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    • New to Linux Administration: RHEL-Based or Debian-Based OS
      linux ubuntu centos it career rhel debian sysadmin career advice newbie • • EddieJennings  

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      @scottalanmiller said in New to Linux Administration: RHEL-Based or Debian-Based OS: I agree, both is the obvious choice. But to truly answer the question, I'd focus on Ubuntu (not Debian) and then RHEL. Debian is great, but it is Ubuntu specifically that has the market. Yes, almost the same is never the same as exactly the same.
    • Is Ubiquiti phasing out the UAP-AC line?
      ubiquiti unifi access point uap • • JaredBusch  

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      My guess would be yes. Most of those released 2015-2016. We've since seen their 3rd gen products released around 2018 with the HD products, and now the UAP6 devices are starting to trickle out. Doesn't really make sense to keep promoting the older stuff. https://help.ui.com/hc/en-us/articles/360012192813#faq-device-gen
    • Will Tech Giants actually adopt WFH?
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      @Hugh-Jass said in Will Tech Giants actually adopt WFH?: @scottalanmiller said in Will Tech Giants actually adopt WFH?: Typically we see engineers cap out around $225K. But admins head closer to $500K. Also, CIOs were more likely to be pulled from the admin ranks, not the engineer ranks. Because engineering was nearly all technical while admins had to be able to do everything an engineer could do, but apply it to the business in real time, deal with active security, and fix what the engineers broke all with the pressure on. Also, in the SMB space, engineering is the low cost afterthought that admins do. It's maybe 5% of the job, and the easiest 5%. Consider how little knowledge or effort goes into installing a new server, and how much goes into supporting it after it is installed. We often have the most junior staff do the engineering parts because typically it requires the least experience or knowledge, and it can be double checked so doesn't matter even if they get something wrong - there is a chance to fix it before it goes live. bro I think you lost your mind no one is making this much money in those roles Don't confuse "I don't" with "other people don't." The top end of IT is generally limited to a few physical locations (NY, London, Zurich) and to a few industries. So you aren't going to find it in some SMB shop, nor in some small village (other than in CT.)
    • Resume
      wrcombs resume review • • WrCombs  

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      @DustinB3403 said in Resume: @IRJ said in Resume: @DustinB3403 said in Resume: Also bullet points should be concise, not full sentences. See the above example. Use the section descriptor to explain the bullet list if you must. I disagree Good for you, you've never seen a bullet point list. If you're writing complete sentences as bullet points you're doing something wrong.
    • What is the best way to prepare for a technical phone interview?
      interview • • Fredtx  

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      Some good stuff from everyone! Appreciate it!
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      Career Management/Recruiters/Headhunters - potential scam?
      • Jimmy9008  

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      @IRJ said in Career Management/Recruiters/Headhunters - potential scam?: @scottalanmiller said in Career Management/Recruiters/Headhunters - potential scam?: @Jimmy9008 said in Career Management/Recruiters/Headhunters - potential scam?: This company however says they do not charge the company but charge the candidate due to the service they provide and managing/promoting the candidate. The cost seems pretty expensive too at just below £1000, which is $1,400 USD. That's an itty, bitty fraction of the cost that the companies pay. So this means that the math alone doesn't make sense. How could these guys make money. Sure, good headhunters do really, really well. But that's because they place something like 90% of the executive level staff out there. These guys are claiming to only be going after some tiny sliver of a percentage of the market, while doing so at a tiny percentage of the pay? Doesn't add up. If they were legit, they'd hardly make a penny. Yeah placement fees can be $50k or more easily Yeah, for sure. Good headhunters can place no more than one person a quarter and be doing pretty well. It's not like normal recruiting where they make at most a few thousand dollars and have to do big volumes. This is very diligent service with huge amounts of time going into every placement.
    • Seekout: AI powered job search
      • gjacobse  

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      @Carnival-Boy said in Seekout: AI powered job search: and I believe in Denmark you have to employ a certain percentage of female executives. Roughly the same in the US, except you can never do so intentionally. You have to hire them organically. If you can't, you are stuck. But the laws aren't that strict, which is good, since there aren't that many women in most fields so you often can't get a candidate.
    • Job Hunting 2020 Edition - Where To Start
      • Reid Cooper  

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      The new gig that I'll start on Monday began with a cold contact I received on LinkedIn. The one before that I think from a cold call from a recruiter. As far as IT Manager, are you specifically wanting to manage people? I know my manager at my current gig is hands on with projects and really has to do minimal managing of us. I've also seen people with the title of "IT Manager" but they're a one-person-show in IT at said comapny, so there isn't anyone for them to actually manage.
    • Windows Firewall with Advanced Security - CompTIA A+ 220-1002 Prof Messer
      security windows youtube networking comptia prof messer certification it career video training it training firewall a+ windows system administration • • steve  

