VK3JED wrote to ME ME BIG BOY <=-

Well, I'm one who never really took to forums,

Same here. I have been a part of some in the past, but it
was a specific topic that was of specific DAILY interest
to me.

They
do have their strengths - threading being one, and they usually have search (which varies from almost useless to awesome, depending on the package).

Having a way to subscribe - get emails when a certain thread is
updated - is of value! Also an email when a NEW thread is made
is helpful! (there's one forum that I ONLY visit when a new
topic gets my attention in an email or I see that one I was
interested in got an update).




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ME ME BIG BOY wrote to VK3JED <=-

I'm 14 right now! lol. I was about five when my dad introduced me to computer stuff on his Dell XPS Gen 2 desktop... Windows XP and all. My current computers run Ubuntu 16.04 (with XFCE because I dislike Unity), and Windows XP respectively (the Windows XP computer is a laptop I
bought on eBay for $30 - really old and slow. But my desktop is also
from eBay - but newer and better - for $40)

Where are you located? I have a couple of older units (WinXP age)
that you might could get good use out of!

I've been looking at ways to use them for HAM, but all the HAM
guys are using PI (cause it's cheap and cheaper to run than old
desktop hardware), so I've not come up with anything yet. :-)




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KK4QBN wrote to ME ME BIG BOY <=-

A private firm is running a Fibre connection less then 1/8th mile from
my home now out on the highway (they said it was for businesses only) I told him, dude this subdivion has close to 300 homes in it, and plus
the service I run is an educationiol/informational one, because he
stated it was'nt for (residential use) I talked him into running it
down to my home. I don't know if he went renegade or not, but he was'nt lying, they started running there trencher down beside the length of
road going from the highway to my road and now the "doser" with the
optics despinser is laying them down into the trench :)

HELLL YEA.. FIBRE OPTICS HERE I COME, Coming straight from the Gig
City! The City with the Fastest internet in the WORLD "Or at least nation".

WOW! Now that is cool! I'm overpaying for DSL cause I'm in a "local
telco" area and they won't sell me Internet without selling me a
phone line too. So I have a phone number with basic service, but
no phone plugged into it. <sigh>





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JIMMY ANDERSON wrote to VK3JED <=-

Well, I'm one who never really took to forums,

Same here. I have been a part of some in the past, but it
was a specific topic that was of specific DAILY interest
to me.

Even them, I avoid them unless I am _really_ motivated. They are that much of an impediment.

Having a way to subscribe - get emails when a certain thread is
updated - is of value! Also an email when a NEW thread is made
is helpful! (there's one forum that I ONLY visit when a new
topic gets my attention in an email or I see that one I was
interested in got an update).

For me, a feature of limited use, required a context switch in my head when I'm in the middle of reading email, similar issues to "login fatigue". True two way mailing list ability would be much more useful.


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JIMMY ANDERSON wrote to KK4QBN <=-

WOW! Now that is cool! I'm overpaying for DSL cause I'm in a "local
telco" area and they won't sell me Internet without selling me a
phone line too. So I have a phone number with basic service, but
no phone plugged into it. <sigh>

It's screaming out for a BBS. ;)


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Re: Re: Hello people of Synch
By: JIMMY ANDERSON to KK4QBN on Tue Apr 18 2017 09:24 am

WOW! Now that is cool! I'm overpaying for DSL cause I'm in a "local
telco" area and they won't sell me Internet without selling me a
phone line too. So I have a phone number with basic service, but
no phone plugged into it. <sigh>

Thats what I have now, the Rules and regs states that the provider cannot get the feds money without providing a landline, so I hooked mine up as a dial in line to the BBS.

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VK3JED wrote to ME ME BIG BOY <=-

The modern world is very mobile. I often only take mobile devices when I'm out, so the lack of mobile QWK readers is a pain. I have both
Android and iOS devices, so catering for either is good for me.
Android is probably going to be the most useful, because I carry the Android phone around the most.

I've thought about it being nice to read qwk while mobile, but I'm
fine to just get to it when I get back to my laptop and time to
do so. :-)





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Re: Re: Hello people of Synch
By: JIMMY ANDERSON to VK3JED on Wed Apr 19 2017 02:21 am

VK3JED wrote to ME ME BIG BOY <=-

The modern world is very mobile. I often only take mobile devices
when I'm out, so the lack of mobile QWK readers is a pain. I have
both Android and iOS devices, so catering for either is good for me.
Android is probably going to be the most useful, because I carry the
Android phone around the most.

I've thought about it being nice to read qwk while mobile, but I'm
fine to just get to it when I get back to my laptop and time to
do so. :-)

ECWeb V4 is VERY mobile friendly. Ever tried it?

Visit my website. http://kk4qbn.synchro.net

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Re: Re: Hello people of Synch
By: KK4QBN to JIMMY ANDERSON on Thu Apr 20 2017 06:35:57

I've thought about it being nice to read qwk while mobile, but I'm

ECWeb V4 is VERY mobile friendly. Ever tried it?

I'm happy with the way the forum works on mobile. Makes a decent way to read BBS messages while taking a shit.

That said, a mobile QWK thing has its merits, particularly when it comes to offline reading. Back when I rode the subway every day, it might have been a handy thing to have. Speed of browsing would be another benefit. A lot of boards are on residential broadband connections, and browsing their sites isn't as snappy as it could be.

