• 2017/2018 PC to modernize it.

    From Matthew Munson@21:4/108 to All on Sunday, October 30, 2022 21:29:30
    Since Windows 11 does not accept my Ryzen 1700x, should I upgrade it to a 3700x on my
    B350-Prime Plus motherboard (i flashed my bios for this) and perhaps buy a 1tb ssd to
    upgrade my storage at the same time.

    Also is a 1070 Nvidia card still ok for this, or should I go for the gusto and get a 3060.

    Or just buy a bleepin new computer?
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  • From boraxman@21:1/101 to Matthew Munson on Monday, October 31, 2022 21:47:16
    Since Windows 11 does not accept my Ryzen 1700x, should I upgrade it to
    a 3700x on my
    B350-Prime Plus motherboard (i flashed my bios for this) and perhaps buy
    a 1tb ssd to
    upgrade my storage at the same time.

    Also is a 1070 Nvidia card still ok for this, or should I go for the
    gusto and get a 3060.

    Or just buy a bleepin new computer?
    --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.1

    Why buy an Operating System that cannot operate your computer? It seems a pretty dismal failure on Microsoft's part, to not be able to make relatively recent computers operate.

    This would be a good time to look into Linux.

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  • From Gamgee@21:2/138 to Matthew Munson on Monday, October 31, 2022 07:57:00
    Matthew Munson wrote to All <=-

    Since Windows 11 does not accept my Ryzen 1700x, should I upgrade
    it to a 3700x on my B350-Prime Plus motherboard (i flashed my
    bios for this) and perhaps buy a 1tb ssd to upgrade my storage at
    the same time.

    Wipe that virus-laden "OS" off the computer, install Linux, and keep on
    moving forward. Cost = 0.

    Also is a 1070 Nvidia card still ok for this, or should I go for
    the gusto and get a 3060.

    Not sure if it's changed, but you can't find/get high end video cards
    these days. Also, nobody can actually answer that question because we
    don't know what you intend to do with the video card. High end gaming?
    Web browsing and reading email? We can't read your mind.



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  • From Mandarax@21:1/156 to Gamgee on Monday, October 31, 2022 10:19:53
    Not sure if it's changed, but you can't find/get high end video cards

    Video Cards are easily available now, and prices have fallen extensively.


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  • From Weatherman@21:1/132 to Gamgee on Monday, October 31, 2022 16:20:51

    Also is a 1070 Nvidia card still ok for this, or should I go for
    the gusto and get a 3060.

    Not sure if it's changed, but you can't find/get high end video cards
    these days. Also, nobody can actually answer that question because we
    don't know what you intend to do with the video card. High end gaming?
    Web browsing and reading email? We can't read your mind.

    Video card prices have dropped a good bit the past month or so post etherium merge. Even though it was difficult to find cards most of this year, I was able to get several from Microcenter this past year.

    A good card for the price is the 3060ti. I have (2) of them - Asus mini versions that I paid $399 each. My PC has (5) GPUs since it does mining while I work.

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  • From Gamgee@21:2/138 to Mandarax on Monday, October 31, 2022 17:38:00
    Mandarax wrote to Gamgee <=-

    Not sure if it's changed, but you can't find/get high end video cards

    Video Cards are easily available now, and prices have fallen
    extensively.

    Good to hear, thanks for that info.



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  • From Gamgee@21:2/138 to Weatherman on Monday, October 31, 2022 17:40:00
    Weatherman wrote to Gamgee <=-

    Also is a 1070 Nvidia card still ok for this, or should I go for
    the gusto and get a 3060.

    Not sure if it's changed, but you can't find/get high end video cards
    these days. Also, nobody can actually answer that question because we
    don't know what you intend to do with the video card. High end gaming?
    Web browsing and reading email? We can't read your mind.

    Video card prices have dropped a good bit the past month or so
    post etherium merge. Even though it was difficult to find cards
    most of this year, I was able to get several from Microcenter
    this past year.

    Cool, glad to hear things have improved.

    A good card for the price is the 3060ti. I have (2) of them -
    Asus mini versions that I paid $399 each. My PC has (5) GPUs
    since it does mining while I work.

    Wow, nice. Trying to picture how that works... what bus/connector do
    they use? My outdated knowledge remembers only seeing one or two
    connectors (PCIe?) generally, for video cards.



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  • From Exodus@21:1/176 to Gamgee on Monday, October 31, 2022 20:15:42
    Wipe that virus-laden "OS" off the computer, install Linux, and keep on moving forward. Cost = 0.

    I love the version of Ubuntu that has ADS in the terminal window .... that was classy for whoever did that.

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  • From Matthew Munson@21:4/108 to Boraxman on Monday, October 31, 2022 19:04:52
    On 10/31/2022 9:34 PM, Boraxman wrote to Matthew Munson:



    Why buy an Operating System that cannot operate your computer? It seems a pretty dismal failure on Microsoft's part, to not be able to make relatively recent computers operate.

    I want to play Final Fantasy 14. I think not supporting ryzen 1st gen was a crime against
    humanity (e-waste).

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  • From Gamgee@21:2/138 to Exodus on Monday, October 31, 2022 21:22:00
    Exodus wrote to Gamgee <=-

    Wipe that virus-laden "OS" off the computer, install Linux, and keep on moving forward. Cost = 0.

    I love the version of Ubuntu that has ADS in the terminal window
    .... that was classy for whoever did that.

    Hehe, never heard of that one. Would not last long here. ;-)



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  • From boraxman@21:1/101 to Matthew Munson on Tuesday, November 01, 2022 16:11:44
    Why buy an Operating System that cannot operate your computer? It seem pretty dismal failure on Microsoft's part, to not be able to make relat recent computers operate.

    I want to play Final Fantasy 14. I think not supporting ryzen 1st gen
    was a crime against
    humanity (e-waste).

    --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.1

    Look into whether Wine or Proton supports it. Linux support for games has come a long long way. It used to be that if you wanted to play anything that didn't have a Linux port, or wasn't some old basic, non-complex Windows program, you were out of luck. But now you can get many games running under Linux.

    In terms of the e-waste, and the crime, I agree. It is a terrible crime against the planet's ecosystem to do this as it *will* result in more waste, and that waste ends up poisoning us in the near future. Both the acquisition of, and disposal/recycling (if it gets recycled at all) generates long term toxic waste.

    In the end, I decided that my responsibility to future generations, and the choices *I* choose to make, are more important than some video games. Corporations have no responsibility or conscious, despite their claims. We individuals have to act as the better people and turn our backs on them.

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  • From Mandarax@21:1/156 to boraxman on Monday, October 31, 2022 23:23:34
    Look into whether Wine or Proton supports it. Linux support for games non-complex Windows program, you were out of luck. But now you can get many games running under Linux.

    I play FF online and WoW here and there when I have the time these days. These and a number of games that really utilize a good graphics card run like poop under wine on linux. It's not worth it to me. On my gaming PC I will stick to Windows 11. The gaming and graphics performance is just a very very noticeable difference to me.

    I do use linux for many many other things. Which includes my VPS that runs my BBS, web server, mail server, etc.. etc. The only gaming I find worth it on linux is a Steam supported game. Then they tend to run fairly well on linux.


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  • From boraxman@21:1/101 to Mandarax on Wednesday, November 02, 2022 00:33:40
    Look into whether Wine or Proton supports it. Linux support for game non-complex Windows program, you were out of luck. But now you can g many games running under Linux.

    I play FF online and WoW here and there when I have the time these
    days. These and a number of games that really utilize a good graphics card run like poop under wine on linux. It's not worth it to me. On my gaming PC I will stick to Windows 11. The gaming and graphics
    performance is just a very very noticeable difference to me.

    I do use linux for many many other things. Which includes my VPS that runs my BBS, web server, mail server, etc.. etc. The only gaming I find worth it on linux is a Steam supported game. Then they tend to run
    fairly well on linux.



    I used to keep an old windows installation just for games. That can be done today. Just keep Windows 10 for the games that don't run on Linux, and use Linux for everything else. If you can avoid using Windows 11 for games, you can run the latest OS and browsers and such under Linux, games, and not have to buy a whole new machine just to run Windows 11.

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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to Gamgee on Tuesday, November 01, 2022 09:10:08
    Re: Re: 2017/2018 PC to modernize it.
    By: Gamgee to Matthew Munson on Mon Oct 31 2022 07:57 am

    Since Windows 11 does not accept my Ryzen 1700x, should I upgrade

    Wipe that virus-laden "OS" off the computer, install Linux, and keep on moving forward. Cost = 0.

    What do you mean by virus-laden? I'd think it's only really easy to get a virus if you're going to sketchy web sites and/or downloading sketchy stuff.

    Also is a 1070 Nvidia card still ok for this, or should I go for
    the gusto and get a 3060.

    Not sure if it's changed, but you can't find/get high end video cards these days.

    I started to see graphics card prices coming down and stock returning to stores months ago. People were starting to joke that scalpers were trying to return their graphics cards to the store because they couldn't scalp them anymore.

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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to Gamgee on Tuesday, November 01, 2022 09:13:06
    Re: Re: 2017/2018 PC to modernize it.
    By: Gamgee to Weatherman on Mon Oct 31 2022 05:40 pm

    A good card for the price is the 3060ti. I have (2) of them -
    Asus mini versions that I paid $399 each. My PC has (5) GPUs
    since it does mining while I work.

    Wow, nice. Trying to picture how that works... what bus/connector do
    they use? My outdated knowledge remembers only seeing one or two connectors (PCIe?) generally, for video cards.

    They still use PCI Express, last time I checked..

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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to boraxman on Tuesday, November 01, 2022 09:17:17
    Re: Re: 2017/2018 PC to modernize it.
    By: boraxman to Matthew Munson on Tue Nov 01 2022 04:11 pm

    Look into whether Wine or Proton supports it. Linux support for games has come a long long way. It used to be that if you wanted to play anything that didn't have a Linux port, or wasn't some old basic, non-complex Windows program, you were out of luck. But now you can get many games running under Linux.

    Several months ago, I tried to get a Windows game going in Linux with Proton, and it seemed to have some problems running.. I don't remember what happened now but it didn't run quite right. I'd have to mess with it some more or try other games. But it didn't seem like Proton is quite there yet as an easy solution to run Windows games in Linux.

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  • From esc@21:4/173 to Nightfox on Tuesday, November 01, 2022 15:19:40
    What do you mean by virus-laden? I'd think it's only really easy to get
    a virus if you're going to sketchy web sites and/or downloading sketchy stuff.

    If we expand the concept of virus to include Spyware, adware, etc., then Microsoft has it up to the gills in Win10/11.

    I had Win11 on this laptop for a while but recently wiped it and installed linux and much prefer how things are now. There are some conveniences in Windows that I miss but they're few.

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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to esc on Tuesday, November 01, 2022 15:48:08
    Re: Re: 2017/2018 PC to modernize it.
    By: esc to Nightfox on Tue Nov 01 2022 03:19 pm

    If we expand the concept of virus to include Spyware, adware, etc., then Microsoft has it up to the gills in Win10/11.

    I've been running Windows 10 since it came out (and now 11), and I don't recall seeing ads in Windows. Also I've turned off the settings it has in regards to watching my usage habits etc..

    Do you feel like you've been negatively impacted by anything in Windows 10 or 11? I've thought about switching to Linux myself at some point, but since I started using Windows 10, I can't think of anything that has really changed or any way I've been negatively impacted by anything since I started using Windows 10.

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  • From Gamgee@21:2/138 to Nightfox on Tuesday, November 01, 2022 19:04:00
    Nightfox wrote to Gamgee <=-

    Re: Re: 2017/2018 PC to modernize it.
    By: Gamgee to Matthew Munson on Mon Oct 31 2022 07:57 am

    Since Windows 11 does not accept my Ryzen 1700x, should I upgrade

    Wipe that virus-laden "OS" off the computer, install Linux, and keep on moving forward. Cost = 0.

    What do you mean by virus-laden? I'd think it's only really easy
    to get a virus if you're going to sketchy web sites and/or
    downloading sketchy stuff.

    Just a weak attempt at humor. I'm anti-Windows and sometimes can't
    resist poking at it... ;-)

    Not sure if it's changed, but you can't find/get high end video cards these days.

    I started to see graphics card prices coming down and stock
    returning to stores months ago. People were starting to joke
    that scalpers were trying to return their graphics cards to the
    store because they couldn't scalp them anymore.

    Good to hear.



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  • From n4tive@21:2/150 to Matthew Munson on Tuesday, November 01, 2022 17:34:26
    Hey,

    I absolutely love linux but it does has its share or problems, particularly in gaming. Personally I've invested a lot of time and to some extent money on windows. So I opted to debloat, harden, and remove telemetry from my windows installation. I also replaced commercial software with open source alternatives. I'm quite content with it. Still have my fedora partition in any case I have to jump ship.

    Cheers,

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  • From Matthew Munson@21:4/108 to Boraxman on Monday, October 31, 2022 21:01:32
    On 11/1/2022 3:58 PM, Boraxman wrote to Matthew Munson:

    Why buy an Operating System that cannot operate your computer? It seem
    pretty dismal failure on Microsoft's part, to not be able to make relat
    recent computers operate.

    I want to play Final Fantasy 14. I think not supporting ryzen 1st gen was a crime against
    humanity (e-waste).


    Look into whether Wine or Proton supports it. Linux support for games has come
    a long long way. It used to be that if you wanted to play anything that didn't
    have a Linux port, or wasn't some old basic, non-complex Windows program, you
    were out of luck. But now you can get many games running under Linux.

    In terms of the e-waste, and the crime, I agree. It is a terrible crime against the planet's ecosystem to do this as it *will* result in more waste, and that waste ends up poisoning us in the near future. Both the acquisition
    of, and disposal/recycling (if it gets recycled at all) generates long term toxic waste.

    In the end, I decided that my responsibility to future generations, and the choices *I* choose to make, are more important than some video games. Corporations have no responsibility or conscious, despite their claims. We individuals have to act as the better people and turn our backs on them.

    I am likely just going to buy a 5600G processor to replace the 1700x. I'll offer the used
    1700x free to a hobbyist who wants to make a low cost entry level computer. I don't
    have a need for a 800-1000 dollar graphics processor, I could help pay rent for the room
    i live in, help save for retirement, or use the money for a vacation. But the goal is to
    make my computer last for another 4 years.

    I do have a windows 11 laptop, but I prefer the desktop.
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  • From killer@21:2/150 to Gamgee on Tuesday, November 01, 2022 19:08:17
    Not sure if it's changed, but you can't find/get high end video cards these days. Also, nobody can actually answer that question because we don't know what you intend to do with the video card. High end gaming? Web browsing and reading email? We can't read your mind.

    Well knowing the goal of the card is imperative. But you can definitely find video cards now. The glut is gone for sure. Specifically because Ethereum merge is done.

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  • From Atreyu@21:1/176 to Gamgee on Tuesday, November 01, 2022 21:56:09
    On 01 Nov 22 19:04:00, Gamgee said the following to Nightfox:

    Just a weak attempt at humor. I'm anti-Windows and sometimes can't
    resist poking at it... ;-)

    You know... I don't ever remember the Linux crowd ever going after OS/2. There was this odd level of calm, a mutual respect between the two.

    I was such a stubborn diehard with that silly OS/2 and problems at the time.

    And all the fixes, all the halfassed drivers, all the freaking things just to run it on a "modern" Pentium MMX with a large hard-drive and basic ATI video card and newfangled USB and reinstalling was always out of the question.

    Atreyu

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  • From Mandarax@21:1/156 to boraxman on Tuesday, November 01, 2022 22:37:11
    and use Linux for everything else. If you can avoid using Windows 11
    for games, you can run the latest OS and browsers and such under Linux, games, and not have to buy a whole new machine just to run Windows 11.

    I didn't purchase a new machine just to run Windows 11. My gaming PC is custom built by myself for the purpose of high gaming performance. My other Windows computer is a surface pro that is very small and I use to run my vehicle tuning software that only runs on Windows, so I keep Windows 11 on that as well.

    My other 2 computers are both running Arch linux, and my VPS is running Debian.


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  • From Tracker1@21:3/149 to Matthew Munson on Tuesday, November 01, 2022 20:37:04
    On 10/30/22 21:29, Matthew Munson wrote:
    Since Windows 11 does not accept my Ryzen 1700x, should I upgrade it
    to a 3700x on my B350-Prime Plus motherboard (i flashed my bios for
    this) and perhaps buy a 1tb ssd to upgrade my storage at the same
    time.

    As mentioned elsewhere, may look into a 5600/5600(x) as the ?700 series
    seems to be less available, if there's an update that far.

    Also is a 1070 Nvidia card still ok for this, or should I go for
    the gusto and get a 3060.

    Should be fine, if you do bump up, for the 3060, unless you're doing
    nvlink for live encoding, would probably consider an rx 6700 for a bit
    less and roughly the same raster performance (slightly lower rtx, but
    the 3060 isn't great at that anyway)


    Or just buy a bleepin new computer?

    Not sure I'd go new right now... though if you got a nice B550/570 motherboard, you could got something like 5800x/5800x3d and a faster
    nvme drive. Depends on what all you do with the computer.
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  • From Tracker1@21:3/149 to Nightfox on Tuesday, November 01, 2022 20:41:11
    On 11/1/22 09:17, Nightfox wrote:

    Several months ago, I tried to get a Windows game going in Linux with Proton, and it seemed to have some problems running.. I don't
    remember what happened now but it didn't run quite right. I'd have to
    mess with it some more or try other games. But it didn't seem like
    Proton is quite there yet as an easy solution to run Windows games in
    Linux.

    Most of the most serious issues with newer games in Linux/Proton is
    generally around the anti-cheat.. there are updates to those systems
    that work in recent proton, but the game devs need to update.
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  • From esc@21:4/173 to Nightfox on Tuesday, November 01, 2022 21:49:15
    I've been running Windows 10 since it came out (and now 11), and I don't recall seeing ads in Windows. Also I've turned off the settings it has
    in regards to watching my usage habits etc..

    Every update I've had to elect /not/ to have ads in my start menu, or personalized ads in platform in general. It's really just an annoyance. I also got frustrated with the constant effort to make me use Edge. So, in linux, I manage everything explicitly and don't have any commercial organization trying to change my behavior or experience when I don't intentionally opt in. It's just a preference.

    Do you feel like you've been negatively impacted by anything in Windows
    10 or 11? I've thought about switching to Linux myself at some point,
    but since I started using Windows 10, I can't think of anything that has really changed or any way I've been negatively impacted by anything
    since I started using Windows 10.

    I prefer doing my dev work in a linux environment and while I appreciate WSL (and now WSL2), it was always at the end of the day just a linux VM eating up resources. And it was temperamental. More than once, my WSL install needed to get blown away and restarted from scratch.

    In linux, this is all just native. Honestly the sole thing I miss from Windows is better native game support, but with this laptop's intel GPU I'm not missing much.

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  • From esc@21:4/173 to Atreyu on Tuesday, November 01, 2022 21:50:55
    And all the fixes, all the halfassed drivers, all the freaking things
    just to run it on a "modern" Pentium MMX with a large hard-drive and
    basic ATI video card and newfangled USB and reinstalling was always out
    of the question.

    As a morbid curiosity I purchased ArcaOS last year and installed it on modern-ish hardware. Quite a trip to see in person :)

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  • From Atreyu@21:1/176 to Esc on Wednesday, November 02, 2022 02:42:55
    On 01 Nov 22 21:50:55, Esc said the following to Atreyu:

    And all the fixes, all the halfassed drivers, all the freaking things just to run it on a "modern" Pentium MMX with a large hard-drive and basic ATI video card and newfangled USB and reinstalling was always out of the question.

    As a morbid curiosity I purchased ArcaOS last year and installed it on modern-ish hardware. Quite a trip to see in person :)

    I've had a few people say very nice things about Arca but if its true that one must pay a yearly "subscription" then thats unfortunate.

    Atreyu

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  • From Al@21:4/106 to esc on Wednesday, November 02, 2022 00:39:26
    As a morbid curiosity I purchased ArcaOS last year and installed it on modern-ish hardware. Quite a trip to see in person :)

    I have the same issue, I've been struggling with the idea since ecs.

    So far so good but I'm not sure I can hold out forever.. ;)

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  • From acn@21:3/127.1 to Atreyu on Wednesday, November 02, 2022 10:00:00
    Am 01.11.22 schrieb Atreyu@21:1/176 in FSX_GEN:

    Hallo Atreyu,

    You know... I don't ever remember the Linux crowd ever going after OS/2. There was this odd level of calm, a mutual respect between the two.

    Maybe because some of the Linux people once used OS/2...
    That's at least my story.
    ;-)

    Regards,
    Anna

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    * Origin: Imzadi Box Point (21:3/127.1)
  • From boraxman@21:1/101 to Matthew Munson on Wednesday, November 02, 2022 23:10:13
    I am likely just going to buy a 5600G processor to replace the 1700x.
    I'll offer the used
    1700x free to a hobbyist who wants to make a low cost entry level computer. I don't
    have a need for a 800-1000 dollar graphics processor, I could help pay rent for the room
    i live in, help save for retirement, or use the money for a vacation.
    But the goal is to
    make my computer last for another 4 years.



    Ha, and here I am running an AMD Phenom II. That CPU you're getting rid of would run rings around my *main* rig. Kids these days with their newfangled processor doohickeys!

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/12/24 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)
  • From boraxman@21:1/101 to Mandarax on Wednesday, November 02, 2022 23:13:20
    I didn't purchase a new machine just to run Windows 11. My gaming PC
    is custom built by myself for the purpose of high gaming performance.
    My other Windows computer is a surface pro that is very small and I use
    to run my vehicle tuning software that only runs on Windows, so I keep Windows 11 on that as well.

    My other 2 computers are both running Arch linux, and my VPS is running Debian.


    Insomnia City BBS SysOp
    Kalamazoo, MI USA


    Fair enough. Personally I can't be bothered sinking more and more money into games. I've upgraded enough in my life, and it just gets the point where you're tired of having to constantly buy new over and over again. Main reason I'm turned off games. Spending $000's to play the same type of games I've already played.

    I got a switch for the kids instead. That will suffice.

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  • From Weatherman@21:1/132 to Gamgee on Wednesday, November 02, 2022 06:32:36

    Wow, nice. Trying to picture how that works... what bus/connector do
    they use? My outdated knowledge remembers only seeing one or two
    connectors (PCIe?) generally, for video cards.

    True, most systems only have the ability to use (2) GPUs using the PCIe slots. The only reason I have (5) GPUs is because my main PC doubles as a crypto miner and (3) of the GPUs are on PCIe risers with the cards mounted on the top of the PC case (externally).

