This home lab playbook and the things on which it depends are now operational -- at least for deploying Fedora 34 server VMs.

Learning about Sysmon.

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

This - this right here annoys the absolute crap out of me

"Hey guys lets make sure when we are making user accounts that we are following the documentation. I've noticed small details falling through the cracks in new accounts. Every step is covered in document."

Ya know. If we used a SCRIPT this wouldn't be an issue. But since no one will listen... ..|..

Why not just write said script, and the next time there's a complain present it as a solution.

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

it worked exactly as I wanted it to.

I'd say it's a successful script.

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Listening to nightly incessant barking from the neighbors' dogs while editing some audio.

May as well record it. Never know when it will be useful as an audio background, lol.

Ha!

Listening to nightly incessant barking from the neighbors' dogs while editing some audio.

7zip should be able to decompress the file; thus, leaving you with the tar archive. I think it can expand a tar archive to give you usable files, but I can't remember off the top of my head. If this isn't answered before I get time, I'll test this later today.

Always a nice feeling when you're still on the right track after reviewing wedding and honeymoon expense numbers.

Doing some audio editing.

@gjacobse said in Does a script imply Automation?:

Simply thus

Does a script imply automation?

No. Often a script is used as a tool to create automation, and usually one would write a script with the end goal of eventually automating something. However, just a script alone in a vacuum does not imply automation.

@rojoloco said in RojoLoco needs your Linux brains!!!:

@travisdh1 said in RojoLoco needs your Linux brains!!!:

@rojoloco said in RojoLoco needs your Linux brains!!!:

@travisdh1 said in RojoLoco needs your Linux brains!!!:

@rojoloco said in RojoLoco needs your Linux brains!!!:

Thanks for the replies everyone. Another stupid question: Should I be installing the workstation version of the OS instead of server?

Just stick with server.

If you do end up needing additional things that are included with the workstation, they can all be added latter. That is another one of those huge if things, very rarely would they be needed.

I'll try to confirm that with Dell. They are slow on the replies.

Keep in mind that these are not different versions as Microsoft treats different versions of things. All they are is a different set of applications/programs installed by default.

I did notice that on a test run of RHEL. Went with server, got no GUI (as expected). Would I have a GUI with workstation? I do need to be able to make it go and maintain it (it's production stuff), I will have server instances in my work lab for the ongoing learning.

You can choose to have a GUI with the server depending on chosen installation options. By default choosing workstation will include Gnome desktop.

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Watching the Fedora 35 go/no-go IRC meeting.

I wish I had time to watch stuff like that. I just got out of my 4th hour+ meeting of the day.

Well, watching is doing work and occasionally looking at my non-work laptop's IRC window.

Watching the Fedora 35 go/no-go IRC meeting.

@rojoloco

As I understand it, Docker comes into play after the OS. Between Docker Enterprise Edition and Community Edition, is one supported and not the other for Cyber Recovery? That answer will narrow which of the OSes you pick from the list you gave.

Editing some audio and video.

@notverypunny said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Reading through STIG documents.

??

https://public.cyber.mil/stigs/

Things with which I must comply for any server configuration. Otherwise, I get to go through a waiver process, which is tedious.

@jaredbusch said in Indentation Style:

@pmoncho tab indentation needs to die in nuclear fire.

Thankfully, modern IDE systems like Visual Studio Code and others all auto swap a tab for 4 spaces by default.

Personally, I prefer a 2 space indentation, but 4 seems to be the most common.

I agree on the demise of tabs. Training on Ansible over the last year has solidified my dislike of tabs.

Reading through STIG documents.

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Doing more yak shaving than I anticipated this weekend.

OMG I so had to read that twice,… yea that’s not good. I get back to mine tomorrow.

Ha! I’ve got some stuff accomplished with the lab this weekend, just the path was more convoluted than I expected.

Doing more yak shaving than I anticipated this weekend.