What some people might call "wasting your employer's time", you conveniently re-frame as "multitasking".
As an IT support contractor, management can tell me what work needs to be done. They just can't tell me how to get that work done. Otherwise, I would be classified as an employee under IRS rules. As long as the work is done, no one cares how I get it done. For some jobs, I can get everything done in the first hour and management is fine with that.
Any reason you haven't been replaced by a script?
A script can't fix a broken system that need repairs. I typically have ~20 systems per day that need repairs.
If there is not enough such work available to fill in the gap time, you're overstaffed and should look for another department that needs you more or prepare your resume.
That's the funny thing. The team I work on is the smallest out of the entire project. Most teams have an extra 20 people doing the same amount of work. We built up an extensive library of scripts and knowledge base articles that help us get the job done faster each month. Something that the other teams are not interested in. When the contract gets put out for rebidding in a few years, many of these teams will get downsized.
You even fucked up somewhere along the way and outed yourself, I remember reading the comment, but I'll be damned if I'll spend the 30 seconds of time on you it'd take to dig up the comment.
That was for the Black Amazon Dot to match my vintage black 2006 MacBook. Don't blame me for your own damn trolls.
I find it highly unlikely you're running a Mint or Fedora desktop in a Windows environment, and anybody who's not a complete idiot would never run those distributions on servers for work purposes.
When I worked at Cisco, I had to set up some laptops running Linux to test 11ac wireless cards. The engineers prefer Fedora for their Linux-only laptops. On some of the older laptops, I had to use Mint Linux instead because of hardware compatibility issues.
My coworkers and I were joking around this week that we had absolutely no work do before the next data drop. No storage closet to clean out, no network closet to reorganize, no hard drives to scan serial numbers from. I did write some documentation to alleviate the boredom of alternating between Slashdot and YouTube.
If you attempt to clutter up one of the IT closets that I spent weeks in between tickets cleaning out, be prepared to deal with a pissed off sorceress. That's my solution for reclaiming wasted space and hiring more women in IT.
But it's up to them how they run their site; I already visit way, *way* less than I used to and if they want to let people like yourself ruin it further, I've better things to do than waste time persuading them otherwise.
How does your bitching in the comments change anything?
The first version of Linux I ever played around with was from a book with CDs about Slackware in 1997. Must have been an old version as it never worked with my Socket 7 motherboard with an AMD K5 processor. Back then it was compile and pray to get anything working. I later ran SuSE 5 through 10. Switched to Ubuntu for a while. Fedora and Mint are my favorite distros for work. These days I use Red Hat at home in case I ever get a job that required Red Hat experience.
You're responsible for your own tedious behaviour and spamming here.
My "behavior" justifies the false accusations that I threaten to shoot other people, creating fake accounts to mock me that Slashdot management deleted, and posting dick pics with my contact info on Russian websites? Uh, no. This type of campaign by your fellow ACs has been driving people away from Slashdot for years now. If you're not willing to stand up to them, then there won't be a Slashdot.
Dude, the Bible is a better love story than Twilight.
"Just then, while everyone was weeping in penitence at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting, an Israelite man, flaunting his behavior in front of Moses and the whole assembly, paraded a Midianite woman into his family tent. Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw what he was doing, grabbed his spear, and followed them into the tent. With one thrust he drove the spear through the two of them, the man of Israel and the woman, right through their private parts. That stopped the plague from continuing among the People of Israel." — Numbers 25:6-8
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Auther C. Clarke speculated in "2061 (Space Odyssey Book 3)" that the core of Jupiter might a diamond the size of Earth.
I like the original "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" better than the Neptune version.
What some people might call "wasting your employer's time", you conveniently re-frame as "multitasking".
As an IT support contractor, management can tell me what work needs to be done. They just can't tell me how to get that work done. Otherwise, I would be classified as an employee under IRS rules. As long as the work is done, no one cares how I get it done. For some jobs, I can get everything done in the first hour and management is fine with that.
Any reason you haven't been replaced by a script?
A script can't fix a broken system that need repairs. I typically have ~20 systems per day that need repairs.
You're like a cockroach in the hold speculating what the captain of the ship will do next.
The annual all hands meeting is probably the one time I'm not multitasking by running scripts and writing Slashdot comments.
If there is not enough such work available to fill in the gap time, you're overstaffed and should look for another department that needs you more or prepare your resume.
