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T h e F i d o G a z e t t e! Volume IV Number III March, 2010
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Contents...................................................(i)
Editorial..................................................(1)
Notes from the Z1C.........................................(1)
Notes from the IFDC FileGate Project.......................(1)
New and Returning Members..................................(2)
AllFix News................................................(3)
Food.......................................................(4)
The Old School Toolbox.....................................(5)
FidoGazette BBS List.......................................(6
Info (Where to Send Articles)..............................(7)
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Editorial
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This month we have new releases of ALLFIX available - that is such
great news. Thanks to Bob Seaborn for helping make this possible. I'm
sure the folks in the allfix_help echo know more about this update than
I do... but it's really great to see this piece of software being
updated and not abandoned. See related announcement in this issue.
Too bad Bob isn't sending new releases out via the filegate.. all those
old versions are still sitting all over creation on every Fidonet
sysop's hard drives.. (Bob? You there? (grin) )
Notes from the Z1C:
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Region 14's RC, Jeff Smith has had a health setback which prevents him
from participating in Fidonet for the time being. His family is not
sure whether he'll be back or not.. I know Jeff had mentioned retiring
from the RC position as some point in the future to me, so at least I
was somewhat mentally prepared for his leaving. I hope his health
improves in any case! But we'll miss you Jeff! Jeff was always there
to help new nodes in his region, giving his time and knowledge whenever
needed.
Region 14 nodes who are not connected to an echomail feed should
contact myself at 1:261/38 ( janis @ filegate . net) or Ross Cassell
at 1:123/500, or Bob Seaborn at 1:140/1. You should connect to the
following regional echos:
R14_CHAT
R14_RC
R14_REC
R14_POST - -
Once you are connected either netmail me at 1:261/38, or say HELLO in
the R14_CHAT echo. Hopefully we'll get an election for a new RC going
there soon. If that doesn't work out, I'll be appointing the new RC.
Thanks to all who are helping "lost" members get reconnected.. our
usual suspects that I know are helping out are Ross Cassell, Bob
Seaborn and Richard Webb. Thanks again for providing links to these
echos.
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Notes from I.F.D.C FileGate Project:
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New FDN this month:
The legion FDN just joined us in February and has started releaseing
files.
Here's the list of file echos from the latest filegate.zxx file:
% FDN Legion File Distribution Network
% Coordinator Jon Justvig 1:298/5 (jjustvig76@sbcglobal.net)
%
% Internet http://legion.steppingstonebbs.com
% PATH: DIRECT
% HUB: No
% ------------------------------------------------------------------------
% File Echo Description
% ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Area LEGION 0 ! FDN: Legion Beta Releases
Area LEGOFF 0 ! FDN: Legion Offical Releases
Area LEGNEWS 0 ! FDN: Legion News & Updates
Area LEGUPS 0 ! FDN: Legion Uploads
Thanks Jon!
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New and Returning Members
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From http://www.filegate.net/zone1/ and other mirror sites such as
http://www.filegate.ca/zone1/
Returning SysOps:
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Eric Oulashin Eugene, Oregon
Welcome back!
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AllFix News
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from the ALLFIX_HELP echo
by Bob Seaborn
19 Feb 10 10:28:00
A new version of AllFix is now available. Please visit www.allfix.com for
it.
Changelog 6.00 rel 19
# Registration no longer required
# All registration only features have been enabled
# All nags removed
# Patched to stop Divide by zero errors
# No bug fixes or new features
# Due to licensing issues, and inability to locate support files that are
required, there will be no Universal or Wildcat releases at this time
New native versions for DOS, Windows, OS/2 and Linux are being worked on and
will be available when available.
Any support will be addressed here in this echo.
I do wish to thank Ken Johnson for his kind assistance.
.....Bob
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F O O D Even sysops have to eat!
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By Janis Kracht, 1:261/38
Want to contribute something here? Send your submission to fidogazette
'at' filegate.net or email janis at filegate.net, or janis kracht at
1:261/38 (binkp: filegate.net) and it will get published here in the
next issue :)
California Curry
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My favorite of 4 sisters has always been my oldest sister...She's about
5 years older than I am. She took off for California after college and
as a result, I'd see her much too infrequently...But when she came
home, boy did she bring great presents haha.. When she was still
living in NYC, she brought me my first Dylan album (his first, still
have it, thank goodness).. Then once she was living in LA, she brought
me my first Doors album.. (Jim Morrison hadn't made it to the east
coast music charts yet) - one time she brought me dolls from Greece
since the film she was working on was shot there.. When they were
shooting in Australia, she brought me a boomerang :) When she'd come
home, and she'd always insist on cooking for Mom and the rest of us.
She had to show us the new recipes she'd found - I've never forgotten
this one.
