Aisha (after the Fennec fox that I couldn't pet at a contact zoo when I was 10 because it was still too young)
Can I think about it, or am I at gunpoint?
I just straight up didn't have a room. At first I even had to sleep in the same bed with my dad. Well, "bed". Extendable sofa where you had to lay at a specific position to avoid the springs. And eventually just some cheap ass soft foam mattresses that I am sure weren't meant to be directly put onto anything hard.
Though I finally got a bed when I was around 10. Still in the room with dad.
Mother had her own room.
I ended up spending most time on the toilet.
Where is "watching trains"?
Nah, I talk the most when I am alone.
Fresh (out the shower).
Problem fixed.
I'd like something like on Cisco equipment.
Tab completes a command
? prints possible options with brief descriptions, filtered by starting letters if you already typed anything
if there is just one option left, you can just use it directly, so you can write shortened commands (similar to ip commands on Linux)
Well, they're going to like these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopod_%28creature%29
He [Ctesias] speaks also of another race of men, who are known as Monocoli, who have only one leg, but are able to leap with surprising agility. The same people are also called Sciapodae, because they are in the habit of lying on their backs, during the time of the extreme heat, and protect themselves from the sun by the shade of their feet.
That was unexpected.
Am I not getting some reference, or am I just not getting the IP?
Top image source: https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/9ol79n/are_we_doing_blurry_server_cats_now/
Seen on Cisco Catalyst 3560G during pirated software update (just for playing around, not production use).
The checksums were verified against Cisco download center.
The security: Since I have to retype the password every 5 minutes it is now recorded on every security camera system in a 20 kilometer radius.
I can remember long random passwords, but I am still too paranoid about them being recorded. I think I even saw something about predicting passwords based on delay and sound of key presses from recorded audio.
Well, when do you see the content of my private key? Never. Hopefully never, anyway. Same for cookies.
Sorry for the Imgur link, catbox wasn't loading as image, just as a link again: https://files.catbox.moe/j3a7cl.PNG
Approximately EUR 8 including shipping. Still sealed (probably - if not re-sealed).
There's definitely some more stuff in the box like a manual and driver disc that I can hear moving around. After all, the boxes are fairly large compared to what you'd get today.
I'd want to unpack them... but I also don't because they survived so long. I don't know. Maybe if I'll get yet another one...
Here's a look at the entire box:
Specs:
Bluetooth 1.2 Class 1
USB 1.1
Minimum requirements:
300MHz CPU
128MB RAM
Windows 98SE
So what about the Class 1?
Typically the devices you use are Class 2 with Tx power of up to 2.5mW and range of around 10m.
Class 1 can go up to 100mW with range of around 100m. Assuming both ends are same class. Otherwise you're just causing more interference on 2.4GHz.
https://www.sharetechnote.com/html/Bluetooth_Specification.html#Bluetooth_Classes_and_Ranges
It also has an external antenna giving it some cool factor.
Bought online for EUR 22.
At first I got worried because it was just clicking. I thought I got one with the click of death, But after some 15 minutes of several retries, it got quieter and eventually started loading disks.
Curiosity killed the cat. I was curious to see what's on them:
The ones on left had no files, the 2 on right did. Mostly the F disk. The top one had some program called powerdvd 4.
On the F one, photorec found some TTF files (fonts), exe files, 4 second videos of motorcycle speeding up and fireworks, CompCore Multimedia inc. SoftPeg bitmap banner, and some random TXT files with variables and program descriptions.
Stored undeleted were game saves of following games: Etherlords, Gorasul, Hooligans, Operation Flashpoint (incl. exe), Renegade, Sacrifice, Serious Sam - The second encounter
There were also some spreadsheets with lists of games, and of course RAR archive with colection of generic porn.
The only interesting file is spreadsheet with list of compenents for a "new computer". Most files were dates around 2002.
Case - Miditower ATX
MOBO - Microstar MS KT266 Pro2 RU VIA PRO266A
CPU - AMD Athlon XP 1900+ Socket A
Cooler - Evercool MT2 Platinum Socket A DMI
RAM - DDR PC333 CL2.5 Kingmax 256MB
FDD - Alps 3.5" 1.44MB
HDD - Seagate ST340016A, Barracuda IV, 2MB (buffer), 7200rpm
GPU - Microstar MS8853 G3 Titan 500 Pro, 64MB TVout
Network - Ovislink
Source: https://meow.social/@yellowdog/115132494291526535
I lied, there's no Netflix.
Instead I have a local Jellyfin server with twenty terabytes of pirated media.
Found being sold online.
Right, so Racknerd doesn't offer Arch image:
As for custom ISO installers, that requires opening a ticket with tech support, giving them a link to the ISO, and asking them to mount it.
Well, I am not doing all that.
So, there's also this outdated (will become important later) "rescue environment":
Linux Kernel 4.x is Debian 9 and 3.x is Debian 8. I don't know why they couldn't just say that.
So, the recovery environment has some RAM (but seems to be less than the VPS), and some storage (around 1GiB). The free storage is around 350MiB.
The recovery environment can be accessed over SSH. OpenSSH 1:6.7p1-5+deb8u4, on that older thing, if someone is curious. Modern OpenSSH client just complains about old key exchange (quantum-resistance), but connects.
Welp, Arch Linux bootstrap is 138MiB compressed, so let's go.
But not so quickly.
There's no wget, nor curl. So let's install them.
Well, apt no longer works. Old minimal environment without package installer. Cool.
I found some trick for HTTP on stackexchange using telnet. No telnet.
No lynx either.
So I downloaded it onto my PC. I first got the idea of unpacking it directly from different server, but yeah, right, no sshfs. That would have been useful for directly dd-ing images.
So I try to use rsync. Of course there's no rsync. scp saves the day.
Let's unpack the bootstrap now, shall we? We shall not, there's no zstd to decompress the archive.
The bootstrap won't fit uncompressed, and anyway, I am uploading over mobile data.
LET'S FUCKING GO! Gzip is installed.
I created a temporary 1.5GiB partition for the bootstrap, this later becomes swap space. And then I can more or less follow installation with Arch Wiki. There's also this wiki page, but it's mostly just regular Arch Install.
That's a very healthy memory usage. RAM nearly full when something else is running, swap typically above half. But their RAID-10 SSD setup seems to be doing well for that.
Speedtest, or really anything is mostly limited by that single virtual core.
I don't know what their shutdown, reboot, change root password, and reconfigure networking would do or screw up in this case. I haven't tried them yet.
The VNC cuts out with Cloudflare captcha every so often, by the way.
I am in 1st year of college, I don't drink, and I am failing.