Subj : Re: weather was: food option To : Barry Martin From : Nancy Backus Date : Fri Jan 03 2020 19:55:36 -=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 25-Dec-2019 09:34 <=- BM> I looked, the 'packet explosion' is to due to Daryl's reconnecting. :) Yup. NB>>> Had a bigger gap than expected.... got a little busy, and then had NB>>> a scare with the computer, where it wouldn't boot up properly (I'd NB>>> turned off the computer, realized I'd wanted to do something more on NB>>> it, so turned it back on, only to have it get stuck partway into the NB>>> bootup)... leading me to fear that the hard drive had died on me... NB>>> and all those lost files on it.... BM>> Thought perhaps you had had a wild weekend but not that kind of BM>> wild! Good thing The Wizard was there to help! NB>> Yup... wrong kind of wild, for sure... ;0 BM> And then you were gone again for a few days; figured either more BM> wildness at those Party Houses () or your laptop decided to do a BM> Grinch impersonation. [Correction: main computer.] No, just have had a number of busy days of one sort or another... some days it was long phone calls that took away any messing time, some days it was appointments... and a few days that the mind was just too numb to concentrate on messages.... ;0 Working again at chipping away at the backlog.... ;) NB>> This was the main desktop that glitched... and his guess is that the NB>> power supply thought it was too warm to turn the computer back on NB>> right away... It sat overnight... actually, I didn't even want to NB>> test it in the morning before he was around to supervise, so didn't NB>> even try it again until Friday evening... and everything has worked NB>> fine since... BM> Yes, if something is wrong and someone else can be available to watch BM> error messages, listen for fans, etc., a good idea to wait. He'd understand the noises and messages better than I anyway... ;) So, when I did turn it on, he was there listening and watching... and everything went smoothly... And I didn't turn it off again until after that massive backup operation.... BM> Back to your issue, I've also had fans in the PSU freeze. Or fall off BM> (!). Know a couple of times I've hung a spare fan off the PSU's air BM> port until able to replace. Doesn't seem to be a fan issue... just a glitch, I guess... NB>> We did the backup of the desktop TO the laptop... there's FAR BM> That may be where I misremembered: usually laptops have the smaller BM> storage space. Don't forget, my main machine is an old Proteva Touch... came with WIN95 on it, so bought back then... total hard drive is about a gig... partitioned into 4 drives so that DOS can deal with it... :) The laptop is much newer.... :) NB>> more room on my new-to-me Dell laptop than on the desktop... at NB>> least twice as much, so there was plenty of room to copy over NB>> everything here to there... We did do an archive into .zip files NB>> to save a little space, one file per drive on the desktop (the NB>> desktop drive is partitioned into four drives for DOS's sake)... NB>> There's actually some overlap between what I normally have on the NB>> laptop and what is on the desktop, but most of my stuff has been NB>> on the desktop.... BM> Backups are good! Yup... :) NB>>> It was AIS a massive job... took from Friday evening to early Sunday NB>>> morning continuous.... probably about 36 hours or so... and then NB>>> another maybe 4 hours Sunday evening for another major directory NB>>> we'd not put into the original backup batch file... It's actually NB>>> the first full backup I've ever done of my (part of the) computer... BM>> Sort of reminds me of the Olden Days when it took hours to transfer BM>> data from a 400 KB floppy! (They were standard 5¬" floppies in RX50 BM>> format.) NB>> We were copying through a wired network connection, and there was NB>> probably 3/4 of a gig or so of stuff to transfer, maybe a little NB>> more... BM> Oh, just tiny little files! The MythTV files can be several gig BM> each. My regular 'human' files are more like what you dealt with. Yup, lots of little files... :) BM>> Just be certain to do at least a weekly backup! NB>> I don't know if it has to be the whole thing like that each NB>> time... I need to ask the Wizard if there's some way to just add NB>> to the archive, or how it works exactly.... and things have been NB>> busy since, not just at the computer.... ;) BM> You should be able to do an incremental back up, which will just copy BM> the new and altered files, so won't take nearly as long. Then make BM> another full back up as a separate set followed by incrementals. This BM> will give a sort of back up to the back up. On the third (or later) BM> full back up the original set is reused. That will be a job for the Wizard... at least for a while yet... ;) NB>> Yeah... here it is Christmas Eve, and yesterday was in the mid-50s NB>> and sunny... and the remaining snow is very sparse.... mostly from NB>> shoveling or plowing piles or in protected spots... Today's only in NB>> the 30s, but no snow predicted today or tonight, and tomorrow will NB>> be back in the 50s... Guess there's really no chance for a white NB>> Christmas this year... BM> Christmas Day as I write this. 42ø when I got up; today's high BM> predicted for 55ø, about the same as yesterday. Cooling down on the BM> weekend with something like a 40% rain for Saturday and for snow on BM> Sunday. And a week later plus, as I write this.... we finally had a little snow overnight New Years Eve, which is gone again.... but more is supposedly on the way now for tomorrow, with temps back into seasonal 30s... :) BM>> The time to reshingle this house is coming up. And I don't know what BM>> styles, etc., are available with metal roofing: may not look at all BM>> right with your house nor mine. NB>> I wouldn't think it would look right with ours for sure... What we NB>> got this time are the ones I think are called sculptural.. they look NB>> sort of like a basket weave.... supposed to last longer, I think.... BM> OK, yes -- I had to look it up: sort of knew what you meant but one of BM> the pictures really looked like a basketweave pattern and looked nice. It's the current fashion here... one sees a lot of these roofs around... BM> Our is more the wooden shingles style: random widths and the bottoms BM> of the rows aren't quite even to give it that more individual pieces BM> look. What's 'funny' is a few people around the greater neighbourhood BM> redid their roofs after we did and they have a similar style. Not BM> saying they copied, but.... The roofers seem to push certain styles at certain times.... The wooden shingles look was probably what they were pushing when you had yours done.... ;) NB>>>> The metal roof for the garage made sense, and is something that he NB>>>> can do himself, bit by bit.... no warranty other than the materials NB>>>> themselves, I'd guess.... :) BM>>> There are two or three roof surfaces an amateur roofer might want to BM>>> do at this house because not too much of an angle, the rest are steep BM>>> and/or too far from the ground. NB>>> That last describes all of our house roof except for the front and NB>>> side porches.... ;) BM>> :) There are some 'gentle slopes' and there are some semi-steep BM>> sections. The roofers don't seem to mind; I wouldn't want to do it! NB>> It's why one hires the roofers to do the job, after all... BM> And here I thought it was just my laziness! ...When the house is BM> reshingled will probably have the shed done too: it's roof was done BM> the same time as the house. (Is an ~8x10' outbuilding for the yard BM> tools and a bit of storage.) I could do it but why? The roofers have BM> the equipment and know-how. Probably would take me as long to shingle BM> the shed as it would for them to do all the house - I don't have the BM> experience. You might as well have them tack that onto the job... probably wouldn't take them much more time at all... :) ttyl neb .... 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