• Morning all

    From Avon@21:1/101 to All on Sunday, August 29, 2021 11:39:33
    Hi all.

    Wondering who's about on this Sunday morning here in NZ?

    Best, Paul

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  • From gcubebuddy@21:4/129 to Avon on Saturday, August 28, 2021 18:42:40
    Hi all.
    Wondering who's about on this Sunday morning here in NZ?
    Best, Paul

    Hi, lol still saturday evening here in Oklahoma City. :-) 6:42 pm

    Thanks
    - Gamecube Buddy

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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to gcubebuddy on Sunday, August 29, 2021 11:44:40
    On 28 Aug 2021 at 06:42p, gcubebuddy pondered and said...

    Hi all.
    Wondering who's about on this Sunday morning here in NZ?
    Best, Paul

    Hi, lol still saturday evening here in Oklahoma City. :-) 6:42 pm

    Hi :)

    I'm loving this almost immediate echomail chat.

    It's Sunday morning 11.44am here in Dunedin City. Been a wet and cool night.
    I think our high today is 10c

    Just washed the dog (I get all the good jobs) and have now escaped other
    chores to do some bbsing :)

    How's things with you?

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  • From Warpslide@21:3/110 to Avon on Saturday, August 28, 2021 20:38:52
    On 29 Aug 2021, Avon said the following...

    Wondering who's about on this Sunday morning here in NZ?

    8:30pm here in Ontario, Canada. Just set up a projector in the living room for no particular reason to watch a movie on a bigger screen. Not sure what we're watching just yet, but have Dr. Strange on to test out the settings, focus & brightness.

    The cats are busy inspecting our work now, I'll let you know what they decide.


    Jay

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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to Warpslide on Sunday, August 29, 2021 14:28:55
    On 28 Aug 2021 at 08:38p, Warpslide pondered and said...

    8:30pm here in Ontario, Canada. Just set up a projector in the living room for no particular reason to watch a movie on a bigger screen. Not sure what we're watching just yet, but have Dr. Strange on to test out
    the settings, focus & brightness.

    Nice :)

    We're rolling around to 2.26pm Sun now. Lunch was a couple of pies (I know super unhealthy) and they were yummy. We watched a daily update on how the pandemic stuff is going in NZ (we're in a lockdown at the moment and it's working well)

    What sort of projector are you using? just curious..

    The cats are busy inspecting our work now, I'll let you know what they decide.

    After washing a dog today. I'll take the cats anytime :)

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  • From hyjinx@21:1/126 to Avon on Sunday, August 29, 2021 17:27:37

    Hi all.

    Wondering who's about on this Sunday morning here in NZ?


    I usually linger around on it after I get out of bed... which on Sundays can vary wildly ;)


    hyjinx // Alistair Ross
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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to hyjinx on Sunday, August 29, 2021 19:32:16
    On 29 Aug 2021 at 05:27p, hyjinx pondered and said...

    I usually linger around on it after I get out of bed... which on Sundays can vary wildly ;)

    At the moment I'm playing radio DJ on Total FM which is kinda fun, streaming
    on totalfm.nz

    Requests welcome :)

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  • From deon@21:2/116 to Avon on Sunday, August 29, 2021 17:39:38
    Re: Re: Morning all
    By: Avon to hyjinx on Sun Aug 29 2021 07:32 pm

    Requests welcome :)

    Play that kiwi band - Babysitters something, and I think the song was "Its going to be alright?"... :)



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  • From Zylone@21:3/150 to Avon on Sunday, August 29, 2021 02:44:46
    At the moment I'm playing radio DJ on Total FM which is kinda fun, streaming on totalfm.nz

    Good tunes! =) *snapping fingers* lol

    |15Z|07ylone

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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to deon on Sunday, August 29, 2021 19:49:26
    On 29 Aug 2021 at 05:39p, deon pondered and said...

    Play that kiwi band - Babysitters something, and I think the song was
    "Its going to be alright?"... :)

    On it.

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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to Zylone on Sunday, August 29, 2021 19:52:28
    On 29 Aug 2021 at 02:44a, Zylone pondered and said...

    Good tunes! =) *snapping fingers* lol

    Thanks :) Appreciate you having a listen. Hope your day's going well.

