Music educator who has completed his transition into IT. I want to know all t3h thingz. Alas, one lifetime isn't long enough to learn everything, so I'll settle for what can be shoved into my brain during this life time.
I plan on mainly posting content on Saturdays or Sundays, but for the opening week, I made a few things.
Click over to the channel and check it out, should the below interest you.
I've never had much use for Cortana, other than practicing my disable-and-remove-useless-programs skill.
I finally got around to getting a little WordPress site going in my lab, and I've decided to make it the new home of www.eddiejennings.net. Enjoy!
Over time I'll try to find good ways of making some content from previous iterations of my blog (and podcast) available.
Sometimes for malware, you have to nuke and start over. 
@scottalanmiller said in Congrats to Eddie - New Linux Admin:
@EddieJennings has put in so much work learning and teaching Linux administration. It's awesome to see him moving up to a Fortune 100 Linux Admin! Congrats Eddie!
Thank you Scott! I haven’t been this excited about a job opportunity since I was able to land my first position from the career change. 
It cannot be stated enough how important community is. Since joining ML in 2016, all of you have effectively been my IT mentors.
<rant>
What boils my blood more than anything:
User: HELP HELP. . . but not right now.
</rant>
@dustinb3403 said in I can't even:
hah...
If he's running out of stroage just direct him to https://downloadmorestorage.com/.
Just signed a litter accepting a promotion effective 9/22. Not bad for a Friday
@scottalanmiller said in Ubuntu Server "Search Domains":
It's not a LInux thing, it's a general networking thing so the same on desktops, Windows, wherever.
This is correct. If I recall right, within the Windows network config GUI, it's called a "domain suffix.".
@CCWTech If you try to resolve a name that isn't a FQDN, your resolver will try to resolve that name + the search domain.
If you set that to foo.com, and you try to run ping bar, to resolve what bar is (unless you have it defined in /etc/hosts), your resolve will try to resolve bar.foo.com for the ping.
After your install, if you look at /etc/resolv.conf you should see the search domains value in there.
@scottalanmiller said in Recommendation for home WiFi router:
MT is good. I always prefer a dedicated router/firewall. Then my APs separate.
I do the same. My router at home is my own creation using netfilter / nftables, and APs are (soon to be refreshed) Unifi.
I wish MeshCentral had Wayland desktop support. I wish I had the time to acquire the knowledge to help them implement it. 
Looking through strace output and ignoring Telegram spam.
Reading about configuring the Kea DHCP server.
@gjacobse Purchased a Protectli device. I'll have Fedora running on it acting as a router.
Sketching out nftables for home router project.
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Reinstalling Windows
Reminds me of the Windows song a fellow (and elder) Linux admin taught me a couple of years ago:
Shutdown, format, reinstall!
Doo dah! Doo dah!
As you know almost all drivers are a part of the kernel itself. There isn't a way to "export" them in the way that you're thinking -- at least not that I'm aware. If you installed a package that included a 3rd party hardware driver, perhaps you can just download the rpm or deb file from its repo to back it up. Some kernel modules (or groups of kernel modules) are the drivers for some hardware, and you could potentially backup those files to load later. I haven't had hardware that has required special kernel modules that would create that situation.
To be honest, if that system crashes, reinstalling your Linux distribution will be your method of getting drivers for your hardware :).
