@laksh1999 your best bet would be to print out the Sec+ exam objectives and study each item on it.

I used that and some practice tests for good measure.

@travisdh1 said in Resources for mastering Linux and getting RHCSA certification.:

@scottalanmiller said in Resources for mastering Linux and getting RHCSA certification.:

@openit said in Resources for mastering Linux and getting RHCSA certification.:

Any cheap or free book (soft) will be great, I will get it printed and study.

I've got a partial Linux Admin guide here on ML. @EddieJennings has a huge YouTube channel on exactly this. And my book on Linux Administration is scheduled to hit shelves in September.

You bothered to write a book? Isn't it going to be outdated before it's printed?

No, because it's well written. Tech actually doesn't move very fast.

@obsolesce said in Staying at your shitty employer is your fault:

@carnival-boy said in Staying at your shitty employer is your fault:

I'm sure it is.

Maybe you are sure, but experts and a study with data from over 3.1 million workers are sure sure you're wrong.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/08/04/remote-work-longer-days

The linked article does not say jack shit about what he was talking about

Just don’t keep us in the dark in how it goes. Nice to hear some good news on occasion.

@scottalanmiller said in New to Linux Administration: RHEL-Based or Debian-Based OS:

I agree, both is the obvious choice. But to truly answer the question, I'd focus on Ubuntu (not Debian) and then RHEL. Debian is great, but it is Ubuntu specifically that has the market.

Yes, almost the same is never the same as exactly the same.

My guess would be yes. Most of those released 2015-2016. We've since seen their 3rd gen products released around 2018 with the HD products, and now the UAP6 devices are starting to trickle out. Doesn't really make sense to keep promoting the older stuff.

https://help.ui.com/hc/en-us/articles/360012192813#faq-device-gen

@Hugh-Jass said in Will Tech Giants actually adopt WFH?:

@scottalanmiller said in Will Tech Giants actually adopt WFH?:

Typically we see engineers cap out around $225K. But admins head closer to $500K.
Also, CIOs were more likely to be pulled from the admin ranks, not the engineer ranks. Because engineering was nearly all technical while admins had to be able to do everything an engineer could do, but apply it to the business in real time, deal with active security, and fix what the engineers broke all with the pressure on.
Also, in the SMB space, engineering is the low cost afterthought that admins do. It's maybe 5% of the job, and the easiest 5%. Consider how little knowledge or effort goes into installing a new server, and how much goes into supporting it after it is installed. We often have the most junior staff do the engineering parts because typically it requires the least experience or knowledge, and it can be double checked so doesn't matter even if they get something wrong - there is a chance to fix it before it goes live.

bro I think you lost your mind no one is making this much money in those roles

Don't confuse "I don't" with "other people don't."

The top end of IT is generally limited to a few physical locations (NY, London, Zurich) and to a few industries. So you aren't going to find it in some SMB shop, nor in some small village (other than in CT.)

@DustinB3403 said in Resume:

@IRJ said in Resume:

@DustinB3403 said in Resume:

Also bullet points should be concise, not full sentences. See the above example. Use the section descriptor to explain the bullet list if you must.

I disagree

Good for you, you've never seen a bullet point list. If you're writing complete sentences as bullet points you're doing something wrong.

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@IRJ said in Career Management/Recruiters/Headhunters - potential scam?:

@scottalanmiller said in Career Management/Recruiters/Headhunters - potential scam?:

@Jimmy9008 said in Career Management/Recruiters/Headhunters - potential scam?:

This company however says they do not charge the company but charge the candidate due to the service they provide and managing/promoting the candidate. The cost seems pretty expensive too at just below £1000, which is $1,400 USD.

That's an itty, bitty fraction of the cost that the companies pay. So this means that the math alone doesn't make sense. How could these guys make money. Sure, good headhunters do really, really well. But that's because they place something like 90% of the executive level staff out there. These guys are claiming to only be going after some tiny sliver of a percentage of the market, while doing so at a tiny percentage of the pay? Doesn't add up. If they were legit, they'd hardly make a penny.

Yeah placement fees can be $50k or more easily

Yeah, for sure. Good headhunters can place no more than one person a quarter and be doing pretty well. It's not like normal recruiting where they make at most a few thousand dollars and have to do big volumes. This is very diligent service with huge amounts of time going into every placement.

@Carnival-Boy said in Seekout: AI powered job search:

and I believe in Denmark you have to employ a certain percentage of female executives.

Roughly the same in the US, except you can never do so intentionally. You have to hire them organically. If you can't, you are stuck. But the laws aren't that strict, which is good, since there aren't that many women in most fields so you often can't get a candidate.

The new gig that I'll start on Monday began with a cold contact I received on LinkedIn. The one before that I think from a cold call from a recruiter.

As far as IT Manager, are you specifically wanting to manage people? I know my manager at my current gig is hands on with projects and really has to do minimal managing of us. I've also seen people with the title of "IT Manager" but they're a one-person-show in IT at said comapny, so there isn't anyone for them to actually manage.

@brianwinkelmann said in Windows Firewall with Advanced Security - CompTIA A+ 220-1002 Prof Messer:

what about the Windows Defender, I mean the antivirus and the firewall of Windows They go hand in hand right?

They go together as in they are both security components of the Windows operating system. But that's about the extent of it. They are both very good, they should both always be used, they are both for the purpose of security. But they are not actually associated other than in name.

Very useful tool, specially when computer gets freeze.

Very interesting, this tool we always use to check Windows system configuration.

Most of these tools I have used at least once doing support on computers.

Useful tools for networking!

taking a few mins to watch this!

@brianwinkelmann said in Microsoft Command Line Tools - CompTIA A+ 220-1002 Prof Messer:

Very Very Interesting, but the most important, this Command Line Tools are useful specially when you work remotely.

Or to be ready for when you suddenly half to!

Although they make you more efficient all of the time.

@ElvinNelson said in Writing a good CV:

It is more than enough to simply do it according to the already existing available samples and bring it to the form necessary specifically for your specific specialty. The above are also fine.

Sure, IF the form is any good. 99% are not. People who do "CV help" are never people who know or are in the industry. The CV assistance career path is one for failed English students desperate for work that no one can evaluate, there's no money in it. So if you get resources from anywhere except peers you are almost guaranteed to have something that's not very good, from a context of someone whose never done it before.