===California Hamburger===
1 lb. ground round or lean hamburger
tomato, sliced
lettuce, broken into leaves
large onion, sliced
mayonaisse
garlic powder
salt, pepper
Make 1/4 lb hamburger patties. Sprinkle lightly with garlic powder,
then salt and pepper both sides lightly. Place burgers in frying pan
and cook for about 3-5 minutes per side depending on how thick your
burger is. In the hamburger roll, put mayonaisse on top inside of the
bun. Cover the mayonaisse with a few leaves of lettuce, then slices of
tomato. Put the burger in the roll, add the onion and but the
hamburger roll bottom on it. You can slather more mayonaisse on the
inside of the bottom of the roll :)
===California Curry===
2 tablespoons butter
1 1/2 pounds lamb, cut into 1" pieces
1 tablespoon flour
2 onions, chopped
4 cloves of garlic, minced
2 8oz. containers of plain yogurt or yogurt with mandarin orange fruit
2 cans mandarin oranges in light syrup, drained (you can buy fresh
oranges, but peeling the segments can be time consuming. All the
pith needs to be removed (carefully (g))
2-4 tablespoons curry powder according to how strong you like your
curry. Make sure you buy the freshest curry powder you can find,
or make your own.
1 tablespoon paprika
salt, pepper
Melt the butter in a 10" saucepan. Add the onion and garlic and
cook until the onion is translucent and the garlic is golden. Toss the
lamb with the flour. Add the meat to the onions and garlic. Brown the
meat for about 5 minutes. Add the curry powder and paprika. Salt and
pepper generously. When the meat is well coated and the spices are
infused well, add about 1 cup of water. Simmer covered for about an
hour, stirring now and again.
When the meat is tender, stir in the plain yogurt and reduce the heat
to very very low (don't let the yogurt boil). Add the mandarin orange
segments and stir gently. Remove from heat. Serve immediately.
Have ready: rice.
Have on the table the following condiments:
grated sweetened Coconut
bananas, sliced
8 oz. can chunk pineapple, drained
dried fruit like raisins
chopped onion
chopped walnuts
Fresh chopped tomatoes
Have guests place rice on serving dishes, cover with spoons of curry,
and top with condiments (the more the better :) )
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The Old School Toolbox
By Richard Webb, 1:116/901
In defense of good ol' pots
I penned this piece late in the fall of 2009 just after hurricane
Ida threatened the gulf coast. However, with the winter we've been
having here in Fidonet zone 1 I"m sure other folks are experiencing the
intermittent connection blues as I was.
THe internet has changed the way we move mail in fidonet over the
years, and we all know that for the most part this has been an
improvement for most of us. But, there are times when good ol' pots
might be the only solution.
Back in late October I started having difficulties with my regular
telephone system. I pick up the handset and it sounds like a bowl of
that famous Kelloggs cereal, snap crackle pop. Modem connect speeds
started suffering. every time it rained I didn't get PEnnies from
heaven as the old song says, but I got intermittent connections with
the modem, such poor connections that sometimes I couldn't even talk to
somebody on the phone.
Yes I have international communications here at the flip of a switch via
ham radio, but that isn't going to get my lady timely help if the power
goes out and she finds her supplies of bottled oxygen limited. That
isn't going to help her summon an ambulance in a timely fashion if she
needs one. So, I call the telco folks and tell them this is
unacceptable.
The telco folks don't come, and they don't come some more. THe winds
die down, conditions dry up and the line quality returns to somewhat
acceptable. Finally the telco tech comes out, after calling ten
minutes before he's going to arrive. I'm in a city 50 miles away on
business at the time.
Needless to say, he doesn't find or solve the problem. Meanwhile
another windy spell, another wet spell. COnnection speeds suffer. My
dial-up internet connection is so flaky I can't even download my email.
My connections with my fidonet links aren't much better, but the robust
variant of zmodem and compressed mail provides something I can't get
from my internet connection. REliability. My fidonet mail still comes
through, although with multiple attempts necessary at times to download
it all. I became accustomed to seeing badwazoo.* in my protected
inbound there for awhile.
Binkd or binkp wouldn't have helped me stay connected during this
problem. Neither would email tunneling. The extra layers required by
the exchange of packets would have meant my connection bombed out, and
I was now out of touch. But people that really needed to make email
contact with me could use my alternate email address via my fidonet
links and reach me.
After almost a month of this problem I got extremely tired of all
this, and reminded the telco folks that I pay a good chunk of my
limited income for my flat rate long distance, voicemail services,
internet, the whole ball of wax. I like my landline service. IT's
reliable when cell sites are overwhelmed with business. IT gives me a
dial tone when the power is out all around me. MOst times it provides
me reliable voice and data connections with the rest of the world.
The poor technician who finally responded to my vociferous
complaining went to my demarcation box outside my home and hooked up
his test set. I stood listening with him as the snap crackle pop was
quite apparent. I reminded him that retaining a satisfied customer was
contingent upon his success at finding the problem.
Up the line a half mile or so he found a problem in the cabling.
I think he switched me to a pair which didn't have the problem.
Connections are once again good.
An internet connection couldn't be maintained in that
environment, but the robust protocols and error correction provided by
our tried and true fidonet schemes developed in the days when everybody
was pots only, and that's all there was kept me connected. Compressed
mail bundles and good old zedzap kept me in touch with family and
friends. I might not have been able to hear mom on the phone, but I
could at least read her email. I may not have had regular internet
email to continue my work of recruiting volunteers to man ham radio
circuits if Hurricane Ida had done her worst on the gulf coast. But,
thanks to good ol' fidonet and pots I was able to muster stand by
resources to help those folks if Ida had done damage on the gulf coast.