    - Mark
    ÿÿÿ
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  • From Weatherman@21:1/132 to Atreyu on Wednesday, November 02, 2022 06:45:34

    I was such a stubborn diehard with that silly OS/2 and problems at the
    time.
    And all the fixes, all the halfassed drivers, all the freaking things just to run it on a "modern" Pentium MMX with a large hard-drive and basic ATI video card and newfangled USB and reinstalling was always out of the question.

    I can relate and still run eCS for my BBS nodes. At least it is virtualized now and no longer living in "driver hell" with OS2.

    The other major thing that plagued OS2 for many years is the lack of decent networking support. Always way behind on the network side of things.

    At least they added Samba support in eCS and that works pretty solid.

    Even ArcaOS has network issues where the entire VM will occationally lock up completely if you have a mapped drive and the source of the map drive gets rebooted or disconnected.

    - Mark
    ÿÿÿ
    --- WWIVToss v.1.52
    * Origin: http://www.weather-station.org * Bel Air, MD -USA (21:1/132.0)
  • From claw@21:1/210 to esc on Wednesday, November 02, 2022 07:51:03
    On 01 Nov 2022, esc said the following...
    Every update I've had to elect /not/ to have ads in my start menu, or personalized ads in platform in general. It's really just an annoyance.
    I also got frustrated with the constant effort to make me use Edge. So,
    in linux, I manage everything explicitly and don't have any commercial organization trying to change my behavior or experience when I don't intentionally opt in. It's just a preference.

    I prefer doing my dev work in a linux environment and while I appreciate WSL (and now WSL2), it was always at the end of the day just a linux VM eating up resources. And it was temperamental. More than once, my WSL install needed to get blown away and restarted from scratch.

    In linux, this is all just native. Honestly the sole thing I miss from Windows is better native game support, but with this laptop's intel GPU I'm not missing much.


    I love Linux. I only have windows on dual boot for VR and they are getting close to making that go. As soon as VR is working well in linux I won't be using windows anymore. IF the game doesn't run in linux I won't be supporting them. Since most games are working now it not much of a sacrifice.

    I always hate to have to boot up windows for VR. It always takes forever due to evey thing needing to update since I don't ever use it. I get thats my fault but just prefer to use Linux.

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  • From Gamgee@21:2/138 to Weatherman on Wednesday, November 02, 2022 07:27:00
    Weatherman wrote to Gamgee <=-

    Wow, nice. Trying to picture how that works... what bus/connector do
    they use? My outdated knowledge remembers only seeing one or two
    connectors (PCIe?) generally, for video cards.

    True, most systems only have the ability to use (2) GPUs using
    the PCIe slots. The only reason I have (5) GPUs is because my
    main PC doubles as a crypto miner and (3) of the GPUs are on PCIe
    risers with the cards mounted on the top of the PC case
    (externally).

    Ahhhh, OK! Now I can picture that. Was having trouble understanding
    how you could fit so many video cards in a case! Thanks.



    ... So easy, a child could do it. Child sold separately.
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  • From Gamgee@21:2/138 to Atreyu on Wednesday, November 02, 2022 07:34:00
    Atreyu wrote to Gamgee <=-

    On 01 Nov 22 19:04:00, Gamgee said the following to Nightfox:

    Just a weak attempt at humor. I'm anti-Windows and sometimes can't
    resist poking at it... ;-)

    You know... I don't ever remember the Linux crowd ever going
    after OS/2. There was this odd level of calm, a mutual respect
    between the two.

    I'd guess the reason for that is that back then... there wasn't a
    "crowd" of Linux users. Only a few, perhaps less than the OS/2 crowd.

    And please understand, I'm actually *not* a Linux "evangelist". I use
    it nearly exclusively, but I understand the Windows world and why it
    will continue to exist. I'm not actively campaigning against it. ;-)

    I was such a stubborn diehard with that silly OS/2 and problems
    at the time.

    And all the fixes, all the halfassed drivers, all the freaking
    things just to run it on a "modern" Pentium MMX with a large
    hard-drive and basic ATI video card and newfangled USB and
    reinstalling was always out of the question.

    I get that, I think. I have often wondered why I didn't find OS/2
    attractive back then. Never really even tried it. I was immersed in
    MSDOS and saw no reason or need to try anything else. I was even late
    to the Win3 and Win95 parties, although I certainly did use them
    eventually. Then 98 and even <gasp> WinME, finally XP. It was about
    then (1998 or so) that I discovered Linux, and over the next 3-4 years
    moved to it completely. :-)



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  • From Gamgee@21:2/138 to killer on Wednesday, November 02, 2022 07:37:00
    killer wrote to Gamgee <=-

    Not sure if it's changed, but you can't find/get high end video cards these days. Also, nobody can actually answer that question because we don't know what you intend to do with the video card. High end gaming? Web browsing and reading email? We can't read your mind.

    Well knowing the goal of the card is imperative. But you can
    definitely find video cards now. The glut is gone for sure.
    Specifically because Ethereum merge is done.

    I had to look that up, but I guess it's the "bitcoin" world. I knew
    that GPU's were used for some of that work, but didn't realize how they
    had affected the market for video cards so extensively. Amazing.

    ... Diplomacy is saying 'Nice Doggy' until you find a rock.

    Stolen! ;-)



    ... If the #2 pencil is the most popular, why's it still #2?
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  • From Atreyu@21:1/176 to Weatherman on Wednesday, November 02, 2022 08:55:03
    On 02 Nov 22 06:45:34, Weatherman said the following to Atreyu:

    The other major thing that plagued OS2 for many years is the lack of decent networking support. Always way behind on the network side of things.

    Agreed. It was one of the reasons I finally ditched it for Windows 2000.

    Yes it runs BBS and DOS stuff good but just got so tired of watching all my friends actually enjoy the Internet at the time while I was stuck getting an OS/2 Netscape browser to even render a basic site correctly.

    Seeing Windows "just work" with all its networking stuff and built-in RDP remote access, tape backup etc, there was no turning back. At the time I really believed Microsoft finally got it right. Remote access and proper snapshot-based backup on OS/2 was just impossible or halfassed.

    I was also starting to manage a small office LAN and it just made sense to start using at home what I was using at work... we talked about this before I think? It was one reason I ended up buying licensing for Server 2019 and Exchange and other stuff for myself because its the only was I was going to really learn... always hated watching Youtube videos.

    Atreyu

    --- Renegade vY2Ka2
    * Origin: Joey, do you like movies about gladiators? (21:1/176)
  • From Matthew Munson@21:4/108 to N4tive on Tuesday, November 01, 2022 18:04:22
    On 11/1/2022 5:41 PM, N4tive wrote to Matthew Munson:



    I absolutely love linux but it does has its share or problems, particularly in
    gaming. Personally I've invested a lot of time and to some extent money on windows. So I opted to debloat, harden, and remove telemetry from my windows installation. I also replaced commercial software with open source alternatives. I'm quite content with it. Still have my fedora partition in any
    case I have to jump ship.
    I have a hostility to big tech. I am likely going to use Proton for my storage service, and
    likely use Softmaker Office as my office suite. I am thinking of ways to minimize my ways
    to sponsor big tech with much money.

    --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v7.0
    * Origin: Inland Utopia BBS * Ontario, California (21:4/108)
  • From Atreyu@21:1/176 to Gamgee on Wednesday, November 02, 2022 10:14:28
    On 02 Nov 22 07:34:00, Gamgee said the following to Atreyu:

    And please understand, I'm actually *not* a Linux "evangelist". I use
    it nearly exclusively, but I understand the Windows world and why it
    will continue to exist. I'm not actively campaigning against it. ;-)

    Up until about six months ago I was administering/babysitting a couple of Linux VM's. I'd consider my Bash skillset between beginner and intermediate, and really wasn't that much work to do on them. I just can't bring myself to use Linux at home and of course all my BBS stuff is out of the question.

    On the other hand... Microsoft is getting really stupid with Windows 11... well I guess things went off the rails beyond XP or 7.

    I largely stopped becoming a fan after Windows 7 with their decision to have the OS do everything short of sexually gratifying my morning wood. When
    Windows was just an OS that ran programs, things were actually okay.

    Now Windows talks to me like it wants to be friends. Talk to me like a computer, not a workout buddy. Give me hexadecimal errors when you crash,
    not frowny-face sad kitten QR codes. And don't tell me how "sorry" you are or how I might enjoy Candy crush in my start menu even on a supposedly professional-edition of that OS.

    Taking away taskbar labels in 11 is a huge turnoff for me and anyone else
    that must work at least a dozen or so windows open at once. And I'm not installing some stupid bugridden shareware startmenu crap to fix it.

    Atreyu

    --- Renegade vY2Ka2
    * Origin: Joey, do you like movies about gladiators? (21:1/176)
  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to esc on Wednesday, November 02, 2022 09:12:09
    Re: Re: 2017/2018 PC to modernize it.
    By: esc to Nightfox on Tue Nov 01 2022 09:49 pm

    I prefer doing my dev work in a linux environment and while I appreciate WSL (and now WSL2), it was always at the end of the day just a linux VM eating up resources. And it was temperamental. More than once, my WSL install needed to get blown away and restarted from scratch.

    I've found I can get used to either environment. For my home PC, I've mainly used Windows (and I had used DOS in the early 90s), but there was a job I had years ago where the office PCs all ran Linux, so I got used to that. Some of my dev work (at my job, at least) involves .NET work sometimes, and I feel like Visual Studio is one of the best tools for that, so I've tendeed to use Windows at work and set up other systems as needed (I've done a little bit of iOS work, so I have a Mac Mini on my desk at the office in addition to my Windows laptop).

    In linux, this is all just native. Honestly the sole thing I miss from Windows is better native game support, but with this laptop's intel GPU I'm not missing much.

    Yeah, I think the native gaming support would be something I'd miss in Windows. I've thought of possibly switching to Linux at some point (and I currently have my main desktop PC set up to dual-boot between Windows and Linux Mint).

    Nightfox
    --- SBBSecho 3.15-Linux
    * Origin: Digital Distortion: digdist.synchro.net (21:1/137)
  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to Atreyu on Wednesday, November 02, 2022 09:22:48
    Re: Re: 2017/2018 PC to modernize it.
    By: Atreyu to Gamgee on Tue Nov 01 2022 09:56 pm

    Just a weak attempt at humor. I'm anti-Windows and sometimes can't
    resist poking at it... ;-)

    You know... I don't ever remember the Linux crowd ever going after OS/2. There was this odd level of calm, a mutual respect between the two.

    I imagine part of it is that people generally like to question (and sometimes be more critical of) the most popular/dominant thing. OS/2 became an underdog when Windows started to become the default OS installed on many computers. In the mid-90s, I was a bit frustrated with Windows and Microsoft's practices sometimes and would have liked to see OS/2 take over somehow. In that situation though, I imagine people may have ended up complaining about OS/2 a lot more..

    Nightfox
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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to esc on Wednesday, November 02, 2022 09:25:54
    Re: Re: 2017/2018 PC to modernize it.
    By: esc to Atreyu on Tue Nov 01 2022 09:50 pm

    As a morbid curiosity I purchased ArcaOS last year and installed it on modern-ish hardware. Quite a trip to see in person :)

    I almost thought of buying a copy of ArcaOS too. But I really don't think I'd actually use it for anything, so I decided not to spend the money on it.

    I was different in the 90s though.. Around 1998 (or was it 1999?), I bought a copy of BeOS R4.5 (back when Be Inc. was still operating) and installed it on my secondary PC. I really liked how fast and responsive BeOS was (and I thought its UI looked awesome, too). I would have loved to see BeOS gain some serious marketshare, but by the late 90s I think it was too late for that. At the time I didn't mind buying a copy to show my support for it though.

    Nightfox
    --- SBBSecho 3.15-Linux
    * Origin: Digital Distortion: digdist.synchro.net (21:1/137)
  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to Atreyu on Wednesday, November 02, 2022 09:27:36
    Re: Re: 2017/2018 PC to modernize it.
    By: Atreyu to Esc on Wed Nov 02 2022 02:42 am

    I've had a few people say very nice things about Arca but if its true that one must pay a yearly "subscription" then thats unfortunate.

    Yeah, I'm not big on subscription software. If it stops running if you don't renew, that would be bad. But I've seen some subscription software where if you don't renew, you can keep using it but you won't get updates. I think that's fairly similar to the usual model of buying a new version when it comes out, and I'd be more okay with that.

    Nightfox
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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to Weatherman on Wednesday, November 02, 2022 09:29:48
    Re: Re: 2017/2018 PC to modernize it.
    By: Weatherman to Gamgee on Wed Nov 02 2022 06:32 am

    slots. The only reason I have (5) GPUs is because my main PC doubles as a crypto miner and (3) of the GPUs are on PCIe risers with the cards mounted on the top of the PC case (externally).

    I've heard there are some 'external' GPUs that can be connected via Thunderbolt or similar high-speed external connection (maybe USB 3.1 could be fast enough too?).

    Nightfox
    --- SBBSecho 3.15-Linux
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  • From Gamgee@21:2/138 to Atreyu on Wednesday, November 02, 2022 11:29:00
    Atreyu wrote to Gamgee <=-

    On 02 Nov 22 07:34:00, Gamgee said the following to Atreyu:

    And please understand, I'm actually *not* a Linux "evangelist". I use
    it nearly exclusively, but I understand the Windows world and why it
    will continue to exist. I'm not actively campaigning against it. ;-)

    Up until about six months ago I was administering/babysitting a
    couple of Linux VM's. I'd consider my Bash skillset between
    beginner and intermediate, and really wasn't that much work to do
    on them. I just can't bring myself to use Linux at home and of
    course all my BBS stuff is out of the question.

    Modern Linux is surprisingly easy to use right out of the box. Even a
    bash skillset is not really a requirement for most. If you're not
    locked in to using specific Windows software for home, you likely could
    switch over without too much hassle.

    Your BBS stuff is another matter, for sure. Are you running all of that
    on bare-metal DOS hardware, or on a 32-bit Windows machine? I think
    it's uber-cool that you run DOS stuff, actually.

    On the other hand... Microsoft is getting really stupid with
    Windows 11... well I guess things went off the rails beyond XP or
    7.

    Yeah... I haven't even seen 11 yet, although I am required to use a
    Windows 10 laptop for work stuff. I found things up to 7 to be at least barely tolerable, but it's gone downhill for sure.

    I largely stopped becoming a fan after Windows 7 with their
    decision to have the OS do everything short of sexually
    gratifying my morning wood. When Windows was just an OS that ran
    programs, things were actually okay.

    Now Windows talks to me like it wants to be friends. Talk to me
    like a computer, not a workout buddy. Give me hexadecimal errors
    when you crash, not frowny-face sad kitten QR codes. And don't
    tell me how "sorry" you are or how I might enjoy Candy crush in
    my start menu even on a supposedly professional-edition of that
    OS.

    Taking away taskbar labels in 11 is a huge turnoff for me and
    anyone else that must work at least a dozen or so windows open at
    once. And I'm not installing some stupid bugridden shareware
    startmenu crap to fix it.

    Yup, I like my OS (like my government) to stay out of my way and let me
    do what I prefer. ;-) I don't need any talking or kitten faces, for
    sure.


    ... Windows 3.1 - From the people who brought you EDLIN.
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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to Gamgee on Wednesday, November 02, 2022 09:39:42
    Re: Re: 2017/2018 PC to modernize it.
    By: Gamgee to Atreyu on Wed Nov 02 2022 07:34 am

    I have often wondered why I didn't find OS/2
    attractive back then. Never really even tried it. I was immersed in
    MSDOS and saw no reason or need to try anything else. I was even late
    to the Win3 and Win95 parties, although I certainly did use them

    I always found alternative operating systems interesting, for the different ideas and features they offered. When I was mainly using DOS, Windows was around, but I thought it was interesting that another major company (IBM) had offered something different. I later heard that OS/2 didn't even have a GUI until a few versions in (1.3 or 2.0, I don't remember which). And compared to Windows 9x, I think OS/2 offered much better multi-tasking and stability. OS/2 was popular with BBS sysops because OS/2 allowed running multiple DOS programs easily, which was good for multi-node DOS BBSes. (And I had found DESQView in DOS seemed to do that fairly well too..)

    Also, when I was using MS-DOS, I thought it was interesting that there were alternative DOS operating systems, such as DR-DOS..

    eventually. Then 98 and even <gasp> WinME, finally XP. It was about
    then (1998 or so) that I discovered Linux, and over the next 3-4 years moved to it completely. :-)

    I've heard people complain about Windows ME.. I used it briefly and didn't have a problem with it. <shrug>

    I started hearing about Linux around 1995 or 1996 when my dad was playing with it at home, but I never really tried to seriously use Linux until around 1999 or 2000. I bought a boxed copy of SuSE Linux at CompUSA around then and installed it on my PC in a dual-boot setup..

    Nightfox
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  • From esc@21:4/173 to Atreyu on Wednesday, November 02, 2022 10:44:05
    I've had a few people say very nice things about Arca but if its true
    that one must pay a yearly "subscription" then thats unfortunate.

    I don't /think/ that's the case but I can't really remember. I bought a license, threw it on my hardware, seems to be fine. *shrug*

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 2022/07/11 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: m O N T E R E Y b B S . c O M (21:4/173)
  • From Atreyu@21:1/176 to Nightfox on Wednesday, November 02, 2022 13:02:54
    On 02 Nov 22 09:22:48, Nightfox said the following to Atreyu:

    I imagine part of it is that people generally like to question (and sometime be more critical of) the most popular/dominant thing. OS/2 became an underd when Windows started to become the default OS installed on many computers. the mid-90s, I was a bit frustrated with Windows and Microsoft's practices sometimes and would have liked to see OS/2 take over somehow. In that situation though, I imagine people may have ended up complaining about OS/2 lot more..

    When OS/2 worked for me it worked very well, ran my board like clockwork.

    Months... many months of uptime. But as time went on and I had to replace or upgrade some of the hardware the OS unfortunately started to show its age.

    Atreyu

    --- Renegade vY2Ka2
    * Origin: Joey, do you like movies about gladiators? (21:1/176)
  • From Atreyu@21:1/176 to Nightfox on Wednesday, November 02, 2022 13:04:55
    On 02 Nov 22 09:27:36, Nightfox said the following to Atreyu:

    Yeah, I'm not big on subscription software. If it stops running if you don' renew, that would be bad. But I've seen some subscription software where if you don't renew, you can keep using it but you won't get updates. I think that's fairly similar to the usual model of buying a new version when it com out, and I'd be more okay with that.

    I suppose so. I dunno, maybe its a personal thing, I just never was a fan of SaaS as I work at a company that has a huge ERP system and its a convoluted mess. The support from the vendor is expensive and terrible.

    Atreyu

    --- Renegade vY2Ka2
    * Origin: Joey, do you like movies about gladiators? (21:1/176)
  • From Atreyu@21:1/176 to Gamgee on Wednesday, November 02, 2022 13:35:20
    On 02 Nov 22 11:29:00, Gamgee said the following to Atreyu:

    Modern Linux is surprisingly easy to use right out of the box. Even a
    bash skillset is not really a requirement for most. If you're not
    locked in to using specific Windows software for home, you likely could switch over without too much hassle.

    My main computer at home is a Falcon trading station with six monitors. I inherited this from a client who retired from finance. I use it whenever I work from home. I'm not really locked into Windows-specific stuff but all my work revolves around the cult that is MS-Office. Outlook, Excel, Teams... I can't just replace those with alternatives. At least not easily. The Excel work for one job involves a freaking mess of macros and VBA.

    Your BBS stuff is another matter, for sure. Are you running all of that
    on bare-metal DOS hardware, or on a 32-bit Windows machine? I think
    it's uber-cool that you run DOS stuff, actually.

    Professor Hud doesn't think so. ;)

    Yes my BBS is all in 32-bit Windows XP on Vmware EXSI. Windows being nothing more than a glorified multitasker for all the DOS stuff.

    It made sense to move to Vmware since I manage that stuff at work and home for other things. There was no real need to run bare-metal anymore so the beatup IBM R51 that gave many good years of uptime was retired after 15~20+ years.

    The board must run on Windows XP and nothing higher because I'm 100% convinced there is a bug in NTVDM in higher versions where Microsoft did something that would crash DOS sessions with bizarre problems. I gave up and left it on XP.

    Atreyu

    --- Renegade vY2Ka2
    * Origin: Joey, do you like movies about gladiators? (21:1/176)
  • From Atreyu@21:1/176 to Nightfox on Wednesday, November 02, 2022 13:40:48
    On 02 Nov 22 09:39:42, Nightfox said the following to Gamgee:

    I started hearing about Linux around 1995 or 1996 when my dad was playing wi it at home, but I never really tried to seriously use Linux until around 199 or 2000. I bought a boxed copy of SuSE Linux at CompUSA around then and installed it on my PC in a dual-boot setup..

    The first Linux I used, which I actually didn't "mind" too much was an early copy of Slackware.

    Before SELinux...

    Atreyu

    --- Renegade vY2Ka2
    * Origin: Joey, do you like movies about gladiators? (21:1/176)
  • From Gamgee@21:2/138 to Atreyu on Wednesday, November 02, 2022 13:52:00
    Atreyu wrote to Gamgee <=-

    On 02 Nov 22 11:29:00, Gamgee said the following to Atreyu:

    Modern Linux is surprisingly easy to use right out of the box. Even a
    bash skillset is not really a requirement for most. If you're not
    locked in to using specific Windows software for home, you likely could switch over without too much hassle.

    My main computer at home is a Falcon trading station with six
    monitors. I inherited this from a client who retired from
    finance. I use it whenever I work from home. I'm not really
    locked into Windows-specific stuff but all my work revolves
    around the cult that is MS-Office. Outlook, Excel, Teams... I
    can't just replace those with alternatives. At least not easily.
    The Excel work for one job involves a freaking mess of macros and
    VBA.

    Yes, I have heard that Office-related stuff comes pretty close to
    locking in to Windows. The opensource/Linux alternatives can have
    problems with complicated documents.

    Your BBS stuff is another matter, for sure. Are you running all of that
    on bare-metal DOS hardware, or on a 32-bit Windows machine? I think
    it's uber-cool that you run DOS stuff, actually.

    Professor Hud doesn't think so. ;)

    Not too many (any?) folks care much about what that troll thinks... ;-)

    Yes my BBS is all in 32-bit Windows XP on Vmware EXSI. Windows
    being nothing more than a glorified multitasker for all the DOS
    stuff.

    It made sense to move to Vmware since I manage that stuff at work
    and home for other things. There was no real need to run
    bare-metal anymore so the beatup IBM R51 that gave many good
    years of uptime was retired after 15~20+ years.

    The board must run on Windows XP and nothing higher because I'm
    100% convinced there is a bug in NTVDM in higher versions where
    Microsoft did something that would crash DOS sessions with
    bizarre problems. I gave up and left it on XP.

    Excellent. Makes good sense to me. I'm sure the hand-wringers let you
    know how much of a "security risk" it is to run an XP box... LOL

    Keep on rockin'.


