I had an awful lot of fun in the lower levels by sticking entirely with my mining laser. After a while I picked up a rivet gun and an arc welder. Later on a ship cutter to replace the mining laser. And finally I got some Arc Might plasma drill thing that absolutely tears through anything with the most jarring sound. I’m not really the cosplay type, but my dood is a miner, with modified, deadly tools. Silly, I know, but fun is where you find it.

I didn’t buy Shattered Space, but it sure sounded unappealing. Like, pick the least attractive faction, psycho religious nuts, and write about that? It lost me right there, just with the theme.

Ya totally. I don’t play the main game, haven’t done any Constellation missions.
I explore systems, steal ships, and kill people.
My big thing lately has been dumping everything in the galaxy onto the floor of the Broken Spear tavern in Cydonia. Got a pretty big pile going.
So ya, the updates they’ve announced sound like they will enhance the stuff I enjoy in the game.

To all of the haters. I completely agree with you. This is gross.
Obviously, I was pretty drunk.

Those are Ramen noodles, cookies, and bar chickenstrips and fries.
And a couple shots of rum. And some beer. PBR.

I was celebrating passing my CCNA. I did a damn good job of celebrating. Over the top.

I caught em on the Peace Sells tour. Still my favorite album.

Listened to?

Cindy Lee - Diamond Jubilee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LJi5na897Y
Cindy is Patrick Flegel, who performs in drag, with a voice effects that make him sound female.
Honestly, I give two shits about the trans act. Whatever.

But the music … it immediately grabbed me. Spacey. Raw. Patrick is a brilliant guitarist and producer, a one man show. In drag. Deliberately plays with your expectations and abuses them. Smooth and mellow, with a taste of the 50’s, Beach Boys, Alan Parsons, and Beck.
Yes, I know that doesn’t make any sense. Try this instead.
Diamond Jubilee is the most definitive, the very best Lo-Fi album ever recorded.

And this guy.
SEA is just a youtuber who does chill science videos.
He’s far from perfect, but he does not beg for money or your attention. Gets by on producing good content. This particular video has been putting me to sleep for years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QbS2e8w33s&list=PLkoaIad9k4NJD4x6hXwj2CK1AumYTjCj2

Thanks! I did it for close to free. Happy to share …

Cisco has the free CCST Network training, which gets you a cert, and trains you about 2/3 of the way.
https://www.netacad.com/resources/program-info/ccst-networking

They also have a CCST Cybersecurity that will train you on general security and cover ACLs. I did them both. TBH its a pain in the butt to sign up for Cisco training if you don’t work for a company with an account, but it can be done. Fortunately, I was able to use my work email to sign up.

After you finish the CCST, you’ll still need to learn etherchannel, vlan/trunk, STP, and OSPF.
There’s a lot of really good sites training sites out there. Pick one with a monthly charge that offers tests and labs.
I used KWTrain.com because I was familiar with the guy from his excellent youtube vids. Cost was $39/month, and I only needed 2 months access.

The CCST tests were (2x) $125. + CCNA test was $300. + KWTrain.com cost me $78.

• $300 The boss is picking up the (successful) CCNA test.

So the whole thing cost me $328 and a hell of a lot of study time.

Oh, one more thing. Cisco has like a dozen training sites. Explore them. I got a Meraki cert on one of their random sites, took me about 2 days to complete. There’s probly other stuff I haven’t seen yet.

This CiscoU site is sort of the central training hub.
https://u.cisco.com/
I would suggest that you DO NOT sign up for this until you are ready, because you will get a free introductory window where you have access to a bunch of training that is normally not free. So, get well into your CCST studies before you sign up for CiscoU, and get the most out of your free window.

Thank you!

Thanks!

Ya, I used Cisco U. I’ve waded through many hours of vendor propaganda and got an incidental Meraki cert along the way.

I want the CCNA credential. Its done me tons of good getting this far. I know so much more now.

