The distractions in life... between several weekends that were Holidays
in various places (August Bank Holiday some, Labor Day in others), the
mix of very fine weather begging for outdoor time mixed with very poor weather filled with hurricanes, storms and record rains, heartwrenching news suggesting staying as far away from a computer screen or TV as possible, and.... well you get the idea.
I think we are all going through the same thing. There are work things that I'm supposed to be doing, but finding the motivation when WFH all
the time is very difficult. My brain automatically wanders to doing
stuff it is more naturally passionate about.
All quiet on the western front here it looks like. :-(
Re: Quiet
By: The Millionaire to All on Thu May 05 2022 01:56 pm
What does that maen? Nothing happening where you live?
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No I meant it's kinda quiet here. :-(
The Millionaire wrote to All <=-
All quiet on the western front here it looks like. :-(
All quiet on the western front here it looks like. :-(
All quiet on the western front here it looks like. :-(
All quiet on the western front here it looks like. :-(
It looks like.... what?
All quiet on the western front here it looks like. :-(
Probably catching our breath before the next burst...
Hardly any chatter today for some reason. Why is that?
Like any hangout, it's not going to be full every day...
McDoob
SysOp, PiBBS
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It's usually like a party on here.
On 04 Jan 2022 at 11:59a, The Millionaire pondered and said...
It can vary. Today I have been trying to update some usenet peers on a server I run. I ended up borking the server and had to roll things back to get things running again. The joys. Anywhoo popped in here to catch up on stuff and work on some fsx admin soon.
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It can vary. Today I have been trying to update some usenet peers on a server I run. I ended up borking the server and had to roll things back
to get things running again. The joys. Anywhoo popped in here to catch
up on stuff and work on some fsx admin soon.
Nice to see you drop in. Was getting kinda lonely here by myself.
Nice to see you drop in. Was getting kinda lonely here by myself.
Hardly any chatter today for some reason. Why is that?
It's usually like a party on here.
It's a tad quiet, guessing it's either too hot or too cold to spend time on a computer and send echomail?
It's a tad quiet, guessing it's either too hot or too cold to spend
time on a computer and send echomail?
It's a tad quiet, guessing it's either too hot or too cold to spend time
on a computer and send echomail?
It's a tad quiet, guessing it's either too hot or too cold to spend time on a computer and send echomail?
It's a tad quiet, guessing it's either too hot or too cold to spend time on a computer and send echomail?
apam wrote to Avon <=-
It did come with win 10 professional, but, I'm trying to give windows
the flick for good. I have one headless machine with win10 so I can compile win32 versions of talisman and magiterm, but otherwise it's
played Age of Empires II with a (remote) friend.
It's a tad quiet, guessing it's either too hot or too cold to spend tima computer and send echomail?
Actually, I've noticed its been quiet all round for the last couple of weeks.
The distractions in life... between several weekends that were Holidays
in various places (August Bank Holiday some, Labor Day in others), the
mix of very fine weather begging for outdoor time mixed with very poor weather filled with hurricanes, storms and record rains, heartwrenching news suggesting staying as far away from a computer screen or TV as possible, and.... well you get the idea.
played Age of Empires II with a (remote) friend.
I love AoE II, and Age of Mythology as well. I used to play Age of
networked to the family computer with a coax cable. Most of the time I would beat either of them, but my Mom actually got petty good and beat
me a couple of times.
It's a tad quiet, guessing it's either too hot or too cold to spend time on a computer and send echomail?
Before the networks die the true death, we could always allow politics again (ROFL).
Avon wrote to All <=-
It's a tad quiet, guessing it's either too hot or too cold to spend
time on a computer and send echomail?
It's a tad quiet, guessing it's either too hot or too cold to spend
time on a computer and send echomail?
Too hot, here, though it's also Labor Day, which is a US holiday that a large amount of people don't have to work.
they're calculated, since I'm a German employee. But regardless of German holidays, if the site I'm working at is closed (or basically so), I'm not going to work on that day.
