I've tested it with Mystic on Windows. Linux also seems to work but
I've not added it to my BBS yet.
You can shoot it over to Another F-ing BBS (Windows Version)...
will be happy to test it for you...
Andrew;
You can shoot it over to Another F-ing BBS (Windows Version)...
will be happy to test it for you...
How's the day/night going?
Just finishing my Tuesday over here. It's been a long day.
Best, Paul
Hey, I uploaded it to your bbs.. thanks!
https://gitlab.com/apamment/forhonour-c.git
Paul;
It's been going... I'm alive so I guess thats a plus...
How are you doing?
Today I have ported For Honour over to MagiDoor.
I've tested it with Mystic on Windows. Linux also seems to work but
I've not added it to my BBS yet.
It's slowly getting worse here with Covid-19 stuff.
In my city a couple of people have tested positive and one is a school child. That sent the school to close and 150 close contacts tested today with results due back in a day or so and all of those people and their families in self isolation for 14 days.
Total cases here in New Zealand jumped from 8 to 20 today. The nightly news was full of Covid-19 local and overseas news and essentially nothing else.
My work is talking about getting us working from home soon but as yet have not enacted that.
Our government is saying to New Zealanders living overseas to return home now or risk not being able to as flights dry up and borders close.
Anyone coming in to the country must now self isolate for 14 days. People are bing spot checked by the police and those who do not comply (visitors to NZ) are being deported.
The government announced a 12 billion dollar package to support business and workers who are loosing their jobs. Tourism is essentially gone now for who knows how long for that sector is pretty stuffed.
In my city a couple of people have tested positive and one is a school chi That sent the school to close and 150 close contacts tested today with
...
It's a game changer.
It's the same story everywhere. Look what happened to Europe and the US and it will happen exactly like that also in NZ.
So prepare, as the toilet paper is going to extinct also in your area :)
So prepare, as the toilet paper is going to extinct also in
your area :)
Nope we have a factory in our city :) :)
Avon wrote to xqtr <=-
So prepare, as the toilet paper is going to extinct also in your area :)
Nope we have a factory in our city :) :)
xqtr wrote to Avon <=-
Right now some countries like Spain & Serbia are prohibiting to walk or
do stuff in the public. One woman in Spain arrested for sub bathing.
Avon wrote to All <=-
It's slowly getting worse here with Covid-19 stuff.
In my city a couple of people have tested positive and one is a school child. That sent the school to close and 150 close contacts tested
today with results due back in a day or so and all of those people and their families in self isolation for 14 days.
Total cases here in New Zealand jumped from 8 to 20 today. The nightly news was full of Covid-19 local and overseas news and essentially
nothing else.
My work is talking about getting us working from home soon but as yet
have not enacted that.
Blue White wrote to xqtr <=-
That one surprises me a little bit. They are still encouraging us to
go outside here, just not to congregate in large groups while doing so.
As the weather gets nicer, and people can go outside more, that might
help slow the spread as it is easier to practice social distancing when you are not all crammed together indoors.
Walking pets is an exemption, so my dog is getting quite a workout.
I was talking to my Mum yesterday who lives in millicent (where I used
to live) there's a toilet paper factory just out of town, but they ship
it to adelaide first (5 hours away) then ship it back to put on the shelves. Seems crazy, but I do understand it.. I wonder if it's
something like that in dunedin
Makes me feel a lot of this is being manufactured shortages.
Fast forward to this morning and she refuses to go for a walk, hasn't
been out to pee, and won't get out of bed. I called the emergency vet. He's not able to come in the house due to coronavirus (which my gf carries) so he left injections and some IV kits in a box outside. I had
to give this treatment to my dog today. Pretty bizarre circumstances.
How is she doing (by she, your GF and dog).
Our government is saying to New Zealanders living overseas to return
home now or risk not being able to as flights dry up and borders close.
