Music educator who has completed his transition into IT. I want to know all t3h thingz. Alas, one lifetime isn't long enough to learn everything, so I'll settle for what can be shoved into my brain during this life time.
I plan on mainly posting content on Saturdays or Sundays, but for the opening week, I made a few things.
Click over to the channel and check it out, should the below interest you.
I've never had much use for Cortana, other than practicing my disable-and-remove-useless-programs skill.
I finally got around to getting a little WordPress site going in my lab, and I've decided to make it the new home of www.eddiejennings.net. Enjoy!
Over time I'll try to find good ways of making some content from previous iterations of my blog (and podcast) available.
Sometimes for malware, you have to nuke and start over. 
@scottalanmiller said in Congrats to Eddie - New Linux Admin:
@EddieJennings has put in so much work learning and teaching Linux administration. It's awesome to see him moving up to a Fortune 100 Linux Admin! Congrats Eddie!
Thank you Scott! I haven’t been this excited about a job opportunity since I was able to land my first position from the career change. 
It cannot be stated enough how important community is. Since joining ML in 2016, all of you have effectively been my IT mentors.
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What boils my blood more than anything:
User: HELP HELP. . . but not right now.
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@dustinb3403 said in I can't even:
hah...
If he's running out of stroage just direct him to https://downloadmorestorage.com/.
Just signed a litter accepting a promotion effective 9/22. Not bad for a Friday
Looking through strace output and ignoring Telegram spam.
Reading about configuring the Kea DHCP server.
@gjacobse Purchased a Protectli device. I'll have Fedora running on it acting as a router.
Sketching out nftables for home router project.
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Reinstalling Windows
Reminds me of the Windows song a fellow (and elder) Linux admin taught me a couple of years ago:
Shutdown, format, reinstall!
Doo dah! Doo dah!
As you know almost all drivers are a part of the kernel itself. There isn't a way to "export" them in the way that you're thinking -- at least not that I'm aware. If you installed a package that included a 3rd party hardware driver, perhaps you can just download the rpm or deb file from its repo to back it up. Some kernel modules (or groups of kernel modules) are the drivers for some hardware, and you could potentially backup those files to load later. I haven't had hardware that has required special kernel modules that would create that situation.
To be honest, if that system crashes, reinstalling your Linux distribution will be your method of getting drivers for your hardware :).
I know it's not your ideal, but have you tried to use /etc/crypttab and store the key in a file somewhere that's owned by root and has 400 permissions, just to see if that method can do the automatic unlocking of the encrypted device?
If you're making said file that /etc/crypttab will use remember to do echo -n 'whatever' > yourfile, instead of just echo, else you'll bang your head against the wall not understanding why the stored password isn't working. Ask me how I know. 
A little late, but an achievement was unlocked on New Year's Eve: RHCA 
I might have read the tone of your post wrong, but I feel compelled to share my philosophy on certs.
"Chase the skill, not the cert."
Take some time and effort to think through some goals ("Cybersec world" is quite large). Afterward, think through the skills you need achieve the goals. Lastly, determine how to develop the skills. That step is what leads you to find a cert that can provide a curriculum for learning what's necessary to develop the skills.
For example.
So now I have made up my mind to pursue both CISSP and CCSP. I read that CCSP is a nice compliment to CISSP even though most of CCSP information overlaps with some of CISSP.
If you haven't done so already, be able to describe what specifically you hope to learn from going through those certs, and how it helps you achieve the $goal. If you can already describe this, great! If not, you might save yourself some time and money by taking a step back and thinking stuff through, which it sounds like you did with the Fortinet certs.
The quality and effectiveness of meetings varies greatly. For my environment, calls where we're brainstorming a problem or hashing out some details of how $the_thing should be approached tend to be the most effective. These meetings tend to be rare and usually result from trying to work on a problem over chat where it's determined voice and visual aids are going to be more effective for communication.
In my experience, majority of meetings are unfocused, which leads to everyone's time being wasted, or are meetings for announcements only without any need (or intention) for real-time collaboration -- the meeting that could've been an E-mail.
