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    Networking Support thread for the unemployed: Spring 2014

    I have a position open in downtown Austin on my team for a junior to mid-level linux sysadmin who's sound on the fundamentals of linux administration (preferably with some experience with DNS, IPtables, Postfix, etc.) and understands how to keep a production environment up and secure. The only...
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    Japan trip ideas

    I went on a work trip about a year ago and got about 3 days of walkabout because I work very productively. I had a great time visiting the Imperial Palace, the Ueno Zoo/Park (there was a big school visit that day, it was really cute how excited the kids got when the panda got up), any shrines...
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    Rescued 2 Kittens. Help me name them!

    statler and waldorf
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    How old are you and how much do you have saved for retirement?

    27, with about 50% of my base salary saved in retirement and a separate efund of about 10% of my salary. Alas, we're in a salary freeze, so this might be the first year I don't get a raise and the percentage of income saved for retirement should go up drastically (I'd rather get another raise :) )
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    Texas AG invites New Yorkers to move to Texas

    Yes, because Austin's and other cities in Texas aren't terribly gerrymandered to make sure our vote pretty much counts for nothing on the state level...
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    Texas AG invites New Yorkers to move to Texas

    Speaking as someone forced to live under the redneck regime in Austin... I'd be happy to bring Austin into the great state of NY
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    The EPA hates America.

    you know things will be ridiculous when you get an anarchist thread with incorrigible echo chamber reply as the first response. We really should have a separate forum (Echo Chamber?) for these stupid conspiracy theory posts. It really devalues the entire community to continue to have 20%+ of...
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    China Will Build the Tallest Building In the World in Just 90 Days.

    The first block war will start soon, soon come the street judges
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    The What-I-Ate-Before-It-Violently-Exploded-Out-Of-Me Thread

    Worst I ever had was in college, compliments of 'Number One Chinese' on High Street. Turns out, the place was infested with rats and was shut down a few weeks later. Not surprised after that explosion. I recently went out to Which Wich with a coworker, we both got intestinally purged within...
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    college grads: do you get a permanent edu email from your school?

    I retain my osu.edu address and use it regularly.
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    What's your salary?

    My boss just left and I'm replacing here, so hopefully the salary changes, but my current triplet until the promotion is in full effect: Applications/Systems Administrator Austin, TX $80k + bonus
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    Help with grep/egrep in Bash

    -o returns only the matching expression, though this is generally only found with GNU versions of grep
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    Government intervention is the cause of American health care problems.

    164% of statistics are completely made up fantasy land bullshit.* *Sadly, this bullshit statement is becoming closer and closer to true
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    How to stop cat from puking on my bed?

    I have a cat that eats to fast/gorges and vomits due to it. She'll vomit almost anywhere... Our solution was pretty simple, the slow eat bowls are awesome. Of course, it turns out she has a skin allergy to plastic and her chin started getting rashes, so we switched to a metal version...
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    POLL: Do you have a degree. Are you making "good" money?

    I have a B.S. in Math and work as a WebLogic Admin in Austin. My net pay, inc. bonus, is $88,000 at 26. Sorry, in ATOT BS language, I'm 18 making $880,000 with a pair of PhDs.
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    Over 60 wildfires raging in Texas

    I flew in through the Bastrop fire on Sunday, it was friggin huge. One of my coworkers got evac'ed from Steiner as well. The smoke over the city is just mindboggling...
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    ITs... Your thought, please.

    every HR department wants them, because they are too far from the technical to understand what we actually need (this is *less* the case at dedicated software shops and similar type places). The way to get around that is a well-written resume that attracts the eye and gets through the initial...
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    ITs... Your thought, please.

    I'm not sure about any of the Microsoft stuff as a *nix person, but when it comes to CompTIA certs, those resumes usually go right into the trash pile for me, even if the person has other, worthwhile certs. Congrats, you spent $100+ on a multiple choice test that has every single...
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    crunch time. need a baby girl name! due tomorrow!

    Send this one off to the Seinfeld Study Camp...
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    Texas

    I moved down from Cleveland to Austin last year. I netted a 36% raise + reloc and annual bonus, which was worth it to me. Feel free to send a PM if you need any advice. As previously mentioned, it is really, really fucking hot down here!
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    Kitler lives!!! But no one will adopt her :(

    I have a white domestic longhair with black spots... he's a wonderful cat. That's a cute kitten with a very unfriendly to adoption name.
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    Restarting @ age 30...do I have hope?