Our government is saying to New Zealanders living overseas to return hom or risk not being able to as flights dry up and borders close.Canada is also closing the borders now. Not to keep people out but to
keep people safe, all peoples.
The official word here is that public schools are closed until April
10th, after the spring break. We're being warned that school is probably done for the year.
I did a quick trip to the wholesale club today and the shelves looked pretty good. It was early in the morning and the store was busy already.
And she still hasn't gotten up to go pee :( She's old and I'm worried about her.
Heard this morning on the CBC that they are telling Canadians to get home. For some elderly in the US...their insurance company are telling them you have 10 days to get home or their policies are cancelled. Some of these folks are saying they are scared they will close the border & won't be allowed into the country...but according to a spokesman...it's a right to be allowed back into the country...so they will be able to enter. Don't know what the reality is going to be.
Was listening to the 3 AM broadcast while getting ready to be at work at 6 AM. They were saying the borders are closing to keep Americans out to keep things from getting worse. They said tourists & such would be turned back...but goods were going to be let in. Whether or not this is true...had to laugh about it.
The way I read it, is it's not going to get better, for small business for sure.
I was shocked on how Publix was empty today!
Not to say anything on how small business is being left out but the big guys get all the breaks.
Another reason while I hope to still buy 80 acres up north and hunt my own meat and grow my own food.
into the country...so they will be able to enter. Don't know what the re is going to be.Canadians can always re enter the country. Getting a flight or some kind of transportation may not be so easy.
back...but goods were going to be let in. Whether or not this is true... to laugh about it.They were kind of iffy as far as Americans go. I think Americans can
still travel freely in Canada but are being cautioned.
With much of that border open land...didn't understand how they are going to keep anyone from just doing a walkabout for either side.
Heard this morning on the CBC that they are telling Canadians to get home. For some elderly in the US...their insurance company are telling them you have 10 days to get home or their policies are cancelled. Some of thesefolks
are saying they are scared they will close the border & won't be allowedinto
the country...but according to a spokesman...it's a right to be allowedback
into the country...so they will be able to enter. Don't know what thereality
is going to be.
things from getting worse. They said tourists & such would be turned back...but goods were going to be let in. Whether or not this istrue...had
to laugh about it.
GF is on the mend. No fever, she's back at work (from home), and she
hates her job. So she's unhappy. Such is life.
My dog isn't doing well. I gave her an IV and a couple shots today and she's very lethargic. She hasn't gotten out of bed all day, not even to
go to the bathroom. I'm worried about her. :(
Of course Canada is in greater need of some goods flowing in our direction, but we only need to look as far back as the recent trade disputes to see that there can be problems all around.
He's not able to come in the house due to coronavirus (which my gf carries) so he left injections and some IV kits in a box outside. I hadI feel for you man. We just got back from a cruise and we are hearing maybe some people on boat had coronavirus. No confirmed cases yet, but a lot of people are experiencing mild symptoms so maybe it's just cruise crud non
to give this treatment to my dog today. Pretty bizarre circumstances.
And she still hasn't gotten up to go pee :( She's old and I'm worried about her.
My dog isn't doing well. I gave her an IV and a couple shots today and
poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Avon <=-
It'll be interesting to see how many people will continue to work from home once the dust settles.
-= Havok =- wrote to apam <=-
Makes me feel a lot of this is being manufactured shortages.
They can sell EVERYTHING if there's not much... If there's TOO
much then they won't sell much...
With much of that border open land...didn't understand how they are goin keep anyone from just doing a walkabout for either side.Yep.. Umm.. you don't think we're going to need a wall.. do you? ;)
poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Avon <=-
It'll be interesting to see how many people will continue to work from home once the dust settles.
Phoobar wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
Been at work (retail) the past couple of days & people are not self-issolating...but bring their screaming kids in. Means my work as a stocker has doubled to try to keep things on the shelf...rather than on the floor in a pile or having to deal with arguments between
kids/parents.
