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re: Do you work in I.T.? If yes, what capacity?
Posted on 5/16/23 at 9:18 am to Naked Bootleg
Posted on 5/16/23 at 9:18 am to Naked Bootleg
Yes. PM, software dev bus owner.
Used to do hands on admin and networking primarily with *nix flavors.
First exposure to it was SCO Xenix way back in the day.
Used to do hands on admin and networking primarily with *nix flavors.
First exposure to it was SCO Xenix way back in the day.
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Posted on 5/16/23 at 9:19 am to Meauxjeaux
And whoever mentioned OS/2, that shite was the bomb.
Posted on 5/16/23 at 9:32 am to charminultra
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This post was edited on 5/17/23 at 7:35 am
Posted on 5/16/23 at 9:36 am to WhiskeyThrottle
sent!
Posted on 5/16/23 at 10:34 am to mjthe
quote:The perfect candidate will have a degree in either electrical or optical engineering, experience in photonics, materials physics, working in the vacuum and temperature shocks of space, understand application and use of laser designators, time of flight measurements, how to measure background radiation from the big bang, industrial use of robotics, drones and military UAV's, payloads and defense communication systems. Also experienced in product sales, MIS, supply chain, logistics, international privacy laws, trade restrictions, ITAR, and basic ability to read through and apply some level of understanding contract law (although we have staff attorneys).
Can I have your job? You can train me
Should be simple to find someone.
Posted on 5/16/23 at 10:43 am to mjthe
quote:
I may or may not have worked for IBM
like, how could you not know? 
Posted on 5/16/23 at 10:49 am to Naked Bootleg
quote:
I’m glad you brought this up - is it normally a salary + commission position? Percentage-based commission?
Depends.
Say you work for a manufacturer, the industry standard is 70% salary, 30% commission. That's what my last employer, a software company did. FAANG companies have different comp structures that include fixed bonuses and vesting stock options every year and that depends on the company.
Resellers may have different rules. You may have a quarterly bonus along with salary that gets paid out every quarter. The past couple of vendors I worked for did this. Some may just pay out your commission once after a deal is closed.
eta: The downside is having to keep up with certifications. Where most employers won't give a crap, here it matters. Vendors need to keep them up for partner levels which affect margins and preferential treatment. Such as first dibs on a lead.
At least with a manufacturer, you just concentrate on their offerings. Vendors and even distributor partners, you may have to hold a few certs. I've held a few from NetApp, VMware, Microsoft, Commvault, and Nutanix. In fact, I have to take an exam in a couple weeks to renew one of them.
This post was edited on 5/16/23 at 10:54 am
Posted on 5/16/23 at 10:51 am to HubbaBubba
The answer's yes
Posted on 5/16/23 at 10:52 am to Pechon
Speaking of IT, there's an infosec conference in New Orleans this upcoming weekend called NOLAcon. I am trying to figure out if I can make it. 
This post was edited on 5/16/23 at 11:08 am
Posted on 5/16/23 at 11:07 am to Naked Bootleg
Yes former ETL developer but now I manage the data warehouse platforms and I'm the technical lead for our migration to cloud.
All data analytics and ETL.
All data analytics and ETL.
This post was edited on 5/16/23 at 11:07 am
Posted on 5/16/23 at 11:22 am to LemmyLives
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Bro, do you even LISP? That was some of the useless crap LA Tech tried to teach me in CS. Ended up with an Ag degree from LSU just to get a B.S.
Started with trying to get games to run and dial into bulletin boards on a 1200? baud modem with MS-DOS 3.22. Certified in a bunch of things, including networking, security, privacy, IT audit, cloud, etc.
However, as I was working as the "Security Administrator" at an ASP in Bon Carre in my 20s, I realized the network engineer that was always on call that sat across from me was in his early 40s. It did not seem if I continued on the technical path that I would ever leave that life, so I went into consulting and am the guy that understands sticking a "permit any any" statement at the top of a firewall rule set means every other rule is going to get ignored.
