Had second interview today with local technolgy distributor for a Tech Support Engineer poisition. Interview started at 9:30 and I just left a half hour ago with wirtten offer in hand (and had lunch out for the first time in who knows how long). Looks like I'm goign to need to brush up my Linux skills, @scottalanmiller your book couldn't come at a better time!

Had interview today with local university IT department; looking for a Senior desktop support person. They called me about an hour after the interview to schedule a second interview for MOnday Reading up on SCCM and Intue as that woudl be my job.

@travisdh1 i almost said porn mode in a job interview a few years ago!

And as this interview has taught me, I definitely need to get the home lab back up and operational. @WrCombs you may want to look at getting a lab together.

Hey I had an interview today too! Local hardware distributor good track record looking to add to their tech support team. Their Corporate marketing manager recommended me for the position (Former co-worker, I wasn't asking them for a job) didnt even officially "apply" they just asked if I had a resume last week/ Went very well want me back next week for an in person walk though. (and hopefully an offer).
Now the questions going to become do I wan tot take a possible pay cut to go work for them? The job will definitely be a bit of a learning cureve but definitely what I want to do (more LInux admin and VoIP stuff which Im weak at now)

@dashrender till said employee leave one on desk and the one in there travel bag in conf room and no idea where they put the one we tod them to leave at home (Then calls me asking for what to do at home without a charger)

@dashrender I can't seem to find a way to do this without using an account, either one of my users or creating a "service" account.

@adamf If you get it be sure to bench test before deployment. It took a bit to get the timers set up such that the unit would NOT keep power cycling if no Internet (in case the carrier has a legit outage or needs to service the unit). I dont remember the exact setting but I had to set it for only 2 cycles and I think a 24 hour expiration.

We have same issue at 2 of our sites. We have the older version of below at each of them; set up to power cycle the modem after 1 min and 5 min of no Internet:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0831T2DYV/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_AVB60TSEZJDG854NV2HD

@gjacobse I know. I have 8+ acres now to set up an antenna or 2!

Just got good news. Finally closing on some recreational property we bought last year. Took FORVER to get all the paperwork together on the seller's side (swear they were doign it themmselves or their lawyer was a family friend). Closing sent for next week.

@wrcombs ohh...you know I haven't had any coffee today, just noticed. BRB

@wrcombs Me too, decided 2022 was time to make a change.

@dashrender THisis an awsome idea. I need to lay with this!

@dashrender We moved all our fax/copper lines to Granite Telecom; saved us about 30-40% over the LEC. We have one line we pulled the fax from and do a call foward no answer to another fax line; that charge is $9.50/month plus LD useage to foward the call.
granitenet.com

Prepping for job interview Wed.

@gjacobse even in ham radio politics is key. I personally gave up the hosting website duties for our club due to similar politics, though still a member much less active than I was. In a way rest of the club saw the error of their ways and have asked me to re do the site but told them no. Might be best to just drop it and let it go

@jimmy9008 We in I-T want the app to go away. For only 5 users we pretty much ruled out Citrix from the start and VmWare really isn't a great solution for only 5 users though my co-worker is pricing it out. We're hoping once c level sees teh cost of either solution they'll say no and we'll come up with a different app to use.

@jimmy9008 We have a use case involving a legacy client/server app that we've determined we're going to have to go VDI for in order to secure it. One lousy app for approx 5 users that I hope we eventually move away from. We are currently reviewing Azure VDI for this and it so far will fit the bill though we had to go throught a lot of "hoops" to configure networking, VPN back into our infrastructure, etc. We have not yet presented budget numbers to the bean counters but Im hoping when we do they will see the $$$$$ wasted for 5 users and will force them to a new product.

@dashrender bout time