I upgraded to 2GB of RAM and we are seeing more traffic. No crashes so far.

@Minion-Queen said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:

Well also the argument comes in that why should I pay someone to work on a client's environment if you don't at least have some idea. I can't charge a client for a staff member to learn. Where do you fit your learning time in, if when you are at work you are..working?

It should be built in to the pricing. If you are charging a client $300 an hour, it's not like you are paying your IT person $250 an hour so that is where the margin is built in. You are more than likely paying them $25-$100 an hour.

Training should be done on company time IMO. Our company spent an extra million dollars YTD on training this year, but on our bottom line we made an extra $60 million YTD. So you reap what you sow.

With on the clock training, and more encouragement towards certfications and such you get happier employees. I believe a company should pay for a calls or certification each year as long as the employee is interested. Higher skilled employees means better efficiency, and higher skilled employees lead to better clients and more money in the long run.

@johnhooks said:

One downside to it is you lose the integration you have between Slack and other tools like Asana.

It doesn't appear to have AD or Wordpress integration at the moment. AD would be huge for the corporate world and I would like to see Wordpress integration to integrate with existing websites.

@travisdh1 said in Well, that really, really sucks.:

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@wirestyle22 said in Well, that really, really sucks.:

@IRJ said in Well, that really, really sucks.:

@wirestyle22 said in Well, that really, really sucks.:

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@scottalanmiller said in Well, that really, really sucks.:

@IRJ said in Well, that really, really sucks.:

Wasn't he just looking at some place on the West Coast? I mean that should blow expensive East coast cities out of the water (not Rochester or Orlando).

I'm not aware that he was. The east coast isn't THAT bad. Boston and NYC are, of course. But lots of the east coast is cheaper than the west.

I haven't traveled as much as you, but everywhere I've been on the east coast is bad (mostly the big cities). Northern Virginia (as you are already well aware) is insane.

It depends on where you live Alexandria isn't that bad. Had an ex-girlfriend that lived there.

That's where I was staying. I was hearing about $1500 a month for a basic apartment in a decent area..

$1300-1500. That is what I pay right now though

I could get something nice where I live for $750-800. You can rent a 4 bedroom house for $900.

I'm paying $300/month right now. This area a good apartment goes for around $450. Renting is silly compared to buying around here tho. You can easily find a place for $30,000-$40,000

I know some rural areas in Tennessee that are similar, but I am pretty sure 95% of the population cannot spell "IT" so I doubt there would be many jobs.

I am guessing your area might be similar?

Even $6 a month is unreasonable. It should be $12 a user per year if anything

The following recommendations have been made:

• Make certifications two colums and remove dates and certificate ID numbers
• Remove duplicate entry of NMAP Scanning
• Remove Best Buy details. Leave job on resume

Yeah the default notification settins are quite annoying. One of the main reasons I like Gmail is it hides social media emails in the folder where you never go.

@travisdh1 said in Evaluation time of year - self evaluation:

@IRJ said in Evaluation time of year - self evaluation:

Think of it this way.... You get to put focus with your evaluation on specific areas you care about. Sure they ask you general questions, but most of the time they are very open ended and you can really take them anywhere you want.

You can, yes, but most of us aren't good at sales, and all that's really all these things are. Selling them on what you've done over the past year.

Self marketing is extremely important. If you cannot master it, you will never get paid what you are worth. It's like job hunting, the minor details can mean the difference between $70k and $130k salary.

I personally like to pick what the evaluation will be about, and move things in the direction I want. For example, you can show that you've mastered your current role by showing vast improvement in specific areas over the past year where you have implemented automation of some sort.

And I'm over here with my computers

The whole LAN, WAN, MAN thing is even more ridiculous now that it isn't even based on location anymore.

I can have a logical LAN across the globe and Azure or AWS. It can even be a private network with no connectivity outside itself.

Artificial intelligence completely learned through tweets by anyone on the internet. What could possibly go wrong?

I agree it looks 100x better, but I would still make some changes.

Sell yourself!
Create a section right on top of the resume where you have a few bullet points that talk about your strengths. This is not an area to get super technical. It is area to sell your experience. Here is an example ( I am making numbers and stuff up for example)

• 10+ years in IT. 7+ years of system administration and 5+ years programming (Just listing out the years like this is huge for potential employers because it makes it really quick and easy to see your experience)
• Planned Active Directory architecture and migrations in enterprise environments. Experience managing and administrating AD, group policy, DNS, DHCP, and other Microsoft technologies such as Exchange, O365, and Azure. (Doesnt that look way better then listing those under skills? I am talking about those things right up front as I want to show AD as my skill)
• 10+ years experience in DoD, government, and school districts (if you have worked in industries such finance, DoD, etc list them out as they are positives)

Education

Just list Bachelor's Degree. No reason to list the first school before you transferred. That may be relevant to HR paperwork, but not a resume.

Skills

Like noted above I like to highlight my main skills above. I also like to repeat them throughout my resume Employers like when they can look at a particular job and see your skills related to that job. It helps them calculate that this guy has 3 years experience with azure and it actually gives you an advantage. Listing them out separate from the job is confusing and leaves them to ask how much experience do you have with this?

So if you did AD for 7 years and 3 jobs. You list AD under each of those jobs. It also makes your resume more searchable.

I implemented TightVNC for internal support when I came to my current job. We RARELY have VNC issues. Maybe once a year if that. It's as fast as it gets as far as remote control and requires zero users interaction.

Sometimes simple is best and that is my opinion with VNC.

The reason you do all this crap is because you already want to direct your interviewer before the interview. Use the interview to show your actual knowledge not talk about how you did this here for 3 years and have done this somewhere else for 5 years. If the employer cares about that particular skill they will bring it up in the interview then you can elaborate on it. Instead of making the employer ask you how much experience you have with each skill.

Compaq Portable 1

The one I snagged is the original with no hard drive. I only paid $40 for it. I can't find them anywhere online so I am hoping it is worth something, but if not then it is still cool.

http://www.oldcomputers.net/compaqi.html

Any ideas on cleaning it up a bit?

@jmoore

@BRRABill said in Remotely Accessing Desktop of GUI-based Linux Clients:

@dafyre said

I blame Microsoft.

And Bush.

And Obama

@Pete-S said in How do you guys handle counter offers?:

It could also be that you come in one or two days per week or something, to make it a smooth transition. It depends a little on what kind of job you had and what the new job is.

That's even worse than accepting the counter IMO. I'd be pissed if I was new employer and wouldn't trust you if I was old employer. There was a guy who did that on ML and he continually got abused by old employer for months because he refused to leave them hanging... The problem is that they always asked him for more and he kept complying because he couldn't stand up and say enough is enough.

Good article. There is ZERO reason to have a GUI on a Domain Controller. Everything can be done through Server Manager on Windows 10/8

Remember: Build your resume for the job you want, not the one you have.