Damn we have a lot in common with regards to backstory
Posted on 5/16/23 at 11:29 am to LemmyLives
quote:
I went into consulting and am the guy that understands sticking a "permit any any" statement at the top of a firewall rule set means every other rule is going to get ignored.
Very very very early in my career I was tasked with cleaning up some rules on a PIX and was using Cisco ASDM and as an eager beaver moved a block all rule to the top and killed internet for our org for a good hour. I didn’t understand the top down rule.
Finally I rebooted and thankfully hadn’t done a wr mem. Got locked out of the firewall by my boss for a while after that.
This post was edited on 5/16/23 at 11:30 am
Posted on 5/16/23 at 11:32 am to fallguy_1978
quote:
To date myself, my first day on the job in IT was migrating computers from Novell for Windows AD server 2000
quote:
This was my first big IT project as well.
Novell NetWare was like rats on a ship when AD came out
This was my first project at my current employer back in 2001.
Then I spent the next 4 years here fixing & un-doing all the stupid shite my predecessors did.
Posted on 5/16/23 at 1:38 pm to charminultra
Used to be at SWA back in early 2000's as an IT Manager.. left and went to O&G.. back in airline industry at AA now.
Posted on 5/16/23 at 1:42 pm to Naked Bootleg
quote:I worked at a place that used Lisp, about five years ago. If they'd let me move to the team that used Lisp, instead of letting me languish doing Muh .NET, I would have stayed there. The paradigms that underpin Lisp are vastly superior to those of the more commonplace curly-brace-based languages.
Bro, do you even LISP? That was some of the useless crap LA Tech tried to teach me in CS. Ended up with an Ag degree from LSU just to get a B.S.
Posted on 5/16/23 at 1:54 pm to chrome_daddy
Does anyone know what this does? (hint: from the early days of PCs) No Googling
g=c800:5
g=c800:5
Posted on 5/16/23 at 1:55 pm to Porpus
I also work in IT and have been doing it 20 years now. Also have worked on AS/400's and Novell as some others have mentioned in this thread. Novell Groupwise was a great self-hosted email system before Microsoft Exchange took over that space. Some State Agencies in MS still had some AS/400's in production as of 2020, not sure about now.
I have had various titles over the years at different places. Helpdesk Analyst, Systems Administrator, Network Administrator, System Manager.
I am interested in moving in Cyber Security space next.
I have had various titles over the years at different places. Helpdesk Analyst, Systems Administrator, Network Administrator, System Manager.
I am interested in moving in Cyber Security space next.
Posted on 5/16/23 at 1:56 pm to Porpus
I develop software that runs EVs and their charging hardware. It is awesome, pays incredibly well, and affords me a lifestyle I only could have dreamed of as a CS student in college back in the days the ME, CE, and EE majors had a superiority complex
Posted on 5/16/23 at 1:56 pm to RebelWithACause
quote:
Some State Agencies in MS still had some AS/400's in production as of 2020, not sure about now.
My company still has one in production in 2023.
It runs our main LOB app in fact. We're in the process of migrating to a new system though. I'll be glad as a pig in shite to be rid of it finally.
Posted on 5/16/23 at 3:11 pm to Chromdome35
quote:Well, the part on the right looks like an old 8088 / 8086 segmented address. I'm guessing it's not just some random address, so there must be something available there. Maybe it's the last keystroke?
Does anyone know what this does? (hint: from the early days of PCs) No Googling
g=c800:5
And kind of OT, but I had to do some security training recently. Inevitably those videos use images of code that are decorative, often with a guy in a Guy Fawkes mask superimposed. Sometimes I try to figure out where the code came from. This last one I suffered through had "Hello, World!" in x86 assembly language in its little hacker image
. The INT 21H call still caught my eyes even after all these years... I think that either calls BIOS or some DOS API.
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