Subj : Computer Failure Haikus
To   : Daryl Stout
From : George Pope
Date : Tue Dec 31 2024 12:00:12

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)

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