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  • From Atreyu@21:1/176 to Gamgee on Wednesday, November 02, 2022 15:12:21
    On 02 Nov 22 13:52:00, Gamgee said the following to Atreyu:

    Yes, I have heard that Office-related stuff comes pretty close to
    locking in to Windows. The opensource/Linux alternatives can have
    problems with complicated documents.

    Its amusing to me that MS-Office seems to run better on Mac than Windows.

    Excellent. Makes good sense to me. I'm sure the hand-wringers let you know how much of a "security risk" it is to run an XP box... LOL

    Only the professor made a stink about it... nobody cares otherwise.

    Theres close to a hundred downlinks here in total with the vast majority being Mystic and Synchronet, mostly all Linux or Pi systems. I used to have an Amiga link and not too long ago I had a downlink who connected via. dialup modem, he was the head of some local disability-support group here in Toronto and they had some kind of Wildcat/Viamail setup shared by attendees.

    BinkD is the busiest process here by far and constantly serving connections. Tossing mail and BBS callers aren't even a blip on resources here.

    Its interesting sometimes just to sit back and watch it toss mail to everyone... a DOS setup churning packets for a crowd of mostly Linux boards.

    I get the odd incoming slam from telnet script kiddies but nothing serious. Probably could move away from port 23 but then it just "aint telnet" in my opinion. Always hated having to know a custom port to call someone's board.

    Atreyu

    --- Renegade vY2Ka2
    * Origin: Joey, do you like movies about gladiators? (21:1/176)
  • From Exodus@21:1/176 to Atreyu on Wednesday, November 02, 2022 16:20:23
    run it on a "modern" Pentium MMX with a large hard-drive and basic ATI video card and newfangled USB and reinstalling was always out of the question.

    Oh, but when you did .... how beautiful it was .... fresh boot manager, fresh install .... no shit laying around .... I miss OS/2 "in my head" ... but when I installed Arca OS I was like oh .... yeah, now I remember. <G>

    --- Renegade vY2Ka2
    * Origin: Joey, do you like movies about gladiators? (21:1/176)
  • From Exodus@21:1/176 to Atreyu on Wednesday, November 02, 2022 16:21:25
    Only the professor made a stink about it... nobody cares otherwise.

    You better upgrade that to VISTA .. it's WAY BETTER than XP!!!!

    --- Renegade vY2Ka2
    * Origin: Joey, do you like movies about gladiators? (21:1/176)
  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to Atreyu on Wednesday, November 02, 2022 14:25:46
    Re: Re: 2017/2018 PC to modernize it.
    By: Atreyu to Nightfox on Wed Nov 02 2022 01:04 pm

    I suppose so. I dunno, maybe its a personal thing, I just never was a fan of SaaS as I work at a company that has a huge ERP system and its a convoluted mess. The support from the vendor is expensive and terrible.

    I'm still not a big fan of SaaS either..

    Nightfox
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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to Exodus on Wednesday, November 02, 2022 14:27:51
    Re: Re: 2017/2018 PC to modernize it.
    By: Exodus to Atreyu on Wed Nov 02 2022 04:21 pm

    Only the professor made a stink about it... nobody cares otherwise.

    You better upgrade that to VISTA .. it's WAY BETTER than XP!!!!

    Windows Hasta La Vista

    Nightfox
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    * Origin: Digital Distortion: digdist.synchro.net (21:1/137)
  • From Atreyu@21:1/176 to Nightfox on Wednesday, November 02, 2022 17:39:23
    On 02 Nov 22 14:27:51, Nightfox said the following to Exodus:


    Windows Hasta La Vista

    Ha! Good one!

    Atreyu

    --- Renegade vY2Ka2
    * Origin: Joey, do you like movies about gladiators? (21:1/176)
  • From Atreyu@21:1/176 to Nightfox on Wednesday, November 02, 2022 17:39:43
    On 02 Nov 22 14:25:46, Nightfox said the following to Atreyu:

    I'm still not a big fan of SaaS either..

    I hate Google Workspaces... their "spreadsheet" app is a joke.

    Bah.

    Atreyu

    --- Renegade vY2Ka2
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  • From Arelor@21:2/138 to Nightfox on Wednesday, November 02, 2022 18:53:57
    Re: Re: 2017/2018 PC to modernize it.
    By: Nightfox to esc on Tue Nov 01 2022 03:48 pm

    Re: Re: 2017/2018 PC to modernize it.
    By: esc to Nightfox on Tue Nov 01 2022 03:19 pm

    If we expand the concept of virus to include Spyware, adware, etc., the Microsoft has it up to the gills in Win10/11.

    I've been running Windows 10 since it came out (and now 11), and I don't rec

    Do you feel like you've been negatively impacted by anything in Windows 10 o atively impacted by anything since I started using Windows 10.

    Nightfox
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    * Origin: Digital Distortion: digdist.synchro.net (21:1/137)

    I can say that latter iterations of Windows actively try to get the user to purchase or use certain sets of services.

    Most Wintel hardware comes preloaded with crapware. It has so much of it that I swear it makes the computers weight an aditional kilogram or two. If that does not count as advertising for products and services, I don't know what does.

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  • From Exodus@21:1/176 to Nightfox on Wednesday, November 02, 2022 20:04:04
    You better upgrade that to VISTA .. it's WAY BETTER than XP!!!!

    Windows Hasta La Vista

    You missed the trolling of Jas on this.

    --- Renegade vY2Ka2
    * Origin: Joey, do you like movies about gladiators? (21:1/176)
  • From Gamgee@21:2/138 to Atreyu on Wednesday, November 02, 2022 20:17:00
    Atreyu wrote to Gamgee <=-

    On 02 Nov 22 13:52:00, Gamgee said the following to Atreyu:

    Excellent. Makes good sense to me. I'm sure the hand-wringers let you know how much of a "security risk" it is to run an XP box... LOL

    Only the professor made a stink about it... nobody cares
    otherwise.

    And nobody cares what that one thinks or says.

    Theres close to a hundred downlinks here in total with the vast
    majority being Mystic and Synchronet, mostly all Linux or Pi
    systems. I used to have an Amiga link and not too long ago I had
    a downlink who connected via. dialup modem, he was the head of
    some local disability-support group here in Toronto and they had
    some kind of Wildcat/Viamail setup shared by attendees.

    Nice.

    BinkD is the busiest process here by far and constantly serving connections. Tossing mail and BBS callers aren't even a blip on
    resources here.

    Its interesting sometimes just to sit back and watch it toss mail
    to everyone... a DOS setup churning packets for a crowd of mostly
    Linux boards.

    Yeah that is cool. There are actually quite a number of examples of DOS
    still being used in business and science. Many retail POS / "cash
    register" systems use it, and I know that it runs on some very high tech modern medical devices. I think it may also be used in the financial
    world some too.

    I get the odd incoming slam from telnet script kiddies but
    nothing serious. Probably could move away from port 23 but then
    it just "aint telnet" in my opinion. Always hated having to know
    a custom port to call someone's board.

    I feel the same about that. Mostly the scripts/bots don't affect
    anything worth worrying about.


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  • From Warpslide@21:3/110.1 to All on Wednesday, November 02, 2022 21:43:34
    *** Quoting Gamgee from a message to Atreyu ***

    Yeah that is cool. There are actually quite a number of examples of
    DOS still being used in business and science. Many retail POS /
    "cash register" systems use it, and I know that it runs on some very
    high tech modern medical devices. I think it may also be used in
    the financial world some too.

    Some of the PLC systems at a previous job were just industrial PCs that run Windows 98 embedded. I was surprised when one of the systems that operated a large conveyor belt to a "cooling spiral" went offline and a maintenance technician brought it up to me asking if I "had one of these" and held up a 2.5" IDE hard drive.

    As it happened, I had a stack of old laptops and sure enough there was a laptop with one in there. I helped him ghost the failing drive to this used one and they were back in business.

    The Toshiba phone system there also had voicemail "card" in it with a spinning 2.5" SATA that runs Windows XP embedded. Lot of places run Windows where you may not expect it.

    I'm also reminded of the time I went into a ScotiaBank one morning back in
    the late 90s or early 2000s and was amused to see the ATMs rebooting and that they ran OS/2. I'm sure they've moved off of it by now, but it was still
    neat to see.


    Jay

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  • From Mandarax@21:1/156 to Arelor on Wednesday, November 02, 2022 21:47:05
    Most Wintel hardware comes preloaded with crapware. It has so much of it that I swear it makes the computers weight an aditional kilogram or two.

    I find this more true of pre-made computers from PC manufacturers (Dell, HP, etc). I have build all my own PC's that run Windows and don't find much pre-loaded "crapware" at all. The most I find preloaded is like Office links and Xbox game stuff. Which isn't much and easily removable via unintall.

    What the PC manufacturers load on there is a whole other story.


    Insomnia City BBS SysOp
    Kalamazoo, MI USA
    bbs.farcasternet.org Telnet 23, SSH 2222

    ... There is an exception to every rule, except this one.

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  • From Atreyu@21:1/176 to Gamgee on Wednesday, November 02, 2022 21:44:50
    On 02 Nov 22 20:17:00, Gamgee said the following to Atreyu:

    Yeah that is cool. There are actually quite a number of examples of DOS still being used in business and science. Many retail POS / "cash register" systems use it, and I know that it runs on some very high tech modern medical devices. I think it may also be used in the financial
    world some too.

    Correct, the biggest "woah" moment for me was understanding why a lot of medical/dental equipment is still largely on XP or 7. The way it was explained to me at the time was that there is a tremendous amount of legal or regulatory approval involved given its mission critical status not to mention the cost
    of lets say an MRI or X-ray system.

    Weatherman/Mark who posts here probably knows more, I think he runs IT for a major hospital where he lives.

    I keep forgetting a lot of older CNC/milling machines still run DOS. If a machine is running fine and poses no threat being standalone/not on a Lan, there isn't an incentive to upgrade.

    Atreyu

    --- Renegade vY2Ka2
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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to Arelor on Wednesday, November 02, 2022 21:06:03
    Re: Re: 2017/2018 PC to modernize it.
    By: Arelor to Nightfox on Wed Nov 02 2022 06:53 pm

    I can say that latter iterations of Windows actively try to get the user to purchase or use certain sets of services.

    I don't remember Windows ever trying to get me to purchase other services..?

    Nightfox
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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to Arelor on Wednesday, November 02, 2022 21:08:03
    Re: Re: 2017/2018 PC to modernize it.
    By: Arelor to Nightfox on Wed Nov 02 2022 06:53 pm

    I can say that latter iterations of Windows actively try to get the user to purchase or use certain sets of services.

    I don't remember Windows itself ever trying to get me to purchase other services..?

    Most Wintel hardware comes preloaded with crapware. It has so much of it that I swear it makes the computers weight an aditional kilogram or two. If that does not count as advertising for products and services, I don't know what does.

    That wouldn't be a fault of Windows itself, but computer makers that install that crapware on their computers. I think it's been a while since I've seen a computer like that, but usually I build my own desktop PC, so I just install Windows on it without the crapware..

    Nightfox
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  • From Matthew Munson@21:4/108 to Boraxman on Wednesday, November 02, 2022 19:06:18

    Ha, and here I am running an AMD Phenom II. That CPU you're getting rid of would run rings around my *main* rig. Kids these days with their newfangled processor doohickeys!

    Perhaps I could mail someone that processor. I mean the ryzen 1700x.
    --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v7.0
    * Origin: Inland Utopia BBS * Ontario, California (21:4/108)
  • From Matthew Munson@21:4/108 to Tracker1 on Wednesday, November 02, 2022 19:10:54
    On 11/1/2022 8:44 PM, Tracker1 wrote to Matthew Munson:

    Since Windows 11 does not accept my Ryzen 1700x, should I upgrade it
    to a 3700x on my B350-Prime Plus motherboard (i flashed my bios for
    this) and perhaps buy a 1tb ssd to upgrade my storage at the same
    time.

    As mentioned elsewhere, may look into a 5600/5600(x) as the ?700 series seems to be less available, if there's an update that far.

    Also is a 1070 Nvidia card still ok for this, or should I go for
    the gusto and get a 3060.

    Should be fine, if you do bump up, for the 3060, unless you're doing
    nvlink for live encoding, would probably consider an rx 6700 for a bit
    less and roughly the same raster performance (slightly lower rtx, but
    the 3060 isn't great at that anyway)


    Or just buy a bleepin new computer?

    Not sure I'd go new right now... though if you got a nice B550/570 motherboard, you could got something like 5800x/5800x3d and a faster
    nvme drive. Depends on what all you do with the computer.
    --
    Playing Final Fantasy XIV, media consumption. BBS hosting.
    I know If I buy a new MB I will likely need to buy a fresh windows license.
    My laptop has a ryzen 5800h, but I prefer to use my desktop for more functions.

    I think 5700x with a cooler, a pci 3.0 nvme drive will likely be the last upgrades for this
    computer. Im ok with the 1070 for the time being.


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  • From apam@21:1/182 to Nightfox on Thursday, November 03, 2022 14:44:17
    I don't remember Windows itself ever trying to get me to purchase
    other services..?

    I know it does everytime you install it, it tries to sell you Office and
    an XBox game subscription.

    Windows 10 has a bunch of stuff it installs like disney plus, spotify
    etc on the start menu.

    And every few weeks it asks me to "finish setting up my computer" where
    it insists I use edge and reset to the "prefered browser settings"

    Windows 11 seems to have less of the preinstalled crap (or at least makes
    it less noticable).

    That wouldn't be a fault of Windows itself, but computer makers that
    install that crapware on their computers. I think it's been a while
    since I've seen a computer like that, but usually I build my own
    desktop PC, so I just install Windows on it without the crapware..

    I haven't bought a new computer from a computer maker in years, but I do remember that they often had there own set of junk they install (Virus
    scanner trials etc) I don't know what Arelor was talking about, but
    Windows 10 definitly installs a bunch of crap (Windows Store programs,
    like disney plus etc) It's always there on a clean install for me.

    To me it's kind of disappointing that the OS you pay for has all the ads, whereas the free os doesn't. Although that's not entirely true, firefox
    has sponsored items on the home page on every OS (but you can turn them
    off easily enough) and most linux distros have firefox installed.

    Having said all that though, I'm using Windows 10 currently on this
    laptop. It "came" with windows 11 from ebay, but is too old to update to
    22H2 or whatever the latest version of windows 11 is, so I reinstalled
    windows 10 - (which it would have originally come with).

    I don't mind windows 11, it's much nicer than windows 10, but the
    hardware requirements suck.

    Andrew


    --- Talisman v0.46-dev (Windows/x64)
    * Origin: Smuggler's Cove - Private BBS (21:1/182)
  • From Arelor@21:2/138 to Nightfox on Thursday, November 03, 2022 04:57:36
    Re: Re: 2017/2018 PC to modernize it.
    By: Nightfox to Arelor on Wed Nov 02 2022 09:06 pm

    Re: Re: 2017/2018 PC to modernize it.
    By: Arelor to Nightfox on Wed Nov 02 2022 06:53 pm

    I can say that latter iterations of Windows actively try to get the use to purchase or use certain sets of services.

    I don't remember Windows ever trying to get me to purchase other services..?

    Nightfox
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    * Origin: Digital Distortion: digdist.synchro.net (21:1/137)

    Then my bet is you ran a cleaner right after installing any Windows, and it was so long ago that you don t remember :-P

    My mother is the only person in my direct family who runs any form of Windows. My memories from installing her system were that I thought it was nearly as aggressive as Android in trying you to buy into their ecosystem. It felt less of a tool to me and more like a platform for people to sell you services on it.

    If you ever install a blatantly comercial Linux distribution you will notice they come with links for you to subscribe to higher support tiers and the like, and the documentation will try very hard for you to do it. With Windows I have that exact feeling multiplied by three. They try to shove up your ass subscriptions from their SaaS products, they try you to purchase 3rd party games over platforms they control and they try you to use their news feeds instead of others.


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  • From Matthew Munson@21:4/108 to Nightfox on Wednesday, November 02, 2022 21:39:22
    On 11/2/2022 9:13 PM, Nightfox wrote to Arelor:


    I can say that latter iterations of Windows actively try to get the user
    to purchase or use certain sets of services.

    I don't remember Windows ever trying to get me to purchase other services..?

    Microsoft 365, for Office and OneDrive. Or XBOX for PC Gaming and XBOX Interaction.

    --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v7.0
    * Origin: Inland Utopia BBS * Ontario, California (21:4/108)
  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to apam on Thursday, November 03, 2022 09:19:42
    Re: Re: 2017/2018 PC to modernize it.
    By: apam to Nightfox on Thu Nov 03 2022 02:44 pm

    I don't remember Windows itself ever trying to get me to purchase
    other services..?

    I know it does everytime you install it, it tries to sell you Office and an XBox game subscription.

    Windows 10 has a bunch of stuff it installs like disney plus, spotify
    etc on the start menu.

    Having programs installed by default is different than trying to get you to purchase something. I've never felt compelled to pay for those extra apps or thought they were trying to make me purchase them, but maybe that's because I don't really pay much attention to them.. I'll consider paying for something if I use it, but those are typically not apps I use. I don't really fault Microsoft for doing that - It seems every OS and computer maker installs stuff they think you might use (and want to pay for), but you aren't forced to.

    And every few weeks it asks me to "finish setting up my computer" where
    it insists I use edge and reset to the "prefered browser settings"

    I've heard that but I haven't really experienced that myself.

    To me it's kind of disappointing that the OS you pay for has all the ads,

    I've heard that too, but I haven't been seeing ads in Windows 10 or 11 on my PC..

    I don't mind windows 11, it's much nicer than windows 10, but the
    hardware requirements suck.

    I think the only weird hardware requirement in Windows 11 is the TPM hardware. It seems if it weren't for that, Windows 11 would run on a lot more computers.

    Nightfox
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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to Arelor on Thursday, November 03, 2022 09:20:47
    Re: Re: 2017/2018 PC to modernize it.
    By: Arelor to Nightfox on Thu Nov 03 2022 04:57 am

    I don't remember Windows ever trying to get me to purchase other
    services..?

    Then my bet is you ran a cleaner right after installing any Windows, and it was so long ago that you don t remember :-P

    Nope, I didn't run a cleaner. I actually haven't run a Windows cleaner in years - I found those things seem to do more harm than good.

    Nightfox
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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to Matthew Munson on Thursday, November 03, 2022 09:32:37
    Re: Re: 2017/2018 PC to modernize it.
    By: Matthew Munson to Nightfox on Wed Nov 02 2022 09:39 pm

    I don't remember Windows ever trying to get me to purchase other
    services..?

    Microsoft 365, for Office and OneDrive. Or XBOX for PC Gaming and XBOX Interaction.

    I don't recall seeing any ads or anything from Windows trying to get me to purchase any of that..

    Nightfox
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  • From esc@21:4/173 to apam on Thursday, November 03, 2022 15:57:39
    I don't mind windows 11, it's much nicer than windows 10, but the
    hardware requirements suck.

    The one thing I absolutely hated about Win11 was the right-click flyout menu in file explorer. Burying all the useful options in submenus requiring more clicking around was pretty lame.

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  • From Atreyu@21:1/176 to Warpslide on Thursday, November 03, 2022 18:50:01
    On 02 Nov 22 21:43:34, Warpslide said the following to All:

    The Toshiba phone system there also had voicemail "card" in it with a spinni 2.5" SATA that runs Windows XP embedded. Lot of places run Windows where yo may not expect it.

    I have a part-time client that still runs an Intertel Axxess phone system.

    Two huge Pentium 2 rack PC's running Windows 2000, Brooktrout cards and a rare IDE Raid card... with battery and a loud buzzer onboard.

    I'm paid handsomely to make sure it "just works"... so... off to Ebay I went, stocking up on spare boards and parts.

    Atreyu

    --- Renegade vY2Ka2
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  • From Atreyu@21:1/176 to Nightfox on Thursday, November 03, 2022 18:52:37
    On 03 Nov 22 09:32:37, Nightfox said the following to Matthew Munson:

    I don't recall seeing any ads or anything from Windows trying to get me to purchase any of that..

    Wellllllll.... Windows 10 does "nag" quite a bit unless its Enterprise LTSC or on a domain with a fairly pedantic GPO enforced.

    It starts right from a fresh install by whining about signing in with an MS account unless you purposely disconnect from the Internet or savvy enough to treat the install as configuring for a domain-scenario.

    I used to be a huge Microsoft fan for being able to have a successful career from their products, but lately I miss the days when Windows was focused on being an OS instead of being my buddy or life-partner.

    Atreyu

    --- Renegade vY2Ka2
    * Origin: Joey, do you like movies about gladiators? (21:1/176)
  • From apam@21:1/182 to esc on Friday, November 04, 2022 09:01:26
    The one thing I absolutely hated about Win11 was the right-click
    flyout menu in file explorer. Burying all the useful options in
    submenus requiring more clicking around was pretty lame.

    Yeah, that's annoying. You can actually disable it though. It's a
    registry key, I had to google it, but once you enter the key the full
    menus are back.

    Andrew


    --- Talisman v0.46-dev (Windows/x64)
    * Origin: Smuggler's Cove - Private BBS (21:1/182)
  • From ogg@21:2/147 to apam on Thursday, November 03, 2022 18:19:52
    On 04 Nov 2022, apam said the following...

    The one thing I absolutely hated about Win11 was the right-click
    flyout menu in file explorer. Burying all the useful options in submenus requiring more clicking around was pretty lame.

    Yeah, that's annoying. You can actually disable it though. It's a
    registry key, I had to google it, but once you enter the key the full menus are back.

    Andrew


    I'm going to look for it as soon as I'm done here!

    ogg
    Sysop, Altair IV BBS
    fsxNet 21:2/147, fidonet 1:106/1

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  • From Weatherman@21:1/132 to Gamgee on Thursday, November 03, 2022 18:30:45

    Ahhhh, OK! Now I can picture that. Was having trouble understanding
    how you could fit so many video cards in a case! Thanks.

    The system also doubles as a space heater. When you have (5) video cards going full tilt, no need for standard heat in the room.

    My main workstation has many roles. My main station used for both personal and work use, crypto mining, and auxilary heating all wrapped up in one.

    - Mark
    ÿÿÿ
    --- WWIVToss v.1.52
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  • From ogg@21:2/147 to ogg on Thursday, November 03, 2022 18:42:48
    Yeah, that's annoying. You can actually disable it though. It's a registry key, I had to google it, but once you enter the key the full menus are back.

    Andrew


    I'm going to look for it as soon as I'm done here!
    Here's the link that I followed;

    https://www.elevenforum.com/t/disable-show-more-options-context-menu-in-windows -11.1589/

    After applying the registry mod, I did have to log out/log in to get it to work.

