier in powershell much of the time. I'm not saying there is no use for c# scripting, but powershell is where it's at.
I am a windows sysadmin who had a little linux background and uses a ton of powershell in my day to day work. there is some weird stuff MS is still behind on for no-good-reason, serer 2012 and 2016 resolved some of those things, but powershell gets a lot of attention from them
I am so glad I moved to a specialized type of IT Work. There are some thing I miss about being the generalist and the sysadmin-in-charge of how it all runs, but i don't miss the constant stream of everything-electrical-is-my-problem. Some orgs have good policies and people and it's good to be the sysadmin there. If it wasn't for my last boss being such a jackass and control freak I may have stayed there.
but now--now I am in healthcare IT. It is it's own special sort of hell, but I don't have to work on everything under the sun here because we are large, and I have some very, very good people to work with. It has been a nice change.
re: Push a narrative that she is with the people and understand what the common person is going through.
yeah, it would have to be a narrative, because its a load of crap.
but thats the issue with the Dems anyways -- they are just so awestruck at trump and the GOP that they can do nothing but stare. good job, dems, good job. keep standing there.
yeah, this is a dumb way to ship the new surface laptop. i'd sort of get some BS artificial limitation on a cheap-ass chromebook competitor--i mean, it would still be dumb, but id sort of expect it.
but on a surface? that you can unlock for more money? that is dumbness. i dont think this is going to go that damn well.
the blurb is mis-worded, but its not unreasonable: a patients health record [health record IT guy here] is not necessarily ever complete. interoperability between health systems and their different EHR products is not a thing. the *idea* that blockchain could be used to audit and update a master record for changes and updates is a great idea.
i wish i thought healthcare IT would ever pull this off, but honestly, even in an unsecured, unaudited way it probably wont--at least not anytime soon. wanna know what the most universal way to move health records is between facilities and systems?
a fax. fax me a thing, we intake it as an image, MAYBE print it to text and run a regex on it for patient info, or otherwise it gets manually checked to be assigned to the right patient in our system.
healthcare it has lots of room for improvement. id love to see it improved but...im not about to get in a hurry over it.
my GF and I were wary but split the early preorder price of $500 to get in on this. we were just barely willing to lose 250 each if they bailed on the project.
considering the last update we had was an address confirmation and a blurb that they planned to ship december 2016/jan 2017 we were hopefuly that wed have a unit in this week or next, not a cancellation email:-/
i agree because the changes they are making to those shells should be universal--the powershell window has some features you dont get in the traditional cmd window which make it much easier to work in. i dont use win 10 at work so im not sure how many of the cmd/powershell windows changes go both ways there, but at work im stuck on win 7 and cmd sucks, but powershell is mostly good
not with mandated insurance requirements. 10% of my income is spent on insurance--which doesnt include copays, medications and other visit or operation fees. i make a decent amount of money but that is a big, big chunk.
the other difference is i dont want an extra car. yes, i could get by on 75 miles a day on a charge. i can do that.
until i want to go to the beach. or go shopping in another town. or visit family or friends or go anywhere else and drive around all day and come home. 100 mile charge wont get me to the city i want to go to on the weekend so....what, have a travel car? now i have a commute car and a travel car? boo that.
i do sort of want an electric car with good range. its on my things-i-hope-to-have-in-a-decade radar.
a disturbingly high number of people. last job i had i was a SysAdmin for a manufacturer. everyone salaried had been there 20 - 40 years. they all had dual screen computers or laptops...and printed like there was no tomorrow to take reports around for review. i couldnt get them to stop.
im at a hospital now. less printing in general for some people, but its *required* that patients get some things in print. itll change one day, but not for a while.
some companies are actually decent to work for, so i think there are cases where its reasonable to give notice, and others where it is not.
i worked for an MSP. it was a lousy job--the pay and benefits were lousy-- but i was still in college, that part didnt bug me. it was a lousy place to work. good technical people but horrible management. i had planned an out of office day to go on a little vacation, and had it interrupted--so it old myself "well, i want a new job anyway, ill give them 1 weeks notice for that stunt instead of 2"
about 3 months later i had a flat tire in a company car---the company had a dozen vehicles, no roadside assistance or after hours plan. i had to argue with a manager to get help...FIVE MINUTES FROM THE OFFICE!
