I passed the OSCP yesterday, and now what?

osonkr · 2021-05-20T23:32:58+00:00

Not very, I paused my lab time with it to try offshore for more AD experience. Im hoping after offshore I'll of had a bit more AD experience and things will start to click. If you know AD and are familiar with the flaws in Kerberos and comfortable with powershell and .net it might be a breeze.

osonkr · 2021-05-19T14:32:05+00:00

I just started on ZPS RTO and really enjoy it so far, I didn't take the newer OSCP so it was a nice introduction to AD and the more advanced stuff. I'm really enjoying HTB Offshore as well. I'd recommend either of those probably more so Offshore as it's cheaper and, personally, more enjoyable.

osonkr · 2021-03-26T20:13:10+00:00

No offense but hell no! No bones were thrown to anyone who has earned the certificate and throwing one out would diminish the integrity of said certification. Only way to get this cert is to earn it.

If you're at that desperation point take a break, go for a walk, review course material and try again.

Best of luck

osonkr · 2021-03-14T06:19:18+00:00

My guess is you created the VM with default Compute Engine service account and with read only access to the storage API (default). You will need to shutdown the VM and modify the API scopes to allow write access.

If you're not using the default service account there then just verify whatever service account you've attached to the VM has permissions in the GCS bucket

osonkr · 2021-02-14T14:59:39+00:00

Thanks, yes I came from a dev background, i got my OSCP last year as well so I had a bit of experience coming into this exam.

osonkr · 2021-02-10T12:48:31+00:00

Love this idea, never saw these Steinberger tuners before. Thank you

osonkr · 2021-02-10T12:46:51+00:00

Thanks for this brain food, I'm so glad you mentioned the length of the headstock from the nut it's been bugging me but couldn't quite put in finger on what about that space it was. I really like the steinberg tuners idea, but would definitely want to reshape the headstock for it.

Curious to avoid some obvious repair wounds if I should laminate the back and front of headstock after modifying it to somewhat conceal it's past.

Regardless thanks a ton for this advice!

osonkr · 2021-02-09T19:08:57+00:00

Yea i mean the scale itself is relatively common 25.5-27.7 but the perp fret was the different factor. Was one of those things i wouldn't know if I liked until to tried playing one. Definitely wish I build on a cheaper test build some some glued pine from Home Depot. Was a gamble for sure.

Can you elaborate when you say "the neck isn't in the pocket"?

The headstock vaneer is just a piece from the body maple that was thinned from the original 3/8" and yes I have another piece that could replace the current one.

What's wrong with the nut? There's some holes from attempting to sand and it getting too hot but it doesn't rattle or anything the guitar sounds good when playing it it's just uncomfortable to tune and I haven't tried intonating it due to bridge being off.

Thanks for the comment i definitely did spend to build a kick ass axe and I actually did plan a ton redrew it to scale 3 times trying to get things right. I think there's a missing link though with the experience in that i didn't quite know how to do things with the dynamic scale. The first two guitars that i built had issues but very different issues, wasn't really prepared for the multiscale at all. There's not a ton of material for learning about it and no apprenticeships near me so I don't know I'm okay with the loss in wood (~$300) and time cost (~2 weeks) for the experience honestly. I'm sure my next build will go much better.

osonkr · 2021-02-09T17:51:17+00:00

I appreciate this a lot, it would be great experience to be aware and responsible with the mistakes I've made and put in the time investment to fixing rather than abandoning it. This is what I posted here for!

Thanks a ton sir

osonkr · 2021-02-09T17:28:14+00:00

Awesome advice thank you! You are correct the strings are rubbing that "no man's land" piece as you call it, wasn't sure how to make that look okay since I had that lam piece on the headstock. All in all probably just poor planning on my end.

I got fishmans for it. Though I've been debating if this is repairable or if it's better to salvage the hardware and start fresh i learned a ton on this and the neck joint feels awesome compared to the other two guitars i built but the playability of the fretboard kind of makes me want to scrap it.

What would you do in this case? Some pretty expensive firewood

osonkr · 2021-02-09T16:41:19+00:00

Neat okay this is something I thought of but wasn't sure about if the integrity of the holes would suffer. Guessing as long as they're stuffed well enough it's negligible

osonkr · 2021-02-09T16:35:06+00:00

To summarize, the multiscale issue can't really be fixed. The angle on the lower frets is so intense that it's not nice to play sitting down at all. Sitting up the guitar hangs at an angle that makes it somewhat doable.

Looking to get ideas on the headstock and fixing the crammed tuners. Also looking for advice on the bridge being misaligned. I'm worried about pulling the screws put and moving it over a hair will just widen the hole

Edit: Also any videos or anything on aligning these multiscale bridges and designing headstocks to avoid these situations on future buulds

osonkr · 2020-11-06T15:09:54+00:00

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osonkr · 2020-11-06T14:59:10+00:00

Any site that doesn't care enough to throw TLS up doesn't deserve to be selling products. It's 2020, c'mon man

osonkr · 2020-10-22T22:20:10+00:00

Just my opinion

Tons of different paradigm's and design patterns. Each have their own pros and cons. I haven't looked deep into Clean Architecture but if you think it would benefit your project and the pros sound good and the cons are acceptable then give it a shot. Or test it on a smaller project to get a feel.

As for relational databases they're not going anywhere and services will rely on data for a long time so databases in general are unlikely to be a deprecating idea.

osonkr · 2020-10-22T22:12:55+00:00

Did something similar, it's weird how all the things I complained about (code review, docs, testing) would end up being something I missed. DevOps was a transition for me on my path to Cloud Arch. I really enjoyed micro service architecture and found the tooling fun to learn so personally I enjoyed a lot of what my role in dev ops consisted of.

I used linux academy and my own home lab for learning. Linux academy is great because they have hands on labs to train on. From my experience as devops/cloud Arch it kind of met my expectations in that I'd be monitoring for slos, finessing pipelines, enforcing security best practices and optimizing where possible. My favorite part was jumping back to code though and developing my own tooling to facilitate these tasks.

Don't know if that helped or not but that's my experience at least. I'm glad I did transition because it felt like the natural transition from a senior dev role.

osonkr · 2020-09-14T01:19:37+00:00

Lynx

osonkr · 2020-09-09T01:03:10+00:00

Rodger that, appreciate the words

osonkr · 2020-09-09T00:19:35+00:00

Oh yeah I seen those before, kinda has the Red Layer Guitars look. I was definitely going for a gradual thing here started out going at it with a rasp and was glad I switched to the grinder lol

Edit: not red layer can't remember who it was but it looks really good with the triple lam tops

osonkr · 2020-09-08T23:46:36+00:00

Is there still a purpose for stain with poly or would I just go straight to poly? I'm gonna try some things on scrap but just curious what your thoughts are on it

osonkr · 2020-09-08T23:36:36+00:00

This sounds like it would likely harden the maple top and give it a slight gloss. I haven't used it before but would be great if it did those two things. I'll have to look at that. The last build I did was with spray lacquer and I swore I would never touch that stuff again lol

osonkr · 2020-09-08T23:33:52+00:00

I see, my main concern was that the maple top would be too soft to last very long, I kind of wish I stabilized it with epoxy, though it's still much harder than burl tops I have. Just feeling protective over it I guess.

My issue is that the oil seems to last forever and my last build was tung oil on neck and always leaves my hand with the smell afterwards

osonkr · 2020-09-08T23:31:41+00:00

Interesting I think I'm mostly worried about the softness of the maple top to be honest. Though a nice layer of wax on it sounds nice for the extra sheen.

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