OT: So who works in IT?
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Pool_shark
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18 years in IT doing server engineering, project management, and audit. I've been with a major financial institution for 10+ of those 18 years.
jrpark22000
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Working for a Cisco competitor based in Naperville. My focus in L1-L3, MPLS and hardware.
Flying_Hellfish
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IT for 15 years, went from PC tech to Network Tech to Network supervisor. I mostly work on bigger projects at this point with VMware being a large part of what I do these days.
DragonFish
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10 years at a big financial institution here too! Started as Help Desk Coordinator but now i'm a Network Support Analyst with a focus on security. Literally right now I'm banging my head on my desk trying to figure out why WUinstall can't see any available updates on my WSUS server.
I've been in IT for about.. uh.. 17 years? Started out as a NOC tech, moved into systems (Solaris/Linux), did some consulting, DC design/consolidation work, been in VoIP for awhile, and finally now work for Nokia, managing a service and systems/network engineers. Service we're running handles about 100M subscribers globally, 300K requests per minute per data center (we have 4), maybe 6-10Gbps peak per location, about 1500 servers or so globally. Been a fun ride.
Glad to see other IT folks here too!
Glad to see other IT folks here too!
You mean.. you haven't attempted this already?
My first was based on an Arduino. I built a DIY Chiller using a peltier element, some titanium sheeting, derlin plastic and the plastic-side of a CPU water-block.. I started getting a little nuts with it, opto-isolators to trigger A/C Relays for wave makers, 4x16 LCD displays, "OneWire" temp probes.. the whole nine yards. Powered it all from a 300W PC power supply I ripped from one of the (many) dead PCs I had in the basement.
The wife HATED it. Wires everywhere. Looked like a data center had grafted itself onto the side of my tank, and I never actually got things out of the "breadboard" stage, had about 4 of the darn things, with single wires keeping them all tied together and into the arduino. Heehee, if you walked by the tank and brushed it, it'd fall apart and I'd spend a good 2-3 hours trying to remember what wires went into what pins on the Arduino!
I was just about to build ZigBee modules for wireless data logging, when the fans I'd installed in my BC29 hood crapped out one day, and the 150W MH I'd stuffed up in there melted the splash guard, brought the water temps up to about 110 and essentially "cooked" the entire tank. I came home after work to what looked like stalactites of acrylic hanging into the water from the hood. House smelled HORRIBLE for a good day or two after too.
Guess I should have added a temp "cut off" circuit...
I've still got the bits and pieces for that old thing in my "parts box", though I've since lost the original sketch. I think I had a build thread on the controller somewhere, and my BC29 build thread on Uberfrags covered the chiller design.
Been sort of drooling over the Raspberry Pi though and looking for an excuse... And now that I'm finally getting around (3 years later) to putting together another tank.. might be time to dig all those bits back out. I need an excuse to buy a soldering station with reflow capabilities anyway (not because I need it, but I just sorta want one!)
steveo9043
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3 years in IT, started at Devry after trying out automotive and hvacr. a month later the company my sister worked for decided they wanted to stop using geek squad and have there own IT. Now I setup networks and network devices inside nursing home dialysis facilities. I should have my degree in 6-12 months.
canar
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Anyone want to replace my laptop screen. I broke itlol Wow so many of you on the field!
I dont even like telling friends I work in IT because of this lol. besides building my own PC i really have not worked on PC's forever. I can help with your redundant centralized Cisco VOIP if you want but friends and family just dont understand the difference lol.
Anyone else out there? I really thought there would be more that this. Come on get out of the closet!
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