so i decided i was going to find a job, and then just QUIT. and i did. and when the boss got up with me to ask WTF i was doing i told him "i had to argue with that manager to get help the other day, 5 minutes from the office. god forbid i had been an hour or two away from the office or my home and had to argue with her over this crap, i would have cursed her out until she hung up on me!"
anyway, i left another job a month ago. it was a good place. they were really easygoing and gave me bonus PTO when my kids visited for the summers, and when my father passed away just told me to take the whole week. it was a good place with good people, but i had good reasons to move on. i gave them 2.5 weeks notice. that place deserved it, as much as the other one deserved to get kicked in the nuts.
i think whats a little more important is that a lot of what we have is built on inequality elsewhere. im not sure how i feel about it sometimes. i like having what i have - a decent house, modest car, good food, im not hurting at all. but even if i had half of what i did id be doing much, much better than people in 3rd world countries that slave away and...well, it's not exactly great
seriously. hospital IT has to lag way behind, often because vendor software doesnt support newer OS versions. I know a medical center that has thousands of desktops and only started rolling out windows 7 last year.
I was an intern there 5 years ago, and i was on the team that was deploying XP SP2 [yes, 2, not a typo] at the time.
many of their software vendors are the frickin worst.
there were some scanner pcs, like for x-rays or MRIs or something, i don tknow what, that ran Windows NT or Win2k--i would not be surprised if some of them were still there.
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the irony of asking that at slashdot of all places.
linkedin is relevant -- just keep up with some coworkers and hr people so when you need a job you can reach out, or so that when your friends need a job you can reach out and hope they return the favor
what surprises me is that everyone else hasn't gotten caught doing this. Modern phones can take great pictures but this seems to likely to be the start of a diesel-gate-esque revelation where even apple ends up saying 'ok ok ok ok...we used a dslr, but the ad looked good, right?'
I liked my job ok -- I was a sysadmin at a medium sized manufactuer and was there about 2.5 years. After about 2 years I had automated and resolved a ton of things, so when we didn't have a project to work on, i had 15 hours a week of downtime. I'd play in powershell read IT news, read up on tech we had that I couldn't leverage due to licensing or whatever.
but I had lousy co-workers, and my boss was just...painful and frustrating to work for. I had taken on a lot of random support because a coworker would hem and haw and get nothing done. My boss was terrible -- she was the boss by default because she had been there so long. But she was sort of mean, a decade or better out of practice, horrible at troubleshooting, short-sighted at planning and purchasing, had lousy day to day PC and technical skills, and i just got so tired of being there feeling like I had peaked. So i hit up a buddy at a health system nearby and he got me in for an interview. I got an offer for a 25% raise and way better benefits, so away I went.
That was two years ago -- great decision. My boss is great (not much of a people manager, but a good overall manager otherwise), I work with some really smart, hard working people, have gotten a promotion and more money, and have been able to focus what I work on and increase my skill set.
it is pretty great for one-off scripts at the CLI, depending on your needs, because you can pipe between cmdlets to do a lot of work in a line or two. that being said, for bulk work you will want to dig into loops and functions with the ISE or VSCode or something as piping does not perform very well for large amounts of objects. i could mirror a user group access for just their AD finance groups to someone else with something like this (though it is probably a little bit off)
get-adgroup daveW | where-object {$_.name -like "*finance*"} | add-adgroupmember susanL
or remove someone with something like this
foreach ($group in (get-adgroup -filter {name -like "*human resources*"}) { remove-adgroupmember -identity $_ -members tanyaM -confirm:$false }
there are still some gui tools and powershell components that are not up to part, but really, powershell is where its at. anyone in the *nix world that is complaining about it, or still assuming the windows CLI is garbage, is really not very knowledgeable about what is available. I live in powershell for AD work, reporting events, moving files, monitoring services, manipulating data, comparing data....it can do almost anything these days. some people may not love the syntax, but i like that its verbose (usually, some of the cmdlets are kinda stupid long) because i can see it and have some damn idea of what the cmdlet is for.
