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Password update day. The pain of retraining muscle memory is real.

RHCE exam = scheduled. August continues to be my certification month.

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

You're making me miss Mangocon. I know, totally unrelated, but that's how my head works.

Yeah! No Mangocon; no peace!

Spinning up some VMs. Much practice needs to be done with using Ansible templates.

@gjacobse I invested in an Uplift desk for my apartment office. As much as I hate parting ways with my money, it was a great decision. In my opinion, anything that gets you on your feet will be worth it.

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Discussing IT stuff with Mr. @EddieJennings - Been a while actually speaking with him.

Carefully vet anything that guy says.

RHCE review sessions and noting the knowledge gaps. Luckily the list of said gaps isn't too long :).

Here's to another week in the world of Windows system administration.

Fighting the good GPO fight.

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Wondering how I am going to improve my response and function when certain tools are turned off across the board.

Have to GUI remote to a computer to restart a service that randomly stops when I could have used PS to remotely kick it... It's what's scripting is for, even as obtuse as I am, I know that.

There are a couple of ways of handling this with a scheduled task.

1. When the service crashes, is there an Event Log entry? If so, you can make a task to restart the service, if said log happens.

2. Write a PowerShell script that does something like

if ( (Get-Service -Name foo).Status -ne "Running" ) {
     Start-Service -Name foo
}

and have a scheduled task that runs that script at whatever your desired interval is.

Saxophone lesson, daily walk, nomz, and RHCE prep / video recording: in that order.

RHCE practice exam. Then a break and more practice -- focusing on Ansible roles today.

Updating template VMs.

@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

About to be on a call with Solarwinds support.

There went 16 hours of your life

Ha! It lasted about 2 hours. Issue was "resolved" by uninstalling a module.

Listening to a talk at Fedora Nest about the Pinephone.

@jaredbusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

That's how you start. You go take something that exists and then tear it apart and understand it.

100% correct

@WrCombs

Shameless plug: How I Learned PowerShell Scripting

Seeing how long my UPS devices will last during my apaetment’s power outage.

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Oh the joy of re-installing software... by copying over the directory. Mainly because the Installer / Updater is janky a F. But,.. 'Just copy to desktop, then copy to c:\program files \ program.

Like dude... Ever heard of RoboCopy?? Jeez.. Oh - and if you would allow certain scripts to run then I could run the damn script on my desktop and it would dump it to the specified computer. (But is that the RIGHT way?)

Ugh -

You somehow end up supporting the worst of all applications.

Looking up past ML posts for config examples

@obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Looking up past ML posts for config examples

of LVM?

No. Some firewall configs. Redid my home network today.