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  • From deon@21:2/116 to Avon on Sunday, August 29, 2021 17:54:08
    Re: Re: Morning all
    By: Avon to deon on Sun Aug 29 2021 07:49 pm

    Play that kiwi band - Babysitters something, and I think the song was "Its going to be alright?"... :)

    On it.

    Love it!

    I'm streaming through the house - and nobody even noticed you introduce the song :(

    (But I did - thanks :)


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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to deon on Sunday, August 29, 2021 19:57:41
    On 29 Aug 2021 at 05:54p, deon pondered and said...

    Love it!

    I'm streaming through the house - and nobody even noticed you introduce the song :(

    (But I did - thanks :)

    No prob, my first interactive request via BBS :)

    I'll give BBSing a shout out soon.

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  • From deon@21:2/116 to Avon on Sunday, August 29, 2021 18:07:54
    Re: Re: Morning all
    By: Avon to deon on Sun Aug 29 2021 07:57 pm

    I'll give BBSing a shout out soon.

    They noticed that time! "Dad that was your name!".

    Who would have imagined that a BBS could be used to field song requests for the radio, live?


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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to deon on Sunday, August 29, 2021 20:12:28

    On 29 Aug 2021 at 06:07p, deon pondered and said...

    They noticed that time! "Dad that was your name!".
    Who would have imagined that a BBS could be used to field song requests for the radio, live?

    I can die happy now heheh..

    That's nice, you can sell the sizzle of using a computer differently, more to life than social media.

    I'm prob going to head away soon, gotta make a cup of tea for my wife and get ready for bed. But have voice tracked a bunch of breaks for tomorrow morning during the breakfast show.

    I'm going to throw in some quarter after laughter soon. It's an element I
    have been experimenting with for some hours.

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  • From Warpslide@21:3/110 to Avon on Sunday, August 29, 2021 09:24:49
    On 29 Aug 2021, Avon said the following...

    We're rolling around to 2.26pm Sun now. Lunch was a couple of pies (I
    know super unhealthy) and they were yummy.

    That does sound yummy, what kind of pies? For savoury I do like a ground beef pie with peppercorn gravy, for sweet it's a tie between lemon meringue or pumpkin (with way too much whipped cream).

    What sort of projector are you using? just curious..

    It's just a cheapie one from Amazon (Wiselazer) but it worked well enough.

    It wasn't as bright as I would have liked, had to turn off all the lights to see the movie at all, and even then dark scenes weren't that great. Reading some suggestions mention moving the projector closer to the screen and/or getting a better screen that isn't just white, but also reflective.

    The cats are busy inspecting our work now, I'll let you know what the decide.

    After washing a dog today. I'll take the cats anytime :)

    Except if you have to wash the cat, then you'll want full body armour... ;)


    Jay

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  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to Avon on Monday, August 30, 2021 04:56:00
    Wondering who's about on this Sunday morning here in NZ?

    Monday morning now, I didn't look in yesterday. I got carried away watching a Supercars rerun of Bathurst 2001... a nominal full race.. it showed some ~6.5hrs in ~3... so badly chopped up, but then it was commercial TV back then so ad breaks and all the rest of it.

    I'm not sure, because I can't find my little entry passes, but I suspect 2001 might be one of the years I went.

    Spec


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  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to Warpslide on Monday, August 30, 2021 05:18:00
    That does sound yummy, what kind of pies? For savoury I do like a ground beef pie with peppercorn gravy, for sweet it's a tie between lemon meringue or pumpkin (with way too much whipped cream).

    Hmm I'd give my left testicle and first born (there is only one) for a really good Apple pie. Used to be able to make one once.. it was a recipe that hung over from high school, don't know what happened to it, and I've long lost the knack for just making it sans instructions. The Macca's apple pies here aren't to bad if the store actually cooks it right and its not six months old when you get it.

    It wasn't as bright as I would have liked, had to turn off all the lights to see the movie at all, and even then dark scenes weren't that great. Reading some suggestions mention moving the projector closer to the screen and/or getting a better screen that isn't just white, but also reflective.

