It's been rather hot here..
I woke up early and spent a few hours on BinkD tinkering with
settings, then my wife was keen to get Christmas decorations up so
the morning was spent getting stuff out of the roof then put up
around the house including the Christmas tree we have in a box.
That tree is about 2 years old, prior to getting it we would get a
pine tree branch and use that. I don't miss the mess but I do miss
the smell of the tree.
Watched some 'secrets of..' Netflix show about Fort Knox at
lunchtime. Went out for a bit of a drive down the harbour to a
place called Port Chalmers. It's only about 20 mins by car but a
nice outing for a change of scene.
Swung by the supermarket on the way home to pick up some cooked
roast chicken, salads etc. Watched x 2 episodes of The Flash (up to
season 2 now) on Netflix and now back to playing with the BBS.
Things seem quiet online, and it's still blowing strongly outside.
7.45pm as I type, sun is still shining, sunset around 9.10pm so
won't be proper dark until after 10pm tonight. My summers are long
days and short nights. It's light again by around 5am
Well, hope you're in a cool (or warm) spot :)
:) there's something about a real tree isn't there. We had real trees occasionally growing up, but I particularly remember having christmas at one of the uncle's house, they had a gum tree and my cousin who is a couple of years older made gifts for everyone. Although those memories
her brother doesn't stand out particularly, it's one I think of when I think of him. He died a couple of years ago in a car accident, it's strange how certain memories remind you of things, and makes you think
how every Christmas that passes (or every day really) is an opportunity
to make memories. I guess Christmas stands out for me as it's a time I
get to see my family, and it weighs on me that they wont be around forever. So have to treasure each one.
Sounds good, both the Netflix and the port chalmers. Is it an actual
port? ie did you get to see ships docking?
I signed up to disney plus yesterday so I could watch the mandalorian, seen episode one so far (they have 3 up at present) looking forward to watching the others. My wife refuses to watch star wars, so will have to watch it during the week.
Oh nice.. Sounds good. How do you watch the flash? is it on dvd or on a channel?
Yeah they do seem to be quiet today.
It's -7C here currently, heading for -10C but it's nice and toasty here
by my keyboard.
Well, hope you're in a cool (or warm) spot :)
It's -7C here currently, heading for -10C but it's nice and toasty
here by my keyboard.
It's -7C here currently, heading for -10C but it's nice and toasty here
by my keyboard.
On 29 Nov 2019 at 11:25p, Al pondered and said...
It's -7C here currently, heading for -10C but it's nice and
toasty here by my keyboard.
Can I just say for some reason HPT etc. feels like a mission... but
I am playing again.
On 30 Nov 2019 at 04:59p, apam pondered and said...one.
:) there's something about a real tree isn't there. We had
real trees occasionally growing up, but I particularly
remember having christmas at one of the uncle's house, they
had a gum tree and my cousin who is a couple of years older
made gifts for everyone. Although those memories her brother
doesn't stand out particularly, it's one I think of when I
think of him. He died a couple of years ago in a car accident,
it's strange how certain memories remind you of things, and
makes you think how every Christmas that passes (or every day
really) is an opportunity to make memories. I guess Christmas
stands out for me as it's a time I get to see my family, and
it weighs on me that they wont be around forever. So have to treasure each
I hear you. When I was growing up my family would drive up north to
spend Christmas with our extended family. My mums family lived in
the same city as my Dad. My grandfather had a batch (some call them
cribs) but basically a rather basic holiday home down by a beach
that we could go to visit and have a holiday at. It was about 20
mins drive from the city my extended family lived in. I loved it as
it was summer at the beach, and at the back of this place was a
pine tree they would lop off a branch and put in a bucket with some
water, and put up some tinsel and a sting of lights that were (I am guessing 50 lights) that were wired in series... when a bulb went
it was a bugger to fix. Anywhoo... yeah memories...
yes it's an actual port, we get quite a few cruise ships in between oct-april but none in today, it's also a container port so usual
shipping of stuff in containers etc.
Bummer about the wife, I'd like to see this show also and may sign
up if I can convince my wife of the merits of it. To be honest I'm
more likely to pick up Amazon Prime (??) I think that's what it is,
to watch the Picard Star Trek show which I would really like to
see. I am looking forward to watching the next Star Wars movie in
4-6 weeks too :)
Of the inbetween films, Rogue One and Solo... I really liked Rogue
One.
It's on Netflix, USA Netflix :)
Different timezones etc.,.. and I guess some seasonal holidays
going on around the globe :)
Heh, I think we call them shacks here. Yeah, sounds good. So many memories.
That's cool. My Dad lives on the yorke peninsuala in south australia
near wallaroo, which is also a port, they load grain there, always was fun seeing the big ships come in. Wallaroo is a tiny town, though so no containers etc.
