ITRCA

think how dave and I feel

haha, kidding dude

itrsteez wrote:think how dave and I feel

haha, kidding dude

But you guys did sign up for this gig right?? You have some kind of IT education from a credited university??

School didn't teach me anything. Just everyday problems and consulting google.

jfults2000 wrote:

itrsteez wrote:think how dave and I feel

haha, kidding dude

But you guys did sign up for this gig right?? You have some kind of IT education from a credited university??

I don't even have a college degree actually.

I just picked up the IT stuff along the way. My initial career was actually in architectural drafting when I was 18. Won awards every year in high school for engineering and arch. CAD work so I figured I'd go into that and started college for mech. engineering.. kinda got sick of that and by then was working on an IT helpdesk due to the flexible hours, then moved to development, then some QA work, then back to development, system admin, network admin, and a number of other things I was thrown into...

Is it a bad sign that when I wrote IT I actually wrote ITR out of habit and had to backspace over the R?

jfults2000 wrote:

itrsteez wrote:think how dave and I feel

haha, kidding dude

But you guys did sign up for this gig right?? You have some kind of IT education from a credited university??

Hell, I never went to high school, but I've been in IT for 30+ years now, every job I've had in the last 20 or so has required a degree, but it hasn't stopped me

Ford Prefect wrote: Hell, I never went to high school, but I've been in IT for 30+ years now, every job I've had in the last 20 or so has required a degree, but it hasn't stopped me

yep, nobody really gives a shit in this industry. Real world experience smokes that old piece of paper. I'm still 12 classes shy of my bachelors and still pushing full time, and this is only so I can go on to my masters and suck my way into management so I'm not in the event log trenches in my late 70's


PS, it's 1:43 am and I'm currently at work for an outage. hooray!

itrsteez wrote:

Ford Prefect wrote: Hell, I never went to high school, but I've been in IT for 30+ years now, every job I've had in the last 20 or so has required a degree, but it hasn't stopped me

yep, nobody really gives a shit in this industry. Real world experience smokes that old piece of paper. I'm still 12 classes shy of my bachelors and still pushing full time, and this is only so I can go on to my masters and suck my way into management so I'm not in the event log trenches in my late 70's


PS, it's 1:43 am and I'm currently at work for an outage. hooray!

I'm glad you guys enjoy it, someone has to.

I had a service call first thing this morning to take care so I didn't get to test the SonicWall. Hopefully will test it tomorrow morning.

Wow, I missed this thread. What is Exchange?

Bradstard wrote:Wow, I missed this thread. What is Exchange?

I think it's an Apple thing.

Bradstard wrote: What is Exchange?

My worst nightmare. Especially powershell cmdlts

HAHA

pssshhhhh, powershell > *. Makes a Winders box more like Linux! Scripting FTW!!!

Scripting is good. Powershell is very good also.

Josh, go install Windows 2008 Server Core sometime fun times to be had then.

Dave-ROR wrote:Scripting is good. Powershell is very good also.

Josh, go install Windows 2008 Server Core sometime fun times to be had then.

^ this

Core is fucking awesome, any new box we build now we always test to make sure it can't be done on core first. The large majority of our DC's are on it. They rarely need patching and our core VM's that sit on san's only take 29 seconds to reboot, and take 9 minutes for a fresh install of R2 core with the .iso in the vm datastore. Technology is getting pretty cool

itrsteez wrote:

Dave-ROR wrote:Scripting is good. Powershell is very good also.

Josh, go install Windows 2008 Server Core sometime fun times to be had then.

^ this

Core is fucking awesome, any new box we build now we always test to make sure it can't be done on core first. The large majority of our DC's are on it. They rarely need patching and our core VM's that sit on san's only take 29 seconds to reboot, and take 9 minutes for a fresh install of R2 core with the .iso in the vm datastore. Technology is getting pretty cool

Yeah, we use it for a hyper-v server (dev/test stuff, prod is vmware and physical) and we use it for our entire PCI network, except for the machine that users have to RDP into to run the credit card/ach applications. Core is more secure, MUCH smaller footprint, etc.. just a little harder to use at first

Dave-ROR wrote:

itrsteez wrote:

Dave-ROR wrote:Scripting is good. Powershell is very good also.

Josh, go install Windows 2008 Server Core sometime fun times to be had then.

^ this

Core is fucking awesome, any new box we build now we always test to make sure it can't be done on core first. The large majority of our DC's are on it. They rarely need patching and our core VM's that sit on san's only take 29 seconds to reboot, and take 9 minutes for a fresh install of R2 core with the .iso in the vm datastore. Technology is getting pretty cool

Yeah, we use it for a hyper-v server (dev/test stuff, prod is vmware and physical) and we use it for our entire PCI network, except for the machine that users have to RDP into to run the credit card/ach applications. Core is more secure, MUCH smaller footprint, etc.. just a little harder to use at first

haha yeah, I hated having to look up commands to view or do common tasks that you wouldn't think twice about like the crazy convoluted firewall commands, or just adding a user to a local group/adding to the domain. But now I find myself more and more just going commandline even on full windows installations.

I HAVE NO CLUE WHAT YOU GUYS ARE TALKING ABOUT..... LOL

jfults2000 wrote:I HAVE NO CLUE WHAT YOU GUYS ARE TALKING ABOUT..... LOL

I'd consider yourself lucky then.

I thought I was the only person who read this all as chinese.