@LAH3385 That was the short version

Per-processor OS licensing has been based on the total number of physical chips in use, more than what is in each physical chip.

But the operating system sees the total number of logical processors that are available. This number is based on the number of physical chips, but also on the number of CPUs in each chip, the number of cores in each CPU, and the number of thread handlers in each core.

The board, socket, physical chip, die, CPU, and cores have separate definitions that can sometimes be confused by marketing.

Multithreading can offer benefits by moving specific responsibilities from the OS to the processor, but only for specific uses that can take advantage of that. In the past, operating systems generally weren't designed to take full advantage of multithreading.

I'm not sure that shorter version will leave you any better off, though.. I imagine it'd be hard to continue learning a language through reading about IT, too. If you can work through the definitions and examples @scottalanmiller laid out, each section follows straight from the explanation before it.

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I've seen a consensus here that Network+ and maybe Security+ offer some value as a base, and afterward certifications quickly start to depend on the direction you want to be taking.

It'd be cool to hear opinions about others that can be valuable down different tracks.

Off the top of my head I'm interested in thoughts about the LPIC and Red Hat, Cisco, different security certifications, and maybe some less technical ones, for example project management.

Opinions about any you've found to be a waste of time would be interesting too.

So would any correlation you perceive with any of them, through hiring or people you've worked with.

Hey everybody, I started looking through SMB IT Journal and found my way over to start looking around here too.

I'm pretty new to learning about IT. I started a little while back, focusing on networking and CCNA study material. I like it but have also gotten distracted and taken a number of tangents off into other areas.

Do you all have any books or resources you'd recommend toward getting some basics down cold in any area? I'd like to work toward solid understanding and try to avoid learning in ways where I might end up drifting down any of these paths mentioned here..

I'm open to learning about any area. Networking, Linux and system administration have been some of the most interesting to me so far, and I keep sensing I'll be needing to start a base in programming too.

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@Lakshmana
You'd want a soldering station that can hold the iron in a set position as you work.

Otherwise, before long you'd probably end up wishing you had a third hand, trying to hold the iron and the pieces you're soldering in place.

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Thanks @scottalanmiller. I don't have much experience to contribute to a lot of topics here, but think I'll keep an eye out and jump in where I can.

I appreciate this type of stuff @scottalanmiller, and I've been continuing to gradually work my way through some of your archives on StorageCraft, Datamation and your SMB IT Journal along with keeping an eye out here when I can.

I can report some off and on Bluetooth issues on a Thinkpad from the Lenovo outlet. No wifi issues for me, but after resuming from hibernate I often have to uninstall the monitor to be able to adjust the brightness at all.

The price was pretty right. But yeah that was before Superfish etc. too. I put in more memory and an ssd, reinstalled Windows fresh and we'll see if anything catastrophic keeps it from holding me over for a while.

The display isn't too hot though, and makes me want one of those 1080 Toshiba Chromebooks for some browsing (and playing with Crouton).

Public keys, and encrypted, flexible file sharing with 10 GB of storage. Has anyone played with this at all yet?

https://keybase.io/docs/kbfs

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do any non-letter/number characters in titles mess you up on Twitter, or is there a list to avoid?

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I invited Trevor over here, but is anybody here with experience and a Twitter account just hanging out?

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@scottalanmiller It took me a minute to realize again where you were seeing that haha, I switched that tag out

@scottalanmiller This is only partly related, but adding in Python modules beyond the built-ins can be kind of a pain without using pip to reach out over the network, if they end up having other dependencies when you start dragging folders into /Lib.

Hmm, just having that DC on there would probably be enough to play with. I've got a couple old and mostly functioning Windows laptops here I can tie in for testing. Windows without the GUI might be better than nothing too.

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Perfect, thanks Scott.

The VMs are just virtual machines to play with different distros