I mean, I'm not paying for this serviced apartment, it's come with the relocation. If I was paying for it...well I wouldn't have booked it in the first place as it's a bloody awful location and a horrible commute to the new job. Been viewing some houses today and honestly I cannot wait to get out of the city on Monday. Strong smell of fish wafting across from the rag market today....tasty.
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Which city is your new job located?
It's not in a city, it's actually completely isolated out in the sticks, a big appeal of the job to be honest, I've missed the English countryside. All the more jarring sat here. Only a few more days though...
Sounds like we need a back story on that one...
*popcorn gif*
It probably isn't appropriate to give too many details (not that I've got the full details myself either) but he took a risk with a particular venture that was backed by some businessmen who got very upset when it went wrong. As they were from a country with a bit of a different culture (in terms of corruption etc..) them getting upset with him became a rather worrying predicament.
Anyone taken the CEH v10 exam? We're mandated to have it and currently only working through Youtube videos.
Unlike Sec+ which had professor messier's stuff, CEH materials seem very scarce.
If anyone could recommend a good learning material/source, it'd be much appreciated.
Unlike Sec+ which had professor messier's stuff, CEH materials seem very scarce.
If anyone could recommend a good learning material/source, it'd be much appreciated.
Sat my VCAP-DCV Deploy exam today, I didn't bother revising as being a VMware emplyee I get 3 attempts per year. The idea was just to get a feel for it which will allow me to focus on revision areas. I've got a good deal of experience with vSphere (as you'd expect, being an emplyee!) and it actually went quite well. There are 18 (I think) lab tasks to complete, I'm fairly confident I got 12-14 correct with a bit of guess work at the others. I didn't realise until over half way through that you get the documentation to look at, doh! 3 hours in total but I'm fairly confident, now starts the 'up to' 12 week wait for the results.
I did it about 2 years ago, not sure if it was up to v10 then.
Had a free voucher from work for the exam and access to the official online study stuff so thought why not.
Didn’t find the official materials very good, I used the Matt Walker all in one book which was good.
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Finally got the results from the AWS exam I took last week (AWS SA Associate) ... Passed by quite a large margin (which I hoped I would as I've been using stuff on that platform for a few years and had done a lot of revision in the areas of the syllabus I don't use). Should be interesting on Monday to see my bosses reaction as he didn't think I would pass and was not happy giving me time to study for it (despite us using it a lot)
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Sounds like a crap boss.
Congratulations on passing. How did you find the exam at the time?
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I thought the exam quite easy overall, there were a few questions which were difficult but most I could do quite easily. You get 130mins for the exam, I was finished after about 40mins and took another 30mins double checking everything.
For preparation I did the ACloudGuru course followed by the new Linux Academy 2019 one (which is very very long and contains way more detail than you need for the exam). Then I did the ACloudGuru course again. I also did the practice exam pack from Whizlabs as well which was good.
For preparation I did the ACloudGuru course followed by the new Linux Academy 2019 one (which is very very long and contains way more detail than you need for the exam). Then I did the ACloudGuru course again. I also did the practice exam pack from Whizlabs as well which was good.
Now you can use your new cert and take your business elsewhere if your boss is funny about giving you time off for self improvement.
Good luck with it - I know one of my old colleagues who has his VCAP-Design got a big o'l shock when he went to his VCAP with the amount of quick-fire lab configuration he had to do, and I don't think he realised you could access the documentation either, they definitely need to make it more obvious haha. You going for design too or sticking with deploy? I'm still contemplating my VCP, I could pass it without a doubt, but I seem to be moving further and further away from VMware at the moment, the last contract was Azure, the next contract is Azure so pondering that for now.
Thanks mate. Yeah I’m definitely seeking VCIX but not only the DCV side but I want the NV side too. I’m also wanting to go for VCDX I the future. That would literally be amazing, but I’m in the right place to do it so why not. Being one of ~300 in the world would be an amazing accomplishment.
So sick of dealing with Amazon. Trying to add products for marketplace selling and due to the products already being available internationally I'm having to link to products which already exist but which I cannot see or now I find out I cannot edit.
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With countries? I am assuming it is not your own product.
How I miss Amazon Marketplace... If was ways easier knowing people on the inside.
We have the UK distribution rights, which when it comes to Amazon/Ebay means fluffall as anyone in the EU is allowed to sell anything unless it's a regulated product (these are medical devices, but not restricted to OTC). On Ebay it was just as simple as putting "UK Seller" in the title and it's obvious our product will get to the buyer in 2-3 days instead of the advertised 2-3 weeks the eastern European ones offer so we still get the majority of the sales. With Amazon and the "win the buy box" you HAVE to be within 2% of the sale price to be considered for the buy box and they don't advertise that other sellers might be quicker at posting even if it's just 80p more.
Our recent scrap with Amazon is with a product produced by a Dutch company, manufactured in the West Indies (source of ingredient) and popular also in the USA. When I tried to add the products to the UK I was told the EAN's (barcodes) were already assigned to Amazon ASIN's (their unique identifier) and I had to use the ASIN, but the ASIN's assigned had not been used in the UK before so I had to create new products. Eventually I got them created but now I'm left with 2 products which have USA titles and are not descriptive at all to what the products are, and one in German and Amazon are reluctant to change them for the UK market even though our other international products have different names per region.
I'm still trying to get Amazon shipping cancelled when the sales adviser said on our current sales we'd be ideal for their system (4-5 orders a day currently on Amazon, our smallest sales channel) but when the paperwork came through a week later they wanted 20-50 through Amazon as a minimum and now we're having difficulty getting them to stop the service.
Our recent scrap with Amazon is with a product produced by a Dutch company, manufactured in the West Indies (source of ingredient) and popular also in the USA. When I tried to add the products to the UK I was told the EAN's (barcodes) were already assigned to Amazon ASIN's (their unique identifier) and I had to use the ASIN, but the ASIN's assigned had not been used in the UK before so I had to create new products. Eventually I got them created but now I'm left with 2 products which have USA titles and are not descriptive at all to what the products are, and one in German and Amazon are reluctant to change them for the UK market even though our other international products have different names per region.
I'm still trying to get Amazon shipping cancelled when the sales adviser said on our current sales we'd be ideal for their system (4-5 orders a day currently on Amazon, our smallest sales channel) but when the paperwork came through a week later they wanted 20-50 through Amazon as a minimum and now we're having difficulty getting them to stop the service.
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If you can prove you have the rights you can get anyone else kicked off the ASIN.
Who is your contact at Amazon, do you have a dedicated account manager?
Not my business exactly but my wife got offered a position today! She finished her PhD last year (genetics) and I was quite happy for her to take a long period off as I could easily support us both whilst she worked out what she wanted. Wasn't successful with the NHS Scientist Training Program (again, second year in a row) which knocked her confidence a lot. After a bit of persuading she broadened horizons a bit and found an advert for a Forensic DNA Analyst role that's conveniently 5 minutes down the road. Vastly overqualified for what will essentially be normal lab work, but she done a good job of downplaying her qualifications and was offered the job this morning! Chuffed to bits with and for her!