test-drb February 2002

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by DAW＠yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu

> ---------- > From: Cini, Richard > > Well, my latest spare-hardware-using project (while I'm waiting for > parts for other projects to come) is an MP3 server. But I'm torn as to > what > OS to use. I was going to use NT Server with Internet Information Server > so > that I could serve up a dynamic clickable catalog. The I thought that I'd > just make a simple shared drive and use Media Player to create and manage > playlists. Then I thought maybe this would be perfect for Linux with Samba > and Apache. > > So, here's the question...if you were setting-up a networked MP3 > player in your house, how would you do it? hardware's not the question -- > just software. ----- Well, I've been thinking about hooking a spare box (Win98 with WinAmp, and remote control software, nothing else) to my stereo, probably headless. Well actually, doesn't Win2K have remote control built in? Then use WebAmp. Haven't tried it yet. Soon. :) from: http://www.ulfco.com/webamp/ "...WebAmp is a Web Server that sits inside Winamp, allowing remote control of Winamp through a Web Browser. If you have a TCP/IP connection to a Winamp PC, you can control it with a Web Browser. I've tested WebAmp with Winamp 2.72 under Windows 98 and Windows 2000 and with the following browsers: Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 under Win 98 and Win 2K Netscape 4.7 under Win 98, Win 2K, Mac, and Linux. Please email me (james(a)ulfco.com) with your results (good or bad) under other platforms. The current version is 0.91..." --- David A Woyciesjes --- C & IS Support Specialist --- Yale University Press --- mailto:david.woyciesjes@yale.edu --- (203) 432-0953 --- ICQ # - 90581 Mac OS X 10.1.2 - Darwin Kernel Version 5.2: Fri Dec 7 21:39:35 PST 2001 Running since 01/22/2002 without a crash

22 years, 10 months

BBS systems on PDP-11s (was: Original Searchlight bbs...)

by csmith＠amdocs.com

> -----Original Message----- > From: William S. [mailto:wilby98@yahoo.com] > Does that mean you could set up a vector terminal > like a Tektronix 4013 and and draw all kinds of > stuff on the screen? Sounds kinda neat. Kind of like that. :) There were a couple of trys at this, one being a proprietary protocol used by a BBS called "RoboBBS" or "RoboBoard" (don't remember which). This BBS was accessible by normal methods enough to have it print a menu and allow you to download a new "terminal emulator" that would emulate this fake graphics terminal that didn't really exist. :) Once you have the graphical program, you dial back in with that, and see pictures (vector mostly, but with bitmapped "icons" too. There was a later standardization effort of sorts, which defined another graphical terminal that didn't exist. It used a protocol called RIP (remote imaging protocol?), and most common BBS's supported it, if configured properly, and if you were using a terminal emulator that spoke RIP. I think the best support I've seen for RIP is on Searchlight, or possibly Renegade. (peesee, ms-dos) Chris Christopher Smith, Perl Developer Amdocs - Champaign, IL /usr/bin/perl -e ' print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n"); '

22 years, 10 months

BBS systems on PDP-11s (was: Original Searchlight bbs...)

by csmith＠amdocs.com

> -----Original Message----- > From: Kris Kirby [mailto:kris@catonic.net] > of mine used to run one but shut it down eventually. How were > nodes linked > together? If every COM port is used for a modem, you're out However you wanted to link them. :) Generally through relay networks -- meaning, I phone you, and exchange some data... you then go and phone some other guy and do the same... etc. Usually that all happened at some point late at night, or early morning, so everything was at least a day behind. > of COM ports. > Were they independent BBSs that checked in with each other, > or were they > networked together over ethernet or (...) ? Ethernet? That would have to be a long cable in some cases. :) > Furthermore, what are the practical limits of the BBS > software? How many > ports can they handle MAX? Depends on the BBS software. I've often thought of throwing a menu-system on top of VMS and calling it a BBS. ;) In that case, it would handle many, many ports. In theory you can always get yourself a terminal server(s) of some kind, and have a modem on every port in the server. Each set to connect automatically using telnet or whatever to another machine on a home network. That would allow a single system to serve hundreds of connections -- depending on the system... In practice, I never heard of many with more than 8 or 16 lines. Chris Christopher Smith, Perl Developer Amdocs - Champaign, IL /usr/bin/perl -e ' print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n"); '

22 years, 10 months

cdburners

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

> At 03:33 PM 2/7/2002 -0500, Douglas Quebbeman wrote: > >ISO9660 CD's are limited to containing filenames of no more > >than 32 characters in length. At least, everytime I try to > >burn a CD, those web pages I've saved that have filenames > >that are longer result in a dialog box that requires me to > >either type an alternate name or accept the munged version > >that it creates itself. > > If you're gathering files on a Windows PC, and using PC-based > burning software, they all support the "Joliet" extensions > which allow 255-char paths. Maybe you should tell us which > platforms and packages you're using. Windows 2000, EZ-CD Creator 4, and Joliet actually is the default... I'd tried some shareware burners, but either they didn't work with this HP 9200i or I started getting crashes. =dq

22 years, 10 months

BBS systems on PDP-11s (was: Original Searchlight bbs...)

by csmith＠amdocs.com

> -----Original Message----- > From: Jeff Hellige [mailto:jhellige@earthlink.net] > Mine was 'Mount Olympus BBS' out of Laurel, MD though it was > physically located in a friends house on Bolling Air Force Base and > running off of a Leading Edge XT clone. I never became a FIDO node > but was quite active on FIDO up through about '95 or so. I'll bet I have one of those Leading Edge XT clones. :) On a slightly different topic, has anyone thought about doing something similar to a BBS, but on a larger scale? A UUCP network, for instance? Not as large or full of garbage as the internet these days, but not as local as a BBS... Chris Christopher Smith, Perl Developer Amdocs - Champaign, IL /usr/bin/perl -e ' print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n"); '

22 years, 10 months

BBS systems on PDP-11s (was: Original Searchlight bbs...)