It's ok, she's pretty good actually. Yeah also looking forward to the
next movie. Hey, there's no reason why you can sub to disney + for a little while and then swap it out for prime. you pay for a month at a time, so just go for a month with one, then switch over. My
justification is that I'm not playing wow now which was about $17 a
month, and disney + is only $9. :P but yet may not keep it after
watching the madalorian.
Yeah I did too. Haven't seen Solo yet, but would like to.
Ah ok. So it's not on Nitflux then :P probably not on our netflix. Was hoping to watch the new harley quinn animated show, but not sure how we will get that if we will.
Sure, thanksgiving isn't it?
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to configure this
Russian fidonet suite.
Can I just say for some reason HPT etc. feels like a mission... but
I am playing again.
It's -7C here currently, heading for -10C but it's nice and
toasty here by my keyboard.
Sounds good. I bet there is snow out too. I would love to see it
snowing one day.
It's -7C here currently, heading for -10C but it's nice and
toasty here by my keyboard.
Can I also just say.
Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to configure this
Russian fidonet suite.
On 29 Nov 2019 at 11:25p, Al pondered and said...
It's -7C here currently, heading for -10C but it's nice and
toasty here by my keyboard.
Can I just say for some reason HPT etc. feels like a mission... but I
am playing again.
Bummer about the wife, I'd like to see this show also and may sign up
if I can convince my wife of the merits of it. To be honest I'm more
likely to pick up Amazon Prime (??) I think that's what it is, to
watch the Picard Star Trek show which I would really like to see. I
am looking forward to watching the next Star Wars movie in 4-6 weeks
too :)
Of the inbetween films, Rogue One and Solo... I really liked Rogue
One.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^Bummer about the wife, I'd like to see this show also and may
sign up if I can convince my wife of the merits of it.
Have you watched the Mandalorian?
On 29 Nov 2019 at 11:25p, Al pondered and said...
It's -7C here currently, heading for -10C but it's nice and
toasty here by my keyboard.
Can I just say for some reason HPT etc. feels like a mission...Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to configure this
but I am playing again.
Russian fidonet suite.
This message will self destruct in 5 seconds.. Andrew ---
MagickaBBS v0.13alpha (Linux/x86_64) * Origin: HappyLand - telnet://magickabbs.com:2023/ (21:1/126)
Wife was very hot and decided she wanted some cider so bought me some
beer too. Pizza one day Beer another, she really is a keeper ;P (well I really knew that already..)
Well, hope you're in a cool (or warm) spot :)
Tried it and decided to not use it. The source code is horrible
(IMHO) and it's also has some bugs with the JAM and Squish message
bases. That said it has a lot of functionality.
Have you looked into FMail? It's available for Windows and there is
also a port to Linux for the tosser part (and the other command
line tools). The TUI config program needs Windows though, which was
the only reason for me not to try it.
Tried it and decided to not use it. The source code is horrible (IMHO) and it's also has some bugs with the JAM and Squish message bases. That said it has a lot of functionality.
What bugs!?
I have eyes on FMail. My BBS runs in a linode so wine is not going to
work for me. FMail also doesn't support jam netmail bases so that's not going to work for Mystic operators since Mystic only supports jam. I know folks have requested jam netmail support in FMail but so far it hasn't happened. It may be a complex request, I'm not sure.
Al do you have a copy of usr/local/fido/filefix.hlp ?
I can't seem to find it in my files.
Al do you have a copy of usr/local/fido/filefix.hlp ? I can't seem
to find it in my files.
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BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)
On 01 Dec 2019, Avon said the following...
There should be a copy in your inbound on /100. :)
Al do you have a copy of usr/local/fido/filefix.hlp ?
I can't seem to find it in my files.
It's been rather hot here..
Too hot to do much in the way of coding, it's hard to concentrate when you're sweating away..
Tried it and decided to not use it. The source code is horrible
(IMHO) and it's also has some bugs with the JAM and Squish
message bases. That said it has a lot of functionality.
What bugs!?
Well bugs are everywhere, aren't they.
I have not seen bugs with jam or squish message bases although I don't
have much experience with jam bases. I don't use all of the husky
packages because some haven't fully matured. I don't use hptsqfix or hptutil because of bugs I found years ago and have forgotten now.
Have you looked into FMail? It's available for Windows and
there is also a port to Linux for the tosser part (and the
other command line tools). The TUI config program needs Windows
though, which was the only reason for me not to try it.
I have eyes on FMail. My BBS runs in a linode so wine is not going to
work for me.
FMail also doesn't support jam netmail bases so that's
not going to work for Mystic operators since Mystic only supports
jam. I know folks have requested jam netmail support in FMail but so
far it hasn't happened. It may be a complex request, I'm not sure.
Can I just say for some reason HPT etc. feels like a mission... but I am playing again.