    Whats it nominal brightness? I haven't been near a new projctor in years, but I bought a new Cannon about 30 years ago now. BAck when I got it, it was being sold by an A/V store. They gave the suggestions of distance/lighting, but the lumens "all new" projectors put out was sufficient to not require the reflective screen. At the time I still had access to my parents old slide projector screen, and it tended to make things look a tad strange, over bright/intense. The best nominal colour for the wall was also suggested a pale mushroom kind of colour. Over time I found they'd cope with all sorts of colours even quite dark ones. You could always try boosting the brightness in the source rather than at the projector too..

    Spec


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  • From Doctor Wade@21:3/105.1 to Avon on Sunday, August 29, 2021 13:30:06


    can vary wildly ;)

    At the moment I'm playing radio DJ on Total FM which is
    kinda fun, streaming
    Awesome. Listening now at Grab Creek Farms in the USA!


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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Avon on Sunday, August 29, 2021 10:02:00
    Avon wrote to All <=-

    Wondering who's about on this Sunday morning here in NZ?

    I picked up a Synology NAS chassis at a junk shoppe and have been like a kid in a candy store. Thought it was just a RAID enclosure, turns out there's a torrent client, web proxy, DNS/Radius/Directory/SSO servers, and a ton more
    to play with. Time to move all of my linux shares off of CIFS and onto NFS.

    The Air Quality Index is creeping higher due to a couple of big fires - thankfully nothing near us this year. Here on the California coast it's not too bad, but over the hill in Silicon Valley the AQI was creeping near 175.
    It might be time to break out my crude-but-effective air cleaner - a 20 inch box fan with a MERV 13 furnace filter cable-tied to the front.




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  • From deon@21:2/116 to poindexter FORTRAN on Monday, August 30, 2021 09:52:13
    Re: Re: Morning all
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Avon on Sun Aug 29 2021 10:02 am

    I picked up a Synology NAS chassis at a junk shoppe and have been like a kid in a candy store. Thought it was just a RAID enclosure, turns out there's a torrent client, web proxy, DNS/Radius/Directory/SSO servers, and a ton more
    to play with. Time to move all of my linux shares off of CIFS and onto NFS.

    You may be able to throw FreeNAS on it, then you get all the benefits that freebsd provides. (I did that to my QNAP.)


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  • From Adept@21:2/108 to Spectre on Monday, August 30, 2021 00:54:18
    Hmm I'd give my left testicle and first born (there is only one) for a really good Apple pie. Used to be able to make one once.. it was a
    recipe that hung over from high school, don't know what happened to it, and I've long lost the knack for just making it sans instructions. The

    What sort do you like?

    This is something that I have strong opinions on, and one of the things I learned in the kitchen from my mom (though my recipes tend to differ, in ways that I'll get to).

    But how I liked it...

    I'll start off with apple pies that I've _disliked_. One is a pie that was 2/3rds crust, and 1/3rd filling, with the crust being kind of cake like. It
    was still _pie_, but I want crusts that balance the filling, not act as a fat delivery vehicle.

    Another is any pie that's made with canned filling. It's not that canning is inherently terrible, but the syrup that comes along with it is.

    Well, maybe the canning really isn't great, either, as I'm a fan of apple
    pies where the apples still have a noticeable amount of structure, so it's
    not like you're biting into an applesauce pie.

    I'm also not a fan of pre-made crust. Even a badly-made pie crust is
    generally better than store bought.

    For me, in making a pie, I make the crust using shortening and a little bit
    of butter. Generally even butter-flavored shortening. Lard would be okay, but I'm vegetarian, so not so much.

    When I add liquid, I use alcohol. Preferably as alcoholic as possible, and preferably with a nice flavor that goes with the pie (this really came into play when making a boozy pumpkin pie, which worked amazingly well. But I digress, as this doesn't make the pie taste like alcohol -- it just makes it easier to roll out the crust while limiting how tough the crust gets.).

    Then for the filling, I cut the apples into wedges, then flavor it by adding sugar and appropriate spices, and tasting it until it tastes how I want it
    to. It's _possible_ to go overboard, especially on cloves, but _hard_. The exact spice mixture depends on what I have. Cinnamon is mandatory, and
    ginger, cloves, and allspice generally make it in.

    Then I add some flour to that mixture, so that the filling doesn't end up too watery.

    Then brush on some milk on top to encourage some browning, sprinkle on
    cinnamon and sugar, put some aluminium foil around the edge for some
    period of time to keep the edges from overcooking, and see what comes out.

