Hi, I am a concept generator, and looking forward to generate two programs maybe in python 1st a pro-active ip /server venerable ports monitoring system where I can monitor a specific IP and the services to prevent attacks from other systems or IPs and to backtrack these IPs. 2nd to develop a powerful facial recognition system with AI and ML based extra intelligent image enhancement mechanism to identify the correct person and the probability of identity authentication is more than 90%. I have some more features to enhance the engine in my mind which will be the second phase of it.
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Welcome to the forums! 
Wonder IT kid turned neurosci, turned cogsci… what’s next? Who knows…
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I Am a 77 yr old Pensioner and the Internet and Operating systems.are my present hobby. I have been using Windows OS from win 95 right up to Windows 10. Nothing really changed besides the fact that my PC and Laptop did not belong to me although I purchased them. Microsoft had a hold on me and my equipment via their OS feeling like I am being blackmailed and of course the boredom with this run of the Mill OS.
I Discovered Ubuntu Linux on the Internet and installed it. Linux Mint, a very pleasant and encouraging OS. Presently running Mint 21.1 Vanessa. The last few Months since using Linux, my PC now belongs to me and no longer suffer the “Black Mail” syndrome.!
I Really enjoy Linux and I have been downloading different Distro’s which I am playing around on different HDD’s. Thanks for accepting me on this forum. I Am going to enjoy this.
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Welcome @zs5zk 
Great to have you here! Saw this message just before bed but also looking forward to reading, learning and sharing with you.
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Hi 
I’m Pablo Hernandez
Family, Home & Healthcare Healer 
FT auto didactic dev 
Python, AI, Data analytics.
I aspire to marry the arena of Radiology, Cardiology and Surgery with Python, AI and Data Science
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Hi, I go by CGL,
I have retired from the IC (Integrated Circuit) manufacturing world, 8 years ago. I have been curious about Linux and the distros before I retired but did not actively use any. But my old iMAC died, actually the Hard Drive, and Apple decided that the iMAC was too old for any of the newer OS releases. Linux Mint 21.1 is now running on the iMAC with an external HD. Someday, I will put a new HD inside the iMAC, but I’m just happy that I have a working system.
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Welcome to the community.
That’s really interesting background. Thanks for sharing.
Hope to see you around
Hi zs5zk,
I am old pensioner also, and running Linux Mint 21.1 on an old iMAC. I just started yesterday.
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Welcome so great to have you. Have a look around bump any threads that interest you.
I’m seeing a lot of Linux Mint users. Any reason why you started with Mint and why would you recommend it?
I have not tried mint in probably 8 to 10 years. I wonder how much it has evolved and matured.
Hi all, very glad to have found this place - seems very nice! I am a neuroscience student looking to learn more about how our brain performs computations 
and how we can help people who are impaired using brain-computer interfaces 
. I enjoy programming, which I do mainly in Python, MATLAB, and R (but I would really like to learn C - anyone has any good resources in particular?).
I am a big proponent of open science and open source (shame that MATLAB is basically the standard in this field…) and I want to promote this as much I can. Personally, I run Fedora Linux on my daily driver laptop. I use it for aforementioned programming, emailing, reading papers, creating LaTeX documents, and also to simply play with interesting Linux stuff. Great to meet you all!
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Welcome Andreas! Great to have you here. Interesting background. Over my head but there are others here who are also programmers.
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Hi all, I’m Richard from The Netherlands.
I found this forum while looking for a atop alternative (ended up witch Bashtop 
).
I work as a Technical support specialist at a Dutch hosting company and have a small home lab.
I recently moved to our first own house and currently in the prosses to build up Home Assistant and playing around with automations.
Within my home lab I run:
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6 VM’s on a Fujitsu Fujitsu Primergy RX200 S8
24 core (2x 12) Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 v2 @ 2.10GHz with 125GB of Ram -
The VM’s:
- Nextcloud and Bitwarden
- Open VPN
- Windows Server 2019 (for some network services)
- Windows 10 (save place to mess up)
- Home Assistant
- Reverse Proxy
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UDM Pro with 4 TB Drive (3 Access points, 3 networks (Main, guest, IoT), 4 camera’s and a doorbell.
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A Intel Nuc for PiHole and Uptime Kuma
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A rented VPS for my sites.
Allot of stuff to keep running and keep up-to-date, but it helps me try new thing, have a ‘save’ place to try stuff and from time to time fail, and most off al it’s just fun.
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Hi Richard, 
Welcome to the forums. Bashtop is pretty great. It’s been superseded by btop. Give it a try also:
Tell us more about your homelab… photos? You can start a new thread if you are up to it. Home lab inspiration/sharing is always welcomed here.
Related topics:
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Welcome Richard. Nice setup you’ve got going there.
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@hydn Thanks.
I wanted to use btop, but on some of my systems I could not install it, bashtop could.
So one 1 or 2 systems I have both
Sure, I will try to share more about my lab soon.
Need to do some server cleaning soon and can write down some system stats that I do not have now 
Here is a sneek peek
(And yes with RGB, because RGB makes everything run faster 
)
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Hi all, I apologize for presenting myself only now (I subscribed on Feb), my name is Aldo and I live in Rome, Italy. I’ve been dealing with IT since 1986 when I took my first Dos and Basic courses (good ol’times!!!), spacing from programming to end user support, systems analysis, software management at corporate level, some CAD, networking, assembling PCs for family and friends, etc… I started playing with Linux at the end of last century, and got a RPI1 as it was launched. Still have it, still works great. Then family and kids got into the way and Linux as my hobby was set aside for a few years. I “rediscovered” it during the pandemic, brought both RPI1 and RPI3b back to life, and got a RPI4. Since Feb23 I have some more spare time and am slowly learning to code in Python, and I’ll need all help this community will be able to give me! Thank you for taking me onboard, and happy coding, testing and debugging to all! 
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