What are you working on right now?

Hauffi · 2015-11-05 01:25:09

A thread to discuss small or large side projects you've started or that are already in development.

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Horizon_Brave · 2015-11-05 02:08:58

Two things are taking up my time. Currently I'm studying for my NRS I exam. It's a proprietary certification from my company, that's on par with the Cisco CCENT exam. It has to deal with routing, Switching, Service provider networking, TCP/IP etc...

The second project is just self studying Linux/Unix. It started out as shell scripting practice, but has snow balled as I plunge deeper and deeper... I actually have to draw the line soon as I'm taking on more than I can read and study for... I started by wanting to practice my BASH scripting...and soon got pulled into kernel and system calls lol..

Frogman · 2015-11-05 02:18:22

Adding SNMP checks into Cacti. Can I just take a spare rack rail and bash myself in the forehead instead?

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Hauffi · 2015-11-05 02:34:19

Horizon_Brave wrote:

Two things are taking up my time. Currently I'm studying for my NRS I exam. It's a proprietary certification from my company, that's on par with the Cisco CCENT exam. It has to deal with routing, Switching, Service provider networking, TCP/IP etc...
The second project is just self studying Linux/Unix. It started out as shell scripting practice, but has snow balled as I plunge deeper and deeper... I actually have to draw the line soon as I'm taking on more than I can read and study for... I started by wanting to practice my BASH scripting...and soon got pulled into kernel and system calls lol..

Self studying linux? Nice! I'm practicing kernel patches and such right now. I try to contribute as much as I can to the things I love.

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Horizon_Brave · 2015-11-05 02:42:44

Hauffi wrote:

Self studying linux? Nice! I'm practicing kernel patches and such right now. I try to contribute as much as I can to the things I love.

Well I studied and took my Linux+ exam like two years back. And after I got a job as a Jr. Unix admin, I realized how little I knew. It was a pretty harsh slap in the face, so I vowed to really "grok" Linux/Unix. There's just so much I get overwhelmed pretty easy. Which is why I really want to pick apart BunsenLabs and the Debian OS. So if you notice me asking some pretty random questions around the forums, don't get angry!

nod-a1 · 2015-11-05 06:11:07

Horizon_Brave wrote:

Hauffi wrote:
Self studying linux? Nice! I'm practicing kernel patches and such right now. I try to contribute as much as I can to the things I love.
Well I studied and took my Linux+ exam like two years back. And after I got a job as a Jr. Unix admin, I realized how little I knew. It was a pretty harsh slap in the face, so I vowed to really "grok" Linux/Unix. There's just so much I get overwhelmed pretty easy. Which is why I really want to pick apart BunsenLabs and the Debian OS. So if you notice me asking some pretty random questions around the forums, don't get angry!

Love your spiritual attitude. Hack it into bits and put it back togetther in your own customized spiritual taste.

Horizon_Brave · 2015-11-05 06:17:49

nod-a1 wrote:

Horizon_Brave wrote:
Hauffi wrote:
Self studying linux? Nice! I'm practicing kernel patches and such right now. I try to contribute as much as I can to the things I love.
Well I studied and took my Linux+ exam like two years back. And after I got a job as a Jr. Unix admin, I realized how little I knew. It was a pretty harsh slap in the face, so I vowed to really "grok" Linux/Unix. There's just so much I get overwhelmed pretty easy. Which is why I really want to pick apart BunsenLabs and the Debian OS. So if you notice me asking some pretty random questions around the forums, don't get angry!
Love your spiritual attitude. Hack it into bits and put it back togetther in your own customized spiritual taste.

Right on Noda1, and that's how it should be... find something that really interests, but stumps you..and take it apart, and build it back up again..mistakes and all... For my NRS I exam, I already have my CCNA, so this exam *should* be sort of review... but it's a lot harder than I thought... I'm going back over subnetting, and VLSM, route aggregation etc... I'm trying to alternate days between my Linux self studying and my NRS I exam studying

nod-a1 · 2015-11-05 06:23:34

Horizon_Brave wrote:

nod-a1 wrote:
Horizon_Brave wrote:
Well I studied and took my Linux+ exam like two years back. And after I got a job as a Jr. Unix admin, I realized how little I knew. It was a pretty harsh slap in the face, so I vowed to really "grok" Linux/Unix. There's just so much I get overwhelmed pretty easy. Which is why I really want to pick apart BunsenLabs and the Debian OS. So if you notice me asking some pretty random questions around the forums, don't get angry!
Love your spiritual attitude. Hack it into bits and put it back togetther in your own customized spiritual taste.
Right on Noda1, and that's how it should be... find something that really interests, but stumps you..and take it apart, and build it back up again..mistakes and all... For my NRS I exam, I already have my CCNA, so this exam *should* be sort of review... but it's a lot harder than I thought... I'm going back over subnetting, and VLSM, route aggregation etc... I'm trying to alternate days between my Linux self studying and my NRS I exam studying

Living the dubble life of a Linux hacker, spelling the numeric values of the educational system for national gain and hacking it from the underground for the free spiritual binary code, systematicaly connecting into a mesh-network of ones own design.
- Keep up the good work.

Temetka · 2015-11-05 09:15:56

I'm building a brand new network for a client that has to be HIPAA compliant.

So far the quotes are getting close to 250K.

This is going to be fun.

Pure ESXi environment, MS AD, all Dell equipment with their lovel 4 hour on-site warranty. New fiber links between 4 clincs, 1 management building, a colo, and HQ. Proper backups, dual redudant everything. Zyxcorp hardware encryption.

