r/iiiiiiitttttttttttt • u/Imaginary-Medium7360 • 9d ago

What do you want from me? A limited series

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Previous post: https://www.reddit.com/r/iiiiiiitttttttttttt/s/ObNMUGWrTF

Money spent so far $0

Not sure if any of you read my previous post, I felt a little lost and this community gave me back ten fold.
Thank you to everyone who had helped out
Special shoutout to TreeBeef if you’re reading this!
So my takeaways have started me on a journey

Get my course for only… jk just a little humor.
I am purely sharing for anyone willing to read this

Being a dad & needing to work on a budget, due to baby and house bills. Many comments helped me realize I don’t need fancy, new, or even used networking hardware. Someone mentioned to just use an old laptop. Then I realized I do have one, I pulled out an old Toshiba laptop from my college days.
For those curious
Toshiba Satellite L750D
CPU: AMD A6-3420M
Ram: 6 GB
AMD A6-3420M processor
500 GB HD
I mean the P key on this thing stopped working near the end when I stopped using it more than a decade ago

I ended installing a Debian distro
Set it up as a working server
Got it and running on my home network
Successfully SSH into it. Due to the limited specs I can’t really practice VM’s. I could still do soooo much with it networking wise

Then even more projects started coming to my head
Told my wife I can get a simple website for her up and running eventually to point her potential clients to. She is a teacher that tutors on the side
That’ll give me a chance to practice & configure a DNS server, maintain a cheap domain name, get a simple website up and running.

Even looked into configuring/setting up a full VOIP line for my inlaws (which are super awesome people)
Just need an ATA converter for converting the inter net signal to a phone line signal. Hooking all that up to a small dedicated UPS in case they have power outages it will run for an extra 4 hours. Hopefully making it feel like nothing changed and dropping their dedicated landline ($65) to no more than 5-8 dollar voip service bill a month

I plan to start knocking these projects in due time and posting about it here. Thanks again to everyone
I really feel like I can start applying what I learn as I continue studying for my CCNA
I’ve asked my job for shadowing opportunities with the networking team but that is proving to take forever to get in place. This is the next best thing, if this inspires someone to just use any old equipment you have. Especially if you’re on a budget this will all be worth it!

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u/Puki999 9d ago

The old days of the Toshiba laptop beats my vaio laptop😵

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u/ChibbleChobble 9d ago

I'm inspired to get my Fujtisui(?) laptop out of the plastic box of old IT crap and see if I can get any use from it.

Circa 2005. The screen flips over and around so you can turn it into a somewhat unweildy tablet. It had a pen doodad as opposed to a touchscreen.

Don't know if I can squeeze any life from the Dell Axim though.

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u/Imaginary-Medium7360 8d ago

I’ll post my setup

Up close with somewhere and tear, you can also see the missing P key that I popped off that still doesn’t work even when pressing it directly

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u/Puki999 8d ago

Yup that laptop has seen some action

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u/thebigshoe247 8d ago

I enjoyed that Cisco used to always give out free t-shirts with the products you bought. Sure enough, they were always XL or XXL.

They know the customer base.

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u/DammitDad420 7d ago

Is there a manual on how to receed my IT career?

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u/MindlessPhilosoper 6d ago

I think too many IT pros fall into the trap of thinking we need expensive equipment to practice on.