Oh, also this is not an industrial setting with a computer controlling some heavy equipment. This is a nostalgia lab. MSDOS was the thing when I was around 22 or so.

I am still figuring out DOS networking.
Update - The on-board Ethernet is a Realtec of some sort

Anyone remember the castaway? The adventures of a guy on a one-tree desert island.

My dedicated machine ignores disk swap on 2 of the 3 USB drives I have. The third one seems to be ok though.

This is The Way.

FreeDOS is running on a dedicated i5 desktop with 8gb ram. I wanted to get a period correct desktop machine to run MSDOS 6.22 but all the “Electronic Surplus” places have all dried up. So I built the least powered machine I could (Well I could have used an i3, but the difference in price was only $10.00. I only put in 1 of the smallest memory sticks they had …)

I have a dos running in DOSBOX, but it’s not the same as real hardware, and it’s not easy to use a usb floppy drive with it. With my dedicated machine I can even boot from floppy if I want/need to.

RIP Weird Stuff, Halted Specialties, The one that used to be near the Oakland Airport and others I remember but don’t remember their names. Not to mention the internet famous one in Texas - Computer Reset. Oh, now I am sad.

My production laptop is Debian, as is my server so I guess that would be the way to go then.

No other drivers for storage only ANSI.SYS because I like a pretty prompt. I did not try and empty dir or dir b: but I did install FreeDOS which does not seem to have this problem

I had the lens pointed up. It was sitting on the camera-end cap. I was not holding the zoom ring for this test. It held the zoom for the test and remained fully extended.

I did not load smartdrv, I wanted to save memory for the parts of things that can’t load high.

I think the first thing I will try is FreeDOS - It’s newer.

A Bard, an advanced story teller, One who draws pictures of things that never were (people with 3 arms for example), Lore from Star Trek. Don’t give it power to do anything on its own, always monitor it.

In case it matters to the issue the lens marking reads: “Canon Zoom Lens EF 28-135 mm 1:3.5 - 5.6 IS”

I just tried this - Lens is off the camera (and has a lens cover for both ends) sitting looking straight up. I turn zoom ring until the lens is fully extended. I wait a bit then I check for zoom movement and found that the lens was still fully extended.

I don’t know if this is a valid test because sitting on a table - the lens is not getting any electricity from the camera body.

I can’t say for sure, but I think I had my hand on the zoom ring. The moon will still be full enough tonight perhaps I will try again. I looked up “Focus Breathing” and I am not sure what it is really talking about.

I guess we will see how that works for me? Thanks for the hint Redd : ^ )

Thanks for the hint. : ^ )

A lot - a moon mostly filling the frame to a moon in 1/9 of the frame

When one of these guys attacks your site, do they send the info back to the spoofed address or does the scraped info go to their real IP address? Is there some way to get a fix on the actual bot and not on some home user that got his network facing IP address hijacked?

I refuse to let gaming preferences dictate my choice of operating system. I choose my OS first—Linux—because I demand full ownership of my computing environment. If an entity can extract data without your knowledge or control updates, shutdowns, or reboots against your will, they own your machine—not you. With Linux, I own my system entirely. I decide when updates happen, I control what data—if any—leaves my computer, and nothing happens without my explicit consent. My computer works for me, not someone else.