Hi

I thought I might try this again.. it IS the weekend now! Though might
still be friday for some of you?

Hope all is going well, and you have a nice weekend. Here there is an
Australia wide "Garage Sale Trail" event thing, we went to a couple of
garage sales this morning. They were both a bit of a fizzler, but my wife
did get an ornament she wanted.

This morning I got interbbs last callers working here, so now I can spy
on everyone who logs in everywhere.. well not really.

Also set up a copy of Talisman on my Pi, as I wanted to set up a
customized version, as the one at talismanbbs.com is stock.

Set up some dos doors, that was interesting, turns out SDL in debian has disabled the "dummy" video driver. Took me a while to figure out that,
and had to compile it myself to get dosbox working properly.

Andrew


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On 21 Nov 2020 at 02:58p, apam pondered and said...

I thought I might try this again.. it IS the weekend now! Though might still be friday for some of you?

Hope all is going well, and you have a nice weekend. Here there is an

Hey :)

Well today we took a friend who is staying with us for a few days down to the local Botanic Garden so she could meet up with some other friends she has.
This person is visiting us from the North Island but used to live her and
is a good friend of my wife.

After we dropped her off my wife and daughter and I ended up at the Otago Polytechnic plant sale, which was something we just drove by and found by accident. It turns out they have like a school of gardening or horticulture
and the students had been learning all sorts of propagation tricks/tips and
the plants left over at the end of the year were being sold at a low price.

So we bought a few things for the flower garden at home and were happy with
the items we got for the low $$ spent.

After that we ended up at an Op Shop run by Presbyterian Support Services.
They seem to run a few of these shops around the country but it you're
looking for all sorts of random stuff it can be a fun hour to poke around a shop like that. We came home with a few books and my daughter bought a Sims
PC game on DVD.

It was hot first thing and I got the lawns mowed but later today we've been
hit with strong winds and the rain has set in along with a sharp drop in the temp.

Tonight I've watched the latest episode of Star Trek Discovery and then hit Netflix to soak up some IT Crowd.

Now to playing on the BBS and then I'm on cup of tea making duties.

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So we bought a few things for the flower garden at home and were happy
with
the items we got for the low $$ spent.

That's cool. It's always good to get a bargin.

They seem to run a few of these shops around the country but it you're looking for all sorts of random stuff it can be a fun hour to poke
around a
shop like that. We came home with a few books and my daughter bought a
Sims
PC game on DVD.

Yep, op-shopping is fun too :) we go occasionally, though many of the
op-shops here have upped their prices by quiet a bit, I guess to appeal
to the hipster type.

I bought the sims 4 a few weeks ago, I haven't gotten really stuck into
it yet, it's actually probably a bit complicated for me lol. I have hard
enough time organising myself let alone sim people lol

Andrew


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On 11-21-20 14:58, apam wrote to All <=-

Hi

I thought I might try this again.. it IS the weekend now! Though might still be friday for some of you?

Saturday for me - the day started slow but finished fast. :D

First up was a ham radio net, with exactly one person (me!). :D Oh well, that didn't go to plan. :D Went to the gym for my mobility/prehab routine that's designed to keep an old fart like me capable of moving fast. :)

And this afternoon, had my Saturday track meet. Started with the discus and ended up throwing almost 18 metres, which was good, considering the shoulder of my (discus) throwing arm is quite stuffed ATM, due to a training mishap last month, and I unintentionally aggrivated it on Thursday night by swimming 1km.

Finished with the 400m, ran that in 62.80 seconds, which stacks up well with my times over the last 2 years, and I'm on a dodgy Achilles (Thursday's swimming was to maintain cardio fitness without stressing the foot).

Anyway, I have to rest from running tomorrow, but I might do some aquatic exercise in the pool (not swomming!), as it's going to be 37C. Also have another ham radio net in the morning, hopefully I'll get some takers. And the local club net at 1PM. And a coffee catchup too.


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I thought I might try this again.. it IS the weekend now! Though might still be friday for some of you?