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oh - re-edit here... forgot to give you my contact info...

email me at jimmylogan0916@gmail.com if you want to
talk shipping...

ME ME BIG BOY wrote to JIMMY ANDERSON <=-

Where are you located? I have a couple of older units (WinXP age)
that you might could get good use out of!

I've been looking at ways to use them for HAM, but all the HAM
guys are using PI (cause it's cheap and cheaper to run than old
desktop hardware), so I've not come up with anything yet. :-)

I am located in the heart of Colorado (if you're wanting to get units shipped to me message me and we'll talk).

If you're willing to pay the shipping, sure. :-) I'm in Northwest
Tennessee... Might not be worth it in the long run...

And HAM as in HAM radio? If
so then noice. My brother is using a Pi as a web application test bed
for a class in college. It's cool stuff... I've been considering
getting a Pi myself as a test bed for PyBBS.

Yeah - HAM Radio - to try and make a long story not so long,
my wife has been a first responder & volunteer fire fighter
for several years. I kinda got an interest in HAM and she had
an interest in storm chasing anyway, so I looked into it.

Turns out the HT's (handheld transcievers - like a walkie-talkie)
she used for the departments also do HAM frequencies! Next step
was to get our licenses. She went technician only as she's not
a chatter and only interested for weather contacts. I went ahead
and did General so I could use HF and talk 'around the world.'

We went to Huntsville, Alabama to the hamfest last year and I spent
$600 and bought us matching mobile units with good antennas. Have
been enjoying the FIRE out them ever since!

I want to get something set up in the house, but her medical issues
have made money kinda tight... That's why I was hoping to be able
to repurpose some of the old PC stuff... People are getting into
digital locally and being able to tie in would have been nice. :-)



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For me, a feature of limited use, required a context switch in my head when I'm in the middle of reading email, similar issues to "login fatigue". True two way mailing list ability would be much more useful.

Yeah - I can see that...


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VK3JED wrote to JIMMY ANDERSON <=-

WOW! Now that is cool! I'm overpaying for DSL cause I'm in a "local
telco" area and they won't sell me Internet without selling me a
phone line too. So I have a phone number with basic service, but
no phone plugged into it. <sigh>

It's screaming out for a BBS. ;)

Hmm... Dial up only ? That sounds interesting...

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LOL



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KK4QBN wrote to JIMMY ANDERSON <=-

WOW! Now that is cool! I'm overpaying for DSL cause I'm in a "local
telco" area and they won't sell me Internet without selling me a
phone line too. So I have a phone number with basic service, but
no phone plugged into it. <sigh>

Thats what I have now, the Rules and regs states that the provider
cannot get the feds money without providing a landline, so I hooked
mine up as a dial in line to the BBS.

Yeah - see VE's similar comment. ;-)

My issue is I don't have a BBS at all - it would have to be something
I started from scratch...



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JIMMY ANDERSON wrote to VK3JED <=-

I've thought about it being nice to read qwk while mobile, but I'm
fine to just get to it when I get back to my laptop and time to
do so. :-)

I'd certainly like the flexibility to be able to download and read a QWK packet on the go. Sometimes it's too much of a hassle to setup the laptop for a mail fix. :)


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KK4QBN wrote to JIMMY ANDERSON <=-

ECWeb V4 is VERY mobile friendly. Ever tried it?

Not on a mobile. While it is good as a web interface (and I want to offer it to any passing users), its biggest weakness for me is that it _is_ a web interface! I find web interfaces slow and clumsy to navigate, compared to a QWK reader or even a terminal session. Secondly, I need true offline operation, because I can't rely on the network to be there in a lot of places I go.


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echicken wrote to KK4QBN <=-

I'm happy with the way the forum works on mobile. Makes a decent way
to read BBS messages while taking a shit.

LOL, crap reception though! :D

That said, a mobile QWK thing has its merits, particularly when it
comes to offline reading. Back when I rode the subway every day, it
might have been a handy thing to have. Speed of browsing would be
another benefit. A lot of boards are on residential broadband connections, and browsing their sites isn't as snappy as it could be.

I'm particularly demanding of user interfaces, because of the volume of messages I handle. I prefer to be "isolated" from the network when I'm navigating messages, because of the effects of network and server lag, and web interfaces are more prone to this than terminal sessions. These are the reasons I am on QWK now, despite being only a LAN hop from the BBS.

Still interested in ECWeb4, but still haven't upgraded the system.


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Re: Re: Hello people of Synch
By: JIMMY ANDERSON to KK4QBN on Thu Apr 20 2017 09:36 am

My issue is I don't have a BBS at all - it would have to be something
I started from scratch...

I just bought an HP 5740e thin client off ebay for $13.50
these little 12 watt thin clients are perfect to run synchronet on.

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JIMMY ANDERSON wrote to VK3JED <=-

no phone plugged into it. <sigh>

It's screaming out for a BBS. ;)

Hmm... Dial up only ? That sounds interesting...

No reason you can't run dialup and telnet. :)


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Re: Re: Hello people of Synch
By: JIMMY ANDERSON to ME ME BIG BOY on Thu Apr 20 2017 09:30 am

Turns out the HT's (handheld transcievers - like a walkie-talkie)
she used for the departments also do HAM frequencies! Next step
was to get our licenses. She went technician only as she's not
a chatter and only interested for weather contacts. I went ahead
and did General so I could use HF and talk 'around the world.'