That's the funny thing. The team I work on is the smallest out of the entire project. Most teams have an extra 20 people doing the same amount of work. We built up an extensive library of scripts and knowledge base articles that help us get the job done faster each month. Something that the other teams are not interested in. When the contract gets put out for rebidding in a few years, many of these teams will get downsized.
The fat fuck can't even correct his own bio on here!
You seem to enjoy bitching about it, I left it as is for now. It's not like you have anything better to do with your life.
You even fucked up somewhere along the way and outed yourself, I remember reading the comment, but I'll be damned if I'll spend the 30 seconds of time on you it'd take to dig up the comment.
That was for the Black Amazon Dot to match my vintage black 2006 MacBook. Don't blame me for your own damn trolls.
The other losers just have the decency not to troll Slashdot and have the self-awareness to realize that no one cares about their opinion.
They have never heard of Slashdot. But they do troll Reddit. Go figure.
Just another slacker stuck in a dead-end job that students usually do on their way to a real job.
Except everyone hired for this project has 20+ years of experience in IT.
I find it highly unlikely you're running a Mint or Fedora desktop in a Windows environment, and anybody who's not a complete idiot would never run those distributions on servers for work purposes.
When I worked at Cisco, I had to set up some laptops running Linux to test 11ac wireless cards. The engineers prefer Fedora for their Linux-only laptops. On some of the older laptops, I had to use Mint Linux instead because of hardware compatibility issues.
My coworkers and I were joking around this week that we had absolutely no work do before the next data drop. No storage closet to clean out, no network closet to reorganize, no hard drives to scan serial numbers from. I did write some documentation to alleviate the boredom of alternating between Slashdot and YouTube.
If you attempt to clutter up one of the IT closets that I spent weeks in between tickets cleaning out, be prepared to deal with a pissed off sorceress. That's my solution for reclaiming wasted space and hiring more women in IT.
systems administrator: write scripts, config management, handle infra. gotcha.
And clea out IT storage closets. ;)
Go to https://slashdot.org/~creimer and count.
This is the 15th comment for today. Your point?
.005%? It's 10:10 on a weekend morning, you have posted 20 times
This is the 14th comment for today.
literally nothing you've posted is of interest to a technically minded person; it's all drama.
You must have missed reading this thread then: https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11037471&cid=55089687
You mean the compiling wasn't baked in already?
But it's up to them how they run their site; I already visit way, *way* less than I used to and if they want to let people like yourself ruin it further, I've better things to do than waste time persuading them otherwise.
How does your bitching in the comments change anything?
I'm disappointed in you to not include such a link in a post about books.
Check out Linux From Scratch. I go through the book once or twice a year.
LFS: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/downloads/stable/LFS-BOOK-8.0.pdf
LFS (SystemD): http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/downloads/stable-systemd/LFS-BOOK-8.0-systemd.pdf
I'd have banned you months ago personally.
What I'm doing does not violate the Slashdot TOS. If you got a problem with that, take it up with management.
The first version of Linux I ever played around with was from a book with CDs about Slackware in 1997. Must have been an old version as it never worked with my Socket 7 motherboard with an AMD K5 processor. Back then it was compile and pray to get anything working. I later ran SuSE 5 through 10. Switched to Ubuntu for a while. Fedora and Mint are my favorite distros for work. These days I use Red Hat at home in case I ever get a job that required Red Hat experience.
False, some are here to post affiliate links, a.k.a. spam.
Which doesn't violate the Slashdot TOS. If you got a problem with that, take it up with management.
You're responsible for your own tedious behaviour and spamming here.
My "behavior" justifies the false accusations that I threaten to shoot other people, creating fake accounts to mock me that Slashdot management deleted, and posting dick pics with my contact info on Russian websites? Uh, no. This type of campaign by your fellow ACs has been driving people away from Slashdot for years now. If you're not willing to stand up to them, then there won't be a Slashdot.
Sorry, Slashdot, you're only worth 0.005 percent of my time.
He's afraid of other AIs because he wants the entire market for his AIs.
Dude, the Bible is a better love story than Twilight.
"Just then, while everyone was weeping in penitence at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting, an Israelite man, flaunting his behavior in front of Moses and the whole assembly, paraded a Midianite woman into his family tent. Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw what he was doing, grabbed his spear, and followed them into the tent. With one thrust he drove the spear through the two of them, the man of Israel and the woman, right through their private parts. That stopped the plague from continuing among the People of Israel." — Numbers 25:6-8