Before coming to Red Hat, I spent nearly a decade as a Systems Administrator. After all that time, I’m still continually discovering tools that would make life as a SysAdmin much easier. One of these utilities is the redhat-support-tool. In…
I am sure many sysadmins can relate to this scenario: You get into work on Monday morning, attend your staff meeting, and log into your ticketing system, expecting a quiet week. NOPE! Right there in all caps (why do people…
From creating technical labs, blogs, and videos to pairing customers’ problems with product features, technical marketers never see a dull moment. Slide-deck builder, swag folks, booth dwellers, buzzword people… technical marketing gets a bad rap sometimes. Today, I want to…
These days it can be overwhelming to select the best software to use because now more than ever, choices are abundant when it comes to software. Messaging and Communications apps are a great example of that because there are so…
I was recently asked, “Why call yourself the IT Guy? Why not just use your name?” Great question! In the professional world, we are encouraged to “build a professional brand,” I just took it to an entirely different level. There…
Where do you get your tasks from? For me, it’s meetings, household chores, ongoing projects, random lists, IMs, Emails, forum posts, social media (yeah, believe it!), whew. For years, I tried different tools and methods for tracking my to-dos. I…
I have loved video games my entire life. I got started on a Super Nintendo playing Super Mario Brothers and Super Mario Kart. That was the start of my #nerdlife. Haha! It was great to sit down with Matt and…
We tend to associate free with good. That’s not the case though when what is free is unauthorized root-level access to your Linux systems! On January 26, 2021, a vulnerability, CVE-2021-3156, was disclosed that affects just about every Linux or…
Rocco was one of the people I instantly connected with in the open source community. His values and his love of the people in open source really resonated with me. Rocco really helped encourage me while finding my own voice.…
This is where the Sudo Show actually started. Episode one of a podcast that had been two years in the making, finally out on the Destination Linux Network with my co-host Brandon Johnson. Brandon and I had been talking for…
This is the trailer that started it all. In June 2020, Brandon Johnson and I launched the Sudo Show on the Destination Linux Network, a podcast covering enterprise open source, cloud management, DevOps culture, and working from home. Getting here…
I have some very exciting news to share with you all! My name is Eric The IT Guy and I am a recovering Systems Administrator! I have over 11 years of IT experience ranging from Systems Administration and Engineering to…
I spent over seven years in IT before I really started to understand the breadth of the industry. Technology gets a bad rap for being such a deep field but not necessarily a broad one. In fact, when I was…
I had the pleasure of speaking at the Kansas City DevOps Meetup in downtown Kansas City! It was kind of like a coming home party. KC DevOps Days is where I got my start at GitLab and set me on…
I gave my Busting Open Source Security Myths talk at DevSecOps Days Denver to a packed out auditorium. If was so well received, I decided to bring it back for Day 2 of SELF 2019! Developers are constantly being asked…
This talk defined the voice of the IT Guy for me. This was the moment when the Sudo Show got its wings, when I realized that I was on the right track towards re-inventing my career. I had people in…
South East Linux Fest 2019 was an amazing test of the IT Guy…not as a brand but as the person I wanted to be in my career. I gave 3 talks in 3 days and spent a lot of time…
Getting started in my career, I never imagined I would work in sales or go speak at conferences! I was very nervous and I think that showed. What was worse is I had the first breakout after lunch and the…
Hey all! I am starting a new open source “project”: my next home! Please help me by making recommendations and helping me build the IT Guy’s dream house!
We got a single test episode before going back to the drawing board. After months of networking, planning, seeing what else is out there, we settled on a great approach that we feel will be unique and can make a…
Some time ago, our favorite IT Guy published a couple of test episodes. Its funny to look back at these episodes in light of the upcoming release of The IT Guy podcast!
Waaaaay back on Episode 26 of the Ask Noah Show, The IT Guy was being formed an molded. Now, a little over a year later, we are getting ready to launch our brand, our podcast, and our efforts to help…
I got to join Noah Chelliah on the Ask Noah Show to continue my coverage of Peertube. It was a great chat, took a couple of calls, and found a toy I really want from Paravel Systems: The Rivendell Audio…
I had the pleasure to head out to Lawrence, KS to talk at the local LUG (Linux Users Group)! Today’s topic? Peertube and the problems it can solve!
Sometimes, a dream just comes together. Sometimes its a dream that you didn’t even know you had! I have spent 10 years in the IT industry and I have struggled off and on to really find fulfillment in what I…