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   by atsaloli 10y ago

   I use LinkedIn to promote my training activities and to find connections -- for example, I used it to find a connection to the CEO of GitLab which resulting in a partnership that has already brought in additional training income (plus a rea
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   by atsaloli 10y ago

   I use Uber for the most part: I'm outsourcing dealing with LA traffic to my driver and I get more time to work on my business (laptop and mobile phone hotspot).
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   by atsaloli 10y ago

   I use G Suite, I know it and lately it's been always up - Google wrote the book on System Reliability Engineering. I use Streak CRM as it integrates with gmail.
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   by atsaloli 10y ago

   Vertical Sysadmin, Inc. | Sales | Los Angeles, USA | REMOTE, PART-TIME Seeking commission-only sales agent for high-quality Ops and DevOps training. (We deliver on-site, anywhere. Small class sizes, expert instructors, excellent materials,
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   by atsaloli 10y ago

   I understand. Thanks for getting back to me. I'm still looking for a SaltStack trainer then. :)
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   by atsaloli 10y ago

   I've partnered with GitLab and developed courses on Git and on GitLab CI. In successfully developing the CI course on short notice, I've learned I'm usually operating way below my potential. I need to push myself more. Don&#x
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   by atsaloli 10y ago

   Where is the tutorial? I have a client in the Bay Area looking for SaltStack training. Do you like to train?
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   by atsaloli 10y ago

   Great! Thanks for the write-up.
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   by atsaloli 10y ago

   I was going to say that. The manual is very comprehensive.
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    by atsaloli 10y ago

    I talk to my mentor and to my business coach.
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    by atsaloli 10y ago

    I would invest in my business. Quit consulting (which pays bills day to day) and focus on expanding our training catalog (I love training and we are really good at it). Expand Sales and Marketing activities.
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    by atsaloli 10y ago

    Fair enough. My computing career started in the nineties on VMS at the Help Desk of Brandeis University, my work-study job.
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    by atsaloli 10y ago

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Baf-KeI2jdU That's Grant Cardone giving a talk to auto dealers in Georgia as a sales expert / successful businessman. Got me back to work yesterday when I was all, I feel blah, my t
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    by atsaloli 10y ago

    Yep! It goes up to 32k by default, but you can limit it: "The /VERSION_LIMIT qualifier for the CREATE/DIRECTORY, SET DIRECTORY, and SET FILE commands lets you control the number of versions of a file. If you exceed the versi
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    by atsaloli 10y ago

    I've implemented an ETL pipeline at one of my clients just this quarter that runs nightly and gives them the data they need in the format they want (Web UI + CSV exports). Just having this available at all is a huge win. Having the
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    by atsaloli 10y ago

    Where? :-)
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    by atsaloli 10y ago

    If you want to understand Git better, check out this talk on Git basics by our trainer Mike Weilgart: https://youtu.be/j6Se3jH60dA
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    by atsaloli 10y ago

    Vertical Sysadmin, Inc. | Sales | Los Angeles, USA | REMOTE Seeking commission-only sales person to sell IT training. People often tell us ours is the best training they've had. We're partnered with GitLab and Docker. http:&#x2F
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    by atsaloli 10y ago

    My company specializes in onsite training. Courses are taught by an expert, small class size to ensure quality (12 max), meticulous definition of every term, correct sequence of presentation of materials so that everyone understands -- and
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    by atsaloli 10y ago

    On a related note, Romans wrote sums at the top of a stack of numbers they were adding. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&searc... Summaries at the top, always.
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    by atsaloli 10y ago

    Thanks! I appreciate your encouragement. =)
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    by atsaloli 10y ago

    I'm working on a GitLab CI tutorial. :)
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    by atsaloli 10y ago

    We do actually need valid treatment.
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    by atsaloli 10y ago

    BTW, NIMH has turned away from the DSM due to "lack of validity ". https://www.nimh.nih.gov/about/directors/thomas-insel/blog/2... If it's that inexact, I wouldn't call it science. Th
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    by atsaloli 10y ago

    I use vi because: a) it is the standard editor on UNIX systems. b) I haven't invested the time to learn emacs yet. :-) As a sysadmin, I have to deal with many types of UNIX systems, and it's nice to work with something's tha
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    by atsaloli 10y ago

    I use techinsurance.com as some of my DevOps training and consulting clients require insurance, both E&O (errors and omissions) and GL (general liability).
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    by atsaloli 10y ago

    I started out ten years ago by shouting out to my friends, and posting on Craigslist. I basically emailed everyone in my LinkedIn network and told them I was available for freelance sysadmin work. Good luck!
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    by atsaloli 10y ago

    The Elements of Style by Strunk and White is indispensable. https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Style-Fourth-William-Strunk/...
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    by atsaloli 10y ago

    I wanted to keep things completely above board so I talked to my boss at my full-time job about my desire to start my own company; that I would do so by working after hours and occasionally taking a day or a week off; and that my company wa
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    by atsaloli 10y ago

    The usual pipeline looks something like this: Dev -> QA -> Ops or Idea -> Design -> Build -> Test -> Deploy -> Maintain For example, Infrastructure Operations used to be responsible for providing a Test environment, now