Quoting Joe Mackey to All on 10-11-18 08:19 <=-

Well, there was an empty message here in the packet.... I'm still here,
and ready to read, but nothing's been here... I did send you a couple
replies before waldo's and docs had their issues, maybe I should find
them again and re-send....?

ttyl neb

... A program is used to turn data into error messages.

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Nancy wrote --

Well, there was an empty message here in the packet

That was my error. I clicked send instead of the message box.

.... I'm still here, and ready to read, but nothing's been here

I haven't seen anything show up since around 9/25, before the troubles
began with Gordon, Florence, etc.

I did send you a couple replies before waldo's and docs had their

issues, maybe I should find them again and re-send....?

Might help to get things going again. :)
Been having trouble with Mark's site and need to drop him a line about
that.
Even Daryl's been quiet. :)
Joe



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Quoting Joe Mackey to Nancy Backus on 10-12-18 07:31 <=-

Well, there was an empty message here in the packet

That was my error. I clicked send instead of the message box.

Ah... that explains it... :)

.... I'm still here, and ready to read, but nothing's been here

I haven't seen anything show up since around 9/25, before the
troubles began with Gordon, Florence, etc.

I went back and checked, and I last sent messages 9/18, 19, 20 and 21...
but they were all sent from Tiny's, so that must have been right after
Doc's went down.... His computer died, and he had to replace it...

I did send you a couple replies before waldo's and docs had their
issues, maybe I should find them again and re-send....?

Might help to get things going again. :)

OK... I dug them out, and am resending them in the next few messages....
5 to you, and 2 to Daryl....

Been having trouble with Mark's site and need to drop him a line
about that.

Florence, and the power outages associated with, took out his RA bbs....
he's got the regular address pointing to his SouthEast Star bbs, which
is using Synchronet software...

Even Daryl's been quiet. :)

The last messages from him warned that that would be the case, what with
the weather forecasting thunderstorms and tornados... the move to his
mom's place... and his mom's health not good.... But hopefully he'll be
back soon.....

ttyl neb

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Nancy wrote --

Doc's went down.... His computer died, and he had to replace it...

I didn't know that happened, or had forgotten.

Florence, and the power outages associated with, took out his RA bbs....

Ah, explains that.

Even Daryl's been quiet. :)

The last messages from him warned that that would be the case, what with
the weather forecasting thunderstorms and tornados.

I knew about that but figured that was all over by now.
Joe

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Quoting Joe Mackey to Nancy Backus on 10-15-18 06:34 <=-

Doc's went down.... His computer died, and he had to replace it...

I didn't know that happened, or had forgotten.

You might not have known... I found out because Ed had emailed Janis
Kracht, and she put a message into COOKING, which I got in a packet from
some other bbs....

Florence, and the power outages associated with, took out his RA
bbs....

Ah, explains that.

Yup...

Even Daryl's been quiet. :)

The last messages from him warned that that would be the case, what with
the weather forecasting thunderstorms and tornados.

I knew about that but figured that was all over by now.

I'd've thought so, too.... hope it's not that he or his mom took a turn
for the worse....

ttyl neb

... Great! Now if we can just keep it from exploding...

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Even Daryl's been quiet. :)

The last messages from him warned that that would be the case, what with the weather forecasting thunderstorms and tornados.

I knew about that but figured that was all over by now.

I'd've thought so, too.... hope it's not that he or his mom took a turn
for the worse....

He is actually moving in with his Mom in order to better take care of her.
He had said he'd be down until "November or January," IIRC, but he recently wrote and said he hoped to be back up by Movember 1.

Mike

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Quoting Mike Powell to Nancy Backus on 10-18-18 19:10 <=-

Even Daryl's been quiet. :)

The last messages from him warned that that would be the case, what with the weather forecasting thunderstorms and tornados.

I knew about that but figured that was all over by now.

I'd've thought so, too.... hope it's not that he or his mom took a turn
for the worse....

He is actually moving in with his Mom in order to better take care of
her.

Yes, I knew that he was in the process of moving in with his mom... but
the last time he posted, he was also indicating that her health was
going down fast, hence my concern....

