I work for a LARGE IT house. I am oncall 7/24 2 weeks out of 10. Thye group I work for has arrived at that so we are NOT on-call all the time for our own systems. The standard recompense it comp-time. We normally receive 4 hours for responding to a call. This accounts for the 02:30 call that wakes you up until 05:00. The company expects a response with 15 minutes to a sub-set of critical systems and 2 hours for the rest. When I first started we were on-call for the 30 or so systems we were each responsible ALL THE TIME and IT SUCKED. We gathered all the sysadmins together and worked out this deal amongst us, along with an emergency call list, for help. Much of this depended on the fact that our director was/is an old operations guy who is sympathetic to our cause, without his patronage we'd probably be in the old boat on-call all the time. The life of a unix sysadmin DOES have its downsides:)
what if you had a long term deal with Qwest, or do they do that ? I have a 12 month agreement with my DSl provider, saved me a large amount of money. Is this not a contractual default ? anyone have anymore facts than the Publicity rag put out by M$ ?
them to kill competition so they can corner the market and make it a cash cow. My DSL service has bee very reliable, it is the support co. that really SUCKS. Pac-Bell does not train their employees at all as near as I can tell. 6 service calls in 2 years and ONLY 1 of the techs knew anything at all. The only good part is the connect has been VERY reliable if thru-put has been spotty.
My buddy lives next door and has cable thru Astound. I have ADSL via Pac-Bell. Our bandwidth is almost the same, within 20-40kps during off hours, and my ADSL BLOWS AWAY HIS cable modem during peak hours. He cannot play Tribes on my server from 15:00 - 19:00 and we live 50 ft away.
***Warning : PAC-Bell's customer service is HORRIBLE. Unless you can install and set it up your self forget them as an ISP. I have been there 2 years and still have a static IP, but the only issue DHCP to home customers now I've heard.
Can't you serially connect the T-1 thru a PC ? I have seen old serial connectors for T-1's but I've never used one so I dunno if this will actually work...
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as a M$ select customer the above post is TRUE, no need for 2 lic. anymore....
I work for a LARGE IT house. I am oncall 7/24 2 weeks out of 10. Thye group I work for has arrived at that so we are NOT on-call all the time for our own systems. The standard recompense it comp-time. We normally receive 4 hours for responding to a call. This accounts for the 02:30 call that wakes you up until 05:00. The company expects a response with 15 minutes to a sub-set of critical systems and 2 hours for the rest. When I first started we were on-call for the 30 or so systems we were each responsible ALL THE TIME and IT SUCKED. We gathered all the sysadmins together and worked out this deal amongst us, along with an emergency call list, for help. Much of this depended on the fact that our director was/is an old operations guy who is sympathetic to our cause, without his patronage we'd probably be in the old boat on-call all the time. The life of a unix sysadmin DOES have its downsides :)
But this is A PRO LINUX UNIX site, there are plenty of PRO-M$ sites, I bet there are even one or 2 that are NOT owned by M$ :)
what if you had a long term deal with Qwest, or do they do that ? I have a 12 month agreement with my DSl provider, saved me a large amount of money. Is this not a contractual default ? anyone have anymore facts than the Publicity rag put out by M$ ?
them to kill competition so they can corner the market and make it a cash cow. My DSL service has bee very reliable, it is the support co. that really SUCKS. Pac-Bell does not train their employees at all as near as I can tell. 6 service calls in 2 years and ONLY 1 of the techs knew anything at all. The only good part is the connect has been VERY reliable if thru-put has been spotty.
My buddy lives next door and has cable thru Astound. I have ADSL via Pac-Bell. Our bandwidth is almost the same, within 20-40kps during off hours, and my ADSL BLOWS AWAY HIS cable modem during peak hours. He cannot play Tribes on my server from 15:00 - 19:00 and we live 50 ft away.
***Warning : PAC-Bell's customer service is HORRIBLE. Unless you can install and set it up your self forget them as an ISP. I have been there 2 years and still have a static IP, but the only issue DHCP to home customers now I've heard.
Can't you serially connect the T-1 thru a PC ? I have seen old serial connectors for T-1's but I've never used one so I dunno if this will actually work...
It has a backdoor left by the manufacturer. There was a CERT warning out regarding that model I believe.