Subj : Re: Editing menus, headers and prompts.
To   : David Gonzalez
From : tassiebob
Date : Mon Oct 21 2024 06:54 pm

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 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 sollen
 DG> battery, not working and in my time I built a hackintosh. it was a nice
 DG> time, I used paralels and VMs integrated quite nicely.

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

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

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

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