@scottalanmiller I'm assuming that's bad? I haven't heard much about them. I could care less about touch screen.

not if you read SW, you'd think no SMB knows to patch and those that do can never get downtime for them.

That's because they don't want to work nights or weekends.

If only there was a way to schedule updates to run outside of business hours.....

Little pricier and not a Chromebook but pretty solid specs https://www.amazon.com/F556UA-AB54-BL-Light-Laptop-Intel-Windows/dp/B07239QH2C/ref=sr_1_3?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1510671250&sr=1-3&keywords=ASUS+F556

@tim_g @scottalanmiller Found someone selling a Surface with Fedora 24 on it lol https://dallas.craigslist.org/mdf/ele/d/microsoft-surface-3-not-pro/6359018383.html

Just curious if anyone had read this or had any other recommendations for Linux Administration resources. I'm obviously poking around with various projects in the lab, but looking for some additional info.

Edit: I'm aware the book hasn't been completed yet.

@tim_g I'll keep that in mind thank you!

@scottalanmiller said in I can't even:

@dashrender said in I can't even:

@rojoloco said in I can't even:

@eddiejennings said in I can't even:

17 years in IT? https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2083921-help-errror-e1810-hdd-1-hdd2-hdd3-fault-on-poweredge-2900-production-server?page=1#entry-7357313

She even says in the post - "I have no idea what I'm doing". Not something to post publicly if you claim to have 17 years in IT.

This goes to another recent thread about the home lab vs 'work experience' just because you "worked" in IT for 17 years doesn't mean you know shit about it.

Great catch. One day in a home lab might easly have provided more useful knowledge and experience than seventeen years working in a company doing this stuff.

Also goes to show that just having a cert doesn't mean anything, it's what you learned along the way. CISSP, and an MCSE? Come on....

@scottalanmiller said in I can't even:

Just confirmed that she has backups. Sadly, they are Backup Exec.

See you in 94 hours when that restore completes with degraded data.

@tim_g Awesome thank you

@scottalanmiller Yeah if I understand it correctly, RHEL/CentOS releases are just a packaged stable version that solely differ on whether or not you have support from RH?

@scottalanmiller Yeah it seems like Fedora is just on a roll lately and continues to pick up from momentum on the desktop and server side from everything I'm reading.

@scottalanmiller @Tim_G while we're on the topic of portables and Linux distros, do either of you have an opinion on Mint vs Korora? I'm thinking I'll like the xfce desktop, but what have you found to be enjoyable and perform well?

@tim_g Nice I'll take a look at that as well

@scottalanmiller I'm sure the payoff is well worth it though.

@scottalanmiller Nice, I'll definitely have to dedicate some more time to getting it down.

@scottalanmiller @dafyre The extent of my experience with vi thus far is just simple things like copying and editing eth config files to make bridges on CentOS7/KVM hosts.

@scottalanmiller I could definitely see that, aren't a lot of Chromebooks running ARM now? My partner and I moved to vm development with our latest project, and I'll never go back. We are beginning to incorporate containers, but that's more so for for the team after we're gone than it is for us at the moment.

@dashrender Yeah I could see why that might be hard, I might be "that guy" in certain groups where I'm just more difficult to involve in things, and I may honestly get passed up on invites to things because it requires an extra step to contact me. Either way, to me it's worth not supporting that site. I despise the structure itself, the content that's regularly shared, and the business practices behind the scenes.

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@r3dpand4 said in Chromebooks and Mild Paranoia:

@scottalanmiller Ah okay, understandable. I can still use CodeAnywhere, no biggy.

Right. Or just SSH into a Linux VM, that's what @QuixoticJeremy and I do.

Perfect.