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    From Avon@21:1/101 to All on Thu Nov 30 20:46:40 2023
    Hi there

    These nodes are MIA at NET 1 and I am wondering if anyone has seen/heard of the systems or sysops in recent times? There's a couple of old timer sysops on this list and I just don't know if they are still about or?

    Will likely delist them soon if I can't make contact

    105 Fluph BBS Leslie Given 47.223.172.117
    122 Necronomicon BBS Carlos Roldan necrobbs.ddns.net
    181 Ninho do Abutre 2 Mauro Veiga abutre.no-ip.org:2323
    228 Vienna-Matrix BBS Alexander Payer sbbs.viennamatrix.at
    234 Crewmate's Test Lab Mike Edwards testlab.fsxnet.nz:7357

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  • From Accession@21:1/200 to Avon on Thu Nov 30 17:00:02 2023
    Hello Avon,

    On Fri, 1 Dec 2023 02:46:40 +1300, you wrote:

    These nodes are MIA at NET 1 and I am wondering if anyone has seen/heard
    of the systems or sysops in recent times? There's a couple of old timer sysops on this list and I just don't know if they are still about or?

    Will likely delist them soon if I can't make contact

    105 Fluph BBS Leslie Given 47.223.172.117
    122 Necronomicon BBS Carlos Roldan necrobbs.ddns.net
    181 Ninho do Abutre 2 Mauro Veiga abutre.no-ip.org:2323
    228 Vienna-Matrix BBS Alexander Payer sbbs.viennamatrix.at
    234 Crewmate's Test Lab Mike Edwards testlab.fsxnet.nz:7357

    I removed the top two on your list recently as well. Haven't heard from either of them in a very long time.

    Regards,
    Nick

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  • From Chad Adams@21:1/107 to Accession on Fri Dec 1 17:39:31 2023
    I hope Carlos is doing ok. I know he has had a bunch of health issues.


    30 Nov 23 17:00, you wrote to Avon:

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    Hello Avon,

    On Fri, 1 Dec 2023 02:46:40 +1300, you wrote:

    These nodes are MIA at NET 1 and I am wondering if anyone has
    seen/heard of the systems or sysops in recent times? There's a couple
    of old timer sysops on this list and I just don't know if they are
    still about or?

    Will likely delist them soon if I can't make contact

    105 Fluph BBS Leslie Given 47.223.172.117
    122 Necronomicon BBS Carlos Roldan necrobbs.ddns.net
    181 Ninho do Abutre 2 Mauro Veiga abutre.no-ip.org:2323
    228 Vienna-Matrix BBS Alexander Payer sbbs.viennamatrix.at
    234 Crewmate's Test Lab Mike Edwards testlab.fsxnet.nz:7357

    I removed the top two on your list recently as well. Haven't heard from either of them in a very long time.

    Regards,
    Nick

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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to Accession on Sun Dec 3 11:12:38 2023
    On 30 Nov 2023 at 05:00p, Accession pondered and said...

    I removed the top two on your list recently as well. Haven't heard from either of them in a very long time.

    thanks Nick, yeah, it's a pity they were old timers in my book ;-)

    That makes you older than Jesus :)

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  • From Accession@21:1/200 to Avon on Sat Dec 2 19:10:38 2023
    Hello Avon,

    On Sun, 3 Dec 2023 17:12:38 +1300, you wrote:

    I removed the top two on your list recently as well. Haven't heard
    from either of them in a very long time.

    thanks Nick, yeah, it's a pity they were old timers in my book ;-)

    Unfortunately, I've had to remove quite a few non-responsive nodes lately.

    That makes you older than Jesus :)

    Yikes! That one hit kinda hard. ;)

    Haven't really been doing much lately besides keeping up with the software I use that is still under development. Other than that, the server machine is still chugging along nicely so there's no reason to make any drastic decisions.

    Turned off my plex server VM as we don't use it any more. Also turned off the VM that hosts Mystic for now, just due to lack of development and me not wanting to maintain two BBSs. If g00 ever makes his way back I can easily fire it back up where I left off, on the latest version, with all message and file distribution networks currently disabled.

    Call it 'winding down', if you will. ;)

    Regards,
    Nick

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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to Accession on Sun Dec 3 16:05:04 2023
    On 02 Dec 2023 at 07:10p, Accession pondered and said...

    thanks Nick, yeah, it's a pity they were old timers in my book ;-)

    Unfortunately, I've had to remove quite a few non-responsive nodes
    lately.

    Yes I can see a few more I will likely delist from NET 1 soon, there is a mix of activity with various nodes but when folks depart most don't let you know and it's not until traffic really builds up that you find out. Bit of pain but part of doing the admin roles I guess..

    That makes you older than Jesus :)

    Yikes! That one hit kinda hard. ;)

    Sorry, no offense intended... just that you've been active in this space far longer than I have... like a wise Jedi, this is the netmail you are looking for...

    Haven't really been doing much lately besides keeping up with the
    software I use that is still under development. Other than that, the server machine is still chugging along nicely so there's no reason to
    make any drastic decisions.

    I'm the same, family and work have kept me busy, I would like to create a system/hardware etc. that I could run several things on it at once, BBS HUB, Agency, NNTP server etc... but I lack the skills / knowledge to do it. I have three machines running upstairs that ideally would be (somehow) all running under one system... save some power.. it's the devil in the detail and the mental energy to drive the process that nobble me at the moment.