I support an app that uses a ton of javascript -- their syntax/apis/functions are not bad, but they are not that obvious in what they are doing without some research. powershell is much clearer.
RE > But honest question: anyone who uses windows at this time, are still using microsoft shells? like cmd and powershell?
yes, i live in powershell. its very robust and functional as well as being well supported by microsoft and the windows powershell community. i cannot speak to powershell CORE, which is the cross platform edition. it has a lot of limitations in what is available compared to v5 that I use because it is based on .NET core. the powershell window in win 7 is not great -- i have to still use 7 at work for a little longer. it is much better in windows 10, based on this article still does not have some features *nix users would be accustomed to.
There are surely still too-many gui-only window admins, but that is probably more likely to be the case with SMB and MSP admins than it is medium or enterprise admins -- you can automate a lot of work and tasks in windows with powershell or group policies. You can do a lot of searching and reporting pretty easily as well once you get the data you want to work with. powershell is sort of great (if you are on v4 or higher). I've got dozens and dozens of scripts for monitoring services, processes, doing routine work, reporting on various events/data/user info, working with the device manager--all sorts of things.
> It's a horrible environment to get real work done on.
this is sort of ridiculous, we are stuck on windows 7 at work and I can get all of my work done without an issue--my last job had 8.1 which i liked better, what do you really get out of linux that is so great? I got frustrated with linux a long time ago and have never looked back--to each his own, right? windows is not perfect, and *nix has had several features MS has been stupid slow to incorporate, but come on, to act like it is worthless is just silly at this point.
> Recognise a Windows admin worth having a conversation with by the fact that he scripts most of his work using VB or C#
powershell. they should be scripting in powershell these days, which is kept up to date, has tons of built in functions and available modules for working in AD and just about anything on a wdinwos computer or server already available, and can take advantage of .Net libraries so you dont have to develop in c# to get something that powershell doesnt have as a native cmdlet. VB still has its uses, but the sort of stuff my coworker does in VB is way easier in powershell much of the time. I'm not saying there is no use for c# scripting, but powershell is where it's at.
I am a windows sysadmin who had a little linux background and uses a ton of powershell in my day to day work. there is some weird stuff MS is still behind on for no-good-reason, serer 2012 and 2016 resolved some of those things, but powershell gets a lot of attention from them
I am so glad I moved to a specialized type of IT Work. There are some thing I miss about being the generalist and the sysadmin-in-charge of how it all runs, but i don't miss the constant stream of everything-electrical-is-my-problem. Some orgs have good policies and people and it's good to be the sysadmin there. If it wasn't for my last boss being such a jackass and control freak I may have stayed there.
but now--now I am in healthcare IT. It is it's own special sort of hell, but I don't have to work on everything under the sun here because we are large, and I have some very, very good people to work with. It has been a nice change.
> If you kill off Javascript, you also kill off medical image imaging
ugh, right? i work with an ECM product holding medical/hr/accounting records and the whole back end uses javascript. I sort of hate it.
hangouts has been around for a while and i have long preferred it but...they really are terrible at this.
that's what apple thought when it came out in the Echo
re: Push a narrative that she is with the people and understand what the common person is going through.
yeah, it would have to be a narrative, because its a load of crap.
but thats the issue with the Dems anyways -- they are just so awestruck at trump and the GOP that they can do nothing but stare. good job, dems, good job. keep standing there.
yeah, this is a dumb way to ship the new surface laptop. i'd sort of get some BS artificial limitation on a cheap-ass chromebook competitor--i mean, it would still be dumb, but id sort of expect it.
but on a surface? that you can unlock for more money? that is dumbness. i dont think this is going to go that damn well.
