Intro

Last Upload was hpr1468 March 19, 2014

python

>>> print (D.today() - D(2014, 3, 19)).days

1999

>>> 2000/365

5

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/24626/quickly-calculate-date-differences

In the last 5 years:

Traveled the world.

Deployed a lot of things for work.

Taken on a new role which moves me from Datacenters to Networks.

Learned a lot about Operations, Datacenter Infrastructure, People around the world, and why it is important to have your house in order.

Read over 3 dozen books.

Paid off debt and focused on long term financial goals.

Humility, Humanity, and Harmony: Three things I have continued to strive for in my personal life, work, and hobbies.

Let's Start The Show off in the wrong direction

Windows

Chocolatey

Great Tool for Downloading free software from the windows powershell command line

https://chocolatey.org/docs/installation

Sublime Text 3

Fantastic Text editor and very powerful. I use this to quickly parse data using regex searches and push this to spreadsheets or other tools that allow me to organize data quickly. Overall Great tool for anyone

Summary:

Overall: The importance of being an everyday Windows User has allowed me to focus on solving problems in different and unique ways. I've found that the way I use Windows is not the same as most normal Windows Users. I live most of the time inside of Chrome so Windows is just another OS to get my Chrome Browser running.

Observation: Windows has definitely matured over the past 10 years. I find myself enjoying the time I save using Windows 10.

Contradictions: I still use Linux, but as a VM to work on things that I just can't do inside of Windows.

Web Stuff

Regex

Test and debug your regex. It is a great tool that combines pastebin and regex debugging. This allows you to share your regex with other by simply using a link. There is a lot of useful information on the site about what each portion of your regex is doing.

https://regex101.com

Maps

USGS Maps

Very nice site that allows you to download PDFs of 1:24000 or 7.5 minute Maps. You can print these off and use a Map grid tool to navigate your journey. This is kind of an analog tool but you are downloading the maps to your computer or phone. Good to have maps saved offline while you hike, that way you don't get lost.

https://store.usgs.gov/map-locator

SDN Information

If you're just starting with Software Defined Networking or are already working with it in a production environment, there is much to learn but very few places to find aggregated information. The GitHub Page called awesome-sdn has tons of links on NOS,Controllers, Libraries, and more. I have A couple of Northbound network and Aruba switches at home to use with my SDN projects. I highly recommend you start getting familiar with network automation using ansible or other automation best practices at the least. For the more technical stuff definitely start looking at SDN.

Awesome-SDN

https://github.com/sdnds-tw/awesome-sdn/blob/master/README.md

Northbound Networks SDN Devices

https://nort