This year work implemented the "use your phone for business and we'll give you $50 a month" plan. We turn in our existing company supplied phone and install their apps on our personal phone.
Sounds to me like getting this one will keep the megacorp off of my personal phone and they can deal with whatever garbage is running on it.
(Technically I'll probably just add a second phone to my existing contract and be done with it. No Android phones though. I've had one for the past few years and I just don't like it.)
And personally I'm using both a Windows 7 and a Mac with OSX and I find I like both for different reasons. I use my OSX box at work (MacBook Pro) and I can manage Unix systems with no issues.
I still need Internet Access. I killed HD TV and all extended channels a couple of years ago and increased my bandwidth. Most recently I turned in the TV box itself and stuck with the tiny descrambler. I'm still charged about $100 a month for access to the 'net. I could go to $300 a month for fiber but I'm not really using the extra bandwidth I have now.
I could probably locate the file or at least use man to figure out how to set the minimum password length. It's not something I do often so I don't have it memorized. And with RH7, it's probably under loginctl. Heck, a quick search on my RH6 box and I can't find where to set the minimum password length. Probably under pam.d.
Permissions is bog simple though, I'd have a problem with someone not knowing that.
For older systems (RH6 or older) it's easy enough,/etc/inittab. I'd have to do a man on systemctl or search the net for how to do that in RH7.
And I'm currently studying for my RHCSA/RHCE exams that I'm taking next month:)
Sure, mine is amicable. My ex was heading off into super hippy land and hypochondria had her trying all sorts of remedies from coffee enemas to lemon/vinegar drinks, to eating some special kind of dirt, etc. Personally I didn't mind eating better but I drew the line at coffee enemas.
(There was a lot more than that but yea, we worked out the split, she headed off to the coast and I'm quietly enjoying myself in a flyover state.)
Probably:) I only got the certs because work sent me to a diploma mill. I asked for some network training course to kick my skills up a bit and got sent there instead. I did networking for a year before returning to being a Unix Admin.
Actually the CCNA/CCNP certs were the worst ones I acquired. At a company I was working at, I wanted to get more indepth networking knowledge and asked if I could take a CCNA course. They had access to a CCNA/CCNP diploma mill and sent me there instead. I didn't even take notes and passed the CCNA on the first run. The CCNP tests were harder but I eventually passed them. I did gain more networking level knowledge but it was more when I was a network engineer for a year than anything I picked up from the course.
And for my resume, I would only list the Red Hat ones anyway. The others would go on a historical type resume.
Actually the only cert I put on my resume are current ones. The ones I listed are old/expired and are listed on my newly created linked in account. Heck, I don't even put all 31 years of experience (which I realized when I was putting my linked in stuff together) on my resume, just the past 2 jobs and a current relevant skillset.
Yea I did, my bad. And I see this seems to be more of a programming question in general than something more like IT or sysadmin. But I have worked as a programmer and hacked a lot of code over the years in C, Perl, and a pretty large LAMP project (for me anyway, almost 100,000 lines of code for the app and 140 mysql tables; not large for some of course:) ). At this point I don't see moving back into programming.
You mean because I have 5 certs and am working on a 6th and 7th means you'll shitcan my resume without even seeing that I have 31 years of experience in IT?
3Com 3Wizard Certification Solaris Certified System Administrator Solaris Certified Network Administrator Cisco Certified Network Administrator Cisco Certified Network Professional
And I'm taking my Red Hat Certified System Administrator and Red Hat Certified Engineer tests next month.
I take them more as a confirmation that I know my stuff and to bone up on the things my job doesn't prepare me for like SELinux, building RPMs, and Red Hat specific stuff like systemctl/systemd, etc. We're still using Red Hat 6 so studying and taking the 7 tests is a challenge, especially with no training materials. I'm taking the 6 book and running a 6 environment on my CentOS 7 desktop and identifying the differences.
1. Sure, but that doesn't take all that long. A 30 minute break isn't out of the question though. Typically I'm off the bike, gassed up, and on my way in half that time though.
2. Nope, I'm single and yea four vehicles in the garage not including the 2 bicycles. Just curious as to the range. I'm not interested in the car part but in the advances to make an electric motorcycle more likely, although in the future (there are electric bikes now, same thing though; range and time to recharge). And based on comments, I never considered 2 or 3 trips a year to be rare. You travel a lot?
3. Sorry, motorcycle rider and take my trips on the bike. Five gallon tank and about 47mpg (40mpg to 52mpg depending on where I am). I'll occasionally throw the spare 5 gallon tank on the back when riding in Canada due to the sparseness of stations. Had to stop on the Alaska Highway to refill from the spare after passing a few closed stations.
