If you forget to use sudo and spend some time editing a file with vim, not all is lost. You can actually escalate using sudo without leaving vim, and losing your changes.

:w !sudo tee %

Note : this only escalates for one write. You must run the command again if you want to save file after making more changes.

We are having a baby tomorrow. The c-scheduled for tomorrow morning. We have to be at the hospital at 5am.

Two kids under 2. Life is going to be crazy.

I stopped after work to fish a fully fresthwater retention pond for bass. A saltwater tarpon in a retention pond is something you see everyday.. Definitely not what I was expecting. I had to go in and get him out of the hydrilla. I took a video of the fight because I was 100% sure I was gonna lose him on 10lb test. What an epic battle!

Here is the video...

Youtube Video

Some of ya'll need to hear this...

• A bad employer or boss cannot ruin your career. Perhaps it can make your life hell for a year or two max. Anything beyond that is completely on you
• Contrary to popular belief, you have the ability to make or propose changes in any work environment. Labs and testing should be done regardless of company policy or direction. For examples companies afraid of cloud should at minimum have an AWS or Azure Lab.
• You don't have to enable your employer to be pennywise and pound foolish. (You don't have to host 50 different open source solutions to help your employer save perceived costs)
• I've never seen an employer that pays well ever give a shit about rocketchat or next cloud. Spend your time with technologies that real businesses are using
• IT jobs are plentiful and have been since 2005.
• 90% of jobs I'm looking at are remote post covid. Remote work existed before, but was less common
• You do have time and money for certifications and training. You just like to make excuses
• Worry about you first. When you're worried about you, then your goals and company goals should align 90% of the time. But at the end of the day, any company can cut you at any time. Just like you can walk out the door anytime. Never be hostage to the company no matter how much you think they depend on you.

Welp, I made the jump into the IT security world. I am leaving Windows System Administration to join IT security full time. I wanted to make the announcement last week, but with the hurricane I figured I would wait.

When I started my career at GeekSquad for $10 an hour back in 2004 I would never imagine where I would be today. Fast forward 12 years and I am working an IT security job for a enterprise organization.

I have no degree and my path certainly wasn't easy. I started out at the bottom and worked my way up every chance I could get.

2004 - Geek Squad

2005-2006 - Enterprise Help Desk

2007 - 2008 - Desktop Support

2008-2010 - Network Technician (basically entry level system admin)

2010-2012 - System Admin

2012-2016 - Network Administrator II (basically high level System Admin)

2016 - Cyber Security Vulnerability Manager

I wanted to share my journey because if you have enough drive anything is possible. A degree is definitely not needed. I started out of high school when all my colleagues started by getting a 4 year degree. I am ahead of my everyone of my colleagues that I talk to that has a degree.

I am only 29 years old so my journey is far from over.

Ugh CEH is the worse option. I have it and that is scam certification IMO. It is like over $1000 to take a test that is multiple choice and extremely easy.

CISSP - Great, but you have to commit a good amount of time and brainpower to it. I have it and it was pain in the ass, but well worth it.

CISM - Weighed the same as CISSP by DoD DIrective 8570, but an easier test.

Security + - Used to be a basic watered down security cert like Scott said, but recently was made much tougher and is more well respected now

If I wanted the most value and was willing to do the work I would do CISSP.

If I wanted a good amount of value and wanted an easier test, I would do CISM

If I wanted to learn something and build a good base, I would do Security +

Luckily we didn't have any structural damage to the house during the Hurricane, but I did lose a good portion of my fence, some siding, and a very nice palm tree. We are lucky enough to be on the same power grid as an elementary school (we are directly behind the school) so we got power back very early on. However, we didn't get water until last night.

I am glad to be back at work as things return somewhat to normal.

@travisdh1 said in Split Hotel Room for MangoCon '16?:

Well, that idea appears to be a bust, the only rooms available are the ones with single beds.

@siringo said in Windows Inventory Tool?:

Wondering if anyone can suggest a free inventory tool for Windows networks?

I need to get a list of PC & server hardware & software
Disk capacities
Installed apps
OS versions
Printer make and models
and so on.

Thanks for any help.

Powershell

https://4sysops.com/archives/how-to-build-a-powershell-inventory-script-for-windows-servers/

@jimmy9008

@gjacobse said in Outlook 2016/o365: Sent items issue:

Thus far, nothing has resolved this issue.

As the install was Office 365;
Deleted OST file
Deleted User Mail profile
Online repair
Un-installed Office 365
Cleared application / user folders - rebooted
Installed Office 2016

The only other thing i can think of is;

• Backup user data, wipe the drive (2 min max as it is a nvm drive)
• Image and restore user data.

This is an odd issue to say the least. I am hoping the o365 team can determine a solution rather than having to go that route.

I feel like you're shooting a shotgun in the woods during a new moon and praying to hit a target.

If you don't have permission to make any changes because of GPO and you have no visibility in office 365. Then just escalate the issue. Otherwise it's just a time waste for all involved.

I don't see the big deal here. It sounds like sending messages works, but user is unable to see sent items in Outlook. However OWA and mobile client are showing sent messages.

1. Use OWA. It's better in every way and more reliable

2. If user must use Outlook, then they can only bring up OWA on rare occasion they need to search sent emails.

Isn't your time better spent elsewhere?

@brandon220 said in Virtualization Host:

@irj It requires 10g networking to the data repository for performing analytics on collected data. There will be large amounts of data eventually. The software developer requires 8 cores and 32g of ram minimum. I don't see how that much compute can be done in containers. I don't use them so I can't speculate on how well or not it would work.

That's fine. It still shouldn't matter which hypervisory you use. Containerized applications are built for scaling so that wouldn't be an issue.

It's extremely shitty development practice for the devs to have any concern about hypervisor. Put it on Docker and use on any platform on prem or in the cloud.

This is the perfect opportunity for the devs to join the last decade and use containers. Also if running only a few workloads on Linux, why purchase hardware at all?

@travisdh1 said in It's the CEO's Birthday!!!:

@irj said in It's the CEO's Birthday!!!:

@jaredbusch said in It's the CEO's Birthday!!!:

@scottalanmiller said in It's the CEO's Birthday!!!:

Awwww.... this was our sale day for tickets for the last MangoCon.

Fingers crossed we get another soon.

With dick shirts?

How did this happen is the real question? 😂😂😂😂

This had to be intentional?

It was intentional, I was just sad I missed it.

Whats the joke? We're dicks? 😂😂😂

@jaredbusch said in It's the CEO's Birthday!!!:

@scottalanmiller said in It's the CEO's Birthday!!!:

Awwww.... this was our sale day for tickets for the last MangoCon.

Fingers crossed we get another soon.

With dick shirts?

How did this happen is the real question? 😂😂😂😂

This had to be intentional?

@scottalanmiller said in Net+ Study Help - Subnetting:

@itivan80 said in Net+ Study Help - Subnetting:

@scottalanmiller They need to start revising these questions. I mean if they want to get it as close as possible to real life scenarios. Just a thought.

That, too. Like this is not a skill anyone would ever need. Ever.

Especially considering the hundreds of free online calculators. The ones that can do this in their head are network guys from 90s, and the only reason they can do it in their head is because they've worked with it back when there was a lack of technology like VLANs.