I didn't start actually _working_ in computers until around 1984 or 1985. Before that it was the Sinclair or Color Computer for learning how to code and BBSs. My first job was maintaining BASIC code on a Leading Edge (IBM Clone) and a Franklin (Apple Clone) computer with some dabbling on a Radio Shack Model 4.
It might depend on experience as well. I moved half way across country in 2004 and idled about for several months, living off of the sale of my house, until I hunted for and got a job with IBM. Then in 2007 I changed jobs again. But I don't know if 2001 and 2008 are real specific dates. I know in 2008 we were having all kinds of trouble finding Unix admins and the few who did apply were woefully lacking in skills. One guy claimed to be "afraid" of soft links and never used them. One woman said she worked in data centers for 20 years but couldn't write a script to save her life.
Email is a benefit for me. It lets me read the email, check my data, craft an answer, and have a paper trail of the task. I also know what is needed and can refer to the email should there be a dispute.
Phone: "Hey, I need you to blah blah blah"
Me: "Okay, send me an email with the details and I'll get on it."
You would use 'ubernetes' to manage your cloud computers hosted on different cloud platforms. Just tell your controller to not use the AWS instances for Wal*Mart business I guess.
Me too. My first "free" email account. I'd sent a joke out at work to friends and someone forwarded it to someone who didn't like it and complained to my boss. I popped out and snagged a rocketmail account and used that for my joke, and other things email. Then a yahoo account for one of my mailing lists for when I quit the job.
I have a remote server I rent. The real problem is the spam filtering isn't the greatest. I generally just create a site-specific address and filter that into a folder and ignore my main mail address feed. 99.9% of it is spam. I counted it up at one point and had about 250,000 spam messages that had been filtered over the course of a month. On top of that, even though I use key based access only, the last time I counted I had 1.2 million attempts to hack ssh over 30 days. I blocked all of Taiwan and installed fail2ban and configured it to permanently block repeat offenders. That dropped the hack attempts quite a bit.
Yep. Not even once (NB that I'm aware of). Add in an ad blocker of some sort and that my firewalls (iptables, pf, iptables again, and pfsense) over the years don't permit externally initiated access and I'm still clean. I do scan somewhat regularly, malwarebytes being my go to scanner, and catch an occasional sketchy cookie. The first time I ran it, several years back, it found several waiting viruses in my really old email backup of my work emails (work let us use our personal computers to VPN in, and Eudora mailboxes). I knew they were there as I ran the mail servers and kept getting the viruses forwarded, just never cleared them off.
Yea, I have at least two pieces of perfectly good hardware that I can't use except on an XP machine due to the manufacturers using some XP code (browser?). The HP scanner isn't that big a deal, more annoying. But the Sony Handycam means I can't get old recordings off of the tapes without XP.
You mean like Packard-Hell? I recall an article saying they simply had parts bins of ram, video card, etc and what was the cheapest got dropped into the bin for the next PH build. Quality varied significantly.
Heck, I even talk to myself, according to my team and my girlfriend. I'm working on a bit of code and per the team, I'm all of a sudden talking through the bit I'm stuck on and about half the time get it figured out that way.
In checking my neighborhood forums, it seems like there are a lot of people cutting the comcast cord. I'm getting gig up and down for $48 a month but I personally am not much of a TV watcher. I have, mainly because the wife was watching and I wanted to share but now that I'm single, I haven't watched TV in 5 years. Not even as background noise.
I am starting to get advertising from some fiber based TV service out of Denver which would increase the price beyond what I was paying for comcast but again, I don't watch TV so to the bin it goes:)
At best I got a "you need to log in to your OneDrive account" sort of message recently that implied to me that I hadn't logged in in a while and my session had timed out. I just clicked through it.
The only sidebar messages I get are the occasional Windows Defender, everything's okay, and the occasional "you have x nextdoor messages in your gmailbox" from Google. I have an asus popup on the lower right about checking my bios for upgrades that's annoying (nothing like having the stupid thing kill my gaming session).
I have two nVidia cards and regularly upgrade my drivers but don't see any advertising either. Same with general Windows 10 mucking about. I've been spending a lot more time on my system over the past 3 months as well and no ads.
I did buy Windows 10 Pro vs go with the downloaded version as I was building a new system and didn't upgrade my prior systems (still on 7). Maybe that has something to do with it?
I actually have gotten better. I attend Monday night CCG at the local game store and have a regular Role Playing game group. But it doesn't take long before I'm overwhelmed by the number of people and need to bail out and take a break.
It's not avoiding in general. I don't follow sports and don't drink so a lot of the conversation after hours with the group is me just sitting drinking water or a diet soda. After a bit I'm just thinking I'm wasting time, "I could be at home cleaning, on the bike, at the music store, or at the game store".
