Posts made by travisdh1

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Coffee time. Deleting spammers. Uploading videos. How y'all doin'?

Good day for me, booked a BnB for our anniversary.

@Jaguar said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

At the ENT with wife and baby, finding out if she needs tubes in her ears

I'd be completely deaf today without those ear tubes as a kid.

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Rochester, NY's Frontier Communications, a major fiber carrier in the US, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/frontier-declares-bankruptcy/ar-AA19GDNS

lol “expects to continue providing quality service”, might help if you had quality service in the first place.

@jt1001001 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Celebrating, if you will, 1 year at the new gig today

Congrats, I just had my 1 year at my job as well.

@scottalanmiller said in Email 101: How It Really Works SAMIT Series:

Starting a new series deep diving into email and what it really is, how it really works, protocols, myth busting, security, and more.

Youtube Video

I never realized how much I needed this reference!

@scottalanmiller said in Beelink PC issues:

My kids still have an i7 6th Gen from 2015 that they use. It runs, but it is OLD and you can tell when using it. It's slow. But functional.

They replaced that i7 6th gen with one of these Beelinks, in fact, lol.

My personal gaming CPU is still an i7-3770. Still does ok, but starting to show it's age. That was released in 2012.

Got to deal with realizing I'm triple booked next Thursday, and never got a notification on 2 of the installs today.

@scottalanmiller said in Windows 2022 Disk Defrag Freezing System:

@Obsolesce said in Windows 2022 Disk Defrag Freezing System:

You should never Defrag SSDs except for very specific reasons.

Which is why it is surprising that in the SSD era, Windows 2022 has it on by default.

Has Microsoft changed how they handle TRIM yet? I know years ago they only ran TRIM when defrag was run. Why? Because Microsoft is still that bad at managing storage.

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Reading through income tax return.

We ended up having to pay a little for Fed, and got very little back from state. All around close to even, but still enough to annoy the wife.

what is her goal?

Refund.... she's used to getting a large refund.

Of course I think we came out real close to right.

She realized that's insane - right? hell - you want to owe every year so YOU get the interest free loan instead of the gov't.... Of course - you PLAN for that and save money to pay when it's time...

Preaching to the quire here @Dashrender

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I had someone recently tell me that their CIO wanted to use Vmware over KVM because, and you can't make this stuff up, they liked "working with the biggest vendor."

Literally, they didn't care if it made sense for the purpose, they didn't care if it was reliable or cost effective, they didn't care if it was secure. They literally only wanted to know which product was made by the largest company. No IT factor considered.

And then, as incompetent as that is, with only a single thing to research; with no need to check on features, cost, licensing, support, price, or other complicated factors; they got the ONLY thing that they were considering wrong.

KVM is made by IBM at about $63bn USD. VMware is made by Broadcom at about $21bn USD. IBM is roughly three times the size. And IBM is the KIND of company that should make hypervisors, Broadcom really isn't. But that aside, no matter how insane it would be to consider market cap or revenue of a vendor as the determination of product applicability to a company, they got that one, insanely simple task, ass backwards.

When you are THAT dumb, it is pervasive. If you are dumb enough to thing company size matters in some significant way, you are also so clueless as not to be able to determine company size.

I've run into that attitude a LOT.

@Jimmy9008 said in Marketing - Video Editing Storage:

@Dashrender said in Marketing - Video Editing Storage:

Sounds like all the bases have been covered.

It's unrealistic to work with files of that size (even 10 GB files are unrealistic to work on from cloud).

As Pete said - show the owners the time it takes to move the data, then show them the cost of a potential VDI solution with hosted storage - your solution of a NAS will quickly be back on the table with backups to cloud.

I have been doing some research and am interested in this company, they seem to have both storage in cloud and editing via browser. Any thoughts on this, or better alternatives?

https://www.blackbird.video/

Does anybody know if Adobe has a similar entirely cloud solution for video editing? When I go to their site I find it a mess and confusing.

Frankly, that site has no real useful information after a very quick look. It's all marketing fluff and no pricing listed anywhere, which tells me the price is crazy high. It might make sense, but most likely not.

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Reading through income tax return.

We ended up having to pay a little for Fed, and got very little back from state. All around close to even, but still enough to annoy the wife.

what is her goal?

Refund.... she's used to getting a large refund.

Of course I think we came out real close to right.

@IRJ said in Marketing - Video Editing Storage:

What kind of marketing department is this? A movie firm? It seems insane to have video files average 10-20gb. Even high budget commercials are probably only that size.. Is this a bunch of templates or something?

I would be interested in understanding their work flow, as it seems very extravagant to have such large files and so many of them?

Raw video is easily that large. It's not final cut and transcode that it becomes manageable.

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Reading through income tax return.