-= Havok =- wrote to apam <=-
Makes me feel a lot of this is being manufactured shortages.
I have to ask, how do you get an IV into a dog? We've got largish meaty arms butold yella hasn't got anything like that.
For dogs it's just a subcutaneous injection. You pinch up the skin
around the shoulder blades and create a little tent, and go in at a 45 degree angle. You don't need to hit a vein, like with humans. So it's actually a lot easier than giving an IV to a human, which I have tons of practice with, so this was no big deal.
Now that our governor has announced that our county has a case, people are hoarding perishables. Good luck with that. If they bought milk from walmart I hoped they remembered to subtract 2 weeks from the use by date.
They can sell EVERYTHING if there's not much... If there's TOO much then they won't sell much...
Now that our governor has announced that our county has a case, people are hoarding perishables. Good luck with that. If they bought milk from walmart I hoped they remembered to subtract 2 weeks from the use by date.
Walmart does food? Well you learn something every other day... One of things I'm hearing here, is that some of the US states are taking
matters into their own hands about how much what is locked down, and
other measures due to a lack of leadership coming out of the whitehouse...They're not liking where it looks like its going and trying to make their own improvements.
Thats exactly how world oil prices, and diamond prices work... essentially by cartel limiting supply.
If they show up at a land border, I'm sure *something* will be arranged. It's going to be harder for people who need to fly home. I dunno, maybe they need to hit the high seas. I hear there are cruise ships going
spare.
be few and far between, even stopping entirely at some point. The government is willing to *loan* people up to $5K to help them get home
or cover their needs while they're trapped abroad.
guess ideally the government would find some way to get them home
without risking the health of other passengers, or provide them with
care and shelter wherever they are.
It is darkly amusing, but I think it's for our mutual benefit on both counts. It's entirely possible that some jurisdiction in the US could
get things under control, and then some lousy Canadian tourist shows up and coughs all over the buffet. Or vice versa. Meanwhile neither country should want the supply chain interfered with unless it's absolutely necessary.
That sucks. We have a dog and a cat. They are both number 2s as we have lost one of each in the past. It is painful loosing your best friend.
Been at work (retail) the past couple of days & people are not self-issolating...but bring their screaming kids in. Means my work asIt is annoying enough during flu season when the kids are obviously not well.
Jimmy Anderson wrote to Poindexter Fortran <=-
poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Avon <=-
I was talking to my son earlier about this... I said, "remember how
9/11 changed air travel forever? I think this will change a lot of
things too."
Like hearing items like this. Renews my faith that there are governments who do the decent thing...rather than stealing what little I have to
give to some rich scumbag who doesn't need/deserve it.
Does it get easier & did the ones who you got afterwards help with the loss?
government is willing to *loan* people up to $5K to help them get home
Don't remember the "loan" being covered in the newscasts. That's more than
Like hearing items like this. Renews my faith that there are governmentswho
do the decent thing...rather than stealing what little I have to give tosome
say,Does it get easier & did the ones who you got afterwards help with the
loss?
Time heals all wounds. The new additions didn't help with the loss per
they brought a whole new joy.
You'll always be a bit sad, but there is no sense in living in grief forever. This should not be the net result of the life of someone you loved. You owe them better than that. Process your grief, never forget, but keep moving and fill your life with other happy things.
That was deep. I find alcohol also helps ;)
Oh, sweet, sweet alcohol. Unfortunately I can't indulge as much as I'd like to at the moment, for safety reasons. I've got a chicken nugget to take care of and need to keep my wits and reflexes sharp-ish.
Part of the whole "Military Training" thing I take it.
I have been thinking along the lines of what changed, temporariliy, after 9/11. I think we will definately see similar things happening. I am hopeful that some other things, like social distancing, won't just fall
by the wayside. I don't mean the isolation, but people becoming more respectful of others, especially when they themselves don't feel well.
