Text 7811, 109 rader
Skriven 2006-10-30 22:13:10 av James Bradley (1:134/77.0)
   Kommentar till text 7754 av Wayne Chirnside (1:123/140)
Ärende: access
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On or about: 10-29-06  20:21, Wayne Chirnside did engage Maurice Kinal
regarding, but not limited to: access

 -=> MAURICE KINAL wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-
 
 MK> Oct 29 17:26 06, WAYNE CHIRNSIDE wrote to ALL:
[...]
 WC> Oddly enough after a number of days impairment with this very packet
 WC> the QWK door is working again it seems.

I doubt I need to point out, there is an OFFLINE echo, and a fairly well
travelled BLUEWAVE. (I think it's called.) OFFLINE, might as well be called
MULTI_MAIL, and Blue Wave readers are almost totally restricted to QWK mail
packets these days. If some of the fiddly bits are knawing, you could do worse
than to ask there.

 WC> Now to see if I can reset the message pointers and recover lost posts
 WC> from you and Paul.

(Usually,) A "piece of cake!" to quote MK. <G>

 WC> I've got them in a QWK packet from another BBS but 
 WC> migrating them over is tough WC> with arthritis.
 
Skip the last part. (-;

 WC> Those delayed messages await another day when I can muster the 
 WC> the physical and mental effort.

Sometimes, we need to ask, "Why bother?"

 WC> Yet another Linux project, figure out aspell to incorporate into the
 WC> OLR editor.

Usually, just calling it from inside your editor works as well, or better than
anything else.

 WC> A kindly offer of charity regarding doing better than next month on a
 WC> few things, USB card, external case, Linux From Scratch and along those
 WC> lines.

Never mind! I'm loading Maurice into my propane powered truck, with a list of
auction houses in your neck of the woods. Let me know if the power tools might
come in handy before we set sail, right.

 WC> Well Maurice I certainly do appreciate the thought
 WC> however charity goes down hard for me.

Suck it up man! <L> You know I'm too much like you on the matter?

 WC> Right now I'm hot on Gateways and anything 450 MHz or better.
 WC> Should be doable given what people toss because of Windows resource 
 WC> requirments.

Heck, the last Dell to roll in, has dually P!!! at 1GHz, two Adaptec adapters
built in, and two PSs, that seem to be ATX on first looks, which might have
been the prototype for the second ATX (ATX-2?) standard.

For $10, it had no drives, but the last four came full of those, plus current
SCSI RAID controllers to replace one of the built-ins. I sold one of the first
batch for $115, (He *did* get a smokin' deal.) and that payed for the whole
shot. He wants to buy empty Dell cases for him and his friends now. <VBWEG>

I know trust might be an issue, but if a local can be found, there is *always*
a liquidation or auction that has one of these underused beasts holding the
door open. Just know, if someone here could, we would offer cast-offs, or some
leg-work to help you out. It seems like a pittance to me, as the fido crowd
here was populous, smart as a whip-crack, and more than willing to drive across
the city to deliver a manual you asked about the day before. Yes, if it
wouldn't cost me a thou to drive a rig out to you...

 WC> Oh, when I bought the CD lens cleaner I asked the clerk ( who had a
 WC> computer) if he thought my 450 MHz Pentium would play video DVDs.
 WC> He laughed out loud at the idea, then I pointed out it did so
 WC> while only using 65 percent of my CPU resources using Linux.
 WC> His response? "oh"

[-|

 WC> Well that was a concern and Windows thinking on my part.

I've *never* done that before! <Sarcasm goes here.>

 WC> You know Maurice, it must be a severe character defect on my part
 WC> but I just don't _get_ the joys of having fun at expense of the
 WC> disabled. 

I've found, there is no malicious intent, or attempt to belittle, but often the
most educated just do not understand. Ask my previous MD, for instance. /-:

 WC> Linux From Scratch is penciled into my budget for the first week of
 WC> the month. Hopefully when it gets here I'll still be able to read it
 <g> 
 WC> You know though tired I'm in quite good humor at the moment, yet
 WC> another plus for advancing dementia.

I don't know how to break it to you, but it is the miserable grumpy guy, that
laughs loudest at his own jokes that tends to live the longest. The line starts
behind me. [-;




... "Onward, and awkward. That's my motto," -Hinton, Ardith

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