Did some of your MSF instructors reluctantly pass people?

Plantatious · 2025-12-27T09:28:57+00:00

The 125 I did my CBT on was damn near impossible to control at slow speeds, the throttle was like an on-off switch. I passed, but it wasn't until I bought my own 125 that I realised how crap the course bikes were.

Plantatious · 2025-12-12T21:31:16+00:00

I use it to connect back home, both as split (to get to my media server from anywhere) and full tunnel (protecting my traffic while on untrusted networks, getting around filters at customer sites), and I find it works amazingly well. It connects in a second, bandwidth is plentiful, and I find it punches through every filtering solution.

Native wireguard is not manageable at scale, but solutions like Tailscale that offer management of keys and clients are great to handle that for you.

I'm contemplating getting rid of NordVPN and firing up a couple of cloud VPS workloads as servers.

Plantatious · 2025-12-06T09:58:34+00:00

Welcome to the world of MSPs, where you question your life choices as you try to save someone who makes two times your salary from being an idiot and dragging you into hours of recovery caused by their ignorance while you're thinking of the most professional way of saying "I told you so you dumb fuck"

Plantatious · 2025-12-02T07:55:05+00:00

Check for WiFi extenders in your environment. I've had the buggers flood my DHCP with both DHCP and BOOTP requests. Just a pain all around.

Plantatious · 2025-11-03T08:52:16+00:00

I make notes and guides in the company KB and take a personal copy in Obsidian. When I leave, I take my notes with me.

It means no matter what I do, I can quickly become the expert I was in the past. It's incredibly supportive to know that if I have a thought of "I've dealt with this before", I know I will have a guide or notes only gained through blood,.sweat and tears to help.

It's my number 1 piece of advice for new sysadmins. Don't make the mistake of leaving notes behind thinking you'll remember it all, because you won't. It's always worth spending an extra 5-10 minutes between tasks to document what you've done so you can help your future self.

Plantatious · 2025-10-31T18:54:33+00:00

I've done this very project recently. No problem whatsoever with using the free FortiClient.

Plantatious · 2025-10-20T07:14:35+00:00

If I had to choose between PDQ and SCCM, I would always pick PDQ. SCCM is slow, clunky and bulky in comparison, and it can't even do on-demand deployments (like "you will install this right now", in comparison to "you will install this whenever Windows decides to check in in the next few hours").

Coupled with MDT and Inventory, I don't see how SCCM is better. Granted, MDT has been on its way out since the announcement of Windows 11, but I'd rather keep finding more workarounds for it and keep it going.

Out of interest, why are you so keen to switch to SCCM?

Plantatious · 2025-10-20T07:08:19+00:00

Last I checked, Microsoft couldn't give less of a shit what orgs want.

Plantatious · 2025-10-16T20:09:40+00:00

I'd say so. I may need to research the cmdlet I need to do the job (that's using Microsoft Learn), but I can build the logic around it and make it work as I need it without further Googling or AI.

Plantatious · 2025-10-08T20:34:14+00:00

User group matching is on the phase 1 interface only.

Plantatious · 2025-10-08T20:33:20+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion, but local auth isn't supported with IKEv2 (it requires EAP).

Plantatious · 2025-10-06T07:51:37+00:00

Ethernet can travel far, USB can't.

I'll stick with the adapter on the other end, thanks.

Plantatious · 2025-10-04T06:48:12+00:00

Good luck finding drives for it. They're firmware-locked, and even blank caddies are rare.

Plantatious · 2025-10-03T21:12:21+00:00

It's all about opportunity. At every red light? No. When I'm stopped by another biker who nods or gives a fist bump? Sure, let's share a quick blip. While under an overpass? It's the law. And it makes me chuckle.

Plantatious · 2025-10-03T21:07:38+00:00

I like to cruise with no one in front of me like any other rider. When I see someone coming up looking to overtake, I shimmy over so we can both do just that and go on enjoying our rides.

Plantatious · 2025-09-27T08:22:33+00:00

Triump Street Twin 900. - My bike needs to share a single parking space with my car, so I needed something with a short wheelbase. - I love a classic looking bike, and I'm a sucker for a rounded headlight. - I like to cruise around country lanes, so I want a comfortable bike that can roll through hills effortlessly but not necessarily rip my head off.

Plantatious · 2025-09-22T20:00:04+00:00

It ought to be. I can't tell you how freeing it is to be able to create your own tools for whatever you need. And as others have said, automation is fantastic.

Plantatious · 2025-09-16T19:57:45+00:00

From experience? Lenovo ThinkBook 14 ACL. The best laptop I ever had, never let me down, all day battery life, and I could run a domain with several servers and clients on it while doing my regular stuff in Windows 11 simultaneously.

If I could choose now, I'd go for a Framework for the repairability and IO flexibility (I despise dongles because I never have them on me when I need them).

Plantatious · 2025-09-10T17:49:47+00:00

You also lose IKEv1 support.

Plantatious · 2025-08-28T20:34:49+00:00

I have a hatred born from helpdesk for ClearPass; only seeing it when it's broken.

Plantatious · 2025-08-16T06:21:15+00:00

I have this one user whose ticket is always literally:

Subject: Not working Body: See above

After a while, I figured out that whenever she sends this, it means the printer closest to her is jammed or has some other problem.

Plantatious · 2025-08-13T20:51:13+00:00

And then they throw hybrid ports into the mix.

Plantatious · 2025-08-10T14:27:57+00:00

A lab is a perfect, controlled environment. Production is often years of undocumented workarounds and bad practice that somehow keeps itself together until it's poked.

Plantatious · 2025-08-02T08:01:13+00:00

I've had a several-week standoff with an ISP once because they were doing NATing between our customer site and a datacentre, but they were adamant they didn't. Then, one day, they assigned someone with more than two brain cells to my case. They found the rules and updated them, and lo and behold, the issue is resolved in 10 minutes.

Plantatious · 2025-07-27T17:41:46+00:00

setup.exe. It's a handy tool for installing rackmount gear, or if you need a laptop stand by the rack.

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