Ardith Hinton to James Bradley on 06-21-11 14:42 re: Secret part of the BBS
I *still* need to swap fridges here, but I lost my keys
while trying to affect that. Now I have something *else*
to fret about. <Cha-G>
Hmm. In that regard, your loss is our gain.... :-Q
NOT!!! I still need to find my keys! <LOL>
I'm sure I mentioned a *long* time ago - but I'll repeat
myself for the benefit of those who don't know how nutty
I can be <shy-G> -
And for those who know how nutty you can be, but may have forgotten or failed to grasp the technical details. Works for me... [chuckle].
Ya... Let me remind you to my "depth". <ROTF>
I had a gratis dial-up I-net account for about thirteen
years.
I thought you were using the public library but had some difficulty getting there... perhaps I drew a false analogy with Wayne
from another echo.
That's what I did too after my favor-for-a-favor time ran out in 2003. I was using a United Way sponsored setup in favor to the library (lack of) setup. I would go to the library if my stack of things-to-do extended past closing time to my preferred place. My aunt who had just retired as a librarian asked me, "What IT department?" (Yup... In rhetoric! ;-) when I was asking some simple questions about how that department was run, so I trusted them even *less* than I did until then.
Most of that time was spent *trying* to keep Windows
secure and up to date. Now that I can plug a router
between me and that "nastyness", and use *only* Linux
for my online chores, I feel MUCH more secure spending
all my money on eBay. O-8*
While I'm not a techie, I understand your unhappiness with Windows. From where I sit it appears that Linux is probably quite safe
if only because so few people understand it. Same goes for Fidonet nowadays... anybody who's interested in finding out more about me has
to know where & how to look. :-)
Like I told an x-fighter jockey for the RCAF, "Take an internal modem and network interface card to your corner store to ask the first ten people you meet to identify each. THEN, I will allow you profess your ignorance *if* you get 10/10 correct answers."
Linux *is* less secure today for exactly the reason you site, but it is *so* much harder to break into, and FAR less damage can be done once there. It's not impossible to get "nasty", just SO much more work for the malcontents for so little "gain". <scratching head>
...
You KNOW I was asking in rhetoric, right? <G+D>
A rhetorical question is asked for effect, not for
information, and doesn't require an answer. I think you knew the
answer already. But for the benefit of newcomers who might not be so clear on the concept, I explained it again in a somewhat different way.
Oh... I forgot there were people that read and follow "rules". <G+cower ;->
You've been here longer than anybody else except for Dallas & me...
and you understand what we're trying to accomplish. If others are team-teaching effectively he doesn't need the big hammer. :-))
As a blanket apology, I know how I was raised to push boundaries. Ignoring my recent typo, (Back to the old keyboard excuse AGAIN! I purchased a laptop with a busted lid hinge bracket for $70, and it's a "Breath on it just right, and it'll write for you" model. Now that I'm on my fido machine again, I have to *pound* the keys to attempt to get to my point.) I pray I was never too far from the "spirit" of the community you two built here, and if I was, I trust I wasn't too hard to lead back to enlightenment? My words to Shilo stand if so. I didn't notice Dallas wielding a big stick, and if he did, I barely noticed the gentle tap he administered to smarten me up.
I used to read echo rules diligently, until I formed my code of conduct that I thought should be "acceptable". I talk in fido how I like to talk to the neighbours across our fence, and how I'd like to be talked to. "Don't be offensive, OR easily offended..." and all that good stuff. To quote Bonnie Rait, "I aint no porcupine. Take off your kid-gloves." should be my tagline too. I know I can be gruff and crass at times and I need to be more sensitive to others, but I *think* of myself as the guy too willing to lend my neighbour my garden hose if his house is on fire, but I'm not above giving him a hard time about it if it comes back all kinked up. <smile?>
Steve isn't a kid... he's been posting in various Fidonet
... And I need to work on my "Oh ya?" attitude. <shy, mischievous G>
echoes for quite awhile. Shiloh is about the age you were when you started posting here. I'm not sure about Nathan, but I reckon your
guess is as good as mine.... ;-)
I hope I don't scare them away with my bombastic attitude. Yes, I've shared laughs with Atheists and Agnostics as easily as Pastors, so I hope Steve is able to "consider the source" when he first read my words. For the record, I did today bark at my neighbour with levity about his grumpy nature, so I hope your new readers here can feel half as welcomed as you two have made me.
about slipping under the radar *alone* would make his
hair stand on end WITHOUT "product". <EG>
I imagine you & I could both go on at length about that. Meanwhile, give yourself a gold star for making me laugh! I really
enjoy your tongue-in- cheek allusions to the whims of fashion & to the jargon of advertising. :-)))
Dad was a GREAT assessor of popular culture and intra-personal relations. I'm just as pleased as a pickle when I find someone who "gets" the smidgen of his humour I was able to adorn. Oh... Give Dallas a Happy belated Fathers Day for me. My Vancouver sister and I just exchanged a volley of HILARIOUS reminiscent emails about Dad and our upbringing in his honor. He had some bad traits, but MANY more good. Knowing what I know about you, I'm secure in calling your husband a "keeper".
I should toss you her contact info, if I remember to mention you to her in August. My Calgary sister is being wed then, and I'll wager a drunken barn dance will break out so I might have to write it down before I remember to do so.
Oh, *so* glad to find the time to garner your thoughts
again! <I SWEAR the new neighbours think I'm "off my
rocker" for laughing so hard!>
Oops. Is my NT (preferred reasoning style) showing again?? Anyway, I'm glad you're glad! As for the neighbours... I guess you
could say "You had to be there." But I doubt you're overly concerned about what they think. :-)
Oh, if they had no grounds for their suspicion before this week, they were blind to the notion. <L> Despite my best efforts, my worst psych evaluation remains "Perhaps mildly paranoid." And that was after I BEGGED for their full treatment and before they sent me home to "convalesce". <ROTF>
For the record - and in the interim from my last post - I *did* have to check my anger when discussing my medical complications to a person who was expressing nothing but compassion towards me. In my defence it took me MANY requests for her to stop before I turned immature in order to change the topic. So, even after twenty-years almost to the date, I *do* have to realize how tender my fragility is, but take heart others here. I'm learning that I have PLENTY left to learn about the muck we are all in.
For Shilo (I don't recall seeing the other name you mentioned, but I missed reading a lot of the posts I downloaded.) and even the Godless Steve, (I have your new nickname, Steve. I hope you have thick enough skin?) I suffer from an iatrogenic fibroid neuroma. Once we settle back into our chairs behind a warm cup of tea and fuzzy slippers, I have no problems going through the details, but I trust we can have mutual respect for our emotions if things become "sensitive"?
... Don't be silly. We can't have everybody living happily ever after.-Horton,E.
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