He had said he'd be down until "November or January," IIRC, but he recently wrote and said he hoped to be back up by Movember 1.

The last we'd heard, he was saying at least to October... a little
earlier than what you last heard from him... Hopefully he is back up by November 1 or so... :)

ttyl neb

... Don't try pessimism. It won't work anyway....

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Mark wrote --

He is actually moving in with his Mom in order to better take care of her.
He had said he'd be down until "November or January," IIRC, but he recently wrote and said he hoped to be back up by Movember 1.

Thanks for the update.
It's awfully quiet around here without him to banter with. :)
Joe

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Thanks for the update.
It's awfully quiet around here without him to banter with. :)
Joe

Yeah, I miss him in quite a few echoes.

Mike

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Mike wrote --

It's awfully quiet around here without him to banter with. :)

Yeah, I miss him in quite a few echoes.

I see a couple new Burma Shave signs today, which he has set up at auto
post so maybe his system at least is up and running again.
Joe


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Yeah, I miss him in quite a few echoes.

I see a couple new Burma Shave signs today, which he has set up at auto post so maybe his system at least is up and running again.

Yes, I saw those. So glad to read them again. :)

Mike

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Mike,

Yeah, I miss him in quite a few echoes.

I see a couple new Burma Shave signs today, which he has set up at auto MP>> post so maybe his system at least is up and running again.

Yes, I saw those. So glad to read them again. :)

I'm glad to be online again. However, thunderstorms on Halloween into
the weekend will put me offline for a few days. If it was just rain, I
wouldn't worry about it.

I did get a 4 TB USB external drive today, and will back up the BBS
computer on it. The other external USB I think has 740 Gb, and I'll put
the BBS laptop computer backups on it.

I lost the power adapter for the WP LAN drive, but this will work
better. The laptop doesn't have as much data as the BBS computer does.

Daryl

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I did get a 4 TB USB external drive today, and will back up the BBS computer on it.

I am able to backup my entire network onto one of those with plenty of room left over. :)

Mike

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Mike,

I did get a 4 TB USB external drive today, and will back up the BBS
computer on it.

I am able to backup my entire network onto one of those with plenty of room MP>left over. :)

Well, with it being a USB drive and not one for the Ethernet, as it
were, I'll just use it for the BBS. However, I haven't had a chance to
set it up yet...so, I hope system doesn't crash before I have a chance
to get it going. :P

Daryl

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Re: Re: Hello?
By: Daryl Stout to MIKE POWELL on Tue Oct 30 2018 06:36 pm

Well, with it being a USB drive and not one for the Ethernet, as it
were, I'll just use it for the BBS. However, I haven't had a chance to
set it up yet...so, I hope system doesn't crash before I have a chance
to get it going. :P

Quite a few routers have a USB port and can act as a file server when you hook up a drive to it; otherwise, if the systems are available on the net, making the drive shared on the system that backs up the most to it and copying files over the network works too.
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Kurt,

Quite a few routers have a USB port and can act as a file server when you ho KW>up a drive to it; otherwise, if the systems are available on the net, making KW>the drive shared on the system that backs up the most to it and copying file KW>over the network works too.

Well, the workaround was "funky" but it works.

1) An ethernet cable comes from the Xfinity cable modem to the LinkSys
EA7300 Router. The BBS main computer and the laptop, along with a
special "phone" for a deal called "Hamshack Hotline" are connected to
the router.

2) Another ethernet cable takes up slot 4 on the router, and goes to the
back bedroom where the cable modem, plus my Mom's computer, and the ADT
alarm system deal for the camera are, along with a "network switch" for
those. That second cable from the router plugs into the network switch.

This had to be done, as I had to put the cable modem into "bridge
mode" for the BBS to be connected to.

I've got a 750 Gigabyte external USB drive, and I'll use that on the
laptop computer for backups. I just bought a 4 Terabyte external USB
drive, and I'll use that for the BBS computer for backups. My Mom's
computer has a USB drive of its own for data backups.

Daryl

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