I have a Mikrotik router, 2x VLAN-enabled switches, and 3x VLAN-enabled APs. My Internet access broke every day for a month while I figured out what I was doing.
I have a Mikrotik router, 2x VLAN-enabled switches, and 3x VLAN-enabled APs. My Internet access broke every day for a month while I figured out what I was doing.
Yeah only makes sense if you call it “desktop *NIX dominance” or maybe just “non-Windows dominance.”
Yeah and good luck mentioning that macOS is UNIX.
We really need to see info from the BIOS — exact CPU model, RAM speed, etc.
As others have pointed out, this is a pretty anachronistic build — i586 with DDR1 is just weird, so it’s possible there’s some really niche hardware and you may need an exotic kernel (or kernel options) to get anything to boot.
That said: have you just tried running a standard live or install CD from that time period? You could try booting a 2001 Slackware installer to see what happens.
Can you post the CPU info? I think it should be available from the BIOS.
Please be direct and stop beating around the Bush.
I still use my i5-4670k machine. It has a SATA SSD, only 8GB RAM, but it is a completely zippy machine. Ancient (by today’s standards) 750Ti, but I only rarely use it for old games (Xonotic and Portal2) and it doesn’t break a sweat.
Debian, i3wm, so it ends up being lightweight but that’s my preferred setup regardless of specs.
As far as reinstalling and losing your data, you may want to just backup /home
to a USB disk now.
You’ll want to figure out the VPN issue, so maybe post what you know about that. Also post ifconfig -a
or ip addr show
. Also the output of route
for good measure. Can you ping anything? Is it just a nameserver issue (try pinging 8.8.8.8
and kernel.org
, for instance)?
Once you have network access, I’d install tmux
if you’re going to be spending any significant time debugging in the terminal :)
KDE is minimalistic?! Granted it’s been a very long time since using it, but I’d say Fluxbox or i3wm are minimalistic, KDE…not so much.
Not hating on it at all, just musing.
Codec has huge impact.
I’ve only recently branched out from router defaults…only reason was that I wanted to VLAN off my home network, and mostly just so [Home Assistant-controlled] smart devices can’t talk to the Internet at all.
It could be fun to implement this under *NIX for fun — cronjob to take screenshots, some OCR, throw it in a database…I’d never want to use this “feature” but as an academic exercise it could be a fun project.
But having it implemented by my OS, and not by me…yikes. No thanks.
Another option is to remove it and symlink it to a static version of your choosing. I believe NM won’t replace a symlink. You can just remove the symlink when you’re done and it should go back to normal…I think.
Only additional thing I would do would be to try to ssh into it to. Sounds like that wouldn’t have worked anyway. But if you can ssh into it while it’s in a degraded-but-not-completely-borked state you can poke around, troubleshoot, and of course cleanly reboot.
I kinda prefer xargs
to the -exec
option — just feels more UNIXy to me (do one one job well).
But as another comment said, for grep
I just use -r
and --include
. So clearly I’m not very consistent…
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I got an Orange Pi 5+ for Immich (pi 4 [4GB] was struggling with the ML features enabled).
Immich is awesome!
One of the real downsides of ARM is, it seems, the relative lack of standardization. An x64 kernel? It’ll run on most anything from the last ten years at least. And as for boot process, it’s probably one of two options (and in many cases one computer can boot either legacy or EFI).
ARM, on the other hand…my raspberry pi collection does one thing, my Orange Pi does something else, and God help you if you want to try swapping the Orange kernel for the Raspberry (or vice versa)!
Eh, I assume there are a phenomenal number of job descriptions that are just copy-pasted over. Native [language] speaker, 5+ years coding experience in [framework that’s been around for 3 years], etc.
My carrier is Google Fi — one perk is that they will give you free data-only sims (up to 10 I think?) and you just pay for the data you use like any other data. I have used old Android phones in USB tether mode this way, and it works just fine. So, rpi+old/cheap phone should do the trick.
One fun bonus is that if you tether over USB it will work as a WiFi dongle, too — the failover from WiFi to cell should happen on the phone, transparently iirc. Not sure if that affects you.
Caveat is that I did this a while ago, and their pricing structure may have changed. Finished to be a great deal but has slowly become another carrier with not much to differentiate it…