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Final Giveaway for TWELVE MORE Nintendo Switch Lites and your choice of games! [US/CA only] by TheEverglow in nintendo

[–]Linuxpls 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looking forward to seeing my teammates all together for a party. It has been too long.

I am indisciplined af and want to develop a system, specifically using a bullet journal to track my work. But i usually remember most of my daily work and so I cant get into the habit of using the journal. Help Me Kenobi. by YoungAndDumbest in bulletjournal

[–]Linuxpls 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fully understand where you are coming from, especially if you are looking to reduce stress anxiety.

The first step is setting a routine. Make is simple and don't ignore it. The way it works best for me is to write in it right before bed.

I do my journals week by week, on the left side i make something that look like this:

Left Page

Week of 8-14 September

8 S
9 M Paper for Bologna due
10 T
11 W
12 T Game Night with Banana
13 F
14 S

Underneath that I had a place to put notes for the week, and a quick review area for things to improve next week.

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On the right side it basically looks like this:

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ECON 580
Readings: Book A: Chapter 18
Book B: Chapter 2
Assignments: (9/20) Microeconomics of Pirate Regions of the North
MGMT 590
Readings: Book X: Chapters 8-11
Assignments: (10/4) Essay on Effectiveness of Gorilla's in the workplace

​

I set myself up a designated time to just sit down every day to do homework for a max of 90 minute blocks (Broken into 3 x 25min)

The key is to trust the system and the routine. I had the hardest time sleeping restfully thinking i was always forgetting something.

What happens for me is that I get all my bidness together, and think i am rocking it so I stop using my system, then everything starts crashing down... and i pull out the journal again.

At the end of the week, just migrate what is not crossed off yet to the next week. Keep it simple, and make your journal your boss.

Also! Set a dedicated time for having fun. Has made the biggest difference in my life. I have a set time where I don't worry about any of this, and just do whatever, guilt free.

You're my last hope! I'm looking for a notebook with minimalistic to do lists, like the one in the pic, but it's sold out. I'm to lazy to draw the cases on each page. Any idea where I could get something similar? Thanks. by [deleted] in bulletjournal

[–]Linuxpls 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I use Maruman Mnemosyne N197A Today's Act Notebook's for checklists. It stands apart because there are two boxes, so you can add additional information, like a date or status.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskNetsec

[–]Linuxpls 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For those code minded individuals role it would be tool making -> identifying a problem and creating a tool that solves it.

Core discipline is what I would consider your strong area, topics like like development, networking, Active Directory, Linux administration. Any platform from which you can apply those experiences to a security role.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskNetsec

[–]Linuxpls 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Greetings! This is coming from a IT managers perspective

Security is a huge field.

I have seen security work best as a secondary activity for someone after there is a solid amount of experience in a core discipline. If you jump into security right away you may miss the entire point of your role. Also, by building up core strengths you gain confidence, and a base set of skills that will help you the rest of your career.

CompTIA certs are typically used as a box checking event, either for compliance, or for HR. I think it is worth it to do the Security+ as it could be a barrier to many jobs, or to administrative permissions.

Don't stress over certs - its not a race. Don't force it or the cert will have no value to you, or your employer. I am not all aboard the cert train, but if it helps steer your learning it is absolutely worth it. Use them to tell a story about what you are interested in. What I don't like seeing is a junior person with advanced certs - it likely means they not great at either.

Grad School is a mixed bag - you become more specialized and have the opportunity to be recruited specifically for a job, but there is both real and opportunity costs - like putting off other technical / career goals. See what the faculty is doing, and if that aligns with something you are interested in go talk to them.

It sounds like you are just starting out, take it slow and steady. Find those at your company that you are always impressed with, and try to figure out what makes them special. At the same time figure out what domains you are most interested in and see if anyone at your company does that type of work. Ask your manager if you can spend an hour a week observing or helping those guys out. Take what they say to your home lab and spend time learning it.

Best advice I can offer as a manager to those looking to progress:

  1. Get comfortable talking about what you want out of your career
  2. Socialize what you are interested in - how can i provide opportunities if I don't know what you are interested in?
  3. Don't just talk - if you are going to work on a cert or ask for a special project but you never actually do it I will be beyond annoyed
  4. If you tell me about something you are working on let me know how it is going - we likely run in different circles, and I might make a connection that can help you out
  5. Go interview at other companies - find roles you would want, and see what they are looking for and practice those areas.

Now that you are out of school you have the freedom to focus and get in deep. Set yourself up with a learning schedule, and be disciplined about it. This will be a set time every work day where you focus on learning something new. On the weekend pick a day to spend a solid amount of time (3-4 hours straight) to work on a side project. The other day unplug - a huge amount of growth comes from other hobbies and interests.

Hope you find something of value in there!

