sparda963 · Network Engineer

I hope Equifax burns and the company is basically left for dead after this. Such a huge breach with something they are supposed to be professionals on. The amount of information and the type of information that was leaked, combined with how they have handled it so far and will likely continue to do so is unforgivable and…

Lol at the powered usb hub in the form of a potato!!!!

In the end it will be the winner that writes the finally entry for this in the history books. For now I am just sitting back and observing this one.

Yeah it is something that I imagine not to many people get to be involved in from beginning to end. It has been a learning process to say the least.

I would love to learn how to powershell, but just do not have the time to sit down and start it up. I have a basic understand of how code works, like I can look at it and to a point understand what it is trying to do. But to be able to sit down and write something up from scratch is out of my league right now. As time goes…

Honestly there is no single thing that caused this. The Pokemon name is a big part of it. It has been around for 20 years, so it has a huge fan-base that spans all the age groups behind it. Another factor is the game is free to play. There are micro-transactions that allow you to enhance the game a little bit, but they are…

Software needs to run on something. We will continue to need the hardware to run the software on, until they turn us all into cyborgs and use our brains as mesh networked super computers!

I just did that. Made me laugh a bit I will have to do that one on the phone sometime with one of the overseas tech support people when they make me angry!

More often then not, the government stepping in to do something like what you described has some kind of hidden ulterior motive. It would not surprise me if some grain supplier was getting angry about profits going down because of this practice and bought themselves a politician to put a stop to it. In this situation the…

ecklerwr1 "This is why everyone wants years of real experience but few pay for it." This right here!!!! This basically says it all. Random job posting: Looking for a senior level programmer with lots of experience. Must have 10 years of Jode.js programming experience. Node.js came out in 2009. Math is hard.

We deal with a lot of the same things you mentioned with budget and money income in our area. We are a single rural hospital in the boonies. We are rated for 99 beds but our new building we move into next year will only have around 65 beds due to changing times. During any month, anywhere between 20%-35% of our payer mix…

You are probably right. I know any time I go and do something that I know will require a credit check, I will ask what firm they are going to check it against. If they say equifax I will ask them to chose another firm. If they do not, I may decide to take my business elsewhere. Likely will not work at all and will have no…

It looks pretty happy though

You are absolutely right on that one. Sadly people make assumptions that the cloud is impervious to this kind of stuff. Sometimes they just make that assumption of I'm not in control of it so it's not my problem, to the vendor itself making indirect implications that they are better then they are against these kinds of…

I watched a sub-titled movie last weekend, and now my suggestions are full of weird foreign movies. Seems a bit overkill for watching one thing lol.

Espeically ironic words given recent events. WikiLeaks Dumps Alleged CIA Malware and Hacking Trove

I think a few companies probably would have literally done this, in front of everyone else to "show them a lesson".

If it is proven it was insider trading he should lose all the money made from it, and be fined millions more on top of that. The penalties for cheating the system need to be higher then they are now.

Mine goes all the way back to high school in my Junior/Senior year. I took a class my Junior, I don't even remember what it was called anymore, that worked with the 4 office 97 programs (word, excel, power point, access). I learned a lot in those classes and I learned the material fast. The teacher took notice too. She…

Our management has been arguing that we are not in the cloud. I pointed out multiple applications that we are using that are hosted out in the cloud and they basically said well those don't count. So then I asked them where our Electronic Medical Record system is. (Correct answer is that it is hosted by our minority…

Your right, but it is the way society works as a whole right now that is bringing this about. Think about all the schooling you need (usually) just to get a job in anything related to IT anymore. Your expected to maintain basically a perfect A grade through it all or you suffer on loss of grants and free money, and…

I agree with everything you said here. I have to make a comment based on communication though from my personal experience. By nature I am a more introverted person. I also dislike chit chat while I am working and small talk and all that other stuff. I generally keep a neutral look on my face, never really smiling or…

I think that is just going way to deep on it. It's not really as big as that. Its just fun, a lot of people have grown up with it. And the geo-location and augmented reality part of it are just really cool. I think most people are doing it because its fun and they enjoy it, not to escape reality or anything like that. Just…

I believe something like your Exchange situation is where SLA's would come in to help. Trying to prove them and enforce them on the vendor is the hard part, but that is where monitoring comes in. You should not just expect that because you put something in the cloud and the vendor promised something, that they are in fact…

I am glad to see companies moving away from this model. Yes having a degree "might" show that you are a worth while investment. But every year it is getting more and more expensive for people to invest in themselves to get a degree. When I took my first college class in IT in 2000 at a community college, the class cost me…

you always have to be prepared for the unnatural disaster, such as a cyber-attack. First time I read that I saw cyborg-attack instead of cyber-attack. Onto the topic at hand. I find it hard to believe so many places out there still do not have at least a basic DR plan in place.

The yearly performance reviews I have to deal with here are humorous at best, and flat out insulting at worst. The first year I was in the help desk my performance review had nursing questions on it, and there was no N/A option for it, so I literally had to put a 0 on it and take a hit as a result. They have gotten a…

You must have had an awesome day Tuesday then!!!

Heh yeah that was my brain not functioning properly on typing.

Yep. They just had a horrible event last Saturday in Chicago that people were thinking might turn into a riot lol. Pokémon GO Fest - Pokémon GO Already a class action lawsuit being filed against the company because of the massive cluster-f the event turned into. People traveled from around the world to take part in it, and…