Well Friday night went swimmingly.... I'm on the 1st floor here so I think the tree level possums swing past for a quick repast on the pots out front. Well I caught one cheeky bugger on his way in, and in a fit of pique grabbed the broom, trundled out the front door lined it up launched... but having changed the angle of attack collected the handrail with an almight shove of the broom :/ Now one of the foibles of said broom which hasn't been a problem till now is its a metal tube handle and its lost the plastic cap from the end.... so when I hit the rail, it was like I'd just taken a woodworking gouge to the palm of my hand... Got a good chunk of flappy skin, and bits missing down my forearm where it skittered off afterwards. Not exactly as planned. Had to get #1 Son help to bandage it all up.

Onto this morning though... it wasn't feeling to bad... all suitably strapped and held in place. So got enthusiastic trundled over to Bunnings and came home with a sheet of 2400x600 melamine chipboard. Tight squeeze in a Barina. Had to bend #1 Son into a pretzel to get him back into the passengers front seat. Got it home, unpacked some shelves, got the desks lined up and presto
instant 2.4m pooty bench. While some of the assorted crap thats been in transit has 3-4 shelves freed to be put away on. And of course by the time this was done my palm was bleeding again.. and I was knackered so repack it, and knock off was called.

Spec

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First up was a ham radio net, with exactly one person (me!). :D Oh
well, that
didn't go to plan. :D

What's a "ham radio net"? And don't say something you use to catch ham
radios :)

Andrew


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Tonight I've watched the latest episode of Star Trek Discovery and then hit Netflix to soak up some IT Crowd.

I'm looking forward to catching up on Star Trek Discovery (assuming I can
find a way to watching them in Germany) and working on ANSIs while doing so.
It seems like they have a nice premise to work with for this season (And seasons to come), so I hope it goes well.

And I hope it's not too one-note with Michael, going forward, either.

(One-note in the sense that she was on the edge of tears _frequently_. Much like how Archer in Star Trek: Enterprise was raising his voice in anger _constantly_. And it gets a little repetitive.)

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apam wrote to All <=-

Hope all is going well, and you have a nice weekend. Here there is an Australia wide "Garage Sale Trail" event thing, we went to a couple of garage sales this morning. They were both a bit of a fizzler, but my
wife did get an ornament she wanted.

That sounds fun! In the midwest US, there's a coordinated yard sale
through 100 miles of Missouri. I'd love to go with a trailer.



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apam wrote to Avon <=-

Yep, op-shopping is fun too :) we go occasionally, though many of the op-shops here have upped their prices by quiet a bit, I guess to appeal
to the hipster type.

Are op-shops what we call thrift shops? Around here the price on my
favorite item, film cameras, has gone way up. I used to buy Olympus
Mju-IIs for $5, now they're $50, and $150 on eBay!

I recently went to dust off one of my film cameras, went to
Yorkphoto.com, my favorite online film processor and found out that
Snapfish bought them - and no more online film processing. They used
to be around $4/roll with shipping. I suppose now I'll need to pay
for high-end film processing online.



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apam wrote to All <=-

Hi

I thought I might try this again.. it IS the weekend now! Though might still be friday for some of you?

Saturday morning, here. Nothing planned this weekend, surprisingly.
Calm before the Holiday storm. I'm going to come up with some side
dishes for a quiet thanksgiving for 4 this weekend and take the dog
for a long walk. Work, while remote, has been busy, and he's only
gotten cursory walks this week. Time to tire the little bugger out!



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I thought I might try this again.. it IS the weekend now! Though might still be friday for some of you?

LOL - my weekend is HERE! :P Enjoyed a date night, and working on the board a bit this AM. Fun stuff. xqtr's Voteliners for Mystic is pretty perfect for a oneliners mod; I'm modifying whats allowed, and gonna run it!

Hope all is going well, and you have a nice weekend. Here there is an Australia wide "Garage Sale Trail" event thing, we went to a couple of garage sales this morning. They were both a bit of a fizzler, but my wife did get an ornament she wanted.

That sounds so rad - I love antiques and vintage, and would totally dig a 'garage sale trail' right about now. I miss living in Texas, where the antique game is STRONG.

This morning I got interbbs last callers working here, so now I can spy
on everyone who logs in everywhere.. well not really.
Also set up a copy of Talisman on my Pi, as I wanted to set up a customized version, as the one at talismanbbs.com is stock.

