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Linux Up Skill - Day 10

Linux Up Skill - Day 10

Lesson ten of the Linux Up Skill Challenge is called “Getting the computer to do your work for you.” Automation is a topic I can always learn more about and spend more time with. The lesson starts off with Cron. It starts with explaining the different ways to use Cron.

Linux Up Skill - Day 9

Linux Up Skill - Day 9

Lesson nine of the Linux Up Skill Challenge “Diving into networking.” This will be interesting, let’s see how rusty my networking skills are these days. There’s no list of tasks today so we’ll just go through the lesson as it works through things. The lesson expects ports

Linux Up Skill - Day 8

Linux Up Skill - Day 8

Took a quick break and now I’m back to catching up. They posted lesson 11 yesterday so I’m not too far behind anymore. On to lesson eight of the Linux Up Skill Challenge. Today’s lesson is called “The infamous ‘grep’ and other text processors.” It looks like

Linux Up Skill - Day 7

Linux Up Skill - Day 7

Back at it on this Monday working to catch back up on this course. Here is day seven of the Linux Up Skill Challenge. Today we are looking at the server and its services. It looks like this lesson is focused on a better understanding of application installation, configuration files,

Linux Up Skill - Day 6

Linux Up Skill - Day 6

Lesson six from the Linux Up Skill Challenge is covering vim. I am thankful for this lesson. Everyone has a different preference for an editor and so I’ve always just followed along with whatever is used by the person describing the solution. I have no real preference at this

Linux Up Skill - Day 5

Linux Up Skill - Day 5

Since the last one was so quick I’ll do another before I move on to something else today. Here is lesson five from the Linux Up Skill Challenge. This lesson is called “More or less…” and touches on five different topics. * Get familiar with using more and less for

Linux Up Skill - Day 4

Linux Up Skill - Day 4

I’m going to play a little bit of catch up this afternoon and move on to lesson four of the Linux Up Skill Challenge. This lesson covers installing software and exploring the file structure. The tasks for this lesson include: * Install a new application from the online repositories * Become

Linux Up Skill - Day 3

Linux Up Skill - Day 3

Moving on to day 3 of the Linux Up Skill Challenge. They have titled day three as “Power trip!” The lesson starts by talking about root and the best practice of not directly logging in with root, but instead using the sudo command. The tasks for today are: * Use the

Linux Up Skill - Day 2

Linux Up Skill - Day 2

I’ve fallen behind a little due to some family responsibilities but since this is a self paced lesson plan it isn’t too much of a worry. This lesson focused on getting comfortable moving around the command line. We started working with commands such as cd, ls, and mkdir.

Linux Up Skill - Day 1

Linux Up Skill - Day 1

Day 1 – Get to know your server So it looks like my tasks today are: * Connect and login remotely to your server * Run a few simple commands to check the status of your server * Change your password Well I’ll jump in to my trusty Putty and connect to my

Linux Up Skill - Day 0

Linux Up Skill - Day 0

A day 0 to prep. Sounds great! They say each day’s lesson should take between 1 and 2 hours depending on your skill level. So I do appreciate them giving some prep before the lessons start in June. Day 0 is focused on preparing your own server. They are

Setting Up R730, Part Four

Setting Up R730, Part Four

After my little side trip down Hyper-V Manager configuration errors I’m ready to finish setting up in Hyper-V. From Windows Admin Center I create a 300GB drive partition to get me started with setting up some virtual machines. I set Hyper-V’s default disk and VM paths to this

Setting Up R730, Part Three

Setting Up R730, Part Three

Coming back to that error I experienced connecting to the server from Hyper-V Manager on my desktop: …Check that the Virtual Machine Management service is running and that you are authorized to connect to the server. You do not have the required permission to complete this task. Contact the administrator

Setting Up R730, Part Two

Setting Up R730, Part Two

Well with my OS on a trusty thumb drive I plug it into the server and came back to my desktop. I finish the Lifecycle wizard and the server reboots. It boots right up from the thumb drive and begins the Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2019 installation. I create a 75GB

Setting up R730

Setting up R730

I got to play some more with my new server this weekend! I plugged in some ethernet cables. What an old hodgepodge collection of cables I have sitting around. Maybe at some point I’ll clean up my cabling. I sat down and read through the server’s documentation. I

Server Arrival

My server arrived today! How very exciting! A Dell PowerEdge R730. Here’s some specs for those that enjoy that sort of thing: 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2560 v4 processors 128GB RAM 8 x 300GB 15K SAS hard drives I took the box downstairs to where the server is going

Certification Reward

Certification Reward

Studying for the Azure Fundamentals certification the past few weeks has reminded me of my passion for IT. The past few years I have not been able to put any time towards maintaining or growing my IT skills due to learning the field of occupational health and safety. It has

9/11 - A Present

9/11 - A Present

Yesterday would have been my grandfather’s 94th birthday. It’s weird to think about that, let alone write it out. I miss him a great deal. While everyone else was thinking and talking about the 2001 tragedy I was thinking of him. It may be selfish of me but