Tried it and decided to not use it. The source code is horrible (IMHO)
and it's also has some bugs with the JAM and Squish message bases. That said it has a lot of functionality.
Have you looked into FMail? It's available for Windows and there is also
a port to Linux for the tosser part (and the other command line tools). The TUI config program needs Windows though, which was the only reason
for me not to try it.
After watching some of the Episode I to III (don't remember which one), I decided I'm done with Star Wars (. When the lightsabers became swords
and J.J. Abrams was directing I decided I won't watch these films. For some reason I did watch Rogue One. I was not blown away, but I liked it much more than anticipated. Good old classic Star Wars :).
Have you watched the Mandalorian?
On 11-30-19 16:37, apam wrote to All <=-
It's been rather hot here..
Too hot to do much in the way of coding, it's hard to concentrate when you're sweating away..
JAM: "HPT doesn't seem to import the OADDRESS field into the JAM
base, and it scrubs it out of messages it exports."
This is known for some time http://91.204.178.99/cgi-bin/msg.cgi?area=ru.husky&msgid=5457
Squish: I doesn't write the __ftsc_date field to the Squish message
base and exports 50% of the messages with a modified timestamp
(seconds are always even).
see the thread in MUFFIN.
I have not seen bugs with jam or squish message bases although
I don't have much experience with jam bases. I don't use all of
the husky packages because some haven't fully matured. I don't
use hptsqfix or hptutil because of bugs I found years ago and
have forgotten now.
? ?
I have eyes on FMail. My BBS runs in a linode so wine is not
going to work for me.
You could run a VNC server or run the config program on another
computer at home.
I'm always forgetting that some software does not support JAM or
Squish for NETMAIL, which is unfortunate. I never understood the
reason for this.
Can I just say for some reason HPT etc. feels like a mission... butBut at some point "fidoconfig" will just work for you.. I promise.. :)
I am playing again.
Ttyl :-),
Al
Al's right on this, I made the swtich about 2-3 Months ago and really like it. The one thing i had issue with is the documentation. Some settings are not well documented and some things were updated in code
but not really in the docs. I also have another box spun up acting as a hub running a fake net for me to play with so If you have any questions let me know.
JAM: "HPT doesn't seem to import the OADDRESS field into the JAM
base, and it scrubs it out of messages it exports."
I heard Apam write something like that too.
It seems to be trying quite hard to avoid the OADDRESS. I wonder if
there is a reason for that?
Squish: I doesn't write the __ftsc_date field to the Squish
message base and exports 50% of the messages with a modified
timestamp (seconds are always even).
see the thread in MUFFIN.
I did see that in the muffin area but don't know what all this is
about so I didn't say anything. Are these bugs ml was refering to
caused by HPT?
I have stayed away from hptutil either because of bugs that I
encountered myself or read of others experiences. It has been too
many years now and I don't recall what they were.
But I have always used sqpack and never went looking for hptutil. Even
now with jam bases I use sqpack and that works for me, so I am
satisfied.
I have eyes on FMail. My BBS runs in a linode so wine is not
going to work for me.
You could run a VNC server or run the config program on another
computer at home.
Is it possible to run desktop apps over VNC? I never knew that.
I'm hoping I can copy over the JAM bases I'm using and HPT will just pick them up and run with them. Either that or I will let it create new ones. Not sure.
Avon wrote to apam <=-
On 30 Nov 2019 at 05:34p, apam pondered and said...
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to configure this
Russian fidonet suite.
so many keywords, not enough time... :)
Al wrote to Avon <=-
You need a main config with general paths, a links config for you
links, a route config for the routing and an areas config for the msg
and file areas.
My main config is in a file called config, with three other files
included in that config.. areas, route and links.
I'm hoping I can copy over the JAM bases I'm using and HPT will just them up and run with them. Either that or I will let it create new on Not sure.
I copied the files over and it worked just fine so you shouldn't have a issue with it.
But I have always used sqpack and never went looking for
hptutil. Even now with jam bases I use sqpack and that works
for me, so I am satisfied.
Is this a forked version of Squish's sqpack?
Yeah, I've wanted to play with HTICK for some time, but the setup
time seems pretty daunting.
Care to share your config files? Having a working example would go
a long way to me getting my head around it.
But I have always used sqpack and never went looking for
hptutil. Even now with jam bases I use sqpack and that works
for me, so I am satisfied.
Is this a forked version of Squish's sqpack?
According to the README.md it was written by Matthias Tichy. If it was based on squish code I'm not sure.
According to the README.md it was written by Matthias Tichy. If
it was based on squish code I'm not sure.
Okay, I compared the sources. The only thing they share is the
name.
According to the README.md it was written by Matthias Tichy. If
it was based on squish code I'm not sure.