That was deep. I find alcohol also helps ;)
Yeah, that said, IVs and needles aren't all that scary once you've had a bit of exposure and practice.
It'd be nice to have some legally mandated paid sick leave policy. Maybe some sort of substantive social safety net, and access to medical care.
OT, but due to my recent surgery and now COVID, I've been alcohol free well over a month. Honestly I don't miss it, and I'm sleeping much
better and being more productive.
That's a lie, I do miss it, it does look delicious, but I'm going to
stay the course for a while and see if I decide to just abandon it altogether at some point.
Scared of getting them? Nope, I get poked and prodded all the time.
Poking someone else? Not without some training, even then, I don't like causing people pain and discomfort.
Now you sound like a Canadian. 'Atta Boy' ;)
I did try to give an IV once in a field exercise with night vision
goggles on and...that was tough. After failing and hurting the poor dude for a minute or so, who happened to be a medic lol, we turned on flashlights and risked getting in trouble because the dude was a legit heat casualty.
Well, shit. I was playing NHL 94 for Sega earlier...
On 03-19-20 23:28, ryan wrote to Netsurge <=-
That was deep. I find alcohol also helps ;)
OT, but due to my recent surgery and now COVID, I've been alcohol free well over a month. Honestly I don't miss it, and I'm sleeping much
better and being more productive.
Like hearing items like this. Renews my faith that there are governme who do the decent thing...rather than stealing what little I have to give to some rich scumbag who doesn't need/deserve it.Canadian charter company Sunwing is repatriating Canadians who are stranded in sun kissed getaways for free, even if they didn't take
Sunwing down to their destination. Always great to see decency in this world.
Does it get easier & did the ones who you got afterwards help with th loss?Time heals all wounds. The new additions didn't help with the loss per say, they brought a whole new joy.
I just happened to see it mentioned in an article. I don't think it's figured heavily in any announcements. It's for people who truly cannot afford to get home with the cash or credit available to them.
Spectre wrote to Blue White <=-
Walmart does food? Well you learn something every other day... One of things I'm hearing here, is that some of the US states are taking
matters into their own hands about how much what is locked down, and
other measures due to a lack of leadership coming out of the whitehouse...They're not liking where it looks like its going and
trying to make their own improvements.
ryan wrote to Blue White <=-
I have been thinking along the lines of what changed, temporariliy, after 9/11. I think we will definately see similar things happening. I am hopeful that some other things, like social distancing, won't just fall
by the wayside. I don't mean the isolation, but people becoming more respectful of others, especially when they themselves don't feel well.
It'd be nice to have some legally mandated paid sick leave policy.
Maybe some sort of substantive social safety net, and access to medical care.
My buddy told me Italy is now fining people 100-5000 euros for leaving their houses. A friend of his got fined 1000 euros for going on a
bike ride. And since Italy now has the most deaths, it seems like
they are at least taking it seriously.
Thats exactly how world oil prices, and diamond prices work...
essentially by cartel limiting supply.
Oh kind of like Big Bank and corporate America!
Darn forgot Big Pharma, lets not forget them....
OT, but due to my recent surgery and now COVID, I've been alcohol free well over a month. Honestly I don't miss it, and I'm sleeping
much better and being more productive.
That's a lie, I do miss it, it does look delicious, but I'm going to stay the course for a while and see if I decide to just abandon it
altogether at some point.
On 03-20-20 20:30, Spectre wrote to ryan <=-
Alcohol is good like that... got some big hooks to it. I gave away drinking hmm bit over 10 years ago I s'pose... I might still
occasionally have a drink, but its the exception rather than the rule. Part of mine was that I was better
with medication than I was with medication and alcohol. It'll be
interesting if you keep off it for long enough, one day you'll think i feel like a drink, and when you do, you'll find "what was I thinking".. this isn't what I remember....
Blue White wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
It'll be interesting to see how many people will continue to work from home once the dust settles.
