@scottalanmiller said in When Does It Stop Even Being IT: Buyers vs Doers:
they call a vendor and see if they can be sold something
Hey thats us! The wireless/voip person does this constantly, the Audio/Video person does it constantly, the sys admin does it a little bit, the vp does it constantly.
@scottalanmiller You can also use a website for this. I have some private pages on my website where i list things I need to look up occasionally. They aren't secret details or anything but just key things I did for this software or how I helped this user. That kind of stuff.
@brianwinkelmann An organization of any size almost needs someone dedicated to documentation to do it right in my opinion. They might be able to get away with doing it half the time and some other role the other half, but one person will do it a lot quicker and standardized than everyone being responsible for their own documentation. Of course you have to have the right company culture for it. My work does not, no one wants to share what they did or how they do things. I think they just hack at it so much they dont want to share or take the time in the first place.
@WrCombs said in Project 1 : PFSense Routing:
@jmoore said in Project 1 : PFSense Routing:
@WrCombs I would learn by using Linux. The reason why is that Windows hides a lot of processes in the background. They get abstracted away. You wont understand them if you don't see them and have to interact with them. If you learn it the Linux way, Windows becomes mostly trivial.
only way i would be able to do that at this point would be a linux VM..
which flavor should I choose?
It doesn't really matter and a vm is just fine. Whatever distro you are comfortable with. Fedora, Ubuntu, Mint, Opensuse.
@WrCombs Here i found them.
https://www.tutorialspoint.com/data_communication_computer_network/index.htm
and
https://www.computernetworkingnotes.com/networking-tutorials/
Do some hands on stuff like Scott mentioned and read these and you should have a decent grasp of things.
@WrCombs I would learn by using Linux. The reason why is that Windows hides a lot of processes in the background. They get abstracted away. You wont understand them if you don't see them and have to interact with them. If you learn it the Linux way, Windows becomes mostly trivial.
@WrCombs said in Project 1 : PFSense Routing:
@jmoore said in Project 1 : PFSense Routing:
@WrCombs As for learning routing basics, Scott is right here and this is stuff you rarely do. I have never done this at a business. I only did a little when studying for my network+ in an online lab. I have never had to do anything similar since. Its learning to troubleshoot the network to tell if your having a routing issue, switch issue, or user. 95% its the user lol. So yes good to learn but i would get the basics down real well first, as basic issues will be by far what you troubleshoot the most.
how do you guys suggest I learn the basics ?
Videos aren't helping, reading isn't helping.. I'm kind of out of ideas.
Its books for me too. Think I also used a website because the books are generally pretty lite. Let me see if I can find it.
@WrCombs As for learning routing basics, Scott is right here and this is stuff you rarely do. I have never done this at a business. I only did a little when studying for my network+ in an online lab. I have never had to do anything similar since. Its learning to troubleshoot the network to tell if your having a routing issue, switch issue, or user. 95% its the user lol. So yes good to learn but i would get the basics down real well first, as basic issues will be by far what you troubleshoot the most.
@WrCombs So for example, routers and switches. Neither of these devices is programmable. You can use cli on some devices to tell it what to do and manage but that is not programming or scripting in my opinion.
@WrCombs Programming in my opinion is your code that is capable of making decisions or using logic based on some type of input. If it can't do this then I consider it just scripting. How important this info is in the real world, well who knows lol. Again that is just my definition and others may be different.
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
So hot here today. But the last of the bathroom tiling is getting done. The first new vanity is in. We are so close to having the new bathroom completed.
Very nice. Yeah it is miserable. I just got back from the nursery, needed more herbs like mint and stuff. It is just baking out there. However, cooking Dal tonight and will have it with some Asahi.
@wirestyle22 Ouch. It will get better, I hope!
going to try a little bit of minecraft on pc
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@brandon220 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@jmoore I will utter these words: "Because that is the way we've always done it". I can't even explain the difficulty I have trying to get some people to even try a different solution for anything.
Same goes for printers. If someone has to walk more than 3 steps to get to a printer, they complain. It blows my mind how much gets printed and then shredded. Or, better yet - printed, then scanned to a file, and then shredded. I wish I were joking. Paperless is a bad word among the people I work with.
I could go on and on.....
Oh wow that would be frustrating. My condolences! I know its very frustrating when no one is open minded. We have the same problem with paperless and printing. Its like they don't understand what each of them are...
I used to have this issue badly - and do to a smaller degree still.... but my users have been showing each other 'print to pdf' and those who haven't seen it before are asking me for it. Pretty awesome!
I moved us away from paper faxes many years ago - that was a huge paper savings.
Oh awesome, my users are definitely slower.
@brandon220 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@jmoore I will utter these words: "Because that is the way we've always done it". I can't even explain the difficulty I have trying to get some people to even try a different solution for anything.
Same goes for printers. If someone has to walk more than 3 steps to get to a printer, they complain. It blows my mind how much gets printed and then shredded. Or, better yet - printed, then scanned to a file, and then shredded. I wish I were joking. Paperless is a bad word among the people I work with.
I could go on and on.....
Oh wow that would be frustrating. My condolences! I know its very frustrating when no one is open minded. We have the same problem with paperless and printing. Its like they don't understand what each of them are...
@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Updating resume and job sites to now include RHCSA
Oh nice job Eddie congrats!
@brandon220 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
All the Excel "experts" you come across are only using about .05% of its capability. The list goes on ....
Your exactly right, they hardly use any of it. They don't even know how little they use which is sad. You would think a power user would at least be aware of how much they use or don't use.
So that begs the next question: why is management paying for all these features if they arent going to use them. If the power users arent using much then the regular ones are using far less. So wouldnt your management really be saving money by going to something more appropriate?