    Turned off my plex server VM as we don't use it any more. Also turned
    off the VM that hosts Mystic for now, just due to lack of development
    and me not wanting to maintain two BBSs. If g00 ever makes his way back
    I can easily fire it back up where I left off, on the latest version,
    with all message and file distribution networks currently disabled.

    fair enough, I have not seen / heard from g00 in many months... but I'm not overly as invested in Mystic as I once was either and daily real life stuff has kept my focuses elsewhere also...

    Call it 'winding down', if you will. ;)

    I hope it's not in totally, the scene would be very much the poorer for your departure. I don't plan on going anywhere any time soon but I do find my activity levels are far more variable than they once were. perhaps I'll end up swinging back in to a more active phase over my summer (or not). Guess time will tell.

    Regards,
    Nick

    Best, Paul

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  • From Accession@21:1/200 to Avon on Sun Dec 3 07:51:58 2023
    Hello Avon,

    On Sun, 3 Dec 2023 22:05:04 +1300, you wrote:

    Unfortunately, I've had to remove quite a few non-responsive nodes
    lately.

    Yes I can see a few more I will likely delist from NET 1 soon, there is
    a mix of activity with various nodes but when folks depart most don't
    let you know and it's not until traffic really builds up that you find
    out. Bit of pain but part of doing the admin roles I guess..

    I would imagine 'they' don't know when they depart either. Whether it be the system is left on autopilot for months on end, and then finally something breaks and they don't realize it until whenever they decide to check on things, or just don't bother and turn the machine off. But yeah, I usually take a quick look at my outbound directories once every few months and if there's backed up packets/bundles, I look further into it.

    That makes you older than Jesus :)

    Yikes! That one hit kinda hard. ;)

    Sorry, no offense intended... just that you've been active in this space far longer than I have... like a wise Jedi, this is the netmail you are looking for...

    No offense taken. Just made me stop and realize how long it really has been.

    But then I realize Digital Man and Atreyu (shameful redirection/plug because I know they read here!) have been around even longer, and feel better because I'm not THAT old. ;) <3

    Haven't really been doing much lately besides keeping up with the
    software I use that is still under development. Other than that, the
    server machine is still chugging along nicely so there's no reason
    to make any drastic decisions.

    I'm the same, family and work have kept me busy, I would like to create
    a system/hardware etc. that I could run several things on it at once,
    BBS HUB, Agency, NNTP server etc... but I lack the skills / knowledge to
    do it. I have three machines running upstairs that ideally would be (somehow) all running under one system... save some power.. it's the
    devil in the detail and the mental energy to drive the process that
    nobble me at the moment.

    If your interested, get yourself a cheap server machine. I snagged an HP Proliant ML310e Gen8 - Intel Xeon, 32g ram, enough hdd space (4x 2TB drives I believe) I will never use all of off Amazon I think (I would imagine you could get something 5x better now for the same price). I don't even remember how long ago but it has to have been over 5+ years now - for a few hundred bucks. I basically setup a RAID 1 array in case any single drive fails (and I don't need 8TB, heck I don't even need 4TB hdd space), install VMWare or Proxmox on it, and you can install however many VMs you want, run whatever OS you want on each separate VM, etc. Then you can either use your other hardware for other things or get rid of/sell/donate it. It's quite easy, especially after everything you've already accomplished in regards to getting old, dusty BBS related stuff to work seamlessly. ;)

    Turned off my plex server VM as we don't use it any more. Also
    turned off the VM that hosts Mystic for now, just due to lack of
    development and me not wanting to maintain two BBSs. If g00 ever
    makes his way back I can easily fire it back up where I left off,
    on the latest version, with all message and file distribution
    networks currently disabled.

    fair enough, I have not seen / heard from g00 in many months... but I'm
    not overly as invested in Mystic as I once was either and daily real
    life stuff has kept my focuses elsewhere also...

    Same. As I said, I follow the development process. When it stops, I start to lose interest. ;)

    Call it 'winding down', if you will. ;)

    I hope it's not in totally, the scene would be very much the poorer for your departure. I don't plan on going anywhere any time soon but I do
    find my activity levels are far more variable than they once were.
    perhaps I'll end up swinging back in to a more active phase over my
    summer (or not). Guess time will tell.

    I have no plans or need to go anywhere any time soon, unless there's some kind of catastrophic hardware failure. My system basically runs itself with very minimal intervention (or breakage, if you will) by me. As for activity levels, it's all based on what you've done, and what you can do. When you build your entire system you always have something to do to keep you busy. When you start running out of things to do, you start slowing down and really can't do much except maintain what you've already done. When all of that runs smooth as silk, you get bored and find something else to do. ;)

    Regards,
    Nick

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  • From Tiny@21:1/222 to Accession on Sun Dec 3 09:05:14 2023
    something to do to keep you busy. When you start running out of things
    to do, you start slowing down and really can't do much except maintain
    what you've already done. When all of that runs smooth as silk, you
    get bored and find something else to do. ;)

    Exactly. My system was on auto pilot for quite a while. I recently
    started making a few changes. Going to tweak a few things to automate it
    even more. LOL

    Currently mucking about with the VR world. Picked up a quest 2 on a
    black friday sale. (Refurb model) it's fun... wish my computer was
    powerful enough to check out no man's sky in VR but it barly runs as it
    is. (I did try... took an hour and 1/2 to load)


    |09S|11hawn


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  • From Accession@21:1/200 to Tiny on Sun Dec 3 08:38:08 2023
    Hello Tiny,

    On Sun, 3 Dec 2023 15:05:14 -0500, you wrote:

    Exactly. My system was on auto pilot for quite a while. I recently started making a few changes. Going to tweak a few things to automate it even more. LOL

    I've noticed your boredom made you check out a newer BBS software.

