[QUOTE=Genericenemy;50476495]Looking for IT jobs on the internet and I swear "Full drivers licence required" is becoming the bane of my fucking life.[/QUOTE]
Which is exactly why I started to Learn to drive 2 months ago, and got a car recently aswell.
It's also damn convenient and sometimes even fun.
[QUOTE=SEKCobra;50476504]Rule #1: Job offers are a wishlist. You don't have to fulfill everything. Apply anyway.
Rule #2: Apply anyway.
Rule #3: DO YOU WANT THE JOB? IF SO, APPLY ANYWAY.
Still, get a drivers license.[/QUOTE]
I guess I should just apply to everything and getting off my ass.
And start driving.
[QUOTE=Warship;50476638]Slightly disappointing thing about my new TV is that due to not being able to play back VP9, the YouTube app is limited to 1080...[/QUOTE]
Seems YouTube encodes up to 4k (at least) in AVC. Can it not decode that either?
[code]Video: MPEG4 Video (H264) 4096x2160 29.97fps 13615kbps [V: h264 high L5.1, yuv420p, 4096x2160, 13615 kb/s][/code]
[t]http://helifreak.duckdns.org/image/20160608091836508.png[/t]
Even if it can, that doesn't necessarily mean the YouTube app actually delivers that.
It might just say "get VP9 or get out" or "TV's can't decode 4K anyway, let's not even try".
One of the best decisions I made is learning to drive [I]before[/I] I needed a car and to drive. Can't stress how useful not being at the mercy of public transport is.
[QUOTE=garychencool;50476821]I guess I should just apply to everything and getting off my ass.
And start driving.[/QUOTE]
Yes.
Maybe not apply to everything, but things that fit your interest. Obviously your skills should be somewhere in the same ballpark, but just because a tech position asks for a CS degree doesn't mean you can't do the job. Listings are pretty much always a wishlist, except for the 5 companies asking for someone to do EVERYTHING for no money.
So my Uni admins prevent private laptops from entering the network by just making the ifconfig and generally all network management programs unavailable on the PCs.
I figured out the DNS, Gateway and so on by just looking into the etc files and currently have my laptop hooked up into the network.
Stay or go?
Shall I tell them?
Figure out an IP address that isn't taken and stay on there.
I have.
[img]http://www.speedtest.net/result/5388048792.png[/img]
[QUOTE=helifreak;50476822]Seems YouTube encodes up to 4k (at least) in AVC. Can it not decode that either?
[code]Video: MPEG4 Video (H264) 4096x2160 29.97fps 13615kbps [V: h264 high L5.1, yuv420p, 4096x2160, 13615 kb/s][/code]
[t]http://52.62.164.10/image/20160608091836508.png[/t][/QUOTE]
I mean, it supports HEVC/H.265 so the Netflix app works in 4K (and it looks amazing, thank you Netflix for good compression) and maybe there are other reasons for it but I just assumed the codec was the reason why the youtube app never switches to 4k.
I'm also wondering what kind of video player I could get that can do 4k YouTube. Chromecast is HD only, consoles are HD only, so how do you watch 4k YouTube without a computer and without the TV being able to do it itself?
[QUOTE=SEKCobra;50476504]Rule #1: Job offers are a wishlist. You don't have to fulfill everything. Apply anyway.
Rule #2: Apply anyway.
Rule #3: DO YOU WANT THE JOB? IF SO, APPLY ANYWAY.
Still, get a drivers license.[/QUOTE]
I love the first level network engineer jobs that "want" 7-10 years direct experience as a network engineer. Nah. I think you'll accept like 1 year.
Honestly job requirements are a joke because it would actually be cheaper and more effective to train an employee, and you're going to have to train them to work with your system anyway so it won't be much overhead.
Not that job requirements are bad, but calling for 5 years of experience in something when 90% of the difficulty is getting used to the company-specific stuff is not at all realistic.
Hell, at my job I got a handle on C# with no experience within 6 months. 4.5 years later and I'm still here. And still barely know shit about our system.
Is the Dell R720 decent? Friend of mine is taking one out of his works datacenter to give to me since the company doesn't want it anymore.
[editline]8th June 2016[/editline]
He's been looking it up for me, dual Intel E5-2650's, 16GB ram, dual power supplies.
No HD's, but I'd probably use it as a encoding server maybe, so I could just get one drive for it.
I mean if it's free, take it and find out :v:
Well he's selling it to me for basically pennies, and he told me it works. If it doesn't I can always bring it up with him.
What kills me is jobs that list experience requirements that are literally impossible. I just applied to two jobs that required 10 years of server 2012 experience.
The frustrating thing is, I don't know if it's just incompetent HR (which you see all the time), or deliberate HB1 visa fraud.
