What Are You Doing Right Now
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@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Tim_G I'm a generalist and I'm not worth a lot to any company
Don't undervalue yourself. You got time to learn the stuff you want to learn.
I do, but that is my future not my present. In the future I will be a Linux System Administrator, completely specialized.
Don't worry about the future. Worry about the now. You can worry about what is happening then, then. Focus on the now, now.
*head spins*
As long as you are working to improve your skills, you're going in the right direction.
^^^ This. Don't get so caught up in the future that you forget to live your life in the present. I promise it's way more fun when you remember to enjoy the now.
It's pretty hard to do that as I'm very unhappy with my current level of knowledge, hence the books. If I reach a point where I feel solid in my knowledge that will change but if I never do I will likely change fields. Giving myself some time to reach these goals or to fail.
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Tim_G I'm a generalist and I'm not worth a lot to any company
Don't undervalue yourself. You got time to learn the stuff you want to learn.
I do, but that is my future not my present. In the future I will be a Linux System Administrator, completely specialized.
Don't worry about the future. Worry about the now. You can worry about what is happening then, then. Focus on the now, now.
*head spins*
As long as you are working to improve your skills, you're going in the right direction.
^^^ This. Don't get so caught up in the future that you forget to live your life in the present. I promise it's way more fun when you remember to enjoy the now.
It's pretty hard to do that as I'm very unhappy with my current level of knowledge, hence the books. If I reach a point where I feel solid in my knowledge that will change but if I never do I will likely change fields. Giving myself some time to reach these goals or to fail.
But if you obsess on it too much, you;ll be a sad panda by the time you're 40. You don't want to look back and regret not doing this or that because you were too busy studying all the time. Travel, do fun stuff with your lady, eat amazing meals, you'll still have time to learn and you'll have a better balance of life and work.
I'm far behind where others my age are in the field, but I wouldn't trade the path I took to get here for anything.
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@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Tim_G I'm a generalist and I'm not worth a lot to any company
Don't undervalue yourself. You got time to learn the stuff you want to learn.
I do, but that is my future not my present. In the future I will be a Linux System Administrator, completely specialized.
Don't worry about the future. Worry about the now. You can worry about what is happening then, then. Focus on the now, now.
*head spins*
As long as you are working to improve your skills, you're going in the right direction.
^^^ This. Don't get so caught up in the future that you forget to live your life in the present. I promise it's way more fun when you remember to enjoy the now.
It's pretty hard to do that as I'm very unhappy with my current level of knowledge, hence the books. If I reach a point where I feel solid in my knowledge that will change but if I never do I will likely change fields. Giving myself some time to reach these goals or to fail.
But if you obsess on it too much, you;ll be a sad panda by the time you're 40. You don't want to look back and regret not doing this or that because you were too busy studying all the time. Travel, do fun stuff with your lady, eat amazing meals, you'll still have time to learn and you'll have a better balance of life and work.
I'm far behind where others my age are in the field, but I wouldn't trade the path I took to get here for anything.
I'm a homebody but I hear what you're saying. I don't overdo it. I'm just motivated to change.
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Lunch seminar with Softchoice.
Understanding IT’s Role in Public Cloud Security | St. Louis
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Reading about how to issue a certificate from my AD CA to my Dokuwiki test.
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@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Reading about how to issue a certificate from my AD CA to my Dokuwiki test.
Why do you want to do that?
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@coliver I'd like the site traffic to be secure. I also want to try to use LADPS when authenticating against AD. Since we have a CA in place, I'd like to use it.
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@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver I'd like the site traffic to be secure. I also want to try to use LADPS when authenticating against AD. Since we have a CA in place, I'd like to use it.
Interesting. Have you taken a look at Let's Encrypt? It would be more reliable then your CA and can be easily automated.
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@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver I'd like the site traffic to be secure. I also want to try to use LADPS when authenticating against AD. Since we have a CA in place, I'd like to use it.
Why? Sounds like sunk cost. No value to using that.
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@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver I'd like the site traffic to be secure. I also want to try to use LADPS when authenticating against AD. Since we have a CA in place, I'd like to use it.
Interesting. Have you taken a look at Let's Encrypt? It would be more reliable then your CA and can be easily automated.
I've considered it, and might end up going that route when my little internal wiki goes into production. This is also a learning exercise for me (using my own CA).
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@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver I'd like the site traffic to be secure. I also want to try to use LADPS when authenticating against AD. Since we have a CA in place, I'd like to use it.
Interesting. Have you taken a look at Let's Encrypt? It would be more reliable then your CA and can be easily automated.
I've considered it, and might end up going that route when my little internal wiki goes into production. This is also a learning exercise for me (using my own CA).
Wasted time. Why would you ever use your own CA?
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Better to use the effort to learn good prioritization
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@scottalanmiller For me, no learning is wasted. We deployed a CA a couple of years ago to use certificates for part of the authentication for our LT2P/IPSEC vpn.
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Is MediaWiki still the standard? What are you preferences Mangolassi and why?
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All learning comes with a cost of lost opportunity. Learning something useless or nearly so instead of something good is in relative terms negative learning.
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Is MediaWiki still the standard? What are you preferences Mangolassi and why?
It's the biggest player. That's for sure. But it's ugly and a pain.
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Is MediaWiki still the standard? What are you preferences Mangolassi and why?
Mediawiki requires the full LAMP stack. I believe that DokuWiki requires just LAP. We use Confluence for much of our documentation.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Is MediaWiki still the standard? What are you preferences Mangolassi and why?
It's the biggest player. That's for sure. But it's ugly and a pain.
So the question becomes should I learn it? It sounds like I should.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Is MediaWiki still the standard? What are you preferences Mangolassi and why?
It's the biggest player. That's for sure. But it's ugly and a pain.
Hah, MediaWiki is what we just moved off of. Been using it for YEARS, just got so sick of it.
Now using Wordpress with a wiki theme and a few extremely useful plugins, such as WYSIWYG, copy/paste in pictures directly in to editor, lightbox, ToC, and some others that make wikitizing extremely easy, fast, convenient, and over all good experience.
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@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Is MediaWiki still the standard? What are you preferences Mangolassi and why?
Mediawiki requires the full LAMP stack. I believe that DokuWiki requires just LAP. We use Confluence for much of our documentation.
Correct.
