I've found in the evenings after a full day in front of a screen I'm
less motivated to sit for a further 2-3 hours to do BBS stuff etc.
Probably to be expected I guess.
I've been watching the over level of traffic in FSX as of late and it
has dropped. It's always hard to know what drives what but like all
things there are new things for people to enjoy and places to chat
etc. I wonder at times if there are too many echos but have resisted
the urge to prune or pair things back at this stage.
I'm not overly happy with htick and how I (mostly because I don't have
the scripting skills) can just easily automate regular hatching of old
files into file bases for old nodes. With Mystic I could have set
something up there with a bit more ease.. I think.. I may be wrong.
A suggestion has been to start over and set up a new Linux install on
a different box and copy files and settings I was to keep etc over
then drop the new HDD into the old system when I am ready. I'm kinda
There's other BBS software I'd like to set up and also more on
decentralized communications platforms I'd like to play with.
Anywhoo I may go get a drink and I know I am on BBQ duty tonight as
the family is coming for dinner... so I'd best sign off.
Well amazingly it's Friday where I am again and the working day is almost done. I have had a fairly productive working week but not done as much on the BBS etc. as perhaps I would have liked or should have :)
In recent weeks I've been working in my spare time on understanding Docker and pestering Deon (NET 3 HUB admin and bloke of many talents) with questions about it.
What I have learned during the time I have had the HUB and BBS on Linux is that I probably should not have set some things up the way I did or to be more specific I should not have mucked around with umask... as permissions issues continue to be a
pain for me and the software I am trying to run.
I've been watching the over level of traffic in FSX as of late and it has dropped. It's always hard to know what drives what but like all things there are new things for people to enjoy and places to chat etc. I wonder at times if there are too many
echos but have resisted the urge to prune or pair things back at this stage.
I'm not overly happy with htick and how I (mostly because I don't have the scripting skills) can just easily automate regular hatching of old files into file bases for old nodes. With Mystic I could have set something up there with a bit more ease.. I
think.. I may be wrong.
There's other BBS software I'd like to set up and also more on decentralized communications platforms I'd like to play with.
Avon wrote to All <=-
I've found in the evenings after a full day in front of a screen I'm
less motivated to sit for a further 2-3 hours to do BBS stuff etc. Probably to be expected I guess.
because I am working from home the same setting I work in is also where
I do my hobby stuff and that I have found has also muted my time in
front of the screen after hours.
In recent weeks I've been working in my spare time on understanding
Docker and pestering Deon (NET 3 HUB admin and bloke of many talents)
with questions about it.
deon wrote to Avon <=-
It probably doesnt help I've found some good TV to watch - first it was Goliath, then Accused and now I'm into Brokenwood Mysteries having
started that last night. I've got 5 seasons on ABC so it looks ike it might keep me occupied for the next week or two.
Brokenwood is good, as was 800 Words, a nice NZ drama that made me want to move to a small town on the coast. We binge watched the whole series, and they've apparently decided that it was enough. Good enough, since it ended
on a good note.
Until recently, I would remote desktop into my work laptop with my home
PC and 2 monitors. I'd have a separate work environment and play environment, and that helped separate the two areas. One the weekends, I'd close the work laptop.
Docker is a lot of fun, I'm running Proxmox with LXC containers and have an Ubuntu docker host running in a VM. Nginx Proxy Manager, Pi-Hole and
a couple of apps are running in containers.
I was just about to correct you, that 800 words was an Aussie TV show - not wanting the Kiwi's to take credit for that (since they always seem
to beat us at Rugby) - but then I see it actually was a joint
Aussie/Kiwi production!
If you ever go to Auckland, at the airport there is a All Blacks shop, selling TV shirts at and stuff like that. I laughed the first time I
I've found in the evenings after a full day in front of a screen I'm less motivated to sit for a further 2-3 hours to do BBS stuff etc. Probably to be expected I guess.
I can imagine that being a drain.
Well, I don't really think that's it. The only place I see any real activity is meatlotions matrix channel. I think it's just quiet everywhere. Having said that though, I had thought things were going fairly well here. The last couple of days has been slow I suppose, but otherwise traffic here has been more than anywhere else.
Maybe there's more places I dont know off, but I don't think this lul is anything extraodinary, just the ups and downs of BBSing I guess.
As for echos, that's up to you, maybe there are too many, maybe not. I don't think things would change if you pruned, it may even have the opposite effect where people think that topic is no longer wanted.
Yeah, are you able to use mystic's tic hatcher with HPT? I would guess
so. Use whatever does the job and is most comfortable. I've been using postie to tic hatch and it works ok :P
A suggestion has been to start over and set up a new Linux install on
a different box and copy files and settings I was to keep etc over
then drop the new HDD into the old system when I am ready. I'm kinda
That sounds daunting. Though, I'm not sure I understand the issues - if your files are all wrong permissions, wouldn't files and settings retain wrong permissions when you move it over?
