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I've got the basic scraping all worked out, I'm just at the point that I need to polish and build in the notifications via email and/or sms. Once I'm done I'll go ahead and link everything via github for helpful criticisms and generally rude and inappropriate commentary.

I recently came across this comprehensive resource for BASH on Reddit's /r/bash.

The BASH Hacker's Wiki ---> http://wiki.bash-hackers.org/

@Dashrender said in Logical IT Certification Progression:

@guyinpv said in Logical IT Certification Progression:

al details. I don't regret buying or reading through any of them. Books on Windows, DOS, printers, networks, repair and troubleshooting techniques, system design and building, etc etc. All of that is good.

Answer questions posed at an interview.

Besides, bench techs don't think, according to @scottalanmiller, they work by script - aka, reading a script and doing what it says. Once you have to start making decisions, you're no longer a bench tech, you're in IT.

Arguably, if you've done bench work for any extended amount of time it really doesn't require much thought. You see the same types of issues coming in and your response is almost reflex, especially if you are working on a standardized set of hardware.

I'm celebrating the (what seems to be) successful migration of a couple rails sites/apps to an AWS-EC2 instance. I'm completely ignorant of ruby/rails, so even though it was an irritating task at time; I acquired some useful future knowledge.

Server arrived early and everything was as expected. I've got XenServer installed and my first VM deployed. So little work required to configure everything. Install from the XenServer iso and most everything is done!

I spun up and configured an OpenVPN server on a CentOS 7 minimal install and had VPN connectivity to my home network in no time!

I must say I like XenCenter on Windows 10. I've previously been using virt-manager (when not using qemu-img and virsh at the console) with the KVM hypervisors I work with, but wow is XenCenter more polished.

As soon as I have time I'm going to sit down and deploy/configure a XenOrchestra VM and compare the functionality between XenCenter and XO firsthand. I also plan to get the backup vm backup script in place and setup. A near-future project may involve configuring an old HP Desktop to function as a BSD-based NAS for storing backups...

Anywho... Thanks again for all of the input, I'm pleased with the outcome thus far.

Just glancing at the resume, I feel like you're giving away too much information. Highlight specific projects/accomplishments, but don't go too deep or technical. I think you can reduce the wordiness of your bullet points considerably and still communicate what you are trying to get across. You want to highlight your achievements without giving away specifics. The specifics of what you did are what you want to discuss in an interview. Bait the hook, don't give them a free lunch.

I also agree with adding in your consulting business and your experience with T3 support.

What Am I Doing Right Now? What I do every Thursday morning Pinky... Documenting obscure tasks and workflows.

I'm looking for advice from those of you currently running FOG in your environments. I'm looking to integrate it with my current isc-dhcp server and want to make sure I get the configuration entry in dhcpd.conf for the fog server's tftp service right. Their documentation for implementing this is poor. It says to just add in "next-server", but doesn't provide an example or specifically where to add this line in the config. Their documentation actually redirects to Red Hat's basic DHCP configuration explanation which has no mention of the "next-server" option.

Before I screw around with my existing DHCP server configuration I thought I'd ask for some examples and advice from those of you that have this up and running already on your networks.

My current DHCP server is multihomed and running a tftp server for my IP phones. Do I just need to add the next-server line in the configuration underneath tftp-server-name option like this?

#internal LAN (eth2)
subnet 10.10.0.0 netmask 255.255.0.0 {
    range               10.10.224.0 10.10.255.254;
    option routers          10.10.0.10;
    option subnet-mask      255.255.0.0;
    option broadcast-address    10.10.255.255;
    option domain-name-servers  10.10.1.11, 10.10.1.12;
    option domain-name          "example.com";
    option tftp-server-name     "10.10.0.10";
    option next-server          "10.10.1.13"; #Fog server TFTP

    include "/etc/dhcp/lan.conf";
}

Is that really all that is needed to allow the FOG server's tftp server to play nicely with my pre-existing TFTP and DHCP servers?

Down here in Kentuckiana we can't handle a 1/4 inch of snow without shutting down the entire tri-state...

