September 2019

fukken learn how domain controllers and AD works. possibly SAML. even just a little bit. it will help immensely.

• "Windows Server 2016 - Setup Local Domain Controller"

also

pick up the book "Networking For Systems Administrators"

(25$ amazon paperback | 23$ barnes & noble paperback | PIRATE FREE YAR pdf)

also,

anyone who calls a computer that does simple fileshare a "server" is a retard. don't believe their lies. if they were serious, they would learn how to implement a NAS at the bare minimum.

in my old age, i've figured out that clowning on suckas isn't all it's cracked up to be. esp when the odds of you having a face-to-face are increasingly possible. cuz you can't take some shit back when you say it to their face. maybe yall ought to calm the fuck down and not beef about literal shit that doesn't matter.

or do. whatever. you know what's best for your life, rite.

initially i thought i'd use MAN for more than the occasional blogging. i thought wrong. so i gotta come up with some fuckin thing to use it for or i'll pull the plug.

here's a good song

eldritch ashes

guy from work does this as a hobby. he is very talented. but dont tell him i said this. mentioned he is going to get a shopping cart added soonish™

you ever had deep fried pork skins slathered in queso cheese and dipped in bbq sauce? shit's divine. it also gave me mega diarrhea. worth it.

one of the worst things about having computers - be it gaming or whatever - as a hobby, when you do work on them all fuckin day, the last thing you want to do is fire up the radiation king. the power went out at home, killing the machines. i didn't even bother turning it back on. instead, i went right to sleep when i got in.

been noticing i do that more and more often. i'm not a morning person in any way and i have difficulty unwinding at the end of the day. so i will willingly drug myself into falling asleep. thing is, i do so so much earlier than i rightfully should. usually get home after driving a full hour in steadily moving, shitty traffic between 17:30 to 18:30. then i sit in my comfy chair and that's that. i'm not moving; i'm not getting up.

starting to understand why my dad didn't want to do shit when he got home at the end of the day. he was a company man for the better part of his working career. he was on the road for at least half of that. fuckin hate driving long distance. even if it's across town.

anyway

buttes

everyone i've talked to is like "you're fine. as long as you're accessing new stuff and asking questions and shadowing people, you're learning and that's what you need to be doing." i uh. well it doesn't feel like i'm doing shit except pissing around on VMs and the internet. which is exactly what i have been doing.

i'll shadow a few guys and ask questions.. it's like i'm doing absolutely nothing good. they don't have dedicated trainers and this job is based on doing it over and over; repetition memory, monotony possibly. each case is different because the product/application breaks in very strange ways. it'll be a godsend the day that computers just don't break anymore. we'll be long gone by the time that happens tho.

also, today is nine eleven. never forget.

Agent Lester was like "you don't have a choice, i'm getting you a pistol." well ok. dont twist my arm.

wound up getting a S&W SD9ve with two 16 round mags. grandpapa hickock does a nice overview:

wife wasn't too keen on having one in the house, but having been broken into and had shit stolen once then some rando on the back porch rifling through my stuff.. naw. making an effort to move out of jackson by january or feb. it's just getting worse.

anyway

day six or seven at the new job. immediately figuring out that i don't know shit about shit. guys up here are software people. and most of them dont give a sweet shit about anything after work. i can see why. the last thing anyone wants to do is blow out their retinas all day then hop back on the radiation king when they get home.

except for the meganerds™. there are a few of those.

the ones that have a 60TB server in their house. i thought i had a downloading problem. dang.

remember how a i was waxing poetic about some shit and being a philosophical schlomo?

yeah well forget all that.

i'm day five into the new job and i don't know what in the fukc i am doing. it's like my buddy plucked me out of the garden i had been cultivating for over a decade only to drop me into a foreign environment. i haven't done tech shit in at least 15 years.

i have no idea what the fuck active directory is, but i do know what SAML is.

i have no fucking idea how credential certificates work, but i do know how to generate a correctly signed certificate. albeit, a fucked up and roundabout way of getting it done.

group policy is the same as global policy and it supersedes any role or user setting.

it's absolutely possible to accidentally lock yourself out of the application.

they've left me up to my own devices. so i'm somewhat watching the training videos and fucking off with VMs.

disable your microsoft antivirus and/or add the following as a exception:

• SW_DVD5_WIN_ENT_LTSC_2019_64-bit_English_MLF_X21-96425
• hwid.kms38.gen.mk6

the iso has all the "apps" stripped out of windows - cortana, 3d builder, twitter, groove music, all the xbox shit - and turns it into a SOLID enterprise win10. highly recommended.

And started a career..

I was at the screen printing place for over 12 years. You may think that's an accomplishment; it was more of an accidental blessing mixed with a tinge of guilt. A blessing because I needed a job and the boss was willing to accommodate. The guilt came from accidentally making myself an asset and a liability at the same time. If I wasn't there for whatever reason, the workflow ground to a halt. By design, towards the end, because nobody wanted to learn any bit of my job.

Because "lol why? You're not going anywhere." heh yea I guess not heh heh o shit wait

The new job is something else entirely. Holy fuck. I had no idea. It's more like a local myth. Loads of people say "oh that's a great place to work!" then you ask them what kind of products they sell and the people can't tell you. It is a mystery.

It's remote support that utilizes a VM to act as a gateway for remote sessions. Screen sharing and file transfer and a shitload of checkboxes that do things. The company sells physical boxes that host the VMs so that the customer can deploy them to their end point computers.

It works internally on the other side of their firewall using outbound, encrypted traffic. I can see why they're paid the big bucks. Not that it bypasses their firewall.. It's probably whitelisted.. It's "bypasses" the firewall because it is inside their org. I really want to say the name but that would be a bad idea, I'm sure.

Let's just say it's a super small company with like a hundred thousand plus accounts. No telling how many licenses per account, which run like 2 grand ez. It's difficult to wrap my fuckin brain around.

The employees tell me this is a dream job. I'm blessed beyond anything. All it took was not being a total shithead to people in the past and taking the opportunity when it was presented.

I'm fucking in over my head and don't know what the fuck. Breaking the chaos down into manageable chunks is the key. Everything I thought I knew about computers and networks pales in comparison to the hardcore fucking nerds here. It's humbling; grounding. I think I need that.