[QUOTE=Brt5470;50478521]Is the Dell R720 decent? Friend of mine is taking one out of his works datacenter to give to me since the company doesn't want it anymore.
[editline]8th June 2016[/editline]
He's been looking it up for me, dual Intel E5-2650's, 16GB ram, dual power supplies.
No HD's, but I'd probably use it as a encoding server maybe, so I could just get one drive for it.[/QUOTE]
Yeah I'd snap a 720 for cheap up in a heartbeat. Dual 2011 sockets, plethora of DIMM slots, dual PSU, may come with a sick ass RAID card. Our VM cluster with 200 cores and 4tb RAM was running off 10 720's.
[editline]8th June 2016[/editline]
[QUOTE=Zephyrs;50478610]What kills me is jobs that list experience requirements that are literally impossible. I just applied to two jobs that required 10 years of server 2012 experience.
The frustrating thing is, I don't know if it's just incompetent HR (which you see all the time), or deliberate HB1 visa fraud.[/QUOTE]
I once saw a job asking for candidate to be an expert in "Microsoft Sequel"
He said it actually has eight 16gb dimms installed, so he's raising his price by 20 bucks :v:
[editline]8th June 2016[/editline]
Yea, he lookedup the service tag. has a perc H710P with 1gb ram.
No drives though, but drive sleds.
I'm excited to make this a encoding/streaming server now since it's got apparently fullheight PCIe and USB3.
[img]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7333627/ShareX/2016-06/08T153514.png[/img]
brb downloading 18 million terabytes
That reminds me I need to get the DLC for it.
[editline]8th June 2016[/editline]
For drives for this R720, so I need to get SAS or can I indeed run SATA drives in the bays. It takes 2.5" drives. Was looking for those thicker 2.5" drives Seagate uses for their portable drives.
I don't need 10k, 15k or even 7.2k. Want to just get something for it to store files on to start out with, and have more decent price per gb.
Edit: Seems I'm looking for 15mm drives, something like this perhaps: [url]http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Momentus-2-5-inch-Drive-ST4000LM016/dp/B016YFEYK6?ie=UTF8&keywords=oshiba%20MQ03ABB300&qid=1465415752&ref_=sr_1_fkmr0_1&sr=8-1-fkmr0[/url]
[QUOTE=Levelog;50478762]I once saw a job asking for candidate to be an expert in "Microsoft Sequel"[/QUOTE]
I went to an interview where HR called it Micro Squirrel.
The other guy interviewing me just looked at her with this disgusted expression that still contained a sense of wonder, as if he had just realized how utterly stupid his coworker was.
I wanted a fourth monitor for work, but the fuckers thought that would be "too frivilous" to expense.
Dell Outlet. Refurbished P1913. $60 shipped.
Can't argue with that. :v:
So the network on my end works fine, but the family is noticing some problems with wireless connectivity. So i had a thought. I'd get a dedicated access point, get a powerline adapter and run the access point in the center of the house, with the powerline adapter feeding it off a port on our AC66U.
Do powerline adapters act as virtual lines, or act as its own network?
When I move out, I'd take the AC66 with me probably, from there I'd like to put the modem in the house directly on the powerline adapter to send it to the access point and just put a router on that jack as well.
Would that work?
[QUOTE=Protocol7;50480104]I wanted a fourth monitor for work, but the fuckers thought that would be "too frivilous" to expense.
Dell Outlet. Refurbished P1913. $60 shipped.
Can't argue with that. :v:[/QUOTE]
Got a direct link to that? For whatever reason it's not showing up for me.
Powerlines are just virtual lines. I used to run powerline and it acted like a straight ethernet connection to the router, network visible and all.
[editline]8th June 2016[/editline]
[QUOTE=Makol;50480235]Got a direct link to that? For whatever reason it's not showing up for me.[/QUOTE]
[URL]http://www.dell.com/us/dfh/p/?cs=22&c=us&l=en&s=dfh&redirect=1&dgc=IR&cid=259637&lid=4662700[/URL]
Monitors -> P1913
Use coupon code spo25monitor. Shipping is free! (May have to switch over to Outlet for Work, I realized my order was placed through that somehow.)
Thanks~
[editline]8th June 2016[/editline]
The discount isn't applying :c
Yeah I had that problem too, their site is kind of horse shit. Try again in 15 or so. I was gonna get a better monitor but when suddenly the discount didn't apply I said nah fuck it. Don't really have the spare money, anyway.
Well now the discount is applying but shipping isn't free?
[editline]8th June 2016[/editline]
Wait is the shipping not free?
I think my going crazy
[editline]8th June 2016[/editline]
On, it is. But the coupon still doesn't work. What is going on
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