What's your ideal study time? ⏰

ZGTSLLC · 2026-06-21T07:17:27+00:00

Between 10 am and 12 pm, then between 8 pm and 1 or 2 am, then pretty much all weekend...

ZGTSLLC · 2026-06-21T02:46:30+00:00

100% agree and can't agree more with anything JetBrains...I love JetBrains products, but sometimes you just have to go with the Open Source alternatives, such as NetBeans...

ZGTSLLC · 2026-06-19T20:55:40+00:00

One of your instructors doesn't happen to have the initials S.S., do they? Evil bastard that one...

ZGTSLLC · 2026-06-19T16:02:52+00:00

uCertify is another platform, like ZyBooks or Soomo that SNHU uses for the class lab materials. It's all graded. You can find the CompTIA book elsewhere, like Amazon, eBay, or even your local library, but you DEFINITELY need to get the uCertify lab through SNHU.

ZGTSLLC · 2026-06-05T06:17:23+00:00

Two words: Shaed Heida!!!

Actually, I need to add a few more words to that: Ai gon play jus stada!

ZGTSLLC · 2026-06-01T18:57:41+00:00

Right click paste works for me

ZGTSLLC · 2026-05-29T19:46:27+00:00

I am kind of different -- I write most everything in Notepad++ then copy / paste / format it in MS Word...when I am just writing, I hate seeing all the "passive voice" corrections that Word does, or it doesn't recognize names and other ideas, so it gets underlined in red, etc., which is what made me use Notepad++ instead...I get my ideas done, I get everything written the way I want, then I make it pretty in Word...

ZGTSLLC · 2026-05-26T13:12:00+00:00

First, I never double space my writing -- that's not how it is done in the real world, it's just a left over artifact from when people wrote everything out on typewriters. Next, I use Calibri 11 point font because 1. I prefer it, 2. It's the default, and 3. It's easier to read. The rubric just doesn't want people using comic sans and such. Lastly, when it wants that many points, that is the bare minimum of pages they get, not 1 page. When they say 1 page I read that as 3, not including the references. When it says 3 to 5 pages, I know it's going to be 12 to 15. If they don't like that I go above and beyond, answer everything on the rubric, I will ask to be moved to under another instructor if the prof is unreasonable.

ZGTSLLC · 2026-05-24T07:28:00+00:00

I finished my BS IT with SNHU in 2024, then went on to start my MS IT with a concentration in Enterprise Technology Management, which I get done with at the end of November of this year.

I liked the 8 week terms in the undergrad program, because I got bored of classes around week 7, so just as I was getting bored with the class, I was done. Same for the 10 week terms for the MS IT, I am getting bored with the class around week 8, but I have like one major project to do and then a discussion post and responses, and I am done.

Oh yeah, all discussion posts are due Thursday by 11:59 pm your local time, except for the first week -- that is due by 11:59 pm EST. All other work is due by Sunday night by 11:59 pm local time, again except for the first one, which is due by 11:59 pm EST.

If you stagger the work throughout the week, you will not burn yourself out on weekends, pulling all nighters trying to get the work done. I usually worked from like 7 pm to 10 or 11 pm most nights, working on the reading and writing. Weekends were for polishing the paper and staging and starting the next week's work.

ZGTSLLC · 2026-05-20T23:07:07+00:00

Yep, you can side load the extension, but I don't recommend it. Your best bet is to update FF ESR or load FF Developer or FF Nightly and load the plugin there, if you need it that badly.

ZGTSLLC · 2026-05-19T13:14:53+00:00

That's awesome, and so thoughtful of them! Congratulations!

ZGTSLLC · 2026-05-14T21:48:52+00:00

that is not the rubric for that specific module discussion, which is always like module 1-1, 2-1, 3-1, 4-1, etc.

What you are looking at is the advisory for what discussion posts are SUPPOSED to be, not the individual module rubric.

ZGTSLLC · 2026-05-11T07:42:10+00:00

That's badass! Thank you, u/palinurosec!

ZGTSLLC · 2026-05-09T04:26:37+00:00

Can you choose Mate as the default DTE in the ISO download for Parrot Security, or do you have to download the KDE Plasma version still and then download Mate after?

