pickle-wizard

I had this happen to me once. Between when I accepted the offer and my start date the company had a 10% layoff. I pretty much got the cold shoulder the moment I walked in the door and it was a pretty miserable experience. I only stayed at that company about 4 months before I had enough and moved on.

An in house recruiter may be the way to go. Good news is that you don't have to hire them full time. I've worked with a few in house recruiters that work part time for several different companies.

As a candidate I much prefer to work with in house recruiters. Like you said the agencies just want to put people in front of companies in order to try and get paid. I gone on so many interviews that were just a waste of time, all because the agency recruiter sold me a bill of goods.

The in house recruiters get paid either way, so they are more concerned about find a good fit for the company.

I personally don't even bother replying to the agency recruiters any more.

As others have said rack servers are really loud. Instead look for a tower server, they are much quieter as they are often used in office environments. Something like a Dell PowerEdge T series. You'll pay more as they are rarer but you'll be happier.

Another option is to build some. Last summer I built a couple of servers for my home lab. I went with a 12 Core Ryzen and 64GB of DDR4 RAM. I spent around a Grand each of them. ASRock Rack makes an AM4 motherboard that has IPMI. So they have remote IP-KVM and power control. It is similar to the Dell iDRAC or HP iLO.

Thanks for posting this. I use to do a bunch of AS/400 work when I was at IBM. I do miss working with it. This will be fun to mess around with.

On a recent Technology Connection video he said something interesting.

1. You should not take everything you read on the Internet at face value.

2. Google takes what it finds at face value.

They now have options to store 1 year or indefinitely for an extra charge.

In the early days of Facebook, I really liked it. Like you said it was nice to see what everyone was up to. Then it changed, and the signal to noise ratio went to about 0. I had to unfollow so many people because I got tried of all the political stuff (from both sides). Anymore my feed is just ads.

I don't see how people enjoy it anymore. Guess they like all the doom scrolling.

That's why you see posts like this all around the Internet. They have to keep the new investors coming in.

One of my gripes about any agile like process is how the daily standup turn into a status meeting. I feel that is just a waste of time, we don't need to give status daily. It should be a time to identify blockers and identify who is going to help resolve them.

They are also thinking of that $10K in todays dollars. Adjusted for inflation, that $10K truck that could could buy back in the mid-80s costs the same as a new one today. You just get a heck of a lot more features.

Good news, you can buy this car today. It is called the Mitsubishi Mirage. Hardly anyone buys it because it is an absolutely dreadful car to drive.

At my last job I used to VDI instance for my development work. I liked the setup as I could access it from my personal computer or my work laptop. It kept me from having to buy a KVM and dealing with switching between computers when I was at home.

I didn't notice any latency or frame rate issues.

If a restaurant is going to online menu thing, they need to offer free WiFi. There are a few places I've gone to that have online menus and there is no data service or WiFi.

I spoke with a recruiter from Amazon the other day. They are planning to go back into the office in early 2022.

I've never heard of the buyer having to pay a mortgage broker a fee. When I bought my house I didn't have to pay them. The guy used gets a commission from the bank when he sales a mortgage.

However when I refinanced I didn't use a mortgage broker. I just went through my credit union.

So I've had two work from jobs during the pandemic.

The first went great. The team was able to get more work done, and we continued to communicate very well. Unfortunately that company went out of business last fall due to the pandemic killing our sales pipeline and I was laid off.

I quickly got a new job, and it is an absolute disaster. The problem is that no one communicates and the organization is very dysfunctional. So I have no idea what is going on. I was given no introduction to the team, I just started getting emails one day demanding that stuff be done now. When I try to reach out to people they don't respond. In short I hate it. I have brought these concerns up to my management and have been told that the person I replaced complained about the same thing. So I've given up on this job and am looking for a new one. My mistake was waiting so long to start looking for a new job. The problems were evident the first few weeks I worked here. What I should have done was just quit, leave it off my resume and resume my full time job search.

However I am only looking for work from home jobs. I am just going to be better about my due diligence this time.

I've got an idea for a GUI App that I want to run on both Mac and Windows. I've been researching cross platform GUI Frameworks, but Electron seems to be the best option that I've found.

Oh I'm going to give this a try in my homelab. I currently have Tanzu setup, but a storage failure blew it up.

Starting with ESXi 6 VMware has disabled the transparent page sharing (Memory Dedup) by default. Back in 2015 or so there was a theoretical VM escape vector that used the shared memory pages. So VMware just changed the default to disabled. I usually recommend turning it back on in lab environments, but leave it off in production for security reasons.

