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    flaxking

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    • Landed a new job

      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.

      posted in IT Careers
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    • RE: Comparing ELK and GrayLog

      Does anyone have an updated comparison to share?

      posted in IT Discussion
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    • SAM's New Business Venture

      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."

      posted in Water Closet
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    • Looking for Senior IT Admins

      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.

      posted in Job Postings
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    • Hiring infrastructure technician

      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.

      posted in IT Careers
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    • LinkedIn Endorsements

      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

      posted in IT Careers
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    • Pluralsight Free Weekend

      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.

      posted in Training
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    • Salt grain to retrieve users present on minion (Windows)

      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:

      presentusersgrain.py

      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

      posted in IT Discussion
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    • DB Admin/Data Analyst (Remote)

      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]

      posted in Job Postings
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    • RDP - Whitelist IP address with 2 step authentication?

      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

      https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/16y3da/2_factor_ssh_login_via_google_authentication/c80k44d/

      Maybe I'll try to lab it sometime

      posted in IT Discussion
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    Latest posts made by flaxking

    • RE: Application error -

      Oh, I just noticed that it looks like the client is rethrowing an error that the server giving. In which case Process Monitor will only help you if you run it on the server.

      posted in IT Discussion
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    • RE: Application error -

      @WrCombs you could try repairing .Net, there's a .Net repair tool out there. What version of .Net does this application require? And is this computer fully patched with updates?

      You could also fire up Process Monitor and see what the program is specially looking for. It's probably checking the GAC and other locations for something.

      Testing of it works on a new Windows User account is always worth a try on weird issues.

      posted in IT Discussion
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    • RE: Wix Form "Harry Potter" Issue

      What I'm seeing is that the difference is when accessing the website via https vs http

      When accessing via HTTPS it is making a get request like:
      https://surgefactory.org/surgefactory/cv/cv.php?pageId=m1gy1&compId=TPASection_kuwsvacl&viewerCompId=TPASection_kuwsvacl&siteRevision=1196&viewMode=site&deviceType=desktop&locale=en&regionalLanguage=en&width=980&height=1124&commonConfig={"brand":"wix","bsi":"9b9fce50-825d-4402-9d87-59433086f848|7","BSI":"9b9fce50-825d-4402-9d87-59433086f848|7"}&target=_top&section-url=http://www.pinnaclestructures.com/job-board/&vsi=6554a2ba-3d2b-4831-8c81-0a5ab9caa82c

      Which must end up not being valid parameters because it returns the default template in https://surgefactory.org/surgefactory/cv/cv.php

      When accessing via HTTP it is using a get request like this
      https://surgefactory.org/surgefactory/cv/cv.php?pageId=m1gy1&compId=TPASection_kuwsvacl&viewerCompId=TPASection_kuwsvacl&siteRevision=1196&viewMode=site&deviceType=desktop&locale=en&regionalLanguage=en&width=980&height=1124&instance=nu3Ao1O4r5YEHW9a624X1J69z69XWwbrcFP_Rav_C2A.eyJpbnN0YW5jZUlkIjoiNWYwNjdjZTItOGY1Ni00NmQ1LThjYmUtYmM2MjA3YTI4ZGRmIiwiYXBwRGVmSWQiOiIxMzBmZTM1Ni02NWEyLWY2YTAtZDgyZS03NWQ2YWExZGRmNmIiLCJzaWduRGF0ZSI6IjIwMjItMDQtMjlUMTY6MjU6MzYuMDIyWiIsInZlbmRvclByb2R1Y3RJZCI6InBybyIsImRlbW9Nb2RlIjpmYWxzZSwiYWlkIjoiY2NlMDkyYTAtOWQ3ZC00MWVmLWE0YzgtMzZmMWFjNTllYzZiIiwic2l0ZU93bmVySWQiOiI5YjUxZDA0My05MjdhLTQ4ZjAtOGQ1Yi0zNGVjZjMzYTgzOGIifQ&commonConfig={"brand"%3A"wix"%2C"bsi"%3A"136abbb1-eb7a-42d6-87b9-cee02f2eb99d|3"%2C"BSI"%3A"136abbb1-eb7a-42d6-87b9-cee02f2eb99d|3"}&target=_top&section-url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pinnaclestructures.com%2Fjob-board%2F&vsi=d2870418-1b2c-4b2a-9bc2-ef6d486079bf

      Which includes an instanceid in the parameters. Add the instanceid to the first GET request and you get the same.

      So for some reason the instanceid isn't added in the request when accessing the page with HTTPS

      posted in IT Discussion
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    • RE: Book: Linux Administration Best Practices

      Congrats!

      posted in Self Promotion
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    • RE: VDI Options - Modernization

      @jimmy9008 M365 is what covers the licencing, so Compute is your biggest cost, and it's just like compute for any Azure VM. Use Reserved instanced if you will have some VMs on throughout a 24 hour period. Use burstable VMs if a VM will be kept on continuously and doesn't need a ton of power. Or just turn the VMs off (deallocate) when not in use. At my last company, we found turning VMs off to be the most effective with the personal VM route. If using host pool, you would only keep enough VMs online to meet demand.

      posted in IT Discussion
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    • RE: Linode to be acquired by Akamai

      @jaredbusch one important migration is all it takes. The only way to have done it without downtime would have been to go from Akamai to another CDN then back to Akamai. We opted not to do the back to Akamai part.

      posted in News
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    • RE: Linode to be acquired by Akamai

      You can't migrate between Akamai resellers without downtime. That's why we're no longer using Akamai.

      posted in News
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    • RE: Need audio cable help

      @jaredbusch said in Need audio cable help:

      I think What I need is two cables.

      The standard 1/4 mono to 3/8 mini stereo as you both (and myself) found previously.

      And then plug it in to the mic jack of this.
      https://www.amazon.com/Kingtop-Adapter-Tablet-Headsets-Version/dp/B01I3A47I4

      I would think that would work. When you have a separate mic input like we used to have, you could plug in headphones and use them as a mic. It's these new all input and output in one input jacks that are causing an issue, and I really don't know if you can find an input only one for phones these days.

      posted in Water Closet
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    • RE: Staying at your shitty employer is your fault

      @dashrender they reason they had to take it down was because they were basically freely giving out information that they and other companies have to pay for.

      posted in IT Careers
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    • RE: Staying at your shitty employer is your fault

      GitLab used to have a calculator public to see how much you would get paid, but they had to take it down due to external pressures.

      posted in IT Careers
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