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      @brianwinkelmann said in Windows Firewall with Advanced Security - CompTIA A+ 220-1002 Prof Messer: what about the Windows Defender, I mean the antivirus and the firewall of Windows They go hand in hand right? They go together as in they are both security components of the Windows operating system. But that's about the extent of it. They are both very good, they should both always be used, they are both for the purpose of security. But they are not actually associated other than in name.
    • Windows Task Manager - CompTIA A+ 220-1002 Prof Messer
      windows youtube comptia prof messer certification video training it career it training a+ task manager • • steve  

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      Very useful tool, specially when computer gets freeze.
    • System Configuration - CompTIA A+ 220-1002 Prof Messer
      youtube comptia prof messer certification video training it career it training a+ • • steve  

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      Very interesting, this tool we always use to check Windows system configuration.
    • Windows Administrative Tools - CompTIA A+ 220-1002 Prof Messer
      windows youtube comptia prof messer certification video training it career it training a+ windows system administration • • steve  

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      Most of these tools I have used at least once doing support on computers.
    • Network Command Line Tools - CompTIA A+ 220-1002 Prof Messer
      youtube networking comptia prof messer certification video training it career it training a+ cli • • steve  

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      Useful tools for networking!
    • An Overview of IPv4 and IPv6 - CompTIA A+ 220-1001 Prof Messer
      networking comptia prof messer certification it career it training a+ ipv4 internet ipv6 • • steve  

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      taking a few mins to watch this!
    • Microsoft Command Line Tools - CompTIA A+ 220-1002 Prof Messer
      windows youtube comptia prof messer video training it career it training a+ command line cli • • steve  

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      @brianwinkelmann said in Microsoft Command Line Tools - CompTIA A+ 220-1002 Prof Messer: Very Very Interesting, but the most important, this Command Line Tools are useful specially when you work remotely. Or to be ready for when you suddenly half to! Although they make you more efficient all of the time.
    • Writing a good CV
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      @ElvinNelson said in Writing a good CV: It is more than enough to simply do it according to the already existing available samples and bring it to the form necessary specifically for your specific specialty. The above are also fine. Sure, IF the form is any good. 99% are not. People who do "CV help" are never people who know or are in the industry. The CV assistance career path is one for failed English students desperate for work that no one can evaluate, there's no money in it. So if you get resources from anywhere except peers you are almost guaranteed to have something that's not very good, from a context of someone whose never done it before.
    • Self Taught vs. Bootcamp vs College Video from Joshua Fluke
      it education university • • scottalanmiller  

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      @IRJ said in Self Taught vs. Bootcamp vs College Video from Joshua Fluke: @EddieJennings said in Self Taught vs. Bootcamp vs College Video from Joshua Fluke: @scottalanmiller Imagine an IT Generalist bootcamp IT generalist is the bootcamp More like the war.
    • Installing and Upgrading Windows - CompTIA A+ 220-1002 Prof Messer
      windows youtube comptia prof messer video training it career it training a+ • • steve  

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      @brianwinkelmann said in Installing and Upgrading Windows - CompTIA A+ 220-1002 Prof Messer: Interesting! I just wonder if it is possible for example to copy or move a complete installation of Windows to another disk just copying the files, is that possible? I mean like copy for example the whole C:\Windows folder to another folder on another disk D:\Windows and try to boot the Operative system? Well I don't know if my question is a bit dumb, sorry if it is. No, you can't just copy the files. You have to image the system.
    • Installing Operating Systems - CompTIA A+ 220-1002 Prof Messer
      youtube comptia prof messer certification video training it career it training a+ • • steve  

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      Very interesting, specially the Scott's reply.
    • Windows in the Enterprise - CompTIA A+ 220-1002 Prof Messer
      windows youtube comptia prof messer certification video training it career it training a+ • • steve  

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      @brianwinkelmann said in Windows in the Enterprise - CompTIA A+ 220-1002 Prof Messer: Very Interesting, but I would like to check comments from other users about this features mentioned on the video, I mean all of them work properly and are useful at all? or there are another alternative like application or devices that can challenge with the features mentioned on the video? Well I just wonder. Which features or apps do you mean?
    • Network Services - CompTIA A+ 220-1001 Prof Messer
      security networking comptia prof messer certification it training a+ it careers utm • • steve  

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      @scottalanmiller said in Network Services - CompTIA A+ 220-1001 Prof Messer: @valentina said in Network Services - CompTIA A+ 220-1001 Prof Messer: are proxy servers used for security purposes? do they have other functions? Yes, very much so. They are also very commonly used to allow a single IP address to be used for many services. The most common example... a single proxy server with a single (expensive) public IP address can handle requests for hundreds of thousands, or even millions, of websites. Behind the proxy server can be one or one million separate web servers each serving out applications or web sites or whatever and the proxy server can look at the incoming request and determine, based on the URL used, which server and port to send the request to behind itself. Because of the above, they are often used for load balancing because they can send requests to different servers for the same application or site. Proxy servers often have caches in them, too. So they quite often store simple, static information "at the edge" to deliver it faster while the application servers behind them do the heavy work for database requests and stuff. Proxy servers are sometimes used to "hide" the true location of a server. Cloudflare famously does this so that attackers have no idea where a web site actually comes from, all they see is Cloudflare's proxies. A proxy can also do things like handle SSL security so that web servers behind it (or other servers, proxy doesn't imply web) don't have to do that work, as well. Hrm, I only have around 20 subdomains pointing to the same IP so far. If my home lab box was a little beefier I'd take this as a challenge. (Scott might as well be describing my home lab environment here.)
    • An Overview of Windows 8 and 8.1 - CompTIA A+ 220-1002 Prof Messer
      windows youtube comptia prof messer video training it career it training a+ windows 8.1 windows 8 220-1002 • • steve  

