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@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@scottalanmiller So the next question is, aside from the SAM linu administration guide, what is the best education path? and you know what my personal goal is Scott
Learning Linux..
- There are some books in addition to the one I am writing here.
- Start with CentOS
- If you are serious about making a huge transition, phase out Windows in your life (temporarily at least) and go to a full Linux desktop / laptop to force yourself to change your mindsets about everything (Linux on the desktop teaches you nothing about Linux, but it might teach you something about perspective.) Use Fedora because it is closer to CentOS 7 and will prepare you for CentOS 8 when it comes.
- Build a Linux testing environment (you have XenServer today, replace it with KVM so that you have exposure to both Linux-ecosystem hypervisors.)
- Replace every Windows system you have with Linux, one at a time.
- Make loads of new Linux systems you don't have with Windows...
- Home web server / intranet
- Home info portal, WordPress
- Home shared data site, MediaWiki
- Home ticketing system, osTicket
- Home NextCloud or similar storage
- Home NFS shares
- Home PBX
- Home media server
- Home chat server (OpenFire, Rocket.Chat, MatterMost)
- Home minecraft server
- Home Jump server
- Home Ansible or Salt (or both) server
- Home backup server
- Home monitoring server (zabbix, zenoss, nagios)
- Home logging server
- Home firewall
- Home repo for faster updates with less bandwidth
- Home web server / intranet
Things like that.
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I pretty much only use CentOS 7 minimal due to the fact that most enterprise level jobs would be using Redhat unless there were no other option.
Nextcloud done. Media Server done. I have set up mattermost but there is no use case for it at home so I just deleted it to free up resources. I've set up Zabbix. OSTicket has been done as well.
Pretty much anything that is a guide on ML I have done.
I go through what you are writing daily but in addition to that what books do you recommend? There are times where I am somewhere I could read but can't access the internet (personal life).
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If you can't get professional experience with Linux, that is a good time to focus on getting a cert. LinuxAcademy is fairly reasonably priced.
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@Kelly said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
is fairly reasonably priced.
I am essentially the closest thing we have to a linux admin here. I put into production two CentOS 7 servers so far but I'm running around 7 at home on XS. Technically "professional experience" but there is no one here to teach me exactly. I go off of what I read. I'll take a look at LinuxAcademy. Thanks.
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@Kelly said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
If you can't get professional experience with Linux, that is a good time to focus on getting a cert. LinuxAcademy is fairly reasonably priced.
Or volunteering. I got loads of awesome experience when I was younger in IT when I set up an entire private K12 school that had no computers (one ancient Mac with no networking, just a printer in the office.) Built their entire network, soup to nuts, on openSuse. Servers, storage, backup, desktops, PBX you name it. It was awesome experience.
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@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@Kelly said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
If you can't get professional experience with Linux, that is a good time to focus on getting a cert. LinuxAcademy is fairly reasonably priced.
Or volunteering. I got loads of awesome experience when I was younger in IT when I set up an entire private K12 school that had no computers (one ancient Mac with no networking, just a printer in the office.) Built their entire network, soup to nuts, on openSuse. Servers, storage, backup, desktops, PBX you name it. It was awesome experience.
When you're jobless, or super flexible part time worker, this type of thing might be possible, as a 30 something with a full time job, that's near impossible because the School is going to need this done quickly... plus followup support, granted you might not provide that.
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@Kelly said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
If you can't get professional experience with Linux, that is a good time to focus on getting a cert. LinuxAcademy is fairly reasonably priced.
Or volunteering. I got loads of awesome experience when I was younger in IT when I set up an entire private K12 school that had no computers (one ancient Mac with no networking, just a printer in the office.) Built their entire network, soup to nuts, on openSuse. Servers, storage, backup, desktops, PBX you name it. It was awesome experience.
When you're jobless, or super flexible part time worker, this type of thing might be possible, as a 30 something with a full time job, that's near impossible because the School is going to need this done quickly... plus followup support, granted you might not provide that.
Especially considering I have 3 hours of commuting every day minimum. I-195 E is a nightmare at 5:00 PM. It definitely would be a great learning experience though if it were possible.
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@Kelly said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
If you can't get professional experience with Linux, that is a good time to focus on getting a cert. LinuxAcademy is fairly reasonably priced.
Or volunteering. I got loads of awesome experience when I was younger in IT when I set up an entire private K12 school that had no computers (one ancient Mac with no networking, just a printer in the office.) Built their entire network, soup to nuts, on openSuse. Servers, storage, backup, desktops, PBX you name it. It was awesome experience.
When you're jobless, or super flexible part time worker, this type of thing might be possible, as a 30 something with a full time job, that's near impossible because the School is going to need this done quickly... plus followup support, granted you might not provide that.
Especially considering I have 3 hours of commuting every day minimum. I-195 E is a nightmare at 5:00 PM. It definitely would be a great learning experience though if it were possible.
Not the RI-MA 195, right?
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@Kelly said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
If you can't get professional experience with Linux, that is a good time to focus on getting a cert. LinuxAcademy is fairly reasonably priced.
Or volunteering. I got loads of awesome experience when I was younger in IT when I set up an entire private K12 school that had no computers (one ancient Mac with no networking, just a printer in the office.) Built their entire network, soup to nuts, on openSuse. Servers, storage, backup, desktops, PBX you name it. It was awesome experience.
When you're jobless, or super flexible part time worker, this type of thing might be possible, as a 30 something with a full time job, that's near impossible because the School is going to need this done quickly... plus followup support, granted you might not provide that.