    Thanks Andrew for the tip!

    ogg
    Sysop, Altair IV BBS
    fsxNet 21:2/147, fidonet 1:106/1

    ... Kilometers are shorter than miles. Save gas, take your trip in kilometers

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 2022/07/15 (Windows/64)
    * Origin: Altair IV BBS (21:2/147)
  • From Weatherman@21:1/132 to Atreyu on Thursday, November 03, 2022 18:45:25

    Agreed. It was one of the reasons I finally ditched it for Windows 2000.

    Me too. I have always had many systems and never totally ditched OS2, but didn't use it as my main system. Virtualization actually saved me lots of space and power. At one time, I had around (12) PCs/servers running at home in my mini-data center in the basement. These days, all those are wrapped into (3) 4U Supermicro servers.

    my friends actually enjoy the Internet at the time while I was stuck
    getting an OS/2 Netscape browser to even render a basic site correctly.

    That was painfull, no doubt!

    Seeing Windows "just work" with all its networking stuff and built-in RDP remote access, tape backup etc, there was no turning back. At the time I really believed Microsoft finally got it right. Remote access and proper snapshot-based backup on OS/2 was just impossible or halfassed.

    Everything was much easier in Windows. Drivers, backups, networking, etc. I don't remember the software name, but I used an OS/2 tape backup program at one time long ago to back up the BBS. It worked ok, but Windows software always blew away the OS2 equivalents.

    OS2 was the BEST at multi-tasking DOS apps. Hands down WAY better than Windows. That is the only thing I ended up using it for, and still do. I can even run the old DOS doors in OS2, where Windows DOS session will crash.

    I was also starting to manage a small office LAN and it just made sense to start using at home what I was using at work... we talked about this
    before I
    think? It was one reason I ended up buying licensing for Server 2019 and Exchange and other stuff for myself because its the only was I was going
    to really learn... always hated watching Youtube videos.

    Yeah, there are many times my home stuff and work stuff bleed together. I end up doing something at home or work and then replicate the same thing at the other.

    I learn the best by hands on tinkering, but do enjoy YouTube videos for certain specific things. Normally very unique things. More often than not, I'm watching some metal video or redneck car/diesel truck channel.

    - Mark
    ÿÿÿ
    --- WWIVToss v.1.52
    * Origin: http://www.weather-station.org * Bel Air, MD -USA (21:1/132.0)
  • From Weatherman@21:1/132 to Atreyu on Thursday, November 03, 2022 18:48:22

    Taking away taskbar labels in 11 is a huge turnoff for me and anyone else that must work at least a dozen or so windows open at once. And I'm not installing some stupid bugridden shareware startmenu crap to fix it.

    My first looks at Windows 11 remind me of Windows 8 (version 2). Where most will want to run shareware to make it more like Windows 10.

    The main goal of Microsoft at this point is to pull people kicking and screaming into their cloud and will hook the OS into it. Not a path that makes me happy.

    - Mark
    ÿÿÿ
    --- WWIVToss v.1.52
    * Origin: http://www.weather-station.org * Bel Air, MD -USA (21:1/132.0)
  • From Weatherman@21:1/132 to Nightfox on Thursday, November 03, 2022 18:51:59

    I've heard there are some 'external' GPUs that can be connected via Thunderbolt or similar high-speed external connection (maybe USB 3.1 could be fast enough too?).

    I have (3) of my GPUs sitting on top of my PC case on PCIe risers that have double-sided velcro to hold them on there. They are connected to a PCiE USB controller, and I have all the power cables extended and going out the back of the case.

    I wouldn't suggest using this method for connecting them to displays. Too slow for that type of thing, especially at 4k. Only good for mining.

    - Mark
    ÿÿÿ
    --- WWIVToss v.1.52
    * Origin: http://www.weather-station.org * Bel Air, MD -USA (21:1/132.0)
  • From Weatherman@21:1/132 to Gamgee on Thursday, November 03, 2022 18:55:52

    Modern Linux is surprisingly easy to use right out of the box. Even a
    bash skillset is not really a requirement for most. If you're not
    locked in to using specific Windows software for home, you likely could switch over without too much hassle.

    I will agree that operating systems like Ubuntu have come a long way in ease of use. I don't consider myself a linux guru at all, but I have set up many different platforms using various linux versions.

    Home Assistant, LibreNMS, and FluxNode to name a few. I run everything in my virtual environment from eCS, various linux versions and various Windows desktop and server operating systems.

    - Mark
    ÿÿÿ
    --- WWIVToss v.1.52
    * Origin: http://www.weather-station.org * Bel Air, MD -USA (21:1/132.0)
  • From Weatherman@21:1/132 to Atreyu on Thursday, November 03, 2022 18:59:04

    When OS/2 worked for me it worked very well, ran my board like clockwork.

    Months... many months of uptime. But as time went on and I had to replace
    or upgrade some of the hardware the OS unfortunately started to show its age.

    Ultimately, what decides if an OS will survive or die off is application and driver support. Even Windows is starting to see lots of major platforms move away from them to various open source appliances.

    Even though I loved my old Blackberry, all the app development moved towards Apple and Google/Android. That was the end of Blackberry. Same thing happened to Novell.

    - Mark
    ÿÿÿ
    --- WWIVToss v.1.52
    * Origin: http://www.weather-station.org * Bel Air, MD -USA (21:1/132.0)
  • From Weatherman@21:1/132 to Atreyu on Thursday, November 03, 2022 17:11:32

    Correct, the biggest "woah" moment for me was understanding why a lot of medical/dental equipment is still largely on XP or 7. The way it was explained to me at the time was that there is a tremendous amount of legal or regulatory approval involved given its mission critical status not to mention the cost of lets say an MRI or X-ray system.

    Weatherman/Mark who posts here probably knows more, I think he runs IT for
    a major hospital where he lives.

    Regulatory requirements (UL certifications) are the main reason why lots clinical based IT hardware is old and typically lacks redundancy and modern advanced configurations. They also pay way more for the old gear that has the "UL" certification on it.

    I have seen cases where the 24-port network switch was UL certified, but the 48-port wasn't (exact same hardware/switch - just one had more ports). So they would have to buy (2) 24-port switches vs (1) 48-port switch.

    Basically, it is a regultory requirement to buy old outdated crap because it takes years and years to get anything relatively new - certified.

    - Mark
    ÿÿÿ
    --- WWIVToss v.1.52
    * Origin: http://www.weather-station.org * Bel Air, MD -USA (21:1/132.0)
  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Matthew Munson on Thursday, November 03, 2022 06:33:00
    Matthew Munson wrote to All <=-

    Since Windows 11 does not accept my Ryzen 1700x, should I upgrade it to
    a 3700x on my B350-Prime Plus motherboard (i flashed my bios for this)
    and perhaps buy a 1tb ssd to upgrade my storage at the same time.

    I'd say stick with Windows 10, sounds like a decent system. I'm on 10 and 11 with my desktop and laptop respectively, and I don't see a killer app for 11 yet.




    ... Onward, to meatspace!
    --- MultiMail/DOS v0.52
    * Origin: realitycheckBBS.org -- information is power. (21:4/122)
  • From Atreyu@21:1/176 to Weatherman on Friday, November 04, 2022 10:14:03
    On 03 Nov 22 18:59:04, Weatherman said the following to Atreyu:

    Even though I loved my old Blackberry, all the app development moved towards Apple and Google/Android. That was the end of Blackberry. Same thing happened to Novell.

    Ahhhhh Blackberry... That was my "company wedding ring" for a decade.

    And yes, I do remember being told as a teenager that I should study Novell because they will be the future. I was told to forget about Banyan Vines or Lantastic... its gonna be Novell ALL the way to the millenium. Microsoft wasn't even mentioned in conversation.

    Atreyu

    --- Renegade vY2Ka2
    * Origin: Joey, do you like movies about gladiators? (21:1/176)
  • From Atreyu@21:1/176 to Weatherman on Friday, November 04, 2022 10:15:02
    On 03 Nov 22 17:11:32, Weatherman said the following to Atreyu:

    I have seen cases where the 24-port network switch was UL certified, but the 48-port wasn't (exact same hardware/switch - just one had more ports). So they would have to buy (2) 24-port switches vs (1) 48-port switch.

    I thought UL cert was sortof mandatory, like CSA cert for Canadian
    electronics?

    Atreyu

    --- Renegade vY2Ka2
    * Origin: Joey, do you like movies about gladiators? (21:1/176)
  • From Atreyu@21:1/176 to Poindexter Fortran on Friday, November 04, 2022 10:22:15
    On 03 Nov 22 06:33:00, Poindexter Fortran said the following to Matthew Munson:

    I'd say stick with Windows 10, sounds like a decent system. I'm on 10 and 1 with my desktop and laptop respectively, and I don't see a killer app for 1 yet.

    I think we might be past the era of "killer apps". I don't see a program being sold thats going to make people race out and buy 11.

    MS-Office was the last of them, I think. Now its Saas and Chromebooks as the latest fad.

    Atreyu

    --- Renegade vY2Ka2
    * Origin: Joey, do you like movies about gladiators? (21:1/176)
  • From Atreyu@21:1/176 to Weatherman on Friday, November 04, 2022 10:32:27
    On 03 Nov 22 18:45:25, Weatherman said the following to Atreyu:

    Everything was much easier in Windows. Drivers, backups, networking, etc. don't remember the software name, but I used an OS/2 tape backup program at one time long ago to back up the BBS. It worked ok, but Windows software always blew away the OS2 equivalents.

    Exactly. Thats what I suspect many people overlook about those versions of Windows.... NT4, 2000, XP. Those to me are "real Windows" that nothing else at the time could really compete with. Everything was so simple on them and even lots of complicated scenarios ultimately had a resolution.

    The moment it became Vista and 7 I just saw it as eye-candy and Microsoft marketing taking over the show... I don't need sticky notes or 3d-paint and certainly not Candy crush on the start menu of 10 Professional edition.

    OS2 was the BEST at multi-tasking DOS apps. Hands down WAY better than Windows. That is the only thing I ended up using it for, and still do. I c even run the old DOS doors in OS2, where Windows DOS session will crash.

    Agreed, NTVDM is very choppy and OS/2 runs circles around it but unfortunately I'm not in a position to change for the reasons I mentioned before.

    I learn the best by hands on tinkering, but do enjoy YouTube videos for certain specific things. Normally very unique things. More often than not, I'm watching some metal video or redneck car/diesel truck channel.

    I really avoid Youtube as often as possible, its just not for me. There is maybe one or two people that made videos restoring old vintage Hifi and doing circuit-board repairs but thats it.

    Atreyu

    --- Renegade vY2Ka2
    * Origin: Joey, do you like movies about gladiators? (21:1/176)
  • From Atreyu@21:1/176 to Weatherman on Friday, November 04, 2022 10:33:41
    On 03 Nov 22 18:48:22, Weatherman said the following to Atreyu:

    My first looks at Windows 11 remind me of Windows 8 (version 2). Where most will want to run shareware to make it more like Windows 10.

    The main goal of Microsoft at this point is to pull people kicking and screaming into their cloud and will hook the OS into it. Not a path that makes me happy.

    I used to doubt the "Windows 365" conspiracy theory but I'm starting to believe it more. Google has that model down to a science.

    Atreyu

    --- Renegade vY2Ka2
    * Origin: Joey, do you like movies about gladiators? (21:1/176)
  • From Exodus@21:1/176 to Atreyu on Friday, November 04, 2022 19:18:00

    Lantastic... its gonna be Novell ALL the way to the millenium. Microsoft

    Yeah I remember that also.

    --- Renegade vY2Ka2
    * Origin: Joey, do you like movies about gladiators? (21:1/176)
  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Weatherman on Friday, November 04, 2022 06:40:00
    Weatherman wrote to Atreyu <=-

    The main goal of Microsoft at this point is to pull people kicking and screaming into their cloud and will hook the OS into it. Not a path
    that makes me happy.

    It's time to embrace the horror. The web Microsoft365 apps run pretty well
    and provide a much fuller experience than G Suite - and run well on Linux browsers.

    Prices are better than G suite, with a home use license you can get 5
    Exchange mailboxes, 1TB per person, 5 app licenses, and it's $69/year.


    ... The exception also declares the rule
    --- MultiMail/DOS v0.52
    * Origin: realitycheckBBS.org -- information is power. (21:4/122)
  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Weatherman on Friday, November 04, 2022 06:41:00
    Weatherman wrote to Gamgee <=-

    Home Assistant, LibreNMS, and FluxNode to name a few. I run everything
    in my virtual environment from eCS, various linux versions and various Windows desktop and server operating systems.

    Using eCS to manage a modern virtual environment - that rocks!


    ... The exception also declares the rule
    --- MultiMail/DOS v0.52
    * Origin: realitycheckBBS.org -- information is power. (21:4/122)
  • From Matthew Munson@21:4/108 to Poindexter Fortran on Friday, November 04, 2022 21:38:58
    On 11/3/2022 6:40 AM, Poindexter Fortran wrote to Matthew Munson:


    Matthew Munson wrote to All <=-

    Since Windows 11 does not accept my Ryzen 1700x, should I upgrade it to a 3700x on my B350-Prime Plus motherboard (i flashed my bios for this) and perhaps buy a 1tb ssd to upgrade my storage at the same time.

    I'd say stick with Windows 10, sounds like a decent system. I'm on 10 and 11
    with my desktop and laptop respectively, and I don't see a killer app for 11
    yet.
    -
    Its likely to lose support in 2025. My 5800h is a laptop under 11. I was thinking of
    spending 412 bucks to change the processor in my old pc to a 5700x.

    --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v7.0
    * Origin: Inland Utopia BBS * Ontario, California (21:4/108)
  • From Phigan@21:4/10 to Nightfox on Saturday, November 05, 2022 11:59:52
    Re: Re: 2017/2018 PC to modernize it.
    By: Nightfox to Exodus on Wed Nov 02 2022 14:27:51

    Windows Hasta La Vista

    dot box dot sk.

    ---
    þ Synchronet þ Mutiny BBS - mutinybbs.com - telnet:2332 - ssh:2232
    * Origin: fsxNet FTN<>QWK Gateway (21:4/10)
  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to poindexter FORTRAN on Saturday, November 05, 2022 11:18:35
    Re: Re: 2017/2018 PC to modernize it.
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Weatherman on Fri Nov 04 2022 06:40 am

    It's time to embrace the horror. The web Microsoft365 apps run pretty well and provide a much fuller experience than G Suite - and run well on Linux browsers.

    One thing I'm still not comfortable with regarding web apps is that if your internet service goes down, you'll be unable to access/run those programs. I still like to have locally-installed software. Otherwise, if software is all web-based (or otherwise runs from an internet server), we wouldn't need much more than dumb terminals at home (whereas typically it's a good thing to have your own storage and processing power at home).. In some ways, it seems like computing is coming full-circle.

    Nightfox
    --- SBBSecho 3.15-Linux
    * Origin: Digital Distortion: digdist.synchro.net (21:1/137)
  • From Warpslide@21:3/110.1 to Nightfox on Saturday, November 05, 2022 14:49:30
    *** Quoting Nightfox from a message to poindexter FORTRAN ***

    One thing I'm still not comfortable with regarding web apps is that
    if your internet service goes down, you'll be unable to access/run
    those programs. I still like to have locally-installed software. Otherwise, if software is all web-based (or otherwise runs from an internet server), we wouldn't need much more than dumb terminals at
    home (whereas typically it's a good thing to have your own storage
    and processing power at home).. In some ways, it seems like
    computing is coming full-circle.

    We recently explored various Microsoft cloud offerings, one of them being something called "Universal Print". This moves your print server to the
    cloud and also lets you set permissions for your various locations as to who can print where, all kind of neat.

    Until you realize that if you loose internet access, you can't print. You could be sitting right next to a printer, on the same network, but if your location loses internet access, no printing for you.

    We decided to pass on that feature.


    Jay

    ... Mistrust first impulses, they are always good

    --- Telegard v3.09.g2-sp4/mL
    * Origin: Northern Realms | tg.nrbbs.net | 289-424-5180 (21:3/110.1)
  • From killer@21:2/150 to Warpslide on Saturday, November 05, 2022 10:27:12
    I'm also reminded of the time I went into a ScotiaBank one morning back
    in the late 90s or early 2000s and was amused to see the ATMs rebooting and that they ran OS/2. I'm sure they've moved off of it by now, but
    it was still neat to see.

    OS/2 is the most commonly used operating system for ATMs. Still is, but I
    have noticed more with Windows Embedded in there now.

    Surprising what actually gets implemented. Feel like at times it is security through obscurity. Once IBM gets their hands in a cookie jar they have a tendency to keep a tight grip on things.

    Killer

    ... An elven cloak is always the height of fashion.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 2022/07/15 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: 2o fOr beeRS bbs>>>20ForBeers.com:1337 (21:2/150)
  • From killer@21:2/150 to Atreyu on Saturday, November 05, 2022 10:42:11
    The main goal of Microsoft at this point is to pull people kicking and screaming into their cloud and will hook the OS into it. Not a path th makes me happy.

    I used to doubt the "Windows 365" conspiracy theory but I'm starting to believe it more. Google has that model down to a science.
    `
    Makes spying on your competitors so much easier when their data is all stored in the cloud and they don't notice the extra resource consumption as your are indexing their data.

    Killer

    ... If someone asks what race you are, tell them "human".

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 2022/07/15 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: 2o fOr beeRS bbs>>>20ForBeers.com:1337 (21:2/150)
  • From esc@21:4/173 to poindexter FORTRAN on Saturday, November 05, 2022 13:44:14
    It's time to embrace the horror. The web Microsoft365 apps run pretty
    well and provide a much fuller experience than G Suite - and run well
    on Linux browsers.

    I'm not sure I agree about the M365 vs GSuite - I have been on GSuite since January and previously on Microsoft products and I far and away prefer GSuite for collaboration. But I guess it's subjective. *shrug*

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 2022/07/11 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: m O N T E R E Y b B S . c O M (21:4/173)
  • From esc@21:4/173 to Nightfox on Saturday, November 05, 2022 13:45:20
    One thing I'm still not comfortable with regarding web apps is that if your internet service goes down, you'll be unable to access/run those programs. I still like to have locally-installed software. Otherwise,

    I'm the same, but it's because I fly a lot and internet on planes is always shoddy (especially when flying over the ocean for some reason).

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 2022/07/11 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: m O N T E R E Y b B S . c O M (21:4/173)
  • From acn@21:3/127.1 to Nightfox on Saturday, November 05, 2022 12:08:00
    Am 02.11.22 schrieb Nightfox@21:1/137 in FSX_GEN:

    Hallo Nightfox,

    I was different in the 90s though.. Around 1998 (or was it 1999?), I
    bought a copy of BeOS R4.5 (back when Be Inc. was still operating) and installed it on my secondary PC. I really liked how fast and responsive BeOS was (and I thought its UI looked awesome, too). I would have loved to see BeOS gain some serious marketshare, but by the late 90s I think it was too late for that. At the time I didn't mind buying a copy to show my support for it though.

    Have you looked at Haiku OS?
    It's an open source BeOS recreation that can run on modern hardware,
    but also supports old BeOS software (afaik on the 32 bit version, it
    is binary compatible).
    I've installed it on an old netbook and it ran out of the box, even
    wifi did work :)

    Regards,
    Anna

    --- OpenXP 5.0.56
    * Origin: Imzadi Box Point (21:3/127.1)
  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Atreyu on Saturday, November 05, 2022 07:34:00
    Atreyu wrote to Weatherman <=-

    OS2 was the BEST at multi-tasking DOS apps. Hands down WAY better than Windows. That is the only thing I ended up using it for, and still do. I

    even run the old DOS doors in OS2, where Windows DOS session will crash.

    Agreed, NTVDM is very choppy and OS/2 runs circles around it but unfortunately I'm not in a position to change for the reasons I
    mentioned before.


    My spin on it was that OS/2 multitasked DOS apps amazingly well (being able
    to run DOS windows with Novell drivers while still having lots of memory, running lots of DOS windows, and so on...) but as soon as hardware
    continued to improve, that became moot.

    I ran my BBS on a desktop running OS/2 on a 486, and was able to run the BBS in the background just fine. A couple of years later, Windows95 running on a Pentium 233MMX could do the same thing, albeit using much more horsepower to do so.


    ... Abandon desire
    --- MultiMail/DOS v0.52
    * Origin: realitycheckBBS.org -- information is power. (21:4/122)
  • From esc@21:4/173 to acn on Saturday, November 05, 2022 19:57:21
    Have you looked at Haiku OS?

    I've messed with Haiku a bit myself and it was impressive how mature the OS felt. I didn't find any real use for it other than a curiosity but it was super cool.

    I sometimes keep an eye on ReactOS - having a modern "Windows XP" alternative that is always up to date and runs on new hardware would be /very/ cool, particularly from a BBS SysOp perspective.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 2022/07/11 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: m O N T E R E Y b B S . c O M (21:4/173)
  • From esc@21:4/173 to poindexter FORTRAN on Saturday, November 05, 2022 19:59:10
    My spin on it was that OS/2 multitasked DOS apps amazingly well (being able to run DOS windows with Novell drivers while still having lots of memory, running lots of DOS windows, and so on...) but as soon as hardware continued to improve, that became moot.

    I never actually saw OS/2 for myself back in those days. I went straight from DOS/Win3.11 to Win95. I was only ever running a single node when things were dialup so I suppose I didn't miss much. *shrug*

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 2022/07/11 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: m O N T E R E Y b B S . c O M (21:4/173)
  • From boraxman@21:1/101 to Nightfox on Sunday, November 06, 2022 21:55:42
    It's time to embrace the horror. The web Microsoft365 apps run pretty and provide a much fuller experience than G Suite - and run well on L browsers.

    One thing I'm still not comfortable with regarding web apps is that if your internet service goes down, you'll be unable to access/run those programs. I still like to have locally-installed software. Otherwise,
    if software is all web-based (or otherwise runs from an internet
    server), we wouldn't need much more than dumb terminals at home (whereas typically it's a good thing to have your own storage and processing
    power at home).. In some ways, it seems like computing is coming full-circle.

    Nightfox

    It's weird, the whole point of the "Personal Computer" was that we would get to own our computers, and run our own local software without having to worry about timeshare, or using someone elses system. It seems as if they are wanting to undo the whole "Personal Computer" thing and move us back to using other peoples machines which they control.

    The worst thing is (maybe the second worst), is its the worst of both worlds. At least, a proper thin client is actually thin. But we are running "cloud computing" through a web browser, which is one of the most bloated, memory hungry applications you can run. So you have all the disadvantages of having to use someone else's system, with all the disadvantages of committing your own resources to run software.

    Software developers truly suck, for creating this terrible situation. Our computers are turning into "thin clients", with the thin client being the most complicated, biggest, bloatiest, client you can possible imagine. I have to use a web based accounting program, and its just awful. It's the SLOWEST application on my computer, yet isn't even really running on it. What a disaster computing has become.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/12/24 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)
  • From Weatherman@21:1/132 to Atreyu on Sunday, November 06, 2022 09:20:30

    Ahhhhh Blackberry... That was my "company wedding ring" for a decade.

