Re: Re: Hello!
By: Wall E. Weasel to Ogg on Thu Jun 03 2021 09:16 pm

Ogg wrote to Elf <=-

| | Long Live | |
| | DOS!! | |

Well, you've got until 2038 anyway.

The 2038 failure date only relates to Unix-like operating systems which use a 32 bit date/time stamp. No DOS versions or variants use this type of format.

Any Y2K-compliant DOS will function properly until the year 2100. At that point, the date related system calls will fail since 2099 is the last possible valid date.

A *lot* of DOS software uses the C/C+ time() function with a 32-bit signed time value (seconds since Jan-1-1970 GMT) which *will* fail in the year 2038. This includes Synchronet for DOS and *many* other BBS-related programs written in C or C++.
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digital man

Rush quote #20:
Learning that we're only immortal, for a limited time
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Quoting Digital Man to Wall E. Weasel <=-

A *lot* of DOS software uses the C/C+ time() function with a 32-bit
signed time value (seconds since Jan-1-1970 GMT) which *will* fail in
the year 2038. This includes Synchronet for DOS and *many* other BBS-related programs written in C or C++. --
digital man

I'll be 71 in the year 2038. Hopefully someone will fix the DOS bug
by then. I'm sure many are working on it. LOL I know. I'm just kidding.
:-)




~Elf

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| | Long Live | |
| | DOS!! | |
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... DOS never says "EXCELLENT command or filename"...
___ Blue Wave/386 v2.30

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Elf wrote to DIGITAL MAN <=-

I'll be 71 in the year 2038. Hopefully someone will fix the DOS bug
by then. I'm sure many are working on it. LOL I know. I'm just kidding. :-)

Hopefully, we'll all get pulled into remediating older systems and make a little retirement cash!


... Do the words need changing?
--- MultiMail/DOS v0.52

Hello Everyone! I'm new to BBS - wanted to try it out, given I've heard a
bit from podcasts and websites. Not sure what I'm doing, but want to learn. Any guidance would be great - Thanks!

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Re: Hello!
By: Zenith to All on Fri Mar 04 2022 02:49 pm

Hello Everyone! I'm new to BBS - wanted to try it out, given I've heard a bit from podcasts and websites. Not sure what I'm doing, but want to learn.
Any guidance would be great - Thanks!

Well, posting here is not a bad start. Hello! :-)

Mewcenary.

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Hello everyone

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Zenith wrote to All <=-

Hello Everyone! I'm new to BBS - wanted to try it out, given I've
heard a bit from podcasts and websites. Not sure what I'm doing, but
want to learn. Any guidance would be great - Thanks!

Have fun, and try out a few different boards, in particular those which have had their own customisations. Some have chat, some have inter-bbs chat.

ANSI art will appear quaint and interesting.

I myself am here because you can chat and message without all the "noise" that can exist elsewhere.

... MultiMail, the new multi-platform, multi-format offline reader!
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ZENITH wrote to ALL <=-

@VIA: CAVEBBS
@MSGID: <62226D47.77645.dove-gen@cavebbs.homeip.net>
Hello Everyone! I'm new to BBS - wanted to try it out, given I've
heard a bit from podcasts and websites. Not sure what I'm doing, but
want to learn. Any guidance would be great - Thanks!

Howdy!!! Just jump in and have fun! :-)




... What if there were no hypothetical questions?
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TECHDUDE17 wrote to ALL <=-

@VIA: CAVEBBS
@MSGID: <6223E39B.77653.dove-gen@cavebbs.homeip.net>
Hello everyone

Howdy!



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BORAXMAN wrote to ZENITH <=-

I myself am here because you can chat and message without all the
"noise" that can exist elsewhere.

Same here. :-) I remember the old days of posting/reading. I used to
play some games too, but that was when it was actually local, and not
just Internet. :-)




... Drop your carrier ... we have you surrounded!
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Re: Hello!
By: Zenith to All on Fri Mar 04 2022 02:49 pm

Hello Everyone! I'm new to BBS - wanted to try it out, given I've heard a bit from podcasts and websites. Not sure what I'm doing, but want to learn. Any guidance would be great - Thanks!

You're doing what everyone else is doing, communicating, there isn't really a wrong way of doing it unless your talking to the wrong person at the right time.
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Sincerely,
Jon Justvig
Stepping Stone BBS
telnet://steppingstonebbs.com
http://steppingstonebbs.com
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Re: Hello!
By: techdude17 to All on Sat Mar 05 2022 05:26 pm

Hello everyone

I don't know who everyone is, but it's a pleasure to meet you. ;)
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Sincerely,
Jon Justvig
Stepping Stone BBS
telnet://steppingstonebbs.com
http://steppingstonebbs.com
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Re: Re: Hello!
By: JIMMY ANDERSON to ZENITH on Sat Mar 05 2022 08:51 pm

ZENITH wrote to ALL <=-

@VIA: CAVEBBS
@MSGID: <62226D47.77645.dove-gen@cavebbs.homeip.net>
Hello Everyone! I'm new to BBS - wanted to try it out, given I've
heard a bit from podcasts and websites. Not sure what I'm doing,
but want to learn. Any guidance would be great - Thanks!

