sparda963 · Network Engineer

Its all about perspective though. From googles point of view, and their sales pitch, they have a regional data-center with massive gigabit connections to the web near you! Granted no one else but google can get anything over 10Mb/s, but you know those are minor details that don't need to be worried about

We went through a lot of this about a year ago with planning for our new building. And in fact we are having to do it again due to budget cuts, and Cisco basically announcing the end of the 3850 line of switches. We had a huge debate between using stacks of 3850's or 6500 chassis in all the closets. We landed on 3850's in…

Holy crap I remember that. Back in the 90's CGI like that was mind blowing. Reboot was amazing. I heard rumors that its going to get rebooted, no pun intended.

We have the same thing going on in my area right now. One of the bar/restaurants here in town is a gym, and it has groups of people from each team in there almost on a nightly basis battling for the gym. Everyone has fun, and the business encourages it as long as they are not causing problems, and the business makes money…

We had multiple administration people ask us why we needed such big air handlers in our new buildings main data center. We invited them in, turned the air handlers off, and watched the temperature rise 1 degree every min. after 10 min it went from 68 degrees to 80, and it kept going. They asked how warm it could get in…

I want to take this and email it to my director and the c-level here at my place. It is frustrating trying to get the time and money to get any type of training, let along off-site training. It has gotten so bad my manager actually put $5,000 for each person on his team for training in next years budget. The c-level…

I think silos slow things down and cause a lot of problems. I also think that at one time they served a valid purpose but have been tortured and warped into a dark shadow of what it should be. I see this a lot at my company right now. We are a small IT environment and we tend to do a little bit of everything. Yeah each of…

Online programs are actually pretty decent now days. When I went for my bachelors degree It was 1 class at a time for a 5 week period. Every class was laid out the same way with the same formats for discussions and tests and assignment due dates and all of that. The entire class was shown to you start to finish as soon as…

The burnout thing is something I am doing my best to work through right now. I have been at my employer for 5 1/2 years now, I know that is not that long in the scheme of things but there is a reason behind it. Since I was hired on starting out in the help desk it has been one major business changing project after another.…

The bike thing would be great, but having grown up in North East Wisconsin and Upper Michigan, I can assure you they are very limited in usefulness. The distance between cities with any decent amount of population around here can easily be over 100 miles one way. The United States is unfortunately far to large to support…

I am glad I am not the only one. I haven't had much time to sit down and look at the concept, but from what I have learned I still don't understand it at all.

I agree with you on this one Rick. Security in the cloud is questionable, even security in house can be questionable. Reporting is even worse.

We are getting the same stuff over here in Northeast Wisconsin right now. Yesterday I drove home in the sun and blue sky while it was still raining. My head had a hard time with that one.

You are right. If the FCC cronies cared at all about what anyone other then their string pullers at Verzion had to say on this they would have stopped this a long time ago, or not brought it up at all. Yet here we are, ready to gut something that entirely protects consumers and does nothing to hurt the providers at all…

I do not trust my current doctor because of questionable choices made by the company he chooses to works for. In other news, I am in the market for a new doctor! I do not trust the meteorologists around here. Nothing against their ability, but weather in North East Wisconsin is anything but mentally stable. It was almost…

Most other fields you would probably be ok coming out of college into a job. It seems in IT by the time you graduate, the stuff you learned is obsolete so you need to be trained again when you get hired. Colleges are actually starting to not accept transfer credits for IT based courses if they are x years old. This…

It just fit so well too!

We currently have 6500's as our cores in our current building. Our new building will use Nexus 9k's. It is going to be a big change for us since none of us really has any experience with the Nexus line or this type of setup. It should be fun! We are going from massive amounts of fiber in our current system, to very little…

Heh so true. Some of the lawmakers that got tagged by this sent letters pretty fast to amazon demanding to know what is going on. Funny how fast they can respond when they are directly involved isn't it?

From what I know about "Serverless" apps is that you don't have to install a dedicated application on a dedicated server (ie exchange). Instead it takes an application and breaks it down into individual tasks/jobs and runs them independently of being installed in a single package. I guess it is the extreme end of…

I am currently using Google's ProjectFi for my cell service. I pay a base $20 a month for phone and texting. Then I am subscribed to 1GB of data for another $10 for a grand total of $30 a month. The real fun comes in with the data though. If i only use 200MB in a month, I get $8 back on my bill, making that months cost…

The garden hose/extension cord combo just about killed me!!!! I know people who would actually try to use something like that....

We are using both disaster recovery and business continuity combined in our environment. We have the standard daily/weekly/monthly/yearly tape backups going on. We also have built in bare metal disaster recovery built into our backup routine. We are starting to make use of disk based backups as well for faster backups and…

I think automation is great. It saves you time and effort, and makes things a lot smother in the long run. I think your statement of automation making it so you dont have to rely on that person who knows the thing your automating is wrong though. Just because you automate something, doesn't mean you don't need someone…

I think it is a side effect from being in the IT field and being an expert at something. The same thing that happens to a surgical specialist that saves lives on a regular basis, they may develop a god complex. The pro athlete who becomes a bit of a dbag. The list goes on and on. For us IT folks, it appears that we start…

At least they know how to dance. That way they can at least entertain us while they are slaughtering us all! lol.

Crikey!

Omg that turtle burger just about killed me!!! I looked at that around lunch and thought boy that looks tasty right now.

There are a lot of people who would be better with a Roomba at the wheel then the actual driver.

I worked a 1 month contract that turned into an open ended contract (I left after 3 months) at a company that outsourced their call center/help desk to the Czech Republic. I was hired to fill in the gaps while the transition took place. They had 16 people in this department when they outsourced it. They were supposed to…