Subj : Editing menus, headers and prompts.
To   : tassiebob
From : David Gonzalez
Date : Mon Oct 21 2024 08:11 am


   Hello tassiebob!

21 Oct 24 18:54, you wrote to me:

 DG>> Cool, last month I repurposed a laptop and setup my mini-pve 12GB
 DG>> RAM and this Win10 VM.

 ta> Nice.  I was running on a Dell R920 with 192GB RAM, a bunch of HDD's,
 ta> etc, etc, but downsized to a 2nd hand HP desktop last month in an
 ta> attempt to reign in the power bill :-)  Shoehorned a couple of
 ta> spinning rust drives into it, an SSD, and an NVMe drive - gets along
 ta> OK.

Yup, when we can go off-grid, all solar, it'd be great, I'd love to go solar but I live in an apartment building so nor for me to decide and they rented the roof for cell towersd so can't go naywhere near that roof

 DG>> I also installed a TrueNAS Scale bare-bone on a more powerful PC
 DG>> and I'm testing VMs on it but managing is better on Proxmox.

 ta> Same here - I have a Supermicro 1RU box running TrueNAS scale.  Just
 ta> has the one VM running on it though - the Proxmox backup server for
 ta> backing up the other machine :-)

I have a server I do, broken but I can say I have it it's a rackable systems box with one of those custom Google mobos but yeah....

 DG>> I do networking for a living, I train people for soem brands and
 DG>> do some consulting $dayjob was as an ISP Network Engineer andit
 DG>> runs MikroTik (Linux derivative)

 ta> My last job was managing the global transit network for a large
 ta> Australian ISP.  Mostly Cisco based unfortunately (we had some
 ta> Juniper/HP in other parts of the network).  I'd be seriously looking
 ta> at Arista if I were still there.

I  mostly teach, consulting is a bitch here, unless you do Cisco or Juniper or Fortinet, consulting for mikrotik or Linux sucks big time, people are just giving away their yime for free or peanuts.

 ta> We did use some Mikrotik for out of band access.  If I was too lazy to
 ta> CLI into them then I'd run winbox under wine (although the new native
 ta> Linux Winbox works quite well - I have Mikrotik WiFi AP's at home).

I was IT Director for a mid-sze ISP all Mikrotik, worked really great, wel, apart from the strange unexplained lockups from time to time.

 DG>>  ta> I've used OSX as a daily driver in the past too.
 DG>>
 DG>> I like the way mcaos works, I have an old macbook pro with a
 DG>> sollen battery, not working and in my time I built a hackintosh.
 DG>> it was a nice time, I used paralels and VMs integrated quite
 DG>> nicely.

 ta> I didn't mine OSX, but issues getting software to build pushed me away
 ta> from it.  Was easier to develop software that was going to run in a
 ta> Linux environment on a Linux workstation.

I do like Linux, everything I did with Linux VoIP, AD, Samba, Monitoring, then I said I need reliability and less RTFM from a buch of a-holes on Linux fora.

 DG>> Now going back to the point I'll try those ANSI drawing tools
 DG>> because it's so frustrating thata by just changing two letters on
 DG>> a ehader file the whole thing is destroyed.

 ta> I've installed IcyDraw to play with, but haven't had a chance to do
 ta> anything in anger yet.

Yup, gotta get hands dirty...

David


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