I wish they would let us do so. I prefer it. Many of my co-workers
miss the social aspect, while I prefer fewer interruptions. :)
employer does not usually allow it, supposedly due to past abuse of it.
They have actually gotten better in recent years of cramming more of
us together in closer-quarters, which is not helping now with a social distancing mandate being in place.
Many of our employess have public facing, or other, jobs which cannot really be done from home, either. :(
... Spelling is a sober man's game
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I s'pose just about everything has its own cartel in some shape or form.. probably helps drive inflation as much as anything. While trying to scrape every last cent for whatever product it is they're hawking.
Phoobar wrote to echicken <=-
This makes me happy to know at least with your citizens...the
government is willing to do what needs to be done. Down here...only if
you are important.
Spectre wrote to Blue White <=-
Now that our governor has announced that our county has a case, people are hoarding perishables. Good luck with that. If they bought milk from walmart I hoped they remembered to subtract 2 weeks from the use by date.
Walmart does food? Well you learn something every other day... One of things I'm hearing here, is that some of the US states are taking
matters into their own hands about how much what is locked down, and
other measures due to a lack of leadership coming out of the whitehouse...They're not liking where it looks like its going and
trying to make their own improvements.
Blue White wrote to Jimmy Anderson <=-
Jimmy Anderson wrote to Poindexter Fortran <=-
poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Avon <=-
I was talking to my son earlier about this... I said, "remember how
9/11 changed air travel forever? I think this will change a lot of
things too."
I have been thinking along the lines of what changed, temporariliy,
after 9/11. I think we will definately see similar things happening.
I am hopeful that some other things, like social distancing, won't just fall by the wayside. I don't mean the isolation, but people becoming
more respectful of others, especially when they themselves don't feel well.
I will be honest and say that so far I am not seeing that here. I
think the folks that are distancing are the ones that would normally distance when they don't feel well, while the ones that are the
spreaders will just keep on doing what they have always done.
... Direct from the Ministry of Silly Walks
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poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Blue White <=-
I wish they would let us do so. I prefer it. Many of my co-workers
miss the social aspect, while I prefer fewer interruptions. :)
My office might as well have been remote workers; people would send me
an IM from across the office. In that way, this isn't much of a transition.
employer does not usually allow it, supposedly due to past abuse of it.
It all comes back to management. You can't manage remooe staff the same way you manage a local team (Management by butts in seats by 9:00am)
They have actually gotten better in recent years of cramming more of
us together in closer-quarters, which is not helping now with a social distancing mandate being in place.
Maybe social distancing will kill the open office design?
Blue White wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
I thought it was going by the wayside, yet we seem to be moving back towards it. I sure hope this finally does it in. I think it is ironic that, just a month or two before this started, they opened a new
building with cube walls so low you are facing your neighbor even when
you are seated (and less than 3 feet apart).
The US government, as have others, are questioning how some of the rich and famous here (like it seems the whole NBA) are somehow getting tested for corona when overall there are not enough tests yet to test "everyone else."
If it is not the government who is testing the important, you wonder who is?
My company's parent company is moving to hoteling - no dedicated seats
at all. They're using wifi, Teams for voice and are all-laptop, so it might work. If we do that in a new office, I think it'll incent them to build smaller. Plan for 60% of your people in the office at any given
time and you can save money with a smaller office while still
maintaining headcount.
ryan wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
My company does this. I live in the heart of silicon valley, work in a tech firm that a lot of people would consider to be a
mature/professional company, am 38 years old, and yet I have to find a desk randomly every time I come to work. I can't keep pictures of my family on my desk or my own preferred keyboard or anything. It feels
like a goddamn dorm.
Working from home these past few weeks is a godsend. I need to find a
way to do this after all these horrible times come to an end and we
start going back to normal. I don't want to work in an office any more.
poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Blue White <=-
Blue White wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
Aside: Chiat-Day, the advertising firm tried a total hoteling
environment with shared laptops in the '90s and it failed in amusing
ways. Sending your admin assistant at 7:30am to get "your" laptop and
camp in "your" space.
