Got wifi hooked up the other day, downloaded Linux Mint 18 via Live USB Drive to my laptop, will be attempting to go onto the jump server tonight

@BRRABill said in SAM: Learning Linux System Administration:

It's really a great read through.

I agree! Very educatable

Got it working again. Thanks guys.

Connected to my first SSH server via x2go!

@Dashrender said in NTG Seeking IT Interns:

@WrCombs

LOL - I already tried this in the past,
It didnt work out to well cause I was always so behind.

I am currently working on setting up my Unifi controller using Orcale Virtual Box using https://help.ubnt.com/hc/en-us/articles/220066768-UniFi-How-to-Install-Update-via-APT-on-Debian-or-Ubuntu
i keep running into this problem:
any idea how i can fix this?
Now i did have a syntax error in /etc/apt/sources.list.d I typed "/etc/apt/sources.list.d/100-ubnt.lsit"
removed the file, and retyped in the command from the website above. tried to continue with the work but i keep getting this error.
Thanks in advanced

doing some free on line coding classes with coding academy, working in the command line to start!

@mary said in Common Network Ports - CompTIA A+ 220-1001 Prof Messer:

How would a client prevent someone from accessing a remote desktop connection? It is a bit confusing.

on a port level, Block or shutting off that specific port for the RDP they are using/trying to use would prevent that.

On an OS level - At least for windows Shutting off access to RDP will do the trick - It can be enabled or disabled (from my understanding. I've seen it a few times.)

@dustinb3403 said in Unifi Controller in Oracle Virtual Box Problems:

The guide you're following tells you to create /etc/apt/sources.list.d/100-ubnt.list

So do a sudo touch /etc/apt/sources.list.d/100-ubnt.list and then put in the 3 records, save the file and go from there.

Alright, since my 2 year old decided to spill his entire cup of Juice on my laptop im looking for ideas on a new one that wont break the bank.. any suggestions?.

@wwalker817 said in Looking for a new IT role or looking to hire for an IT role.:

ATTENTION IT job-seekers or hiring managers: If anyone is looking for a new IT role or anyone is looking for direct hire or even contract to hire IT professionals, I place anywhere throughout the country. I also have contacts to some of the largest IT companies in the nation as well. Please feel to contact me [email protected] I now work for CyberCoders the nations #1 largest IT recruiting firm and willing to assist in anyway I can! @scottalanmiller

interested . . .

working on it

Just got told i cant add friends on Steam until i pay for $5.00 USD or more.. well i guess i wont be social for a while on Steam.

@Kelly said in Figuring out what you want to do professionally:

I created this thread because of something that @WrCombs said in the What Are You Doing Right Now thread (https://mangolassi.it/post/481231).

There are quite a few unhealthy perspectives that I have seen that stop IT Pros in their tracks when it comes to developing themselves professionally. Here are a few of them that I have seen:

• IT jobs are hard to find and land

• I am not as good as <person> at <task>

• I should just be loyal/grateful for what I already have because this small business has been good to me

• I can't decide what I want to do

Several of these have been covered at length in other threads, so I am only going to cover the last one (I am sure others will be willing to chime in on those again).

You've all heard the aphorism, Do something you love, and you'll never work another day in your life. There is some truth in this, but, as with all expressions like this, what it doesn't address is far larger than what it does.

Personally, I have found a good way for me to think about work/tasks and whether I want to keep doing them or not. What I do right now is consider, at the end of investing time in a given task, whether or not I have more, the same, or less energy following that time investment. It has been hard for me to figure out whether or not I "liked" a task because every one of them are so mixed, particularly as an IT Generalist. Putting it into the context of energy levels has made it more objective for me. It has also allowed me to abstract a specific task into categories rather than focusing on technologies or maybes.

Another layer of this is to follow up the energy question with a why. For example, if I just spent an hour configuring a switch and I feel drained (more than is appropriate), I would ask myself why do I feel more drained. Was it configuring the switch and fighting with the config? Was it because I don't really feel confident in what I'm doing, but I liked it in general? Was it because I kept getting interrupted by users?

If you can filter through these questions it can allow you to start to see a path forward in your career. You don't have to do <task> to know whether or not you will like that specific thing (insert caveats). You can have an idea by extrapolating from the categories of things that have changed your energy.

great things to consider, Thank you for taking the time to write this.
Things I haven't thought about before.

Soo guys.. I did what @Dashrender suggested and unistalled and reinstalled VirtualBox and rebuilt my VM. and ....
the install finally went through! now to update/upgrade my Ubuntu Server (right?)
and try this all again.

@scottalanmiller Just setting up a unifi controller server in VBox, and Windows10 because thats the OS of Choice right now, trying to be well versed.

there's nothing above this. Except Name, Location, Email.
No I don't have Certifications, working on Network+ still.
Added Active Directory since I successfully installed and created 10 users. Working on Creating a VM with 10 Machines to add to my Domain.
Purchased Domain From Godaddy- Created a new Forest.
This is what I've been sending.

Keep in Mind ; I'm constantly Learning.

@gjacobse said in Fedora 26 install:

BTW - Been there, done that,... learning lesson... it happens. Frustrating as it is,.. things like this happen to (most) us from time to time. that HCL (hardware compatibility list) is something we would like to ignore.. and most times we 'can'... but there are just sometimes we can.

Well that exact what Im trying to do, Learn and i figured the best way to do that is to try different things and see if they work. Its an old desktop, had crashed using Windows XP for my dad, he said "You fix it, you can have it." so that pretty much it.

Using puTTy to connect to the ntg lab

I'm going to Start over. Build one from Scratch.