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ChocoboMogALT posted...

I'm (finally) taking my CCNA next month in bo small part thanks to your help.
I'm confident on setting up a network, ok at troubleshooting, and a little weak on things you just need to memorize (syslog levels, port numbers).
Is CCNA "enough" to land an entry level position?

It is. Having a CCNA puts you ahead of most other applicants when it comes to interviews. The vast majority of people won't get any certs even if they have the skills to do so. It's a sign that you take your career seriously. Cisco also incentivizes companies to hire and keep a certain number of Cisco certified individuals. I haven't worked for a company that has enough to qualify for the incentives, though.

Scardude posted...

Question, for the electoral colleges that are designed. Why are these people not at the fore front on how they select the winner? They make the final call and not the voter right.

In most states, the electoral college votes for the candidate that won the popular vote in their respective states. There are a few states that split that based on having different popular vote winners in different regions of the state, though.

In 2020, for example, most of the voters voted for Biden, so Biden got all 16 of Georgia's electoral college votes. I think Nebraska and Maine are two states that have different regions, so if one of those states has 5 electoral college votes, there may be a 3/2 split or whatever it actually works out to be.

There is also such a thing as faithless electors, where one or more members of the electoral college will vote for a certain candidate even though they lost the state's popular vote. There's not much of a chance of that happening, though.

Rika_Furude posted...

Ive been interested for a while but never got the motivation to actually study for the CCNA. I dont have a good opportunity at work to get hands on experience with network gear at the moment either. Instead I do mainly coding and some project work

I started out using virtual network simulators. I started with Cisco Packet Tracer and then moved on to GNS3 for CCNP level stuff. Cisco Packet Tracer has improved quite a bit since I started using it, so the need for GNS3 may not be there as much these days.

UnholyMudcrab posted...

If the only important thing is the election itself, then why post the polls at all?

I've been wondering this more and more myself since the 2016 election. I was one of those people who were wowed by the accuracy of FiveThirtyEight and threw out any sort of critical thinking and just formed my idea of what was going to happen based on what they said. Then Trump won.

Then Democrats started over-performing polls in 2018, 2020, and 2022... I'm hoping that trend continues, but I'm not putting much stock into what a poll says any more.

Jupiter posted...

I changed career paths and started out as help desk a few years ago then got promoted to Systems Administrator. Before the promotion, I was unsure if I wanted to go this route or developer. Jumped at the promotion though since it meant more money, plus I was able to get from under my help desk supervisor that I wasn't a fan of. I think I used to be somewhat interested in network engineering, but after being in my current role, I for sure think I'd prefer being a developer. Especially since I feel a developer would have a higher chance of working from home.

That's also a great point. There are multiple niche jobs in tech that are great if you have an interest in the respective stuff.

• Network engineering
• System administration
• Cybersecurity
• Cloud... stuff (there's a lot of stuff under this umbrella)
• Software development

So even if network engineering bores you to tears, there may be other areas in tech that you'd like better.

The things that are worrying me at the moment is the possibility of all the conservatives who say they don't want to vote for Trump publicly just falling in line and voting for Trump any way when the general election happens. Nikki Haley, predictably, just said she will vote for Trump.

To be fair, though, there are prominent Republicans like Liz Cheney and Brad Raffensperger who have seemingly closed the door to the possibility of voting for Trump. We'll just have to see what the final numbers end up being.

I've been working in tech since 2007 and it has been great for me. I started out in ISP tech support. It was rough, but a stable job. In 2011, I moved to remote desktop tech support, and then in late 2012, I got a job at a network operations center.

About 6 months into the NOC job, I finally got serious about studying for Cisco certifications. After getting CCNA Route/Switch and CCNA Security, I was promoted to junior network engineer and it was my first ever salaried position. With more experience and getting my CCNP, I got a job as a solo network engineer at another company and then I moved to my current job where I'm part of a large team of network engineers.

I'd say it's a challenging and rewarding job if you have an interest in networking in general. I can definitely share some lessons learned to hopefully help you avoid some land mines along the way, but I highly recommend network engineering as a career if you have an interest in it. If you don't find the subject material interesting, I'd say run away.

Some things I like:

• Networking is complicated, but not hard. There are a lot of rules you have to keep in mind for a lot of different things, but those rules are what they are. It doesn't matter what I think or what you think or what person XYZ thinks.
• For better or for worse, a router, switch, and/or firewall will do what you tell it to do 100% of the time. It's not a matter of dealing with a customer who may or may not listen to instructions you give. If you have good config, you'll generally have a good working device. If you put in bad config, the device may behave badly.
• Once you get into network engineering jobs, you're generally doing impactful work that enables a company to function better. Companies are only going to become more and more connected as technology improves, so having quality network infrastructure will become more and more important as time goes on. So too will the people who manage said infrastructure.

