Doing tickets. . .

Watching the best of David Alan Grier from In Living Color on Youtube.

Just sent some E-mails to Xbyte, ServerMonkey, and Stallard to get quotes on potential Dell R710 addition to my lab.

@Danp xByte on Scott's suggestion, Ebay, and looking to see who else is involved with selling old servers.

Price shop for a Dell r710 server f0 r3@lz! Too many tasks appeared to do this last weekend.

Completing my duties as network / server administrator: Creating a form-fillable PDF.

For this particular question, you're asking me to divide by zero, for I haven't seen a response.

The explanation of the fact that REGEX doesn't represent a universal syntax is lacking in the Linux Essentials course. Since, that ? mark was used (with the definition I stated earlier) with ls examples, and the beginning of the REGEX module says "you've used this before but didn't know it was REGEX." The module itself uses both grep and BASH (ls), but no mention of the fact there are differences, which can lead to confusion.

@scottalanmiller Celebration of learning! That makes perfect sense. Until now, I thought that REGEX is REGEX is REGEX.

@scottalanmiller I'm doing this the wrong, but before I find some kind of documentation, I'm experimenting

I wonder if it's something specific about grep, since the following seems to be true.

ls
file1.txt file2.txt file3.txt
ls file?.txt
file1.txt file2.txt file3.txt
ls file..txt
no result.

@scottalanmiller I might do that. Let's say I have a file that has the following line of text aabbccin a file called abc.txt. (Using part of their example)

If I do grep .cc abc.txt a result is returned, since I've learned that the dot stands for one character. However, if I do grep ?cc abc.txt no results are returned. I thought the ? stands for zero or one character. If that's true, why would it not return a result?

Seeing how well their community responds. I asked a question about grep and regular expressions.

Working on linuxacademy.com

Price shop for purchasing a server for my lab.

Listening to Naruto themes while I work on tickets.

@JaredBusch That's what I figured.

Trying to stay focused on my tasks -- too excited about home lab possibilities.

@scottalanmiller said in SMB / Enterprise Hardware for Linux Environment:

However, something very important.... you would expect to only run Linux (with very rare exception) as a VM, not on the bare metal. In that way, same as Windows, however....

Unlike Windows, two major hypervisors leverage Linux. KVM and Xen. So when using those you need Linux to be on the bare metal AND in a VM.

That's what I figured as far as almost all instances of Linux being VMs (as our one CentOS server is a Hyper-V VM). Although I have a beefy desktop at home, on which I can run several Hyper-V VMs, my goal is to try to get my hands on some of the hardware that would be potentially used in a business, in order to do some of the projects mentioned in those articles.

So these two things have lit a fire inside me:

https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1607552-best-way-to-get-a-linux-job
and
http://www.smbitjournal.com/2015/06/make-your-business-jealous/

The next step is becoming less ignorant about the hardware used by Linux shops (learning has to start somewhere, right?). Am I right in assuming said SMB shops would/could use the same Dell PowerEdge hardware we use where I am and expect CentOS to have drivers to support it?

Congratulations!

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