I've read/heard https://letsencrypt.org/ is the place to go nowadays. I've not personally used them and would be keen to know what opinions others have.

@DustinB3403 "a"?

Now I need to get off of here and get myself back to work on planning hypervisor upgrades, learning powershell and subsequently finish writing all of the audit scripts that want/need to implement for Active Directory, Google Apps, our release servers, and version control systems, and look into building an apt-repository with multi-factor authentication for software package distribution to debian/ubuntu clients.

Oh, and in my free time, building an OpenVPN server on an EC2 instance in Singapore for low-latency secure access to services for an employee that will be traveling to China the first week of April (just got notified yesterday).

Disclaimer: My wife is a librarian...

The problem I'm finding with Spiceworks, in its current state, is that I'm not really learning anything anymore. It really doesn't have as much value as it did a few years ago when I was a bit greener. Most of the interesting threads are usually buried beneath a tenfold pile of redundancy. Even featured discussions/questions are frequently topics that have been discussed NUMEROUS times over the years.

So many dead horses regularly being beaten into the the dirt.

@coliver said:

@MattSpeller said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Drinking with the locals all evening. So much local liquor.

What do the locals drink there?

As an aside. I recently watched a good Netflix documentary called Cooked. In one of the episodes the host/chef talked about how alcohol was one of the main reasons that we started to cultivate the grains and fruits that we did. The bread and food was just a pleasant secondary effect of the cultivation.

I really enjoyed that series.

Beer and wine were considered healthy beverages at their inception, specifically because they had less of a chance of killing you in comparison to untreated water...

And I'm really sick of seeing "What's the best/yourFavorite _____?" conversations. Targetted questions like "What is the most economical video card that is compatible with Solidworks 2016?" are great! I might actually learn something.

"What's the bestest linux distro for laptops?" questions are a waste of time. They get 20 pages of feedback of no importance or relevance to ANYTHING useful, yet garner a large amount of attention. gag

I am sitting down at my desk for the first time in 9 days after surviving a 4 state, 1900+ mile, 20 brewery, 13 winery, 1 distillery loop around Lake Michigan. I've been here for an hour and I'm ready to go back on vacation already.

I play and I think it is probably one of the greatest games created in recent history. Not because of the gameplay, but the enthusiasm and impact that it is making on the health of the players. Over the past few days I've seen a lot of people out and about walking through parks and the roads I regularly run, that very obviously don't live an active lifestyle. If the enthusiasm for the game sticks I think it has the potential to vastly improve the quality of life for a large portion of the population.

Also, it helped turn my normal 4 mile run into a more entertaining 7 miles. I'm all for breaking up the monotony of long runs.

Anyone have experience setting up Vagrant to work with KVM Hypervisor? I'm wanting to setup Vagrant to work with KVM on my home lab to start working on automating build outs using Ansible and Vagrant. I'm not seeing a lot of obvious documentation for setting up Vagrant on providers that aren't Virtualbox, Hyper-V, or VMWare. (or AWS, etc...)

Any time saving links or information is much appreciated. If I don't get any responses I'll try to document what I find here.

I've recently been trying to focus some of my free time on learning C using Zed Shaw's new offering "Learn C The Hard Way". (He really isn't terribly creative when it comes to making titles for his books) He takes an approach that uses numerous exercises that teach essential concepts and build upon one another. I've been making it a point to try and get in a minimum of 2 exercises a day (more when I have the time) to try and reinforce syntax and familiarity with the process of compiling via make/Makefiles.

I am at the point now that I wish I would have focused on C a little more prior to learning what I know in BASH. Just filling in the blank spaces in my knowledge of C, and the associated libraries, has already improved my understanding a little in regards to other languages. So much of the Unix/Linux kernels are written in C, I'm starting to think having a basic understanding of coding in C should be an integral (dare I say mandatory) part of any Linux Admin's training.

For anyone interested in checking out the book there is a free beta version online for your perusal: http://c.learncodethehardway.org/book/

So far a lot of the content coincides with the published book that was released earlier this year. Aside from a little more embellishment on the content of each exercise, and the addition of instructional videos, I haven't really found too great a difference between the two.