What's your occupation?

[babyback2]

Optician

 

[smooth move]

i've been retired from the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers for 10 yrs. had 27 yrs in the boilermakers and 9 yrs in the commercial diving field before that. i ran a hot shot business for 9 yrs after retirement, and now have a small welding and fabrication shop. guess i'll keep doing this untill i can't.

 

[mfolsom920]

A Union Carpenter by trade have worked as a superintendent for the last 20 years, been with a general contractor in the indy area for 30 years now

 

[hattrick128]

I am a 27 year electronic systems engineer in east Central Florida and 22 years as a Master Sea Captain on the ocean waters. Some jobs I do both at the same time for DoD contracts.

 

[seabear49]

I work for the Local Township  over 19 yrs throwing Trash and Recycling , I now work in the Drive in Recycling Center. I'm retiring in July after 25 yrs if all goes well

 

[thenewguy]

work at being retired for the past couple years, worked in transportation (driver) for 42 years...

 

[smokin doug]

I am an electromechanical engineer, tool maker, tool designer turned Pitmaster.

 

[rachelkin]

Hey ya'll. I'm a technical services manager in the IT field. Me and my staff support state wide law enforcement systems. It's stressful at times but I believe in our mission and am proud of the work we do. I could tell you more but you know the proverbial phrase. Oh and I drink too much beer but that's a different occupation.

 

[old462]

Welcome and keep those LE systems up!! Happy New Year!!

 

[art a]

I'm a retired police officer.

 

[inkjunkie]

Disabled/retired USPS Mailhandler. Just under 20 years prior to my former head doc pulling the plug on me....

 

[rdschultz4]

I'm boat captain on the Mississippi River.I've been grilling for years,just starting  to learn how to smoke.

Looking forward to any ideas anyone would be willing to share

 

[blueox]

After working too many years as a Sales Rep for a few different co's, I started working on my 2nd million. That 1st one is just too hard too obtain!  That didn't work either, so 8 yrs ago I pulled the plug on chasing the all-mighty  dollar.  Now I have time to run my house-hold like it should be ran.  I run the dishwasher, vac, washing machine and to the store.  I also have complete control of my outside kitchen.  I now have Mr Weber and Mr Bradley as well as a Brinkman and A-Maze-n gen, to help me in my household duties.  

Living Large and enjoying it.  

The Blueox said that!

 

[tcwall61]

Retired from Army after 27 years a year ago and now working from home with a Church Management Software company.

 

[gltrap54]

Originally Posted by ajthepoolman  

I am a Project Manager and Computer Programmer with a 115 year old child welfare agency in Kansas. I basically schedule endless meetings and try to bridge the gap between technology and social work. Oil and water are better friends than those two. I have been doing this for just under 8 years now.

Before that I spent 10 years selling, building and servicing swimming pools. Hence the "poolman" part of my username.

Hey Stars, we recently added two new HP web servers and tested the load balancing capabilities of them. Both machines have 8 gigs of RAM and have dual quad core processors. (I think I am remembering that right, software not hardware is my speciality. might be quad dual core processors). We ran a full open T1 line to the servers and simulated 10,000 simultaneous users hitting the site (which is about 9,999 more simulateous users than we might normally see!) , doing full blown searches against a SQL2005 database, with pages with images that were 1.5 megs and higher.

The SQL server would occassionally spike to 60% CPU usage. The "load balancing" test never actually hit the load balancing stage since our first webserver didn't even hit 10% CPU usage! The ISA server never had to switch the load since the first web server handled it so well. Oh yeah, we ran this test for 15 full minutes before we pretty much came to the conclusion that either our webserver was a God and could handle any traffic, or that we were configured wrong and weren't possibly sending as much traffic to the server as we thought. I would be curious to know how you go about truly putting a heavy load on a server. We suspected that the ISA server was the bottleneck. We also wondered if a T1 was capable of sending enough traffic to bring the server to it's knees.