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      @brianwinkelmann said in An Overview of Windows 8 and 8.1 - CompTIA A+ 220-1002 Prof Messer: Interesting, I didn't know Windows 8 has many features, but I don't think I can consider install Windows 8 in a Pentium 4 3.0 GHz with 3 GB RAM. You should not consider ANY old OS, really ever. Outside of learning what support used to look like, which is effectively worthless, conceptually using an old OS is a bad idea. Windows 8, especially, is only one generation newer than Windows 7 which is already crazy old. Windows 8 is something like eleven versions old already!
    • An Overview of Windows 7 - CompTIA A+ 220-1002 Prof Messer
      windows youtube comptia prof messer certification it career video training it training windows 7 a+ • • steve  

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      @brianwinkelmann said in An Overview of Windows 7 - CompTIA A+ 220-1002 Prof Messer: @scottalanmiller Ohh I see it is a good Idea to try LINUX! Yes, very good time. Something light. Because there are so few resources. Try this.. https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/i386/iso-cd/debian-10.5.0-i386-netinst.iso
    • An Overview of Windows 10 - CompTIA A+ 220-1002 Prof Messer
      windows windows 10 comptia prof messer certification video training it career it training a+ • • steve  

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      Very Interesting, I like Windows 10 xD
    • Operating Systems Overview - CompTIA A+ 220-1002 Prof Messer
      youtube comptia prof messer video training it career it training a+ operating system 220-1002 • • steve  

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      @brianwinkelmann said in Operating Systems Overview - CompTIA A+ 220-1002 Prof Messer: So the disadvantage to choose LINUX is based on the drivers for different devices that you will use That's incorrect. Linux has much broader driver support than Windows, and both have much broader support than MacOS. Support for more hardware is actually a huge benefit to Linux. That's why Linux and BSD are available on more platforms than any other OS.
    • Troubleshooting Hard Drives - CompTIA A+ 220-1001 Prof Messer
      youtube comptia prof messer certification video training it career it training a+ • • steve  

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      @brianwinkelmann said in Troubleshooting Hard Drives - CompTIA A+ 220-1001 Prof Messer: Very interesting, I remember I've heard that sometimes to fix a hard drive that is damaged you can put it inside of a freezer with bags of course and it can be fixed, is that true or is a myth or a lie? Sorry about foolish question. xD Not a foolish question Brian. We have some customers who have done it. The drives (other than the brand new high capacity helium drives) are not air tight. They have a filter. So moisture can get it and start to corrode the platters. If it has been in the freezer, we have to charge extra as it has to be cleaned with a special cleaning solvent that is about $400-500 per gallon. Also it can cause a drive that may have been a logical or a physical non invasive recovery instantly into a clean room job (the most expensive option). So it's best to do nothing to fix it. Bring it to a quality data recovery company (like mine!) and they will have the best chance of recovering the data.
    • Wireless Network Technologies - CompTIA A+ 220-1001 Prof Messer
      youtube networking comptia it career video training it training a+ wifi wireless 802.11 • • steve  

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      @Osvaldo said in Wireless Network Technologies - CompTIA A+ 220-1001 Prof Messer: I wonder if there is a tool for radio hacking zigbee? Many of the devices that use the protocol are never updated, therefor quite a large target for hacking. The radio protocol itself I doubt is much use to "hack" (Any cheap software defined radio will be able to imitate a Zigbee device.)
    • Troubleshooting Common Hardware Problems - CompTIA A+ 220-1001 Prof Messer
      youtube comptia prof messer video training it career it training hardware a+ • • steve  

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      @brianwinkelmann said in Troubleshooting Common Hardware Problems - CompTIA A+ 220-1001 Prof Messer: @scottalanmiller but that was the red light that indicates that the CPU is not working. I suspect that there is a speaker there, too. Just no beep codes from that machine. Look up the specific motherboard to see if it has beep codes.
    • Cellular Network Technologies - CompTIA A+ 220-1001 Prof Messer
      youtube networking comptia prof messer video training a+ • • steve  

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    • How to Troubleshoot - CompTIA A+ 220-1001 Prof Messer
      youtube comptia prof messer video training it career it training a+ troubleshooting • • steve  

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      @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.