Hi everyone! I am new to fsxNet, it's exciting to be a part of this - I haven't setup an FTN mailer since the 90s. Thanks everyone for keeping this network operating and so vibrant!
I may still have some timezone issues to sort out - posting from Pacific Standard Time (Vancouver) - if I appear to be a time traveller, the problem is only temporal.
- akacastor / Chris Gerlinsky
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Welcome! You made it to Texas!
Hi everyone! I am new to fsxNet, it's exciting to be a part of this - I
I may still have some timezone issues to sort out - posting from Pacific Standard Time (Vancouver) - if I appear to be a time traveller, the
Hi everyone! I am new to fsxNet, it's exciting to
be a part of this - I
Same here! Got your message in Western PA, USA!
Hi everyone! I am new to fsxNet, it's exciting to be a part of this - I haven't setup an FTN mailer since the 90s. Thanks everyone for keeping this network operating and so vibrant!
Nice to have you here, and hope you'll enjoy fsxNet! =)
Hi everyone! I am new to fsxNet, it's exciting to be a part of this - I haven't setup an FTN mailer since the 90s. Thanks everyone for keeping this network operating and so vibrant!
I may still have some timezone issues to sort out - posting from Pacific Standard Time (Vancouver) - if I appear to be a time traveller, the problem is only temporal.
AKAcastor wrote to All <=-
I may still have some timezone issues to sort out - posting from
Pacific Standard Time (Vancouver) - if I appear to be a time traveller, the problem is only temporal.
Welcome AKAcastor!
Great to see more people on fsxNet.
My job takes me up to Vancouver Island occasionally - quick flight into Vancouver, take the ferry to the island, then drive all the way up to
Port Hardy. Beautiful country up there...
Thanks Cozmo! The more lunatics, the merrier! :)
Hi everyone! I am new to fsxNet, it's exciting to be a part of this - I haven't setup an FTN mailer since the 90s. Thanks everyone for keeping this network operating and so vibrant!
Welcome AKAcastor!
Great to see more people on fsxNet.
I hope you have a nice time playing with your system and
can find help/support and just general good chatter on
stuff in the fsx echos.
It's summer over here in New Zealand, just washed the
car and I'm melting... at least I got the lawns done
yesterday.
I am already having a great time working binkd configuration issues out!
I love it! :)
We don't have the heat in my area this season, still winter here though it's been an especially mild winter (I am not complaining about that). Anyway it's always good weather to work on a BBS. ;)
Thanks so much for all your work maintaining fsxNet! It's so great
there's such a friendly and healthy FTN network!
Hi Cozmo, how's things going for you today?
I'm busy poking around at a RPi4 and thinking of moving Agency BBS over
to it and off a big whirring tower I am currently running the BBS on.
I am already having a great time working binkd
configuration issues out!
I love it! :)
I can't recall the last time someone said 'great time'
and 'binkd config issues' in the same sentence :) But
you win a chocolate fish for enthusiasm :)
On 17 Feb 2024 at 11:12a, Cozmo pondered and said...
Welcome AKAcastor!
Great to see more people on fsxNet.
Agreed.
Hi Cozmo, how's things going for you today?
I'm busy poking around at a RPi4 and thinking of moving Agency BBS over to it and off a big whirring tower I am currently running the BBS on.
Trying to lower the power bill... problem is I keep starting up more spinning metal and not turning them off :)
Trying to lower the power bill... problem is I keep starting up more spinning metal and not turning them off :)
Same here! I thought consolidating into VMs would solve it. Nope! Just made room for another RPi, Thinkpad, MiSTer, a rescued Lenovo M93p and a C64. HALP
If it was too easy, it wouldn't be worthwhile! One of the great things about FTN networks is the variety of machines and configurations they
can bridge and the experimentation that leads to. (or maybe it's simpler to say the nostalgia is overriding the frustration) :)
I thought about moving the BBs over to Rpi but doors seem to be a hassle on it. Lunatics is running on a P4 and from what I hear they eat up
power.
Doesn't sound right to me, the Rpi is pretty low power compared to the Tower gear I am running at present.
I thought about moving the BBs over to Rpi but doors seem to be a has on it. Lunatics is running on a P4 and from what I hear they eat up power.
Doesn't sound right to me, the Rpi is pretty low power compared to the Tower gear I am running at present.
I'm busy poking around at a RPi4 and thinking of moving Agency BBS over to it and off a big whirring tower I am currently running the BBS on.
I'm busy poking around at a RPi4 and thinking of moving Agency BBS over it and off a big whirring tower I am currently running the BBS on.Be sure to use a real (e.g. USB) disk/SSD for your storage and not rely
on the SD Card for anything but booting. SD Cards do fail after a while.
Avon wrote to Digital Man <=-
Yep have got a SSD and managed to get a cable and config set up so it boots to that on the Rpi. So far so good.
Be sure to use a real (e.g. USB) disk/SSD for your storage and not rely on the SD Card for anything but booting. SD Cards do fail after a while.
-- digital man (rob)
How hard was it to get it to boot from SSD? I've seen some interesting cases that house an NVMe, was tempted to get one of those for my Pi 4
and do some downsizing.
Yep have got a SSD and managed to get a cable and config set up so it boots to that on the Rpi. So far so good.
Yep have got a SSD and managed to get a cable and config set up
so it boots to that on the Rpi. So far so good.
How hard was it to get it to boot from SSD? I've seen some interesting cases that house an NVMe, was tempted to get one of those for my Pi 4
and do some downsizing.
You should really look at proxmox to move 95% of your machines into vm's and
Some years back Alan Zisman who lives in that area was
on the Fido Win95 echo.
A name from Vancouver that I do remember from the past is Dallas Hinton, of The Bandmaster BBS, and Fidonet Region 17 coordinator for many years.
I don't know Dallas personally, but I remember him as a long-time figure in Fidonet and BBSing in Vancouver. Just mentioning in case the name rings a bell with anyone else. :)
Dallas Hinton, of
The Bandmaster BBS, and Fidonet Region 17 coordinator for many years.
Dallas is still RC17.
I don't know Dallas peronally either. Like so many I
have conversed with in the nets I wouldn't know him if I
bumped into him somewhere.
Bandmaster was one of the first BBSs I ever called. Back
in the day Bandmaster had something like 6 lines.
Times have changed but those were the days. :)
Dallas is still RC17.
That's great to hear that this part of Fidonet is still in good hands!
Bandmaster was one of the first BBSs I ever called. Back
in the day Bandmaster had something like 6 lines.
I didn't call Bandmaster until the 2000s, but did call in a few times now and then when I was on a BBS nostalgia kick. I think I heard he closed the last public dialup node in recent years?
Times have changed but those were the days. :)
I was always in awe of the multiline BBSes in the 90s - I was just a teenager on a farm with a single line BBS (shared on our family's voice phone line, with a distinctive ring # for the BBS). There was a 2-line BBS the next town over, which I enjoyed, but the BBSes in cities that had MORE THAN 2 lines seemed like they must be fantastically large. :)
A name from Vancouver that I do remember from the past is Dallas
Hinton, of The Bandmaster BBS, and Fidonet Region 17 coordinator for
many years. I don't know Dallas personally, but I remember him as a long-time figure in Fidonet and BBSing in Vancouver. Just mentioning
in case the name rings a bell with anyone else. :)
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