Some things that are meh:

• Sometimes companies have cost constraints that will keep you from doing what you want with the network. This can result in having to deal with various vendors for different purposes. I think the days of having all Cisco equipment are gone as other vendors are beating Cisco on price. Cisco certs are still valuable, though. You learn the Cisco way for many things, but you also learn the fundamentals of how networking concepts work. Those network concepts and rules apply no matter what vendor you're dealing with.
• You'll likely have to work at night here and there and be a part of an on-call rotation. Many companies don't want changes being made on critical infrastructure in the middle of the day because an outage can result in lots of lost money. I would just recommend avoiding being the only network engineer for a company like I was at my last job, even if they're small.

Some things I don't like:

• Some companies don't give a shit about their IT infrastructure. One of the things that pushed me out the door at my last job was the fact that the company exploded in size, but the IT operations team stayed at the same headcount. They went from having ~14 people on the IT ops team with about 340 employees and 3 buildings to ~13 people on the IT ops team with over 1000 employees and 13 buildings, some of them in other countries.
• Some companies have too many non-IT people making IT decisions, which hinders the IT team's ability to function well. At my last job, the retail operations manager was arguing against having network equipment that costs tens of thousands of dollars in total in a secured room at each location. He just wanted the network and servers to "go under the manager's desk."

With the skills I have now, I can pretty much walk into any company that has a network (overwhelming vast majority of companies on the planet) and hit the ground running without too much of a learning curve. Especially if they have Cisco/Aruba/Juniper equipment in their network.

It's not easy and it's not simple, but if you have an interest in it and you're tired of dealing with the general public for your job, I highly recommend it. Takes a lot of studying and you'll always have to be learning new things to keep up with changes in technology, but again... Worth it, imo.

I can share the study materials I have for the current Cisco certs with you if you want to give it a try or see if you even like the stuff at all.

I've been wondering for a while how we're supposed to deal with the MAGA cult on a societal level moving forward. Talking to them rarely, if ever, helps. Outside of close family members that they already trust getting through to them, there's basically no chance that random MAGA person is going to be swayed by any sort of reality presented by someone they don't know.

I've had to stop associating with people because I got fed up with trying.

BewmHedshot posted...

He has his own representation, Kise and Blanche are representing Trump while Woodward and Dadan are representing Nauta. Dadan is a former public defender who's defended over 3,000 cases so it's not like he's got a total chump.

Woodward is paid by Trump, though

https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1793264655420338430

Man... Imagine lying to the FBI when they have you on picture and video moving boxes of classified documents around

https://twitter.com/rdavisfox10/status/1793069501774430619

Christina Bobb isn't having a great time, it seems

Another lawyer putting her career and freedom at risk for Trump.

"Don't worry. I hid the abortion pills in the gun."

No

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/smartmatic-alleges-newsmax-deleted-evidence-lawsuit-vote-rig-claims-rcna153231

Newsmax may have deleted evidence related to Smartmatic's lawsuit against them. I really hope Smartmatic forces them to go through the whole trial.

Had a few things I had to do on the fly because I forgot to save old data, but... overall, that was a smooth maintenance.

McDonald's willing to lower prices to win back customers
McDonald's not willing to fix the ice cream machine to win back customers

A small boat

https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1793060927991947432

Trump should never have been allowed to be president in the first place. He's a well-known con artist and was obviously going to use the office to enrich himself.

https://twitter.com/wsteaks/status/1792970295348998159

Another mug shot in the Arizona case

yes I'm collecting them, lol

Giuliani now must appear in Arizona in 30 days. They want a $10,000 cash bond. Giuliani still whining.

The judge has set a "secured appearance bond" instead of a cash bond, if I heard correctly. Not sure exactly what that is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKZOLNOso_E

Better link for the hearing in Arizona

Giuliani currently giving his excuses for why it was so hard to serve him.

Giuliani's arraignment in Arizona is going on now. They're talking about the difficulties they had trying to serve him his summons.

https://twitter.com/wsteaks/status/1792957345351573759

Christina Bobb's mugshot

https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1MnxnMQwgpXJO

Hearing for the Arizona election scheme case

ClayGuida posted...

I know, why is that though? Is it so the judge can review the case or something?

The judge has been using that day to handle other court matters, I believe.

