Hello all, again..

My name is Will, Im 19 will be 20 in a couple months, I took a class in Middle School based on Cisco. So I have a basic idea on It, but really nothing further. I have a almost 2 year old son who loves to sit in front of the computer with me as I work, I think ive watched the minion movie on Netflix at least 100 times since my son became obsessed.

The start of my day included Coffee and ML is more or less my newspaper every morning reading forms.I was asked to join ML by My Uncle, who you all know as @Dashrender
Im learning everyday and the more I read, and take part in conversations and the hands on experience I feel my skills improving little by little.

Not to mention making sure I use the right terminology

edit Im interested in sever OS operations as well as Networking ( blame it on Cisco class from middle school) have a little practice in writing HTMI, which has to be my least favorite thing in the world of Computers. One day im hoping to have a job as network Admin or something along those lines.

Me: No we cant see your site online. . .

Customer: But we have internet.

me:Yes I know you have internet. but you are still running Windows XP, and Windows XP doesnt support net frame work 4.2 or higher which is what is needed to run the Command Center Agent (our Remote desktop software) .

customer: what am I paying you for then ? arent you guys supposed to notify me.??

Me: Yeah, and we did.. multiple times actually . however we don't upgrade the OS for free ( not my policy).

Customer: What am I paying all this money for then?

Me: For me to tell you you need to upgrade your OS, and for us to fix your many issues you've had . Everything is well documented and what you are paying for compared to what you get is actually really fair based on your call loads.

Customer: Can I speak to someone else?

Me: they will tell you the same thing... but sure, here's My Boss.

Im ready for tequila.

Update - No one in the house is showing symptoms. No fevers or anything - Doctor said if we dont show symptoms by friday (this week) we can end our quarantine.. SO far So good.

any veterans here?

If so Thank you for your service and happy veterans day.

Back to the original Thread -

Heard from the Network company - they also agree 2 APs are too close together and could be causing a lot of the issues here. They will be doing maintenance next week about this to get it resolved for testing purposes.
He is building a map and looking into other solutions, and he talked with the owner and let him know he was engaged and that we were working together to get this resolved.

So we had a meeting to discuss moving forward and my boss made this comment :

"Guys, Dont be afraid to get on to the forum and list servers via email and ask questions. Will, You are really good about getting the question out there and asking questions giving information. Keep that up and dont be afraid to use it as we move forward."

SO Thank you ML for teaching me how to ask questions in an open forum such as this one

Just finished filling my Taxes Not getting much back but I literally doubled my income from a year ago today.
and technically I no longer live below the poverty line ! in my state.
I'm proud of myself.

@LilAng said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Literally everyone on here.

Ha. Just wait until you use the wrong word for something.
You aint seen nothing yet.

I think we all agree when I say ...

I Hate Printers

@StuartJordan said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Finally made the move, I've still got windows on my laptop that I will use for my music creation but, main desktop is now windows free.

You Joined the Dark Side,

Now quick, You're complimentary cookies are waiting for you in the break room .

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Connected into a site this morning, going to do some changes for a couple things - no biggie.
Open file explorer and it says ther's 15gb of 450 available.
So now instead of doing what I originally was going to be doing, Now i'm doing disk clean up and freeing up more space - at least its hump day.

Yeah. Too bad it's ONLY hump day. Just got out of a 2 hour meeting. Oy.

oof. i feel for that.

Connected into a site this morning, going to do some changes for a couple things - no biggie.
Open file explorer and it says ther's 15gb of 450 available.
So now instead of doing what I originally was going to be doing, Now i'm doing disk clean up and freeing up more space - at least its hump day.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

playing with pfsense software router in Oracle VirtualBox.

Why? What's the goal? It's pretty rare that I would want a software router outside of a lab setting.

It was something I was working on a while ago that just spun back up to start over again.

I've not used a software firewall in decades. In a lab, sure, but not in production. You really always want hardware, but sometimes in the cloud you can't. But typically your cloud provider will provide the firewall in those cases. So it basically never comes up.

well then it's a good thing it was in VM's and not in a production setting .

No, I was explaining why I don't bother playing with the different ones out there - because it's not knowledge I can then apply to production. So while potentially interesting, it's not very valuable IMHO. There was a time when products like pfSense would get put on dedicated hardware because nothing on the market was any good. But today, it's very much a flipped market. Today you get better prices and better products by avoiding that stuff rather than by using it.

Just suggesting that if you are looking to play with something to further your career, pretty much anything else would be better because essentially (not completely) it's a product category without a use case today, making the time spent learning it and researching it lost to you.

Unless you are at a point in your career where there's just nowhere to go so you are no longer learning for the point of career growth Nothing wrong with playing around with tech if you find it fun. Just making sure you understand that knowing every software firewall on the market inside and out won't give you any soft of advantage of someone that just took a nap instead.

I get it, but i'm pretty sure you were the one who told me / gave me a "project" to help me on my learning journey.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

playing with pfsense software router in Oracle VirtualBox.

Why? What's the goal? It's pretty rare that I would want a software router outside of a lab setting.

It was something I was working on a while ago that just spun back up to start over again.

I've not used a software firewall in decades. In a lab, sure, but not in production. You really always want hardware, but sometimes in the cloud you can't. But typically your cloud provider will provide the firewall in those cases. So it basically never comes up.

well then it's a good thing it was in VM's and not in a production setting .

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

playing with pfsense software router in Oracle VirtualBox.

Why? What's the goal? It's pretty rare that I would want a software router outside of a lab setting.

It was something I was working on a while ago that just spun back up to start over again.

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

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@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

playing with pfsense software router in Oracle VirtualBox.

After you get done poking around with pfSense, check out OPNsense -- it's pretty good too.

Same kind of thing? software router?
opensource?
I could just google it but I'm kind of lazy. lol

Yeah, pretty much same vein as pfSense. The last time I compared the two, OPNsense looked and felt a little more modern.

I wouldn't be afraid to use either of them for stuff.

pfSense was purchased years back and while still available, the open version is a 2nd class citizen

what do you suggest? or use - rather

anyone using Linux Mint as their Daily driver ?

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

playing with pfsense software router in Oracle VirtualBox.

After you get done poking around with pfSense, check out OPNsense -- it's pretty good too.

Same kind of thing? software router?
opensource?
I could just google it but I'm kind of lazy. lol

playing with pfsense software router in Oracle VirtualBox.

Waiting for the firework show to start later tonight