This sounds interesting to me. How would one move into this spaces? I come from a Sysadmin/DevOps backgroud. I have done a lot of scripting over the years, but never any software development. Would it be worth while getting a Masters in something like Data Analytics, or should I focus more on certifications?

Timely article.

I'm unhappy at my job and yesterday I decided that I am going to quit my job at the end of the year and work on my startup idea full time. This morning I woke up in a panic of what the hell am I thinking.

After I calmed down a bit I realized I hadn't actually done anything yet. I sat down and thought about it for a bit and realized that I am not in a good environment for myself. I could just get another job, but I think I'm ready to start working for myself. It is something that I've wanted to do my entire career.

Now I've got experience, and I have enough savings that I can take some risk. I've got a little over 100 days until I need to give notice. So I am going to spend a little bit of time everyday working on my plan.

What is frustrating is that IBM has a System Z emulation environment for developers called zPDT. It costs $7K/yr and is only available to registered ISVs. Really wish they would drop that cost and make it available to anyone.

I have a pair of white box ESXi hosts. The specs are.

Ryzen 5 3600, 64GB DDR4 RAM, 1TB NVMe SSD ASRock Rack X470D4U Motherboard Ryzen 9 3900X 64GB DDR4 RAM 2x 1TB SATA SSD ASRock Rack X470D4U Motherboard

I have a VMUG Advantage Membership, so I have a full VMware stack running. I recently setup Tanzu to start learning Kubernetes. Since it is just a lab for shared storage I just have a Linux VM running on one of the hosts with an NFS share. Guess that counts as hyper-converged. I could setup vSAN, but I'd need get get a couple of more disks and another host to use as a witness. This solution works for me. Plus vSAN uses a lot of RAM.

It is funny you notice a lot of left leaning virtue signaling. I notice a lot of right leaning virtue signaling.

I'm going to guess that the geographic differences of our connections are likely the main difference there.

I started a job last November. Within the first hour they said here is your Linux Academy account, go learn some stuff. Which I have.

Heck last year I paid out of my own pocket to take the two introduction to VMware classes, despite working with VMware 2006. Why did I take the classes. VMware has come out with a lot of new features in the past 5 years and I have not been able to use them all professionally. Also in taking the class I found that some the limitations that existed in earlier versions of the software no longer existed. I had no idea that I was no longer following best practices. Plus there was the stuff that I had flat out forgotten along the way. It was well worth the $400 that I spent.

As long as they are asking you to do this during working hours and they are paying for it, I don't see why you are so upset. You say you are at minimum competent with the skill, maybe they are wanting to make you into an expert in the skill and part of that is getting you the extra training.

I run a small Ubuntu VM on Azure. It is like $10/month. I chose Azure because I get a credit with my Visual Studio subscription.

However Microsoft does not allow outbound SMTP port 25 from Azure by default. It is possible to get them to allow it, but I do not know their criteria, as I've never done it.

I try to avoid running my own mail infrastructure. Even now when I need scripts to send mail, for reports and such, I'll use a service like Sendgrid instead of mucking about with Sendmail. It is just too easy to do it wrong and end up in a black hole.

I joined an early stage start up once. I was employee number 3. I learned the hard way that just as they do a background checks on you, you need to do background checks on them. I later learned the founder of the company had several personal bankruptcies and DUIs.

This bled over into the company the company was a mess, and ultimately lead to the company going bankrupt. All this could have been avoided by paying $20 to one of those background check websites. In larger companies the inertia of the companies protects the companies from one or two bad actors, but at a small company one bad actor can quickly sink the company.

A couple of clichés I use when I lack motivation.

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, the second best time is today.

Point being that is never too late to start.

Anything worth doing, is worth doing poorly.

Maybe you don't the motivation to give 100% today. Maybe you are not good enough to do it the right way. Doesn't matter. Don't just give up and do nothing. For example I may say I don't feel like going to the gym today and lifting weights. So instead of staying home and watching YouTube. I'll go walk on the treadmill for 20 minutes. Yeah it might not be as rigorous, and I might not have met my goal, but I did something.

I don't hate it, but I don't like it either. The company I work for is pretty good. However the team I am on is a hot mess. I've been here 8 months and I'm already ready to move on. I'm thinking I'm going to try and stick it out 4 more months on this team and then transfer elsewhere in the company.

As for how I deal with it. I just don't give a shit. I do my best best during the day, but at 5 o'clock I don't think about this place any more.

Nope. The one I share with people is first@last.com

I have a couple of gmails account that I give to companies I expect to spam me. They are not embarrassing, but are kind of nonsensical.