IT BS thread

Decommissioning old servers is so much more fun now that I work someplace with FDIC backing and rules.



Every HDD must be individually un-mounted, triple wiped to DoD spec, and certified destroyed. By hand, I might add.

 

Has anyone done performance comparisons on Microsoft's stand-alone Hyper-V with VMware's ESXI? We're using the free ESXI version 4.1. We can't go beyond it because we can't afford the management tools for version 5 (though it's free, you can't manage the VMs without the vCenter software).

 

Personally, unless you're in an amazeballs large scenario, the performance is so close nowadays that I'd recommend hyper-v for ease of use in 90% of deployments.

Really, the only 'difference' between them in day to day use is your familiarity with the tools to manage them. The inherent work they do is amazingly similar and pretty comparable.

If you're comfortable in a winders environment, the hyper-v tools are prooly easier to get used to. If you're a CLI warrior more comfortable in linux, then the ESx will be second-nature for you to use.

It's really down to a preference point now, like Ford vs Dodge or somesuch.

 

I thought this was funny, especially the comments ("sounds like real life to me." "Which means she's a project manager")

Computer Engineer Barbie:
http://news.slashdot.org/story/14/1...utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

 

One of my users came by my desk this morning. Says I might have too many monitors going on, and too much to do.



Not sure of his point.

 

Pretty much what I see at work all day:

 

I just received a request from a user who says they want Yammer installed on their desktop...

 

lol I get stuff like that all the time. Put link on desktop and say "There ya go, installed!"

 

I'm all alone for a couple weeks. Kids and teachers are gone and almost everyone else used vacation days.

First time I actually paid attention to this in 2012...c'mon Microsoft, I still haven't gotten used to the fact that dcpromo no longer exists.

Guess I should start trying to learn PowerShell. It's great and all, but who has the time to start committing all these new commands to memory?

 

Powershell isn't all too harsh.

If you're already a CLI warrior, a lot of it is fairly easy to grok. Its just looking up syntax most of the time.

 

Maybe I'll just start forcing myself to use it and look things up until I start to remember it.

I've done a few things with it, but not recently.

 

lol, it's worse than that. We have a group policy that sets everyone's home page to launch our Sharepoint site, which has a link to Yammer directly on it. You can't NOT get to Yammer.

There's a huge push by MS to make PowerShell more prevalent. If I remember right, they have it integrated into the latest Visual Studio even.

 

...and here I am just trying to retire the last of our 2003 DCs!

But at least we don't still have a ton of XP clients kicking around. I know some folks who are still supporting relatively large XP environments.

 

Most of my work has XP machines, and WinCE machines. We have some Linux thin clients too. Last time I went to visit someone at RI hospital, I noticed they were still on XP too.

 

Wow, we're down to less than 10 out of about 1000 total. Everything is generally on 7.

 

My place will probably upgrade to 7 when the physical machines that come with XP aren't available anymore. Any time something happens to XP, they just swap the machine it comes on for an identical one.

 

We usually order PCs with no OS since we have a Microsoft volume license agreement and would build our own image for them anyway.

 

We do this also. Do you guys have a hole puncher for the HDDs? We have a few that drive holes in them and then when they get sent to be shredded into 1" pieces once we have about a pallet worth

 

Sadly, no. We're a small shop (us, plus our parent company, while 25 years along, have less than 30 employees total) so proper destruction is literally me with a power drill and diamond-carbide bits.

I've got...roughly 80 drives that have been building up in the storage room cause noone wanted to deal with them. So, since I now have a job and it is to do the day-to-day dirty work that the coders don't like doing...well ,lucky me

But I'm not complaining...I've done far worse work for far less money over the years.

 

Yeah, I can see why you wouldn't have a punch for a smaller shop that size. I'm sure they are pricey because it is a specialized tool and a drill and a BFH can do the same thing. We are a large scale Data Center (25,000+ physical devices) so its a little different

Well at least it changes up the day from sitting at a desk then. I enjoy hardware over coding all day and having Mountian Dew