@Mario-Jakovina said in Is it legal? Windows 10 or 11 as a server:

Why would anyone "be happy to report client" to any other vendor (here Microsoft) for violating any agreements between you customer and other vendor?

That's not what is being reported. The thing being discussed is violating the contract between the client and the vendor, for which @CCWTech is a legal representative. This is a business partner relationship and not reporting it would be a violation of the partnership.

Think of it like if you and a friend opened a cafe together. You own 90%, your partner owns 10%. A thief steals from you but only your partner witnesses it. They steal enough to qualify as grand theft (this isn't a petty situation like a candy bar or a coffee, this is more like someone stealing the espresso machine) and your partner knows about it. Would you be okay with your partner not telling you and not informing the accountants to write off the loss? Of course not, he'd be helping steal if he did. He has a business responsibility legally and ethically. You don't have to prosecute the thief if you decide not to, but you have a legal right to know that it happened and your accounting team needs that information for tax reasons and other data analytics.

But that is only the eBook. So they sell way more of them.

It's gotta me more, closer to $.70.

I really like Pluralsight. The Udemy courses I've taken have been okay, but haven't really been designed in a way to optimize learning.

https://techsnips.io/

@stacksofplates said in Grub Entries cleanup and maintenance:

@travisdh1 said in Grub Entries cleanup and maintenance:

@DustinB3403 You never touch grub yourself. You let the system take care of it for you when it adds or removes kernels.

As to removing old kernels, it depends on the distribution you use. A good distro just takes care of this for you. The annoying ones make you do it manually.

RedHat/CentOS/Fedora = automatically cleans up older kernels. You don't do anything and it will keep a sane number by default. I think it's 4 and a recovery option.

Debian/Ubuntu = keeps all kernels till you manually remove them. I forget offhand what the command is besides it's an option for apt.

This is one reason I'm happily moving things from the old rental box to my new server for my home lab. The old rental box has Ubuntu with a tiny little 256MB /boot partition. It can keep ~3 kernels, and that's it, ugh!

You can install without /boot. IIRC there is a other config change with unattended-upgrades to auto remove kernels.

You normally can, yes. Since my current home lab box is a rental, I could only choose from the options they gave me at the time. Today, they'd let you use your own iso, but still wouldn't recommend them for anything other than a test lab.

@DustinB3403 Aint that the truth .
LOL I dig it

@JaredBusch said in Home lab projects - for Middle aged teens:

@DustinB3403 said in Home lab projects - for Middle aged teens:

@JaredBusch said in Home lab projects - for Middle aged teens:

@scottalanmiller said in Home lab projects - for Middle aged teens:

@DustinB3403 said in Home lab projects - for Middle aged teens:

@scottalanmiller said in Home lab projects - for Middle aged teens:

Home PBX

I was definitely considering setting up a home PBX but I don't know if I want to subscribe to any actual phone numbers

You can learn a lot without doing that. Although voip.ms makes it SO cheap.

And you can make calls without buying a phone number at all. Just pay per use.

What option is that? I don't recall seeing that (granted this was some time ago)

VoIP.ms has never required purchasing a number to have an account and setup a trunk.

You simply have no way to receive calls from the PSTN.

Ah.

@Obsolesce said in A Fundamental Shift in University Thinking Since 2008:

@scottalanmiller said in A Fundamental Shift in University Thinking Since 2008:

But fundamentally, it appears that students don't understand what college is for

So, then, what is your opinion of what college is for... or should be for?

It's always been, and colleges have long pushed this, that it was for exposure, broadening how you think... it was for those with enough money that they didn't have to work right away but could afford time off to explore things that interested them or make them more interesting. It was never for getting a job, or getting ahead in a job. That people think that it is for that is an extremely recent thing (like definitely since I was in college.) Even in the last fifteen years major colleges have made statements that they are not there for those purposes.