Okay, I compared the sources. The only thing they share is the
name.
When I first started using the husky stuff I was using squish bases
so I used sqpack. I was surprised to find that it also works on jam
bases. I don't know if it was designed for that but it seems to work.
Those bugs mentioned worry me though, so I'll have to look at hptutil
and see if it's a better tool.
Al wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
Care to share your config files? Having a working example would go
a long way to me getting my head around it.
Sure, I'll put a zip together and crash it to your node in the next
hour or so.
For something like
Password PASSWORD
PktPwd
TicPwd
Flavour Crash
Packer zip
What happens?
If no PktPwD is stated does it mean there is none used?
If only Password is stated does this mean a packet password is set?
It's all rather confusing.
The above link will have an areafix password of PASSWORD and no packet
or tic password.
It's very overwhelming. I'm comparing two setups (yours and Dans) and
the approaches for the say config is set up and the keywords used (or
not) and what is set to what, all differs. And that I guess is to be expected but the mannor in which things can be apprcahed for the set
up of links, use of some default settings which honestly does my head
in at times.. sigh..
I've been in and out of the study for the last 3 hours, progressed
very little on the links config, and am getting a bit frustrated.
Ideally I'd like to ensure all the HUBs are running with the same
settings and approach to config to make standardization easier but
this is looking less and less likely with this software... and having other HUBs now running different software anyway.
I fear it may have made things worse not better in the long run.
But I am also rather bummed out by my seemingly inability to get this stuff configured when I do have time to do it.
Sorry to vent..
Vent anytime.
Some time passes, watched some Netflix (Logans Run) and have started working on the links section again. Like Ed Hillary said I'm going to knock the bastard off :)
Do you know if passwords are case sensitive in the windows version of
this software?
The only password that is case sensitive is the session password and that doesn't come into play with the husky stuff.
The Areafix, Packet and Tic password is not case sensitive (to the best
of my knowledge).
I always write the password in my config in uppercase for no good reason aside from consistency unless a node asks for something else.
In my case working in linux, if I write a packet password in lower case the packet password will be written to the packet for the node in lower case. I don't think that matters since those Areafix, Filefix, Packet
and Tic (again, to the best of my knowledge and experience) are not case sensitive.
But I am also rather bummed out by my seemingly inability to get this stuff configured when I do have time to do it.
Sorry to vent..
keeping on :) Doing a great job whether it feels like it or not.
For something like
Password PASSWORD
PktPwd
TicPwd
Flavour Crash
Packer zip
What happens?
In my case working in linux, if I write a packet password in
lower case the packet password will be written to the packet
for the node in lower case. I don't think that matters since
those Areafix, Filefix, Packet and Tic (again, to the best of
my knowledge and experience) are not case sensitive.
With Linux I'm aware case counts that why I thought I'd better check
in for Windows :)
I've been in and out of the study for the last 3 hours, progressed
very little on the links config, and am getting a bit frustrated.
I think some similar experience made me try crashmail, which took me an hour to setup and I never tried hpt again. It's a bummer that there is
no windows version. hpt and fidoconf has a steep learning curve, but
once you figured it out it gets better (I hope).
It's been rather hot here..
Too hot to do much in the way of coding, it's hard to concentrate when you're sweating away..
Well, hope you're in a cool (or warm) spot :)
On 12-06-19 17:05, Al wrote to Avon <=-
The Areafix, Packet and Tic password is not case sensitive (to the best
of my knowledge).
I always write the password in my config in uppercase for no good
reason aside from consistency unless a node asks for something else.
In my case working in linux, if I write a packet password in lower case the packet password will be written to the packet for the node in lower case. I don't think that matters since those Areafix, Filefix, Packet
and Tic (again, to the best of my knowledge and experience) are not
case sensitive.
The only password that is case sensitive is the session password and that doesn't come into play with the husky stuff.
The password command will set all of the passwords for that link to that password. If you add the PktPwd with a blank, it will blank out that packet password for that link. Same with the TicPwd.
I don't think there is any difference in password handling between the Linux and Windows version. It's just two strings that get compared. The case sensitivity problems are mostly related to filenames (you can use NTFS or FAT partitions on Linux though or use Linux >= 5.2 and enable
case insensitivity for ext4).
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
So we bought a few things for the flower garden at home and were happy
with
the items we got for the low $$ spent.
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.
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?
I thought I might try this again.. it IS the weekend now! Though might still be friday for some of you?
First up was a ham radio net, with exactly one person (me!). :D Oh
well, that
didn't go to plan. :D
Tonight I've watched the latest episode of Star Trek Discovery and then hit Netflix to soak up some IT Crowd.
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.
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.
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?
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
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.
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??
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 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.
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
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).
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 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
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.
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 :)
What's a "ham radio net"? And don't say something you use to catch ham radios :)
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