Commercial radios doing ham frq? I don't believe that, unless her department is so cheap that they are buying them Chicom radios, (Baofeng, POfung), etc.. Now its possible that YOUR Ham radio (Baofeng, etc) will both TX and RX on public saftey frequencies, which by far does'nt make it legal. I'm not dissing ChiCom radios, I love them for their Price, but I would not trust a fire, police, or any other first responder outfit who gave them out as their lifeline to dispatch.

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Re: Re: Hello people of Synch
By: JIMMY ANDERSON to KK4QBN on Thu Apr 20 2017 09:36 am

Yeah - see VE's similar comment. ;-)

My issue is I don't have a BBS at all - it would have to be something
I started from scratch...

Either do that, or set sexpots up and have it telnet to your favorite BBS :-)

No waste of a incoming phone line, and many many BBS users benefit from it.


Plus if you have a USR modem you wake FREAKINK EVERYONE in the house up at 3 in the morning when someone decides they want to test their init strings to get over a 28800 connection over a dirty phone line (3rd time should have thought them better) I have set my speaker to the lowest settings via init strings and the damn thing will still make you jummp out of your bed, I'm either about to snip a line, desolder the speaker, or DO SOMETZHING.. I likeit for nostalgia sake.. but why does everyone have to call at 3-5am.

I had a total of 9 data dial-ins last night...

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KK4QBN wrote to JIMMY ANDERSON <=-

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Re: Re: Hello people of Synch
By: JIMMY ANDERSON to ME ME BIG BOY
on Thu Apr 20 2017 09:30 am

Turns out the HT's (handheld transcievers - like a walkie-talkie)
she used for the departments also do HAM frequencies! Next step
was to get our licenses. She went technician only as she's not
a chatter and only interested for weather contacts. I went ahead
and did General so I could use HF and talk 'around the world.'

Commercial radios doing ham frq? I don't believe that, unless her department is so cheap that they are buying them Chicom radios,
(Baofeng, POfung), etc.. Now its possible that YOUR Ham radio (Baofeng, etc) will both TX and RX on public saftey frequencies, which by far does'nt make it legal. I'm not dissing ChiCom radios, I love them for their Price, but I would not trust a fire, police, or any other first responder outfit who gave them out as their lifeline to dispatch.

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Hmm... Dial up only ? That sounds interesting...

No reason you can't run dialup and telnet. :)

I do. :)

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Dumas Walker wrote to VK3JED <=-

No reason you can't run dialup and telnet. :)

I do. :)

I thought about adding a dialup line, but as the landline will be gone in a few weeks, there's no point now. Should have done it years ago. :)


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Re: Re: Hello people of Synch
By: Dumas Walker to VK3JED on Fri Apr 21 2017 08:01 pm

Hmm... Dial up only ? That sounds interesting...

No reason you can't run dialup and telnet. :)

I do. :)

I could being that I have a phoneline that is not being used not sure if I want to buy a modem though.

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Re: Re: Hello people of Synch
By: Vk3jed to Dumas Walker on Sat Apr 22 2017 01:11 pm

Dumas Walker wrote to VK3JED <=-

No reason you can't run dialup and telnet. :)

I do. :)

I thought about adding a dialup line, but as the landline will be gone in a weeks, there's no point now. Should have done it years ago. :)

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Thats sad... I love calling into BBS's with real modems. (just like i am right now at 2400 baud)
Using the internet to do it just doesnt have the same charm as two computers having a direct conversation with each other over the phone!

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Denn Gray wrote to Dumas Walker <=-

I could being that I have a phoneline that is not being used not sure
if I want to buy a modem though.

I've got several kicking around, from the last one I used for dialup Internet, to several that I inherited from a previous workplace when they closed down some offices.


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Re: Re: Hello people of Synch
By: Denn Gray to Dumas Walker on Sat Apr 22 2017 08:50 am

Re: Re: Hello people of Synch
By: Dumas Walker to VK3JED on Fri Apr 21 2017 08:01 pm

Hmm... Dial up only ? That sounds interesting...

No reason you can't run dialup and telnet. :)

I do. :)

I could being that I have a phoneline that is not being used not sure if I w to buy a modem though.

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Bruh. Modems rock. I personally own a US Robotics Courier V.Everything, a US Robotics Courier 2400e, a US Robotics V.92 "black sportster" modem, a Commodore Modem 1200, a weird brown third party 300 baud for Vic-20, a MPP 1000c 300 baud for Atari 400/800 (complete in box with original cartridge) and a Complete in box Atari XM-301. Oh and my Courier 2400e is CIB too. I guess you could say i am a hardcore modem enthusiast! (theres several others i would buy if i had the money currently, like at least one acoustic coupler modem)

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Re: Re: Hello people of Synch
By: Alec Aaron Roberts to Vk3jed on Sat Apr 22 2017 03:35 pm

Thats sad... I love calling into BBS's with real modems. (just like i am right now at 2400 baud)
Using the internet to do it just doesnt have the same charm as two computers having a direct conversation with each other over the phone!

