@nielsk to my business associates, but you can call me Niels K.
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The Facts
- 331st nut (born 7 yr ago)
- 51 believers
- 49 found worthy
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isn't part of a club
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- Human in Europe/Berlin
- State of being: offline
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Sysadmin by day, ehm and sysadmin by night
From time to time Japan, economics, retrogaming and fitness/karate
Shiny is better. ⇄
But I think it would be worth it and would enable me to advance more in my career as a sysadmin or maybe make it easier to switch over to DevOps or so.
Since I would do it part time the Bachelor would take six years. Maybe one year less because I might be able take two courses from my previous degree ( masters degree in Japanese Sciences with a lot of economics courses). But it will still be a lot of work
I am seriously thinking about starting a correspondence course to get a B.Sc. and eventually a M.Sc. in computer science. But I still have time to decide. I can apply in December and semester starts in April.
@jws you're welcome @33MHz
@jws maybe Head First Networking by Al Anderson
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@jws ah, that level. If you would know German I could directly recommend a podcast. I try to think about a good book. I am mostly self-educated… @33MHz
@jws there is stuff with which you can ultimate things but that isn't cheap or needs usually yet another server and client-software etc. not worth the effort for smaller setups imho @33MHz
@jws and for documentation purposes use something like yEd https://www.yworks.com/products/yed
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@jws take a piece of paper and start drawing. That's how I do it and how the people I know do it. We have several whiteboards which aren't allowed to be erased for months that only show the structure of a new complex setup @33MHz
@lechindianer ok, then I would prefer pfSense over OpenSense because it is based on OpenBSD. The Hardened BSD-people do. good work but imho I have a better feeling with what the OpenBSD-people are doing when the restrictions aren't a problem @jws @33MHz
@jws and networking on that level. I don't know. A FritzBox (does that exist outside of Germany)? Something from Ubiquity? I heard good things about those. A machine for OpnSense? It depends on your needs actually @33MHz
@jws Get a FreeNAS for storage-needs and some server needs. It is pretty easy to use and you can use it on commodity hardware. I use it at home and we have one at work as an iSCSI-backup-server until our Ceph is ready for that @33MHz
@jws soho?
And storage-needs - hammer is for server-storage. I have for my mail backend several iscsi-servers and the imported LUNs are combined to zfs-mirrors which are exported as nfs. We are talking at least that level @33MHz
@lechindianer is pfSense FreeBSD? I always thought it is OpenBSD-based @jws @33MHz
@jws I did not yet dig deep enough to see what hammer makes it better than zfs @33MHz
@jws and then there: do you need an awesome desktop-experience and have the cash and don't care about free and open? MacOS @33MHz
@jws but the big ones differ enough that you can easily choose by your needs imho: does it need to run on a toaster? NetBSD.
Secure and opinionated? OpenBSD
Runs as much software as possible on old hardware? FreeBSD
Need HAMMER? Dragonfly @33MHz
@jws yeah. And then there are some specialized derivatives like TrueOS, GhostBSD, FreeNAS, pfSense, NanoBSD, Freesbie… @33MHz
You gave up too much to turn back now. ⇄