What I have to get over is when I do speak and folks talk over me, I get pretty annoyed and then clam up. I got pretty mad at one meeting and almost walked out because I was trying to get my idea across and kept getting stepped on.
Most of my issues with interacting with humans is I'm pretty quiet and introverted. Many times I can't come up with a response quickly enough when speaking. By the time I've thought of something to contribute, the conversation has moved on. And I have a problem with interrupting others when they're speaking that seems absent from others. I'm in a meeting, for example, and my contributions are minimal in part because the talking is non-stop and you can't get a word in edge-wise.
With BBS's back in the 80's, Usenet and EMail in the 80's and 90's, EMail lists and Discussion groups in the '00's, and Forums and Facebook now, I can read and respond at my leisure. I don't even like talking on the phone.
Even this post. I've rewritten bits of it several times, added words, changed structure, and even considered whether or not it would provide any valuable insights before posting it.
I turned off my TV cable but kept my Internet cable. So technically I had "cable" but don't have "cable TV". I've recently switched over to City Fiber so I don't have Cable at all. I do have gig up and down for $50 a month so there is that:)
Meh. I bought a pair of GTX 970's last March. It had been 8 years since I built my previous not quite top of the line gaming capable system. This time I also bought a 4k 43" monitor to go with my pair of 23" Acer's.
I'm not all that much of a current gamer. My recent gaming has been the old Carmagedden or original Doom and Doom II games.
I do a lot of hacking about with tech stuff though so having 3 or 4 cygwin windows open for coding or configuations, along with a web browser, movie or tv show playing, couple of log watch cygwin windows open, and recently a couple of movie ripping windows, makes creating stuff a whole lot easier.
Eh. As you said, I don't care if they're assholes. If it's better, I don't have a problem using it. My firewall blocks all incoming connections so I don't have a real complicated setup. Now, with the additional features of pfSense, I've been using its DNS server, Load Balancer, NTP, and DHCP services for my internal environment. I've checked out some of the stats and cast syslog to my internal syslog server but nothing much more than that.
Throwing OPNSense up as a test isn't going to be a big deal and who knows, it might actually be better (for what I do).:shrug:
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I didn't start actually _working_ in computers until around 1984 or 1985. Before that it was the Sinclair or Color Computer for learning how to code and BBSs. My first job was maintaining BASIC code on a Leading Edge (IBM Clone) and a Franklin (Apple Clone) computer with some dabbling on a Radio Shack Model 4.
[John]
It might depend on experience as well. I moved half way across country in 2004 and idled about for several months, living off of the sale of my house, until I hunted for and got a job with IBM. Then in 2007 I changed jobs again. But I don't know if 2001 and 2008 are real specific dates. I know in 2008 we were having all kinds of trouble finding Unix admins and the few who did apply were woefully lacking in skills. One guy claimed to be "afraid" of soft links and never used them. One woman said she worked in data centers for 20 years but couldn't write a script to save her life.
[John]
Started in 1980 and no college degree and I'm doing reasonably well now.
[John]
Email is a benefit for me. It lets me read the email, check my data, craft an answer, and have a paper trail of the task. I also know what is needed and can refer to the email should there be a dispute.
Phone: "Hey, I need you to blah blah blah"
Me: "Okay, send me an email with the details and I'll get on it."
[John]
You would use 'ubernetes' to manage your cloud computers hosted on different cloud platforms. Just tell your controller to not use the AWS instances for Wal*Mart business I guess.
[John]
Me too. My first "free" email account. I'd sent a joke out at work to friends and someone forwarded it to someone who didn't like it and complained to my boss. I popped out and snagged a rocketmail account and used that for my joke, and other things email. Then a yahoo account for one of my mailing lists for when I quit the job.
[John]
I have a remote server I rent. The real problem is the spam filtering isn't the greatest. I generally just create a site-specific address and filter that into a folder and ignore my main mail address feed. 99.9% of it is spam. I counted it up at one point and had about 250,000 spam messages that had been filtered over the course of a month. On top of that, even though I use key based access only, the last time I counted I had 1.2 million attempts to hack ssh over 30 days. I blocked all of Taiwan and installed fail2ban and configured it to permanently block repeat offenders. That dropped the hack attempts quite a bit.
[John]
Yep. Not even once (NB that I'm aware of). Add in an ad blocker of some sort and that my firewalls (iptables, pf, iptables again, and pfsense) over the years don't permit externally initiated access and I'm still clean. I do scan somewhat regularly, malwarebytes being my go to scanner, and catch an occasional sketchy cookie. The first time I ran it, several years back, it found several waiting viruses in my really old email backup of my work emails (work let us use our personal computers to VPN in, and Eudora mailboxes). I knew they were there as I ran the mail servers and kept getting the viruses forwarded, just never cleared them off.