Anywhoo I may go get a drink and I know I am on BBQ duty tonight as
the family is coming for dinner... so I'd best sign off.
That sounds good.
TGIF :)
Likewise, I've had a busy week (in fact a busy couple of weeks), where
at the end of the day I've had no interest in BBSing.
I'm wanting to get Clearing Houz into a position where folks can self register and start putting my some direct traffic through it - there
will be bugs and I'm hoping to find them all out this way. I keep saying I'm 95% there, but I find something else that I think would be useful or easier...
It probably doesnt help I've found some good TV to watch - first it was Goliath, then Accused and now I'm into Brokenwood Mysteries having
started that last night. I've got 5 seasons on ABC so it looks ike it might keep me occupied for the next week or two.
Go docker :)
If the umask thing is becoming a pain, I guess there are a couple of options for you:
* Leave the BBS owned by the "bbs" and you "sudo" to the BBS user to do any bbs stuff.
* Put the BBS inside docker, then you "docker exec" inside the container to do any BBS stuff.
Both these options mean that you can limit who can sudo and docker exec (which I know was one of your goals).
It has - as part of building clearing houz, I've got some graph stats (which eventually I want to convert to ANSI stats). Its currently
holding around 100,000 messages from a few networks (including the 3000 (or was it 6?) from that rogue bot.) At some point I should think about purging, but wanted to use that data for some graphs and stats and stuff
- so that you could definiatively see some trends.
So "old nodes" can get stuff themselves by sending a filefix, or did you want to do something else. I've found it faily easy to hatch out stuff, but my long term goal is to move that stuff to clearing houz. What problems are you having?
There's other BBS software I'd like to set up and also more on decentra communications platforms I'd like to play with.
Yeah, me to.
I got some Lora devices (I got some pycom devices) - and while I set
them up a couple of weeks ago, I havent progressed as far as I would
like.
No BBQ tonight it's raining and feels more like winter again...
But may have a beer anyway :)
deon wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
If you ever go to Auckland, at the airport there is a All Blacks shop, selling TV shirts at and stuff like that. I laughed the first time I
went, when I saw a Tshirt - "I support the All Blacks and anybody
playing Australia". :)
Just finished Manhunt with Martin Clune - I like him as an actor, he's done a few things since Doc Marti - that was a good crime show.
Avon wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
On the weekends I physically put the laptop away and clear the table I
use for both work and play. But also on the weekends I have spent more time lately doing stuff outside and away from the desk I am writing
this reply.
I think that's a good move for my soul :)
One habit I need to get back into (once the dust settles from a recent kitchen remodel and all of the equipment is gone) is taking my lunch outside. I did that all through 2020 and sort of fell out of the habit
as time went on.
Bad luck, BBQ sounds good.. got me hungry now hehe. We bought a little
mini bbq earlier this year so we could have a BBQ for my 40th, but we never did (it was either too hot or too cold so we did something else). Wouldn't mind getting it out, but it's wet here too.
Apparently La Nina according to the weather broadcaster which apparently means it's quiet wet here in queensland. Some places have had some flooding, but I think mostly it's just warnings that flooding might
occur.
I would guess La Nina might affect NZ too? Or maybe you're too far south for it to have a significant effect? I don't know, they mainly talked about Queensland and south america when explaining it on the weather forcast.
Sounds good. I discovered a new (to me) beer the other week, called "Stubbie" it's an Australian beer, and cheaper than furpheys at the
bottlo so I gave it a go. It's not bad.
Ah well. Been attempting to get syncthing working between my computers,
so it will track changes and copy them to my back up drive. I've got too many files for a cloud solution so keeping them on two computers / seperate hard drives, is the best i can do.. but when i add files, on one computer, i have to remember to add them to the other. This should hopefully take care of it.
Well, enjoy whats left of your friday :)
I cooked chops and cooked them too rare for my liking but everyone
else loved them so there's that I guess :) Give me well done any day
:)
Still raining here too... this is not summer as I remember it as a kid that's for sure :)
I'm sure it will I think it means drier than normal, so less rain fall
for us... I'll let you know when my lawns go brown :)
Stubbies to me makes me think of 70's shorts I wore as a kid :)
Good luck, I have been procrastinating on any computer or OS work in
the last week.
Thanks it was good and now Saturday just about flew by... !
poindexter FORTRAN wrote to deon <=-
Growing up in the San Francisco Bay area, my 4 favorite (American) football teams were the San Francisco 49ers, the Oakland Raiders, and whoever was playing the Dallas Cowboys and Denver Broncos,
respectively.
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