Wasn't worried about the budget. Just wondered about ranges and how quick to charge. Thanks for the info.
How long does it take to recharge to get that range back? I take 2 or 3 trips a year touring and my vehicle, which gets about 200 miles per tank, can be refilled in a minute or so and I'll be on my way again in 10 or so minutes.
That's because insurance in Russia says if you can prove it's not your fault, you don't have to pay anything. So it's in your best interest to have an inexpensive camera recording while you're driving. So yea, lots of interesting videos when your camera is constantly running. Same in the US (at least) where more bicyclists are getting GoPro cameras. Motorcyclists have had such things for years though. I've had a Sony HandyCam on my bike for 8 or 9 years, but mainly when I'm enjoying myself in the mountains so it's not on all the time. I saw one video a few years back where a car merged into a motorcyclist on the freeway and tried to say it was her fault. She had a camera that caught the entire thing and the merger was deemed at fault.
My two Ex-Wives were not interested in computers or other more geeky type hobbies like gaming and not interested in other hobbies I'm interested in, like motorcycles and music.
My girlfriend is a DBA (OJT'd into it), I'm a Sr Unix admin (self taught). She has her Master's (MBA), I'm a high school graduate. She's really eating up board games and role playing, I have the games and run the RPG she's playing in. She would rather be on the back of my motorcycle than on her own but loves to ride with me. She encourages my guitar playing and tells me when some practice thing I'm working on appeals to her.
In reading the two articles, a good part of the problems seems to be twofold. One is the marketing folks discovered that if they created gender specific toys, sales increased. It seems pretty clear that if you want to make more money, you tune your product to your target audience. If creating pink stuff gets you more sales then make more pink stuff seems pretty obvious. The second of course are the folks who see this pink (or blue) stuff and buy it for their girls. But are parents partly to blame? Is marketing part of the issue where girls see the pink stuff advertised on TV and go for it when they hit the stores? Weren't the 80's a transition from wacky cartoons to toy marketing specific cartoons? Is the transition from a single earner family to a dual earner family (and latchkey kids being babysat by TV) part of the problem?
Yep, if you're not in my contact list and I'm not expecting a call, you go to voice mail. I have carpet folks coming out today so a call a few minutes ago from an unknown number but local to me was answered and the appointment confirmed.
Shoot, last year I also added two 2TB drives to the system for hot backups. I turned one of the 750's into a bootable Red Hat disk and spend about half my time in either environment.
Antec 900 ATX Ultimate Gamer PC Case Corsair 750W CMPSU-750TX Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3R Intel Core 2 Due Processor E8500, LGA775 Pkg 3.16 GHz, 6MB L2 Cache, 1333 MHz FSB, 45mm Zalman Ultra Quiet CPU Cooler CNPS9700 LED OCZ Fatal1ty Pair 2 Gigabyte DDR2 800Mhz Sticks OCZ Fatal1ty Pair 2 Gigabyte DDR2 800Mhz Sticks Diamond ATI Radeon HD 4870 1GB GDDR5 PCI-E DUAL DVI-I/TVO Diamond ATI Radeon HD 4870 1GB GDDR5 PCI-E DUAL DVI-I/TVO Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3750640AS 750GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3750640AS 750GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3750640AS 750GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Creative Labs X-Fi XtremeGamer SB073A Logitech X-540 Speakers Sony DRU-V200S-BR DVD+/-R 20x Acer G235H 23" Monitor Acer G235H 23" Monitor Acer G235H 23" Monitor Acer G235H 23" Monitor
In 2012 I replaced the two ATI video cards with two nVidia 560's. It's a touch slower but the system doesn't blue screen on startup any more.
In 2014 I replaced the four 2G memory modules with four 4G memory modules.
I'd planned to replace the system this year but have a couple of trips planned so it's put off until next year.
The system was built mainly as a development environment. I do a bit of web coding and mess around with gaming PDFs (table top gaming) so being able to have four screens lets me have windows open so I can work and keep track of what's going on.
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This year work implemented the "use your phone for business and we'll give you $50 a month" plan. We turn in our existing company supplied phone and install their apps on our personal phone.
Sounds to me like getting this one will keep the megacorp off of my personal phone and they can deal with whatever garbage is running on it.
(Technically I'll probably just add a second phone to my existing contract and be done with it. No Android phones though. I've had one for the past few years and I just don't like it.)
[John]
What does OSX have to do with an 87 Macintosh?
