@brrabill said in What is in a Job Title?:

Yeah @scottalanmiller took umbrage with my title, Director of All

Lord of the Bytes

@quixoticjustin said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

watching trolls for the 100th time in the last week.. gotta love 2 year olds.. Lol

The Sounds of Silence has never been more ironic.

I did not know that was in it. I may actually have to watch that movie. Although it looks like someone was doing a bit too much LSD when they were animating it.

@scottalanmiller said in What is in a Job Title?:

@kelly said in What is in a Job Title?:

Two, when you move to another job, how much will your current title help or hinder your job search as you attempt to move up in pay and responsibility?

But remember, you need never use the title when looking for another job. It's rare, to the point of almost unheard of, for a company to ask you about your title from a previous job. Everyone knows that titles are made up and meaningless, so no one cares about what other people called you. They will ask you what you did, what your role was, and that needs to be honest. But they never ask about titles, it's just not a thing. In IT circles, IT pros often think that they need to tell people their titles regularly, but when really asked when this happens, the generally can't actually put their finger on it. It's one of those myths, everyone is sure that they must have needed to do that, and their friends must have done it... but when you start digging, no one has actually done it. They might see a "what was your role" question and think that they meant title, but that's not what is asked.

You are legally allowed to give your title, but you can't legally claim it's anything more than a title unless it matches what you did. But are always legally allowed to tell your role, no matter what title was connected to it. Your right to disclose your role is guarantee under US employment law. Your title, if it is good, can be used if you like. If the title is bad, there is no reason to be encumbered by it.

@s-hackleman This is the point that @scottalanmiller and I go around and around about. My sticking point with ignoring title and focusing on role is employment verification and work history. Most of the people doing the work of checking with prior employers are not the hiring mangers, but HR/recruiting/the boss's wife/etc. In short they're people that don't know, nor care what work you actually did. What they care about is that the title they were given for the job you had matches the one the previous employer has on file. If the two do not match, then it is a red flag.

It is a weird mixture kind of day.

Punk Taylor Swift covers, Halestorm, Nightwish, and Disturbed.

@obsolesce said in How Can the FTE Model Compete with the MSP Model?:

@kelly said in How Can the FTE Model Compete with the MSP Model?:

Stuart is the IT Pro. He has his sets of experiences and skills. Assuming that he is working full time for only one organization how is he providing more value to the company within the MSP model over the FTE model?

Stuart has the full scale of pooled resources and flexibility from the MSP that the FTE person does not have.

Now we are no longer comparing apples to apples. You're assuming that the MSP has a larger IT staff than the company. Not necessarily wrong, but an assumption that is critical to evaluating and responding to the discussion.

@nattnatt said in What are you listening to? What would you recommend?:

@kelly give https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzaM6qs7bgA a listen, I'm in love with that cover.

That is really well done. It is strange to see a female bassist in a punk band. Some of those punk does pop covers are really good. I keep going back to "I knew you were trouble" and "Blank Space" when I need a fresh dose of Taylor Swift done right.

On a technical level they're not wrong. A router only routes packets. A firewall restricts packets. On a practical level you cannot buy a pure router, and a pure firewall blackbox is so rare as to be nonexistent. In your specific instance, calling a Sonicwall a router is like calling a computer a hard drive. You're correctly identifying one element of its purpose, but it is too narrow an identification to be accurate.

@minion-queen said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I got rid of his desk.

So it was an intervention or a coup?

For future reference, doing a traceroute and noting what the typical path is for your traffic can help you when it slows down. Then you can rerun the trace and see if the path is different. If a node goes down or has issues you may be rerouted on the larger internet. This doesn't work as well as it did in the past as we move into virtualized networks and things appear and disappear on demand, but it may work for you. I would usually choose a target logically closer than a public DNS.

@quixoticjeremy said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@coliver said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@quixoticjeremy said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@coliver said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

Considering picking up Factorio. Infrastructure management is kind of my favorite thing about open world games.

That's that new mage game with large amount of destructible environment, right? If you do pick it up, let us know how it is!

It's been around for several years. It's basically building your own factory from raw materials to finished goods. With a ton of survival elements intermixed.

Definitely not the game that I was thinking of but still looks very interesting!

Fictorum is the one I think you're thinking of: http://store.steampowered.com/app/503620/Fictorum/.

Streaming for public listening gets into some interesting licensing territory. We ended up getting a specialized Pandora license at a company I worked at some years ago. I'll look to see if I can track it down again.

Time to fire up Civ IV with Rise of Mankind mod.

This is who we used: http://staging1.dmx.com/pandora/
I don't know if they're different, but this might be another: https://pandora.moodmedia.com/

At a previous job we rolled out Ubiquiti APs on one site since they were so inexpensive just as test to see if we could move to a controller based system. After the second AP failed of the three we purchased we went with a Ruckus system despite the increased cost. We chose to spend a bit more for apparent reliability.

That said, for my current job I've chosen to do a test deployment of UBNT hardware.

@matteo-nunziati said in Why does a command work after sudo su, but not with sudo?:

@kelly sudo su lets you load part of the root env if I remember correctly.
Basically sudo lets your user do privileged work.
Sudo su lets your user become root. And then ezecute code as root.
This not the same as logging as root but some of the env should be loaded.

Is the default account that is created when you set up Ubuntu not root?

I wish I could make it to Essen.

Sorry for the lack of follow up yesterday. I was at a client site.

@momurda said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Watching the eclipse.

I'm in the 98% coverage area, so I keep checking periodically. We hit peak in about 20 minutes.

You can test the port using telnet or ssh (assuming you have either installed on a client). It will at least tell you if you can reach the port.

@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Installing Sage on a workstation for a new employee that starts on Monday. My soul is darkened a little more each time I install Sage.

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