But I mostly need that silly badge.

Pineapple on pizza. Eeewww! :]

Cool nic! I take you you started out as a play on quixotic, and then you found some crazy characters? That’s unique.

Expect as you like. Jokes are, as they are. Not much to be said about Haiku, its a joke.
Really. Get over yourself.
Its ok if I don’t like something. I’m not disagreeing with your or criticizing your post. Check Lemvotes. I upvote you.
I’m a bit bemused by all this fragility displayed, but I’m sure we will all get past it.

That was … mildly interesting.

The website in question was in fact shit. Some things are easily judged in objective terms.

As to SvarDOS, I’m on the fence. There are aspects of it that seem unstable, and for most DOS usage these days, stability is the only thing you actually want out of it.

Are you upset about my opinion of Haiku? That project is a joke that I’ve been watching for over 2 decades. I am extremely surprised they got it along this far. Its better than ever. Still kinda silly with their branding and copyrights.

Stop and think about this for a second. You post into the void. Nobody replies. Look back and see it.
I read one of your posts, spend an hour or more on the site you link, dig deep into it, come up with an opinion, and post a cogent reply.
What did you expect when you posted? More of nothing?
This is what its like when actual people converse about things wherein they have opinions.

I’m not in the least bit upset about anything. I enjoy your posts. You post about things I care about.
Nice to meet you, regardless of the friction.

Ok, ya I just read all that again. I should take another crack at this silly thing.

I use them. I play with them. I judge them as I like. This is a place to discuss them. Would you rather empty silence?
You are also an OS fan. We have far more in common than not.

In this particular case, SvarDOS is trying to play in a space where real tools may actually be required.
Is it a real tool? That is an open question.

Let me at him. I’ve beaten better. I’m the final boss.

My CPX11 Cloud Server is apparently going from $4.99 to $6.99.
I just looked through my email. I haven’t gotten a note about the increase yet, my February bill is paid.
I love having all my music on my NextCloud on my Hetzner.
I will pay $7/month.

I’ve been using FreeDOS for a really long time. Decades.
https://www.freedos.org/

I’m all for new stuff, new emulators, new toys.
But if I had a job to do, I’d probably go with FreeDOS, because its THE standard.

There isn’t a whole lot of info on the SvarDOS page that might allow you to differentiate their offering from FreeDOS.

• It doesn’t have version numbers, which does not actually sound like a good thing to me.
• It has an online package manager. You know, like FreeDOS does with FDNPKG16.

So … I want to know more, but this seems a bit sketch to me.

Edit: Their site is shit. Took me a while to find this.
*** Why would I want to use SvarDOS instead of FreeDOS? ***
http://svardos.org/phpamb.php?fname=help%2Fhelp-en&f=freedos.ama

Dunno. I’m not buying the reasoning. …
… But then again, I’ve heard less coherent reasons to fork the code.

“A disk image menu is finally added to DriveSetup so that disk images can be worked from that GUI without resorting to the command line.”

For me, the new DriveSetup hung during install.
Switching back to the main installer app let it get past whatever its issue was, and it completed the format.

They have been huffing their own bullshit for the last 25 years.

Contrast this high-sounding fluff …
“The Be Operating System introduced progressive concepts and technologies that we believe represent the ideal means to simple and efficient personal computing. Haiku is the realization of those concepts and technologies in the form of an operating system that is open source and free.”

… with what we see in About this system …

I haven’t dug around under the hood of this version, but the last time I looked, it was radically different from BeOS. I do admit this version looks a lot more like BeOS, they came closer to hitting that mark. It’s kind of a pig tho. Not very zippy. DHCP didn’t work, haven’t got it online yet.

It does run straight from an ISO, so if you want to check this Frankenstein fossil out, its easy to do. https://www.haiku-os.org/get-haiku/r1beta5/

(Edit … It runs much faster installed to a virtual disk, and the DHCP was my fault. I got it going. Installed a couple apps.)