> Block chain is ledger, not a fucking database.
the blurb is mis-worded, but its not unreasonable: a patients health record [health record IT guy here] is not necessarily ever complete. interoperability between health systems and their different EHR products is not a thing. the *idea* that blockchain could be used to audit and update a master record for changes and updates is a great idea.
i wish i thought healthcare IT would ever pull this off, but honestly, even in an unsecured, unaudited way it probably wont--at least not anytime soon. wanna know what the most universal way to move health records is between facilities and systems?
a fax. fax me a thing, we intake it as an image, MAYBE print it to text and run a regex on it for patient info, or otherwise it gets manually checked to be assigned to the right patient in our system.
healthcare it has lots of room for improvement. id love to see it improved but...im not about to get in a hurry over it.
my GF and I were wary but split the early preorder price of $500 to get in on this. we were just barely willing to lose 250 each if they bailed on the project.
considering the last update we had was an address confirmation and a blurb that they planned to ship december 2016/jan 2017 we were hopefuly that wed have a unit in this week or next, not a cancellation email :-/
i agree because the changes they are making to those shells should be universal--the powershell window has some features you dont get in the traditional cmd window which make it much easier to work in. i dont use win 10 at work so im not sure how many of the cmd/powershell windows changes go both ways there, but at work im stuck on win 7 and cmd sucks, but powershell is mostly good
not with mandated insurance requirements. 10% of my income is spent on insurance--which doesnt include copays, medications and other visit or operation fees. i make a decent amount of money but that is a big, big chunk.
i get tacos at a great local place and they have a square reader, it reads the mag stripe on my chip and pin without complaint.
as such, i continue to get tacos.
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the other difference is i dont want an extra car. yes, i could get by on 75 miles a day on a charge. i can do that.
until i want to go to the beach. or go shopping in another town. or visit family or friends or go anywhere else and drive around all day and come home. 100 mile charge wont get me to the city i want to go to on the weekend so....what, have a travel car? now i have a commute car and a travel car? boo that.
i do sort of want an electric car with good range. its on my things-i-hope-to-have-in-a-decade radar.
a disturbingly high number of people. last job i had i was a SysAdmin for a manufacturer. everyone salaried had been there 20 - 40 years. they all had dual screen computers or laptops...and printed like there was no tomorrow to take reports around for review. i couldnt get them to stop.
im at a hospital now. less printing in general for some people, but its *required* that patients get some things in print. itll change one day, but not for a while.
some companies are actually decent to work for, so i think there are cases where its reasonable to give notice, and others where it is not.
i worked for an MSP. it was a lousy job--the pay and benefits were lousy-- but i was still in college, that part didnt bug me. it was a lousy place to work. good technical people but horrible management. i had planned an out of office day to go on a little vacation, and had it interrupted--so it old myself "well, i want a new job anyway, ill give them 1 weeks notice for that stunt instead of 2"
about 3 months later i had a flat tire in a company car---the company had a dozen vehicles, no roadside assistance or after hours plan. i had to argue with a manager to get help...FIVE MINUTES FROM THE OFFICE!
so i decided i was going to find a job, and then just QUIT. and i did. and when the boss got up with me to ask WTF i was doing i told him "i had to argue with that manager to get help the other day, 5 minutes from the office. god forbid i had been an hour or two away from the office or my home and had to argue with her over this crap, i would have cursed her out until she hung up on me!"
anyway, i left another job a month ago. it was a good place. they were really easygoing and gave me bonus PTO when my kids visited for the summers, and when my father passed away just told me to take the whole week. it was a good place with good people, but i had good reasons to move on. i gave them 2.5 weeks notice. that place deserved it, as much as the other one deserved to get kicked in the nuts.
i think whats a little more important is that a lot of what we have is built on inequality elsewhere. im not sure how i feel about it sometimes. i like having what i have - a decent house, modest car, good food, im not hurting at all. but even if i had half of what i did id be doing much, much better than people in 3rd world countries that slave away and...well, it's not exactly great
seriously. hospital IT has to lag way behind, often because vendor software doesnt support newer OS versions. I know a medical center that has thousands of desktops and only started rolling out windows 7 last year.
I was an intern there 5 years ago, and i was on the team that was deploying XP SP2 [yes, 2, not a typo] at the time.
many of their software vendors are the frickin worst.
there were some scanner pcs, like for x-rays or MRIs or something, i don tknow what, that ran Windows NT or Win2k--i would not be surprised if some of them were still there.