Recent content by MikeRocor

The confidence your home lab gives you will be worth its weight in gold... Then you'll mess up royally due to over confidence. ;) I once inadvertently created a file in the /bin directory of a production server. No big deal. But then, as root, due to a single extra space on the command line...

I used to work for a guy who was some kind of former Dell HMM (*) and he said the difference between "servers" and "workstations" is nothing more than the amount of fans. While I've found that to be (mostly) true, there is the issue of those really expensive "server grade" hard disks, dual...

while (coffee < 2) I've been trying to convince family members and pets to use their pre_coffee voices, which is to say no voice at all. Apparently I have yet to explain the concept in sufficiently low level terms.

To start with, I reverted from the BDE wall paper back to my old one because it's much less distracting. I deliberately chose a conky layout and single color that are very subdued because I wanted it to be "visible but not distracting" rather than "eye catching". It's offset from the left hand...

Dang it dos2unix, You just had to use the "A" word, didn't you!? In the course of moving, I've run across my old Amiga 1000. Dunno if I still have a monitor that will work with it (probly not) nor if I have any working diskettes for it (sadly, also probly not). Definitely not the hard disk...

In my first role where I wrote Unix scripts for administrative purposes, my mentor advised me to always write scripts for the bourne shell ( #!/bin.sh ) because they will work on pretty much any unix / linux system. Since then, I've lightened up a little in that regard such that if a scripting...

I had the same issue but with a background that was a design rather than a photo and I was able to stretch it without too much trouble. The envane background that was used in one of the old DSL 3.x releases - I stretched it until the rectangular bits were 1920x1080 then pasted the original...

Welcome to the forum, old timer. :) Do you also remember running spinrite on those old systems and having the entire system magically become three or four times faster? That was an eye opener for me. A lot of folks paid big bucks and still suffered with horribly slow computers just because...

<TIC footnote="1"> So, it turns out the BDE is due to explode in about three weeks with a massive litter of one, count them: "one", puppies. My dilemma is this: In honor of the occasion, should I A) switch to "Puppy" linux or B) just relabel my current distro as "Tiny Core-gee" or C) just post...

I'm looking at a 128 GB SSD (which seems silly, since the USB 3 stick I'm fooling around with now is twice that size but whatever - the USB 2 stick that I copied the boot system from is only 16 GB and it was mostly free space. I'll probably leave the plate spinner untouched from the linux side...

As it turns out, I have a $25.00 Amazon gift card in my wallet -right now- (and I never actually shop Amazon)... and I know someone nearby who has Amazon Prime for free shipping... and I can get an adapter and a modest sized M.2 thingy from Amazon for -just over- 25 bucks (of course), so ima...

Dang it! If I end up spending money on this thing, I'm blaming you. 2000 or 3500 MBS... YeeeHa!

Welcome newbies. And don't worry - Like me, after a couple of decades you'll be... well, what do you know... still a noob! But one with lots of experience. It's lots of fun that way.

I toyed with the idea of finagling an ssd into it, and I might still go there some day... On the other hand, that would take it out of the realm of "free" (which really fits my budget pretty well right now). :) Windows would probably benefit hugely from having an SSD as the boot drive...

... Well, new to me, anyway. A friend, whose significant other passed away and left behind a PC, gave me the whole setup. I was expecting some junk that I would strip of anything valuable and then toss but I was pleasantly surprised to be handed a 22" AOC monitor (1920x1080) and a 2012 vintage...