[John]
Yea, I have at least two pieces of perfectly good hardware that I can't use except on an XP machine due to the manufacturers using some XP code (browser?). The HP scanner isn't that big a deal, more annoying. But the Sony Handycam means I can't get old recordings off of the tapes without XP.
[John]
Investigate how to build a sound proofed box for the ringing ones. Padded box for the vibrating one.
[John]
Perhaps. But I've extracted all my DVDs to my media server and the DVDs are now in boxes.
[John]
You mean like Packard-Hell? I recall an article saying they simply had parts bins of ram, video card, etc and what was the cheapest got dropped into the bin for the next PH build. Quality varied significantly.
[John]
Heck, I even talk to myself, according to my team and my girlfriend. I'm working on a bit of code and per the team, I'm all of a sudden talking through the bit I'm stuck on and about half the time get it figured out that way.
[John]
In checking my neighborhood forums, it seems like there are a lot of people cutting the comcast cord. I'm getting gig up and down for $48 a month but I personally am not much of a TV watcher. I have, mainly because the wife was watching and I wanted to share but now that I'm single, I haven't watched TV in 5 years. Not even as background noise.
I am starting to get advertising from some fiber based TV service out of Denver which would increase the price beyond what I was paying for comcast but again, I don't watch TV so to the bin it goes :)
[John]
Well, woman. Her name was Wanda.
[John]
I rip mine to my media server. No ads there either.
[John]
At best I got a "you need to log in to your OneDrive account" sort of message recently that implied to me that I hadn't logged in in a while and my session had timed out. I just clicked through it.
The only sidebar messages I get are the occasional Windows Defender, everything's okay, and the occasional "you have x nextdoor messages in your gmailbox" from Google. I have an asus popup on the lower right about checking my bios for upgrades that's annoying (nothing like having the stupid thing kill my gaming session).
And again, Windows 10 Pro.
[John]
I have two nVidia cards and regularly upgrade my drivers but don't see any advertising either. Same with general Windows 10 mucking about. I've been spending a lot more time on my system over the past 3 months as well and no ads.
I did buy Windows 10 Pro vs go with the downloaded version as I was building a new system and didn't upgrade my prior systems (still on 7). Maybe that has something to do with it?
[John]
I actually have gotten better. I attend Monday night CCG at the local game store and have a regular Role Playing game group. But it doesn't take long before I'm overwhelmed by the number of people and need to bail out and take a break.
It's not avoiding in general. I don't follow sports and don't drink so a lot of the conversation after hours with the group is me just sitting drinking water or a diet soda. After a bit I'm just thinking I'm wasting time, "I could be at home cleaning, on the bike, at the music store, or at the game store".
[John]
What I have to get over is when I do speak and folks talk over me, I get pretty annoyed and then clam up. I got pretty mad at one meeting and almost walked out because I was trying to get my idea across and kept getting stepped on.
[John]
Hah! Yea I know. It was 50/50 though.
[John]
Most of my issues with interacting with humans is I'm pretty quiet and introverted. Many times I can't come up with a response quickly enough when speaking. By the time I've thought of something to contribute, the conversation has moved on. And I have a problem with interrupting others when they're speaking that seems absent from others. I'm in a meeting, for example, and my contributions are minimal in part because the talking is non-stop and you can't get a word in edge-wise.
With BBS's back in the 80's, Usenet and EMail in the 80's and 90's, EMail lists and Discussion groups in the '00's, and Forums and Facebook now, I can read and respond at my leisure. I don't even like talking on the phone.
Even this post. I've rewritten bits of it several times, added words, changed structure, and even considered whether or not it would provide any valuable insights before posting it.
[John]
I turned off my TV cable but kept my Internet cable. So technically I had "cable" but don't have "cable TV". I've recently switched over to City Fiber so I don't have Cable at all. I do have gig up and down for $50 a month so there is that :)
[John]
Meh. I bought a pair of GTX 970's last March. It had been 8 years since I built my previous not quite top of the line gaming capable system. This time I also bought a 4k 43" monitor to go with my pair of 23" Acer's.
I'm not all that much of a current gamer. My recent gaming has been the old Carmagedden or original Doom and Doom II games.
I do a lot of hacking about with tech stuff though so having 3 or 4 cygwin windows open for coding or configuations, along with a web browser, movie or tv show playing, couple of log watch cygwin windows open, and recently a couple of movie ripping windows, makes creating stuff a whole lot easier.
The two cards cost almost $700 :)
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[John]
Eh. As you said, I don't care if they're assholes. If it's better, I don't have a problem using it. My firewall blocks all incoming connections so I don't have a real complicated setup. Now, with the additional features of pfSense, I've been using its DNS server, Load Balancer, NTP, and DHCP services for my internal environment. I've checked out some of the stats and cast syslog to my internal syslog server but nothing much more than that.
Throwing OPNSense up as a test isn't going to be a big deal and who knows, it might actually be better (for what I do). :shrug:
[John]