ishment for (real or perceived) failures.
This is the first team I've been on where quarterly 1:1 was the norm,
instead of random + yearly appraisals, and I think it is good. We're
going to be re-org'ed Real Soon Now, so I'll have counterpoints to the
current standard of 1
Related to #1, I would say that Dev needs to plan for maintainability,
both of "their code" by their successor (there's always a new coder) and
by Ops in terms of managing the failure points and understanding the
assumptions that were made during coding.
Software usually stays in production far lo
I would be very interested to hear whether anyone has used a full
ear-muff style headset for data center work.
Thanks,
Allan West
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On 2015/07/12 04:58, Allan Irving wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> How do we feel about trailing Slack instead of discussion lists? I am of the
> belief that it would be far better and also has more features than email.
>
> http://slack.realm.io is an example of how easy it is for users to sign up -
> much
If your work involves using the phone for conference calls and/or tech
support (giving or receiving), then an absence of insulated walls with
closeable doors is a real productivity hit. If the guy in the cubicle
next to you swears when things break, and you're giving tech support,
you can only hope
On 2015/03/24 01:45, Dave Close wrote:
> David Lang wrote:
>
>> A very large company I was at last year had a machine shop available
>> to employees, the most modern way of getting the CNC data into it
>> was with a floppy
>
> 8-inch?
>
Best look on a field tech support guy's face: the IBM serv
The big issue with state (or State) choice is governing laws. My entity
can't do business with data centers in Texas or California because their
state laws conflict with our state laws in some way that makes our
in-house counsel twitchy. No, I can't elaborate, it just came as an edict.
Both fo
Gainesville, FL, has an AITP chapter and they have dinner meetings with
guest speakers once a month. The current members include people I know
from committees at $WORK, but I don't know any SysAdmins who are members.
SysAdmins and other hams do go to the meetings when they have cool
speakers like
On 12/9/12 6:20 PM, Jo Rhett wrote:
> On Dec 5, 2012, at 7:08 PM, Allan West wrote:
>> We've got Raritans on the machines with RSA or IMM adapters because
>> sometimes, when you really need them, they aren't responsive. I also
>> wear a belt and suspenders, but that&
On 11/30/12 4:23 PM, Derek Balling wrote:
>
> On Nov 30, 2012, at 4:10 PM, Trey Briggs wrote:
>
>> Raritan Dominion (KX II) KVMs along with their outlet switched PDUs have
>> always worked great for us. The PDUs will connect to the KVM and allow you
>> to group outlets/vga/usb together as a si
Nick
As Doug said, the APC UPSes handle a very wide range of input voltage
with no trouble. I used to be on a campus with 208V power everywhere,
but now I'm off-campus where 120V and 240V are the norm.
My office is in a commercial leased space in a residential area, so we
use a SmartUPS 3000 with
On 2/28/12 8:23 PM, Ski Kacoroski wrote:
>> From: "Tom Perrine"
>> To: "Lopsa Discussion"
>> Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 1:48:39 PM
>> Subject: [lopsa-discuss] at least five computer-related education paths,
>> according to ACM
>>
>> I saw this come across another mailing list and thoug
On 7/22/11 11:20 AM, Dave Close wrote:
> Dan Foster wrote:
>
>> - Periodic password changes
>
> I have never heard a reasonable explanation for this common policy. If
> you don't share passwords and block repeated failures, why does it help?
> More importantly, it generally forces people to
On 2/13/11 12:18 AM, Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote:
> Hi, Bryan. Have you had other long exposures to noise besides being
> in server rooms? (Like going to loud concerts a lot?) I've never
> used hearing protection, just sort of "bear with it" but I don't want
> to lose my hearing!
>
> Best,
> -at
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