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On February 8, Kris Kirby wrote: > On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Eric Dittman wrote: > > I do have my own class C network, not leased from an ISP or > > anything like this. This is registered to me. I really need > > to get around to using my assigned addresses with my DSL > > provider instead of using the one IP address they are > > currently providing. > > I wonder how many of you there are left. I know of exactly one other > person who has his own Class C, and he got it because he was the network > admin at $COMPANY. I had one (204.91.10/24) until a few weeks ago. The abortion formerly known as Digex just strongarmed ARIN and took it from me. I registered the /16 that it's a subnet of (204.91/16), and I even know a few people over there...and they STILL took it. It REALLY pissed me off. (But hey, better pissed OFF than pissed ON, right? I know...it depends on what you're into) Don't think that because you've got it SWIP'd to you, and that your name is all over it, that they can't simply take it away from you. -Dave -- Dave McGuire St. Petersburg, FL "Less talk. More synthohol." --Lt. Worf

22 years, 10 months

Original Searchlight bbs still online

by halarewich＠shaw.ca

Hello everybody if your interested telnet over to telnet://franklarosa.com to to a great retro bbs chris H

22 years, 10 months

Looking for a WD 1001 55 Disk controller

by g-wright＠worldnet.att.net

Richard Erlacher wrote: > According to my recollection, and the data books I still have, the WD100x-55 > controllers were NOT SASI bridges. > > On what do you base your belief that the WD1001-55 uses a SASI interface? > > see below, plz. > - Snip-------------------------------------------------- Sorry I guess the wheels where not on track last night when I tried to cover 10 E-mails in one post. Dick is absolutely right, this is Not SASI interface.. I have All the manuals, software and drawings for the molecular including the WD 1001 5.5 manual. I'm working on 2 Seattle computer Gazelles, the Molecular and A Big board system all the at the same time.. They all start to blend together. Sorry for the wasted time. - Jerry Jerry Wright JLC inc g-wright(a)worldnet.att.net

22 years, 10 months

Commodore in the news (sort of) (fwd)

by bpope＠wordstock.com

And thusly rbernardo spake: > From homestead-admin(a)videocam.net.au Thu Feb 7 23:51:49 2002 > From: rbernardo <rbernardo(a)mail.value.net> > To: homestead(a)videocam.net.au > Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 20:21:46 -0800 (PST) > > While cruising through the newsgroups, rec.games.vectrex and > rec.games.video.classic, I found this posting from Tom Howe. He was > interviewed on a morning t.v. news show, and 11 minutes total were > devoted to his computer museum at his house. Among the items were > various Commodores. (I didn't like it when the news anchors started > taking potshots at Commodores.) > > If you have a PC or Mac, you can connect to the link below and scroll > down the page to where Tom's video segment is in order to see the > Quicktime movie. Be warned... it's 16 megs long, and even on the > school computer with a T1 connection, it took many minutes to download. > > Truly, > Robert Bernardo > Fresno Commodore User Group > http://videocam.net.au/fcug > > P.S. FYI, a Vectrex is a home videogame console from the early 1980's. > It had a built-in vector graphics monitor, and the machine used a 6809 > processor. > > ------------- > > From: Tom Howe (tom(a)cedmagic.com) > Subj: Vectrex and 3D Imager on TV News Show > Newsgroups: rec.games.vectrex, rec.games.video.classic > Date: 2002-02-07 01:24:54 PST > > Hi: > > The Vectrex (or should I say Vootrex) along with the 3D Imager were > shown in operation on the KPTV morning news show "Good Day Oregon". A > QuickTime movie of the event can be downloaded from this URL (Scroll > all the way down to the bottom of the page): > > http://www.cedmagic.com/misc/tv-movies/tv-movies.html > > This segment was about my computer museum, so it contains a number of > other classics, including the Minivac 6010, IBM 5100 & 5150, Pet 2001, > Apple III, Atari 2600, etc. The Vectrex segment is about half-way > through. > > --Tom > > > _______________________________________________ > Homestead mailing list > Homestead(a)videocam.net.au > http://cbm.videocam.net.au/mailman/listinfo/homestead >

22 years, 10 months

BBS systems on PDP-11s (was: Original Searchlight bbs...)

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On February 8, Kris Kirby wrote: > > If anyone's intersted in putting classic systems on-line as BBS > > systems, I'll gladly maintain a list of systems, telephone numbers, > > hours of operation, etc. and make it available on my web site. > > I've a few questions. I missed the BBS era by just a few years; a friend > of mine used to run one but shut it down eventually. How were nodes linked > together? If every COM port is used for a modem, you're out of COM ports. Depends on the software...early FidoNet nodes, for example, exchanged messages across FidoNet via part-time dialup connections, usually using the same modem that users dialed into... > Were they independent BBSs that checked in with each other, or were they > networked together over ethernet or (...) ? Yup, generally the former. -Dave -- Dave McGuire St. Petersburg, FL "Less talk. More synthohol." --Lt. Worf

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test-drb February 2002