And personally I'm using both a Windows 7 and a Mac with OSX and I find I like both for different reasons. I use my OSX box at work (MacBook Pro) and I can manage Unix systems with no issues.
Carl
The dryer is a spin cycle. No spin cycle is "hang it on the clothes line out back" :)
[John]
I still need Internet Access. I killed HD TV and all extended channels a couple of years ago and increased my bandwidth. Most recently I turned in the TV box itself and stuck with the tiny descrambler. I'm still charged about $100 a month for access to the 'net. I could go to $300 a month for fiber but I'm not really using the extra bandwidth I have now.
[John]
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I could probably locate the file or at least use man to figure out how to set the minimum password length. It's not something I do often so I don't have it memorized. And with RH7, it's probably under loginctl. Heck, a quick search on my RH6 box and I can't find where to set the minimum password length. Probably under pam.d.
Permissions is bog simple though, I'd have a problem with someone not knowing that.
For older systems (RH6 or older) it's easy enough, /etc/inittab. I'd have to do a man on systemctl or search the net for how to do that in RH7.
And I'm currently studying for my RHCSA/RHCE exams that I'm taking next month :)
[John]
Sure, mine is amicable. My ex was heading off into super hippy land and hypochondria had her trying all sorts of remedies from coffee enemas to lemon/vinegar drinks, to eating some special kind of dirt, etc. Personally I didn't mind eating better but I drew the line at coffee enemas.
(There was a lot more than that but yea, we worked out the split, she headed off to the coast and I'm quietly enjoying myself in a flyover state.)
[John]
Probably :) I only got the certs because work sent me to a diploma mill. I asked for some network training course to kick my skills up a bit and got sent there instead. I did networking for a year before returning to being a Unix Admin.
[John]
Actually the CCNA/CCNP certs were the worst ones I acquired. At a company I was working at, I wanted to get more indepth networking knowledge and asked if I could take a CCNA course. They had access to a CCNA/CCNP diploma mill and sent me there instead. I didn't even take notes and passed the CCNA on the first run. The CCNP tests were harder but I eventually passed them. I did gain more networking level knowledge but it was more when I was a network engineer for a year than anything I picked up from the course.
And for my resume, I would only list the Red Hat ones anyway. The others would go on a historical type resume.
[John]
Actually the only cert I put on my resume are current ones. The ones I listed are old/expired and are listed on my newly created linked in account. Heck, I don't even put all 31 years of experience (which I realized when I was putting my linked in stuff together) on my resume, just the past 2 jobs and a current relevant skillset.
[John]
Yea I did, my bad. And I see this seems to be more of a programming question in general than something more like IT or sysadmin. But I have worked as a programmer and hacked a lot of code over the years in C, Perl, and a pretty large LAMP project (for me anyway, almost 100,000 lines of code for the app and 140 mysql tables; not large for some of course :) ). At this point I don't see moving back into programming.
[John]
Hah, I was just redoing my resume a couple of weeks ago after 8 years of basically ignoring it.
[John]
You mean because I have 5 certs and am working on a 6th and 7th means you'll shitcan my resume without even seeing that I have 31 years of experience in IT?
3Com 3Wizard Certification
Solaris Certified System Administrator
Solaris Certified Network Administrator
Cisco Certified Network Administrator
Cisco Certified Network Professional
And I'm taking my Red Hat Certified System Administrator and Red Hat Certified Engineer tests next month.
I take them more as a confirmation that I know my stuff and to bone up on the things my job doesn't prepare me for like SELinux, building RPMs, and Red Hat specific stuff like systemctl/systemd, etc. We're still using Red Hat 6 so studying and taking the 7 tests is a challenge, especially with no training materials. I'm taking the 6 book and running a 6 environment on my CentOS 7 desktop and identifying the differences.
[John]
Yea, I was curious about this too. I've seen the block of sponsored links when I'm searching for stuff but don't recall ever seeing an ad for a job.
[John]
1. Sure, but that doesn't take all that long. A 30 minute break isn't out of the question though. Typically I'm off the bike, gassed up, and on my way in half that time though.
2. Nope, I'm single and yea four vehicles in the garage not including the 2 bicycles. Just curious as to the range. I'm not interested in the car part but in the advances to make an electric motorcycle more likely, although in the future (there are electric bikes now, same thing though; range and time to recharge). And based on comments, I never considered 2 or 3 trips a year to be rare. You travel a lot?