I tend to think so too. When I first got my own modem back in the days, I thought it was so cool that my computer could dial another computer and they could be connected over the phone line and I could browse a BBS and such. And then technology advanced, and I thought the internet was so cool when I first started using it. And then when I first got broadband internet, I was stoked that I could do everything online so much faster. So it seems ironic to think that now we think there's a certain charm in dialing into another computer with a modem over a phone line. :) I don't have a phone line at my house right now (I only use my cell phone), but I wouldn't mind using a dialup modem sometimes for nostalgia.

Nightfox

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Re: Re: Hello people of Synch
By: Vk3jed to Denn Gray on Sun Apr 23 2017 07:20 am

I could being that I have a phoneline that is not being used not sure if I want to buy a modem though.

I've got several kicking around, from the last one I used for dialup Internet, to several that I inherited from a previous workplace when they closed down some offices.

I appreciate the offer, I was just on ebay and saw USB modems for $10-$15 I might just get one of those as my BBS Comp has 8 USB ports:)

But for right now I have another project I'm working on, I bought a hp t5740e Thin Client with 4gb Ram and a 4GB SSD, this unit has a sata port on the mother board so I hooked up my 500GB sata and yep it will work but I need a sata angle adapter to install it (wich I just ordered off ebay for $5.00)
This unit has windows 7 embeded and runs at 12 watts So once I get my hard drive installed I will move my BBS off my Plex server to this thin client.
I bought the hp t5740e off ebay for $13.50.

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Re: Re: Hello people of Synch
By: Alec Aaron Roberts to Denn Gray on Sat Apr 22 2017 04:05 pm

Bruh. Modems rock. I personally own a US Robotics Courier V.Everything, a US Robotics Courier 2400e, a US Robotics V.92 "black sportster" modem, a Commodore Modem 1200, a weird brown third party 300 baud for Vic-20, a MPP

Wow a Vic-20 4k that was my very first computer, I remember taking like 15 minutes to load a program off a cassette tape lol, those were the days
Then I bought a TrS-80 Color Computer with 64k. those were the days.

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Alec Aaron Roberts wrote to Vk3jed <=-

Thats sad... I love calling into BBS's with real modems. (just like i
am right now at 2400 baud)

Has been a long time since I've done that. BBSs worked better over modems than the Internet did, since they were designed for efficiency over slow lines.

Using the internet to do it just doesnt have the same charm as two computers having a direct conversation with each other over the phone!

True. :) I would have to use VoIP. One service I've used should work, because I can tweak the codec to one that could pass the data.


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Denn Gray wrote to Vk3jed <=-

I appreciate the offer, I was just on ebay and saw USB modems for
$10-$15 I might just get one of those as my BBS Comp has 8 USB ports:)

Yeah shouldn't be too hard to find modems. :)

But for right now I have another project I'm working on, I bought a hp t5740e Thin Client with 4gb Ram and a 4GB SSD, this unit has a sata
port on the mother board so I hooked up my 500GB sata and yep it will
work but I need a sata angle adapter to install it (wich I just ordered off ebay for $5.00) This unit has windows 7 embeded and runs at 12
watts So once I get my hard drive installed I will move my BBS off my
Plex server to this thin client. I bought the hp t5740e off ebay for $13.50.

Could be useful. :)


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04-22-17 19:30 Nightfox wrote to Alec Aaron Roberts about Re: Hello people of Synch
Howdy! Nightfox,

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Re: Re: Hello people of Synch
By: Alec Aaron Roberts to Vk3jed on Sat Apr 22 2017 03:35 pm

Thats sad... I love calling into BBS's with real modems. (just like i am right now at 2400 baud)
Using the internet to do it just doesnt have the same charm as two computers having a direct conversation with each other over the phone!

I tend to think so too. When I first got my own modem back in the
days, I thought it was so cool that my computer could dial another computer and they could be connected over the phone line and I could browse a BBS and such. And then technology advanced, and I thought the internet was so cool when I first started using it. And then when I
first got broadband internet, I was stoked that I could do everything online so much faster. So it seems ironic to think that now we think there's a certain charm in dialing into another computer with a modem
over a phone line. :) I don't have a phone line at my house right now
(I only use my cell phone), but I wouldn't mind using a dialup modem sometimes for nostalgia.

I have AT&T DSL at home.

The last time I used a Modem was when I was at another persons home who
didn't have internet service but they had a Land Line telephone.
I used my notebook's Internal Modem to Dial Up AT&T's internet service
to get copies of Dells Users Guide and Service Manual for their Dell pc.

I used a USB thumbdrive to put the 2 files I downloaded on to their Dell.

That was 7 years ago, but using Dial Up was the only way I could get what
the person asked me to do so I could help them.

The first Modem I used was an External Modem, a Commodore VICMODEM 300
that was plugged in the back of the C=64.

The wire connected to it didn't connect to the Phone Line, it used the
wire going from the Phones Base to the Telephone Handset.


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Re: Re: Hello people of Synch
By: Vk3jed to Alec Aaron Roberts on Sun Apr 23 2017 04:15 pm

Alec Aaron Roberts wrote to Vk3jed <=-

Thats sad... I love calling into BBS's with real modems. (just like i am right now at 2400 baud)

Has been a long time since I've done that. BBSs worked better over modems than the Internet did, since they were designed for efficiency over slow lines.

back in the mid to late 90s, the internet wasnt really slow over dialup.. if you were just web browsing.
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Mro wrote to Vk3jed <=-

back in the mid to late 90s, the internet wasnt really slow over
dialup.. if you were just web browsing.