    I did leave out some steps, and it's a hard thing to get _perfect_, but it shouldn't be that hard to get it to come out _well_.

    But what exactly do you miss about the apple pie of your memories?

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  • From Adept@21:2/108 to Adept on Monday, August 30, 2021 00:57:03
    learned in the kitchen from my mom (though my recipes tend to differ, in ways that I'll get to).

    ...then I didn't get to it.

    I differ because I tend to use _some_ butter in the crust, and use alcohol as well. My mom will use margarine to seal the bottom crust, and I'll tend to
    use an oil spray.

    And I think hers still end up prettier, though I've had the occasional interesting design.

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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to Doctor Wade on Monday, August 30, 2021 14:45:03
    On 29 Aug 2021 at 01:30p, Doctor Wade pondered and said...

    At the moment I'm playing radio DJ on Total FM which is
    kinda fun, streaming
    Awesome. Listening now at Grab Creek Farms in the USA!

    Thanks for giving it a whirl. :)

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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to poindexter FORTRAN on Monday, August 30, 2021 14:46:57
    On 29 Aug 2021 at 10:02a, poindexter FORTRAN pondered and said...

    I picked up a Synology NAS chassis at a junk shoppe and have been like a kid in a candy store. Thought it was just a RAID enclosure, turns out there's a torrent client, web proxy, DNS/Radius/Directory/SSO servers,
    and a ton more to play with. Time to move all of my linux shares off of CIFS and onto NFS.

    Hooray for juke shops I say! :)

    The Air Quality Index is creeping higher due to a couple of big fires - thankfully nothing near us this year. Here on the California coast it's not too bad, but over the hill in Silicon Valley the AQI was creeping
    near 175. It might be time to break out my crude-but-effective air
    cleaner - a 20 inch box fan with a MERV 13 furnace filter cable-tied to the front.

    Bummer hummer. There's no issues here at the moment. But when our summer arrives and fires start to kick off again it can be an issue at times.
    Actually come to think of it last time it was more to do with smoke coming across the Tasman sea from Australian bush fires :( I hope our Aussie mates don't have to endure that again but it seems to be getting worse each year at the moment.

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  • From Oli@21:3/102 to Adept on Monday, August 30, 2021 08:10:20
    Adept wrote (2021-08-30):

    I'll start off with apple pies that I've _disliked_. One is a pie that was 2/3rds crust, and 1/3rd filling, with the crust being kind of cake like.
    It was still _pie_, but I want crusts that balance the filling, not act
    as a fat delivery vehicle.

    Never understood the American pie crust thing. We rarely do fully closed casings and are more into cake, bottom-only crust or torte [1]. But I have to admit I never met an American pie in real life and never tasted one. I only know that I like the crust covered apple cakes/pies the least. As a kid my favorite were the simple yeast cakes covered with apples or other fruits (like a sweet pizza dough, thick an fluffy and 2 kg of apples on top). Unfortunately this doesn't work that well with gluten free flour. So I make a soft dough with fine cornmeal, ground almond, starch, eggs, butter, honey and baking powder. The apple slices are half swallowed by the dough. On top walnuts mixed with some honey, butter and rum.


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  • From gcubebuddy@21:4/129 to Avon on Monday, August 30, 2021 07:11:05
    I'm loving this almost immediate echomail chat.
    It's Sunday morning 11.44am here in Dunedin City. Been a wet and cool night. I think our high today is 10c
    Just washed the dog (I get all the good jobs) and have now escaped other chores to do some bbsing :)
    How's things with you?

    Doing good. its monday morning here. 7:09 am central time. Starting my work day, and hanging out in the BBS. I love having the BBS while i work,
    otherwise this would be a nervracking boaring job lol. BBSing helps make the days a bit easyer to answer calls with lol.

    Thanks
    - Gamecube Buddy

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  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to Adept on Monday, August 30, 2021 15:24:00
    What sort do you like?

    This is something that I have strong opinions on, and one of the things I

    Hmmm look out for possible coooking controversy :) Is that like politics?

    Alrighty... used to have to make the "biscuit" pastry from scratch. I prefer it to flaky/pie pastry generally. But if its to thick it can get a bit cake like.

