I spend enough time in the Linux groups on Spiceworks that I feel pretty confident calling bullshit on the 78% of IT Pros that frequent the community know how to properly save a file and exit VIM.

Google has to have skewed those numbers...

Password protected encrypted TiddlyWiki.

http://tiddlywiki.com/

TiddlyWiki is small, works without a server, and is highly portable. Since I'm generally the only person accessing the data it is perfect for my use. If you have multiple people accessing the documents you might consider DokuWiki or Mediawiki.

@dafyre said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

My new phrase is going to be "tap the braintrust".

It didn't sound so...wrong... when I said it the first time, ha ha. picks brain up out of the gutter

Rinse it off with a little scotch or bourbon and I'm sure you'll be good-to-go.

@JaredBusch said:

@RamblingBiped said:

I'm curious to know how much this increases the attack surface of the Windows platform. I'm in silent celebration at the idea of being able to access my Windows servers remotely via SSH, but I wonder how tight the integration really is with BASH and if that is REALLY a good thing... I mean, how many attack vectors does an already highly targeted closed system need?

How does SSH increase the attack surface? It is another protocol, but do you leave your servers open to access from the public internet in the first place?

And I did some quick googling to try and soften my ignorance and found this:

"Third, note that Bash and Linux tools cannot interact with Windows applications and tools, and vice-versa. So you won’t be able to run Notepad from Bash, or run Ruby in Bash from PowerShell." - https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2016/03/30/run-bash-on-ubuntu-on-windows/

So if I am comprehending what I read properly it looks like this is a native BASH environment that is pretty well locked down and only intended for development. It can access Windows filesystems, but not applications. So currently not intended to be all that useful in regards to systems administration.

Bluetooth adapter for wired headphones: https://www.amazon.com/Jumbl-Bluetooth-Hands-Free-Streaming-Receiver/dp/B00UUDZSKE/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1476761349&sr=8-3&keywords=bluetooth+adapter+headphones

I have one of these that I use sometimes on runs, it works great.

@coliver said:

@RamblingBiped said:

@coliver said:

Anyone know if this is available on the LTS version?

It isn't a version of Ubuntu at all. I'm pretty sure all this is doing is abstracting the Ubuntu Linux user space and translating the system calls to the Linux kernel space to the Windows Kernel space. There is no Linux kernel, just the the Linux binaries that exist in the User space. If that makes sense. It really is like the inverse of WINE on Linux.

And while they say it is self contained and unable to execute Windows binaries, it does seem to have indirect access to the Windows kernel via this interface/api they have created to translate the calls to the Linux kernel. And because all of that is not currently open source, I would kind of think there is some potential for exploitation there.

The Windows 10 LTS release.

Ha! Sorry, misunderstood.

If you're a runner these are great: https://www.amazon.com/bseBuds-100m-Isolating-Single-Earphone/dp/B010P3M7YS/ref=sr_1_14?ie=UTF8&qid=1476761418&sr=8-14&keywords=single+earbud+for+running

Single noise canceling ear bud. It lets you hear the environment around AND enjoy music when out for a run.

Oh and I never use the GUI tool, I always use domainjoin-cli. The one and only time I did try to use it ( 2-ish years ago) it was kinda buggy and didn't work for some reason.

Almost all of my participation happened in Spicy Peppers and Linux Group(s).

@RamblingBiped said in File Parsing Magic:

@scottalanmiller said in File Parsing Magic:

Put the file that you want to process into file2parse and this will do the rest...

#!/bin/bash

while read line; do
  echo $(echo $line | cut -d'=' -f2 | cut -d';' -f1)";"$(echo $line | cut -d'=' -f4 | cut -d';' -f1)
done < file2parse

Wait, I think there is a more important question that needs to be answered now. If you echo an echo, do you get an echoed echo's echo, or do they just cancel each other out and build a strange uncomfortable silence?

And to follow up, if you simultaneously echo two echos from a single echo, will your head explode or somehow magically stay intact?

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:

@RamblingBiped said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:

Finished a re-re-read of Orwell's "1984" a little over a week ago,

A lot of people reading that again these days.

Yes, and some of the parallels to the current iteration of our "American Culture" are frightening; specifically the glorification of ignorance and anti-intellectual sentiment. I feel like the warmongering part has always been there, but the current administration is trying to push the agenda in the same fashion as the Cold War era administrations did.

Quite disturbing.

Like @Dashrender is referencing, see if your company will give you credit for hours spent studying development. My company does this and allows me to log it as Professional Development time. I usually have 90% of this time logged away from the office, at home, where I can sit and read/practice without interruption.

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:

Loads of Murakami. By far my favorite Author.

"What I Talk About When I Talk About Running" is one of my all time favorite books!

@scottalanmiller said in Bits and Bytes (1983):

@RamblingBiped said in Bits and Bytes (1983):

These are fantastic! I don't know how I'm going to keep myself from putting these on our Wiki at work and flagging them as mandatory training for all the engineers...

Have you seen them before now? These are my favourite computer videos ever made. I grew up on these.

I had not seen them before you posted them. I would have been 2 years old when they originally aired.

I think I'm at a point that I've specialized enough that I get no value whatsoever (personally) by interacting on SpiceWorks.

@thanksajdotcom If he is a big fan of Scotch you might look into finding a local tasting somewhere and take him to that. You'll probably spend less than $100, learn something, and have a better time.

@scottalanmiller said in Need a Good Bottle of Scotch:

@RamblingBiped said in Need a Good Bottle of Scotch:

I'm of Swiss/German/Irish descent, that means I should have a leg up right?

Nope. That's the same as the "RAID 5 is a special case when used from ZFS before ZFS is so good" argument. But I'm afraid we took that into account when we made the RAID 5 stats already.

Swiss/Scottish here.

But I have a ginger beard. That has to count for something.

@scottalanmiller Yes, I'm drinking Starbuck's excuse for esspresso... X-D

And I primarily stick with ale if/when I do drink, and I don't do much volume when I do. I'm not dumb enough to even try and keep up with anyone in regards to alcohol consumption. I don't have the body mass or willpower to come out on the right end of that battle. My brittle old 35 year old body just doesn't recover quite as quickly as it did 15 or so years ago...

@wrx7m If you're in the USA most local papers will list your positions on Monster/Yahoo job boards, as well as in print in the local paper for a fee (this might have changed, I've been out of the recruiting business for quite sometime now). Post here and in the Spiceworks career group for free. You could go strait to Indeed.com and/or other job boards and post there as well. If you have zero budget, throw something on Craigslist.

Take a look at local college/university tech programs, it is intern season....

@wrx7m said in Looking to Hire a Help Desk Tech - Best Places to Post Ad?:

@scottalanmiller - Normally I would but I am looking for someone a little less green. Someone that has at least a small amount of experience.

Edit: I am trying to lessen my workload and increase the time I have to do the higher-level work. If I have to spend time schooling someone from the lowest end of AD and hardware/software troubleshooting, then I might as well just do everything myself.

Maybe check with local universities and certification testing centers and see if you can post the opening on their boards. If you can snag someone that is a little green, has a basic certification or two, and a lot of enthusiasm; that should go a long way.