    Our organization used the Blackberry for many years before standardizing on the iPhone (gasp). I am the ONLY rebel in the 20k+ organization that has a company paid android. Not only do I deviate on the mobile phone, but on the mobile carrier. Everyone with company phones use Verizon and I use Sprint/T-Mobile.

    And yes, I do remember being told as a teenager that I should study Novell because they will be the future. I was told to forget about Banyan Vines
    or Lantastic... its gonna be Novell ALL the way to the millenium.
    Microsoft wasn't even mentioned in conversation.

    Novell was awesome back in the day. I was a CNE and used to administer large Novell networks back in the 3.12 days and even 4.10 days. I performed many large 3.12->4.10 migrations to Novell NDS back in the day. NDS was better but Novell never gained the application support and Microsoft ended killing them off. Especially when file/print services became less important and do many other ways to do it.

    I also remember administering some very large email systems using Groupwise. Some of the largest deployments on the east coast. One went to Lotus Notes (a pile of garbage, just because the new CEO loved IBM and hated Microsoft). Eventually that CEO was terminated and now they are using Exchange/Outlook.

    Several decades ago I transitioned to data networking and security, doing high end large scale network architecture and design. That space just keeps growing as everything connects to the network these days. It won't be long until my toilet will be able to count flushes per day and will be on my home LAN.

    - Mark
    ÿÿÿ
    --- WWIVToss v.1.52
    * Origin: http://www.weather-station.org * Bel Air, MD -USA (21:1/132.0)
  • From Weatherman@21:1/132 to Atreyu on Sunday, November 06, 2022 09:26:28

    I thought UL cert was sortof mandatory, like CSA cert for Canadian electronics?

    The BioMed/Clinical Engineering department would have more insight into that part of things. I don't think that it is always required for all hardware, but it seems to be generally frowned upon for that department to not use UL certified gear. I think there are different levels of certification, too.

    All I know is the main network gear used for the standard enterprise network is FAR more advanced, redundant, and higher end than the stuff that 3rd parties put in for the BioMed networks.

    - Mark
    ÿÿÿ
    --- WWIVToss v.1.52
    * Origin: http://www.weather-station.org * Bel Air, MD -USA (21:1/132.0)
  • From Weatherman@21:1/132 to Atreyu on Sunday, November 06, 2022 09:31:35

    Exactly. Thats what I suspect many people overlook about those versions of Windows.... NT4, 2000, XP. Those to me are "real Windows" that nothing
    else at the time could really compete with. Everything was so simple on
    them and even
    lots of complicated scenarios ultimately had a resolution.

    Yes, but unfortunately Microsoft has been creating far too many "Wizards" that now make things more complicated on the more recent operating systems than the previous versions. It takes more clicks to just edit your IP address on Windows these days. They need a global "disable all wizards" toggle!

    The moment it became Vista and 7 I just saw it as eye-candy and Microsoft marketing taking over the show... I don't need sticky notes or 3d-paint
    and certainly not Candy crush on the start menu of 10 Professional
    edition.

    They keep trying to be similar to Apple in that respect.

    Agreed, NTVDM is very choppy and OS/2 runs circles around it but unfortunately I'm not in a position to change for the reasons I mentioned before.

    If NTVDM could be replaced with OS2's DOS handler, it would be awesome. OS/2 was also the best multi-tasker for DOS. Very good at handling time slicing.

    - Mark
    ÿÿÿ
    --- WWIVToss v.1.52
    * Origin: http://www.weather-station.org * Bel Air, MD -USA (21:1/132.0)
  • From Weatherman@21:1/132 to Atreyu on Sunday, November 06, 2022 09:36:55

    I used to doubt the "Windows 365" conspiracy theory but I'm starting to believe it more. Google has that model down to a science.

    Google started in the cloud. Microsoft is dragging everyone, kicking and screaming to the cloud. It is all about the control and recurring revenue. The old model of buy hardware or an OS and keep that running for 15+ years is not acceptable to companies these days.

    I will find a way to run everything on Linux if all the future modern OS are tied to the cloud. More than half the population only really need a browser, so the Chrome OS is good enough for them.

    - Mark
    ÿÿÿ
    --- WWIVToss v.1.52
    * Origin: http://www.weather-station.org * Bel Air, MD -USA (21:1/132.0)
  • From Weatherman@21:1/132 to Poindexter Fortran on Sunday, November 06, 2022 09:51:09

    It's time to embrace the horror. The web Microsoft365 apps run pretty
    well and provide a much fuller experience than G Suite - and run well on Linux browsers.

    Prices are better than G suite, with a home use license you can get 5 Exchange mailboxes, 1TB per person, 5 app licenses, and it's $69/year.

    Fortunately, Google made the right decision to continue to allow the early adopters with custom domains on the legacy free tier. It is suprising to me that Microsoft pricing is lower than Google in that space.

    Before that decision was made, I was ready to ditch Google and host my own email again. I had everything ready to go - as there is no way I will pay business rates for personal/family access. For some unknown reason, Google doesn't offer a family plan at all for G Suite. Very odd and in my opinion, they could get more revenue if they did offer a family tier like Microsoft.

    - Mark
    ÿÿÿ
    --- WWIVToss v.1.52
    * Origin: http://www.weather-station.org * Bel Air, MD -USA (21:1/132.0)
  • From Weatherman@21:1/132 to Poindexter Fortran on Sunday, November 06, 2022 09:53:49

    Using eCS to manage a modern virtual environment - that rocks!

    eCS and Arca OS both run fine on ESXi 6.7. I have never found an operating system that doesn't run in a virtual environment.

    I did have issues with the original OS/2 3.0 Warp's HPFS driver crashing and wouldn't boot in the virtual environment, but that was it. Operating system wise, it worked - just had to change to a different file system type.

    - Mark
    ÿÿÿ
    --- WWIVToss v.1.52
    * Origin: http://www.weather-station.org * Bel Air, MD -USA (21:1/132.0)
  • From Weatherman@21:1/132 to Warpslide on Sunday, November 06, 2022 09:57:17

    We recently explored various Microsoft cloud offerings, one of them being something called "Universal Print". This moves your print server to the cloud and also lets you set permissions for your various locations as to
    who can print where, all kind of neat.

    Until you realize that if you loose internet access, you can't print. You could be sitting right next to a printer, on the same network, but if your location loses internet access, no printing for you.

    Exactly. Same goes for the Ring or any cloud based security device. No Internet, no nothing. I would much rather have a non-cloud device and a local DVR on a UPS. Not to mention no subscription costs.

    - Mark
    ÿÿÿ
    --- WWIVToss v.1.52
    * Origin: http://www.weather-station.org * Bel Air, MD -USA (21:1/132.0)
  • From Weatherman@21:1/132 to Killer on Sunday, November 06, 2022 09:58:33

    OS/2 is the most commonly used operating system for ATMs. Still is, but I have noticed more with Windows Embedded in there now.

    I remember hearing that before. Do you know if the ATMs are still using OS/2 or was that just back in the day?

    I know that most large banks were very big IBM customers. Pretty much all the tech in house was made by IBM in the big banks.

    - Mark
    ÿÿÿ
    --- WWIVToss v.1.52
    * Origin: http://www.weather-station.org * Bel Air, MD -USA (21:1/132.0)
  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Nightfox on Sunday, November 06, 2022 07:14:00
    Nightfox wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    One thing I'm still not comfortable with regarding web apps is that if your internet service goes down, you'll be unable to access/run those programs. I still like to have locally-installed software.

    I wrote a book using Google Docs, and even when I was without internet
    access, could still access the doc and make offline changes. I haven't tried that with Microsoft365 yet.


    ... When in doubt, predict that the trend will continue.
    --- MultiMail/DOS v0.52
    * Origin: realitycheckBBS.org -- information is power. (21:4/122)
  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to esc on Sunday, November 06, 2022 07:18:00
    esc wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    It's time to embrace the horror. The web Microsoft365 apps run pretty
    well and provide a much fuller experience than G Suite - and run well
    on Linux browsers.

    I'm not sure I agree about the M365 vs GSuite - I have been on GSuite since January and previously on Microsoft products and I far and away prefer GSuite for collaboration. But I guess it's subjective. *shrug*

    You bring up a good point. Collaboration is much more complicated (to me) under 365 than in G Suite. The office apps in Microsoft 365, both the web
    apps and desktop apps feel much more functional than their G suite counterparts.

    That being said, I much prefer G suite at home for the simplicity. I can
    enter sheets.new in a browser and make a basic spreadsheet, for example. My home app needs are much simpler than at work.

    My killer app is still Outlook, though - with a full-fledged mobile client like Nine, I can use my notes field for data capture and fully populate the tasks and calendar, and do most of my organization in one app. If G suite
    gave tasks a solid app, it'd be a contender for me.


    ... When in doubt, predict that the trend will continue.
    --- MultiMail/DOS v0.52
    * Origin: realitycheckBBS.org -- information is power. (21:4/122)
  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Weatherman on Sunday, November 06, 2022 08:14:00
    Weatherman wrote to Poindexter Fortran <=-

    Fortunately, Google made the right decision to continue to allow the
    early adopters with custom domains on the legacy free tier. It is suprising to me that Microsoft pricing is lower than Google in that
    space.


    I had an early legacy free tier account, and back around 2010 they offered a free trial of the paid features - and sneakily, no way to go back to the
    free tier.

    Before that decision was made, I was ready to ditch Google and host my
    own email again. I had everything ready to go - as there is no way I
    will pay business rates for personal/family access. For some unknown reason, Google doesn't offer a family plan at all for G Suite. Very
    odd and in my opinion, they could get more revenue if they did offer a family tier like Microsoft.

    Yeah, with a home use license from your company (which most likely uses Microsoft 365), 5 licenses for the full Outlook experience, plus all of the usual web and desktop apps and 1TB of OneDrive space per user is $69/year, which is hard to beat. I've been trying to move off of Google One, but it's hard to do. Habits are hard to break.


    ... When in doubt, predict that the trend will continue.
    --- MultiMail/DOS v0.52
    * Origin: realitycheckBBS.org -- information is power. (21:4/122)
  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Weatherman on Sunday, November 06, 2022 08:15:00
    Weatherman wrote to Poindexter Fortran <=-

    Using eCS to manage a modern virtual environment - that rocks!

    eCS and Arca OS both run fine on ESXi 6.7. I have never found an operating system that doesn't run in a virtual environment.

    I tried in Proxmox and could install eCS but not boot. I should try again,
    as I was probably one of the earliest adopters of OS/2 around here. I used OS/2 1.2 before it had a GUI!


    ... DESQview/386 - the only way to multitask!
    --- MultiMail/DOS v0.52
    * Origin: realitycheckBBS.org -- information is power. (21:4/122)
  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Warpslide on Sunday, November 06, 2022 08:27:00
    Warpslide wrote to Nightfox <=-

    We recently explored various Microsoft cloud offerings, one of them
    being something called "Universal Print". This moves your print server
    to the cloud and also lets you set permissions for your various
    locations as to who can print where, all kind of neat.

    Until you realize that if you loose internet access, you can't print.
    You could be sitting right next to a printer, on the same network, but
    if your location loses internet access, no printing for you.

    My mom used Google Cloud Print until they deprecated it, and she commented
    on how long it took some time to print. I explained that the print job went from her kitchen, to Mountain View, then to her den. :)

    Cloud print sounds interesting, when you figure that companies usually have business class service, redundant circuits, and maybe even 4G backup. I'd guess that Universal print also gives you the ability to track and account
    for print jobs, which is big business at companies like law firms that bill time and materials to clients.

    As an aside, I spent last week moving my company out of their old office, as we're going remote. A cloud data/applications security company is subleasing our office space. All of the cars in the parking lot when I went in one last time were Teslas, Mercedes, and electric Mercedes. I'm in the wrong field!

    Cloud security wrapped around big providers is big business.




    ... Powered By Celeron (Tualatin). Engineered for the future.
    --- MultiMail/DOS v0.52
    * Origin: realitycheckBBS.org -- information is power. (21:4/122)
  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to killer on Sunday, November 06, 2022 08:28:00
    killer wrote to Warpslide <=-

    Surprising what actually gets implemented. Feel like at times it is security through obscurity. Once IBM gets their hands in a cookie jar they have a tendency to keep a tight grip on things.

    There are a lot of non-supported OSes running in embedded and offline environments. A lot of small voicemail systems are running on OS/2 or
    Windows NT. As long as they never touch the internet, they *just* *work*.


    ... Powered By Celeron (Tualatin). Engineered for the future.
    --- MultiMail/DOS v0.52
    * Origin: realitycheckBBS.org -- information is power. (21:4/122)
  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to killer on Sunday, November 06, 2022 08:31:00
    killer wrote to Atreyu <=-

    Makes spying on your competitors so much easier when their data is all stored in the cloud and they don't notice the extra resource
    consumption as your are indexing their data.

    Cloud phishing is becoming more and more pervasive - once you get in,
    lateral movement can reveal a lot.

    Get good at cloud security and you'll be well-employed.


    ... Powered By Celeron (Tualatin). Engineered for the future.
    --- MultiMail/DOS v0.52
    * Origin: realitycheckBBS.org -- information is power. (21:4/122)
  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to esc on Sunday, November 06, 2022 08:51:00
    esc wrote to acn <=-

    I sometimes keep an eye on ReactOS - having a modern "Windows XP" alternative that is always up to date and runs on new hardware would be /very/ cool, particularly from a BBS SysOp perspective.

    I ran TinyXP for quite some time for the BBS, it's XP with most everything removed - basically a GUI app launcher minus most built-in Windows app. I assumed the attack surface would be much smaller if all the OS did was run Notepad and launch the BBS.

    It ran in barely any memory, pretty sure it idled around 112 megs of RAM.

    I started having problems with third-party apps dropping support for XP; I wonder if ReactOS would resolve that.


    ... Powered By Celeron (Tualatin). Engineered for the future.
    --- MultiMail/DOS v0.52
    * Origin: realitycheckBBS.org -- information is power. (21:4/122)
  • From Matthew Munson@21:4/108 to Weatherman on Sunday, November 06, 2022 08:56:36
    Google started in the cloud. Microsoft is dragging everyone, kicking and screaming to the cloud. It is all about the control and recurring revenue. The
    old model of buy hardware or an OS and keep that running for 15+ years is not
    acceptable to companies these days.
    I don't mind the cloud, as long as I can choose who my masters are. I am
    using Proton as my provider right now.

    --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v7.0
    * Origin: Inland Utopia BBS * Ontario, California (21:4/108)
  • From Weatherman@21:1/132 to Poindexter Fortran on Sunday, November 06, 2022 15:04:47

    My killer app is still Outlook, though - with a full-fledged mobile
    client like Nine, I can use my notes field for data capture and fully populate the tasks and calendar, and do most of my organization in one
    app. If G suite gave tasks a solid app, it'd be a contender for me.

    Sometimes it can be what a person is more accustomed to using. I always thought Groupwise calendar was much better than Outlook, but I also way more used to using Groupwise years ago.

    I am a big fan of Gmail, which is why I was very torn on what was happening at Google concerning them not having a family tier option and wanting the charge business rates to hobbiests and family users. I'm glad they decided to leave things alone. I was never against paying a reasonable amount for a family tier, but that option doesn't exist. The main reason myself and many use the legacy tier is for the custom domain name option.

    As a general rule, the cloud scares me when you have a very few having such control of communications on the Internet. This is why I'm also a huge supporter of all things Web3 - decentralized Internet.

    - Mark
    ÿÿÿ
    --- WWIVToss v.1.52
    * Origin: http://www.weather-station.org * Bel Air, MD -USA (21:1/132.0)
  • From Weatherman@21:1/132 to Poindexter Fortran on Sunday, November 06, 2022 15:08:07

    I had an early legacy free tier account, and back around 2010 they
    offered a free trial of the paid features - and sneakily, no way to go
    back to the free tier.

    I think there was a way to go back to the free tier for those that changed to playing plan and then they backed off the removal of the free tier.

    I never changed anything because I was ready to ditch them completely. I had exported everything from Google. I still have the Exchange Server VM configured and ready at home if the need arises again.

    - Mark
    ÿÿÿ
    --- WWIVToss v.1.52
    * Origin: http://www.weather-station.org * Bel Air, MD -USA (21:1/132.0)
  • From Weatherman@21:1/132 to Poindexter Fortran on Sunday, November 06, 2022 15:09:07

    I tried in Proxmox and could install eCS but not boot. I should try
    again, as I was probably one of the earliest adopters of OS/2 around
    here. I used OS/2 1.2 before it had a GUI!

    Ensure you use JFS as the file system. Not sure that HPFS will boot properly in any virtual environment.

    - Mark
    ÿÿÿ
    --- WWIVToss v.1.52
    * Origin: http://www.weather-station.org * Bel Air, MD -USA (21:1/132.0)
  • From Weatherman@21:1/132 to Matthew Munson on Sunday, November 06, 2022 15:18:13

    I don't mind the cloud, as long as I can choose who my masters are. I am using Proton as my provider right now.

    I don't mind the cloud either, as long as I'm the cloud. In a round about way, I am my own cloud. I also run a web3 node for dapps in the Flux network. Anything to move us towards a decentralized Internet is a positive for me.

    - Mark
    ÿÿÿ
    --- WWIVToss v.1.52
    * Origin: http://www.weather-station.org * Bel Air, MD -USA (21:1/132.0)
  • From Warpslide@21:3/110.1 to Weatherman on Sunday, November 06, 2022 15:49:44
    *** Quoting Weatherman from a message to Poindexter Fortran ***

    Sometimes it can be what a person is more accustomed to using. I
    always thought Groupwise calendar was much better than Outlook, but I
    also way more used to using Groupwise years ago.

    Groupwise! There's a name I haven't thought about in awhile. I worked at a place that was still running Groupwise when I started there in 2009. I dragged them away from that to Exchange (and later Office 365).

    When we went to Exchange/Outlook the most common question I got was "how do I know if they've read my email" as with Groupwise you could check to see if
    the message had both been delivered & then read if you were sending to
    someone internal. I showed them how to ask for read receipts in Outlook but they complained "it's not the same!".


    Jay

    ... Real knowledge is to know the extent of ones ignorance

    --- Telegard v3.09.g2-sp4/mL
    * Origin: Northern Realms | tg.nrbbs.net | 289-424-5180 (21:3/110.1)
  • From esc@21:4/173 to poindexter FORTRAN on Sunday, November 06, 2022 15:50:37
    I wrote a book using Google Docs, and even when I was without internet access, could still access the doc and make offline changes. I haven't tried that with Microsoft365 yet.

    You can't tease a book like that without sharing a link ;)

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 2022/07/11 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: m O N T E R E Y b B S . c O M (21:4/173)
  • From Weatherman@21:1/132 to Warpslide on Sunday, November 06, 2022 21:15:23

    Groupwise! There's a name I haven't thought about in awhile. I worked at a place that was still running Groupwise when I started there in 2009. I dragged them away from that to Exchange (and later Office 365).

    When we went to Exchange/Outlook the most common question I got was "how
    do I
    know if they've read my email" as with Groupwise you could check to see if the message had both been delivered & then read if you were sending to someone internal. I showed them how to ask for read receipts in Outlook
    but they complained "it's not the same!".

    Probably because I used Groupwise for many years, I would agree that read receipt isn't the same as how Groupwise handled message status. You didn't have to do anything special and it just worked. I also think the calendar was more advanced than Exchange for many years.

    I remember when it was called Word Perfect Office. The very first large enterprise that I worked was using DOS menu and Word Perfect Office - which included the email platform that was eventually purchased by Novell and renamed to Groupwise. The main directory when you install it was still WPDOMAIN - for Word Perfect.

    There might be some customers still using it. I will say I have seen very large Groupwise installs years ago. That was one of the most used email systems around here back then.

    - Mark
    ÿÿÿ
    --- WWIVToss v.1.52
    * Origin: http://www.weather-station.org * Bel Air, MD -USA (21:1/132.0)
  • From Atreyu@21:1/176 to Poindexter Fortran on Sunday, November 06, 2022 21:24:41
    On 05 Nov 22 07:34:00, Poindexter Fortran said the following to Atreyu:

    My spin on it was that OS/2 multitasked DOS apps amazingly well (being able to run DOS windows with Novell drivers while still having lots of memory, running lots of DOS windows, and so on...) but as soon as hardware continued to improve, that became moot.

    Agreed... thats what happened here. I got a little tired of working for my OS instead of the other way around. Having to buy OS/2-friendly hardware at the time. Everyone else I knew was enjoying their Windows computers.

    I remember very well being at a friends apartment in 2001 and being shown Windows 2000 with everything it could do. RDP, Tape backup, networking that worked properly... sealed the deal for me. OS/2 was gone the next day.

    Atreyu

    --- Renegade vY2Ka2
    * Origin: Joey, do you like movies about gladiators? (21:1/176)
  • From Atreyu@21:1/176 to Esc on Sunday, November 06, 2022 21:27:07
    On 05 Nov 22 19:57:21, Esc said the following to Acn:

    I sometimes keep an eye on ReactOS - having a modern "Windows XP" alternativ that is always up to date and runs on new hardware would be /very/ cool, particularly from a BBS SysOp perspective.

    I appreciate all that effort being done and it has potential but something about "Reactos" just puts me off a bit. Wish it was called something else.

    I didn't care for an other one named "Lindows" either...

    Atreyu

    --- Renegade vY2Ka2
    * Origin: Joey, do you like movies about gladiators? (21:1/176)
  • From Atreyu@21:1/176 to Weatherman on Sunday, November 06, 2022 21:31:06
    On 06 Nov 22 09:20:30, Weatherman said the following to Atreyu:

    Our organization used the Blackberry for many years before standardizing on the iPhone (gasp). I am the ONLY rebel in the 20k+ organization that has a company paid android. Not only do I deviate on the mobile phone, but on the mobile carrier. Everyone with company phones use Verizon and I use Sprint/T-Mobile.

    I like my Iphone SE, 1st gen as I have no compelling reason to upgrade.

    Probably because I've grown very accustomed to its UI and the Mail app.
    Apple got it right... at least for me.

    Novell was awesome back in the day. I was a CNE and used to administer larg Novell networks back in the 3.12 days and even 4.10 days. I performed many large 3.12->4.10 migrations to Novell NDS back in the day. NDS was better b

    Wow thats impressive! I never caught on to Novell. I actually didn't really get into serious networking stuff until Windows NT4 / 2000.