    Filling... never used "canned" filling as such... not sure if we even have it, although you can get canned pie apples, basically just Granny Sniffs in whatever they cook it in, but they're still firm pieces usually and unseasoned, so add spice to taste...

    But if I'm working with real apples, I tend to start with cubes of apple, water, brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg... try not to overcook the apples and add corn flour for thickening.. I think, but could be wrong it stays a bit cleaerer than wheat flour?

    Haven't tried making it in some time...

    Spec


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  • From gcubebuddy@21:4/129 to hyjinx on Monday, August 30, 2021 07:14:34
    I usually linger around on it after I get out of bed... which on Sundays can vary wildly ;)

    I had a chance to see the latest "Back 2 the BBS" awesome episode :-) i also checked out your video on IBM and the 8088 processor. very interesting.

    Thanks
    - Gamecube Buddy

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  • From gcubebuddy@21:4/129 to Spectre on Monday, August 30, 2021 10:34:20
    Hmmm look out for possible coooking controversy :) Is that like
    politics?
    Alrighty... used to have to make the "biscuit" pastry from scratch. I prefer it to flaky/pie pastry generally. But if its to thick it can get
    a bit cake like.
    Filling... never used "canned" filling as such... not sure if we even
    have it, although you can get canned pie apples, basically just Granny Sniffs in whatever they cook it in, but they're still firm pieces
    usually and unseasoned, so add spice to taste...
    But if I'm working with real apples, I tend to start with cubes of apple, water, brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg... try not to overcook the apples
    and add corn flour for thickening.. I think, but could be wrong it
    stays a bit cleaerer than wheat flour?

    lol all this talk about baking pie is making me want to make some pies. i am looking up making my own crust with cocanut oil instead of butter. (As we are too broke to buy more butter, but have a ton of Cocanut oil on hand from
    making pot brwonies lol.) I think after work, i will make some pie crust so i can make some pies :-)

    Thanks
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  • From Adept@21:2/108 to Oli on Tuesday, August 31, 2021 03:26:47
    least. As a kid my favorite were the simple yeast cakes covered with apples or other fruits (like a sweet pizza dough, thick an fluffy and 2
    kg of apples on top). Unfortunately this doesn't work that well with

    I think I've made things like that, and they do seem to be pretty good. I
    also like crumbles and crisps, as a different way of putting a top onto a pie-like item.

    Never understood the American pie crust thing.

    My team lead recently suggested having a get together where people made food from their native land's cuisine. Which made sense. So he'd bring something Romanian, another something from Nepalese cuisine, another from Iranian cuisine, and then he looked at me and went, "...and April can bring... umm. Hmm.".

    But apple pie is pretty stereotypically American, so it'll be a good choice,
    if this event happens while I'm in the area.

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  • From Adept@21:2/108 to Spectre on Tuesday, August 31, 2021 05:00:43
    and add corn flour for thickening.. I think, but could be wrong it
    stays a bit cleaerer than wheat flour?

    I tend to think of cornstarch as what you put in when you want to thicken something that's cold (even though you'll probably cook it), and flour what
    you use when it'll cook for a while.

    But I could imagine there are other differences, too. I'd probably still be willing to thicken an apple pie with cornstarch, without much in the way of hesitation.

    But since the crust is made of flour, that means it's literally already on
    the counter.

    Hmmm look out for possible coooking controversy :) Is that like
    politics?

    I hope that people can give passionate, respectful opinions on the subject, even if we (entirely non-seriously) say that someone else's opinion is entirely, objectively wrong.

    Kinda like how people _should_ discuss politics. I do like the light debate
    of such topics, where we should all be able to come out of it still liking a person; my view of, oh, coconut should not make me dislike a person because they think that putting coconut on a cake makes it _better_, rather than inedible.

    But if I'm working with real apples, I tend to start with cubes of apple, water, brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg... try not to overcook the apples

    I think that sort of combination is rarely going to go bad.

    "Worst" case tends to be some weird form of applesauce.

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  • From hyjinx@21:1/126 to Avon on Tuesday, August 31, 2021 21:18:06
    I'm prob going to head away soon, gotta make a cup of tea for my wife
    and get ready for bed. But have voice tracked a bunch of breaks for tomorrow morning during the breakfast show.