    Currently mucking about with the VR world. Picked up a quest 2 on a
    black friday sale. (Refurb model) it's fun... wish my computer was
    powerful enough to check out no man's sky in VR but it barly runs as it
    is. (I did try... took an hour and 1/2 to load)

    I did that when Playstation 4 came out. Got the whole VR set and at the time they didn't have enough games to make it worthwhile. It was fun while it lasted though, I guess.

    I have a pretty nice gaming machine, but ever since I gave up on COD and spent like 500 hours on PUBG when it was released.. Cyberpunk 2077 and The latest Resident Evil were the last games I played through all the way. Now I wait until another game catches my eye, I guess. Remakes aren't enticing me, Starfield looks interesting, but reading reviews there's a lot of empty worlds that may cause a lot of redundancy and boredom. Alan Wake 2 looks decent. I've already played like 4-5 of the first Assassin's Creeds, which were fun.. but after awhile each new game is the same as the last, just in a different setting.

    Maybe it's just an age thing. Might be time to build an old muscle car or get a motorcycle, or something. :D

    Regards,
    Nick

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  • From Tiny@21:1/222 to Accession on Sun Dec 3 13:26:13 2023
    the time they didn't have enough games to make it worthwhile. It was
    fun while it lasted though, I guess.

    Yeah, I mean do I think it's the be all and end all? Nope.

    I have a pretty nice gaming machine, but ever since I gave up on COD
    and spent like 500 hours on PUBG when it was released.. Cyberpunk 2077

    I have CP 2077 and it's fun. Just sometimes those games are just too
    much work for me. I like the ones that came out in about 2006.

    Maybe it's just an age thing. Might be time to build an old muscle car
    or get a motorcycle, or something. :D

    If I had a garage again I'd totally rebuild a bike. Friend and I took a
    none running HOna Goldwing from 1979 I think and rebuilt it into a nice machine. Guy who bought it drove from winterpeg for it so that was a
    trek.


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  • From esc@21:4/173 to Accession on Sun Dec 3 11:48:26 2023
    Maybe it's just an age thing. Might be time to build an old muscle car
    or get a motorcycle, or something. :D

    Me and my 68 Mustang approve ;)

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  • From Accession@21:1/200 to Tiny on Sun Dec 3 15:09:26 2023
    Hello Tiny,

    On Sun, 3 Dec 2023 19:26:12 -0500, you wrote:

    the time they didn't have enough games to make it worthwhile. It was
    fun while it lasted though, I guess.

    Yeah, I mean do I think it's the be all and end all? Nope.

    I think the quest is doing a much better job in regards to games than Playstation ever did for VR though.

    I have CP 2077 and it's fun. Just sometimes those games are just too
    much work for me. I like the ones that came out in about 2006.

    It was fun while it lasted. Now that I beat it, I don't have any other interest in playing it, including the many side quests that had nothing to do with the story, or the DLC that they kinda tried rebranding into an entirely new game so they could sell it for another $70 USD.

    Maybe it's just an age thing. Might be time to build an old muscle car
    or get a motorcycle, or something. :D

    If I had a garage again I'd totally rebuild a bike. Friend and I took a none running HOna Goldwing from 1979 I think and rebuilt it into a nice machine. Guy who bought it drove from winterpeg for it so that was a
    trek.

    I wouldn't mind trying my hand at a fully custom made bike. I'm a welder/fabricator/ironworker so that part of it shouldn't be too bad, until it comes time to decide what parts (engine, wheels, handle bars, seat, everything else etc) I want. :D

    Regards,
    Nick

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  • From Accession@21:1/200 to esc on Sun Dec 3 15:13:52 2023
    Hello esc,

    On Sun, 3 Dec 2023 17:48:26 -0800, you wrote:

    Me and my 68 Mustang approve ;)

    Once torn apart, it would be a tough choice between street or drag, though. ;)

    Regards,
    Nick

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  • From unc0nnected@21:1/172 to Tiny on Sun Dec 3 21:50:18 2023
    Currently mucking about with the VR world. Picked up a quest 2 on a
    black friday sale. (Refurb model) it's fun... wish my computer was powerful enough to check out no man's sky in VR but it barly runs as it is. (I did try... took an hour and 1/2 to load)

    Honestly I stopped mucking about with connecting my Quest 2 to a PC and just use it for stuff that runs natively. I guess Alyx was the only exception.
    If you haven't already pick up Super Hot VR, it's the best thing I've played
    on the Quest. Beat Saber is really as fun(and healthy) as people make it out to be and then mini-golf is another great use of it.

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  • From esc@21:4/173 to Accession on Mon Dec 4 01:06:52 2023
    Me and my 68 Mustang approve ;)

    Once torn apart, it would be a tough choice between street or drag,

    Porque no los dos?? ;)

    Mine is a street/strip car. It's very...built. :P It has a 427 and it growls, haha.

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  • From Tiny@21:1/222 to Accession on Mon Dec 4 06:37:03 2023
    I think the quest is doing a much better job in regards to games than Playstation ever did for VR though.

    It's fun. Granted I'm playing games I thought I knew. :) Myst and
    Seventh guest. :) Really enjoying both, even though I'm fighting with
    the first real puzzle in 7th. I know how to solve it I'm just fighting
    with the mechanics of the game I think.