    Atreyu

    --- Renegade vY2Ka2
    * Origin: Joey, do you like movies about gladiators? (21:1/176)
  • From Atreyu@21:1/176 to Weatherman on Sunday, November 06, 2022 21:36:39
    On 06 Nov 22 09:31:35, Weatherman said the following to Atreyu:

    Yes, but unfortunately Microsoft has been creating far too many "Wizards" th now make things more complicated on the more recent operating systems than t previous versions. It takes more clicks to just edit your IP address on Windows these days. They need a global "disable all wizards" toggle!

    What absolutely kills me... makes me laugh... actually laugh from the belly... are Powershell fanatics. These are seriously people from another planet.

    I've worked with PS, written some scripts with it and mannnnnn... the syntax for the most basic of operation I found to be Rube Goldberg convoluted in design and execution.

    They've completely missed the joke... that you're spending countless hours on a command prompt of a "Windows" OS. Just like Windows Server installs without the GUI. It completely goes against the whole point of a GUI, the whole name.

    Atreyu

    --- Renegade vY2Ka2
    * Origin: Joey, do you like movies about gladiators? (21:1/176)
  • From Atreyu@21:1/176 to Weatherman on Sunday, November 06, 2022 21:38:12
    On 06 Nov 22 09:36:55, Weatherman said the following to Atreyu:

    I will find a way to run everything on Linux if all the future modern OS are tied to the cloud. More than half the population only really need a browser so the Chrome OS is good enough for them.

    Same here, I'll be dragged kicking and screaming into installing Linux... actually I do like the BSD variants. NetBSD and FreeBSD. They just seem a
    bit more mature and meant for long-term stability.

    Atreyu

    --- Renegade vY2Ka2
    * Origin: Joey, do you like movies about gladiators? (21:1/176)
  • From Weatherman@21:1/132 to Atreyu on Monday, November 07, 2022 07:38:36

    I appreciate all that effort being done and it has potential but something about "Reactos" just puts me off a bit. Wish it was called something else.

    I didn't care for an other one named "Lindows" either...

    I can see these projects taking off more if Microsoft ends up forcing the general population to the cloud and charging subscription fees. That will be the certain death of Windows as we know it.

    - Mark
    ÿÿÿ
    --- WWIVToss v.1.52
    * Origin: http://www.weather-station.org * Bel Air, MD -USA (21:1/132.0)
  • From Weatherman@21:1/132 to Atreyu on Monday, November 07, 2022 07:49:59

    I like my Iphone SE, 1st gen as I have no compelling reason to upgrade.

    I'm using a Samsung Galaxy Note 9, which is fairly old at this point in time. I use is mainly for apps and rarely as a phone.

    Wow thats impressive! I never caught on to Novell. I actually didn't
    really get into serious networking stuff until Windows NT4 / 2000.

    I actually started my IT career with mainframes, DECs, and other mid-range systems like AS/400s and Sperry. My first IT jobs was with a major bank and they had almost 100% IBM hardware.

    My 2nd IT job I did lots of work on setting up data communications on mainframes, AS/400s, and Digital (DEC) systems. I worked on the large network of systems for a major gym/fitness club back then.

    My 3rd IT job got me more into client/server PC networking (which is where I wanted to be). Huge Netware environment, started as many 3.12 Netware servers and ended up consolidating them into NDS 4.11 HA clusters. Novell was way better at networking large enterprises vs Microsoft back then.

    I still remember starting the Active Directory domain for the organization where I am now. I ran it on an old PC in my office with just a few PCs on it. Now there are 15k+ devices connected to it and running on many domain controllers.

    Once I moved more into data networking, that was lots of fun too. Designing large scale networks is loads of fun with all the various connectivity and redundancy. One of the coolest things done in the past 3 years is adding a technology called OTV (overlay transport virtualization). Fancy term for a VPN on steroids. It allows you to run the same VLANs/networks at the same time in two data centers on routed network links. You can even route the same networks on both sides at the same time. Perfect for HA in VMware.
    - Mark
    ÿÿÿ
    --- WWIVToss v.1.52
    * Origin: http://www.weather-station.org * Bel Air, MD -USA (21:1/132.0)
  • From Weatherman@21:1/132 to Atreyu on Monday, November 07, 2022 08:10:08

    What absolutely kills me... makes me laugh... actually laugh from the belly... are Powershell fanatics. These are seriously people from another planet.
    I've worked with PS, written some scripts with it and mannnnnn... the
    syntax for the most basic of operation I found to be Rube Goldberg convoluted in design and execution.

    They've completely missed the joke... that you're spending countless hours on
    a command prompt of a "Windows" OS. Just like Windows Server installs without
    the GUI. It completely goes against the whole point of a GUI, the whole name.

    I agree that powershell has a convoluted syntax that makes some of the 200 character command line options in Linux look basic. The execution of powershell is a mess.

    I understand why Microsoft created this - all in the name of "automation and scripting". Why not use APIs, or any other straight forward method towards automation.

    - Mark
    ÿÿÿ
    --- WWIVToss v.1.52
    * Origin: http://www.weather-station.org * Bel Air, MD -USA (21:1/132.0)
  • From Weatherman@21:1/132 to Atreyu on Monday, November 07, 2022 08:13:42

    Same here, I'll be dragged kicking and screaming into installing Linux... actually I do like the BSD variants. NetBSD and FreeBSD. They just seem a bit more mature and meant for long-term stability.

    I was probably one of the only people on earth running Home Assistant completely on a Windows 10 VM at one point in time. It was not an easy process getting it all working there since I was very non-standard, but it worked (at least for a while).

    A few years ago I threw in the towel and moved to the Home Assistant OS (which is basically a custom Linux built just for this use case). Things work way easier for me now and I am happy I switched. Not because I like one OS over the OS, but more because some apps are written for certain platforms. I use what makes the most sense for the particular app.

    That is how I ended up running so many different operating systems in my ESXi environment.

    - Mark
    ÿÿÿ
    --- WWIVToss v.1.52
    * Origin: http://www.weather-station.org * Bel Air, MD -USA (21:1/132.0)
  • From claw@21:1/210 to Nightfox on Monday, November 07, 2022 07:47:45
    On 05 Nov 2022, Nightfox said the following...
    One thing I'm still not comfortable with regarding web apps is that if your internet service goes down, you'll be unable to access/run those programs. I still like to have locally-installed software. Otherwise,
    if software is all web-based (or otherwise runs from an internet
    server), we wouldn't need much more than dumb terminals at home (whereas typically it's a good thing to have your own storage and processing
    power at home).. In some ways, it seems like computing is coming full-circle.

    Nightfox

    I completely agree. Keep the power at home. If you want a web app then host it locally and access it across the internet. Nextcloud offers all the goodies Google has and you can do it on a PI if you don't have a server sitting around.

    |23|04Dr|16|12Claw
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    |10Standard Ports for SSH/Telnet Web/HTTP://|14Noverdu.com:808
    |20|15fsxNet/MRC Chat/Registered Doors!/50Nodes/No Time Use! Stay On!|16|07

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/12/24 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Noverdu BBS (21:1/210)
  • From Atreyu@21:1/176 to Weatherman on Monday, November 07, 2022 08:42:24
    On 07 Nov 22 07:38:36, Weatherman said the following to Atreyu:

    I appreciate all that effort being done and it has potential but something about "Reactos" just puts me off a bit. Wish it was called something else.

    I didn't care for an other one named "Lindows" either...

    I can see these projects taking off more if Microsoft ends up forcing the general population to the cloud and charging subscription fees. That will b the certain death of Windows as we know it.

    I think ReactOS still has a lonnnnnnng way to go... no AD/GPO/multi-login stuff yet.

    Atreyu

    --- Renegade vY2Ka2
    * Origin: Joey, do you like movies about gladiators? (21:1/176)
  • From Atreyu@21:1/176 to Weatherman on Monday, November 07, 2022 08:44:52
    On 07 Nov 22 08:10:08, Weatherman said the following to Atreyu:

    I agree that powershell has a convoluted syntax that makes some of the 200 character command line options in Linux look basic. The execution of powershell is a mess.

    I understand why Microsoft created this - all in the name of "automation and scripting". Why not use APIs, or any other straight forward method towards automation.

    The one scripting language I actually didn't mind, was Rexx on OS/2.

    Atreyu

    --- Renegade vY2Ka2
    * Origin: Joey, do you like movies about gladiators? (21:1/176)
  • From acn@21:3/127.1 to Weatherman on Monday, November 07, 2022 17:19:00
    Am 06.11.22 schrieb Weatherman@21:1/132.0 in FSX_GEN:

    Hallo Weatherman,

    eCS and Arca OS both run fine on ESXi 6.7. I have never found an operating system that doesn't run in a virtual environment.

    AFAIK OS/2 v1.3 won't run that easily in a virtual environment,
    because it was 'optimized' for a 286 processor.

    Regards,
    Anna

    --- OpenXP 5.0.56
    * Origin: Imzadi Box Point (21:3/127.1)
  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to acn on Monday, November 07, 2022 09:38:19
    Re: Alternative OSes (was: 2017/2018 PC to modernize it.)
    By: acn to Nightfox on Sat Nov 05 2022 12:08 pm

    I was different in the 90s though.. Around 1998 (or was it 1999?), I
    bought a copy of BeOS R4.5 (back when Be Inc. was still operating)

    Have you looked at Haiku OS?
    It's an open source BeOS recreation that can run on modern hardware,
    but also supports old BeOS software (afaik on the 32 bit version, it
    is binary compatible).
    I've installed it on an old netbook and it ran out of the box, even
    wifi did work :)

    Yes, I've been following the Haiku project for a while. It looks promising.

    Nightfox
    --- SBBSecho 3.15-Linux
    * Origin: Digital Distortion: digdist.synchro.net (21:1/137)
  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to boraxman on Monday, November 07, 2022 09:41:49
    Re: Re: 2017/2018 PC to modernize it.
    By: boraxman to Nightfox on Sun Nov 06 2022 09:55 pm

    It's weird, the whole point of the "Personal Computer" was that we would get to own our computers, and run our own local software without having to worry about timeshare, or using someone elses system. It seems as if they are wanting to undo the whole "Personal Computer" thing and move us back to using other peoples machines which they control.

    I've had basically the same thought. It's a weird situation.

    Software developers truly suck, for creating this terrible situation. Our

    I imagine it has more to do with them doing what their employer wants, rather than choosing themselves that this was a good idea. I'm a software developer professionally, and it wouldn't be my first choice.

    Nightfox
    --- SBBSecho 3.15-Linux
    * Origin: Digital Distortion: digdist.synchro.net (21:1/137)
  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to poindexter FORTRAN on Monday, November 07, 2022 09:42:56
    Re: Re: 2017/2018 PC to modernize it.
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Nightfox on Sun Nov 06 2022 07:14 am

    One thing I'm still not comfortable with regarding web apps is that
    if your internet service goes down, you'll be unable to access/run
    those programs. I still like to have locally-installed software.

    I wrote a book using Google Docs, and even when I was without internet access, could still access the doc and make offline changes. I haven't tried that with Microsoft365 yet.

    That's encouraging.

    Nightfox
    --- SBBSecho 3.15-Linux
    * Origin: Digital Distortion: digdist.synchro.net (21:1/137)
  • From boraxman@21:1/101 to Nightfox on Tuesday, November 08, 2022 22:59:13
    On 07 Nov 2022 at 09:41a, Nightfox pondered and said...

    Re: Re: 2017/2018 PC to modernize it.
    By: boraxman to Nightfox on Sun Nov 06 2022 09:55 pm

    It's weird, the whole point of the "Personal Computer" was that we wo get to own our computers, and run our own local software without havi worry about timeshare, or using someone elses system. It seems as if are wanting to undo the whole "Personal Computer" thing and move us b to using other peoples machines which they control.

    I've had basically the same thought. It's a weird situation.

    Software developers truly suck, for creating this terrible situation.

    I imagine it has more to do with them doing what their employer wants, rather than choosing themselves that this was a good idea. I'm a
    software developer professionally, and it wouldn't be my first choice.

    Nightfox

    Understandable, but nevertheless, here we are. Perhaps I should say instead "software industry", to exonerate those devs who know they aren't building the best solution.

    ... There is an exception to every rule, except this one.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/12/24 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)
  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to esc on Monday, November 07, 2022 06:25:00
    esc wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    I wrote a book using Google Docs, and even when I was without internet access, could still access the doc and make offline changes. I haven't tried that with Microsoft365 yet.

    You can't tease a book like that without sharing a link ;)

    It was a post-apocalyptic novel I wrote during NANOWRIMO a few years ago.
    I've been meaning to clean it up and publish it on Amazon for a while...


    ... Look closely at the most embarrassing details and amplify them
    --- MultiMail/DOS v0.52
    * Origin: realitycheckBBS.org -- information is power. (21:4/122)
  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Warpslide on Monday, November 07, 2022 06:29:00
    Warpslide wrote to Weatherman <=-

    Groupwise! There's a name I haven't thought about in awhile. I worked
    at a place that was still running Groupwise when I started there in
    2009. I dragged them away from that to Exchange (and later Office
    365).

    I'm dating myself - I worked at a mac/windows shop in the early '90s, and my boss had a plan to replace a mac-based email system called QuickMail with WordPerfect Office, an earlier version of Groupwise. It took so long to try and customize it for what we were going to use that people got tired of waiting, and we set up a BSD box with Qpopper and bought copies of Eudora
    Pro for the office. Turns out that we didn't need groupware, just email -
    and Eudora/POP3 worked great.

    I have the Eudora sound on my phone for new mail, still. :)


    ... Listen in total darkness, very quietly
    --- MultiMail/DOS v0.52
    * Origin: realitycheckBBS.org -- information is power. (21:4/122)
  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Atreyu on Monday, November 07, 2022 06:33:00
    Atreyu wrote to Weatherman <=-

    Wow thats impressive! I never caught on to Novell. I actually didn't really get into serious networking stuff until Windows NT4 / 2000.

    I ran Novell networks in the 90s, and went to their corporate office in San Jose for user group meetings. I was in awe of their campus, grassy walkways, ponds, volleyball courts, employee center with dry cleaning, day care, a cafeteria with high chairs so you could have breakfast/lunch with your kids, and the scale of it all.

    Many years later, I worked at that same campus. Novell was long gone by that point, and I'd had a sneaking suspicion that I'd been there before. It
    didn't occur to me until later it was the same space.


    ... Listen in total darkness, very quietly
    --- MultiMail/DOS v0.52
    * Origin: realitycheckBBS.org -- information is power. (21:4/122)
  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Weatherman on Monday, November 07, 2022 06:36:00
    Weatherman wrote to Atreyu <=-

    past 3 years is adding a technology called OTV (overlay transport virtualization). Fancy term for a VPN on steroids. It allows you to
    run the same VLANs/networks at the same time in two data centers on
    routed network links. You can even route the same networks on both
    sides at the same time. Perfect for HA in VMware.

    Sounds like something we're doing at work with our SD-WAN and firewalls. We were able to extend a subnet from one office to another during a server migration. Pretty wild stuff, the last time I did networking as part of my
    job networks were physically isolated.


    ... Listen in total darkness, very quietly
    --- MultiMail/DOS v0.52
    * Origin: realitycheckBBS.org -- information is power. (21:4/122)
  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to poindexter FORTRAN on Tuesday, November 08, 2022 10:55:59
    Re: Re: 2017/2018 PC to modernize it.
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Warpslide on Mon Nov 07 2022 06:29 am

    I'm dating myself - I worked at a mac/windows shop in the early '90s, and my boss had a plan to replace a mac-based email system called QuickMail with WordPerfect Office, an earlier version of Groupwise. It took so long to try and customize it for what we were going to use that people got tired of waiting, and we set up a BSD box with Qpopper and bought copies of Eudora Pro for the office. Turns out that we didn't need groupware, just email - and Eudora/POP3 worked great.

    I have the Eudora sound on my phone for new mail, still. :)

    :) I remember that sound. When I started using the internet in 1995, I installed the free Eudora email client, which seemed decent. I used that for quite a while, but then I remember Eudora starting to nag to buy the full version. I then switched to Mozilla Thunderbird (which was able to import my Eudora email), and I didn't look back.

    Nightfox
    --- SBBSecho 3.15-Linux
    * Origin: Digital Distortion: digdist.synchro.net (21:1/137)
  • From esc@21:4/173 to poindexter FORTRAN on Tuesday, November 08, 2022 13:05:19
    It was a post-apocalyptic novel I wrote during NANOWRIMO a few years
    ago. I've been meaning to clean it up and publish it on Amazon for a while...

    Impressive you got this done! I've always wanted to do NANOWRIMO but November is such a busy month, work-wise, it's always a crunch to get things done by the end of the year. How did you find the experience writing?

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 2022/07/11 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: m O N T E R E Y b B S . c O M (21:4/173)
  • From Weatherman@21:1/132 to Claw on Tuesday, November 08, 2022 17:14:29

    I completely agree. Keep the power at home. If you want a web app then
    host it locally and access it across the internet. Nextcloud offers all
    the goodies Google has and you can do it on a PI if you don't have a
    server sitting around.

    +1 Nextcloud. That is another thing I setup here on my own personal cloud which runs in my basement.

    - Mark
    ÿÿÿ
    --- WWIVToss v.1.52
    * Origin: http://www.weather-station.org * Bel Air, MD -USA (21:1/132.0)
  • From Weatherman@21:1/132 to Atreyu on Tuesday, November 08, 2022 17:15:28

    I think ReactOS still has a lonnnnnnng way to go... no AD/GPO/multi-login stuff yet.

    That sounds like OS/2 and even after decades have not done any of those things.. :)

    - Mark
    ÿÿÿ
    --- WWIVToss v.1.52
    * Origin: http://www.weather-station.org * Bel Air, MD -USA (21:1/132.0)
  • From Weatherman@21:1/132 to Atreyu on Tuesday, November 08, 2022 17:17:25

    The one scripting language I actually didn't mind, was Rexx on OS/2.


    I never did much with Rexx. I have done some basic Python stuff while working with Home Assistant over the years. Nothing super complicated, since I never have considered myself anything close to a coder. A modder yes, coder not so much.

    - Mark
    ÿÿÿ
    --- WWIVToss v.1.52
    * Origin: http://www.weather-station.org * Bel Air, MD -USA (21:1/132.0)
  • From Weatherman@21:1/132 to Acn on Tuesday, November 08, 2022 17:18:14

    AFAIK OS/2 v1.3 won't run that easily in a virtual environment,
    because it was 'optimized' for a 286 processor.

    I never tried it. I should see if I can get a DOS 5.0 VM fired up just for the hell of it.

    - Mark
    ÿÿÿ
    --- WWIVToss v.1.52
    * Origin: http://www.weather-station.org * Bel Air, MD -USA (21:1/132.0)
  • From Weatherman@21:1/132 to Poindexter Fortran on Tuesday, November 08, 2022 17:36:33

    Sounds like something we're doing at work with our SD-WAN and firewalls.
    We were able to extend a subnet from one office to another during a
    server migration. Pretty wild stuff, the last time I did networking as
    part of my job networks were physically isolated.

    Virtualization was a game changer, as is flash storage to SANs. We went from having explosive growth of pizza box severs taking up loads of space and power, to a few racks of high end blades that are fiber channel attached to flash storage arrays.

    The entire data center can run in a few racks. You can have petabytes of storage in a single rack. No more city blocks of old mainframe DASD. My cell phone has more storage than many mainframe systems did back in the late 80s.

    - Mark
    ÿÿÿ
    --- WWIVToss v.1.52
    * Origin: http://www.weather-station.org * Bel Air, MD -USA (21:1/132.0)
  • From Visitor-0@21:4/121 to Weatherman on Wednesday, November 09, 2022 00:14:35
    Re: Re: Alternative OSes (was: 2017/2018 PC
    By: Weatherman to Atreyu on Tue Nov 08 2022 17:15:28

    I think ReactOS still has a lonnnnnnng way to go... no AD/GPO/multi-login stuff yet.

    That sounds like OS/2 and even after decades have not done any of those things.. :)

    By Github stand, FreeDOS 64 Bit is planing :-))
    --- SBBSecho 3.11-Win32
    * Origin: AlcaBBS - bbs.alcatrash.org (21:4/121)
  • From Bex@21:1/137 to Matthew Munson on Thursday, November 10, 2022 09:56:00
    Matthew Munson wrote to All <=-

    Since Windows 11 does not accept my Ryzen 1700x, should I upgrade it to
    a 3700x on my B350-Prime Plus motherboard (i flashed my bios for this)
    and perhaps buy a 1tb ssd to upgrade my storage at the same time.

    I would advise you to stop for a sec and ask yourself *why* you are
    thinking of upgrading your hardware. If the only reason is to run Windows
    11, I'd advise you to stick with your hardware and run a different OS. It should be easy-peasy to find a copy of Windows 10. Since that used to work,
    why not save yourself the money and just run Windows 10?

    Of course, there are a couple of us (Gamgee, me) whose automatic advice
    would be to run Linux on it, but I get the feeling you don't want to make
    that big a change. So the next logical question is, why change your working system?


    -+- Brightening your day. -Bex <3

    ... Trillian: My whole planet destroyed because you thought someone wanted your
    --- MultiMail/Linux v0.49
    * Origin: Digital Distortion: digdist.synchro.net (21:1/137)
  • From Bex@21:1/137 to Exodus on Thursday, November 10, 2022 09:59:00
    Exodus wrote to Gamgee <=-

    Wipe that virus-laden "OS" off the computer, install Linux, and keep on moving forward. Cost = 0.

    I love the version of Ubuntu that has ADS in the terminal window ....
    that was classy for whoever did that.

    I don't remember that at all, but I am not big on Ubuntu in general. Still, what was your point?


    -+- Brightening your day. -Bex <3

    ... Mushu: Stand watch, Mushu, while I blow our secret with my stupid girly habi
    --- MultiMail/Linux v0.49
    * Origin: Digital Distortion: digdist.synchro.net (21:1/137)
  • From Bex@21:1/137 to Gamgee on Thursday, November 10, 2022 10:01:00
    Gamgee wrote to Nightfox <=-

    Just a weak attempt at humor. I'm anti-Windows and sometimes can't
    resist poking at it... ;-)

    SAME!!! But everyone already knew that. (:


    -+- Brightening your day. -Bex <3

    ... "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers."
    --- MultiMail/Linux v0.49
    * Origin: Digital Distortion: digdist.synchro.net (21:1/137)
  • From esc@21:4/173 to Bex on Friday, November 11, 2022 15:34:04
    I don't remember that at all, but I am not big on Ubuntu in general. Still, what was your point?

    Yeah - don't think there have ever been ads in the terminal window.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 2022/07/11 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: m O N T E R E Y b B S . c O M (21:4/173)
  • From killer@21:2/150 to boraxman on Sunday, November 13, 2022 12:10:29
    It's weird, the whole point of the "Personal Computer" was that we would get to own our computers, and run our own local software without having
    to worry about timeshare, or using someone elses system. It seems as if they are wanting to undo the whole "Personal Computer" thing and move us back to using other peoples machines which they control.