So it's been nice. Took an 8k walk before it got to be too hot, then played Age of Empires II with a (remote) friend.
Phew, that was a lot of rambling....
But I guess the BBS revival is over ...
Or people are confused by too many echos ...
Before the networks die the true death, we could always allow politics again (ROFL).
Actually, I've noticed its been quiet all round for the last couple of weeks.
I think folks have been distracted by other things... :(
The distractions in life... between several weekends that were Holidays
in various places (August Bank Holiday some, Labor Day in others), the
mix of very fine weather begging for outdoor time mixed with very poor weather filled with hurricanes, storms and record rains, heartwrenching news suggesting staying as far away from a computer screen or TV as possible, and.... well you get the idea.
Expect there may be lots of great recounting of adventures that will follow.
I was out of town for a week with just my motorcycle and cellphone! =)
It was much needed vacation and 'wind therapy'. I am back and will be posting though, for sure! =)
Before the networks die the true death, we could always allow politic again (ROFL).
I suppose killing FSXnet by homicide would be a bit of a different way of ending an online thing.
I bought a Synology NAS and have been learning all of the ins and outs
of it, and spent the weekend sorting through all of my documents, photos and movies, removing duplicates, moving them to the RAID, setting up a backup task and playing with docker on the NAS.
I moved 1.1 gb of data to the raid, dropping my c: drive size to 224 GB.
I might try replacing my 3tb c: drive with a 480 gb SSD.
My wife's new computer showed up, started setting it up. She needs her
IT guy (the one at her company) to help her set up the VPN as I don't
have the OpenVPN certs.
In between all of this I did get out and enjoy what feels like the last bit of summer here. The morning air has that crispness it gets when
autumn moves in.
I can only talk for myself, but I'm on holiday at the moment.
We arrived at the Baltic Sea yesterday and stayed one night in Travemnde, a part of the city of Lbeck.
Today, we went to our final holiday resort in Heiligenhafen, near the island Fehmarn.
We have a nice apartment just next to the sea and will stay here for
one week.
As we have a full-fledged kitchen, we don't need to have contact to
many people, so it's pandemic-compatible.
My wife is just out to buy some groceries, so I have some time to
catch up with messages :)
Have a nice day!
I'd go walking more often but the weather is so pants right now :(
Before the networks die the true death, we could always allow po again (ROFL).
I suppose killing FSXnet by homicide would be a bit of a different wa ending an online thing.
If we do this, we need to do it on a moving train or something... more like an Agatha Christie plot :)
On 07 Sep 2021 at 07:47a, Oli pondered and said...
But I guess the BBS revival is over ...
Or people are confused by too many echos ...
Heh, who knows... yeah the number of echos I am not sure on... some seem
to be working others less so, but should they be pulled - not sure?
Who killed FSXnet!?!
Yep, I thought so too. I am not across as many FTNs as I used to be but those I am seemed slower too. I wondered if for our folks in the northern hemisphere it's because it's just too dam hot and there's other more pressing stuff to do indoors and out than sit in a stuffy room on a hot day in front of a screen?
I wondered if for our folks in the northern hemisphere it's because it's Av> just too dam hot and there's other more pressing stuff to do indoors and Av> out than sit in a stuffy room on a hot day in front of a screen?
lol, i am here during my work hours every weekday.
being able to work from home, allows me the ablity to
also sit on my BBS and hang out for 8 hours a day.
its what keeps me sain from taking password reset calls
all day long :-)
Yay! Happy holidays to you.
Thanks, I've been slack this last week at doing the echomail/bbsing thing but I've been distracted by my other past interests in running a LPFM station
I hope you have/had a nice time where you went.
typing this reply to you has got me wondering when/if/where I might
opt to go when my next holiday rolls around (likely Christmas/Jan
here when it;s our summer) and I honestly don't know.
International travel seems unlikely not to mention costly for us, I will likely go to the North Island and try and see aging parents. Both are looking older and frailer now. It kinda barks, this business of growing older and becoming the 'adult' my inner child still wants to play on the swings!