I initially had a shell account, which was quite responsive over 2400, as it was basically just another terminal session (like a BBS), but the difference was quite noticeable when I switched to PPP.


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Re: Re: Hello people of Synch
By: Vk3jed to Denn Gray on Mon Apr 24 2017 07:31 am

off ebay for $5.00) This unit has windows 7 embeded and runs at 12 watts So once I get my hard drive installed I will move my BBS off my Plex server to this thin client. I bought the hp t5740e off ebay for $13.50.

Could be useful. :)

these units have 1.66 ghz atom cpu, sata and a pci slot.
I am making a Plex server for my son with the older thin client.

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these units have 1.66 ghz atom cpu, sata and a pci slot.
I am making a Plex server for my son with the older thin client.

Useful hardware for a lot of purposes. :)


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Re: Re: Hello people of Synch
By: Denn Gray to Vk3jed on Sun Apr 23 2017 09:32 pm

these units have 1.66 ghz atom cpu, sata and a pci slot.
I am making a Plex server for my son with the older thin client.

you will need some muscle for transcoding.
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back in the mid to late 90s, the internet wasnt really slow over dialup.. if you were just web browsing.

Yeah, it got slow when they started adding all of the advertising and flash
and crap. You used to be able to surf it, text only, just as fast as a bbs.

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Re: Re: Hello people of Synch
By: Mro to Denn Gray on Mon Apr 24 2017 16:45:33

these units have 1.66 ghz atom cpu, sata and a pci slot.
I am making a Plex server for my son with the older thin client.

you will need some muscle for transcoding.

Plex works great on this thin client, I have had 3 TV's streaming at once with no problem.

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Re: Re: Hello people of Synch
By: Denn Gray to Mro on Tue Apr 25 2017 11:04 am

Plex works great on this thin client, I have had 3 TV's streaming at once with no problem.

I have a Plex server set up at home, and we have 2 TVs that we watch content on. One of our TVs has been having a problem with Plex sometimes lately where it will be playing a video and then suddently stop and it will say the device is unable to play the media. But we can often try again and it will pick up where it left off, or restart in some cases. It never used to have that problem in the past.. The only thing I can think of is that I've upgraded the Plex server software as new versions have been released, and now I'm wondering if there's some kind of protocol mismatch between the server and TV's Plex app. Another problem on the same TV is that when viewing photos with Plex, sometimes it's unable to load a photo to display full-screen.
The other TV works fine though and has never had the same issues with Plex. Both TVs are Samsung, but different models.

Nightfox

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KK4QBN wrote to JIMMY ANDERSON <=-

I've thought about it being nice to read qwk while mobile, but I'm
fine to just get to it when I get back to my laptop and time to
do so. :-)

ECWeb V4 is VERY mobile friendly. Ever tried it?

No - not familiar with it - a google turned up nothing either.



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Re: Re: Hello people of Synch
By: JIMMY ANDERSON to KK4QBN on Thu Apr 20 2017 06:26 am

KK4QBN wrote to JIMMY ANDERSON <=-

I've thought about it being nice to read qwk while mobile, but I'm
fine to just get to it when I get back to my laptop and time to
do so. :-)

ECWeb V4 is VERY mobile friendly. Ever tried it?

No - not familiar with it - a google turned up nothing either.

it's one of the web interfaces you can use for synchronet. from what i've seen that ssjs stuff is kinda slow when using it to load up msg areas.
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Re: Re: Hello people of Synch
By: JIMMY ANDERSON to KK4QBN on Thu Apr 20 2017 06:26 am

No - not familiar with it - a google turned up nothing either.

No, you would have to visit a BBS that has EcWeb installed. Like My BBS http://kk4qbn.synchro.net <hint> <hint>.

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Re: Re: Hello people of Synch
By: Mro to JIMMY ANDERSON on Sun May 07 2017 09:02 pm

it's one of the web interfaces you can use for synchronet. from what i've seen that ssjs stuff is kinda slow when using it to load up msg areas.

It was slow on on windows, but only because that box was old and had very little resources. now that it is on my linux mahine, it is blazingly fast.

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Re: Re: Hello people of Synch
By: JIMMY ANDERSON to KK4QBN on Thu Apr 20 2017 06:26 am

ECWeb V4 is VERY mobile friendly. Ever tried it?

No - not familiar with it - a google turned up nothing either.

This is the 2nd link when I search for "ecwebv4" on Google: https://github.com/echicken/synchronet-web-v4

Nightfox

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Re: Re: Hello people of Synch
By: Nightfox to JIMMY ANDERSON on Mon May 08 2017 09:53 am

ECWeb V4 is VERY mobile friendly. Ever tried it?

No - not familiar with it - a google turned up nothing either.

This is the 2nd link when I search for "ecwebv4" on Google: https://github.com/echicken/synchronet-web-v4

I have a feeling he was looking for it in the "Play Store"... What we really need is a connector app for android/iphone.. I think I might start on and android version to see how far I can get.. I'm sure with all of ExecutiveChickens JS scripts running server side, something can be done that looks wild and off the wall.

