*vocalizing* "wah-ahhh wahhh-ah wah-ahhh"

Better get that diaper changed <g,d,r>

My diaper is fine; speak to whomever I was quoting there. . . rtgw big NeoLiberal(likely, or some such) crybaby; I'm not "Conservative" (or "Republican"); I'm just grounded in reality(a reality that includes God & the moral laws He has given us)

[viruses]

I don't think I've ever been hit by one...now, I probably just jinxed
myself. :P But, I just updated the latest version of IObit Malware Fighter yesterday...it has an anti-virus, bit defender anti-virus, anti-malware,
and anti-ransomware data engine.

Hopefully it's up to the task of the self-jinx you just called in on yourself!

I update definitions daily (some are that new) & run full heuristics
scan daily on all RW drives, too.

My IObit programs (as long as the yearly registration is current) do the updates automatically, and I also have it set for real time protection and scanning. There have been a few false positives, but that has been rare.

Ditto with anything I'm using -- if it won't update automatically, every night at 01h30, I don't need it.

Cyberpope does NOT spread worms

Unless they're in your stool. :P

Even so, I wouldn't spread them -- the butterknife stays in the silverware drawer, & stool goes for a forced swim. . .

Or we're dumb enough to keep shelling out big bucks for their stuff.
Who says I do?

At least you and I aren't trying to "keep up with the Jones's".

Why would I? I don't work for them!

This is why DC is so scared of Canadians; we speak two languages & we
understand metric well enough to use iutr daily! (& most of us can do
Imperial, too).

And yet, amateur radio and meteorology use metric...in the band names (wavelengths) and temperatures. The HF bands are defined from 10 meters
on down to 160 meters...the VHF bands and 6 meters, 2 meters, and 1.25 meters...and the UHF bands are 70 centimeters on up.
In weather, temperatures are in Celsius, pressures are in millbars or hectopascals, and likely several others that escape me right now.
Or, you could be like the guy who had this on his wall in winter.

Yup, but the laws of stadards & measures are Imperial based (MPH, gallons, etc; milk in pints & quarts; cream in cups(or half-pints?) or pints. . .

In weather, your rain is reported in inches (kind of a big unit when often you're measuring 0.01/inch, which doesn't translate well to 1/16s. . .

I hardly ever see RC Cola or 7-up anymore.

Odd, as it's the South that made RC so big. . .

& do you see Sprite, or you're too close to Atlanta to see anything but Coke?

At 18, she was pure cheesecake; at 48, she was more like sour cream.
A real man loves her no less at 48. . .

They say age shouldn't matter...to me, it does if you're into pedophilia.

I say, within the interactions of consenting adults, age doesn't matter.

There are too many perverts and sex offenders nowadays (and one thought
that Sodom and Gomorrah were bad).

It was & so is our generation. It'd be simpler if people could wait until marriage, as you have to be an adult to get married.

My adult step-daughter wanmts her mom & me to evaluate any future wooers, because she knows we've lived a long time(longer than her) & know the red flags that she has no clue about. . . (or might not see if she's "blinded by love"-- she's beyond the age of being hormonally messed up by recent puberty)

My fave quote from "Married With Children"

A friend of mine watched that...I never cared for it.

Like the farmer said, after drinking directly from the goat's teat, "It's all a matter of personal taste."

--- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-5
* Origin: The Rusty MailBox - Penticton, BC Canada (1:153/757)

George,

My diaper is fine; speak to whomever I was quoting there. . . rtgw big NeoLiberal(likely, or some such) crybaby; I'm not "Conservative" (or "Republican"); I'm just grounded in reality(a reality that includes God
& the moral laws He has given us)

Too bad a certain political party voted Him out of their platform. As
for the diaper...it "DEPENDS". <G>

Hopefully it's up to the task of the self-jinx you just called in on yourself!

It's like "The Sysop's Curse". When the Sysop goes off on vacation,
their BBS develops "separation anxiety", and crashes 5 minutes after
the Sysop has left the premises.

Ditto with anything I'm using -- if it won't update automatically,
every night at 01h30, I don't need it.

I figured out the nightly maintenance glitch, so I was able to put
several doors back online that were removed just days earlier. I also
have added several IGMs to the local LORD II game, and sent you several messages in there. It was DIFFICULT to get that Armor and Weapon of KCD
from Springfang's Lair.

Even so, I wouldn't spread them -- the butterknife stays in the
silverware drawer, & stool goes for a forced swim. . .

I had to order some "toilet hats" to collect a stool sample to
be sent off...but the Post Office lost the thing...or they threw
it out.

