Subj : PoE Window Passthroug To : Daryl Stout From : Barry Martin Date : Sat Dec 13 2025 07:48:00 Daryl! BM> Seems like I'm getting the repackaged Hi-Line snow! DS> We had mostly freezing rain in the state yesterday...along with DS> a few wrecks on the elevated roads, bridges, and overpasses...but DS> that was to be expected. Years ago I had a doctor's appointment; at the time was drizzling at the house but as I got closer (and the distance is only five miles) started turning to freezing rain - great! Turned the car heat to high, turn on defoggers -- did maintain reasonably clear windows. About a quarter of the way there conditions getting worse - not going and need to figure how to get back home. Trouble is, had just gone down a hill and while could turn around glanced back and looked like the drivers in the other lane were already having troubles going up. Figure a semi-flat route to get back to the house. There is a down-hill portion but no other choice. Drove that section with my passeneger side wheels barely off the road and in the break-down lane: still slick but the splashing from other cars roughened the surface which gave me some traction. Made it home safely. BM> "Nope. Nope. Nope. Y--nope. YES! Nope." DS> Sounds like the exchange between the husband and wife...where DS> the husband says "Yes, Dear" 3 times, followed by a "No, Dear". We know who wears the pants in that family! DS> Or, it's like the one at the Pearly Gates, where St. Peter asks DS> all of the men to form 2 lines. One line is for all the men who DS> were "henpecked" by their wives, and the other was for all the DS> men who were "master of the house". DS> The entire line shifted to the left, except for one frail old DS> man. When St. Peter asked him why he was the only one in the DS> small line, he replied "Because my wife told me to stand over DS> here". "Yes dear"! BM> I have an old laptop of which I added a dongle because the BM> internal one was mediocre at best. DS> I used to have a Lenovo laptop, but it became a brick under DS> Windows 11. You number your house windows? Actually a good idea if you take down and wash all your screens at one time. I currently have a Lenovo T61; at one time had Windows XP on it (still has the sticker). Running Ubuntu 18.04 on it -- current version is I think 25.10 but I don't think the laptop has the hardware requirements so stopping at that version. Several years ago I incresed the memory to max: a whopping 4 GB! Swapped in a new solid state hard drive 1 TB -- I didn't remember putting in one that large -- whopping 4% used! Must have been a good buy at the time! Back to your Windows 11 issue, I'm thinking go back to whatever version worked before (previous conversations you didn't want to attempt to switch to Linux) and not worry about the Microsoft security updates but rather put the laptop (and maybe the rest of your system) behind a firewall -- built into the router?? DS> My Xfinity modem is set to bridge mode, so I can run the BBS. I DS> have an external router for the home Wi-Fi. There you go - maybe! BM> If there's no one around to snoop no need to have hidden! DS> I prefer a password manager. That's what my 3-ring binder is! Alphabetized! BM> So if we keep the brain puzzlers simple.... DS> Gray blond moment alert!! So the kindergarten buttons and snaps board? BM> Algebra was easy for the Romans. X was always 10. DS> One guy's wife asked him if she had been the only one he had DS> been with. DS> He replied "That's correct. All the rest were a 10". What's his hospital room number? ¯ ® ¯ BarryMartin3@MyMetronet.NET ® ¯ ® .... Safety Tip: If birthyear begins with 19 do not wrap gifts on floor. --- MultiMail/Win32 v0.47 þ wcECHO 4.2 ÷ ILink: The Safe BBS þ Bettendorf, IA þ RNET 2.10U: ILink: Techware BBS þ Hollywood, Ca þ www.techware2k.com --- QScan/PCB v1.20a / 01-0462 * Origin: ILink: CFBBS | cfbbs.no-ip.com (454:1/1) .