Howdy!!! Just jump in and have fun! :-)

Sure, just be warned the water is cool and the party is fun! =)
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Sincerely,
Jon Justvig
Stepping Stone BBS
telnet://steppingstonebbs.com
http://steppingstonebbs.com
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Re: Re: Hello!
By: JIMMY ANDERSON to BORAXMAN on Sat Mar 05 2022 08:53 pm

BORAXMAN wrote to ZENITH <=-

I myself am here because you can chat and message without all the
"noise" that can exist elsewhere.

Same here. :-) I remember the old days of posting/reading. I used to
play some games too, but that was when it was actually local, and not
just Internet. :-)

Internet just meant mainstream. Us true old schoolers still use BBSes and will as long as there is still a 2% we can. =)
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Sincerely,
Jon Justvig
Stepping Stone BBS
telnet://steppingstonebbs.com
http://steppingstonebbs.com
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Re: Re: Hello!
By: cr1mson to JIMMY ANDERSON on Wed Mar 09 2022 07:39 pm

Re: Re: Hello!
By: JIMMY ANDERSON to BORAXMAN on Sat Mar 05 2022 08:53 pm

Same here. :-) I remember the old days of posting/reading. I used to play some games too, but that was when it was actually local, and not just Internet. :-)

Internet just meant mainstream. Us true old schoolers still use BBSes and will as long as there is still a 2% we can. =)

Oh my, you mean I'm not the only one that remembers the 'old days'? Oh boy... I think I just found my new people!

Someone want to help me find a corner of the house to set up my 1040STe in ? And how does one get a landline working nowadays? I think I probably still a SupraModem 24/96 and another 144LC in a closet somewhere?

nostalia

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Re: Re: Hello!
By: nostalia to cr1mson on Mon Jun 06 2022 06:20 pm

Re: Re: Hello!
By: cr1mson to JIMMY ANDERSON on Wed Mar 09 2022 07:39 pm

Re: Re: Hello!
By: JIMMY ANDERSON to BORAXMAN on Sat Mar 05 2022 08:53 pm

Same here. :-) I remember the old days of posting/reading. I used to play some games too, but that was when it was actually local, and no just Internet. :-)

Internet just meant mainstream. Us true old schoolers still use BBSes an will as long as there is still a 2% we can. =)

Oh my, you mean I'm not the only one that remembers the 'old days'? Oh boy.

Someone want to help me find a corner of the house to set up my 1040STe in ?

nostalia

You'll have to find out who your local telco provider is to get a landline
made active. Depending on the BBS, you'll need long distance calling, and
that could get expensive.

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Re: Re: Hello!
By: Moondog to nostalia on Tue Jun 07 2022 11:44 pm

You'll have to find out who your local telco provider is to get a landline made active. Depending on the BBS, you'll need long distance calling, and that could get expensive.

Ya... that's not exactly happening. I know the local telco, they're the ones I get my 500Mbps fibre from. But the lines in my area are so bad, DSL isn't even an option, so probably not going to be able to get more than about a 19.2k connection even if I pulled out one of the Courier's I decommissioned 10+ years ago from Cisco installs... Not willing to pay LD Charges x time for a 19.2k connection :-D

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Re: Re: Hello!
By: nostalia to Moondog on Wed Jun 08 2022 08:11 pm

Re: Re: Hello!
By: Moondog to nostalia on Tue Jun 07 2022 11:44 pm

You'll have to find out who your local telco provider is to get a landlin made active. Depending on the BBS, you'll need long distance calling, an that could get expensive.

Ya... that's not exactly happening. I know the local telco, they're the one I pulled out one of the Courier's I decommissioned 10+ years ago from Cisco

Lines were cruddy where I'm at too. I'd average 31.6k. No cable, no fiber,
no DSL, No WISP.

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Re: Re: Hello!
By: Moondog to nostalia on Thu Jun 09 2022 08:24 am

Lines were cruddy where I'm at too. I'd average 31.6k. No cable, no fiber, no DSL, No WISP.

Don't complain much. I am on Wimax.

The government paid an ISP around two million dollar to take fibre to my town. They left an access point just by the edge of it. ONly a couple of houses actually got connectivity, but the government wrote our town off as no longer excluded from the fibre network.

THe funny thing is that if you are far from the access point they won't connect you, and if you offer to pay for the connection they will refuse. ANd if you are an ISP and ask to connect from their access point (which is publicly available as per the government funding contract) they will give you an outreageous quote so you don't connect.

There is no way this fibre network is profitable at all, and it certainly is of no use since the people who got coverage are 80-year-olds who don't have computers or anything. The government paid for nothing and the ISP pocketed the money.


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