@flaxking I will check in our system to see what we currently have. I just received your resume and will be reaching out shortly this afternoon.

@flaxking said in Starting a job search:

ound of interviews for a sysadmin position at GitLab. However, this has fueled me into starting an active job search. However, I'm not quite sure how to start it.

I would love to assist. Please send me your resume and I can see what openings I currently have.

@s-hackleman Happy to share two versions of mine for comparison
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@thanksajdotcom right direction. The first way to solve this problem is to reset your iCloud account password online, the second to use iTunes to reset, and the third is to use third-party tools to hard reset iPhone without iCloud password (final solution). Here are the steps to use iTunes:
Connect to iTunes> Click on the Summary tab in the left list of iTunes > select Restore iPhone Options > select "Restore" option in the prompt window > click "Restore and Update" > iPhone will restart.

@flaxking I love writing Powershell scripts, but I can't see myself full time developing, despite my wanting to learn C# or Jquery.
Hmm, I think I'll try and continue down the Azure Devops path, get that cert and go from there.

@IRJ said in Interviewing with Amazon:

@stacksofplates said in Interviewing with Amazon:

@scottalanmiller said in Interviewing with Amazon:

@stacksofplates said in Interviewing with Amazon:

@scottalanmiller said in Interviewing with Amazon:

@RandyBlevins said in Interviewing with Amazon:

I've heard these type of tech companies can have NDA and brutal interviews.

I interviewed with Amazon and there is no NDA. No self respecting company will use an NDA, because no one worth their salt with even entertain doing an interview with you under NDA. Amazon interview was fair, not harsh. Reasonable. Certainly no walk in the park, and long.

Well I definitely signed an NDA when interviewing with them.

Really? That's odd. Was that for an interview stage or was it past that point and like after you were offered a position?

I had around 6 interviews total.

What were your impressions and how did it go?

Mine was decent. Only two interviews. One phone, then they flew me out for a few days. They did one full day of interviews then paid for me to stay in Seattle to get to know the city and make moving decisions. The whole process was pretty smooth and well done. Nothing to knock your socks off, but better than Facebook, not as good as most Wall St. firms. But way better than an average Fortune 100 firm. Very professional. Took me out to lunch. Interview process was reasonable, not some silly "did you happen to memorize the right answers" kind of BS.

Hey, thanks

@JaredBusch said in Network Types - CompTIA A+ 220-1001 Prof Messer:

@scottalanmiller said in Network Types - CompTIA A+ 220-1001 Prof Messer:

@JaredBusch said in Network Types - CompTIA A+ 220-1001 Prof Messer:

@scottalanmiller said in Network Types - CompTIA A+ 220-1001 Prof Messer:

@connorsoliver said in Network Types - CompTIA A+ 220-1001 Prof Messer:

How common is MAN?

It's just a term. One that they thought would be common, but isn't. Really no one used it and it's just silly. LAN and WAN still describe all of the real types that matter. The idea of a MAN is kind of meaningless. So while they kind of exist regularly, no one talks about them.

It is also implied that it is something managed by the ISP (aka telcos back when it was a term actually used).

Used to imply, yeah. Today it is often down by owned wireless. But the first MAN I worked on was one we built privately in DC. No telecoms involved. That was early 2000.

First one I worked with was in some Citibank offices in the mid-late 90's in St. Louis. Telecoms involved only as far as providing the clean pairs of copper. Otherwise, Citi did it all themselves also.

I was similar. AT&T provided the fiber in case, but we managed everything else.

@scottalanmiller said in Internet Connection Types - CompTIA A+ 220-1001 Prof Messer:

Satellites were launched last week

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@scottalanmiller said in Internet Connection Types - CompTIA A+ 220-1001 Prof Messer:

Satellites were launched last week that should be a total global game changer.

Those 60 are not going to do that. They do not have the point to point lasers for relay. These are all still engineering tests that have to relay all communications through ground stations.