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Re: Re: Hello people of Synch
By: KK4QBN to Nightfox on Tue May 09 2017 08:21 am

This is the 2nd link when I search for "ecwebv4" on Google:
https://github.com/echicken/synchronet-web-v4

I have a feeling he was looking for it in the "Play Store"... What we really need is a connector app for android/iphone.. I think I might start on and android version to see how far I can get..

Would it be for reading the messagebases? echicken's web interface looks fairly good on mobile devices; I'm not sure what the benefit would be for having a specific app for it, except maybe for adding features that might not be provided by the web interface. But if you just want to read the forums on a Synchronet BBS, you can download a news reader app for Android and connect via Synchronet's NNTP server. It would only display the shortened sub-board names though..

I'm sure with all of
ExecutiveChickens JS scripts running server side, something can be done that looks wild and off the wall.

I believe his handle is Electronic Chicken..

Nightfox

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Nightfox wrote to KK4QBN <=-

features that might not be provided by the web interface. But if you
just want to read the forums on a Synchronet BBS, you can download a
news reader app for Android and connect via Synchronet's NNTP server.
It would only display the shortened sub-board names though..

NNTP has one big disadvantage for me - last read pointer synchronisation. NNTP stores them on the client side, which means there's no way for your newsreader to keep last reads in sync with the BBS. This is one of the reasons I don't use NNTP, unless I _really_ have to.

I'm sure with all of
ExecutiveChickens JS scripts running server side, something can be done that looks wild and off the wall.

I believe his handle is Electronic Chicken..

It's echicken, but yeah I'm sure it's short for electronic chicken. :)


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Re: Re: Hello people of Synch
By: Vk3jed to Nightfox on Wed May 10 2017 08:22 am

NNTP has one big disadvantage for me - last read pointer synchronisation. NNTP stores them on the client side, which means there's no way for your newsreader to keep last reads in sync with the BBS. This is one of the reasons I don't use NNTP, unless I _really_ have to.

That's true, I had forgotten about that regarding NNTP..

ExecutiveChickens JS scripts running server side, something can be
done that looks wild and off the wall.

I believe his handle is Electronic Chicken..

It's echicken, but yeah I'm sure it's short for electronic chicken. :)

That's what I meant, his handle is short for Electronic Chicken. :)

Nightfox

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Nightfox wrote to Vk3jed <=-

NNTP has one big disadvantage for me - last read pointer synchronisation. NNTP stores them on the client side, which means there's no way for your newsreader to keep last reads in sync with the BBS. This is one of the reasons I don't use NNTP, unless I _really_ have to.

That's true, I had forgotten about that regarding NNTP..

Yeah, a lot of people forget that. My ideal would be a QWK/Bluewave reader for Android, which doesn't exist. Interfacing with ECweb4 has a major weakness for me - it's an online solution. At best, I'd be exposed to network lag (feels like surfing in treacle ;) ), but it's not too hard to leave mobile coverage out here, making online solutions of limited use while travelling. Offline mail only needs intermittent access, which will even work when you're down to wifi hopping, or having to hold your tongue right to get mobile Internet

It's echicken, but yeah I'm sure it's short for electronic chicken. :)

That's what I meant, his handle is short for Electronic Chicken. :)

Yep. ;)


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Re: Re: Hello people of Synch
By: Nightfox to Vk3jed on Tue May 09 2017 04:52 pm

ExecutiveChickens JS scripts running server side, something can be
done that looks wild and off the wall.

I believe his handle is Electronic Chicken..

It's echicken, but yeah I'm sure it's short for electronic chicken.
:)

Twas a joke..

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Re: Re: Hello people of Synch
By: Nightfox to Vk3jed on Tue May 09 2017 04:52 pm

ExecutiveChickens JS scripts running server side, something can be
done that looks wild and off the wall.

I believe his handle is Electronic Chicken..

It's echicken, but yeah I'm sure it's short for electronic chicken.
:)

That's what I meant, his handle is short for Electronic Chicken. :)

Ithought it meant Erotically dry-rubbed cajun cjicjen,l


aaaaaaaaaaa

I need sleeep

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Re: Re: Hello people of Synch
By: Vk3jed to Nightfox on Wed May 10 2017 12:00 pm

Yeah, a lot of people forget that. My ideal would be a QWK/Bluewave reader for Android, which doesn't exist. Interfacing with ECweb4 has a major weakness for me - it's an online solution. At best, I'd be exposed to network lag (feels like surfing in treacle ;) )

In order to interface an app with ECWeb, ECWeb would have to support a web-based exchange mechanism using JSON or similar. I'm not sure if ECWeb supports that, but I haven't looked into it.

Nightfox

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Nightfox wrote to Vk3jed <=-

Yeah, a lot of people forget that. My ideal would be a QWK/Bluewave reader for Android, which doesn't exist. Interfacing with ECweb4 has a major weakness for me - it's an online solution. At best, I'd be exposed to network lag (feels like surfing in treacle ;) )

In order to interface an app with ECWeb, ECWeb would have to support a web-based exchange mechanism using JSON or similar. I'm not sure if
ECWeb supports that, but I haven't looked into it.

True, and that doesn't address the issues I pointed out above either, unless the app had offline reading capabilities.