The idea that college is for getting a job is weird, people have started confusing trade schools (those that teach "a job") with universities (those that teach liberally) and in the last two decades, very quickly, people think that traditional colleges are actually trade schools and try to treat them that way. But while expectations have changed, the colleges have not (and should not.) But this leads to the huge amount of lower income, lifetimes of debt, dissatisfaction with college results, etc. that we see today.

Colleges have no system for preparing people for real world jobs. The entire tenure system guarantees that that is impossible - colleges simply can't have a staff capable of doing that kind of education. The design of the university system is for other purposes, and universities have generally been crystal clear about that, it's not hidden or secret or new... this is hundreds of years of this.

That's why the number of people going to university in the past was so small, it was really only for the elite because normal people needed to work and pay the bills.

I am doing the tutorials right now.
Im on the simple math one.

@scottalanmiller said in Linux Find command:

@dustinb3403 said in Linux Find command:

Hrm. . .

One more thing, would it be possible to print the last access date to this some how?

Possible, yes. Easy. No since the find command never shows that.

Would there be a better approach? I'm trying to create a list of things to make people clean up their crap, and I can show them "hey this hasn't been access in X years. . . delete it or I will"

@flaxking said in Always Study for the Future SAMIT Video:

When I was deciding when if I was going to do Server 2012 or 2016 certifications, I went with 2012, and I'm glad I did because it was still a year from that point that the Server 2016 exams came out, and I was already certified.

Maybe I should have worded it "study for the farthest future that there is a test for" 🙂

@stacksofplates said in Newb question - Running a script from the root directory:

@dustinb3403 said in Newb question - Running a script from the root directory:

@stacksofplates said in Newb question - Running a script from the root directory:

@dustinb3403 said in Newb question - Running a script from the root directory:

@stacksofplates said in Newb question - Running a script from the root directory:

@dustinb3403 said in Newb question - Running a script from the root directory:

@stacksofplates said in Newb question - Running a script from the root directory:

@dustinb3403 said in Newb question - Running a script from the root directory:

@scottalanmiller said in Newb question - Running a script from the root directory:

@dustinb3403 said in Newb question - Running a script from the root directory:

@stacksofplates said in Newb question - Running a script from the root directory:

@dustinb3403 said in Newb question - Running a script from the root directory:

@danp said in Newb question - Running a script from the root directory:

Is the directory in your path? What do you get from echo $PATH?

echo $PATH
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/bin:/root/opt/scripts/:/root/opt/scripts

I've added it (twice).

Well first off you had /root/opt/scripts not /opt/scripts. Second you either have to log out and back in or tell your user to use the new path with something like

source ~/.bash_profile

I used ````~/opt/scripts``` initially, as I wasn't aware of just adding my scripts into one of the existing locations. (everything said just add a new directory).

By simply moving the script into an already existing path, I am able to update with just "script.sh".

When you are root and your home is /root and you put ~/opt/scripts that is /root/opt/scripts.

Remember that ~ is a shortcut to your home directory, which is /root

So by adding ```/opt/scripts/```` this would've worked, but would've added complexity for no reason.

No that still isn’t a default location. In the OP you said you put the script in /opt/scripts. Where did you actually put it?

Originally I created the directory /opt/scripts and put the script in there so the Directory looks like

/opt/scripts/script.sh

I went back and change the script location to be in /usr/local/bin

So in /usr/local/bin I now have script.sh

This now works without issue, and /opt/scripts no longer exists.

Ok ya that’s where the problem was. /opt/scripts is different than /root/opt/scripts. If you would have had that in your .bashrc or .bash_profile (or whichever shellconfigure you’re using) it would have worked. But you still have to let the user know of the PATH change.

I'm the user in this case, but I never really create / save my own scripts. I just got tired of running a set of commands, every other day.

Thus the need to figure out how I could run the script, without having to jump into the exact directory from which the script was saved.

I mean you have to let the user you are logged in as Know if the change. Either by logging out and back in or by temporarily sourcing the config.

I've logged out, what do you mean "sourcing the config" ?

If you change your PATH while you’re logged on the user account doesn’t know of that change. You have to either log out and log in again or temporarily do something like

source ~/.bashrc

Or the non-aliased version...