    It was fun while it lasted. Now that I beat it, I don't have any other interest in playing it, including the many side quests that had
    nothing to do with the story, or the DLC that they kinda tried

    I'm kinda just playing side quests now.... if I load it.

    rebranding into an entirely new game so they could sell it for another
    $70 USD.

    Yeah I have no interest in spending more money on it.

    I wouldn't mind trying my hand at a fully custom made bike. I'm a welder/fabricator/ironworker so that part of it shouldn't be too bad,
    until it comes time to decide what parts (engine, wheels, handle bars,
    seat, everything else etc) I want. :D

    That's the fun part. Get on the websites / catalogs and dream. :)


    |09S|11hawn


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  • From Tiny@21:1/222 to unc0nnected on Mon Dec 4 06:40:05 2023
    Honestly I stopped mucking about with connecting my Quest 2 to a PC
    use it for stuff that runs natively. I guess Alyx was the only

    All I can do... I thought this was a pretty good rig but it's not. LOL

    If you haven't already pick up Super Hot VR, it's the best thing I've
    on the Quest. Beat Saber is really as fun(and healthy) as people make
    to be and then mini-golf is another great use of it.

    Perfect I wrote all three down and will check them out!


    |09S|11hawn


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  • From Accession@21:1/200 to esc on Mon Dec 4 16:41:18 2023
    Hello esc,

    On Mon, 4 Dec 2023 07:06:52 -0800, you wrote:

    Once torn apart, it would be a tough choice between street or drag,

    Porque no los dos?? ;)

    I meant that on a wider scope, I guess. 'Street' can still be ran on the strip, but my version of "drag" meant not street legal. ;)

    Mine is a street/strip car. It's very...built. :P It has a 427 and it growls, haha.

    Did you build it from scratch or buy it already built? I think I saw a couple pictures in the past over there while scrolling on that there social media thing.

    Regards,
    Nick

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  • From Accession@21:1/200 to Tiny on Mon Dec 4 16:51:36 2023
    Hello Tiny,

    On Mon, 4 Dec 2023 12:37:02 -0500, you wrote:

    It's fun. Granted I'm playing games I thought I knew. :) Myst and
    Seventh guest. :) Really enjoying both, even though I'm fighting with
    the first real puzzle in 7th. I know how to solve it I'm just fighting with the mechanics of the game I think.

    Wow. That's pretty cool they made those games VR? I could see that being super fun. Both of those games also had pretty damn good graphics for their time, as well. Did they remaster it at all? Or are you actually playing the original games, just on the Quest?

    It was fun while it lasted. Now that I beat it, I don't have any other
    interest in playing it, including the many side quests that had
    nothing to do with the story, or the DLC that they kinda tried

    I'm kinda just playing side quests now.... if I load it.

    Yeah, no interest there unfortunately.

    rebranding into an entirely new game so they could sell it for another
    $70 USD.

    Yeah I have no interest in spending more money on it.

    Same.

    I wouldn't mind trying my hand at a fully custom made bike. I'm a
    welder/fabricator/ironworker so that part of it shouldn't be too bad,
    until it comes time to decide what parts (engine, wheels, handle bars,
    seat, everything else etc) I want. :D

    That's the fun part. Get on the websites / catalogs and dream. :)

    There would definitely be a lot of dreaming going on, that's for sure. My kids aren't out of the house just yet. ;)

    Regards,
    Nick

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  • From esc@21:4/173 to Accession on Mon Dec 4 22:44:42 2023
    I meant that on a wider scope, I guess. 'Street' can still be ran on the strip, but my version of "drag" meant not street legal. ;)

    The cool thing about a vintage car is there are very few rules. For the most part, you can do what you want. I think the exception is wheel/tire width...I could be wrong. *shrug*

    The thing that would make a strip car not work on the street is driveability, really. My car is sometimes frustrating when going over a bump while accelerating and your foot bounces on the throttle a bit, the car will buck and the wheels sometimes will chirp out a bit. Imagine having like a 900hp hemi. It would be insane :P

    ...in a good way. hehe.

    Did you build it from scratch or buy it already built? I think I saw a couple pictures in the past over there while scrolling on that there social media thing.

    I bought a basic stock 68 Mustang with a 289 and an automatic trans. The bodywork and paint was done, and was new, and it was in creampuff status as far as that goes. To me, the body/paint is the hard part, the mechanical stuff is pretty straightforward.

    <gearhead alert>

    When I got the car, the first thing I did was new wheels and brakes, discs all around, hydraulic booster, dual master, and electric vacuum. Then I did the rest of the suspension - every suspension component is brand new and "modern technology" to fix a lot of the vintage geometry issues. This includes things like a panhard bar in the rear, bigger sway bars, etc. I also welded in subframe connectors to completely box the front and rear frame rails.

    Next, the engine and trans came out, as did the gas tank. Then the wiring got ripped out. Installed all new wiring (modern tech, not just replacing the vintage with OEM style). Installed all new lights with LEDs to make night driving actually safe. Bought a 351 Windsor iron Ford block and had it built into a 427 from a shop that specializes in NASCAR stuff. It's an old block but has high flow aluminum heads, EFI, and some other niceties from the modern era. I also yanked the power steering and replaced it with electric power steering like a modern car, simply because hydraulic power steering requires so much upkeep and is always leaky as hell, and I just didn't want to deal with it.

