@NerdyDad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Downloaded VirtualBox. In the process of downloading CentOS. Already downloaded nethserver and wazo. Currently downloading FreePBX and VyOS. Anything else to consider?

End goal is to familiarize myself with open source systems that would be commonly seen in an enterprise environment and how to best administer them. Some of the resources that I am planning on using is @scottalanmiller SAM: Learning Linux System Administration and @JaredBusch FreePBX 13 Setup Guide

Well, scrap that idea for now. My Lenovo T540p won't handle a Type-2 hypervisor. It handles everything as 32-bit and everything that I am finding is only in 64-bit.

This sucks.

@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Could someone competent from ML please start a telco/ISP in Canada? Please?

We'll get right on that, from Texas.

@Minion-Queen said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@NerdyDad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Minion-Queen said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

In York (Scott, Art and I graduated from) 60 of us.
In my previous school there were 25

So 5% of your class is on ML?

Yup cause we are the cools ones

Okay, keep telling yourself that.

@Minion-Queen said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

In York (Scott, Art and I graduated from) 60 of us.
In my previous school there were 25

So 5% of your class is on ML?

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@NerdyDad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Half of the territory of my school district is rural while the other half is small towns and takes up about 4 towns of kids. Most of the kids were from the small town areas and the rest were from rural. I didn't live in the rural area, so can't attest to 10-acre front yards.

Rural... hugging the edge of an enormous city, though.

Then that's not my situation at all. Oh, and we had a graduating class of close to 165ish.

Half of the territory of my school district is rural while the other half is small towns and takes up about 4 towns of kids. Most of the kids were from the small town areas and the rest were from rural. I didn't live in the rural area, so can't attest to 10-acre front yards.

@coliver said in Nokia 3310 Returns:

So legitimate burner phones are back. Spies around the world will be glad to hear it.

So would grandparents that still just want a phone to be a phone.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

the rural Chinese still live in squalor.

You could say that about rural Americans, too. Rural anywhere tends to be pretty poor.

If you are in Rural America, you are there for typically one of 3 reason:

• You were born into rural America and you can't afford to drive into the city to work everyday
• You are a farmer/rancher and need the extra land to generate income with
• You are rich and this is apart of your retirement package to live in peace and quietness

Downloaded VirtualBox. In the process of downloading CentOS. Already downloaded nethserver and wazo. Currently downloading FreePBX and VyOS. Anything else to consider?

End goal is to familiarize myself with open source systems that would be commonly seen in an enterprise environment and how to best administer them. Some of the resources that I am planning on using is @scottalanmiller SAM: Learning Linux System Administration and @JaredBusch FreePBX 13 Setup Guide

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:

@NerdyDad said in What Are You Watching Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:

The Day After Tomorrow with my eight year old.

"AHHH, THE ICE CAPS ARE MELTING!!!! AAAAHHHHH"

I love this movie. Always have. Teaches a lot of good concepts too.

Such as, if there is a polar vortex that is going to drop the temp 10 degrees/second coming towards you, then it is okay to pop into a Wendy's to get warm and cook up a few burgers.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:

The Day After Tomorrow with my eight year old.

"AHHH, THE ICE CAPS ARE MELTING!!!! AAAAHHHHH"

Worked more on the bed today but still not finished yet. Now out to eat with the family.

Happy birthday @scottalanmiller May there be lots of espresso for your enjoyment today.

Why is nobody else talking about stuff like this?

Side note: Have you ever considered writing a textbook?

@scottalanmiller said in Normal Forms of Systems Administration:

Applying server techniques to desktops, we might make hundreds or thousands of desktops able to be managed by one person.

What do I need to read/study/watch/learn to be able to implement something like this?

@scottalanmiller said in Normal Forms of Systems Administration:

@matteo-nunziati said in Normal Forms of Systems Administration:

@scottalanmiller said in Normal Forms of Systems Administration:

Fifth Normal Form: "Fully Described State". No logins and no commands are used but rather all administration is done via a state machine.

an example in real world? I stick to the forth form, and I'm not aware of anything after that!

I've worked a few places that were fifth form. Examples would be systems fully defined in state files with something like Ansible or Chef. The admins never run commands on the servers, even remotely through arms length tools like Salt.

The state of systems is fully defined in code that you would expect to track in GIT or Mercurial. The systems are self managing via their state machines and descriptions. Systems totally build themselves.

What size of companies have systems like this? Are these large enterprises with deep pockets or can an SMB do this as well?

@Dashrender said in Normal Forms of Systems Administration:

@NerdyDad said in Normal Forms of Systems Administration:

@scottalanmiller said in Normal Forms of Systems Administration:

@NerdyDad said in Normal Forms of Systems Administration:

@scottalanmiller said in Normal Forms of Systems Administration:

What about existing servers makes you locked into a GUI?

Not particularly looking at the servers themselves, but more of the applications running on the servers. Particularly in a Windows environment.

Totally understand being able to use bash for *nix environments and their different layers, either at the OS layer or at the program layer.

What applications do you find lack options for administration.

Example is that we left SW for SolarWinds Web Help Desk for our help desk and asset management. As far as I know, it is totally GUI and none of it is scripted, unless you are using their API. I have not yet gotten that far as to using the API at all unless I can just plug in API keys to get 2 applications to talk to each other.

How is it managed though? Through a GUI app on the server? Or a webpage?

Exchange for example has an app you can install on your remote machine and manage it completely through APIs...

Through a webpage. I guess I could manage it through the API if I really wanted to hate myself.

Trying to find time to watch Black Mirror @RojoLoco's recommendation, but just can't find time. Also, wanting to watch House of Cards.

@scottalanmiller said in Normal Forms of Systems Administration:

@NerdyDad said in Normal Forms of Systems Administration:

@scottalanmiller said in Normal Forms of Systems Administration:

What about existing servers makes you locked into a GUI?

Not particularly looking at the servers themselves, but more of the applications running on the servers. Particularly in a Windows environment.

Totally understand being able to use bash for *nix environments and their different layers, either at the OS layer or at the program layer.

What applications do you find lack options for administration.

Example is that we left SW for SolarWinds Web Help Desk for our help desk and asset management. As far as I know, it is totally GUI and none of it is scripted, unless you are using their API. I have not yet gotten that far as to using the API at all unless I can just plug in API keys to get 2 applications to talk to each other.

Would love to but its during working hours for me. Appreciate the offer though.