Subj : Re: fsxNet feedback
To   : N1uro
From : Vk3jed
Date : Wed May 19 2021 09:44 am

-=> On 05-17-21 08:14, N1uro wrote to Vk3jed <=-

 N1> There's a station in California running Phil's original NOS on BSD!
 N1> One of the sites linked to me can get to it from RF. I was shocked to
 N1> find it. MFNOS is nice. I worked with K2MF to fix a LOT of memory leaks

Nice surprise. :)  I can't recall the exact variant I was running.  There were
so many around, and none of the ones I've seen more recently, match what I
recall running.  Sadly, that old system config is well and truly dead, as it
lived on floppies. :(

 N1> and such that were in Phil's original code... and extensive work on the
 N1> BBS part of it which Barry K2MF didn't really understand.

Nice work. :)

 N1> Many now a day who choose to run a NOS are using JNOS2 by Maiko VE4KLM.
 N1> Years ago, Maiko, Barry, and I would sit in convers and headbang on new
 N1> things to create for NOS :) Those were fun days too.

I bet.  I was never a coder.  I do have an aptitude for it, but my needs are
too physically active for me to sit down and do it.  I'm an odd mix of nerd,
geek and jock, and have to balance that!  BBSing is good for the geek side, I
can do it as much or little as I need, and ham radio can be combined with other
interests.  Sadly, I discovered before I was 20 that spending long hours
writing code (even when it was stuff that I wanted to work on) wasn't good for
my head. :(

But I do like alpha and beta testing.  I recently discovered some bugs in
MMDVMHost, and gave G4KLX the details, so he could fix them.  Jonathan advised
me this morning that he's fixed the two bugs that I found. :)

Years ago, I had a field day finding bugs in thelinkbox, a repeater controller
and Echolink client/conference by WB6YMH.  I tended to find so many bugs,
because I applied out of the box thinking to how I used his software, breaking
assumptions and stressing his code in unexpected ways. :D  Check out the
Changelog sometime. ;)


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