    I don't hire any lawyers, but when we're hiring new folks, if its a choice between someone who has no experience and someone who's held a job in the military, the folks in .MIL get picked first, 10/10. Usually, this is also the case when its related experiencing in civilian world vs. related...
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    In terms of being short staffed what is the worst work environment you have been in?

    I worked as a team lead in a *nix environment for an applications administration team of 4. This team managed roughly 30,000 production changes per year to applications, almost exclusively happening after hours (except during crises). Further, one of the folks on the team had no Unix...
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    Should the FDIC be abolished?

    I second this motion
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    A budget proposal: towards a balanced budget and for the people - the Progressives

    Remember, that's a progressive tax. I know this is incredibly complex, but the bracket would be 40% for money between 1M and 1B. It'd still be 35% up to 1M
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    Ohio to limit union stranglehold on taxpayers

    Some inner cities have started importing from India... http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=3&ved=0CDIQFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ideastream.org%2Fnews%2Ffeature%2F6933&rct=j&q=cleveland%2C%20teachers%20from%20india&ei=F-kMTvSNKujJsQKXkOz9CQ&usg=AFQjCNG7cQsUCfv8ysn5U8MONYj2ZpbhSQ&cad=rja
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    Java: Problem connecting to HTTPS host with self signed certificate

    switch the argument to keystore, not trust store and try
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    Zabbix

    We use it with an Oracle backend for our hosted customers. I've also used it with a MySQL backend. Given your previous comment asking what a RDBMS is (and my agreement that MySQL is more noob-friendly), I'd go with MySQL.
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    Best Linux Server uptime?

    $uptime 2:42pm up 1103 day(s), 1:16, 2 users, load average: 0.30, 0.44, 0.51 That's a preprod Solaris box. $uptime 14:43:50 up 279 days, 21:48, 4 users, load average: 7.14, 6.51, 6.16 That's our RHEL5 monitoring server I could probably dig up a few more dev boxen that are even...
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    California housing prices....

    Who actually wants to live in Leander? Houses can get that expensive in Austin at about the same size (I don't have quite that high a budget, but I'm searching in Austin as I write).
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    Sony's Servers: outdated software, unpatched and no firewall

    Yea, actually it does with Enterprise-level IT. First, there's no guarantee apache is under package management as opposed to being compiled from source. Second, a change requires coordination with project management, test teams, Operations, etc. for most large outfits. Then, you may need to...
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    How should I transport a kitteh (10hr drive)

    My cat freaks her shit when going to the vet, driving on short trips, etc. She yowled for the first hour or two from Cleveland to Austin (@#($*#$(*!), but then shut up for almost all the trip when she got to sunbathe on the dash. After stopping for a few hours in a shitty hotel, this same...
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    What the hell is wrong with George RR Martin?

    Martin's been tackling what he assumed he could get away with at the series start... a planned 5 year gap that fell apart (plus his myriad of viewpoints to get into the timeline). This lead to two years of futility. After splitting AFFC/ADWD (mainly to avoid a knotty problem in the DWD POV's)...
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    linux novice common mistakes.

    vi hugefile
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    Rant against the ADA

    http://www.ada.gov/q&aeng02.htm Q. Does the ADA cover private apartments and private homes? A. The ADA does not cover strictly residential private apartments and homes. If, however, a place of public accommodation, such as a doctor's office or day care center, is located in a private...
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    Would you pay a 1% premium over your normal tax rate?

    No. As soon as pet project number 7667412435 doesn't get funded, Congress will pass a law to shift funds as they want (similar to the past decades 'OMG Social Security has surplus revenues... we're going to fund #### with your retirement and fuck the generations that follow the baby boomers')
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    If you had a B.S. in Mathematics

    I have one, and I'm a software engineer (dropped out during grad school when I started actually liking what I was doing instead of fighting with my dbag advisor about my thesis)
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    Republicans can pick up at most 18 more Senate seats in November 2010

    I can find a stat that can make it look pretty for any situation. Debt/individual adj for inflation is about as fair as I can think of
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    The New York Yankees have paid 172 million dollars in revenue sharing.

    Yes, because every team has a 10M+ TV Market and can charge hundreds of dollars for a bleacher seat with obstructed views. Revenue sharing exists in the NFL, NBA, and in some Euro soccer leagues. It promotes better competition by allowing smaller market teams to field more talented teams...