    I also added an air conditioner and swapped the trans to a brand new TREMEC TKX (it's a beefed up TKO trans that's made to fit in vintage cars without having to hammer out the trans tunnel - it fits perfectly).

    I'm sure I am forgetting a lot...9" Currie rear with posi...some other stuff I'm sure.

    But yeah, essentially, I bought the car considering it as a nice rolling shell and built it completely.

    Now I live in SoCal and can take it out basically any day of the year for a cruise down the PCH. Life ain't bad ;)

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  • From Tiny@21:1/222 to Accession on Tue Dec 5 06:19:20 2023
    graphics for their time, as well. Did they remaster it at all? Or are
    you actually playing the original games, just on the Quest?

    I believe it's all remastered. Myst doens't look like 1993 for sure. :)

    There would definitely be a lot of dreaming going on, that's for sure.
    My kids aren't out of the house just yet. ;)

    Ahhh. Mine are (thank god). Bought a few toys now I have to tighten up
    the ole boot straps so I can save to keep teh hideout in the woods
    running.


    |09S|11hawn


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  • From Adept@21:2/108 to unc0nnected on Tue Dec 5 11:32:23 2023
    healthy) as people make it out to be and then mini-golf is another great use of it.

    The Meow Wolf DLC is coming out for Walkabout on Thursday, which is exciting.

    Not that I had heard of the Meow Wolf real-life places before the DLC started being developed, but it looks like a fun fantasy land to play in.

    But I do find that minigolf is about all I use my device for, at this point. And, more specifically, Walkabout minigolf that I play with my family as something we do each week as a group activity. I avoid playing Walkabout otherwise, as I don't want to get bored of it, and having less practice is probably a good thing, because it would be unfortunate if I won _every_ week.

    Not that winning is at all important.

    Anyway, I'm somewhat tempted to get a Quest 3, but I think I'm waiting for something compelling. And likely that'll be, "And Walkabout looks better". But, so far, I haven't heard of anything different, either from the makers or my brother, who picked up a Quest 3 and has been enjoying the AR features for piano playing.

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  • From Accession@21:1/200 to esc on Tue Dec 5 16:17:12 2023
    Hello esc,

    On Monday December 04 2023 22:44, you wrote to me:

    The thing that would make a strip car not work on the street is driveability, really. My car is sometimes frustrating when going over
    a bump while accelerating and your foot bounces on the throttle a bit,
    the car will buck and the wheels sometimes will chirp out a bit.
    Imagine having like a 900hp hemi. It would be insane :P

    You didn't push the throttle hard enough, obviously. ;)

    Did you build it from scratch or buy it already built? I think I
    saw a couple pictures in the past over there while scrolling on
    that there social media thing.

    <gearhead alert>

    But yeah, essentially, I bought the car considering it as a nice
    rolling shell and built it completely.

    How long did all that take?

    Not sure how much of the drag racing drama series' you watch, but it seems I've really gotten to like the looks of old Novas. Murder Nova and Goliath are a couple of beautiful looking cars, IMO. Don't even need to be tubbed with monster slicks on 'em. ;)

    Now I live in SoCal and can take it out basically any day of the year
    for a cruise down the PCH. Life ain't bad ;)

    That's nice. Unfortunately, mine would be stuck in a heated garage for 3-5 months out of the year. I suppose I could visit it from time to time, sit in it and make 'vroom vroom' sounds while looking at the snow out the window. :\

    Regards,
    Nick

    ... "Take my advice, I don't use it anyway."
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  • From Accession@21:1/200 to Tiny on Tue Dec 5 16:27:40 2023
    Hello Tiny,

    On Tuesday December 05 2023 06:19, you wrote to me:

    graphics for their time, as well. Did they remaster it at all? Or
    are you actually playing the original games, just on the Quest?

    I believe it's all remastered. Myst doens't look like 1993 for sure.
    :)

    Were they were re-made specifically for the Quest? If so, then yes they were most likely remastered. I didn't know if you had to buy the games new (again) or just brought out the original games and were able to play them on the Quest (which would also be kinda neat if that was possible).

    Ahhh. Mine are (thank god). Bought a few toys now I have to tighten
    up the ole boot straps so I can save to keep teh hideout in the woods running.

    I still have a ways to go. My youngest is only 13, and time already flies. So I'm in no rush at this point. ;)

    Regards,
    Nick

    ... "Take my advice, I don't use it anyway."
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    * Origin: thePharcyde_ distribution system (Wisconsin) (21:1/200)
  • From esc@21:4/173 to Accession on Tue Dec 5 15:47:41 2023
    You didn't push the throttle hard enough, obviously. ;)

    My wife would dispute this. Frequently. :P

    Wish I could capture some reaction vids! haha.

    But yeah, essentially, I bought the car considering it as a nice rolling shell and built it completely.

    How long did all that take?

    The better part of a year. I still need to tune the EFI. I've kinda...reached the apex of my ability level for that type of thing. Any more and I need to go to a shop with a dyno and someone that's really dialed into doing this specific type of work.

    I also need to button up the interior. Basically I plan to yank everything out (except for the glass and the headliner, which I've already done). Then I'm going to sand the floors down to metal and do POR-15, sound/heat deadening, new carpets, and all the other bells and whistles. Really all I need to purchase is new seat foam and covers and interior door panels, everything else I already have in my garage. :P

    Oh and I guess the trunk interior needs to be finished as well.