The previous admin built a house of cards. 1 rack. 1 VM server, 1 SOHO QNAP NAS. No fail over. No reducancy. Windows backup. 1 UPS. Some stuff was done OK. Proper VLAN's, but zero reservations in the DHCP scope for things like managed switches, printers, etc. Used GPO to lock down everything. I hate when people do that. So it's getting gutted. All of it. The whole ball of wax. The cabling, the servers, the camera's, everything.

Gone.

This is going to be textbook perfect for mutli-domain Windows AD forest environment.

A part of me wishes this was a UNIX environment, but while I am a damned good network engineer and Windows admin - a project on this scale with a *NIX backend? Yeah no. That's nightmare fuel right there. I have 20 years of experience in my field. I have about the same amount of tinkering around with linux. I would never in my wildest dreams attempt this with a linux backend.

So much nope.

But for the project itself and the technologies we will be deploying. Oh it's going to be glorius. A spire to be viewed from afar. A testament to proper project management. A synergestic blend of skill, team work, buzzwords and invoices.

Bring it on. I got this.

ratcheer · 2015-11-05 13:57:20

For the umpteenth time in my life, I am working on learning how to use Gnupg, effectively.

Tim

shadowplay · 2015-11-05 19:47:02

Started a chess engine in C about 4 months ago....a great way to consume endless hours...currently stuck trying to debug why it won't solve a mate in 3 :-)

still a long way to go!

I'm lucky if i can put in 2 hours a week (kids, work, a life....usual things get in the way).

Hauffi · 2015-11-05 20:05:48

shadowplay wrote:

Started a chess engine in C about 4 months ago....a great way to consume endless hours...currently stuck trying to debug why it won't solve a mate in 3 :-)
still a long way to go!
I'm lucky if i can put in 2 hours a week (kids, work, a life....usual things get in the way).

That's C for ya, but it's worth every line of code. Kind of.

Irulan · 2015-11-05 20:08:01

ODBC Data access into Hive (Why are Inserts so slow?)
-H

Horizon_Brave · 2015-11-05 21:05:55

Temetka wrote:

I'm building a brand new network for a client that has to be HIPAA compliant.
So far the quotes are getting close to 250K.
This is going to be fun.
Pure ESXi environment, MS AD, all Dell equipment with their lovel 4 hour on-site warranty. New fiber links between 4 clincs, 1 management building, a colo, and HQ. Proper backups, dual redudant everything. Zyxcorp hardware encryption.
The previous admin built a house of cards. 1 rack. 1 VM server, 1 SOHO QNAP NAS. No fail over. No reducancy. Windows backup. 1 UPS. Some stuff was done OK. Proper VLAN's, but zero reservations in the DHCP scope for things like managed switches, printers, etc. Used GPO to lock down everything. I hate when people do that. So it's getting gutted. All of it. The whole ball of wax. The cabling, the servers, the camera's, everything.
Gone.
This is going to be textbook perfect for mutli-domain Windows AD forest environment.
A part of me wishes this was a UNIX environment, but while I am a damned good network engineer and Windows admin - a project on this scale with a *NIX backend? Yeah no. That's nightmare fuel right there. I have 20 years of experience in my field. I have about the same amount of tinkering around with linux. I would never in my wildest dreams attempt this with a linux backend.
So much nope.
But for the project itself and the technologies we will be deploying. Oh it's going to be glorius. A spire to be viewed from afar. A testament to proper project management. A synergestic blend of skill, team work, buzzwords and invoices.
Bring it on. I got this.

Wow, very impressive! I really...really hope to get to your level someday.. I'm 1 and a half years in on my professional IT career and I still feel way in above my head..

KrunchTime · 2015-11-10 01:14:17

Waiting for two days of good, warm weather to apply final coat of paint to exterior iron railing around basement walkup.
Recaulking and repainting back of garage near roofline.
Keeping leaves from collecting on the lawn for too long.
Looking for a job.

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g33zr · 2015-11-16 20:26:05

Revising a short story that I want to submit to a literary journal before Thanksgiving. Also, revising a poem and will start working on another story that's been lurking in my head for a couple of weeks.

Horizon_Brave · 2015-11-16 20:36:59

g33zr wrote:

Revising a short story that I want to submit to a literary journal before Thanksgiving. Also, revising a poem and will start working on another story that's been lurking in my head for a couple of weeks.

A fellow writer! What's the topic of your story? I'm trying to stop being lazy and start putting pen to paper on my next short story as well...I don't think I'd ever submit anything though..

g33zr · 2015-11-17 13:31:19

^ The story I submitted is a about an aging electrician who is also a writer, but hides his true identity under a pseudonymn. Spoiler: It ain't about me. It's a story within a story.

The other story, the one I'm rewriting, is another story within a story. It's a bout a twice-married, twice-divorced IT guy who lives on a boat and tells a story to Annette, a friend with benefits. This story also ain't about me.

The main thing about writing is to write--every day.

Horizon_Brave · 2015-11-17 15:35:30

g33zr wrote:

^ The story I submitted is a about an aging electrician who is also a writer, but hides his true identity under a pseudonymn. Spoiler: It ain't about me. It's a story within a story.
The other story, the one I'm rewriting, is another story within a story. It's a bout a twice-married, twice-divorced IT guy who lives on a boat and tells a story to Annette, a friend with benefits. This story also ain't about me.
The main thing about writing is to write--every day.

I'd love to, but first I have to invent a way to stuff more hours into a day...

damo · 2015-11-17 16:03:43

Well I decided to have a break from scripting and play with themes and icons, so I got the Paper icons, and decided I didn't like the default folder colour, so I ended up scripting anyway - a batch colorizer to do the whole lot in one go

I've got 4 versions now O:)

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