Subj : Re: CQ CQ CQ To : Mark Lewis From : Holger Granholm Date : Fri Nov 02 2018 10:14 am In a message on 11-01-18 mark lewis said to Holger Granholm: Good evening Mark, ml> as i'm reading this, yes it is... as i write this it is 20:34 ml> -0400... today has been a long day... we had to dig test pits in raw ml> woods/forest today... lots of vines and undergrowth making it hard Europe did go back to standard time oct. 28th so it's now -0300 hrs. What are those test pits for? ml> the pits dug, we ran some penetration tests to see how firm the soil ml> material is at that point... one of our holes was 25 feet (7.62 meters) ml> deep... some grueling work at times climbing up and working on the ml> slopes in those conditions... It's a fact of life that all upward slopes are taxing. ;o) HG> I'm also glad to see one area after another come back to life again. HG> Since Florence and other weather disasters only the SYSOP echo has HG> been alive. ml> SYSOP? hummm... i know there are several sysop echos but i remember The echo is FN_SYSOP the 'INTERNATIONAL FIDONET SYSOP ECHO' as it states in the description. ml> PS: you really need to get your fidonet system somehow connected to ml> the internet so you can get messages faster and be connected to more ml> systems for messages... sadly i'm no longer doing POTS connections I know but first of all I'm in no hurry to get messages faster because I won't get more time to do them and I have no users that wont other areas than I carry, but I actually have a more modern machine to set in after I can find/get hold of PCI card containing a PS/2 mouse socket. Whatever else there is on that card won't matter because the one I have does have only one USB port and an IrConnector in addition to the PS/2. As a last resort I could use an USB mouse but that leaves only 2 USB's for other uses on the 3-port USB card. Have a good night, Holger ... By the time you find greener pastures you can't climb the fence! -- MR/2 2.30 --- PCBoard (R) v15.22 (OS/2) 2 * Origin: Coming to you from the Sunny Aland Islands. (2:20/228) .