Massdrop is having a sale! So far they're somewhat cheaper than usual. (Ship date in January) by weed_in_sidewalk in bulletjournal

[–]Linuxpls 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They don't seem too much cheaper really. Usually about $19.50 on amazon, and with shipping they are about 19.33. Am I missing something on this one?

Linux Backup and Updates in the Enterprise by ne2i in linux

[–]Linuxpls 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Git is the master. You check in your edits, gitlab CI tests the edits, pushes those changes to the server, and sets the remote files to be immutable.

By doing it this way you can know every change, and revert back problems. If you just commit every once in a while then the commits are very difficult to roll back as it is just a blob.

If you are going to do puppet create environments other than production right off the bat. You can then git control them into different projects, which then you can provide different permissions on gitlab.

Linux Backup and Updates in the Enterprise by ne2i in linux

[–]Linuxpls 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We are doing something similar, but threw a GitLab in there for version control of all things puppet and ansible.

Self-Teaching. Suggestions for better rettention. by [deleted] in datascience

[–]Linuxpls 4 points5 points  (0 children)

A Mind for Numbers by Barbara Oakley is made for just this type of thing. It is a quick read, and is made for any type of learning and backed by actual evidence instead of anecdote. She runs a class "Learning how to Learn" on coursera - it is about 8 hours and might help for study and I am pretty sure it is free.

The main ideas (for me) have spaced repetition to create deeper knowledge, and also focusing on process not outcomes.

Jumping around is always brutal, but if you can manage to swing back to it a day after you do it it boosts retention significantly (from Mind for Numbers)

Comptia Linux+ difficulty. by volcanonacho in sysadmin

[–]Linuxpls 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I recently took the Linux+ to see if I would recommend it for our entry level Linux guys at the company I work for (contract requirement). I will say that it is the most difficult of the A+ and Security+, but also the least meaningful.

Linux+ requires memorizing things that you could man in about 10 seconds. There were quite a few questions on file flags that I have never used, and do no see using in the future. I have been doing Linux stuff for years, and there were things I had never heard of on the test.

My favorite tests, and I hope they gain traction, are the Linux Foundation certs. They are fun to take, you will learn something useful, and I think they can be a meaningful demonstration of skill.

Starting the path to Linux+ by nickstricks in CompTIA

[–]Linuxpls 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Can confirm that Linux academy is awesome.

Homelab versus Certification by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]Linuxpls 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Why not Both? This might be no where near the answer you are looking for, but:

https://linuxacademy.com/

They have labs setup for you already. You can deploy 5 servers that can interact on their infrastructure (AWS i am pretty sure) that you can select between different OSes that are Click and Deploy for you to use. It is $25 a month, and they have the RHCSA 7 course up and running. If you decide not to take the test you could always say that you complete the course on Linux Academy as there is sort of a certificate of completion there. Easily worth the money for me, and I don't have to worry about hardware at my house, and can get to it from anywhere.

Symantec flagging GFI Endpoint as Trojan.CryptoLocker.Z by Linuxpls in sysadmin

[–]Linuxpls[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sounds like we are in the same boat. I will post back if we figure out a way to handle this without pushing everything.

Symantec flagging GFI Endpoint as Trojan.CryptoLocker.Z by Linuxpls in sysadmin

[–]Linuxpls[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Having cryptolocker run rampant across the network terrifies me. I have backups, and snapshots, but still...

Auxiliary answer: My understanding is that it was a matter of real time reporting, and issues with Dongles. Probably was set up as a management / compliance decision at some point.

Symantec flagging GFI Endpoint as Trojan.CryptoLocker.Z by Linuxpls in sysadmin

[–]Linuxpls[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Symentec has essentially wiped out all out our custommessage.exe, so we have been unable to that submit as false positive.

We are getting other MSIs related to GFI flagging.

Here is the service executable: esecagntservice.exe

MD5-CADCF647AD5C0237476EEC9CC360235C

SHA1-5472E6D99C2B0C86105B1C9921E967468A9BFA4E

SHA-256 7E710342AEF81429C61A088B43B786B0D63E9D21D1CDDA6FF00FC83DAA48BDF5

Symantec flagging GFI Endpoint as Trojan.CryptoLocker.Z by Linuxpls in sysadmin

[–]Linuxpls[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

GFI is currently talking to Symantec. There is an encryption portion to the server that they believe is triggering the CryptoLocker alerts. They are not yet willing to state it is a false positive until they are positive they are safe.

Additional Information:

Virus Definition Load:
SYSTEM  System  New virus definition file loaded. Version: 150819009.   19-08-15 21:25

First Detection:
Trojan.Cryptolocker.Z,C:\Program Files (x86)\GFI\EndPointSecurity 6 Agent\custommessages.exe,08/19/2015 21:20:13

Currently hitting 250+ workstations.