    Dude I really like your station and the show was great. Great balance of
    music and the station plays like the sort of radio I listened to when I was a teenager and loved radio.

    You have a fan in Wellington :)


    hyjinx // Alistair Ross
    Author of 'Back to the BBS' Documentary: https://bit.ly/3tRINeL (YouTube) alsgeeklab.com

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  • From hyjinx@21:1/126 to gcubebuddy on Tuesday, August 31, 2021 21:23:40
    I had a chance to see the latest "Back 2 the BBS" awesome episode :-) i also checked out your video on IBM and the 8088 processor. very interesting.

    Thanks dude. I will be making a video at some point on how Gary Kildall, the man behind CP/M and Digital Research Limited lost out to Microsoft and DOS
    for the IBM, it will be presented in a similar vein to the IBM/8088 one.

    I've done two nights in a row interviewing for B2BBS, last night was Purple Motion and Skaven from the demoscene group, Future Crew, and tonight was a great fan of the channel talking about his BBS experiences. I also have a
    great interview with Jim Leonard (trixter of Mobygames). Gonna be great if
    you are into demoscene / music tracker scene.

    Cheers,
    Al


    hyjinx // Alistair Ross
    Author of 'Back to the BBS' Documentary: https://bit.ly/3tRINeL (YouTube) alsgeeklab.com

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  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to Adept on Tuesday, August 31, 2021 20:22:00
    I tend to think of cornstarch as what you put in when you want to thicken something that's cold (even though you'll probably cook it), and flour

    Seeing as the handbrake is a Cook Islander I tend to have more corn flour or Tapioca on hand than wheat flour. But I've never been a fan of thickening with wheat flour... I find it insufficent to the task, where cornflour requires a lot less, and tapioca which is usually just a desperation move will turn it to jello in a flash. I usually tend to thicken once I feel the brew is done.. so I'm not trying to cook, with it already in there.

    I hope that people can give passionate, respectful opinions on the subject, even if we (entirely non-seriously) say that someone else's opinion is entirely, objectively wrong.

    Of course yours in wrong! I'm just not sure mine is right :P

    Kinda like how people _should_ discuss politics. I do like the light

    If only... in what seems the distant past now, a few things that seemed more innocuous than politics just really derailed too..

    water, brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg... try not to overcook the apples

    I think that sort of combination is rarely going to go bad.

    Took me a long time to figure out one of the things I was looking for was nutmeg.. I always tended to think I needed more cinnamon but that turned out to be incorrect... and yeah the worst that can happen is you leave someone else to look after it, and return to a burnt offering.. yeah I just watched it burn...otherwise more like apple sauce.

    Spec


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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to deon on Monday, August 30, 2021 07:39:00
    deon wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    You may be able to throw FreeNAS on it, then you get all the benefits
    that freebsd provides. (I did that to my QNAP.)

    That's not a bad idea; it appears that it's limited to an older version of
    the OS. No complaints for $130. :)


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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to poindexter FORTRAN on Tuesday, August 31, 2021 08:27:00
    poindexter FORTRAN wrote to deon <=-

    deon wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    You may be able to throw FreeNAS on it, then you get all the benefits
    that freebsd provides. (I did that to my QNAP.)

    That's not a bad idea; it appears that it's limited to an older version
    of the OS. No complaints for $130. :)

    Responding to myself...

    I found a tweak to let the DS1010+ download the newer OS updates. Besides
    the LAN1 and LAN2 lights being reversed, no ill effects so far.

    The new OS has a proper shell and sudo, the older OS just had busybox.


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  • From Mickey@21:1/156 to poindexter FORTRAN on Tuesday, August 31, 2021 20:39:44
    On 31 Aug 2021, poindexter FORTRAN said the following...

    I found a tweak to let the DS1010+ download the newer OS updates.
    Besides the LAN1 and LAN2 lights being reversed, no ill effects so far.


    You're starting to scare me, poindexter.

    Mick Manning
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    -(< Tradewars 2002 @ Port 2002 >)-
    -(< CanadaNET IRC @ Port 6667 >)-

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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to hyjinx on Wednesday, September 01, 2021 12:58:12
    On 31 Aug 2021 at 09:18p, hyjinx pondered and said...