Why would I? I don't work for them!

Just like the stores wanting us to use the self checkout lanes.
It'd be my luck, that I have 1 carton of a dozen eggs, but I'm
not allowed to go through express checkout, as I have more than
10 items. <G>

Yup, but the laws of stadards & measures are Imperial based (MPH,
gallons, etc; milk in pints & quarts; cream in cups(or half-pints?) or pints. . .

And, we like our Imperial measurements. My late Mom had said when she
was in high school in the 40's, they were saying "the metric system
will be here before we know it". Yeah...we know how THAT turned out.
That's like saying "we should support the metric system every inch of
the way". <G>

In weather, your rain is reported in inches (kind of a big unit when
often you're measuring 0.01/inch, which doesn't translate well to
1/16s. . .

And, your plastic raingage can be different than an automated one,
or like the one used by the National Weather Service, or at airports.

Odd, as it's the South that made RC so big. . .

There was a song years ago called "Junk Food Junkie". During the
day, the guy was Mr. Natural...health food all the way. But, after
dark he broke out "a bag of Fritos corn chips, Doctor Pepper, and
an old moon pie". Then he sat back "in glorious expectation of a
genuine junk food high".

& do you see Sprite, or you're too close to Atlanta to see anything but Coke?

Is Ocracoke Island where you can get Coca-Cola with your okra?? <G>

It was & so is our generation. It'd be simpler if people could wait
until marriage, as you have to be an adult to get married.

It's true that "true love waits".

My adult step-daughter wanmts her mom & me to evaluate any future
wooers, because she knows we've lived a long time(longer than her) &
know the red flags that she has no clue about. . . (or might not see if she's "blinded by love"-- she's beyond the age of being hormonally
messed up by recent puberty).

I filled out an "application to date my daughter", and gave it to my
in-laws before I married their daughter. <G>

Like the farmer said, after drinking directly from the goat's teat,
"It's all a matter of personal taste."

Just nipple that one in the bud. <G>

Did you ever get your QWK Mail working?? If so, I can send you a
bunch of punny taglines...although they may be in the QWK Mail Files
area on the BBS already.

Daryl

... I've used up all my sick days, so I'm calling in dead.
=== MultiMail/Win v0.52
--- SBBSecho 3.14-Win32
* Origin: The Thunderbolt BBS - Little Rock, Arkansas (1:2320/33)

If a user is

online, and accesses a door during maintenance, it'll crash the door
and the system. I can't always be up at 12 midnight to "manually down
the nodes" to keep users offline while the doors are updated for the
daily maintenance.

Isn't that the BBS OS' job, to kick all users offline before maintenance & to refuse access during defined maintenance time? This was already pretty basic in BBS OSes 30+ years ago.

How about, since you've quit the networks, running maintenance during the Fido network no users time?

can't afford a new CPU...especially since the State Of Arkansas is threatening to remove my Low Medicare Funding Beneficiary status.
If I have to pay nearly $200 a month for the Medicare premium, I'm
going to have to sell my car.

Why ar rthey doing this? Have you recently come into a large sum of money or a nice regular source of income? If not, I would think what they're doing should be illegal, & you should connect with a group of seniors who advocate for fair treatment for seniors in AL. At the least, write a letter or email to your rep.

Google "forms of address for letters America" first & follow the format they recommend. Your letter is more guaranteed to be read by your rep if you follow these traditional forms.

Needless to say, I'm not a very happy camper right now.

More later. . .

... C:\BELFRY is where I keep my .BAT files. ^^^oo^^^

I actually used to do this; I had dozens of BAT files I'd created to make life easier, like PD.BAT (parallel directory change) CD ..\%1

simple, but helpful if you spent all your time in DOS like I did. . .I also had FF to filefind a specific file anywhere I put in the parameter used as FF \JOKES camp
ala: DIR /S/B/-P %1 |find /i "%%2"

I might be wrong on the format of the parameter variables as it's been years since I've used these, but that's the gist anyway. Plus I might make an ad hoc BST file for a day's tasks,. then not bother deleting it. . .

Ones I used regularly like PD & FF, I compiled into .COM files

OBPUN/JOK, which YOU omitted, my friend. . .

Camping is in-tents!
IÆm feeling sÆmore and sÆmore in love with camping. Campers have sÆmore fun. You canÆt run through a campsite. You can only ranà because itÆs past tents!

This is more time relevant to our Down Under readers, if we have any. . .

--- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-7
* Origin: The Rusty MailBox - Penticton, BC Canada (1:153/757)