Re: Re: The Day
By: apam to Avon on Wed Mar 18 2020 08:34 pm
I was talking to my Mum yesterday who lives in millicent (where I use to live) there's a toilet paper factory just out of town, but they sh it to adelaide first (5 hours away) then ship it back to put on the shelves. Seems crazy, but I do understand it.. I wonder if it's something like that in dunedin
I heard from a caller that was on Infowars and he works for a major
food chain in the States that was told not to come in to work till he
was needed to drive a truck and deliver supplies to the chain stores.
Now today I went to a food store called Publix one of the big guys and the shelf's were all empty, paper, meat, canned goods you name it.
Makes me feel a lot of this is being manufactured shortages.
Keep in mind that many of the items on our shelves comes from China.
Trying to figure out why my Retronet feed inbound works, but fails when I poll,
Trying to figure out why my Retronet feed inbound works, but fails wh poll,
The fellow who runs retronet had to change his hostname recently because of an issue of some kind. I forget now just what it is but if you ask in one of the retronet areas someone will let you know what it was changed to.
I've got the correct hostname, I'm guessing I've got something wrong in my configuration. It's giving me Not Authorized. It's not a major deal, since mail IS flowing, just an aggravation.
The surgery went well for my daughter and she's staying with us for a few days now.
It seems all rather quiet here (chat echo) at the moment but I guess peopleare busy with life elsewhere?
My days pretty much blur tigether. Restless nights, then puttering about the house cleaning, cooking, and caring for my wife and the dogs.
Between times, job hunting, fooling with the BBS, Trying to figure out
why my Retronet feed inbound works, but fails when I poll, giving up in JustaXNet, since Gert isn't responding to email or netmail, and
exploring other nets to add.
Plus working up the nerve to mess with the menus and consider figuring
out ANSI graphics to make this thing pretty.
Mainly though, worrying about my wife. They say the cancer is clear, but Ipve been through this before, and lost a wife to cancer, so that
feeling of deja vu is always there.
I'm sure everything will be fine. At least you have a few days to spend time with her. :)
Too many projects going on at the same time... :) Making some updates on some programs, rewriting others, and adding features to others. Is it
bad that I think I've been dreaming in code? :)
Avon wrote to All <=-
I'd better push on and boil the jug for that cuppa now.
Charles Pierson wrote to Avon <=-
My days pretty much blur tigether. Restless nights, then puttering
about the house cleaning, cooking, and caring for my wife and the dogs.
Between times, job hunting, fooling with the BBS, Trying to figure out
why my Retronet feed inbound works, but fails when I poll, giving up in JustaXNet, since Gert isn't responding to email or netmail, and
exploring other nets to add.
Mainly though, worrying about my wife. They say the cancer is clear,
but Ipve been through this before, and lost a wife to cancer, so that feeling of deja vu is always there.
My days pretty much blur tigether. Restless nights, then puttering about the house cleaning, cooking, and caring for my wife and the dog
How many months in March?
I didn't realize JustaXNet was still around... I was a member back in
the late '90s.
Mainly though, worrying about my wife. They say the cancer is clear, but Ipve been through this before, and lost a wife to cancer, so that feeling of deja vu is always there.
That must be a horrible feeling, sorry to hear that.
I'd better push on and boil the jug for that cuppa now.
Is that the Kiwi version of "Keep Calm and Carry On"?
For me it's become a routine as my wife loves cups of tea, I'm well trained now that we're 18+ years married.
My wife is English, and I had to learn how to make a proper cuppa. Her best friend, who's Irish, is always pleasantly surprised when she comes over to a proper cup of builder's tea.
I'm born and raised in California. My favorite tea is a pinwheel
gunpowder green tea in an old japanese-inspired handle-less tea cup.
My wife and I are still together somehow.
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