    Dude I really like your station and the show was great. Great balance of music and the station plays like the sort of radio I listened to when I was a teenager and loved radio.

    You have a fan in Wellington :)

    Thanks Al, appreciate the kind feedback. I'll try and keep up some of the on-air shifts.. it's a bit easier to do in lockdown to be fair :)

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  • From Jimmy Anderson@21:2/136 to Avon on Wednesday, September 01, 2021 10:25:00
    Avon wrote to All <=-

    Hi all.

    Wondering who's about on this Sunday morning here in NZ?

    Best, Paul

    I wasn't at the time. :-)

    And I'm reading/replying offline, if it matters. :-)





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  • From gcubebuddy@21:4/129 to hyjinx on Thursday, September 02, 2021 07:04:35
    Thanks dude. I will be making a video at some point on how Gary Kildall, the man behind CP/M and Digital Research Limited lost out to Microsoft
    and DOS for the IBM, it will be presented in a similar vein to the IBM/8088 one.
    I've done two nights in a row interviewing for B2BBS, last night was Purple Motion and Skaven from the demoscene group, Future Crew, and tonight was a great fan of the channel talking about his BBS
    experiences. I also have a great interview with Jim Leonard (trixter of Mobygames). Gonna be great if you are into demoscene / music tracker scene.
    Cheers,
    Al

    wow thats awesome! i cant wait to see it! The cool thing about Back to the
    BBS, is its not just history, we are riding the BBS2.0 wave now. :-) its awesome to be here for that. Back in 2008 when i first started doing research into BBSing, the only thing i could find on BBSs was how it was used in the 80s, and now the only BBSs were hosted in the Phillipine Islands, due to lack of good interenet connections. Im glad the BBS is making a comeback. we seem
    to see new faces and BBSs everyday.
    very exciting times :-)

    Thanks
    - Gamecube Buddy

    telnet --<{bbs.hive32.com:23333}>--

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  • From hyjinx@21:1/126 to Avon on Friday, September 03, 2021 10:18:22
    You have a fan in Wellington :)

    Thanks Al, appreciate the kind feedback. I'll try and keep up some of the on-air shifts.. it's a bit easier to do in lockdown to be fair :)

    Indeed, so is working on BBSes ;)

    If you have a schedule that you're on air, let me know, I'd love to tune in then since I'm at home I can listen in most of the time.

    Cheers,
    Al


    hyjinx // Alistair Ross
    Author of 'Back to the BBS' Documentary: https://bit.ly/3tRINeL (YouTube) alsgeeklab.com

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  • From hyjinx@21:1/126 to gcubebuddy on Friday, September 03, 2021 10:36:41
    I've done two nights in a row interviewing for B2BBS, last night was Purple Motion and Skaven from the demoscene group, Future Crew, and tonight was a great fan of the channel talking about his BBS experiences. I also have a great interview with Jim Leonard (trixter Mobygames). Gonna be great if you are into demoscene / music tracker scene.
    Cheers,
    Al

    wow thats awesome! i cant wait to see it! The cool thing about Back to
    the BBS, is its not just history, we are riding the BBS2.0 wave now. :-) its awesome to be here for that. Back in 2008 when i first started doing research into BBSing, the only thing i could find on BBSs was how it was used in the 80s, and now the only BBSs were hosted in the Phillipine Islands, due to lack of good interenet connections. Im glad the BBS is making a comeback. we seem to see new faces and BBSs everyday.
    very exciting times :-)

    Thanks gc! Yep, I really think these are interesting times for BBSes. It had already started before B2BBS kicked off, but I'm seeing new BBSes and new BBS users pop up it feels like on a daily basis at the moment!

    It really does feel like it is BBS 2.0!

    Cheers,
    Al


    hyjinx // Alistair Ross
    Author of 'Back to the BBS' Documentary: https://bit.ly/3tRINeL (YouTube) alsgeeklab.com

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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to hyjinx on Friday, September 03, 2021 19:21:41
    On 03 Sep 2021 at 10:18a, hyjinx pondered and said...

    If you have a schedule that you're on air, let me know, I'd love to tune in then since I'm at home I can listen in most of the time.

    Not really, I have been doing 6am-9am most days but quite often it's
    7pm-8/9pm at night after dinner :) Which I am doing now :)

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