@mary said in Windows HomeGroups, WorkGroups, and Domains - CompTIA A+ 220-1002 Prof Messer:

Is there any alternative to home group now that it isn't available on Windows 10? Also why would you use workgroup instead of Windows Domain? Is it a cost issue?

"Home Group" was just a fancy name for network sharing without AD on Windows computers.

@mary said in Windows Control Panel - CompTIA A+ 220-1002 Prof Messer:

This may be basic but, can cookies damage your system in anyway? It's one of those things that a lot of sites require you to accept, and an average user just accepts them.

So the cookie itself is just a text file. A tiny one. That's it. So the cookie itself does nothing.

The issues are if the cookie has something in the text and a browser reads it and does something it shouldn't because of it. But realistically, that's not going to happen.

The main concerns around cookies are that they help people to track you, but you need to be tracked. We've been conditioned to thinking that being tracked is a bad thing, but cookies are what lets us track you from post to post here in RoIT for example.

Pretty useful stuff. I played around with some of the commands on my laptop.

@scottalanmiller said in Using IP Addresses - CompTIA A+ 220-1001 Prof Messer:

@connorsoliver said in Using IP Addresses - CompTIA A+ 220-1001 Prof Messer:

When using an SSL VPN, if the VPN concentrator decrypts the data being sent, wouldn't it be possible for someone to capture the data and also decrypt it?

Possible, sure. But very, very hard. The VPN concentrator has the keys, someone intercepting the traffic presumably does not. The point of VPN encryption is to make it so hard to decrypt the data that you don't care if they see it. It's about making something safe enough that we assume we will send it in the open and not worry.

So we assume that people capture that data constantly - but we have made it so hard to use, that they can't do it.

We more than assume that - we pretty much know the NSA is doing that after the Snowden leaks.

Added ZFS page: https://mangolassi.it/topic/19669

@wrx7m said in Summing Up Hiring Practices:

@EddieJennings said in Summing Up Hiring Practices:

@scottalanmiller said in Summing Up Hiring Practices:

Simply put: hiring the best means living with the requirements of the best. Filters don't apply to companies hiring the best.

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I’m hoping my next gig can be remote or have remote component. I’m not holding my breath though.

Same here. I need to finish my resume first though (sounding like a broken record). Have you started looking?

ha Same!

@Dashrender said in Installing a SOHO Network - CompTIA A+ 220-1001 Prof Messer:

@scottalanmiller said in Installing a SOHO Network - CompTIA A+ 220-1001 Prof Messer:

@Dashrender said in Installing a SOHO Network - CompTIA A+ 220-1001 Prof Messer:

@scottalanmiller said in Installing a SOHO Network - CompTIA A+ 220-1001 Prof Messer:

Think about a thermostat that you can connect to online. The thermostat IoT device is in your home. The IoT vendor has a server. You work with the thermostat through the hosted server somewhere. If that server was compromised, bad guys could run up your AC bill.

To bad most cameras don't work that way - instead they use uPNP to open ports and just spew your video feeds to the world.
https://www.insecam.org/

"Most" of anything is crap. No good camera does that. What a bizarre system.

Agreed - but it's very likely type of equipment they'll run into out in the wild.

I've never seen that with a client in the wild. I'm sure it happens, but it's not something we really run into. Common with home users, for sure. As business class routers don't allow that, it limits it in the field a lot.

And it's not like we don't see cameras, worked with a security company just today!

Also, lots of customers on cheaper or less "business" equipment often have double NAT which while awful, stops UPnP.

One of the clear problems with the CompTIA A+ has always been that it clearly caters to promoting Microsoft products and not being vendor neutral as it has always claimed to be. With the latest release, literally half of the exam is Windows only. There is no section for macOS, any Linux, iOS, Android, Chromebooks, nothing, nada. It's become a Windows exam, which means that they don't just skip the underlying principles that they claim the exam is about, and skip the neutrality for the industry that they claim it is about, but they also leave people going into entry level positions totally unprepared for the real world where running into non-Windows OSes is common. If you were learning from nothing but the A+, you might not even be aware that non-Windows exists. Let alone non-PC hardware, which appears to also be completely skipped.