    Everything is cyclical. Computing and related technologies are no different. There will be another evolution and we will swing back the other way honestly. Just the simple fact that Internet access is not always around will force people to move away from the cloud eventually.

    Killer

    ... Makethe taglines go awaaaaaaay

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 2022/07/15 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: 2o fOr beeRS bbs>>>20ForBeers.com:1337 (21:2/150)
  • From killer@21:2/150 to Weatherman on Sunday, November 13, 2022 12:13:43
    just keeps growing as everything connects to the network these days. It won't be long until my toilet will be able to count flushes per day and will be on my home LAN.

    What?! Five extra flushes today! That will be 5 DOGE penalty per flush!

    ... If evolution were a fact then cats would use can openers.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 2022/07/15 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: 2o fOr beeRS bbs>>>20ForBeers.com:1337 (21:2/150)
  • From killer@21:2/150 to Weatherman on Sunday, November 13, 2022 12:16:57
    I remember hearing that before. Do you know if the ATMs are still using OS/2 or was that just back in the day?

    I think a large number are still using it. The multimedia ones are the ones most likely using embedded Windows, but if they are still old school text interface most likely OS/2 still.

    ... He's two disks short of a full backup

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 2022/07/15 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: 2o fOr beeRS bbs>>>20ForBeers.com:1337 (21:2/150)
  • From killer@21:2/150 to poindexter FORTRAN on Sunday, November 13, 2022 12:18:32
    You bring up a good point. Collaboration is much more complicated (to
    me) under 365 than in G Suite. The office apps in Microsoft 365, both
    the web apps and desktop apps feel much more functional than their G suite counterparts.

    Well Sharepain the tool used for collaboration there, which is decidedly painful to use and most people can't get it setup properly.

    ... Beer doesn't tell you how to have sex.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 2022/07/15 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: 2o fOr beeRS bbs>>>20ForBeers.com:1337 (21:2/150)
  • From Weatherman@21:1/132 to Killer on Sunday, November 13, 2022 18:52:11

    What?! Five extra flushes today! That will be 5 DOGE penalty per flush!


    I'm sure there could be an excessive use tax added for the "over 5 flushes per day" homes. Really bad if you have the stomach flu. Or if you happen to drink lots of beer, like me.

    - Mark
    ÿÿÿ
    --- WWIVToss v.1.52
    * Origin: http://www.weather-station.org * Bel Air, MD -USA (21:1/132.0)
  • From Weatherman@21:1/132 to Killer on Sunday, November 13, 2022 18:55:46

    I think a large number are still using it. The multimedia ones are the
    ones most likely using embedded Windows, but if they are still old school text interface most likely OS/2 still.

    I rarely use ATMs, but most of the ones around here that I have seen these days are the video/multimedia ones.

    - Mark
    ÿÿÿ
    --- WWIVToss v.1.52
    * Origin: http://www.weather-station.org * Bel Air, MD -USA (21:1/132.0)
  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to killer on Monday, November 14, 2022 06:50:00
    killer wrote to boraxman <=-

    different. There will be another evolution and we will swing back the other way honestly. Just the simple fact that Internet access is not always around will force people to move away from the cloud eventually.

    Depends on where you are. I'm interested in seeing ultralight laptops with built-in 4G/5G networking; in a metropolitan area that would be pretty
    great.


    ... Do the words need changing?
    --- MultiMail/DOS v0.52
    * Origin: realitycheckBBS.org -- information is power. (21:4/122)
  • From Tracker1@21:3/149 to acn on Thursday, November 17, 2022 16:55:14
    On 11/2/22 02:00, acn wrote:
    You know... I don't ever remember the Linux crowd ever going after
    OS/2. There was this odd level of calm, a mutual respect between
    the two.

    Maybe because some of the Linux people once used OS/2...
    That's at least my story.

    Used to work OS/2 support for iomega... of course I remember very
    little, about the only thing I really didn't like about OS/2 was that everything you wanted to do outside run windows compat software was
    costly and that the configuration file(s) were beyond massive.

    I switched back and forth a lot in the late 90's, with Windows 2000 (not
    ME), I pretty much didn't look back... I'm running Linux for my personal desktop now, an M1 air for my personal laptop, and work laptop is
    Windows 10, but working mostly in WSL(2) + Docker + VS Code.

    Honestly there's aspects I like(d) about almost every OS I've ever used.
    --
    Michael J. Ryan - tracker1@roughneckbbs.com
    --- SBBSecho 3.15-Linux
    * Origin: Roughneck BBS - roughneckbbs.com (21:3/149)
  • From Tracker1@21:3/149 to boraxman on Thursday, November 17, 2022 16:58:08
    On 11/2/22 03:10, boraxman wrote:
    I am likely just going to buy a 5600G processor to replace the 1700x.

    Ha, and here I am running an AMD Phenom II. That CPU you're getting
    rid of would run rings around my *main* rig. Kids these days with
    their newfangled processor doohickeys!

    I'm kind of the opposite end... I did hold on to my i7 4790K for about 5 years... currently running an r9 5950X, RTX 3080 (10gb), 128gb ram, 2tb samsung 980 pro (linux drive), and hoping to see an r9 7950X3D in the
    spring, and will upgrade to that in march/april assuming it exists.
    --
    Michael J. Ryan - tracker1@roughneckbbs.com
    --- SBBSecho 3.15-Linux
    * Origin: Roughneck BBS - roughneckbbs.com (21:3/149)
  • From Utopian Galt@21:4/108 to Tracker1 on Thursday, November 17, 2022 19:14:30
    BY: Tracker1(21:3/149)


    |11T|09> |10I'm kind of the opposite end... I did hold on to my i7 4790K for about 5|07
    |11T|09> |07
    |11T|09> |10years... currently running an r9 5950X, RTX 3080 (10gb), 128gb ram, 2tb |07
    |11T|09> |10samsung 980 pro (linux drive), and hoping to see an r9 7950X3D in the |07
    |11T|09> |10spring, and will upgrade to that in march/april assuming it exists.|07
    I will need to get a new motherboard, 32gb of ram, move the processor and fan to teh new motherboard. 2tb ssd stick. and possibly a 1tb platter ssd drive with a 6700 XT fraogucs card.


    --- WWIV 5.8.0.3608
    * Origin: inland utopia * california * iutopia.duckdns.org:2023 (21:4/108)
  • From esc@21:4/173 to Tracker1 on Thursday, November 17, 2022 19:24:43
    Honestly there's aspects I like(d) about almost every OS I've ever used.

    I get a kick out of trying old OSes to see if there are things I like. I'm particularly fond of AmigaOS. There are several things in AmigaOS that I enjoy that I haven't seen implemented elsewhere. It was truly before its time, considering all that was possible with it so long ago.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 2022/07/11 (Linux/64)
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  • From acn@21:3/127.1 to Tracker1 on Friday, November 18, 2022 11:51:00
    Am 17.11.22 schrieb Tracker1@21:3/149 in FSX_GEN:

    Hallo Tracker1,

    Used to work OS/2 support for iomega...

    Oh, nice :) I'm still playing around with Zip drives, at the moment
    I'm using a SCSI one on my Amiga 1200.
    But my OS/2 PC also has an internal one (IDE version from NEC).
    It has been a while since the last time I turned it on, but it did
    work, also when running OS/2 :)

    of course I remember very little, about the only thing I really
    didn't like about OS/2 was that everything you wanted to do outside
    run windows compat software was costly and that the configuration
    file(s) were beyond massive.

    Yep, that's true...

    [...]
    Honestly there's aspects I like(d) about almost every OS I've ever used.

    That's true, even Windows has some nice aspects, although it's harder
    to remember which ones it are than on other OSes :)

    Regards,
    Anna

    --- OpenXP 5.0.56
    * Origin: Imzadi Box Point (21:3/127.1)
  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to esc on Friday, November 18, 2022 09:38:08
    Re: Re: 2017/2018 PC to modernize it.
    By: esc to Tracker1 on Thu Nov 17 2022 07:24 pm

    I get a kick out of trying old OSes to see if there are things I like. I'm particularly fond of AmigaOS. There are several things in AmigaOS that I enjoy that I haven't seen implemented elsewhere. It was truly before its time, considering all that was possible with it so long ago.

    Yeah, in the mid-late 90s, I used to like trying different operating systems, mainly for x86 PCs, since that's what I had. At one point, I had a multi-boot setup on my PC with Windows 9x, OS/2, and Linux. Now I think it's funny to think that was on a 4.5GB hard drive, which is small by today's standards..

    Nightfox
    --- SBBSecho 3.15-Linux
    * Origin: Digital Distortion: digdist.synchro.net (21:1/137)
  • From Atreyu@21:1/176 to Nightfox on Friday, November 18, 2022 17:40:19
    On 18 Nov 22 09:38:08, Nightfox said the following to Esc:

    Yeah, in the mid-late 90s, I used to like trying different operating systems mainly for x86 PCs, since that's what I had. At one point, I had a multi-bo setup on my PC with Windows 9x, OS/2, and Linux. Now I think it's funny to think that was on a 4.5GB hard drive, which is small by today's standards..

    I thought a 20 megabyte hard drive for my Tandy was "big" at the time...

    Atreyu

    --- Renegade vY2Ka2
    * Origin: Joey, do you like movies about gladiators? (21:1/176)
  • From Atreyu@21:1/176 to Tracker1 on Friday, November 18, 2022 17:44:42
    On 17 Nov 22 16:55:14, Tracker1 said the following to Acn:

    I switched back and forth a lot in the late 90's, with Windows 2000 (not ME), I pretty much didn't look back... I'm running Linux for my personal

    I know I blabbed about this a few times but I was the exact same... Windows 2000 just "sold" me on how good it was at the time.

    I could set up a basic VPN and RDP into my system from anywhere, do proper backups to a tape drive because it had Ntbackup built-in. These things were outrageously expensive for OS/2 or impossible, or just halfassed.

    Atreyu

    --- Renegade vY2Ka2
    * Origin: Joey, do you like movies about gladiators? (21:1/176)
  • From esc@21:4/173 to Nightfox on Friday, November 18, 2022 15:12:17
    Yeah, in the mid-late 90s, I used to like trying different operating systems, mainly for x86 PCs, since that's what I had. At one point, I
    had a multi-boot setup on my PC with Windows 9x, OS/2, and Linux. Now I think it's funny to think that was on a 4.5GB hard drive, which is small by today's standards..

    Ha, that's nuts. Yeah. I remember back when having a 300mb spare HD was like...endless amounts of storage that I could never fathom of filling up.

    Another interesting thing to think about here is RAM. It's amazing to think how much optimization was done to make things work with the amount of memory we had access to.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 2022/07/11 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: m O N T E R E Y b B S . c O M (21:4/173)
  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to esc on Friday, November 18, 2022 16:20:34
    Re: Re: 2017/2018 PC to modernize it.
    By: esc to Nightfox on Fri Nov 18 2022 03:12 pm

    Now I think it's funny to think that was on a 4.5GB hard drive,
    which is small by today's standards..

    Ha, that's nuts. Yeah. I remember back when having a 300mb spare HD was like...endless amounts of storage that I could never fathom of filling up.

    That's true.. When buying a larger hard drive, I always felt like it would be hard to fill it all up, but it seems it always gets filled up eventually.

    Another interesting thing to think about here is RAM. It's amazing to think how much optimization was done to make things work with the amount of memory we had access to.

    That's true too. It's interesting to learn what programmers did in the 80s with so little RAM available on computers & similar devices back then. And these days, when computers could have 32GB, 64GB, or more RAM (and it's a lot less expensive than it used to be), we don't need to worry so much about that anymore.

    Nightfox
    --- SBBSecho 3.15-Linux
    * Origin: Digital Distortion: digdist.synchro.net (21:1/137)
  • From Weatherman@21:1/132 to Atreyu on Friday, November 18, 2022 19:29:59

    I thought a 20 megabyte hard drive for my Tandy was "big" at the time...

    I thought having an external 3.5" drive for my Apple //c was "big" back in the early 80s. After running my BBS on just (2) 5 1/4 floppy drives, that was a huge gain in storage.

    I would have never thought back then that I'd be sitting here now with well over 100TB, and gone from a 300 baud modem to 1Gbps fiber.

    - Mark
    ÿÿÿ
    --- WWIVToss v.1.52
    * Origin: http://www.weather-station.org * Bel Air, MD -USA (21:1/132.0)
  • From Atreyu@21:1/176 to Weatherman on Friday, November 18, 2022 19:41:13
    On 18 Nov 22 19:29:59, Weatherman said the following to Atreyu:

    I would have never thought back then that I'd be sitting here now with well over 100TB, and gone from a 300 baud modem to 1Gbps fiber.

    Ha! I'm not quite there yet but getting there!

    Atreyu

    --- Renegade vY2Ka2
    * Origin: Joey, do you like movies about gladiators? (21:1/176)
  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to Atreyu on Saturday, November 19, 2022 19:54:00
    I thought a 20 megabyte hard drive for my Tandy was "big" at the time...

    First HD I had was with the 286 I got for the BBS, a 40Mb job. It seemed
    huge at the time, and being DOS 3.3 it was a 30 and 10Mb partition setup.
    Prior to this I'd only ever had 140k or 800k floppies.

    It didn't really take to long before it didn't seem to large any more though, back then the file areas grew exponentially. While I was really only loading Apple II stuff, the handbrake was all for having DOS stuff too. Ended up with the floppy holding file areas briefly.

    Spec


    *** THE READER V4.50 [freeware]
    --- SuperBBS v1.17-3 (Eval)
    * Origin: Good Luck and drive offensively! (21:3/101)
  • From Weatherman@21:1/132 to Atreyu on Saturday, November 19, 2022 07:18:36

    Ha! I'm not quite there yet but getting there!

    I should be receiving the rest of my storage order today. I couldn't resist the 14TB Western Digital enterprise Ultrastor drives (which are really the legacy HGST drives) for $140 each. I bought all (9) of the ones listed.

    I still have (8) 6TB drives, around (40) 3TB drives, and (50) or so 2TB drives. The 2TB drives are sitting in several very heavy boxes collecting dust at the moment.

    - Mark
    ÿÿÿ
    --- WWIVToss v.1.52
    * Origin: http://www.weather-station.org * Bel Air, MD -USA (21:1/132.0)
  • From Weatherman@21:1/132 to Spectre on Saturday, November 19, 2022 07:20:30

    First HD I had was with the 286 I got for the BBS, a 40Mb job. It seemed huge at the time, and being DOS 3.3 it was a 30 and 10Mb partition setup. Prior to this I'd only ever had 140k or 800k floppies.

    Exactly the same for me, too. My first hard drive was when I bought my 286-12 system after selling all my Apple // stuff. It has 2MB of RAM (which was a ton back then), and my first hard drive which was a full height 40MB drive (Seagate).

    - Mark
    ÿÿÿ
    --- WWIVToss v.1.52
    * Origin: http://www.weather-station.org * Bel Air, MD -USA (21:1/132.0)
  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Tracker1 on Friday, November 18, 2022 06:29:00
    Tracker1 wrote to boraxman <=-

    I'm kind of the opposite end... I did hold on to my i7 4790K for about
    5 years... currently running an r9 5950X, RTX 3080 (10gb), 128gb ram,
    2tb samsung 980 pro (linux drive), and hoping to see an r9 7950X3D in
    the spring, and will upgrade to that in march/april assuming it exists.

    I'm pretty trailing edge - I just bought a system with an i7 4790 earlier
    this year, replacing a 10 year-old Core2 Duo that I'd upgraded to a Core2
    Quad a few years before.


    ... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here...
    --- MultiMail/DOS v0.52
    * Origin: realitycheckBBS.org -- information is power. (21:4/122)
  • From Utopian Galt@21:4/108 to Esc on Saturday, November 19, 2022 11:42:33
    BY: esc(21:4/173)


    |11e|09> |10I get a kick out of trying old OSes to see if there are things I like.|07
    |11e|09> |10I'm particularly fond of AmigaOS. There are several things in AmigaOS|07
    |11e|09> |10that I enjoy that I haven't seen implemented elsewhere. It was truly|07
    |11e|09> |10before its time, considering all that was possible with it so long ago.|07
    Does that mean we can run AmigaOS with VirtualBox?


    --- WWIV 5.8.0.3608
    * Origin: inland utopia * california * iutopia.duckdns.org:2023 (21:4/108)
  • From Avon@21:1/101 to Spectre on Sunday, November 20, 2022 09:06:42
    On 19 Nov 2022 at 07:54p, Spectre pondered and said...

    I thought a 20 megabyte hard drive for my Tandy was "big" at the time

    First HD I had was with the 286 I got for the BBS, a 40Mb job. It seemed huge at the time, and being DOS 3.3 it was a 30 and 10Mb partition setup. Prior to this I'd only ever had 140k or 800k floppies.

    I think my first purchased PC had a whopping 20 megabyte HDD in it, and I recall spending a lot of coin on it at the time. I also remember being focused on trying to get the latest and greatest modem for the computer so that I could call out (and allow others to call my Renegade BBS) at speed.

    The fun was listening to the incoming calls and figuring out who had faster modems at the time.

    Kerr Avon [Blake's 7] 'I'm not expendable, I'm not stupid and I'm not going' avon[at]bbs.nz | bbs.nz | fsxnet.nz

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/12/24 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)
  • From Avon@21:1/101 to Weatherman on Sunday, November 20, 2022 09:12:08
    On 19 Nov 2022 at 07:20a, Weatherman pondered and said...

    Exactly the same for me, too. My first hard drive was when I bought my 286-12 system after selling all my Apple // stuff. It has 2MB of RAM (which was a ton back then), and my first hard drive which was a full height 40MB drive (Seagate).

    I'm trying to recall the specs of my earlier computers, it was either a 386 or perhaps a 486 dx system... made by a crowd now long gone in New Zealand.. I think they were called PC General..... then the next system was by PC Direct.... New Zealand computer companies had such imaginative names heh :)

    Kerr Avon [Blake's 7] 'I'm not expendable, I'm not stupid and I'm not going' avon[at]bbs.nz | bbs.nz | fsxnet.nz

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/12/24 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)
  • From esc@21:4/173 to Utopian Galt on Saturday, November 19, 2022 17:55:56
    Does that mean we can run AmigaOS with VirtualBox?

    Not exactly, but there are plenty of great emulators out there - WinUAE if you use Windows, FS-UAE for linux/macos.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 2022/07/11 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: m O N T E R E Y b B S . c O M (21:4/173)
  • From Weatherman@21:1/132 to Avon on Sunday, November 20, 2022 08:51:07

    I'm trying to recall the specs of my earlier computers, it was either a
    386 or perhaps a 486 dx system... made by a crowd now long gone in New Zealand.. I think they were called PC General..... then the next system
    was by PC Direct.... New Zealand computer companies had such imaginative names heh :)

    I still have pictures somewhere of the monster sized 286-12 tower case that I used back then. It was as tall as my desk when sitting on the floor. It even had the "turbo" button on it.

    I used the same case for many years as I upgraded/swapped motherboards to several different 386 systems, then to 486, then to pentium, etc. Since the case was so large, I later used it as my data server case.

    These days my data server and vmware servers are all 4U Supermicro systems. I love the supermicro systems. They are a data hoarder's dream platform.

    Speaking of which, I have (9) 14TB drives sitting on my desk next to me right now. Once I get that new array in place, it will take over a week to copy all the data.

    - Mark
    ÿÿÿ
    --- WWIVToss v.1.52
    * Origin: http://www.weather-station.org * Bel Air, MD -USA (21:1/132.0)
  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Atreyu on Saturday, November 19, 2022 15:42:00
    Atreyu wrote to Tracker1 <=-

    I could set up a basic VPN and RDP into my system from anywhere, do
    proper backups to a tape drive because it had Ntbackup built-in. These things were outrageously expensive for OS/2 or impossible, or just halfassed.

    I bought Famatech's remote administrator program when I was administering Windows NT4 and 2000 servers, and still use it to this day on the BBS.

    I still try to block out those days of swapping DDS and DLT tapes by hand. :)



    ... What mistakes did you make last time?
    --- MultiMail/DOS v0.52
    * Origin: realitycheckBBS.org -- information is power. (21:4/122)
  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Weatherman on Saturday, November 19, 2022 15:46:00
    Weatherman wrote to Atreyu <=-

    I would have never thought back then that I'd be sitting here now with well over 100TB, and gone from a 300 baud modem to 1Gbps fiber.

    The first incarnation of realitycheckBBS had 2 30 mb drives and 2 mb of RAM. Hard to fathom that it did mostly what I'm doing now on a VM with 2 cores, 3 GB of RAM and 100 GB of disk. Of course it would fill up the disk during a Fido mail run and crap itself, but what the heck...

    I used to have to unpack Fido mail packets into separate directories per echomail area, with *.msg files for each message, then import those into the message base. Took up twice the amount of disk space for what I'd import.




    ... What mistakes did you make last time?
    --- MultiMail/DOS v0.52
    * Origin: realitycheckBBS.org -- information is power. (21:4/122)
  • From Roon@21:4/148 to Atreyu on Sunday, November 20, 2022 21:05:49
    Hello Atreyu,

    18 Nov 22 17:44, you wrote to Tracker1:

    On 17 Nov 22 16:55:14, Tracker1 said the following to Acn:

    I switched back and forth a lot in the late 90's, with Windows 2000
    (not ME), I pretty much didn't look back... I'm running Linux for
    my personal

    I know I blabbed about this a few times but I was the exact same...
    Windows 2000 just "sold" me on how good it was at the time.

    I could set up a basic VPN and RDP into my system from anywhere, do
    proper backups to a tape drive because it had Ntbackup built-in. These things were outrageously expensive for OS/2 or impossible, or just halfassed.

    do you run OS/2 or ArcaOS?
    what r u using 4 rdp under os/2?

    Regards,
    --
    dp

    telnet://bbs.roonsbbs.hu:1212 <<=-

    ... 10:57pm up 2 days, 17:20:24, load: 84 processes, 290 threads.
    --- GoldED/2 1.1.4.7+EMX
    * Origin: Roon's BBS - Budapest, HUNGARY (21:4/148)
  • From Avon@21:1/101 to Weatherman on Monday, November 21, 2022 08:55:22
    On 20 Nov 2022 at 08:51a, Weatherman pondered and said...

    Speaking of which, I have (9) 14TB drives sitting on my desk next to me right now. Once I get that new array in place, it will take over a week to copy all the data.

    Now that is a lot of data :)

    I noted in recent days an international standards group has met to create new names for even larger amounts of data... can't recall the new names but it covers stuff like ten to the power of twenty six etc..

    Kerr Avon [Blake's 7] 'I'm not expendable, I'm not stupid and I'm not going' avon[at]bbs.nz | bbs.nz | fsxnet.nz

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/12/24 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)
  • From Atreyu@21:1/176 to Roon on Sunday, November 20, 2022 15:05:36
    On 20 Nov 22 21:05:49, Roon said the following to Atreyu:

    do you run OS/2 or ArcaOS?

