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Are you sure you don't work here. It all sounds very very familiar. We have management who tell us techies how to actually do our job without actually understanding what they are talking about. I keep telling them to tell me what they want to achieve and I will come up with some solutions for them to choose between. I will…

Agree with the age discrimination bit. As a 50+ I have found it very difficult to get a new job. After a few months applying for many hundreds and not even getting a sniff I finally got a response, filled in their application form and got an interview. 45 min technical exam and an hour long interview by a 4 person panel.…

Not sure I even made it through the first round. Ho hum.

Same issue here. Seems to have closed earlier than it should meaning I missed it too. Only one this month.

Six by Nine

I've got over 30 domain controllers spread all over the world and the replication links are crazy. I inherited it and am slowly sorting it out not helped by finding two tombstoned ones when I got here. It is all working now and I used Appinsight for AD to help. I've been using it for over six months so know it pretty well.…

My friends really are my friends. These are the people I go to the pub with, go to rugby with, ride my motorcycle with. There's probably about 10 and they aren't all from the same group. Then there are acquaintances. These are people I know from the pub, rugby or motorcycling but they aren't friends. I just know them. Then…

So Marriott has admitted keeping PII data insecurely. I wonder how big the fine will be (of if there will even be one). Also, where does the fine money actually go.

Totally agree with the flu shots. I get one free every year through work. I commute every day on the London Underground. It's packed and you have no idea what anyone else has. Anything to help offset my risk has to be good.

Done.

Signs spying on you. I've long thought this. I the sign can sense how fast you are going and can read your number plate (and possibly take a picture of your face then it could also automatically send you the fine or track your whereabouts. I know this happens in the UK as I used to look after systems that processed bus…

That's a very small lobster. 

We are all winners ........ Because we use Solarwinds

Now THATs a bad joke. Take a bow.

Max fine is 4% of global revenue or 20M Euro. However that is a last resort and they will try other measures first. It's supposedly not about making money but about securing data. Time will tell.

I call foul too. WPM is clearly listed as being included NOT excluded.

Likely. I think it would also depend on your state of mind at the time you are told something is 'likely'. If you are in a positive frame of mind you would be more likely to believe it will happen. If in a negative frame of mine you would be more likely to believe it won't happen. (and yes, I did use the word likely…

Interesting to see Microsoft taking the "If you can't beat them, join them" approach. Google still taking over the world. Makes sense though. Edge was even worse than IE and that was really bad.

Someone check for pods in zennifer's cellar.

Good writeup. Fortunately it isn't an issue here. I'm the SysAdmin and I sit next to the IT Security Manager. He used to do my job so understands it. I have done his job so understand it. We fill in for each other when necessary. We use a few tools to ensure we are reasonably up to date with patching and are reactive…

Nope, no trick to it. I just can't read.

Yes. I was invited to start mining right at the start. I was running about 50 servers for a client at the time and they didn't do anything at night or weekends. If only I had used them (I thought it would be wrong so didn't). 

Last place I was working at decided to get an external company in to assess our cloud readiness. Of course they didn't ask anyone in IT. The project was called the "Cloud Readiness Assessment Project - Yep, they didn't spot the acronym. They came in, did whatever they did and we all were invited to a meeting where they…

Yep, I've had to set several servers to unmanaged whilst they are down so that our RAG screen stays all green. I've had to track these with a spreadsheet. Having something in SAM would be very useful.

Quantum Supremacy. Is that when the machines take over ?

I've just been given my SysAdmin Day gift. The CapEx has been signed off on ............ SOLARWINDS. YeeeeHaaaaaaa Goodbye Nagios. And the guys have just gone out on a beer run (beers on a Friday afternoon in work are mandatory here)

Yes, would be a quick way to see backup failures where transaction logs don't get deleted correctly. Monitoring the reverse where a significant drop doesn't happen.

Google and Fortnite. Google throwing their toys out of the pram because someone wouldn't accept their exorbitant fees. Times must be financially tough at Google.

We had an incident recently. We have a pair of Linux web servers that access a back-end database. They sit behind an F5 in a load balanced pool. We monitor each server and the F5 pool for both 'down' and 'back up' status and alert on both because that is what the customer wanted. One of my colleagues updated ONE of the…