Chewy509
Wotty wot wot.
Just like to wish Coug and all our friends from Quebec a Happy St Jean-Baptiste Day...
Happy St Jean-Baptiste Day
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CougTek
Hairy Aussie
Thanks. When's your national holiday?
Chewy509
Wotty wot wot.
time
Storage? I am Storage!
Referred to be the indigenous population as "Invasion Day".
Howell
Storage? I am Storage!
time, are you indigenous?
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
time, as a little green elf-person, is clearly a native of Iceland.
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
Aren't little green elf-persons from Ireland instead of Iceland?
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
No, the ones from Ireland have pots o' gold and shamrocks on them and are called Leprechauns. time doesn't have any shamrocks or pots o' gold.
Iceland, on the other hand, is pretty well known for the fact that its citizens are about as likely to believe in elfs as they are in Jesus.
Iceland, on the other hand, is pretty well known for the fact that its citizens are about as likely to believe in elfs as they are in Jesus.
sechs
Storage? I am Storage!
Coug, what do you do for Fête du Canada? Throw something at it?
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
I fell about as concerned by the Fête du Canada as you can be. I don't care about the national holiday of the country next to mine. People celebrating it here piss me of quite a lot though.
I once thought about buying little canadian flags to wipe my butt after my daily dump, but it would be giving them money so I refrained.
I once thought about buying little canadian flags to wipe my butt after my daily dump, but it would be giving them money so I refrained.
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
Yeah, but that's because I work for a finance company and the Toronto market will be closed tomorrow. I'll work Thursday, but it will be a very quiet day.
sechs
Storage? I am Storage!
I thought that was just for moving day.
timwhit
Hairy Aussie
What happened to your computer shop?
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
Put it aside when I had an opportunity to work as a network/system administrator. I can learn stuff that I hadn't the chance to touch when I was self-employed. I don't earn more money, but I think I'll fare better if the economy goes the way I think it'll go. One month after being hired, I was already the decision maker for buying new equipment.
I'm probably doing more or less what Handruin does, but to a lesser level since I work for a much smaller company.
I'm probably doing more or less what Handruin does, but to a lesser level since I work for a much smaller company.
timwhit
Hairy Aussie
Are you still allowed to smash equipment that is pissing you off though?
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
Every job has its tradeoffs.
Stereodude
Not really a
Only his cell phone.
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
Practice things like this. You'll have to work on looking innocent and sincere when you say them, though.
"It tripped."
"No, I don't know how that dent got there."
"That server made me do that to it."
"Sometimes you have to hit one to keep the rest in line."
"It tripped."
"No, I don't know how that dent got there."
"That server made me do that to it."
"Sometimes you have to hit one to keep the rest in line."
ddrueding
Fixture
Also, a lot of the brit techs I worked with used the phrase "knock it over" to mean reboot it. They did not mean to literally knock it over.
That took me a while to figure out.
That took me a while to figure out.
I do a variety of tasks in my current position. My primary role is a performance and scalability engineer working with our different software projects/products. My role is to help plan, identify, and test for performance and scale problems before release and the also provide detailed guidelines for customers to follow while deploying and using our software. I also spend a portion of time writing code. Lately it has been in Java and groovy and also integrating those languages in the GRAILS framework/platform for an internal performance API project that I've been working with another coworker on. I will also spend time writing and scripting/hacking in other various languages in efforts to create tools that help with our projects.
A small/medium subset of my responsibilities is lab management and planning for our team. Since we do performance testing, we get our own hardware and also manage it seperately from the other teams. I help lead that task for our team with respect for planning, maintenance, and specialized configurations for certain projects. The lab management covers not only hosts, but also networking, storage, and SAN management and the various software and licensing.
Is any of that like what you are doing at your new position?
Stereodude
Not really a
I bet you can make a really mean PowerPoint. 
I bet you can make a really mean PowerPoint.
You caught me. That's really all I do. Lots of sounds and animated pictures of lolcats.
sdbardwick
Storage is cool
Ran into this on Twitter today: "And a big ironic what’s up to Quebec — founded by an explorer — is 404 today."