@scottalanmiller said in Projects to Build a Tiny Desktop from a Raspberry Pi Zero:

@gjacobse said in Projects to Build a Tiny Desktop from a Raspberry Pi Zero:

The biggest item I can see is that the Zero is a single Core and 512MB, whereas the Pi3 is a quad core and 1GB.

so your MIPS and such are going to be better for a 'desktop' with the Pi3 than the Zero. However,... if you don't need all that, go with what you want..

The extra CPU isn't needed. It's not for a GUI, it's for a CLI interface.

Ah -Okay.. if all you need is CLI I suppose that makes sense. Sadly some of what I need still needs the GUI so need more power.

Hey there!
Friend of mine gave a good feedback about this one
https://codecombat.com/
Hope it gonna help!

@Dashrender said:

@MattSpeller said:

@Dashrender said:

@MattSpeller said:

This thread somehow has more posts than views lol

In a single view I posted probably 15 times.

Passionate thread then...

backs away slowly

Well, when you go to lunch and come back an hour later to 40 new posts..

I tell ya.. I love the fact that you can post while in the middle of a thread and it doesn't take you to the end of the thread anymore... it leaves you there.

This way I can read, make a response, keep reading, another response, etc.

yeah, that is a big improvement.

So my question, I think, is how do we:

Catalogue the knowledge needed for IT? I know of this done, literally, nowhere. Create a path or curriculum for learning these things? Create a means to present comprehensive basic, foundational IT knowledge?

Very valid points and questions, but in today's "IT age", even if we could catalog and/or collect all of this info into one place, it could still take years to review and learn from it, especially for "beginners". IT has become so vast and diverse that it's impossible for a true "renaissance man" to exist; nobody can "know it all".

It's unfortunate that someone with SAM's experience level and understanding could ever be seen as "stupid" for not knowing one little thing in a sea of information, but in general, that's one of the coolest things about IT: because it's so vast, "masters" always have an opportunity to learn things from beginners.

@antonit said:

I am referring to the following:

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional
AWS Certified Developer - Associate
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional

Which one of these would fit the bill better for my career?

Solutions Architect is not what you have done in the past and not where you are looking at being currently. So those are more for a change in career direction more than anything.

The Developer is not at all what you do, so that is out.

DevOps, likewise, would be a major career change. Not a bad one, but it's a very different role and would be a long term transition.

SysOps Admin would be the logical starting point as it leverages where you have been and where you have been thinking of going.

For all of them, Associate is the starting point, you would do that before considering the Professional level.

@ryanblahnik said:

If a lot of these seem to have more value from the material studied than from the cert itself, are there any others that stand out as covering important ground?

I found the process of getting my certs to be incredibly valuable. Probably on par with any of my top learning for my career. It was the late 1990s and I did every CompTIA exam at the time and the hardest, longest Microsoft track and a huge number of Brainbench certs all over just like two or three years. I never once attended a class, I bought loads of books, got an ancient Pentium server (yes the original 586 single proc box!) and about five old desktops mostly 486, one Pentium and two PPros and built everything from scratch and did every lab and tested every configuration. No virtualization back then. And MS trials were 90 days, not 180. And an NT4 install could take two days!! And 33Kb/s dial up Internet access at best.

Reading the books, cover to cover, doing every example as I went forced me to learn the material including the concepts. Doing the actual certs forced me to not skip over details that seemed unimportant. It made me work to completeness and many of the concepts that I would have ignored when I was young turned out to be very important and the people writing the books had a good idea of what I needed to know 🙂

Added ZFS page: https://mangolassi.it/topic/19669

@ryanblahnik said:

I wasn't sure whether you were referring to a lot of learning starting to move toward Googling and boards, or any change in what's available in books, or maybe if your experience just got to a point where that wasn't as necessary.

Oh no, I think that learning has gotten harder. Google is good for fixing things, it is not good for learning. There are many fewer IT books today and the lack of physical book stores has made learning about and sampling IT books much harder.

Very helpful.
Thank you for sharing.

If it was purely an issue of "on by default" I think it would be one thing. But because it is often, it appears, enforced as unavoidable private company data collection pushed through school policy then it becomes a much bigger issue. That means that government, albeit local government, is basically selling the right to student monitoring to a private entity that has promised not to collect that very data targeted at students contractually.

The issue when schools require Chromebooks be used in a certain way means that the students are not given the option not to be monitored. "By default" is one thing and potentially problematic on its own. But if schools are requiring that students submit to being tracked by a private company without oversight that's a much, much bigger issue.

It is a chain reaction: school is a requirement, parents and students are not given a choice about the tools that they use, tools are enabled to track students, no opt out.... students are simply required to be tracked. It's not a "direct" situation, it's big brother via a chain of circumstances and rules that result in the same thing. A serious situation needing attention for sure. Thankfully it looks like the EFF is on the case.

We have wanted to get one of these kits for a while but with all of our travelling it fell by the wayside. Maybe we will get around to getting one now. They are very cool. It is a great idea and I'm sure that my seven year old would love it.

@BBigford said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender said:

It's I suppose believable that there are parents that feel this way, but the student/child? Wow - can we say brain washed?

So I blame this on high school. The average (I'm guessing) high school grad has never worked. By the time that @Minion-Queen, @art_of_shred and I were out of high school we each had years of experience (we all went to school together, that's why the example.) I was working as an IT intern at 13, then did farm work till I was legal to get a normal job and worked continuously through the rest of high school and during my college time. So both high school and college were always "sideline" activities to actually being in the real world and having jobs and careers for all of us.

But for lots and lots of people, high school is their entire focus. It is all that they know and, of course, people who work in schools are focused on that as "the whole world" in the same way. If you think about how there is a huge group of people who live their lives reminiscing about the "glory days" of high school and how cool that senior year football game and homecoming dance were and the rest of life is just working the cash register at the local hardware store and being depressed as life is never as good as high school.

We that same crowd exists, one level up, in college. There are tons of adults for whom college was the "glory days" or they imagine that it would have been and they want their kids to have those same awesome memories and they feel that a happy life and a good career are impossible dreams So, avoiding the hell that is their vision of adult life for four years while they party at college avoiding the responsibilities that will follow seems like the only possible way to at least have a memory of what happiness was like.

You never find people with these feelings that also went on to great careers or are happy with where they are in life.

...and THAT is the reason I stopped working for a mid-size public school district after some years of service, about a month ago. Never again, if I can help it. Never again.

I ran screaming from K12 IT work, and never looked back. It takes a special kind of sucker to do that job. I wouldn't go back to it if you had a gun to my man parts.

i really find an excellent course of CCNA, really awesome explanation ...
http://www.freeccnastudyguide.com/study-guides/ccna/
can anyone tell me whether it is the latest CCNA V5 or not ??
because they didn't mention the version

I am not surprised, Chromebooks are so cheap, stateless and easy to use. I can only imagine that it would be pretty tough for a school to really want to do anything else.

@thecreativeone91 said:

It's bigger than us if you count just the Subsidiary I work for at a big under 10k employees. But with our cooperate company, and the other subsidiaries we are way way bigger. Granted we are #2 in our industry.

You know someone isn't too big when you are comparing them to the subsidiaries of other companies 🙂

aside from my two desktops that are servers my home network is far better than most SMBs.

@scottalanmiller said:

@ajstringham said:

I hope to find an MSP that offers training benefits someday. That'd be heaven for me.

MSPs lack the necessary margins to do that.

A guy can dream!

Those look so cool. I am glad to see that they were able to get the first shipment out the door. Hopefully these really take off.