Posts made by flaxking

It looks like it is portable, which is something WinDirStat is not

Turns out I don't even need a VPS. I can periodically run my program with my free CI minutes on GitLab.com. It did come in handy for building and pushing the Docker images though, since my upload speed is 350 Kbps.

@dbeato Thanks! I didn't check all the locations

I was really excited when I looked up Vultr after looking at this thread, because they have $2.50 instances and that is the price point I was looking for. The load I need a VPS for is very small (just checks some websites then it posts on facebook). I was event semi-effectively using CloudAtCost for it, but every 4 months or so my server would become unresponsive and would require to be rebuilt.

However, now that I have signed up for Vultr, (and foolishly even added credit to my account) I see they don't actually have any $2.50 instances available. Does anyone know how frequently they come back up for sale?

@dustinb3403 said in Uses for VPS:

@bbigford said in Uses for VPS:

@tim_g said in Uses for VPS:

A SaltStack Master server.

I have yet to learn SaltStack. Way behind.

I want to as well I just have no idea where to begin with it.

https://docs.saltstack.com/en/getstarted/

When I was deciding when if I was going to do Server 2012 or 2016 certifications, I went with 2012, and I'm glad I did because it was still a year from that point that the Server 2016 exams came out, and I was already certified.

However, in hind sight, I should have been using Server 2016 in my labs instead of 2012.

In my most recent interview, (and I got the job) they saw my Server 2012 certification and specifically asked about Server 2016 experience.

When I set a custom homepage in settings, it doesn't seem to recognize any arguments. (I want to only see certain categories, i.e. recent?cid[]=1)

If there any way to only see certain categories, other than using a traditional browser bookmark?

@thwr said in IP security Camera Question.:

@flaxking said in IP security Camera Question.:

@thwr said in IP security Camera Question.:

@dustinb3403 said in IP security Camera Question.:

@thwr digital zoom is what you likely would be using on anything in this price range anyways.

Sure, but a proper lens would just be better.

OK, it gets even better. Just had a look at the price tag: https://shop.omg.de/ubiquiti-networks/unifi/unifi-video/ - will order one on monday

do they work "standalone" for testing purposes? E.g. could you view a live stream or something like that without a DVR?

Yes, the cameras have a web interface where you can view video. Last time I checked they hadn't implemented to ability to record to microSD card yet though.

I can't imagine you can do 'magic zoom' from the camera's web interface. Which is something you will want to test out, because it is pretty awesome. I used it to capture licence plates. When I was setting it up you couldn't even do it directly from the NVR web interface, you had to use the phone App, I don't know if that has been changed.

I've noticed that one of cams even features 3x optical zoom. Would be awesome.

Thanks for your feedback.

Yeah, I would have put the extra money down for that job, but that was before the UVC G3 Pro models were even announced, and the UVC Pro models were discontinued and out of stock everywhere. Just a UVC G3 model wasn't the ideal solution, but it managed to do the job.

@thwr said in IP security Camera Question.:

@dustinb3403 said in IP security Camera Question.:

@thwr digital zoom is what you likely would be using on anything in this price range anyways.

Sure, but a proper lens would just be better.

OK, it gets even better. Just had a look at the price tag: https://shop.omg.de/ubiquiti-networks/unifi/unifi-video/ - will order one on monday

do they work "standalone" for testing purposes? E.g. could you view a live stream or something like that without a DVR?

Yes, the cameras have a web interface where you can view video. Last time I checked they hadn't implemented to ability to record to microSD card yet though.

I can't imagine you can do 'magic zoom' from the camera's web interface. Which is something you will want to test out, because it is pretty awesome. I used it to capture licence plates. When I was setting it up you couldn't even do it directly from the NVR web interface, you had to use the phone App, I don't know if that has been changed.

@pmoncho said in Just one more failure...:

@dashrender

I don't really use EMR/EHR's, mostly PM but I cannot imagine the enormous amounts of pain of switching EHR's.

This is a good example of the risk of proprietary software as @scottalanmiller has mentioned.

With something like GNU Health if you need new functionality, you can create it or hire someone to create it for you. It is modular. Since it is based on Tryton, you can probably have it as a browser based application now too.

Just found video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r72_D_uGvcg

If you're previous and current EHR systems are so locked down by the vendor that a method can't be devised to get the data from the one to the other, that's a serious problem.

I used to order from CDW when they were the cheapest and they were giving us free shipping. I heard my my predecessor that they are now requiring at least $200 orders.

I never talked to my rep, I would just email to get the shipping taken off a quote.

