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  Motherboard Chipset - CompTIA A+ 220-901 220-902 Video Training by Prof. Messer
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  Home Lab Ideas from SAMIT Video
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  @nexzcore said in Home Lab Ideas from SAMIT Video: @scottalanmiller Hi Scott Am from India and starting a Startup offering Services Like Networking Support .Need some help on this. Sure, feel free to direct message me.
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  CPU Sockets - CompTIA A+ 220-901 220-902 Video Training by Prof. Messer
  youtube certification comptia prof messer a+ motherboard cpu video training • • mlnews

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  @emad-r said in CPU Sockets - CompTIA A+ 220-901 220-902 Video Training by Prof. Messer: @mlnews Qatrooz make one topic all posts all the links in i it. See the "Table of Contents" link.
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  Motherboard RAM Slots - CompTIA A+ 220-901 220-902 Video Training by Prof. Messer
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  Motherboard Expansion Slots and Bus Speeds - CompTIA A+ 220-901 220-902 Video Training by Prof. Messer
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  An Overview of Motherboard Types - CompTIA A+ 220-901 220-902 Video Training by Prof. Messer
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  Installing BIOS Upgrades - CompTIA A+ 220-901 220-902 Video Training by Prof. Messer
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  BIOS Security - CompTIA A+ 220-901 220-902 Video Training by Prof. Messer
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  BIOS Configurations - CompTIA A+ 220-901 220-902 Video Training by Prof. Messer
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  CompTIA A+ 220-901 220-902 Video Training by Prof. Messer
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  @scottalanmiller Always glad I did mine years ago. I feel like it helps me see a bigger picture when problem solving weird issues
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  BIOS and UEFI - CompTIA A+ 220-901 220-902 Video Training by Prof. Messer
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  Lexmark to lay off 1,000 employees as a part of restructuring
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  one of the rental car companies, can't remember which, was Lexmark printers everywhere. Enterprise maybe?
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  Hiring infrastructure technician
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  @scottalanmiller said in Hiring infrastructure technician: @kelly said in Hiring infrastructure technician: @scottalanmiller said in Hiring infrastructure technician: The Canadian government hires internationally? That's really surprising. The posting is on a government site, but the hiring company is a private one: CSS, Inc. OH! That's funny. We have a national government run job site, but it's not actually very popular. I do know of one province that has a provincial government run job site though, and is it by far the standard way people search for jobs in that province.
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  Up-To-Date Juniper JN0-361 Exam Questions For Guaranteed Success
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  Yeah, a very BS spammer.
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  CISSP
  • IRJ

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  @irj said in CISSP: @kelly said in CISSP: @irj said in CISSP: @Kelly and @scottalanmiller Here is the outline for CISSP-ISSAP. What do you think I should brush up on? https://www.isc2.org/-/media/ISC2/Certifications/Exam-Outlines/ISSAP-Exam-Outline.ashx Without knowing more about your background and practical experience it is hard to say for certain. Logging is going to be key for most of the areas. With an eye towards Domain 3: Infrastructure Security in particular (since your questions in this thread have been about networking) I would say that you should make certain that you understand the concepts at a high level. Since this vendor agnostic and multiple choice it is likely (I've never taken a CISSP exam) that the questions are going to be aimed towards the right way to implement these things, but not the particulars of how to do it. You're going to need to understand the whys more than the hows for most of those things. Why does out of band configuration matter? What is access control segmentation, etc. If they're moving in response to the market there will probably be a number of questions on securing WiFi and VoIP. If you're weak on PKI that could really trip you up as well. In general it doesn't sound terribly difficult so long as you have all of the basic concepts and can find your way around the various compliance laws. So maybe I'll be OK. We covered all of that in CISSP. I'm sure this will dive in deeper, but I probably already have enough base knowledge. I'm going to order the book and read through it and see if I can understand everything I'd think so. It would probably be worth your while to compare the stated purposes/jobs differences are for the two exams and focus your energy in those categories.
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  Network+ N10-006 Video Training by Prof. Messer - Unified Voice Services
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  Network+ N10-006 Video Training by Prof. Messer - Web Services
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  Network+ N10-006 Video Training by Prof. Messer - Remote Access Services
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  Anybody ever work at Microsoft? If so, how was it?
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  @scottalanmiller said in Anybody ever work at Microsoft? If so, how was it?: I have a friend that started there recently and really liked it. He's more on the training side of things. But MS is well known for being a good employer. Way better than the companies famous to non-tech people for being good employers. MS is at the top end of the big software makers. Tech companies pretty much have an arms race between each other for hiring and maintaining staff. It's not just in the pay. I have 15 weeks full pay maternity/paternity/adoption leave as an example of a benefit. I have unlimited vacation (I took ~7 weeks off last year including the entire month of June). The biggest dig against Microsoft used to be they used stack ranking but I hear they stopped that. In general with tech the expectation is you deliver results (high expectations) how and when you do it is really up to you.
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  Win 10 1709 Outlook Excel 2016 hang
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  I have seen weird/slow response with the video/hardware acceleration turned on. Try disabling it.
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  Web Development Company
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  Where Does Intern Level Fall on the Scale?
  intern user power user • • scottalanmiller