Right on - glad to hear that you use Pi's for BBSing... recently some folks have said they are too slow - and MeaTLoTioNs dang OnePlus BBS *is* faster than my Pi 4 - LOL. But, these are still awesome little boards that do so much. Happy to hear that you're modifying Talisman - you get to have SOME fun, too.

Set up some dos doors, that was interesting, turns out SDL in debian has disabled the "dummy" video driver. Took me a while to figure out that,
and had to compile it myself to get dosbox working properly.

So, you can run DOS doors in DosBox?? I didn't think it handled them correctly. Am I wrong? I recently got all the Sunrise Doors registered. (BTW, thats free if you goto sunrisedoors.com..) I'd like to run a couple of my favorites - AND, I want to run the original FORBIDDEN SUBJECTS 1,2,3 file door. MegaDoor or something... can I use DosBox on my Pi to doso??

Andrew

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paulie420 wrote to apam <=-

Right on - glad to hear that you use Pi's for BBSing... recently some folks have said they are too slow - and MeaTLoTioNs dang OnePlus BBS
*is* faster than my Pi 4 - LOL. But, these are still awesome little
boards that do so much. Happy to hear that you're modifying Talisman -
you get to have SOME fun, too.

That might be due to using an SD card? If you have a usb 3 ssd I bet it's
quiet a bit faster. Possibly even a usb HDD (I have a usb HDD in mine but
it takes a little while to spin up if it's asleep).

So, you can run DOS doors in DosBox?? I didn't think it handled them correctly. Am I wrong? I recently got all the Sunrise Doors registered. (BTW, thats free if you goto sunrisedoors.com..) I'd like to run a
couple of my favorites - AND, I want to run the original FORBIDDEN SUBJECTS 1,2,3 file door. MegaDoor or something... can I use DosBox on
my Pi to doso??

Dosbox works pretty well for dos doors, it doesn't have file locking, so
you can't run the same door on multiple nodes. Also, I don't know if it's
still necessary, but I use a particular SVN version, as it seems to work
better for doors than the latest. It's much quicker than QEMU and has the
same limitations.

A lot of people will tell you Dosbox is no good for doors, but in my
experience it tends to work well and in some cases better than dosemu.

I also use a "dosbox shim" I wrote for use with magicka, that makes dosbox
work like dosemu in that it works with stdio redirection.

I wrote a howto in the magicka documentation you can see it here:

https://tinyurl.com/y479anu5

You can get the shim by cloning the magicka repository and changing into
the utils/dosbox_shim directory and running make.

If you have any issues let me know.. I have used this method on my PI, on windows 10 64-bit and various other OSes that don't have dosemu (like
SunOS, NetBSD etc).

Andrew
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poindexter FORTRAN wrote to apam <=-

apam wrote to Avon <=-

Yep, op-shopping is fun too :) we go occasionally, though many of the op-shops here have upped their prices by quiet a bit, I guess to appeal
to the hipster type.

Are op-shops what we call thrift shops? Around here the price on my
favorite item, film cameras, has gone way up. I used to buy Olympus
Mju-IIs for $5, now they're $50, and $150 on eBay!

I think so. Op-Shop is short for opportunity shop, they're stores run by charities that sell items people donate.

I know exactly how you feel with regards to the cameras, I used to be able
to pay $20 for a Commodore 64 plus disk drive tape deck joysticks etc etc.
Now it would be at least 10 times that.

I recently went to dust off one of my film cameras, went to
Yorkphoto.com, my favorite online film processor and found out that
Snapfish bought them - and no more online film processing. They used
to be around $4/roll with shipping. I suppose now I'll need to pay
for high-end film processing online.

ah that sucks. Is it more difficult to find film as well now?

Andrew

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On 21 Nov 2020 at 08:09p, apam pondered and said...

I bought the sims 4 a few weeks ago, I haven't gotten really stuck into
it yet, it's actually probably a bit complicated for me lol. I have hard enough time organising myself let alone sim people lol

I know this feeling well also :)

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That might be due to using an SD card? If you have a usb 3 ssd I bet it's quiet a bit faster. Possibly even a usb HDD (I have a usb HDD in mine but it takes a little while to spin up if it's asleep).

You know what, apam... thats a decent thought. I hadn't thought to make sure he was on a good SDcard. I, also, run an SSD on my bbs pi. And I'm like dude, these things aren't you know... iMac powerhouses, but they are pretty darn capable. He wasn't having it, just thinks they're slow and not very worthwhile.

