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  1. SteveTheGeek

    Find out my 'teammate' is taking off for 10 days 5 hours before he leaves.

    Serenity Prayer: God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, The courage to change the things I can, And wisdom to know the difference. Trying to extend outside your own direct responsibilities, particularly if colleagues and bosses are unsupportive for whatever reason, can...
  2. SteveTheGeek

    Favorite brand for big desktop-replacement laptops?

    All, I've run a Dell-only shop for several years now, but recently they threw my account management into a tailspin, and at the same time apparently discontinued the Vostro 17"-screen laptops that have been a staple of our office environment for a while. So, I'm now looking around at any...
  3. SteveTheGeek

    Successor to MS Forefront product line?

    I've got a multisite small business (rapidly expanding) looking for solid file services. They're running MS AD with domain controllers at each office site, so DFS is the obvious solution for traditional internal filesharing. The catch is that they have offsite salesmen and the occasional remote...
  4. SteveTheGeek

    Moving to a New Job/Current Contract

    IANAL... And my awareness of this is roughly similar to Noway2's, mostly from hearing from a former coworker that did take a noncompete employment clause to a lawyer and was told it was a waste of ink, legally speaking. That said, I would recommend that you do spend a few dollars for an hour of...
  5. SteveTheGeek

    What do you do with out-of-date cert books?

    That's a great idea, thanks. Any particular caliber you prefer? [2thumbsup] CompTIA: A+ (WfW 3.11), Network+ Microsoft: MCSE+I (NT4) Novell: CNE (4.11, 5.0) Citrix: CCA (Metaframe 1.0) Cisco: CCNA-Security (current)
  6. SteveTheGeek

    What do you do with out-of-date cert books?

    Having three generations of old CCNA exam books lying around (and the odd CCNP book, along with a few M$ and other vendor books here and there) that are for exams that are no longer available to take, I was wondering what to do with them. I've seen used bookstores with laughably out-of-date cert...
  7. SteveTheGeek

    challenges and non technical managers

    I've had a few managers like that too. A Dilbert comic described it exactly for me - the PHB figures that if they don't understand it, it must be easy. I agree with the above - the immediate action should be to break down and lay out the steps with time estimates (and probabilities) of each...
  8. SteveTheGeek

    I put my big data in an agile analy

    Ooooh, that's gotta hurt. CompTIA: A+ (WfW 3.11), Network+ Microsoft: MCSE+I (NT4) Novell: CNE (4.11, 5.0) Citrix: CCA (Metaframe 1.0) Cisco: CCNA (current) Working on MS 70-642 then CCNP...
  9. SteveTheGeek

    Crazy keyboard pounder

    The most precisely perfect solution would have some mechanism that harnesses the kinetic energy of the keyboard pounding and converts it to electrical energy to power the music player/noise-cancelling headphones. CompTIA: A+ (WfW 3.11), Network+ Microsoft: MCSE+I (NT4) Novell: CNE (4.11, 5.0)...
  10. SteveTheGeek

    sent home for blowing my nose

    From what you've said, I too would assume that the boss thinks you're contagious and is sending you home for that reason. It's what I'd do, too, though I like to think that I'd check and see whether it is allergy or communicable illness first. CompTIA: A+ (WfW 3.11), Network+ Microsoft: MCSE+I...
  11. SteveTheGeek

    Static NAT for whole subnets

    I found the solution, it's obvious in retrospect. A 'normal' one-to-one static NAT config line is as follows: static (inside,outside) 197.92.76.1 10.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.255 Result is: 197.92.76.1 <--> 10.0.0.1 But if you HAVE to specify the netmask, then what happens when you adjust the...
  12. SteveTheGeek

    Static NAT for whole subnets

    All, We're looking at implementing a substantial number of 1-to-1 static NATs on our ASA 5510, a range of public IPs NATed back to a range of privately-addressed hosts. The catch is, we cannot use dynamic pools because 50.50.1.1 has to translate to 10.10.1.1, 50.50.1.2 <-> 10.10.1.2, etc...
  13. SteveTheGeek

    CCNA Online

    I'm not familiar with any certification exams one can take online besides Brainbench (and they really don't count). I'm certain that this is not the case for Juniper, Microsoft, Novell, Comp-TIA, Citrix, and Checkpoint. I also don't know of any with a "pay for once and get several opportunities...
  14. SteveTheGeek

    Next cycle for exam changes

    My understanding is that the CCNP ones just went through major changes earlier in 2011 (to ROUTE, SWITCH, and T-SHOOT), so unlikely that they'll have more changes anytime in the next couple years. CompTIA: A+ (WfW 3.11), Network+ Microsoft: MCSE+I (NT4) Novell: CNE (4.11, 5.0) Citrix: CCA...
  15. SteveTheGeek

    Changes coming to Microsoft Certifications

    Does this mean I can no longer put my MCSE+I on my resume/CV? :-) In all seriousness, it doesn't seem to me to have any impact, but that may be because no (prospective) employer has ever looked at my transcript, but I'd think if they did they'd understand that an exam's status may be inactive...
  16. SteveTheGeek

    Employee arrival and departure

    Thanks everyone for the helpful and thoughtful responses. One clarification, the user-specific data is being backed up whether the machine is wiped or not (or rather, it should be, but I'm not confident that that is happening with any regularity). It is a relatively small company, under thirty...
  17. SteveTheGeek

    Employee arrival and departure

    All At my last company, it (and is) standard practice to back up the user data on the workstation or laptop of a departing employee and then wipe the machine's drive and reinstall the OS and apps for the next user of it. At my current company, I've been told it is a waste of time and that we...
  18. SteveTheGeek

    We laid you off, but need your help.

    @sleipnir: I've heard a variation of that one; it was a consulting engineer on Ford's assembly line several decades ago, and a piece of chalk making a line on the floor rather than a piece of stiff wire. The high price isn't for the chalk needed to make the line, it is for knowing where to put...
  19. SteveTheGeek

    We laid you off, but need your help.

    Assuming the layoff was of the standard style of "nothing personal, but we've got to let you go" then a response to a later request for help (of more than 2min on the phone) in the style of "nothing personal, but my time is worth money" is very reasonable and not at all bridge-burny.
  20. SteveTheGeek

    Do you friend your co-workers on Facebook?

    I've avoided FB, but more from lack of interest in that style of socializing rather than anything particularly employment-related. My wife maintains an account pretty much to stay in some sort of contact with her family on the other side of the US, and secondhand FB is plenty. LinkedIn is really...

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