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  @wrx7m said in Where Does Intern Level Fall on the Scale?: @scottalanmiller said in Where Does Intern Level Fall on the Scale?: @wrx7m said in Where Does Intern Level Fall on the Scale?: @scottalanmiller said in Where Does Intern Level Fall on the Scale?: @wrcombs said in Where Does Intern Level Fall on the Scale?: What would you consider to be an User? Office user? Power user? i guess I would like to know more about the progression shown. Users would be "anyone". Basic computer literacy. Ability to surf the web, send and receive emails, write office documents, play video games, install software (at home), etc. Office Users would be a step up. They would know the same basic literacy, but also apply that to an office environment adding printers, domain logins, business applications, more "technical" style applications, etc. Power Users would be a step up from that. Maybe knowing how to build computers. How to configure computers and simple network stuff. Using technical or power apps. Edging on being IT, but because it suits their end user needs rather than for the sake of being into IT itself. An Intern should start where these leave off, because they are honestly looking into work in IT and you should research and study before being an intern. You shouldn't not know that you want to be an intern until you are used to that stuff. According to this, over 90% of the people here, are just users. Most barely know anything about using MS Office or something that isn't related to their exact role. If they get stuck in their task sequence they have to start all the way over. Not because the systems prevent them from backtracking, but because they can't think of how to do it without going from step 1 - 10. By "here", you mean your place of work? Yes. LOL Sorry. Not on ML. Lots of people at businesses are not what we'd normally consider computer users. Like obviously they are USING a computer, but not AS a computer. Like I have some users that only scan barcodes. It goes into a computer, but they are really just barcode reader operators.
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  HRU-Tech: credible?
  • gjacobse

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  @momurda said in HRU-Tech: credible?: @brrabill Yes and Robocop will just shoot any malfunctioning equipment. Robotic voice: Please step away from the server. You have three seconds to comply. *whirring noises, sounds of guns cocking*
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  The Axes of Staffing
  msp itsp outsource employee offshore contractor insource onshore nearshore 1099 fte • • scottalanmiller

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  And this one... https://ntg.co/outsourcing-and-offshoring/
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  The Bad Windows Update Career Dance
  • scottalanmiller

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  Same thing would apply if a person did a bad Linux update and broke a farm of servers. Also I see multiple issues with companies not wanting to update their systems and keeping old systems running which is a far worse thing.
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  When Is It Too Costly for IT to Cover Bench?
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  @carnival-boy said in When Is It Too Costly for IT to Cover Bench?: £100 per hour may seem expensive, but I couldn't find anyone that would do it cheaper locally. That was often an hour at a time, so represented two hours when you include travel to and from our site (we only paid for time on-site). It does, but I think you are in London so compare to Manhattan and it's still high, but not crazy high. However, in Manhattan we'd never be able to get someone full time for $30K. That shows how different the numbers are. NYC and London are similar in a lot of ways, but your employment costs are half ours, while your hourly on calls are higher.
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  Considering the Issues of Remote IT vs Local On Premises IT
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  @pmoncho said in Considering the Issues of Remote IT vs Local On Premises IT: "Reducing or eliminating commute time makes for far better work conditions for both parties. And can be a huge cost benefit to the employee." I like your possible idea above about maybe a split remote access/onsite FTE for lower salary. Costs would be lower and provide a higher value to both the SMB and the employee. Split removes nearly all of the benefits like the taxes, real estate, locality, etc. It's not a bad thing, but it means that you cripple the remote benefits significantly in most cases. Instead of saving X, you save .1X or something like that. Typically the benefits are already split, the employee spends less to go to work, the company gets more productivity and spends less for them to get the same pay. You don't have to reduce pay to see a wide range of financial and soft benefits to both parties.
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  If not A+, then where should someone start?
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  @jaredbusch said in If not A+, then where should someone start?: @scottalanmiller said in If not A+, then where should someone start?: @irj said in If not A+, then where should someone start?: @flaxking said in If not A+, then where should someone start?: A+ helped me get a $12/hour job 7 years ago. $40K entry helpdesk jobs are out there, but I've mostly just heard about them in unionized jobs, and someone applying internally can cross departments and will automatically get the job instead of you because of seniority. Most of the stuff in my area starts around $20/hr which is over $38k. I live in an area where cost of living and salary is lower than national average. $20/hr is way over that, even just at 40hr weeks. Do 50+ hours and you are making some serious money. $57,200 The official number used by most government agencies is 2087 work hours in a year. So math is your friend. 2087 * $20 = $41,740 2087 * $25 = $52,175 Right. I did it on 50 hours plus overtime rate for ten hours, so 55 * 52 * 20
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  How Much and Long Does the A+ Typically Influence IT Hiring?
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  @kelly said in How Much and Long Does the A+ Typically Influence IT Hiring?: I realize that recording a video saves you a ton of time in getting out your thoughts, but I'm not going to be able to keep up with your thoughts if this is your new way of posting I’ve told him many times I will not watch videos, but I don’t think he cares but I have no idea what he said in any of them.
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  Discounted Exam Vouchers
  microsoft comptia certifications exam vouchers • • IRJ

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  The site is constantly updated, so these ones will be removed once expired and new ones (that expire soon) will be added.