Mearcstapa posted...

Do they really need an entire week to prepare closing arguments?

One of the reporters I'm following said they're going to use the remaining time to decide on the jury instructions

https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/1792922233444155568

Alright, so that's that... Closing arguments next week and then it goes to the jury.

Speaking of Georgia, both judge Scott McAfee and Fani Willis are up for reelection. I have no idea how it works if someone handling a case doesn't get reelected, but we'll see how the results go. Primary voting starts today in Georgia.

toreysback posted...

trial coverage itself is generally dismal. all online sources, no matter their underlying integrity, rely on clicks to stay in business. and the last 4 trial days have been about cohen, and cohen generates clicks, so i'm afraid there's no way around it at the moment

Yeah, that's why I've been just posting stuff from reporters on Twitter who are actually in the courtrooms reporting. Until we get to the televised trial in Georgia, that's about the best we're gonna get.

Cynyn posted...

Just like Tate. Wonder if he also ordered a pizza?

I saw a picture of the people who were singing happy birthday. Someone pointed out that the dude in the back of the picture was the process server, but I'm not sure if that's confirmed

https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/1792745693221642673

Toonstrack posted...

Thing is like how much of learning it is just mechanical memorization and how much is actually "feeling" the language? I think the difference is probably when you become fluent

I'm not sure, I'm still pretty early on in the lessons I'm on Section 2 unit 4, and there are 35 units in section 2. Section 3 is titled "Learn more foundational concepts an sentences for basic conversations."

So it probably gets more and more in depth as you go. A friend of mine has been doing Duolingo for a couple years and he's pretty comfortable with the language now.

kirbymuncher posted...

similarly you should have a instead of a

Yup gotta pay better attention to those

Ah, thanks

Yomi posted...

Even though it's indeed read as , that should be there.

Ah, youre right, thanks. Ill have to figure out how to type the other one on the Japanese keyboard at some point.

So I just got to the lessons about describing eating habits and its using shichi () for 7.

Hana eats dinner at 7 oclock.

hana san wa shichiji ni bangohan o tabemasu

Rudy Giuliani is now selling 2-pound coffee bags for $30 each

Q1 Revenue of $770,500 and Net Loss of $327.6 Million

Uhhh

how much money do they have to lose

Trump's lawyers are arguing for dismissal again. They really don't seem to want this case to go to the jury.

mystic_belmont posted...

So they have no refutations to the mountains of evidence presented by the prosecution?

Other than "nuh-uh," it doesn't seem like they have any defense

go

Awww yeah

https://twitter.com/AnnaBower/status/1792634770641371273

The prosecution rests. Apparently the defense doesn't expect to take very long at all before they rest.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/f/f0d3ae5c.jpg

Trump's lawyer stepped on another rake

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/1/11796f7a.jpg

Who could have predicted that Trump would decide not to testify

Shocker of my lifetime, I tell you

Updates:

• The criminal trial of Donald Trump in Manhattan, NY related to the falsification of business records surrounding hush money payments is nearing its end. Closing arguments are expected to happen on Tuesday of next week.
• Rudy Giuliani was indicted along with 17 other people in Arizona. Giuliani was recently taunting Arizona law enforcement officials because he was hiding from them and they couldn't find him to serve him the summons. Giuliani attended his birthday party last weekend and he was served there.
• Steve Bannon lost his appeal and will have to report to prison for his contempt of congress conviction. No reporting date has been issued yet.
• Peter Navarro lost his appeal for early release from prison.
• Mug shots for some of the defendants in the Arizona have been released.
• Classified documents trial is still going through pre-trial motions.
• In the Georgia RICO case, the Fulton County court has sent lots of documents to the appeals court for the matter of the disqualification of Fani Willis and her office. The defendants mostly lost in the Fulton County court and have appealed the judge's ruling.
• Still waiting on SCOTUS to rule on Trump's immunity appeal for the January 6th case.

VFalcone posted...

Maybe I'm missing something but, how was Steve Bannon at Rudy's party? I thought he was in prison

He lost his appeal, but the federal bureau of prisons has yet to issue a date to report to prison. Peter Navarro is in prison on a similar charge of contempt of congress.

Yeah, there's pretty much always drama in retail. When I worked at Mervyn's back in the day, there were two women who worked there. They were both friends of mine, but they had apparently both dated the same guy. The guy didn't work there, but they were always at each other's throats in a passive aggressive way. One day, one of the women came into work and flipped off the other one as she was going toward the break room in the back to get ready for her shift. She got fired that day.