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* Originally in ELIST
* Crossposted in ECHOLIST

* Originally in ELIST
* Originally in Z2REGION25

Hello All!

My service contract with cable company Virgin Media has come to an end and the
monthly fee would have gone from 35 to 77 per month and that's pounds 
sterling.

So I have signed up to their slowest service at 50/5 and landline at 38 pm.
I could reduce this another 10 pm if I remove the included phone calls but I
think my monthly phone calls could cost more than that - have to see.

As of yesterday, the ISP has now reduced the service speed here at 50Mb down
and 5Mb up.

On Sunday to try and get in before hand I run a full system wide update for 
all
platforms. Well all but one and it was still running when I went down for
dinner and only remembered going to bed at 03:00 or so and tried to finish 
off.
How ever one environment failed, badly so I will have to do that one in the
next day or so - assuming I remember but luckily it should be a quick one of
around one hour - he says :)

I might try it tonight but, yes might forget but it is not an urgent one as it
is a back up sub system to the primary but I should do it anyway.

The mainframe update went without a hitch although pre testing did indicate it
would be a smooth operation how ever the update for the Windows 10 environment
was as per usual very slow which had nothing to do with my ISP speed, just
typical microsoft slow  as in more than two hours, a lot more.

Some of this is because the VM's have to be then updated or rebuilt for each
one one updated and even with SSD's it takes time to generate each one along
with each one's back up.

I must consider a system upgrade of the hardware but money these days is a wee
bit tight and it is hardly really that important.

Heck, one system for the Elist sub system now runs on a Raspberry Pi 3B+ !gb
Ram and a 1tb HDD using Ubuntu with in theory a back up on a brand new Pi4B 
8GB
Ram and SSD M.2 drive which is normally powered off. I really don't have a 
need
for this one so might well sell it via eBay if only to recover the costs of it
at close to 170 pounds (including a Argon 40M.2 case and PSU).

Not that the money would be close to the costs of a hardware update to the
primary system - not even close.

In any event, as I am coming up to 76 in June, I will be trying to pass on the
Elist service (along with the Pi3B+, to another sysop who is a lot younger as
time waits for no one.

The Elist service runs under Linux using mbse as the mailer/bbs system at the
most basic level. It did run on my primary system but I hived it off due to my
age as a practical precaution and this way some one tochould take it on by
just getting the Pi kit, adding a twin core cable if needed and connecting it
via cable to a LAN and other than change the Fido network address for it and
the uplink would be fully operational. Another solution could be to run the
mailer/bbs on their own Linux based system as a secondary system with the only
changes needed to their router to port forward the address used (24555).
Linux can easily handle both running at once as the Elist system is a low
resource system.

If any one is interested, get in touch.

Vincent

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