Be darned!......... I too, am from Topuka......... LOL

 

[inkjunkie]

I am a Project Manager and Computer Programmer with a 115 year old child welfare agency in Kansas. I basically schedule endless meetings and try to bridge the gap between technology and social work. Oil and water are better friends than those two. I have been doing this for just under 8 years now.


Before that I spent 10 years selling, building and servicing swimming pools. Hence the "poolman" part of my username.


Hey Stars, we recently added two new HP web servers and tested the load balancing capabilities of them. Both machines have 8 gigs of RAM and have dual quad core processors. (I think I am remembering that right, software not hardware is my speciality. might be quad dual core processors). We ran a full open T1 line to the servers and simulated 10,000 simultaneous users hitting the site (which is about 9,999 more simulateous users than we might normally see!) , doing full blown searches against a SQL2005 database, with pages with images that were 1.5 megs and higher.


The SQL server would occassionally spike to 60% CPU usage. The "load balancing" test never actually hit the load balancing stage since our first webserver didn't even hit 10% CPU usage! The ISA server never had to switch the load since the first web server handled it so well. Oh yeah, we ran this test for 15 full minutes before we pretty much came to the conclusion that either our webserver was a God and could handle any traffic, or that we were configured wrong and weren't possibly sending as much traffic to the server as we thought. I would be curious to know how you go about truly putting a heavy load on a server. We suspected that the ISA server was the bottleneck. We also wondered if a T1 was capable of sending enough traffic to bring the server to it's knees.

Be darned!......... I too, am from Topuka......... LOL

huh?

 

[gltrap54]

I am a Project Manager and Computer Programmer with a 115 year old child welfare agency in Kansas. I basically schedule endless meetings and try to bridge the gap between technology and social work. Oil and water are better friends than those two. I have been doing this for just under 8 years now.

Before that I spent 10 years selling, building and servicing swimming pools. Hence the "poolman" part of my username.

Hey Stars, we recently added two new HP web servers and tested the load balancing capabilities of them. Both machines have 8 gigs of RAM and have dual quad core processors. (I think I am remembering that right, software not hardware is my speciality. might be quad dual core processors). We ran a full open T1 line to the servers and simulated 10,000 simultaneous users hitting the site (which is about 9,999 more simulateous users than we might normally see!) , doing full blown searches against a SQL2005 database, with pages with images that were 1.5 megs and higher.

The SQL server would occassionally spike to 60% CPU usage. The "load balancing" test never actually hit the load balancing stage since our first webserver didn't even hit 10% CPU usage! The ISA server never had to switch the load since the first web server handled it so well. Oh yeah, we ran this test for 15 full minutes before we pretty much came to the conclusion that either our webserver was a God and could handle any traffic, or that we were configured wrong and weren't possibly sending as much traffic to the server as we thought. I would be curious to know how you go about truly putting a heavy load on a server. We suspected that the ISA server was the bottleneck. We also wondered if a T1 was capable of sending enough traffic to bring the server to it's knees.

huh?

ie, both myself & ajthepoolman reside in Topeka, Kansas......... Often referred to as Topuka.......

 

[flycaster]

Hello, new to the forum, and had a great smoked chicken last night on my Rec Tec today. , I am a volunteer and director of Midwest Food Bank. Midwest Food Bank is a Not for Profit organization that supplies for products for those less fortunate through out the United states. Before that I was a self employed contractor.  I enjoy what I do and any free time is smoking meat for my family and neighbors!  

I enjoy reading all the posts when I have time as it is really helpful!

 

[flycaster]

correction to Flycaster.  Midwest Food bank supplies free food products those less fortunate through out the United states. IT is mostly a volunteer organization that is passionate to serve so many in need. 

 

[smokinotto]

I'm in commercial real estate - management and development. I was previously in the drive-in hamburger joints biz. I love to cook out, grill and smoke ribs, butts, brisketts and such.