Hello Carol!
Sunday January 23 2022 23:06, you wrote to me:
> Re: Please add
> By: Vincent Coen to Carol Shenkenberger on Sun Jan 23 2022 08:01 pm
>> Hello Carol!
>>
>> Sunday January 23 2022 15:58, you wrote to Sean Dennis:
>>
>> > Re: Please add
>> > By: Sean Dennis to Carol Shenkenberger on Sun Jan 23 2022
>> 11:12 am
>>
>> >> Hello Carol,
>> >>
>> >> Saturday January 22 2022 23:55, you wrote to me:
>> >>
>> >> CS> It's ok. Vince mean's thinking where to hatch a new
>> >> fidonet.na type
>> >> CS> file. One not tied BTW to the elist.
>> >>
>> >> Makes sense now.
>> >>
>> >> CS> Another of us seems to be working that file to get
>> something
>> >> 2022
>> >> CS> out.
>> >>
>> >> Everythiung will settle out eventually.
>> >>
>> >> -- Sean
>> >>
>> >> ... Life should be measured by its breadth, not its length.
>>
>> > Yes. And real life sometimes impinges. I got a call from Guam
>> to
>> > help with a situation the VADM broght up Saturday that has me
>> briefing
>> > Monday morning. Had to delay some items here to work it out.
>>
>> > Ah well, back on it now.
>>
>> Now being British the abbreviation might not match - confirm VADM =
>> Vice Admiral ?
>>
>> Just curious and no, was involved in the Air Force.
>>
>> Vincent
>>
> Grin, yes. Lt General should be the same. Now my poor boss is
> worried because we have to telework at least part of tomorrow. Snow
> event here and Hampton Roads got a bit hammered on the SE portions.
> As the sun went down, my street is 5inch deep ice with spikey ruts.
> They don't treat side roads here at all (not enough gear, too far
> south to have it).
> Ah well! Working NA file issues.
In the UK side roads are not even gritted and there is a good reason - Gritting
vehicles are WIDE side roads are not and even more so with cars and vans parked
on them as houses do not have enough (if any) off-road parking.
In turn snow clearance is the same however in the southern areas of the UK snow
if it does come is not a lot may be a few inches and then only last for a few
days before melting one way or another side streets also but you just have to
live with it and drive slower.
In Scotland and the midlands (middle of the UK) it is a different story as they
can get a lot more snow allowing for winds etc.
So in the greater London areas and further south it is not a real problem and
for people who can and have a garage and the money buy a spare set of car wheels
and put on winter tyres and no I have never HAD to and my garage is not large
enough to store them with all the other house clutter one has.
I used to fly (myself) to client sites and a few times I scrounged an aircraft
that had snow ski's - it was an entertaining experience even more so when trying
to stop as skid turns could be interesting :)
Usually I avoided the experience as small aircraft do not have good cabin heater
and that is a mild understatement - bloody cold and cold is not good
for a pilot as brain starts to turn off - not a clever idea!
You are very pleased to land :)
Remember the higher you fly the colder it is by up to 2c per 1,000 feet.
It is higher if snowing.
Don't hold me to the maths, it has been a while and in any event it does vary on
location on the earth.
In the mean while I am working on changes to the elist programs to support all
echos including non moderated one's and this I will be changing the way echo
data is stored in a file including remove the echo descriptions to their own
flat (sequential file) the same as the Rules except in this case these will be
maintained on the system only and not passed out as files to sysops like the
rules are. Not needed as the reports *.RPT etc will contain all.
It will reduce the echo record size by 1125 bytes / character as as it
currenly is 2820 will make it a lot smaller and if we end you with many hundreds
if not a thousand or two if the other nets add their echo's to the data base.
It will also help to create a better text file as a back up that can be
transferred to other platforms as and when the elist service is taken up by
another.
It was a right pain to migrate the data from Ben's files and convert back into a
data file for processing.
Another reason why I maintain all echo submissions into archives by year/month.
Just in case one is needed for any reason and yes have had to do so a few times
over the last year!
Vincent
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