Especially considering I have 3 hours of commuting every day minimum. I-195 E is a nightmare at 5:00 PM. It definitely would be a great learning experience though if it were possible.
Not the RI-MA 195, right?
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If you can't get professional experience with Linux, that is a good time to focus on getting a cert. LinuxAcademy is fairly reasonably priced.
Or volunteering. I got loads of awesome experience when I was younger in IT when I set up an entire private K12 school that had no computers (one ancient Mac with no networking, just a printer in the office.) Built their entire network, soup to nuts, on openSuse. Servers, storage, backup, desktops, PBX you name it. It was awesome experience.
When you're jobless, or super flexible part time worker, this type of thing might be possible, as a 30 something with a full time job, that's near impossible because the School is going to need this done quickly... plus followup support, granted you might not provide that.
Especially considering I have 3 hours of commuting every day minimum. I-195 E is a nightmare at 5:00 PM. It definitely would be a great learning experience though if it were possible.
Not the RI-MA 195, right?
New Jersery
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If you can't get professional experience with Linux, that is a good time to focus on getting a cert. LinuxAcademy is fairly reasonably priced.
Or volunteering. I got loads of awesome experience when I was younger in IT when I set up an entire private K12 school that had no computers (one ancient Mac with no networking, just a printer in the office.) Built their entire network, soup to nuts, on openSuse. Servers, storage, backup, desktops, PBX you name it. It was awesome experience.
When you're jobless, or super flexible part time worker, this type of thing might be possible, as a 30 something with a full time job, that's near impossible because the School is going to need this done quickly... plus followup support, granted you might not provide that.
Especially considering I have 3 hours of commuting every day minimum. I-195 E is a nightmare at 5:00 PM. It definitely would be a great learning experience though if it were possible.
Not the RI-MA 195, right?
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Thank you for your empathy sir
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@Kelly said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
If you can't get professional experience with Linux, that is a good time to focus on getting a cert. LinuxAcademy is fairly reasonably priced.
Or volunteering. I got loads of awesome experience when I was younger in IT when I set up an entire private K12 school that had no computers (one ancient Mac with no networking, just a printer in the office.) Built their entire network, soup to nuts, on openSuse. Servers, storage, backup, desktops, PBX you name it. It was awesome experience.
When you're jobless, or super flexible part time worker, this type of thing might be possible, as a 30 something with a full time job, that's near impossible because the School is going to need this done quickly... plus followup support, granted you might not provide that.
Especially considering I have 3 hours of commuting every day minimum. I-195 E is a nightmare at 5:00 PM. It definitely would be a great learning experience though if it were possible.
Not the RI-MA 195, right?
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You think it's bad driving a car in that, I used to drive a semi in that nightmare. Jersey City is the absolute worst. 55mph road with a city sidewalk beside it, it's a wonder people weren't sucked under trailer tandems on that road, because you're a slow moving road hazard at 55. I've got even more about Jersey City, but I'd rather here about @MattSpeller's fishing.
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@Kelly said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
If you can't get professional experience with Linux, that is a good time to focus on getting a cert. LinuxAcademy is fairly reasonably priced.
Or volunteering. I got loads of awesome experience when I was younger in IT when I set up an entire private K12 school that had no computers (one ancient Mac with no networking, just a printer in the office.) Built their entire network, soup to nuts, on openSuse. Servers, storage, backup, desktops, PBX you name it. It was awesome experience.
When you're jobless, or super flexible part time worker, this type of thing might be possible, as a 30 something with a full time job, that's near impossible because the School is going to need this done quickly... plus followup support, granted you might not provide that.
Especially considering I have 3 hours of commuting every day minimum. I-195 E is a nightmare at 5:00 PM. It definitely would be a great learning experience though if it were possible.
Not the RI-MA 195, right?
New Jersery
You think it's bad driving a car in that, I used to drive a semi in that nightmare. Jersey City is the absolute worst. 55mph road with a city sidewalk beside it, it's a wonder people weren't sucked under trailer tandems on that road, because you're a slow moving road hazard at 55. I've got even more about Jersey City, but I'd rather here about @MattSpeller's fishing.
Yes. New Jersey is a post apocalyptic waste land akin to Mad Max. Confirmed.
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I was just at lunch and I caught this. It's a live feed of an African safari. This is pretty cool!!!
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Oops - Docs.com users: You may have leaked passwords, personal info
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/27/microsoft_docs_com_office_365_leak/?mt=1490721024146Also, you may want to check your Etsy accounts. I've had $200 worth of stuff rung up on my account yesterday...
And no, my password is not 12345... at least not now.
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Oops - Docs.com users: You may have leaked passwords, personal info
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/27/microsoft_docs_com_office_365_leak/?mt=1490721024146Also, you may want to check your Etsy accounts. I've had $200 worth of stuff rung up on my account yesterday...
And no, my password is not 12345... at least not now.
Thankfully, have never been on Etsy.
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@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
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Oops - Docs.com users: You may have leaked passwords, personal info
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/27/microsoft_docs_com_office_365_leak/?mt=1490721024146Also, you may want to check your Etsy accounts. I've had $200 worth of stuff rung up on my account yesterday...
And no, my password is not 12345... at least not now.
Thankfully, have never been on Etsy.
It's not terrible. But you can get some decent quality stuff there for ok prices sometimes. I snagged an anniversary present for my wife there last year.
