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#1

Meetings / Re: Next meeting?

Last post by ssfc72 - Today at 11:56:20 AM

Hi William. Glad to hear you are car mobile, again

We haven't had any formal meetings for a number of years, now.

Hopefully we will have a PLUG Mug get together at one of the coffee shops in Peterborough, maybe on a weekend, sometime very soon.

regards

Bill

#2

Meetings / Next meeting?

Last post by William - Yesterday at 09:53:37 PM

Now that my transmission is repaired, I can drive long distance.  Is there meetings soon?

#3

General Discussion / Re: Creating a Christmas Linux...

Last post by buster - Yesterday at 11:29:35 AM

I would have to assume she was simply watching. I can't imagine she would switch to jeans and cowboy boots from her red silk skirt. That would be a visual tragedy. A great loss.

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General Discussion / Re: Creating a Christmas Linux...

Last post by ssfc72 - Yesterday at 07:12:17 AM

Thanks for the story, Buster.

I think I saw Ms Tao at a Line dance demonstration near Lindsay, a few days ago. :-)

#5

General Discussion / Re: Creating a Christmas Linux...

Last post by buster - May 14, 2024, 06:15:23 PM

Chapter 16: The Sins of the Past Live On

The Christmas Computer had been completed quite a while ago, at least before Covid. And the Miracle on Cabot Street had occurred during Covid I believe.

The miracle occurred when, as described in chapters 13 and 14 of this story, my computer child was saved by a forgiving Gigabyte motherboard (she,her) who informed me that the bios was corrupt and she would now replace that bios with a replacement bios.

The thing is Oscar, who must have been lurking for years, struck again just three days ago and sent the computer into hysterics, and the on/off sequence started again in earnest. So I gave Marilyn the TV computer, an old Win10, and took the Christmas Computer down to the 'workshop'.

First thing to note: these two computers have gained weight, maybe all the emails that I never delete.
Second thing to note: The on/off sequence was just as depressing in the junk room as upstairs.
Third thing to note: Gigabyte, on a great white stallion called Bob, rode onto the screen and said, "The bios is corrupted. I shall now replace it with a backup."

That problem was solved, thanks to Lady Giga and Bob.

Two problems were left: Carry the heavier computer up the stairs, and the tougher difficulty, get the thing up off the floor so I can carry it. I managed both.

Marilyn is happy, and showed it by bringing me some crackers and peanut butter.

Lady Giga and Bob are out front on the lawn listening to Emmie and Eddie explain how they built that computer.

Maybe The End

#6

General Discussion / Re: Comment in Boeing crash ar...

Last post by buster - May 12, 2024, 03:49:23 PM

Looked up Dunsford. Seems like pleasant country. Lots of old people, as on our street. Fair number with lower incomes, but that tends to be true with a population that is one quarter over 65. May drive up just to look around some day. (Not to visit people.)

Not far from the TrentSevern system. Friend and I canoed the length of that system back in the 90's. Glad I did it then. I certainly couldn't do it now.

Thanks for the kind words about the stories. Always appreciated.

#7

General Discussion / Re: Comment in Boeing crash ar...

Last post by tommolica - May 11, 2024, 01:39:11 PM

Hi Buster, I'm in Dunsford, and did attend the Linux group meetings at the nursing home. Been here in Canada for 70 years now, will try to extend the time for a few more years.
I have read some of your interesting short stories and enjoy your style of writing, actually surprised that you haven't authored a book or two. Maybe you have and I do not know about them!!
Hope to see you this summer at parking lot/ Tim's meeting. Cheers.

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General Discussion / Re: Comment in Boeing crash ar...

Last post by BusterE - May 10, 2024, 06:42:16 PM

Tommolica, you did live in this this area I believe. I know little about you. Are you Canadian or a dread foreigner? And are you a permanent inhabitant of the hurricane state now? (I've seen some of the damage on a few visits.) Just curious.

#9

General Discussion / Re: Comment in Boeing crash ar...

Last post by tommolica - May 10, 2024, 10:58:40 AM

Hi Buster, just thought it was interesting that a processor in one of the control systems would reset when too many 1's were loaded into a certain register.
Bill also checked to make sure it was me, and not someone who had hacked my account.
I thought it might be interesting that processors with such quirky behavior would be still be kept in any production device at all. wonder if any desktop CPU's have any strange behavior like that??  Cheers Tom.

#10

General Discussion / Re: Comment in Boeing crash ar...

Last post by buster - May 09, 2024, 06:44:59 PM

Cutting grass, taking care of chickens, and warm weather sounds good, although that usually means you're old like me.

I'm curious why you picked a Linux site to register at, and why one in Canada, even though we are the most wonderful country in the world - never great, but pleasant and usually polite.

I understand you wish to inform people you didn't break the airplanes. But Peterborough, Ontario?

By the way my wife and I have spent a number of spring seasons wandering about your wonderful State Parks, and not the ones near the sea, but inland where life is quieter.