Subj : Re: Y2K again..? was: Note f To : Barry Martin From : Nancy Backus Date : Tue Feb 11 2020 01:36:12 -=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 06-Feb-2020 08:19 <=- NB>>>> I don't think that Richard had heard anything ahead of time, either... BM>>> OK -- not that I'm concerned with being out of the loop, but nice to BM>>> know I was sort of caught unawares also. NB>>> An unexpected "gotcha".... BM>> Yes; LIS like being aware of potential problems/issues - I can't do BM>> much about them in the way of programming/fix but nice to know BM>> something could be happening and monitor the situation. ...Quite sure BM>> other similar issues have snuck by. NB>> And as long as they get fixed or don't really affect things too much, NB>> not really a problem... BM> Right. I'm rather low on the totem pole: by the time a problem gets BM> to me it's been tested a few thousand times. Or a handful - I also BM> have some utilities which are probably used by a hundred or so people. I'm pretty much not even on the pole... And only have a handful of programs I use anyway, other than Richard's utilities and such... BM> Anyway, if I see something check to see it's not something stupid I BM> did. try to get as detailed as possible, and report. BM> As you said, they usually get fixed, if not and not too inconvenient, BM> just ignore and go on. Yup. And I think the programs I do use aren't ones that I can reach the authors of anymore anyway.... so if there is an issue, I just have to hope that Richard can find a way to fix it... ;) NB>>> Which would make sense.... :) When the author of the BlueWave NB>>> Reader came out with an entirely new version, he offered to register NB>>> the new one for free for a limited time to those who had registered NB>>> the original version... I did take advantage of that... :) BM>> Good and good. The free probably cost him a little bit (not getting BM>> paid for his work) but may have also saved him work supporting old BM>> versions which were now replaced by his new one. And could have BM>> created money with the customers using upgrades to the new version BM>> telling users of other products how good the new and improved BlueWave BM>> is. (That made a lot more sense in my mind when I only had to use BM>> thoughts and not words!) NB>> Telling other users about the upgraded product, anyway... I don't know NB>> what other products, if any, Cutting Edge produced... But he did write NB>> a full line of readers and BBS offline doors for BlueWave, for NB>> different platforms and bbs softwares... :) BM> Word-of-mouth advertising is good! Yup... and having them available on BBSs to download... There was a kid that was really into Bluewave, back when I was just getting into this stuff... Paul something... He was also a regular on the Holodeck, and made sure that we had the latest and greatest as soon as it came out... I know of at least one existing bbs (Holodeck is gone now) that has pretty much every Bluewave file, including the Y2K fixes that happened after the author had already disappeared... BM>>> Back to the local repacking, Ch. 6 was the first one, but delayed BM>>> because of weather, and some of the weather delay was at whatever BM>>> station the tower crews were working on before coming here, some BM>>> weather delays due to the bad weather locally. As for the other BM>>> stations, just didn't say much. NB>>> As I'm not watching the TV at all, I wasn't really paying attention NB>>> until Richard started talking about it.... :) BM>> Right: TV? Oh, yeah, that monitor-like thing in the corner. NB>> Yup, something like that.... :) BM> Back to the rescanning, for me the problem wasn't the TVs but more the BM> MythTV portion ==> recording and playback of TV shows. Had read in BM> the forum of some problems, most rescans seemed to go fine. Here my BM> "Phase 1" rescan for 'Channel 6' went fine; even got a new station BM> (though rarely watch because most offerings repeated locally). The more complicated one's setup, the more complicated the updates get... ;) BM> "Phase 2" was a little bumpy but could have been something I tried. BM> 'Channel 8' moved from one frequency to another -- could I simply BM> change that number? The way I did it didn't work; on the rescan BM> (regular way) I ended up with two 'Channel 8's, one old and therefore BM> dead but identified as WQAD and the other new, live, but identified as BM> "1" (subchannels as "2", "3". etc.). Figured out the ones with the BM> call signs were the old, delete and rename the new ones, and all set. BM> The other stations which updated at the same time did not have the BM> quirk. Probably best not to second-guess the instructions... BM> Think we're all set here until a new station comes on-line, either a BM> new substation to an existing station or a new station. Now to see BM> what's going on with Samantha and Daryll.... (hopefully find the BM> tagline!) BM> ... 7:30 Ch 7: Bewitched.Tabatha gets carsick & turns Darin into BM> plastic bag. That's the other show, isn't it...? ttyl neb .... Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience. - Ben Franklin --- EzyBlueWave V3.00 01FB001F * Origin: Tiny's BBS - http://www.tinysbbs.com (454:1/452) .