sparda963 · Network Engineer

AI doesn't complain when you cut it's pay or benefits, increase it's hours, and add more tasks on it's plate.

I have to completely agree with you on this one. I got burnt on it as well.

Hmmm that is a good point. I doubt those insulated bags are bio-hazard rated

I know 2 very large corporations that can't be happy about the drm hacking. Apple and John Deer. Both companies have used very bad and unethical approaches to prevent you from using your devices if you try to fix them yourself. Even authorized 3rd party repair companies for these big guys are getting burned by the drm crap…

Solarwinds HeadGeeks drop their new album called ThwackLife.

rschroeder THANK YOU!!!!! Someone finally said what has been going on in my mind every since Network Virtualization became a buzzword and everyone said "it will reduce the amount of networking hardware you need". As you said, if you have 40k physical devices, you need 40k physical ports on switches to plug them into. You…

I am honestly unsure how I would initially respond if I walked into an interview and was asked a question like that. I would certainly be caught off guard by it to say the least. Being in the midwest we have a different approach to directions and distances then most other people in the country. A lot of times we measure…

This is a great article, and I agree with most everything in it. I have to point out that I do disagree with one point though. This can be obviously aggressive, but the one often overlooked is "overly" nice and helpful. * Yes, this sound condescending and I understand that concern but think of this as out of character.…

Where is Voyager's EMH when you need him?

Points are coming

This is for mblackwe We are a small shop here, but we have used GNS3 a few times. We have our two core switches, and 3 routers in total. One of the routers is not even in service yet and will be replacing a switch that is doing some layer 3 routing. The most recent use of it was to test out some EIGRP changes we wanted to…

The movie Swordfish (2001) - IMDb with John Travolta and Hugh Jackman is a good example of this. It's from 2001.

It was a subtle hint that was dropped to us, since we are spending a lot of money to install a whole new environment. I was not involved with the meeting so I do not know exactly what was said or anything, just what I was filled in on after the meeting was over.

I work in a hospital and took the infection isolation part completely in the opposite direction lol. My mind started going oh crap, I wonder if pizzahut will deliver to a DR Center wearing a Haz-Mat suit?!?!

Currently we use PRTG for monitoring our network equipment as well as the servers. All switch/router/core interfaces are being monitored. If one goes down, it goes red and we know about it. I have the alerts being pushed directly to my phone so I know about it almost instantly. This allows us to know of a problem, and…

I might have to look into this one. Sounds like it has some pretty awesome features.

You went a little hard on the poor un-informed DevOps guy lol. The whole article made me cringe really. A fluff piece full of buzzwords more then anything else IMO.

They key phrase in that statement from facebook and every other online company is "without your permission". Of course they bury that stuff so deep in the user agreement stuff that you never read and just automatically click accept to. You basically give away all your rights in those things. I will be using facebook less…

For us, and a lot of people in healthcare it makes some sense though. Over half of our users are people who are in direct patient care, and using a computer is mainly for that purpose. Email is really a secondary thought for them, and most of the devices they use don't even have outlook loaded on them. For those people…

I worked for one once, pretty sure he couldn't even understand how to put his foot in the shoe let alone use the velcro on it. He was pretty good at putting his foot in his mouth though!

We do monthly generator tests as well. We just moved into our new building August 16th and did our first live generator test last week on Thursday. Everything worked perfectly as expected. We lost power several times in storms that Saturday, and the entire building went black, and the generator never worked properly. This…

I am going to start out saying I neither support nor disagree with the arguments I am about to make. Only playing counterpoint to your post Yes I fully understand that video streaming from netflix and youtube use up a huge amount of bandwidth on the internet now days. In fact that number will only continue to rise as time…

Fast Forward 6 months later, and its gotten a whole lot worse. Looks like this storm is just getting started!

Our goal for the Infrastructure Team here is to simply survive the next two years without burning out or killing each other. We are in the process of building a whole new hospital on a new site a few miles down the road. The steel is up and they are starting to frame it all in now. We move into the building next August in…

Its funny you bring up O360. Our partner entity was looking into going to O360 specifically for their outlook/exchange purposes. They scrapped the whole project because they discovered Microsoft cannot guarantee PCI & HIPAA Compliance.

DJ Kong looks ready to drop some heavy beats!

Hey now, no need to get crazy here now!!!! I would go into major withdrawls. I don't really bother with the shortcuts as I only have LEM. I am also not able to install any of the other systems even on a trial basis to do the shortcuts as we have no space for it

I hate this person that wrote this article and hope they get hit by a bus. I know that is mean but for all that is good and holy in this world people like this just need to be removed from the gene pool. I grew up on well water that was pumped from the ground into my house. There is nothing wrong with it at all. So it had…

In Sun Prairie Wisconsin, a backhoe hit an improperly marked gas line, blew up an entire building, burned down several more, and killed a firefighter. In the end, an entire city block was destroyed by it.…

I completely agree with your C-Level statement, and this would solve the problem in most situations. Here is the problem with my company though. Our highest level of IT representative is the Director of IT. We have no VP or C-Level representative of IT. Our C-Level is the CFO. This results in our IT department wanting to…