Have you thought of Development? I'm sure Chemist + Dev will be a killer combination for some companies. Getting your first Dev job might be harder than getting your first IT job though.

@scottalanmiller said in The Difference Between IT and Bench Work SAMIT Video:

@flaxking said in The Difference Between IT and Bench Work SAMIT Video:

@scottalanmiller It is interesting that bench/IT cross discipline experience is so common, but it often happens from convenience/budget constraint or ignorance. (though sometimes it happens as a hobby) And thus being cross trained won't help you that much in advancing your career.

However IT/Dev cross discipline is super useful and there is an ongoing spike in demand for it. As well as being well paying. But Bench/IT is more common. That might be changing though. With the cloud providing another layer of abstraction from the hardware, and with learning Powershell scripting meaning you're starting to cross into Dev.

My personal belief is that DevOps is not the future of systems administration, only a stepping stone along the path. System admins aren't attempting to do something bespoke or unique, like developers are, so the use of development methodologies doesn't make sense abstractly within IT circles. Right now, a lack of advanced tooling for what admins need creates a need for DevOps, but only to fill an existing gap - one that I know of at least one company working to fill. Once the power of Devops exists without the need for developer knowledge or experience, I think that we will rapidly see that category disappear again.

I think you're probably right, when we're talking about interdisciplinary IT/Dev skills and the misnamed 'DevOps Engineer' role. Eventually that will be automated and abstracted away. At which point mixing IT and Dev will as inherently valuable as mixing any other discipline with Dev, and it would make more sense to be talking about the value of Bench/Dev vs. IT/Dev.

However the 'power of DevOps' is a whole other can of worms.

@dave247 said in question about setting up a new domain controller:

Is this pretty much the way to do it?

Yes, assuming that the DNS zone is AD integrated

Who holds the FSMO roles?

@scottalanmiller It is interesting that bench/IT cross discipline experience is so common, but it often happens from convenience/budget constraint or ignorance. (though sometimes it happens as a hobby) And thus being cross trained won't help you that much in advancing your career.

However IT/Dev cross discipline is super useful and there is an ongoing spike in demand for it. As well as being well paying. But Bench/IT is more common. That might be changing though. With the cloud providing another layer of abstraction from the hardware, and with learning Powershell scripting meaning you're starting to cross into Dev.

@scottalanmiller said in Bench then IT?:

@flaxking said in Bench then IT?:

Bench is pretty contained in it's own world. You can be a great bench tech, but it's not going to help you move up further.

You can move up a bit, bench will hit six figures.

I would imagine it is harder to move up in the bench world.

At entry level you're no where near working on servers. And job's that are near entry level but let you get near to servers are probably few and far between.

Plenty of companies will go with manufacturer's warranty until their next hardware refresh, so they isn't really an entry level person (well I guess maybe the person doing the RMAs might count)

It's just hard to me to visual the path to go from Geek Squad to data center bench tech. And with the increasing popularity of the cloud, it seems like there won't be as many intermediate positions.

However, I guess the same might eventually be said with the automation of IT.

I made it to IT from bench because the person who hired me didn't know the difference.

Why bench instead of helpdesk? I think helpdesk generally exposes you to more stuff, and then you have a basis to start learning from.

Bench is pretty contained in it's own world. You can be a great bench tech, but it's not going to help you move up further.

Bench experience does help you down the road so that you don't spend hours on an issue only to figure out it is a hardware problem.
And to teach you not to run chkdsk to test for a failing harddrive 0.0

@dbeato said in Visual Resumes?:

@tim_g said in Visual Resumes?:

@dbeato said in Visual Resumes?:

@scottalanmiller said in Visual Resumes?:

@networknerd said in Visual Resumes?:

Regardless of the platform's intended purpose, isn't it about how someone leverages the platform to his / her advantage?

No, it is not. It you put your profile on Craiglist, that reflects badly on you, does it not? It doesn't matter what content you put on there, the platform itself is part of the message.

So where would be a good place to point to our projects ? Our own github or personal site?

Interview with words.

I understand and that’s how I do it, I meant for projects to be shown if in said interview is asked.

Most IT projects aren't really that impressive. If you go into detail about a project that isn't really that impressive, then that will show your inexperience. And if you have an impressive project it will sound impressive even without going into too much detail. They will ask you about it in the interview if they want to know more.

That being said, if you can show infrastructure as code on github, bitbucket, gitlab, etc. then put that link on your resume. However, depending on your work policies you might only be able to showcase personal project stuff on there. A dev can't showcase projects done on a closed source program, however there is generally more leeway with your infrastructure code.

I would put it under skills