Microsoft Ignite

Well, I am done for the day with Microsoft Ignite sessions.  It is going okay so far.  I have a full day tomorrow, so I have to make sure I get a full 8 hours of sleep lol.

Happy Tuesday

Beware of Crypto Emails

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/new-macos-malware-linked-to-north-korean-hackers/ar-AA1tHaRD?ocid=socialshare&pc=U531&cvid=8c9b33cb7ae44b07acca6ebfeed57c76&ei=39

Job Hunting Sucks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well 2 turndown this week already it is crazy.  You would think with my skillset that I would be " a fit" for a technical support position.  I have 24 years of experience doing tech from building out several call centers to maintaining their infrastructure.  I have worked in Data centers and been all over the country for PC deployment/refreshes.  I have worked on server and networking equipment and even assisted in a network refresh at the last call center I worked at in Jacksonville Texas involving replacing/installing 25 pieces of network equipment including switches, routers and firewalls.  I have worked several OS upgrades for over 300+ computers from Windows7 to Windows11(we actually skipped windows8 lol).  Not sure what the hangup is with getting employment.  I guess it is time to switch into a higher gear and step up my skillset.

I have been doing a lot of training on the BlackHills InfoSec site with attending their training videos.  Just got done with one on SOC Detection.  It was like listening to Chinese, but I was able to follow along with the presenter which was knowledgeable on the subject.  That is what I like about BlackHills Training, in that they get people that are actually doing the things they are presenting on for training.  I guess I will have to soldier on and see where this takes me.  I am somewhat don with my homelab.  I still need to get Wazuh, Nessus and  HomeAssistant setup but that is a battle for another day.  Working on learning more about powershell, sql, and ansible.  I have 2 months to the end of the year.  Time for my A game LOL!

Happy Thursday 🙂

Look before you leap LOL!

Well, I learned something new today.  I decided to work on what was causing my access issue with Immich and after doing searches on the internet using google it all came down to one line entry in the yml file to correct the issue.  How I discovered it, Discord!  I want to say it has been 2 weeks since it went down after the update, but I did learn a lot in that time up to the final fix.  My docker foo is much stronger now.  What doesn't kill you make you stronger.

Happy Monday!!!!!

Video Server

Well, I have been working on my Plex server the last couple of days.  Just getting some of the videos I have on it and trying to test the viewing of it when there is no internet connection.  The process is convoluted but I have a backup and it is Jellyfin.  It was a little dodgy a couple of years ago, but it has gotten better if I do say so myself.  I can also default to VLC thus the reason for working on the videos.  I had to make sure the name was recognizable when trying to play on VLC.  I have also been working on a alternative to Immich since it has gone to a paid service for any new users which means suggestion it to other people would be out of the question.  I have been looking at photo prism or Libre photos.  I plan to stay with Immich but need something else that works the same way just in case lol.

Interesting day so far

The day has gone by quickly today.  I had a microsoft meeting/training that lasted an hour and watched a couple of AD videos and still feel like the day has been a bust.  I will have to hit the ground running tomorrow.

Here's to tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Crazy couple of weeks

Well, it has been a while, but I have been hard at work get my "stuff" together LOL!  I had to get my rack setup for the one server I have for now as well as work on backing up the computer I am using as a server now.  The computer isn't bad but I am not able to get any GUI programs to run and I need that for my labs.  Not willing to give up the resource light setup of this box to redo it with a GUI.  Besides, I have a lot of services running on it.

I was able to get VMware running on my laptop and setup a lab for pentesting.  At least I can get started on my Linux+ and Security + training as far as being able to run scenarios locally.  Now I need to get the other box setup for AD training and maybe load pfsense for router/firewall analysis.  Also want to get proxmox setup in my lab again.  I have a lot to do and a little time to do it in before the end of the year.  That's my drop dead date for getting Network+ and Linux+ done.  Maybe if the AD setup works out I can fit Server+ in there too.  This is going to be expensive!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  

It is late

It is late and I am still up watching videos.  Can't get enough of the tech videos.  It will be a long day tomorrow but Friday night will be movie night lol!!!!!!

Twingate Monday

Well, I spent an hour today checking my twingate connections because I made a false assumption about the ip address for the resource lol.  Live and learn, I thought it was setup like tailscale but not the case.  At least I have verified it is still working.  I have actually never had a opportunity to use it when I am away from home but at least I know it works.  i just need to get it mounted correctly in VLC and I can stream all my music through my phone in the car from my server.  I guess I could use it for my pictures as well.  Umm, nice..............................!

Hump Day

Well, I spent 30 minutes today learning syntax is everything lol.  Yaml files are hard to troubleshoot.  I definitely need to work on that one.

I learned a lot today at least.  Now back to work!

Happy Wednesday 😀