    Neither, I used to run OS2

    Atreyu

    --- Renegade vY2Ka2
    * Origin: Joey, do you like movies about gladiators? (21:1/176)
  • From Weatherman@21:1/132 to Poindexter Fortran on Sunday, November 20, 2022 19:25:50

    The first incarnation of realitycheckBBS had 2 30 mb drives and 2 mb of RAM. Hard to fathom that it did mostly what I'm doing now on a VM with 2 cores, 3 GB of RAM and 100 GB of disk. Of course it would fill up the
    disk during a Fido mail run and crap itself, but what the heck...

    I used to have to unpack Fido mail packets into separate directories per echomail area, with *.msg files for each message, then import those into the message base. Took up twice the amount of disk space for what I'd import.

    In my early sysop BBS days, I had a total of (5) message areas and only 20 messages each. Anything more would fill up the (2) 5 1/4 floppies.

    Once I went from Apple to PC and ran an early version of WWIV, I had more storage and a hard drive. Joining WWIVnet back in the late 80s, I had plenty of storage for all the message areas. I was not in any FTN/Fido network back then and there was no support for it in WWIV.

    It wasn't until around the early-mid 90s when there were programs created to allow FTN networks to work with WWIV. I was a very early adopter of that with WWIVTOSS (and still use it today).

    - Mark
    ÿÿÿ
    --- WWIVToss v.1.52
    * Origin: http://www.weather-station.org * Bel Air, MD -USA (21:1/132.0)
  • From Weatherman@21:1/132 to Avon on Sunday, November 20, 2022 19:41:00

    Speaking of which, I have (9) 14TB drives sitting on my desk next to
    me We> right now. Once I get that new array in place, it will take over a week We> to copy all the data.

    Now that is a lot of data :)

    My plan is to eventually create a (10) drive RAID5 array of 14TB drives + keep an extra as a on-hand spare. For now, I'll start with the 98TB usable and keep one for spare, and buy more when I see good pricing.

    I should be able to remove all my 3TB drives and keep them for spares for my other servers that still use them.

    Once I get all this in place, I should have around 200TB of running storage on the (3) servers, plus have plenty of spare drives for swapping.

    I am my own cloud storage provider. :)

    - Mark
    ÿÿÿ
    --- WWIVToss v.1.52
    * Origin: http://www.weather-station.org * Bel Air, MD -USA (21:1/132.0)
  • From Tracker1@21:3/149 to Atreyu on Sunday, November 20, 2022 20:17:52
    On 11/18/22 10:44, Atreyu wrote:

    I know I blabbed about this a few times but I was the exact same...
    Windows 2000 just "sold" me on how good it was at the time.

    I could set up a basic VPN and RDP into my system from anywhere, do
    proper backups to a tape drive because it had Ntbackup built-in.
    These things were outrageously expensive for OS/2 or impossible, or
    just halfassed.

    Got even better with Litestep, remember a pretty custom UI, that really
    just felt exactly how I wanted... using a lightly customized Ubuntu
    Budgie setup currently. I remember Windows 2000 pretty fondly, didn't
    play games on it... kept a dual boot of win98se for a long while to play
    games (until XP SP3, when I finally jumped to XP)... since then played
    with Linux... Really like WSL2 in Win10+, but with Win11, just irritated
    me a bit too much... Linux does most of what I need now, and I don't
    game too much, so sticking to what works native or via steam is okay
    with me.
    --
    Michael J. Ryan - tracker1@roughneckbbs.com
    --- SBBSecho 3.15-Linux
    * Origin: Roughneck BBS - roughneckbbs.com (21:3/149)
  • From Tracker1@21:3/149 to poindexter FORTRAN on Sunday, November 20, 2022 20:26:50
    On 11/19/22 16:42, poindexter FORTRAN wrote:

    I bought Famatech's remote administrator program when I was administering Windows NT4 and 2000 servers, and still use it to this day on the BBS.

    I still try to block out those days of swapping DDS and DLT tapes by hand.
    :)
    Ran recovery ops for a mid sized company for a while in the later 90s...
    man even with a multi-tape changing backup system, it's still nasty
    AF... I don't recall the tech, but figured out how to do snapshotting
    (NT4 era) on the main storage server (EMC, iirc) and that was far easier
    99% of the time than dealing with the often borked backups.
    --
    Michael J. Ryan - tracker1@roughneckbbs.com
    --- SBBSecho 3.15-Linux
    * Origin: Roughneck BBS - roughneckbbs.com (21:3/149)
  • From Gamgee@21:2/138 to Weatherman on Monday, November 21, 2022 07:25:00
    Weatherman wrote to Avon <=-

    My plan is to eventually create a (10) drive RAID5 array of 14TB
    drives + keep an extra as a on-hand spare. For now, I'll start
    with the 98TB usable and keep one for spare, and buy more when I
    see good pricing.

    I should be able to remove all my 3TB drives and keep them for
    spares for my other servers that still use them.

    Once I get all this in place, I should have around 200TB of
    running storage on the (3) servers, plus have plenty of spare
    drives for swapping.

    I am my own cloud storage provider. :)

    What do you use all this storage space for? Is this a business thing,
    or just for home use?



    ... Gone crazy, be back later, please leave message.
    === MultiMail/Linux v0.52
    --- SBBSecho 3.15-Linux
    * Origin: Palantir * palantirbbs.ddns.net * Pensacola, FL * (21:2/138)
  • From Atreyu@21:1/176 to Tracker1 on Monday, November 21, 2022 08:12:46
    On 20 Nov 22 20:26:50, Tracker1 said the following to Poindexter Fortran:

    Ran recovery ops for a mid sized company for a while in the later 90s... man even with a multi-tape changing backup system, it's still nasty
    AF... I don't recall the tech, but figured out how to do snapshotting
    (NT4 era) on the main storage server (EMC, iirc) and that was far easier 99% of the time than dealing with the often borked backups.

    You're probably referring to Volume Snapshot or image-based backups, which is what I use here today.

    Reinstalling Windows (or any OS) is just simply out of the question and not something I've had to do for a long time.

    Atreyu

    --- Renegade vY2Ka2
    * Origin: Joey, do you like movies about gladiators? (21:1/176)
  • From Atreyu@21:1/176 to Tracker1 on Monday, November 21, 2022 08:21:48
    On 20 Nov 22 20:17:52, Tracker1 said the following to Atreyu:

    Got even better with Litestep, remember a pretty custom UI, that really just felt exactly how I wanted... using a lightly customized Ubuntu
    Budgie setup currently. I remember Windows 2000 pretty fondly, didn't
    play games on it... kept a dual boot of win98se for a long while to play games (until XP SP3, when I finally jumped to XP)... since then played
    with Linux... Really like WSL2 in Win10+, but with Win11, just irritated
    me a bit too much... Linux does most of what I need now, and I don't
    game too much, so sticking to what works native or via steam is okay
    with me.

    I can't stand the lack of taskbar-labels in Windows 11... and I refuse to install some buggy halfassed shareware crap to "fix it". I often have many windows open at once on a workstation with six monitors. Breaking the taskbar functionality was unacceptable.

    I actually thought XP and Server 2003 were the "best" that M$ was ever to crank out. Everything beyond that just got to be eye-candy or trying to do everything except act like an OS. Windows 10 talks to me as if we're friends and it wants to do things on its terms, not mine. Candy Crush and Xbox on the start menu of a professional-grade OS put an end to my love for windows.

    I'm not a gamer... well, more of a retro-gamer if and when I have the time and thats either MS-DOS games or my old NES and Genesis consoles. I bought one
    of those new multi-carts for both that have a rediculous amount of memory and pretty much every game in existance for them.

    Atreyu

    --- Renegade vY2Ka2
    * Origin: Joey, do you like movies about gladiators? (21:1/176)
  • From Weatherman@21:1/132 to Tracker1 on Monday, November 21, 2022 08:44:46

    Ran recovery ops for a mid sized company for a while in the later 90s...
    man even with a multi-tape changing backup system, it's still nasty
    AF... I don't recall the tech, but figured out how to do snapshotting
    (NT4 era) on the main storage server (EMC, iirc) and that was far easier
    99% of the time than dealing with the often borked backups.

    I remember back in the 90s using Compaq DAT tape autoloaders for enterprise backups for all the Netware servers. Once the backups exceeded the amount of tapes in the DAT autoloaders, we moved on to Compaq DLT tape drives.

    These days we have finally moved away from tapes. Everything is disk snapshots or some type of disk based backup.

    - Mark
    ÿÿÿ
    --- WWIVToss v.1.52
    * Origin: http://www.weather-station.org * Bel Air, MD -USA (21:1/132.0)
  • From Weatherman@21:1/132 to Gamgee on Monday, November 21, 2022 08:50:55

    What do you use all this storage space for? Is this a business thing,
    or just for home use?

    It is for home use, but I do run several Internet based systems for various thing. I also use it the very same way that Google Photos works, for photo/video backups for our phones. I just have an app on our phones that auto SFTPs new files in photo/video directories to my server.

    So I'm basically my own cloud. I also am a data hoarder, so I download tons of content. Lots of old TV shows and things like that.

    Some of the storage is for disk backups of all my server VMs, physical PCs, etc, too. And I keep 31 backups of each (one month worth), just to be safe.

    The backups use almost 24TB by itself. I also have weeks for of DVR data for my security cameras. Video takes up lots of storage.

    - Mark
    ÿÿÿ
    --- WWIVToss v.1.52
    * Origin: http://www.weather-station.org * Bel Air, MD -USA (21:1/132.0)
  • From Weatherman@21:1/132 to Atreyu on Monday, November 21, 2022 08:54:15

    I can't stand the lack of taskbar-labels in Windows 11... and I refuse to install some buggy halfassed shareware crap to "fix it". I often have many windows open at once on a workstation with six monitors. Breaking the taskbar functionality was unacceptable.

    I actually thought XP and Server 2003 were the "best" that M$ was ever to crank out. Everything beyond that just got to be eye-candy or trying to do

    I agree that Windows XP and Server 2003 had the best interface. Windows 11 reminds me of Windows 8, where so many people hated the taskbar and menu that loads of people ran a shareware program to fix it.

    - Mark
    ÿÿÿ
    --- WWIVToss v.1.52
    * Origin: http://www.weather-station.org * Bel Air, MD -USA (21:1/132.0)
  • From Atreyu@21:1/176 to Weatherman on Monday, November 21, 2022 10:19:11
    On 21 Nov 22 08:54:15, Weatherman said the following to Atreyu:

    I agree that Windows XP and Server 2003 had the best interface. Windows 11 reminds me of Windows 8, where so many people hated the taskbar and menu tha loads of people ran a shareware program to fix it.

    It wasn't just the interface that was good in XP/2003, it was also the OS largely staying the F out of my way and letting me focus on programs.

    In this household computers work for me and not the other way around. And nobody nags me to do anything. I hate being nagged. Windows 10 and 11 always nag about something. Worse than the exwife. OS updates in particular. Theres ALWAYS some stupid OS update or Dot-net fiasco to the tune of 500mb~2gb worth of downloading. At least once or twice a month. Unacceptable.

    And its 2022 and even with these lovely massive updates, the GUI is still horribly broken when you go to rename a file on an SMB share and something happens to the network connection; the entire explorer process crashes and
    any other related operations crash. No warning, no explanation, nothing, not even an "unknown error" logged anywhere.

    Linux is no better with some of this stuff... I just wish there was a modern OS that would act like an OS, talk like an OS and stop looking cute or trying to be my buddy. And doesn't need constant updates. Talks like a computer and just runs my bloody programs.

    Atreyu

    --- Renegade vY2Ka2
    * Origin: Joey, do you like movies about gladiators? (21:1/176)
  • From Gamgee@21:2/138 to Weatherman on Monday, November 21, 2022 09:43:00
    Weatherman wrote to Gamgee <=-

    What do you use all this storage space for? Is this a business thing,
    or just for home use?

    It is for home use, but I do run several Internet based systems
    for various thing. I also use it the very same way that Google
    Photos works, for photo/video backups for our phones. I just
    have an app on our phones that auto SFTPs new files in
    photo/video directories to my server.

    So I'm basically my own cloud. I also am a data hoarder, so I
    download tons of content. Lots of old TV shows and things like
    that.

    Some of the storage is for disk backups of all my server VMs,
    physical PCs, etc, too. And I keep 31 backups of each (one month
    worth), just to be safe.

    The backups use almost 24TB by itself. I also have weeks for of
    DVR data for my security cameras. Video takes up lots of
    storage.

    Wow, very cool. Is the auto-SFTP app on the phone a custom/private
    thing, or is it a publicly available app? I might be interested in
    trying that.


    ... Gone crazy, be back later, please leave message.
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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Tracker1 on Monday, November 21, 2022 08:00:00
    Tracker1 wrote to Atreyu <=-

    Got even better with Litestep, remember a pretty custom UI, that really just felt exactly how I wanted...

    I loved Litestep when I was running single-core laptops and trying to save
    as many resources as possible. Thought about running it again in an XP VM
    I've got, don't know how it would do under Windows 10.


    ... "He who is without oil, shall cast the first rod."-Compressions 8.7:1.
    --- MultiMail/DOS v0.52
    * Origin: realitycheckBBS.org -- information is power. (21:4/122)
  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to poindexter FORTRAN on Tuesday, November 22, 2022 18:39:00
    I still try to block out those days of swapping DDS and DLT tapes by hand.

    Was it really that bad? Guess it depends on how many tapes you're talking. I always found them better than sliced bread so long as you had SCSI. A
    business I used to work for was bought out by a much larger company, must at least 25 years back now.. they insisted on backups nightly, and got someone
    to install a DAT drive, none of the office staff new how to drive it though,
    so they were doing one backup per tape... :) Probably would've been able to fit a weeks worth on a single tape.

    Spec


    *** THE READER V4.50 [freeware]
    --- SuperBBS v1.17-3 (Eval)
    * Origin: Good Luck and drive offensively! (21:3/101)
  • From Weatherman@21:1/132 to Atreyu on Tuesday, November 22, 2022 08:05:13

    In this household computers work for me and not the other way around. And nobody nags me to do anything. I hate being nagged. Windows 10 and 11
    always nag about something. Worse than the exwife. OS updates in
    particular. Theres ALWAYS some stupid OS update or Dot-net fiasco to the tune of 500mb~2gb worth of downloading. At least once or twice a month. Unacceptable.

    The .NET are the worst - taking loads of time for updates. When you have thousands of servers to patch, this is a constant nightmare. That is why so many platforms have moved away from Windows Server and created custom "appliances". The OS is just something to boot up the application.

    And its 2022 and even with these lovely massive updates, the GUI is still horribly broken when you go to rename a file on an SMB share and something happens to the network connection; the entire explorer process crashes and any other related operations crash. No warning, no explanation, nothing,
    not even an "unknown error" logged anywhere.

    I see the same thing on Windows 10 from time to time. Probably some bug in explorer where it crashes and reloads the desktop.

    Linux is no better with some of this stuff... I just wish there was a
    modern OS that would act like an OS, talk like an OS and stop looking cute or trying
    to be my buddy. And doesn't need constant updates. Talks like a computer
    and just runs my bloody programs.

    Just like how Apple took hold of the phone market, the vast majority of people are not technical. They just want some fancy looking pretty thing that has flashy icons and loves to charge their credit card everytime they click anything.

    - Mark
    ÿÿÿ
    --- WWIVToss v.1.52
    * Origin: http://www.weather-station.org * Bel Air, MD -USA (21:1/132.0)
  • From Weatherman@21:1/132 to Gamgee on Tuesday, November 22, 2022 08:07:54

    Wow, very cool. Is the auto-SFTP app on the phone a custom/private
    thing, or is it a publicly available app? I might be interested in
    trying that.

    Yes, it is called FolderSync (for android). I can sync folders via SFTP from phones to directories on my server at home. No need for Google photos or any other cloud system.

    I would much rather control my own data, anyway.

    - Mark
    ÿÿÿ
    --- WWIVToss v.1.52
    * Origin: http://www.weather-station.org * Bel Air, MD -USA (21:1/132.0)
  • From Gamgee@21:2/138 to Weatherman on Tuesday, November 22, 2022 07:31:00
    Weatherman wrote to Gamgee <=-

    Wow, very cool. Is the auto-SFTP app on the phone a custom/private
    thing, or is it a publicly available app? I might be interested in
    trying that.

    Yes, it is called FolderSync (for android). I can sync folders
    via SFTP from phones to directories on my server at home. No
    need for Google photos or any other cloud system.

    Thanks. I see similar apps available for iOS, gonna look into this.

    I would much rather control my own data, anyway.

    Me too.


    ... Daddy, what does "now formatting drive C:" mean?
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  • From Utopian Galt@21:4/108 to Weatherman on Friday, November 25, 2022 16:47:08
    BY: Weatherman(21:1/132)


    |11W|09> |10It wasn't until around the early-mid 90s when there were programs|07
    |11W|09> |10created to allow FTN networks to work with WWIV. I was a very early|07
    |11W|09> |10adopter of that with WWIVTOSS (and still use it today).|07
    I was one of the diehards who was one of the first few people to join othernets in other parts of the world. I had like 10 othernets thanks to internet transport.

    But I am glad technology is opening up to all of us.

    --- WWIV 5.8.0.3608
    * Origin: inland utopia * california * iutopia.duckdns.org:2023 (21:4/108)
  • From Weatherman@21:1/132 to Utopian Galt on Saturday, November 26, 2022 07:43:12

    I was a very early|07 |11W|09> |10adopter of that with WWIVTOSS (and
    still use it today).|07 I was one of the diehards who was one of the
    first few people to join othernets in other parts of the world. I had
    like 10 othernets thanks to internet transport.

    But I am glad technology is opening up to all of us.

    Same with me. I was one of the very early WWIV systems that had FTN, Usenet, Internet based WWIVnet transfers, network file transfers (via Filenet), etc. Lots of good times working with some really smart people over the years. Morgul, Frank Reid, and Rushfan to name a few.

    - Mark
    ÿÿÿ
    --- WWIVToss v.1.52
    * Origin: http://www.weather-station.org * Bel Air, MD -USA (21:1/132.0)
  • From Adept@21:2/108 to boraxman on Thursday, December 01, 2022 21:13:01
    Main reason I'm turned off games. Spending $000's to play the same type of games I've already played.

    I got a switch for the kids instead. That will suffice.

    I picked up a 3DS recently, and then won a fairly-inexpensive auction for a bunch of games for the system.

    On the one hand, they're shutting off the ability to purchase anything more on the 3DS as of March 2023 or so, but on the other, at the end of life for a system is one of the nice times to buy.

    But hard to find other people who actively play it.

    But I suppose that's different from computer gaming. I mostly haven't bothered there, but spent lots on a computer because I wanted to be able to run demoscene productions (and hopefully eventually make some), and, well, that requires something that can play the latest games.

    So I guess I still have the expensive habit, if for a different reason.

    But I do think your approach is a very good one -- you should be able to enjoy the games just as much, but at a small fraction of the cost. Definitely a good idea.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/12/24 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Storm BBS (21:2/108)
  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to Adept on Thursday, December 01, 2022 14:25:05
    Re: Re: 2017/2018 PC to modernize it.
    By: Adept to boraxman on Thu Dec 01 2022 09:13 pm

    But I suppose that's different from computer gaming. I mostly haven't bothered there, but spent lots on a computer because I wanted to be able to run demoscene productions (and hopefully eventually make some), and, well, that requires something that can play the latest games.

    Over the years, PCs have been where I've played the most games. I've had consoles (and currently still have a Nintendo Wii that I bought years ago), but it always seemed to be a little easier and less expensive to get PC games if you wanted to. Shareware games have existed for a long time, and although limited, you can at least play a little bit of the game for free before you decide to buy the full version. And there's always freeware games too. There were never any freeware games for consoles in the 80s and 90s; I'm not sure about newer consoles where you can download games online.

    Nightfox
    --- SBBSecho 3.15-Linux
    * Origin: Digital Distortion: digdist.synchro.net (21:1/137)
  • From esc@21:4/173 to Adept on Thursday, December 01, 2022 14:38:00
    On the one hand, they're shutting off the ability to purchase anything more on the 3DS as of March 2023 or so, but on the other, at the end of life for a system is one of the nice times to buy.

    The original XBox is one of my all time favorite consoles, and enthusiasts have resurrected the xboxlive store (or whatever it is) in a community supported way. It's super cool and my description here is pretty reductive to the reality but perhaps there will be some community effort for the 3DS at some point. I agree the 3DS is an amazing gaming platform, and there are /so/ many classic games for it which are all just phenomenal.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 2022/07/11 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: m O N T E R E Y b B S . c O M (21:4/173)
  • From boraxman@21:1/101 to Adept on Friday, December 02, 2022 23:54:41
    Main reason I'm turned off games. Spending $000's to play the same t of games I've already played.

    I got a switch for the kids instead. That will suffice.

    I picked up a 3DS recently, and then won a fairly-inexpensive auction
    for a bunch of games for the system.

    On the one hand, they're shutting off the ability to purchase anything more on the 3DS as of March 2023 or so, but on the other, at the end of life for a system is one of the nice times to buy.

    But hard to find other people who actively play it.

    But I suppose that's different from computer gaming. I mostly haven't bothered there, but spent lots on a computer because I wanted to be able to run demoscene productions (and hopefully eventually make some), and, well, that requires something that can play the latest games.

    So I guess I still have the expensive habit, if for a different reason.

    But I do think your approach is a very good one -- you should be able to enjoy the games just as much, but at a small fraction of the cost. Definitely a good idea.


    I'm the only one who really is "into gaming", and even then, it is not that much. Part of the reason I stopped (apart from getting older, having a family, etc), is that I don't really want to use Windows as I consider Microsoft pretty evil. Linux runs most of what I'm interested in, Wine/Proton fills the gaps.

    The reality is that games would be the ONLY reason I'd need to update my computer, so if I'm happy to play on the Switch, then my PC has years more life to it.

    However, the Demoscene is something else and to be honest, its something I've wanted to get back into, though I've never made demos, only enjoyed watching them.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/12/24 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)
  • From Utopian Galt@21:4/108 to Adept on Friday, December 02, 2022 21:50:53
    BY: Adept(21:2/108)


    |11A|09> |10On the one hand, they're shutting off the ability to purchase anything|07
    |11A|09> |10more on the 3DS as of March 2023 or so, but on the other, at the end of|07
    |11A|09> |10life for a system is one of the nice times to buy.|07
    Im thinking about buying 100 bucks of 3ds games before the shut down. I might write a buyers guide.


    --- WWIV 5.8.0.3614
    * Origin: inland utopia * california * iutopia.duckdns.org:2023 (21:4/108)