Text 868, 58 rader
Skriven 2014-02-09 10:54:00 av Paul Quinn (3:640/384)
    Kommentar till text 865 av Holger Granholm (2:20/228)
Ärende: Re: knowledge is power
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Hi! Holger,

On Mon, 03 Feb 14, you wrote to me:

 HG> Now all the new snow that came is gone including most of the thin
 HG> layer we had before. It's melting too because the wx forecast expects 
 HG> above zero temperatures for the entire week.

We're getting the same 'melting' here as well.  It's been drizzling (light
rain) for over 24hrs and is uncomfortable.  Not enough to look for umbrellas or
raincoats, and just enough to get a brief soaking if a person stands in one
place for a few minutes.  It's referred to as liquid sunshine here.  Hence the
melting notion.  :)

 HG> OK, if you can say XP is pretty. In my mind it's overworked but maybe
 HG> the best of late Windows versions.

Well, it runs fairly solidly here.  But I don't trust it for most of my Fidonet
stuff.  I do use an XP vBox to do a couple of nodelist-related jobs.  One is a
'sandpit' for nodelist (segment) generation for a couple of nets in our region,
and to test Region 54's segment based on those.  And the other is a nodelist
comparison job, that compares the current week's nodelist with the previous
week's and generates a report of the differences (a reverse engineered
zone-wide 'diff', if you like).  All of my other Fidonet stuff will not run in
XP, as I rely on a few DOS utilities that just don't run in XP.

 HG> We just has such a day here yesterday, only drizzle though, that gave
 HG> me the opportunity to fix the TV channel list of one of the TVs at 
 HG> home since we got four new HD channels added to the cable net. I had 
 HG> been fighting with this for three evenings but they were there 
 HG> momentarily only. Next time you turned on the set they were gone 
 HG> again.

:)  Yuck!

 HG> The problem was at the bottom of the second "installation settings"
 HG> where a setting of "Scan while at standby" was set ON. After setting
 HG> this to OFF the channels stay put.

So simple.  I wish our problem was.

We seem to have a seasonal/environmental glitch here.  We have problems with
signal breakup of some sort.  It seems to happen for a few days leading up to &
around the equinoxes.  It's so bad at present that we rely on 'closed captions'
for programme dialogue for some channels, at times.  It's either seasonal or
could just be that we're in the vicinity of a couple of heavy engineering
plants (diesel long-haul & suburban electric train manufacuring, and light
machine shops supporting the industry), plus an electric sub-station, and,
we're subject to electromagnetic interference.  We're not sure.[shrug]  However
it's a short duration thing, and is annoying at its worst for a few days in the
year.

Cheers,
Paul.

... Help Conserve the Earth - it's the only planet with chocolate.
--- Paul's Win98SE VirtualBox
 * Origin: Quinn's Post - Maryborough, Queensland, OZ (3:640/384)