    Not sure how much of the drag racing drama series' you watch, but it
    seems I've really gotten to like the looks of old Novas. Murder Nova and Goliath are a couple of beautiful looking cars, IMO. Don't even need to
    be tubbed with monster slicks on 'em. ;)

    Ha, I haven't seen it :) But I do love Novas. Ever see Death Proof, Tarantino's half of Grindhouse? Stuntman Mike's 70 Nova is badass.

    That's nice. Unfortunately, mine would be stuck in a heated garage for
    3-5 months out of the year. I suppose I could visit it from time to
    time, sit in it and make 'vroom vroom' sounds while looking at the snow out the window. :\

    Or you could move! hehe.

    BTW - I remember coming across an older post of yours where you talked about your proxmox setup. I'm looking at doing a little homelab project myself and migrating all my BBS stuff out of cloud VPS and into my house. Any hardware recs? It wouldn't be doing anything super stout, just a few VMs - linux, windows, and (if possible) some DOS VMs. Not even sure that's a thing lol.

    Thanks!

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  • From Accession@21:1/200 to esc on Tue Dec 5 18:32:58 2023
    Hello esc,

    On Tuesday December 05 2023 15:47, you wrote to me:

    How long did all that take?

    The better part of a year. I still need to tune the EFI. I've kinda...reached the apex of my ability level for that type of thing.
    Any more and I need to go to a shop with a dyno and someone that's
    really dialed into doing this specific type of work.

    Damn! A year is pretty damn quick. Not to mention what seems to be quite a bit of cash you've already dumped into it.

    Oh and I guess the trunk interior needs to be finished as well.

    If I remember right, you don't have any kids? Nevermind my previous sentence. I know how you did it now. :D

    Or you could move! hehe.

    I would love to. The wife is the one who's against it. I'm not sure she can move much further from her crazy mother, and we're only about 30 minutes away.

    BTW - I remember coming across an older post of yours where you talked about your proxmox setup. I'm looking at doing a little homelab
    project myself and migrating all my BBS stuff out of cloud VPS and
    into my house. Any hardware recs? It wouldn't be doing anything super stout, just a few VMs - linux, windows, and (if possible) some DOS
    VMs. Not even sure that's a thing lol.

    My VMWare setup, I reckon. But the discussion did have a couple people involved that used and/or preferred Proxmox. The choice between the two is completely up to you, though. Take a look at some screenshots of both and see which one catches your eye. Otherwise, they basically do the exact same thing. I've ran VMWare 6.5.0 (Update 1) since it was released (it was the latest version at the time I set this all up, like 2017 I think). Never had any issues, never had to upgrade, never had to reinstall or change anything. Proxmox is more than likely just as solid, and probably much easier to download. I just re-visited the VMWare download page, and looks like you have to create and account and login in order to even download the latest ISO (8.0 Update 2).

    I bought a (New) HP Proliant ML310e Gen8 Tower server from Ebay back then for somewhere in the $300-$400 ballpark (Don't bother looking on Amazon, they're upwards of 1k+). Xeon E3-1230 @ 3.30ghz, 32gb ram, 4 x 2TB HDDs that I've setup in a RAID1 configuration. If one drive fails I can swap to the mirror drive and replace the bad one, and don't remember the rest of the specs. It has definitely served it's purpose for 5+ years and most likely was a bit overkill, but eh well. For quite a while I ran 3 VMs 24x7, one of them being a plex media server, which streamed to our TVs all around the house over wifi at 1080p without issue, while the two other VMs were running.

    As for recommendations, this thing is a pretty solid machine, but you may not even need all that. For the price point and how long it has lasted me without issue whatsoever, I can't complain one bit, though.

    You could also check on shipping costs from Canada, as I believe Nick Andre (Atreyu) is/was (or is always) looking to get rid of some hardware for free.

    Regards,
    Nick

    ... "Take my advice, I don't use it anyway."
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  • From esc@21:4/173 to Accession on Wed Dec 6 02:57:26 2023
    Damn! A year is pretty damn quick. Not to mention what seems to be quite
    a bit of cash you've already dumped into it.

    Yeah, I mean the thing is that the body and paint were already good. Honestly that's what would take me the most amount of time. I had an engine builder and the trans was brand new so really I just did assembly. I also did not do any welding, for that work I took it to a shop, so for subframe connectors and stuff, that went to an actual welder :P

    If I remember right, you don't have any kids? Nevermind my previous sentence. I know how you did it now. :D

    Haha. Yeah...no kids and no responsibilities!

    I would love to. The wife is the one who's against it. I'm not sure she can move much further from her crazy mother, and we're only about 30 minutes away.

    Oh man. That's unfortunate. Maybe she'll come around if you promise to take her for rides in the hot rod. :P

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  • From esc@21:4/173 to Accession on Wed Dec 6 03:02:40 2023
    My VMWare setup, I reckon. But the discussion did have a couple people involved that used and/or preferred Proxmox. The choice between the two
    is completely up to you, though. Take a look at some screenshots of both and see which one catches your eye. Otherwise, they basically do the
    exact same thing. I've ran VMWare 6.5.0 (Update 1) since it was released (it was the latest version at the time I set this all up, like 2017 I think). Never had any issues, never had to upgrade, never had to
    reinstall or change anything. Proxmox is more than likely just as solid, and probably much easier to download. I just re-visited the VMWare download page, and looks like you have to create and account and login
    in order to even download the latest ISO (8.0 Update 2).

    Thanks! I'll be honest - I'm wary of anything VMWare after the Broadcom purchase. Plus proxmox is on debian and I know my way around debian super well, so I'll likely go with that option. But I think you're right that it's probably six in one half dozen in the other.

