I just landed a new job that I'm pretty excited about. My current position moved slowly back from development into straight up IT, so I'm glad to be a software developer again.
My new company has good benefits and I know some people that work there and it sounds like they treat their employees really well.
If I didn't get this job, I might have given up on developer. There's so much work involved in dev hiring processes.
Does anyone have an updated comparison to share?
Does anyone else think a Gordon Ramsay esque TV show called IT Nightmares would be a great idea?
https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/lfoklv/does_anyone_else_think_a_gordon_ramsay_esque_tv/
The way I would see it is as mostly directed at business owners and getting them to understand the role of IT in their business.
"That's an HR problem, not an IT problem."
https://www.jobbank.gc.ca/jobsearch/jobposting/27734586
The title on the job site isn't really accurate. The website restricts what titles we can post, requirements, etc. We are not just looking for network admins. We have a couple different positions we need to fill. One of which will require VMWare experience.
International applicants accepted, with option to work remotely.
I am not a part of the hiring process, but I can try to answer questions. Might have to be through direct message though.
https://www.jobbank.gc.ca/jobsearch/jobposting/27439166
The current job posting is kind of lame, but we probably will have something better out in the future. We are actually hiring multiple positions, with different specialities. I can't say too much right now, but we have some exciting stuff on the horizon, and there is opportunity to get into some cool 'DevOps' style stuff.
I know I'm far from one of the top contributors to ML, but if there's something you feel comfortable with endorsing me on, please send me a message and I'll send you my LinkedIn url.
A couple of my topics:
https://mangolassi.it/topic/15305/salt-grain-to-retrieve-users-present-on-minion-windows
https://mangolassi.it/topic/18764/create-a-vm-on-vultr-using-terraform-on-gitlab
https://mangolassi.it/topic/19224/gitlab-install-on-centos-using-salt
Pluralsight has a free weekend promotion going on right now.
https://pluralsight.pxf.io/c/1197078/668288/7490
I'm a big fan of their courses, I find their videos to be high qualify and a great way to get an intro to something new.
However if you sign up for a free Visual Studio Dev Essentials account, I believe there is still a promo for 3 months of free Pluralsight.
I've seen some doubts around about how useful Salt would be for desktop administration, so I thought I would share my Salt grain that makes things easier for me. It gives you a list of users that have profiles on that minion. So the end result is that you can do this in your states:
{% for usr in grains['present_users'] %}
C:\Users\{{ usr }}\AppData\Local\Something:
file.directory:
- makedirs: True
{% endfor %}
This has only been tested on Salt 2017.7.1, and it will definitely break with the next major release because they are changing some things that it relies on.
To use this custom grain, create a _grains folder within your salt states folder/repo, then save this as a file there:
import socket
import salt.utils
if salt.utils.is_windows():
import salt.utils.winapi
import wmi
def presentusers():
if salt.utils.is_windows():
with salt.utils.winapi.Com():
wmi_c = wmi.WMI()
userprofiles = [x.LocalPath.split('\\')
for x in wmi_c.Win32_UserProfile()]
sysprof = ['systemprofile', 'ServiceProfiles']
userlist = [x[-1] for x in userprofiles
if not any(word in x for word in sysprof)]
return {'present_users': userlist}
return {'present_users': 'n/a'}
Then run salt '*' saltutil.sync_grains to sync the custom grain to your minions. Now run salt '*' grains.items to see your new grain
Job posting isn't up yet, so you guys are getting it first.
Custom Software Solutions http://www.cssionline.com is going to be looking for someone with DBA experience so assist with our reporting and business analytics solutions and well as other projects working with our databases. Some programming experience is definitely an asset. The person who fills this position will be working closely with one of our DBAs/Developers.
Experience in the following is an asset:
VB6/C#
MS SQL Server
Power BI
Email resume to [email protected]
I was looking at multiOTP, which looks like it would be a good free way of implementing 2-step authentication for RDP
https://github.com/multiOTP/multiotp/wiki
http://servilon.com/two-factor-authentication/
But I would imagine that in SMB, people would find it annoying to have to get a code every time.
And then I found this post that makes me think you could use the 2-step authentication in order to whitelist IPs
Maybe I'll try to lab it sometime
@flaxking said in Working Unifi UNVR NGINX Config:
@flaxking said in Working Unifi UNVR NGINX Config:
RTSP... I believe you need Nginx Plus you're wanting to do something other than HTTP
Assuming RTSP isn't required, I'm guessing you need to enable the video connection for webrtc, which I think is just a one liner in nginx
This maybe?
proxy_set_header Connection "Upgrade";
@flaxking said in Working Unifi UNVR NGINX Config:
RTSP... I believe you need Nginx Plus you're wanting to do something other than HTTP
Assuming RTSP isn't required, I'm guessing you need to enable the video connection for webrtc, which I think is just a one liner in nginx
RTSP... I believe you need Nginx Plus you're wanting to do something other than HTTP
@scottalanmiller said in Cellular repeater - looking for recommendations:
@flaxking said in Cellular repeater - looking for recommendations:
I'm thinking of getting something too and finally disconnect the landline. We will mostly use internet, but we need a backup if the internet goes down, other than driving until we get signal.
weBoost is the common booster around here, but I'm hoping for something cheaper.
Get Starlink as a backup.
Already did preorder, just a waiting game now. And Starlink probably isn't going to be the backup.
I'm thinking of getting something too and finally disconnect the landline. We will mostly use internet, but we need a backup if the internet goes down, other than driving until we get signal.
weBoost is the common booster around here, but I'm hoping for something cheaper.
What's fun is when you get some files in the virtual store
For restaurant: https://readytopay.com/
For going open source, I believe someone had created a POS for Tryton, but I think you'd probably be looking at creating your own module for the hotel side.
@dustinb3403 said in Checking multiple Directories to confirm all files are identical:
@flaxking said in Checking multiple Directories to confirm all files are identical:
@dustinb3403 said in Checking multiple Directories to confirm all files are identical:
@flaxking said in Checking multiple Directories to confirm all files are identical:
I would think you would be able to use robocopy to do a diff
Probably, but the issue still comes down to system resources.
Anything that is storing in memory will quickly consume the available resources.
Maybe if I pipe the about to a file it won't be so bad..
It's bound to be a lot more efficient than your powershell.
It's still going to consume more ram than any host in the environment has to process the job. Just between any 2 directories there's over 20 million files.
I don't know how it's implemented, so I can't say. Just create a new powershell script that doesn't store as much in memory. I think if you pipe to ForEach-Object it actually starts operating before the get-childitem gets all the objects and then don't store those objects in a variable. So maybe it will start garbage collection before you are done
@dustinb3403 said in Checking multiple Directories to confirm all files are identical:
@flaxking said in Checking multiple Directories to confirm all files are identical:
I would think you would be able to use robocopy to do a diff
Probably, but the issue still comes down to system resources.
Anything that is storing in memory will quickly consume the available resources.
Maybe if I pipe the about to a file it won't be so bad..
It's bound to be a lot more efficient than your powershell.