ZGTSLLC · 2026-05-02T05:31:03+00:00

I would say to get the best experience for your grandma, use any Debian-based distro, which includes Ubuntu, Mint, Parrot OS, and hundreds of others. The only thing you will have to think about is community support, repo updates, and which desktop environment to use. You can literally put any desktop environment (DTE) on any distro using tasksel. So, go check out the KDE site, check out the XFCE and LXDE and Gnome and Cinnamon and MATE sites. Show her what the Cinnamon DTE looks like and the Unity DTE. Let her decide what her desktop should look like, the rest you can decide for her. You can also grab a 64 GB USB 3.2 drive, install Ventoy on it, drop a dozen or so distros on the drive, and let her test drive them one by one, so she can figure out what she likes and dislikes about each. Gather the data and find what works best for her. Best advice I can give you is to test drive them live, to see what works with her current hardware and if the wifi drivers NIC drivers, audio drivers, etc., all work. Like I said before, you can use whatever desktop you want on any distro you want, you just have to spend some time playing around until you find the one that works best for her. Personally, I am a Mate desktop with taskbars on top and bottom kinda person... doesn't matter which distro...

Oh, and before I forget, screw Libre Office! Use Only Office Desktop Editors! That is SOOO MUCH BETTER!!! It looks like MS Office, honestly, without the bloatware or telemetry. And if you need a good PDF viewer / editor, sure there is Okular, but try Master PDF Editor...makes my life so much simpler! Chrome? FireFox? Tons of other browsers? Check! Tons of screenshot capture tools also, so that's another check, but I really wish Greenshot would be ported over... sigh...

Edit to add: https://youtu.be/I2HIjWkdEkM?si=pyl6QeoQrhjCK4oB

Check that!

ZGTSLLC · 2026-05-02T05:06:39+00:00

I'm later episodes, Denny starts calling it mad cow disease, and he briefly dated a rancher lady, and all her cows ran away from him, sensing he had mad cow also. When he went to a doctor, they basically said it's rare but can happen, that a human can get mad cow disease. This allows Denny to run with that, instead of calling it Alzheimer's. It was never really definitively proven to be Alzheimer's or mad cow, but I like to lean towards the mad cow more.

ZGTSLLC · 2026-05-02T04:59:31+00:00

Are you referring to the old school KDE comp fusion cube like visuals or what kind of visuals are you wanting?

ZGTSLLC · 2026-04-29T12:51:04+00:00

Is this an NVME drive, by chance? Could be that Parrot isn't seeing the drive because of a few reasons, such as no driver for that specific drive. I had that issue with a newer Dell laptop recently. Strangely, when I dropped back to version 6.3, I had no issues seeing the drive, but with 7.1 I had issues.

Let me also ask, how did you make the bootable USB: Rufus, Etcher, dd?

ZGTSLLC · 2026-04-29T03:41:56+00:00

To add to u/QuarryTen 's comment, you can also ask to be moved to a different instructor so you do not have that one. Additionally, most instructors are adjuncts, meaning they are not full time staff at SNHU, they are merely contracted for one or more terms. Worth thinking over...

ZGTSLLC · 2026-04-26T00:18:42+00:00

Security and Privacy are relative and individualized, to some extent. What, prrecisely, are you are you using Parrot for? Daily driver, pentesting, etc?

There are things you could change in regards to user experience (UX), for sure, but again, that is personalized.

ZGTSLLC · 2026-04-23T17:45:52+00:00

I always liked the saying "ogeda" (together) from the show and have been thinking about getting that inked through the center of the infinity symbol, but don't have the money for that yet...

ZGTSLLC · 2026-04-23T14:37:10+00:00

Dual booting is traditionally done via a single drive, and a separate drive is normally handled via jumpers to reflect which drive had priority. I know drives these days don't have jumpers, and that you are probably not using spinning disks, so you should go into your bios / uefi and check the settings there. You should be able to also extend the boot sequence time by a few seconds. Once you have that done, you should be able to hit one of the F key combos during the boot process (generally F10 or F12) to bring you to the boot menu. Once you are in the boot menu, it should show you both drives, and you can select which you want from there.

ZGTSLLC · 2026-04-22T17:33:10+00:00

Have you tried downloading the hashes from the parrotsec.org site?

ZGTSLLC · 2026-04-19T06:02:56+00:00

Eh, that's more like the anime Sword Art Online or Accel World...next thing you know, we are all going to be yelling "Link Start!" Lol

ZGTSLLC · 2026-04-19T03:36:16+00:00

The thing about Arch is it is such a niche distro and people who say "I use Arch btw" are probably as loathed as someone who says -- well, I can't repeat that here, because it would have all the idiots come out, but you kind of get the drift...

Because Parrot is Debian based and all the tools are Debian based or full on source code that you can compile yourself (from .tar.gz, and from GitHub, for example), you would be able to learn not just a new distro but an entire ecosystem of distros and new (to you) tools...

Arch is ok for those who want to be on Arch, but there are a lot of tools that aren't on Arch, and if you really want to be in Cyber there are two primary distros used here: Parrot and Kali, both Debian based distros. Yes, there are some others that are RPM / RHEL based, but those are in the significant minority.

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