    I bought a (New) HP Proliant ML310e Gen8 Tower server from Ebay back
    then for somewhere in the $300-$400 ballpark (Don't bother looking on Amazon, they're upwards of 1k+). Xeon E3-1230 @ 3.30ghz, 32gb ram, 4 x
    2TB HDDs that I've setup in a RAID1 configuration. If one drive fails I can swap to the mirror drive and replace the bad one, and don't remember the rest of the specs. It has definitely served it's purpose for 5+
    years and most likely was a bit overkill, but eh well. For quite a while
    I ran 3 VMs 24x7, one of them being a plex media server, which streamed
    to our TVs all around the house over wifi at 1080p without issue, while the two other VMs were running.

    Ok cool. That gives me an idea what I can expect. Honestly, I shouldn't need to spec this box super well, it's just going to run BBS related stuff. I think I have an Intel NUC which may even serve the purpose here. But on eBay, that same rig is <$200 so at least I know what I'd need to get myself into!

    My concern would really be fan noise and power consumption at that point. It's going to be in my office which is where I'll take calls and VTCs so quietness/silence is pretty important.

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  • From Tiny@21:1/222 to Adept on Wed Dec 6 06:51:19 2023
    family as something we do each week as a group activity. I avoid
    playing Walkabout otherwise, as I don't want to get bored of it, and
    having less practice is probably a good thing, because it would be unfortunate if I won _every_ week.

    On my list. Watched the video last night. Grandson is getting a quest 3
    for Xmas (daughter told us) so maybe that will be something we can do
    together in the future.

    Anyway, I'm somewhat tempted to get a Quest 3, but I think I'm waiting

    I thought about it, but a factory refer and more RAM sold me on the 2.


    |09S|11hawn


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  • From Tiny@21:1/222 to Accession on Wed Dec 6 06:52:30 2023
    That's nice. Unfortunately, mine would be stuck in a heated garage for
    3-5 months out of the year. I suppose I could visit it from time to
    time, sit in it and make 'vroom vroom' sounds while looking at the
    snow out the window. :\

    That's what I did with the motorcycle. Would sit on it in winter and
    dream. ;)


    |09S|11hawn


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  • From Tiny@21:1/222 to Accession on Wed Dec 6 06:54:11 2023
    games new (again) or just brought out the original games and were able
    to play them on the Quest (which would also be kinda neat if that was possible).

    Remastered. It runs standalone, but it's worth the money as I hadn't
    played myst in so long I've forgot the puzzles. It's fun re living the
    early 90's.


    |09S|11hawn


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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to esc on Wed Dec 6 09:10:37 2023
    Re: Re: Anyone seen/connected to...
    By: esc to Accession on Wed Dec 06 2023 03:02 am

    My concern would really be fan noise and power consumption at that point. It's going to be in my office which is where I'll take calls and VTCs so quietness/silence is pretty important.

    I never noticed how much noise my homelab made until I started taking video calls from my office and making recorders. The biggest culprit is a Synology NAS, it's got 4 small fans in it that make most of the noise.

    I've always had the BBS running in the background in one form or another, I suppose I've drowned it out. That, and the tinnitus...

    I may relocate the Synology inside of an office armoire and leave the laptop exposed. I have a desktop in there now, temperatures don't seem to be that much of an issue.
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  • From Warpslide@21:3/110 to esc on Wed Dec 6 10:48:07 2023
    On 06 Dec 2023, esc said the following...

    Ok cool. That gives me an idea what I can expect. Honestly, I shouldn't need to spec this box super well, it's just going to run BBS related stuff. I think I have an Intel NUC which may even serve the purpose

    My concern would really be fan noise and power consumption at that
    point. It's going to be in my office which is where I'll take calls and VTCs so quietness/silence is pretty important.

    I'm running VMWare on an Intel NUC (NUC10i7FNH) here. It's quiet and low power. I have the BBS VM and two other linux based VMs running on there, right now it's using 3% of the CPU and 55% of its 32GB of RAM.

    I was running a 32bit Windows 10 VM on there for awhile when I was playing around with Telegard and it was running without issue.

    I only have an M.2 SSD in there right now, but I'd eventually like to add in a 2.5" SSD so I can setup RAID 1 mirroring.


    Jay

    ... My paycheck's envelope was full of parsley. Someone garnished my wages!

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  • From esc@21:4/173 to Warpslide on Wed Dec 6 09:34:38 2023
    I'm running VMWare on an Intel NUC (NUC10i7FNH) here. It's quiet and low power. I have the BBS VM and two other linux based VMs running on
    there, right now it's using 3% of the CPU and 55% of its 32GB of RAM.

    Awesome. I have an i5 based NUC and am hopeful it does what I need - it seems like a perfect little PC for this type of thing.

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  • From deon@21:2/116 to Warpslide on Thu Dec 7 08:53:24 2023
    Re: Re: Anyone seen/connected to...
    By: Warpslide to esc on Wed Dec 06 2023 10:48 am

    Howdy,

    I'm running VMWare on an Intel NUC (NUC10i7FNH) here. It's quiet and low power. I have the BBS VM and two other linux based VMs running on there, right now it's using 3% of the CPU and 55% of its 32GB of RAM.

    Ha! I've got the same NUC, with ESXi v7, it probably has 15 VMs on it, although only about 8 are running. (I've got 64GB). 3 of the VMs are my docker swarm, that runs most of what is publically visible, and another 3 are my kubernetes cluster that I'm playing with. I'm thinking of moving all my swarm workload over to it, but not happy with the storage config yet.