Vielleicht bringt das Schreiben von Nachrichten in einer anderen Sprache
die Dinge ein bisschen in Schwung
La es uns herausfinden :) Worber mchtest Du reden? :)
It's a tad quiet, guessing it's either too hot or too cold to spend time on a computer and send echomail?
In other news Galactic Dynasty nodes, look for an updated CFG file to drop in to your system. I've just hatched it out.
Best, Paul
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I feel like we're living the same life! lol
Here I am sitting at work (I'm actually in the office this week),
writing a progress report to my bosses boss about some ongoing projects, but instead of replying to that I'm here messing around on the BBS.
Jay
hopefully they dont put keyboard capturing apps on your computer to spy
on what you type. do they monitor the apps you install on the computer?
i use a seprate laptop for BBSing. that way they cant sniff my traffic over the VPN, and see me on the BBS.
For those of us with central air, it's actually quite nice. BBS'ing for me these days is me stretched out on a couch with my laptop either
reading messages or playing LORD or LORD2. The difficultly is when my
cat decides IT wants to be on my lap & not my laptop.
I feel like we're living the same life! lol
Here I am sitting at work (I'm actually in the office this week),
writing a progress report to my bosses boss about some ongoing projects, but instead of replying to that I'm here messing around on the BBS.
Thank you! :)
I'm still there and take a little time to look through echomails :)
but I've been distracted by my other past interests in running a LPFM station
'low power FM'?
We don't know either what the future will bring.'
For us, international travel or even flying won't be an option for a very long time, so we're happy that this place is so nice and we're thinking about travelling here the next years.
Honestly, it isn't so much different to flying to an island - given
what we're doing there and here ;)
Well for us yanks over in the states, we just got off a 3 day (well 4
day in my
case) weekend closing out the summer. So I am sure many were out of town for the last hurrah of summer. Me personally I was busy setting up a old computer with XP and setting up my old TAG bbs setup. After getting half way through I kinda realized while it was a nice trip down nostalgia
lane I had a really nice
I also want to build new hourly format clocks that dictate
the order of songs and lists of songs played during the
hour.
Avon wrote to Warpslide <=-
That sounds nice. I generally sit in front of the same PC and screens I use for work related stuff during the day but in the evening they point
at my BBSing stuff etc. For the most part it works OK but working from home more means there are days I just have a break from BBSing as I
will end up spending way to much time in one spot otherwise.
truth be told I *should* be working now but during lockdowns etc. things get a bit more loose as a goose :)
I think we are all going through the same thing. There are work things that I'm supposed to be doing, but finding the motivation when WFH all
the time is very difficult. My brain automatically wanders to doing
stuff it is more naturally passionate about.
I also don't feel bad about taking a few hours out for walking or BBS or LPFM or... :)
I think we just need to go easy on ourselves with this stuff. If I can look back at the end of the day and know I crossed a couple of things
off my work list and/or move some stuff along then it's all good.
I also don't feel bad about taking a few hours out for walking or BBS or LPFM or... :)
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Avon wrote to All <=-
It's a tad quiet, guessing it's either too hot or too cold to spend
time on a computer and send echomail?
In other news Galactic Dynasty nodes, look for an updated CFG file to
drop in to your system. I've just hatched it out.
Best, Paul
In other news Galactic Dynasty nodes, look for an updated CFG file to drop in to your system. I've just hatched it out.
Think I just got it today. Not sure what was holding up outgoing binkd calls on this end but, after taking it down for a few hours, it immediately called out when I brought it back up. <shrugs>
hyjinx wrote to Avon <=-
Absolutely Paul, if we going hard on ourselves for 'not doing enough
work' then we are just going to wind up having nervous breakdowns
because we are always pushing ourselves in an unrealistic way, very unhealty on the mind.
Do what makes us happy, I think that most good employers are
understanding of this and that we are all doing our bit, it's just that our bit isn't quite what it used to be.
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