Text 14524, 90 rader
Skriven 2014-04-19 07:51:28 av Nicholas Boel (1:154/701)
  Kommentar till text 14522 av Ross Cassell (1:123/456)
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Hello Ross,

On 18 Apr 14 21:40, Ross Cassell wrote to Nicholas Boel:

 NB>> I haven't even gotten around to forcing myself to get used to
 NB>> Win8 yet. I'm not quite sure I want to any time soon, either. I'm
 NB>> too used to Windows 7 now to change up to a tablet-style desktop.

 RC> Update 1 to Windows 8.1, which hit on Apr 8th... If the computer is a
 RC> "touch screen", it will boot to the metro UI (start screen). Else it
 RC> boots to the desktop..

I'm happy to hear they did that at the very least.

 RC> Then there are a myriad of modestly priced to free utils that give you
 RC> back the start button..

 RC> Its not all that radical...

I only had an out of the box experience with it, and I don't even know if it 
was 8.1 yet at the time. I had a bad experience with it just in regards to 
browsing the web, and hitting an unknown key or key combination that would 
usually do something for me elsewhere, would switch the desktop on me. At the 
time not knowing how I accomplished that, it took me a few minutes to get it 
back to my original desktop. That happened over and over to me until I said 
"fuggit" and put the laptop down. :)

I'm sure I'll get around to using it more, but maybe by the time I decide to 
move on from Win7 the next iteration of Windows will be out, which may bring 
back the start button due to so many complaints about Win8. *shrug* Time will 
tell, I guess.

 NB>> Is there options to move Virtualbox and/or VMware images over to
 NB>> it at all?

 RC> I wasnt going for simultaneous parallel options, but to be able to
 RC> switch back and forth if I wanted to, since fmail went win32, I dont
 RC> have to deal with the env muckups that fastecho introduced.. However
 RC> fmail was mucking up badly the msgbase files previously maintained by
 RC> Fastecho.

Right. I understood what you were doing with the way you originally described 
it. And with there being differences between the way the two softwares handle 
things, I could see it causing problems, too. I just never tried accessing one 
message base with two different tossers before. I'll thank you ahead of time 
for trying it, and the advice to never do it in the future! :)

 NB>> Actually, check the 'misc' directories for hpt and htick. There
 NB>> may be an updated stat thing in one of those directories. The
 NB>> only thing is, I think it spits all the results into one file, so
 NB>> you would have to edit the code to split each stat screen into
 NB>> separate files.

 RC> I have turqstat, and areastat but those mostly put out trivia on an
 RC> echo, not the type stats I had..

The one I'm describing does the exact same stats you have in the EASTSTAR echo.
Someone just merged them all together so it spits the results out in one file, 
or all in one shot. You basically just have to add a command in between each of
the outputs to ouput them separately to a file of it's own.

That was the updated version that works with 1.9.0 current sources, though, 
IIRC.

 RC>>> Mailhubs been under Linux since this past sunday.

 NB>> Ahh, sorry about that. From the above "finalize the mailhubs
 NB>> migration to Linux this Sunday" I had assumed it wasn't finished
 NB>> yet, and it would be this Sunday.

 RC> I wrote that message last week, dont worry, Bjorn was a late responder
 RC> too.

Doh! It's been a busy week this week, so I'm sure I was thrown off in regards 
to time. That and I haven't really paid much attention to the echo in the past 
week or two that ALL-POLITICS and DEBATE merged into here for some reason.

 NB>> Just a couple loose ends to tie up, then?

 RC> An ongoing thing.

Hah. Always! That does make it an enjoyable hobby though, IMO. Keeps the mind 
working in ways it normally wouldn't, especially in a line of work that doesn't
involve computers whatsoever.

Regards,
Nick

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