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Re: Re: Hello people of Synch
By: Nightfox to KK4QBN on Tue May 09 2017 09:21:28

Would it be for reading the messagebases? echicken's web interface looks fairly good on mobile devices; I'm not sure what the benefit would be for having a specific app for it, except maybe for adding features that might

The only argument for an app that I can think of offhand would be offline reading/writing; let it cache stuff locally and sync up when it's online. I see talk once in a while about people wanting a mobile QWK app, which would do the job I guess. Wouldn't be too difficult to make, but as it's not something I'd personally use I'm not sure I could be bothered.

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Re: Re: Hello people of Synch
By: Nightfox to KK4QBN on Tue May 09 2017 09:21:28

ExecutiveChickens JS scripts running server side, something can be

I believe his handle is Electronic Chicken..

It is, but Executive Chicken has been an alternate alias for a while (I think I have DigitalMan to thank for that).

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Re: Re: Hello people of Synch
By: Nightfox to Vk3jed on Wed May 10 2017 09:32:45

In order to interface an app with ECWeb, ECWeb would have to support a web-based exchange mechanism using JSON or similar. I'm not sure if ECWeb supports that, but I haven't looked into it.

It has something of a web API, with sufficient stuff for a messaging client, and could be built out fairly easily if more function calls were needed.

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Re: Re: Hello people of Synch
By: Nightfox to Vk3jed on Wed May 10 2017 09:32 am

In order to interface an app with ECWeb, ECWeb would have to support a web-based exchange mechanism using JSON or similar. I'm not sure if ECWeb supports that, but I haven't looked into it.

Yes, it's possible to access the JSON db from ecWeb.

I built an ecWebv4 .xjs version of Sports Stats last year for sysops who wanted it. You can see it in action on my board (guardian.synchro.net).

If you download Sports Stats from http://github.com/kirkman/sports-stats,
you get the files for both the ecweb version as well as the regular ANSI version.

(BTW - I know the offseason/postseason date handling still needs fixes. I'll get aroudn to it someday)

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Re: Re: Hello people of Synch
By: Kirkman to Nightfox on Thu May 11 2017 20:48:48

Yes, it's possible to access the JSON db from ecWeb.

I think he's talking more about getting other data (from message bases, etc.) in JSON format, which is also possible and I do have mechanisms in place for.

But yes, a script running on the webserver can connect to a JSON-DB and send that data to the client. (I have a script for Oneliners that does the same.)

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VK3JED wrote to JIMMY ANDERSON <=-

JIMMY ANDERSON wrote to VK3JED <=-

I've thought about it being nice to read qwk while mobile, but I'm
fine to just get to it when I get back to my laptop and time to
do so. :-)

I'd certainly like the flexibility to be able to download and read a
QWK packet on the go. Sometimes it's too much of a hassle to setup the laptop for a mail fix. :)

Well, after being busy and 'away' for a couple of weeks with no mail,
I can now see that had I been able to do this on my phone I would have.
:-)




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DENN GRAY wrote to JIMMY ANDERSON <=-

By: JIMMY ANDERSON to KK4QBN on Thu Apr 20 2017 09:36 am

My issue is I don't have a BBS at all - it would have to be something
I started from scratch...

I just bought an HP 5740e thin client off ebay for $13.50
these little 12 watt thin clients are perfect to run synchronet on.

Yeah, but my point was I'm not a sysop. I know most people here are,
and I know I COULD be, but I'm also getting a new podcast off the
ground and hopefully it's about to be 'music season' again (first
official gig of the year is this Saturday) so it's not something I
want to add to my plate right now. :-)

Oh - and if you're interested - http://www.madhatandmore.com




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VK3JED wrote to JIMMY ANDERSON <=-

JIMMY ANDERSON wrote to VK3JED <=-

no phone plugged into it. <sigh>

It's screaming out for a BBS. ;)

Hmm... Dial up only ? That sounds interesting...

No reason you can't run dialup and telnet. :)

One big reason - my DSL is bad enough when I'm trying
to play on roll20.net while my wife watches Netflix. :-)




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KK4QBN wrote to JIMMY ANDERSON <=-

By: JIMMY ANDERSON to ME ME BIG BOY on Thu Apr 20 2017 09:30 am

Turns out the HT's (handheld transcievers - like a walkie-talkie)
she used for the departments also do HAM frequencies! Next step
was to get our licenses. She went technician only as she's not
a chatter and only interested for weather contacts. I went ahead
and did General so I could use HF and talk 'around the world.'

Commercial radios doing ham frq? I don't believe that, unless her department is so cheap that they are buying them Chicom radios,
(Baofeng, POfung), etc..

No, they use Motorola.

Now its possible that YOUR Ham radio (Baofeng,
etc) will both TX and RX on public saftey frequencies, which by far does'nt make it legal.

Correct. And it IS legal for her to do so since she's a working member
of the departments. We also monitor only the other public safety freq's.

I'm not dissing ChiCom radios, I love them for
their Price, but I would not trust a fire, police, or any other first responder outfit who gave them out as their lifeline to dispatch.

It's all volunteer. They hand out the Motorola units, but everyone has
their own mobile rig they've had to buy in addition to the HT's since
the service is so bad in the rural area, but that's another gripe...