    It seems to hover around 45% CPU if my OS2/DOS VMs are shutdown, and memory consumed is around 46GB.


    ...δεσ∩
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  • From Accession@21:1/200 to esc on Wed Dec 6 18:08:16 2023
    Hello esc,

    On Wed, 6 Dec 2023 09:02:40 -0800, you wrote:

    Thanks! I'll be honest - I'm wary of anything VMWare after the Broadcom purchase. Plus proxmox is on debian and I know my way around debian
    super well, so I'll likely go with that option. But I think you're right that it's probably six in one half dozen in the other.

    I don't follow what either has done, really. But I've been using the same VMWare version now for 5+ years, without having to do anything except point my browser to the web interface if I had to check on anything or install/remove a VM. So knowing your way around Debian doesn't really matter at all. I would assume that it's fairly close to the same with Proxmox. Once you install it, you don't really have to do anything with it itself. Just setup and maintain your VMs, which you can do via the web interface. Maybe if it were more of a serious production environment would you possibly need to upgrade it a bit more often, but for DOS VMs, and BBS related stuff, meh. lol

    Ok cool. That gives me an idea what I can expect. Honestly, I shouldn't need to spec this box super well, it's just going to run BBS related
    stuff. I think I have an Intel NUC which may even serve the purpose
    here. But on eBay, that same rig is <$200 so at least I know what I'd
    need to get myself into!

    I took a quick look at ebay while I was writing that friggin novel to you, there's some on there for like ~$200 that would probably serve you just fine. Basically the same processor, but maybe 16gb ram, and less HDD space. Like I said, I probably went a bit overkill but the price was too good at the time to pass up on a new machine.

    My concern would really be fan noise and power consumption at that
    point. It's going to be in my office which is where I'll take calls and VTCs so quietness/silence is pretty important.

    My son's gaming rig is louder than this server - which sits under my desk by my left foot. I think the loudest the thing gets is when you first start it up, it beeps. :)

    Regards,
    Nick

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  • From Accession@21:1/200 to Tiny on Wed Dec 6 18:10:14 2023
    Hello Tiny,

    On Wed, 6 Dec 2023 12:54:10 -0500, you wrote:

    Remastered. It runs standalone, but it's worth the money as I hadn't played myst in so long I've forgot the puzzles. It's fun re living the early 90's.

    Correction, it's fun re-living the early 90s, in virtual reality! ;)

    Regards,
    Nick

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to esc on Wed Dec 6 18:11:20 2023
    Re: Re: Anyone seen/connected to...
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to esc on Wed Dec 06 2023 09:10 am

    I never noticed how much noise my homelab made until I started taking video calls from my office and making recorders. The biggest culprit is a Synology NAS, it's got 4 small fans in it that make most of the noise.

    I spent some time this morning listening to my homelab - the Synology does make the majority of the noise; I took it down and blew the dust off of the fans, which seems to help with the off-balance noise fans can make.

    Synology has a low-power setting that sometimes turns the fans off if the temp cools sufficiently. I've got that turned on for the winter.

    My Proxmox server is a Thinkpad, and I bought a cheap fan laptop mat to keep it cool. Turns out some of the noise was coming from it, so I took it apart and oiled the bearings. All in all, it's significantly quieter.
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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Accession on Wed Dec 6 18:16:52 2023
    Re: Anyone seen/connected to...
    By: Accession to esc on Wed Dec 06 2023 06:08 pm

    install/remove a VM. So knowing your way around Debian doesn't really matter at all. I would assume that it's fairly close to the same with Proxmox. Once you install it, you don't really have to do anything with it itself. Just setup and maintain your VMs, which you can do via the web interface. Maybe if it were more of a serious production environment would you possibly need to upgrade it a bit more often, but for DOS VMs, and BBS related stuff, meh. lol

    You can do most anything in the Proxmox VE GUI, similar to ESXi. Every once in a while, you need to go to a shell to make changes to the command line.

    There's an upgrade option in the GUI; I don't know if you could schedule it from the GUI, but you could run it in cron from the CLI, another case where knowing a little *nix helps.
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  • From Captain Obvious@21:1/157 to Accession on Wed Dec 13 12:18:57 2023
    On 03 Dec 2023, Accession said the following...

    I would imagine 'they' don't know when they depart either. Whether it be the system is left on autopilot for months on end, and then finally something breaks and they don't realize it until whenever they decide to check on things, or just don't bother and turn the machine off. But
    yeah, I usually take a quick look at my outbound directories once every few months and if there's backed up packets/bundles, I look further into it.

    I'm guilty of that. Try to remember to check my in/outbound every once in a while as well to make sure it's flowing but it's easy to get busy doing other stuff.

    -=>Richard Miles<=-
    -=>Captain Obvious<=-
    -=>bbs.shadowscope.com<=-

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  • From Captain Obvious@21:1/157 to Tiny on Wed Dec 13 12:19:54 2023
    On 03 Dec 2023, Tiny said the following...

    Currently mucking about with the VR world. Picked up a quest 2 on a
    black friday sale. (Refurb model) it's fun... wish my computer was powerful enough to check out no man's sky in VR but it barly runs as it is. (I did try... took an hour and 1/2 to load)

    I just sold mine on ebay last week. Got it for myself last christmas and used it a total of two times.

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    -=>Captain Obvious<=-
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