Posts made by jmoore

Ok thanks a lot sir!

Mainly at home, however, i do keep a virtual machine running at work with it installed. Some things I just prefer to do using Fedora. I find it much more flexible and I just like the software better in a lot of cases.

Probably a silly question here. I see people quitting Vi using :x and :wq if I remember right. I've always just used the :x option to save my work. Am I using this correctly or should I be doing it another way?

Just upgraded to version 26. So far it looks nice. Will take a while to really check things out. I'm a regular Fedora user though so I'm sure i will like it.

Ok got you. Sorry lol I was running out of ideas. I want to try Snipe-IT soon. Working on Log.io from Scott's previous thread currently

Oh ok, that sure is weird.

Nice catch. Is that .conf file empty on a Ubuntu system as well ?

Oh that's interesting, I didn't know that. Thanks for the information. Yeah I don't want to rock the boat at all but was just surprised by their point of view. I'm personally big on maintaining things at home, digital or otherwise.

I like the idea of this program. Going to install and try it out.

Host your own blog, bulletin board, Irc, mail client, and I'm running out of ideas.

Unfortunately I live in that type of culture of not doing maintenance. For context I'm not a super experienced admin like a lot of you, I'm just help support for my campus. So when I first started for this school I quickly saw that any kind of software updates were a big problem and we were way behind. Some people did not have any Windows or application updates in 3 years. So then is when I made a mistake. I asked one of the departments to just put in a work ticket every 3 months so I could keep them updated. They liked it and said everything worked better like Office and various things. Imagine that. After the second round of that I got in trouble with management because nothing was actually wrong yet and there should not have been a work order put in yet. I was told not to do that anymore and just wait until a work ticket came in when there was actually an issue. So that's what i do now.

@msff-amman-Itofficer said in If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It:

Do you know that today I found out that 7zip+WinSCP have been actively developed for 17 years. my God they are so stable and amazing.

That is really cool. I have used 7-zip forever but had no idea that WinSCP had been developed for so long. Thats a great idea and contribution you had msff-amman-itofficer.

Not sure if this is what you mean but maybe try the Elk stack, maybe a wiki like i do, possibly a proxy server, and maybe some type of monitoring solution. Hope something there sparks an idea.

My vote on this topic is Fedora. Just so few problems that i don't cause myself. Its made for Gnome.

I could attend a DFW meetup on a weekend as well.

@scottalanmiller Yes sir I am. Enjoy the unique perspective on the articles.

This is a rather strange request for sure. Any admin, whether medium level or higher, should recognize the lack of sense this makes and that it is hardly feasible in any meaningful fashion. Of course the skeptic in me asks if your a medium level admin why are you asking this in the first place?

@scottalanmiller Yeah its a big hub of people and businesses around here. Thanks for the info!

Well i guess I should introduce myself since I was preemptively welcomed. I am Jason Moore and live in Waco, TX. Found this place through Spiceworks. Recognize a few names and faces from there. I enjoy reading, working out, playing with my 2 sons, eating pizza, and coffee. Enjoy reading all the comments and interesting topics from here. Nice to meet you all!

I asked today if I could do something proper with our documentation since we have stuff scattered around everywhere. I wanted to do a wiki since I do that at home. I found out that it can be switched on in our new ticketing system but just has not yet. The person in charge of the ticketing system is very knowledgeable but just has too much to do. At the same time he holds on to everything he can as do others there. Until I found that out I thought it was a good idea...