The lonely tech post thread.

[Saul Goodman]

So it appears my partner has gone from being open to this idea to being dead set against cameras everywhere. I don't think this is my hill to die on.

It's a shame as it's the tech project part of it all that appealed, rather then any real fear.

I wouldn't have a camera in my house if the feed was going via China, but everything I have is local.

 

[UnderOpenSky]

I wouldn't have a camera in my house if the feed was going via China, but everything I have is local.

Something's stop being about details and become about principals

So yes I agree, but I'm not going to win this on any level.

 

[Chz]

I read Perl is actually better for text processing, searching, manipulating over Python. Parsing logs, that sort of stuff. More efficient. It just makes my brain hurt looking at it. Apparently a common response...

PERL is The Shit for regex processing, but subjectively worse at literally everything else you might want to script. To the extent that I'll put up with the text processing annoyances of other languages just so I don't have to use perl.

 

[existentialist]

perl was probably my biggest earner, back in its (and my) ascendancy. Via DBI, it could talk to pretty much any DBMS, and had a halfway decent SQL implementation, which, added to the regex capability made it something outstanding, particularly when it came to integration with websites, etc. I frankly couldn't quite understand the interest in PHP, which seemed to do everything almost from the opposite perspective, and I never really bothered learning it.

My withdrawal from the IT profession kind of happened about the time that perl started to become less of a hot thing, but I probably made the switch to python, in terms of personal messing around, some time around the 2010s, probably thanks in some part to Django.

 

[xenon]

Yes, the Sec+ was pretty entry level. I think I've mentioned, but applied for a job in the infrastructure team doing M365/Azure stuff and at interview I found out they now wanted someone for cyber. I never ever considered that would be where I'd so it's funny where these things take you. Some stuff I really focussed on in the limited time I had, like I know everyone in the team hates/dreads SSL certs (we have an internal CA which was set up by a third party, I really wanted to read our docs and correlate it with the exam objectives, but just didn't have the time). So I went too deep into stuff like that and didn't spend enough time on the management fluff. Which I believe IC2 SSCP is all about.

I want to do more networking stuff, because if I am doing this cyber thing, then I think I need to know more. I know just having a cert without experience doesn't mean much, but wish there was something that wasn't quite so vendor focused as CCNA. Although the trust has just thrown out an amazing opportunity which is a network training role with a CCNA, so you get the hands on and the cert. I suspect anyone with any ambition will take it and leave.

Probably mentioned before but I studied for CCNA years ago. Only got as far as the CCENT cert and a few points of the CCNA. But got put off by the accessibility of exam conditions. You can't use a laptop with a screenreader, though you do get double time and a person to read questions, input your answers on the exam PC. It does however take more than twice as long for someone to describe router consol output or a diagram... ANd as it was 70 quid a pop, plus travel to the exam centre, very frustrating....

These days I think you can do the exams at home online. I am a little tempted to revisit....

Never done networking stuff as a job but got hands on experience using the skills as volunteer network admin at a local not for profit. Was fun setting up Linux based routers. Some running Quagga which is basically same command syntax as Cisco Ios and Ubiquiti gear... Was a very small network TBF.

You're ahead of me. I fear this role isn't going to be as technical as I'd like. We've lots of expensive platforms that aren't used properly (or at all). I suspect a lot of it is going to be pulling reports and then asking other people to do things.

It's one reason I've decided to be an idiot and do the Linux + beta in Jan when I've got so much else on. So much security stuff is Linux based, I feel I need a broader understanding of the platform. I'm not saying you can't do this on Windows, but it doesn't seem the done thing. I actually set up a Debian VM last night when i was tired and wired, and my plan is to use it as my daily driver for everything other than gaming. My first task is to find an RDP like alternative that's free, supports multiple monitors and plays video nicely.

TBH I've used Linux for a few years but at a very get the job done level. I can find my way round the command line, set up services and stuff but not a programmer and some things take me ages to get my head round.

I do tend to write loads of notes though, like quick steps to get xyz done. There's a lot of out of date info if just Googling.

But, yeah, it is so much more accessible to grab tools for networking, security, server stuff and just have a poke around.

Mostly using Ubuntu Servers for NAS stuff and trying things out. Got Kali too. Desktop I'm comfortable in Windows. OH re NAS, I think I dm's you the other week. Have gotten to the bottom of it. Need to rebuild the raid array from bios. Fun.....

 

[prunus]

perl was probably my biggest earner, back in its (and my) ascendancy. Via DBI, it could talk to pretty much any DBMS, and had a halfway decent SQL implementation, which, added to the regex capability made it something outstanding, particularly when it came to integration with websites, etc. I frankly couldn't quite understand the interest in PHP, which seemed to do everything almost from the opposite perspective, and I never really bothered learning it.

My withdrawal from the IT profession kind of happened about the time that perl started to become less of a hot thing, but I probably made the switch to python, in terms of personal messing around, some time around the 2010s, probably thanks in some part to Django.

That first paragraph describes me to a T