Andrew Hale: IT Talk & Other Topics

One thing that I enjoy is interviewing and hiring. It's something I'm very interested in. I'm often reading guides on how to write a good resume or watching Youtube videos about how to crush a job interview. Another aspect of this is sharing this information and helping others apply it for themselves. I consider myself a regular contributor to the /r/sysadminresumes and /r/Resume subreddits, as well as The Workforce section of Stack Exchange (The Workforce covers much more than resumes though). Throughout my time of looking at a LOT of resumes, I notice that a lot of people make the same mistakes. Below is my advice for making your own resume better.

As part of my inheritance at a new role, I've got a Gitlab server running on an Ubuntu VM. The program I support at the college has student teams managing their projects on this Git server. I was hoping to wait until next summer to migrate to a different Git solution (like a University-hosted GitHub Enterprise solution that's been floated around), but due to security concerns, my Gitlab server can't wait that long. In this post, I need to update the Gitlab package and move it to a new VM. I'll be updating to Gitlab v10 and moving the entire thing to a RHEL v7 VM in our University's hosting environment.

A few years back, I had a medical event that lead to some loss of motor-skill on my left-side. My minor disability hasn't held me back professionally, though it did severely impact my typing. My average WPM went from ~90 to ~15. Through the last few years, I've gotten it back up to 25-30. I remember spending months looking for typing game that I could "play" to help practice my typing. Unsurprisingly, nearly all of the games I found were meant for small children who were learning to type.

Generally, backing up an SQL DB and restoring it is relatively straightforward. Most of the guides talk about backing up and restoring a DB on the same host. Some might talk about pulling down a backup from a remote location and restoring it locally. But, what about when both of your servers are remote and you're SSH'd into one of them? This took me a bit of digging the first time I did this so I wanted to put this information in one place, whether it's for someone like you who's Googling or for myself in a couple years when I have to do this again.