3. Sorry, motorcycle rider and take my trips on the bike. Five gallon tank and about 47mpg (40mpg to 52mpg depending on where I am). I'll occasionally throw the spare 5 gallon tank on the back when riding in Canada due to the sparseness of stations. Had to stop on the Alaska Highway to refill from the spare after passing a few closed stations.
Wasn't worried about the budget. Just wondered about ranges and how quick to charge. Thanks for the info.
[John]
How long does it take to recharge to get that range back? I take 2 or 3 trips a year touring and my vehicle, which gets about 200 miles per tank, can be refilled in a minute or so and I'll be on my way again in 10 or so minutes.
[John]
That's because insurance in Russia says if you can prove it's not your fault, you don't have to pay anything. So it's in your best interest to have an inexpensive camera recording while you're driving. So yea, lots of interesting videos when your camera is constantly running. Same in the US (at least) where more bicyclists are getting GoPro cameras. Motorcyclists have had such things for years though. I've had a Sony HandyCam on my bike for 8 or 9 years, but mainly when I'm enjoying myself in the mountains so it's not on all the time. I saw one video a few years back where a car merged into a motorcyclist on the freeway and tried to say it was her fault. She had a camera that caught the entire thing and the merger was deemed at fault.
[John]
Anecdotally:
My two Ex-Wives were not interested in computers or other more geeky type hobbies like gaming and not interested in other hobbies I'm interested in, like motorcycles and music.
My girlfriend is a DBA (OJT'd into it), I'm a Sr Unix admin (self taught). She has her Master's (MBA), I'm a high school graduate. She's really eating up board games and role playing, I have the games and run the RPG she's playing in. She would rather be on the back of my motorcycle than on her own but loves to ride with me. She encourages my guitar playing and tells me when some practice thing I'm working on appeals to her.
I think I'm pretty lucky, finally :)
[John]
It's because by then, that part of your brain had already burned out.
[John]
My dad wouldn't let me have GI-Joe because they were dolls.
[John]
In reading the two articles, a good part of the problems seems to be twofold. One is the marketing folks discovered that if they created gender specific toys, sales increased. It seems pretty clear that if you want to make more money, you tune your product to your target audience. If creating pink stuff gets you more sales then make more pink stuff seems pretty obvious. The second of course are the folks who see this pink (or blue) stuff and buy it for their girls. But are parents partly to blame? Is marketing part of the issue where girls see the pink stuff advertised on TV and go for it when they hit the stores? Weren't the 80's a transition from wacky cartoons to toy marketing specific cartoons? Is the transition from a single earner family to a dual earner family (and latchkey kids being babysat by TV) part of the problem?
[John]
Yep, if you're not in my contact list and I'm not expecting a call, you go to voice mail. I have carpet folks coming out today so a call a few minutes ago from an unknown number but local to me was answered and the appointment confirmed.
[John]
Shoot, last year I also added two 2TB drives to the system for hot backups. I turned one of the 750's into a bootable Red Hat disk and spend about half my time in either environment.
[John]
As built: 2008
Antec 900 ATX Ultimate Gamer PC Case
Corsair 750W CMPSU-750TX
Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3R
Intel Core 2 Due Processor E8500, LGA775 Pkg 3.16 GHz, 6MB L2 Cache, 1333 MHz FSB, 45mm
Zalman Ultra Quiet CPU Cooler CNPS9700 LED
OCZ Fatal1ty Pair 2 Gigabyte DDR2 800Mhz Sticks
OCZ Fatal1ty Pair 2 Gigabyte DDR2 800Mhz Sticks
Diamond ATI Radeon HD 4870 1GB GDDR5 PCI-E DUAL DVI-I/TVO
Diamond ATI Radeon HD 4870 1GB GDDR5 PCI-E DUAL DVI-I/TVO
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3750640AS 750GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3750640AS 750GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3750640AS 750GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s
Creative Labs X-Fi XtremeGamer SB073A
Logitech X-540 Speakers
Sony DRU-V200S-BR DVD+/-R 20x
Acer G235H 23" Monitor
Acer G235H 23" Monitor
Acer G235H 23" Monitor
Acer G235H 23" Monitor
In 2012 I replaced the two ATI video cards with two nVidia 560's. It's a touch slower but the system doesn't blue screen on startup any more.
In 2014 I replaced the four 2G memory modules with four 4G memory modules.
I'd planned to replace the system this year but have a couple of trips planned so it's put off until next year.
The system was built mainly as a development environment. I do a bit of web coding and mess around with gaming PDFs (table top gaming) so being able to have four screens lets me have windows open so I can work and keep track of what's going on.
[John]
For the company, sure.