We ended up having to pay a little for Fed, and got very little back from state. All around close to even, but still enough to annoy the wife.

@CCWTech said in Resume work:

@travisdh1 I've been searching on Indeed, Monster, Linkedin, and DICE. But so far I have only had 2 interviews. One went well, made it to final rounds. The other went really well, and they said they thought I deserved more money than the job offered and wanted to see if I was interested in other higher paying jobs with the company...I said yes, but not to count me out for this one. Then I got the "you haven't been selected" letter.

This was from a fortune 500 company so it wasn't "Jimbo's or Pat's". I'm really trying nearly anything really.

I get called by 'recruiters' in India who can barely speak english but not much else. I guess it's a tough market right now.

It's funny, I'm not used to applying for a job and not getting it. In the past if I applied for 3 places I usually had offers from 2.

All job listing sites are going to have more jobs that either aren't real jobs or have already been filled. If you pay attention, you'll find the same job listed on every single one. It's just a mess, without any way to weed out what are actual active listings.

@Obsolesce said in Resume work:

@travisdh1 said in Resume work:

@IRJ said in Resume work:

@travisdh1 said in Resume work:

@CCWTech said in Resume work:

@travisdh1 What is 'better paying' what range?

And how do you know Spillman?

Pay range depends a LOT on location of the job offering. A couple examples from my life.

1. Cleveland, OH ~$40,000/year. Basically poverty wage.
2. Wooster, OH ~$40,000/year. Living well.
3. Fairlawn, OH ~$60,000/year. Around the same as Wooster at 40k
   Those values get to be hugely different depending on the area of the country, and I'd expect them to be around the lowest in the country because of the cost of living in Ohio compared to most of the rest of the U.S.

I have my CJIS cert and supported Spillman for multiple police departments and a county sheriff at my previous job.

Ii don't know where you are getting this info from, but a quick search on LinkedIn for Cleveland, Ohio Jobs shows this is not the case.

Also, I get contacted for remote jobs on daily basis for well over $100k

I hear that from a much larger amount of people here than any other groups I've ever interacted with. Good for you, but that's far from the norm.

Jimbo's Corner Manufacturing or Pat's Consulting isn't going to pay anyone in IT more than $45k-$85k base a year. Ignore all of those jobs, and search for remote jobs and jobs in cities. Tailor your resume for those and push for remote. Look for more specialized roles and sys admin/eng or product owner types. Those are the ones paying $120k-$220k base.

It's because of advice from everyone here that I finally broke the 40k salary range. It'll be because of advice like yours @Obsolesce that I'm confident I'll continue to imporive when it's time to move on.

@IRJ said in Resume work:

@travisdh1 said in Resume work:

@CCWTech said in Resume work:

@travisdh1 What is 'better paying' what range?

And how do you know Spillman?

Pay range depends a LOT on location of the job offering. A couple examples from my life.

1. Cleveland, OH ~$40,000/year. Basically poverty wage.
2. Wooster, OH ~$40,000/year. Living well.
3. Fairlawn, OH ~$60,000/year. Around the same as Wooster at 40k
   Those values get to be hugely different depending on the area of the country, and I'd expect them to be around the lowest in the country because of the cost of living in Ohio compared to most of the rest of the U.S.

I have my CJIS cert and supported Spillman for multiple police departments and a county sheriff at my previous job.

Ii don't know where you are getting this info from, but a quick search on LinkedIn for Cleveland, Ohio Jobs shows this is not the case.

Also, I get contacted for remote jobs on daily basis for well over $100k

I hear that from a much larger amount of people here than any other groups I've ever interacted with. Good for you, but that's far from the norm.

@CCWTech said in Resume work:

@travisdh1 What is 'better paying' what range?

And how do you know Spillman?

Pay range depends a LOT on location of the job offering. A couple examples from my life.

1. Cleveland, OH ~$40,000/year. Basically poverty wage.
2. Wooster, OH ~$40,000/year. Living well.
3. Fairlawn, OH ~$60,000/year. Around the same as Wooster at 40k
   Those values get to be hugely different depending on the area of the country, and I'd expect them to be around the lowest in the country because of the cost of living in Ohio compared to most of the rest of the U.S.

I have my CJIS cert and supported Spillman for multiple police departments and a county sheriff at my previous job.

@CCWTech said in Resume work:

What pay range should I be looking at? So many ranges out there it's hard to know what's real.

Most job postings won't be serious ones, so just accept that now.

With your experience, you for sure should be looking at better paying positions.

Spillman still sucks, if you haven't stayed current on that.

@CCWTech said in Resume work:

Types of jobs I am applying to are Windows System Administrator, Help Desk Manager, etc...

Watch out for those "Help Desk Manager" positions. More often than not, they end up being tier-1 support positions, if it's even a real job.