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KK4QBN wrote to JIMMY ANDERSON <=-

My issue is I don't have a BBS at all - it would have to be something
I started from scratch...

Either do that, or set sexpots up and have it telnet to your favorite
BBS :-)

No waste of a incoming phone line, and many many BBS users benefit from it.

Many? Really? LOL

Plus if you have a USR modem you wake FREAKINK EVERYONE in the house up
at 3 in the morning when someone decides they want to test their init strings to get over a 28800 connection over a dirty phone line (3rd
time should have thought them better) I have set my speaker to the
lowest settings via init strings and the damn thing will still make you jummp out of your bed, I'm either about to snip a line, desolder the speaker, or DO SOMETZHING.. I likeit for nostalgia sake.. but why does everyone have to call at 3-5am.

LOL

I had a total of 9 data dial-ins last night...

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DENN GRAY wrote to ALEC AARON ROBERTS <=-

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Re: Re: Hello people of Synch
By: Alec Aaron Roberts to Denn Gray on Sat Apr 22 2017 04:05 pm

Bruh. Modems rock. I personally own a US Robotics Courier V.Everything, a US Robotics Courier 2400e, a US Robotics V.92 "black sportster" modem, a Commodore Modem 1200, a weird brown third party 300 baud for Vic-20, a MPP

Wow a Vic-20 4k that was my very first computer, I remember taking like
15 minutes to load a program off a cassette tape lol, those were the
days
Then I bought a TrS-80 Color Computer with 64k. those were the days.

My first computer was a TRS-80 CoCo II. :-)




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MRO wrote to JIMMY ANDERSON <=-

KK4QBN wrote to JIMMY ANDERSON <=-

I've thought about it being nice to read qwk while mobile, but I'm
fine to just get to it when I get back to my laptop and time to
do so. :-)

ECWeb V4 is VERY mobile friendly. Ever tried it?

No - not familiar with it - a google turned up nothing either.

it's one of the web interfaces you can use for synchronet. from what
i've seen that ssjs stuff is kinda slow when using it to load up msg areas. ---

I assume the sysop has to turn something on those? Plus the local BBS I use
is Wildcat.




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KK4QBN wrote to NIGHTFOX <=-

ECWeb V4 is VERY mobile friendly. Ever tried it?

No - not familiar with it - a google turned up nothing either.

This is the 2nd link when I search for "ecwebv4" on Google: https://github.com/echicken/synchronet-web-v4

I have a feeling he was looking for it in the "Play Store"...

So, I was just using Google in a browser. But I would have been
looking in the iPhone app store. :-)

What we
really need is a connector app for android/iphone.. I think I might
start on and android version to see how far I can get.. I'm sure with
all of ExecutiveChickens JS scripts running server side, something can
be done that looks wild and off the wall.

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JIMMY ANDERSON wrote to VK3JED <=-

I'd certainly like the flexibility to be able to download and read a
QWK packet on the go. Sometimes it's too much of a hassle to setup the laptop for a mail fix. :)

Well, after being busy and 'away' for a couple of weeks with no mail,
I can now see that had I been able to do this on my phone I would have. :-)

I rest my case. ;) For me, the ideal offline system would:

1. Support Android and iOS.

2. Support both FTP and zmodem over telnet/SSH/rlogin for transfers (integrated terminal/FTP for simplicity). The transfers could be scripted or manual.

3. Support multiple BBSs

4. Support taglines! Syncing tagline files in the cloud would be nice too.

5. Support QWK and Bluewave as a minimum.

6. Built in ANSI viewer.

Just the start. :)

Any mobile app developers in the house?

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LOL


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JIMMY ANDERSON wrote to VK3JED <=-

No reason you can't run dialup and telnet. :)

One big reason - my DSL is bad enough when I'm trying
to play on roll20.net while my wife watches Netflix. :-)

Haha, better than what we've got ATM. The contractors for the new broadband infrastructure screwed up royally. They didn't transfer our line across at our end, but at the exchange end, they pulled the pluf on the DSLAM port. So we've got nothing. I've cobbled together something using a couple of 3G/4G accounts to get limited functionality (mostly wifi devices, plus the BBSs, because they're on a tunnel that's easily transferred, and email with some funky IP routing ;) ).

Hopefully they'll sort this shit out in the next day or two. One particular difficulty is I can get email, but because of the complicated routing in place, I can't easily access any links in the email, unless I use a mobile device, which is on the 4G wifi router, and not subject to the complex routing. :)

The end game is to get 100/40 connectivity, instead of the previous 3/0.8 (down to 1.5/0.5 lately DSL). :)


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Re: Re: Hello people of Synch
By: JIMMY ANDERSON to DENN GRAY on Wed Jun 07 2017 09:43 am

My first computer was a TRS-80 CoCo II. :-)

Mine was the CoCo I

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KNIGHTMARE wrote to JIMMY ANDERSON <=-

My first computer was a TRS-80 CoCo II. :-)

Mine was the CoCo I

The bass player in my bluegrass group at the time had an
original, with the 'chiclet' keyboard. He showed it to
me and that's what prompted me to go that route, but of
course the II was out then with the 'more normal'
keyboard.

Didn't hurt that the first computer I had my hands on
was a Model III that my math teacher brought to school.
He also brought his HAM rig one day. I hung out in there
as much as I could that day. :-)



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