Sometimes the tried true and tested is the only tool you've got which
is reliable enough to get the job done. Thanks to FIdonet and those
developers of yesteryear for helping me to remain productive and in
touch.
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!!! G A Z E T T E B B S L I S T !!!
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By bbslist @ filegate.net
Send updates, changes to address above or to janis @ filegate.net.
System.......Prism BBS
FidoAddress..1:261/38
Phone........607-655-5652
Software.....BBBS LiI v4.01 Flag #
OS...........Linux (Gentoo)
C/B Verify...None
Access.......First Call access to Msg bases,
and file areas.
Telnet.......filegate.net
telnet access offers full features
of the standard bbs such as doors,
qwkmail, BWmail,Files, etc.
www:.........http:/www.filegate.net:8090/bbbs
[web interface is limited really
to reading messages and replying
online, or downloading messages
in qwk packets, but not uploading
them], and file download access.
FTP: ftp.filegate.net, port 60721
public access to file areas (please
note change of port for public access).
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System.......Time Warp of the Future BBS
FidoAddress..1:14/400
Phone........none
Software.....sbbs 3.15a (very beta)
OS...........win. (xp pro. sp3)
C/B Verify...None
Access.......First Call access to Msg bases, and file areas.
Telnet.......time.synchro.net:24 or time.darktech.org:24
or timewarpfuture.dyndns.org:24
telnet access offers full features
of the standard bbs such as doors,
messages or file area etc.
www:.........http://time.synchro.net:81
Web interface is limited really to reading messages
and replying online, or downloading messages in qwk
packets, but not uploading them, and file download access.
SBBS files available.
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System.......Lionsden BBS
FidoAddress..1:224/303
Phone........613-392-8896
Software.....Sunchronet
OS...........Windows XP
C/B Verify...None
Access.......First Call access to Msg bases, and file areas.
Telnet.......lionsden.darktech.org
telnet access offers full features
of the standard bbs such as doors,
qwkmail, Files, etc.
www:.........http:/www.lionsden.darktech.org
You will redirected to a menu where you can
choose one of three sites. The first one is
private and requires PW to get into.
FTP..........FTP://lionsden.darktech.org Files only
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System.......Christian Fellowship
FidoAddress..1:266/512
Phone........1-856-933-7096
Software.....PCBoard 15.3
OS...........Windows XP pro
C/B Verify...Manually via email or voice
usually within 24 hours.
Access.......Read only until verified. Once
verified write access to Msg bases, file
areas, chat and doors/games.
Telnet.......cfbbs.dtdns.net or cfbbs.no-ip.com
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System.......Lightning BBS
FidoAddress..1:311/2
Software.....Virtual Advanced
OS...........Windows XP
C/B Verify...None
Access.......First call access to doors, files and
message reading. Message posting requires
validation.
Telnet.......lightningbbs.com
www:.........http:/www.lightningbbs.com/index.php
Thanks to VADV-PHP you can access almost
everything the BBS has to offer from the
web, with the exception of door games.
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System.......Roach Guts BBS
FidoAddress..1:396/60
Phone:.......337-433-4135
Software.....Maximus on Port 23 (primary)
Synchronet on Port 24 (temporary)
OS...........Windows XP
C/B Verify...None
Access.......First call access to doors, files and
message reading. Message posting requires
validation.
Telnet.......roachguts.com
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INFO:
Where to Send Your Articles
Unlike most editors, I surely do not mind running my mouth when
there is a sparcity of articles for the 'zine. I'd MUCH rather
you sent in material but I think until someone starts a
discussion you feel like commenting about, you evil dullards
(just kidding!!!) will no doubt complain about "no issues" (grin)
So I will fill these issues with my meanderings and thoughts and
hopefully we will grow into something of consequence here :)
Don't be offended.. write an article!
If you WOULD like to submit an article and prove me wrong about
the dullard aspect of you guys and gals (bg), feel free to drop
your article off at:
By email attach to address: janis @ filegate.net Fidonet attach:
Janis Kracht at 1:261/38
Modem: 607-655-5652
1:261/100 filegate.net port 24555
via binkp or telnet mailer
(don't send articles as routed attaches, send them direct to filegate.net).
Standard binkp port only supports BinkP (24554).
Give it a title, sign your name and network address if you have
one and send it along!
Don't worry about the format, I can take anything you send me
and mutilate it further as you can see above. Linux is nice
that way (g). Spell checking your own work will help though
(something I'm typically guilty of (g)).
To send reviews or recipes to the Food section, email or netmail Janis
as above.
To send a question to Dr. Debug, email a question to
dr.debug @ filegate.net or post in the fidogazette echo! :)
To send a listing to the fidogazette internet bbs list, send your
bbs listing to bbslist @ filegate.net or post it in the fidogazette
echo! :)
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