I'll have to tell The Godfather to check his SDcard and make sure its what, an a2 or higher...?

Dosbox works pretty well for dos doors, it doesn't have file locking, so you can't run the same door on multiple nodes. Also, I don't know if it's still necessary, but I use a particular SVN version, as it seems to work better for doors than the latest. It's much quicker than QEMU and has the same limitations.

Understood. I have SVN installed and running pretty well - oh, well I guess not on my Pi but... I know about it and how to get it rocking. I think I can set Mystic to not allow a door to run if another user is on. May need to use semaphores but I can hack it up. THANKS; I am pretty familiar with DOSBox and for some reason just thought you couldn't use it w/ Mystic doors.

This is awesome, I want to get FORBIDDEN SUBJECTS 1,2,3 running its old 1993 door file server. :P Just for fun, just because its how I remember accessing those CDRoms. Fun.

A lot of people will tell you Dosbox is no good for doors, but in my experience it tends to work well and in some cases better than dosemu.

Also, DOSEMU is a b*tch to get rolling on a Pi... easily. They removed it from the Ubuntu repo and last time I tried getting dosemu2 in it was heck and a half.

I also use a "dosbox shim" I wrote for use with magicka, that makes dosboxwork like dosemu in that it works with stdio redirection.
I wrote a howto in the magicka documentation you can see it here: https://tinyurl.com/y479anu5
You can get the shim by cloning the magicka repository and changing into the utils/dosbox_shim directory and running make.
If you have any issues let me know.. I have used this method on my PI, on windows 10 64-bit and various other OSes that don't have dosemu (like

WELL, thank you for that even! I didn't see this part of the message till right now and... I'l loading up your data in web. Thanks apam.



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Re: Re: Saturday
By: apam to poindexter FORTRAN on Sun Nov 22 2020 09:10 am

ah that sucks. Is it more difficult to find film as well now?

Nope, I just go into my freezer. I have two tupperware containers full of Kodak Portra 400, Portra 160, and Fuji 100 film. It should last a while.
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Nope, I just go into my freezer. I have two tupperware containers full
of Kodak
Portra 400, Portra 160, and Fuji 100 film. It should last a while.

Well, that's handy for you :)

Andrew


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On 11-21-20 21:21, apam wrote to Vk3jed <=-

First up was a ham radio net, with exactly one person (me!). :D Oh
well, that
didn't go to plan. :D

What's a "ham radio net"? And don't say something you use to catch ham radios :)

Otherwise known as a "sked" (scheduled operation), where a group of people come up on air on a predetermined frequency/mode to talk.


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What's a "ham radio net"? And don't say something you use to catch ham radios :)

I was going to suggest its related to spam....but it could be a radio net for catching ham... pigs might fly eh.

Spec


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The day is coming to and end here.

Been wet all day with heavy rain for most of it. The other day we had 25c then today it was 13c so quite a drop and we had the log fire burning wood again.

Helped our youngest boy over the last couple of days, poor kids was in pain with an abscessed tooth. He ended up having to have it extracted as it was too far gone :( So we've been back and forth to his flat trying to keep him well fed with food that he can eat aka soft stuff like mashed spuds and gravy etc.

I did the dinner duties tonight and cooked for six... we had three members of the family come to visit us today. It gave my wife a night off which she needed.

Tonight I have been trying (again) to figure out how to add additional configuration to a docker nginx-proxy and lets encrypt combo I have managed to get running. The thing is the current set up I followed from a web tutorial only allows for the combo to serve up one website and what I want to do is have the above docker images/containers serve up another site. But it's how best to do this.

I'm not a nginx user but I think I need to create a custom.conf file and add a link to it in the volumes: section of my docker-compose.yaml file for jwilder/nginx-proxy

./custom.conf:/etc/nginx/conf.d/custom.conf:ro

..and then I think I need to somehow define a basic nginx config for my second website...

I have the HTML on another Linux box on my LAN so I need to point the config file to look at that when incoming traffic via the reverse proxy is addressed to the domain name I want to serve. I think that's it.. it's the how :)

Time to get some sleep.

Best, Paul

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