Afternoon Y'all. Just checking to make sure I'm getting out.

It's been a while since I had to take down the board to focus more on the family stuff. But I think that was back in the v3.13 time range. I know I have a backup of the old bbs somewhere around here (hehe). But now, I have way more time on my hands as my kids are older. (They're now 20 and 14)


I swear getting back into the swing of things is rough, but I am slowly getting there. But this time, I'm running the board on a HP T610 thin client with upgraded memory (8Gig) and better SSD drive, that's mounted on the side of my desk. So at least this time, it's a dedicated setup.

I hope everyone is doing well and ttyl!

Chronos

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Re: Test of Cloud Nine BBS
By: Chronos to All on Fri Jul 29 2022 04:57 pm

Afternoon Y'all. Just checking to make sure I'm getting out.

I see you... welcome back! I've got a 3 year old at home, not always easy to find time ;-)

I decided to skip running my own hardware, I use Digital Ocean's lowest tier server -- plenty of space and power for a board and
they image the machine nightly, all for about $6/mo -- our electric rates are close to $0.30/kWh so any machine using more than
~30W would actually cost me more to host at home... old hardware is fun, but it sure isn't cheap to run sometimes!

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Chronos wrote to All <=-

Afternoon Y'all. Just checking to make sure I'm getting out.

Got you here in Florida.

It's been a while since I had to take down the board to focus
more on the family stuff. But I think that was back in the v3.13
time range. I know I have a backup of the old bbs somewhere
around here (hehe). But now, I have way more time on my hands as
my kids are older. (They're now 20 and 14)

I swear getting back into the swing of things is rough, but I am
slowly getting there. But this time, I'm running the board on a
HP T610 thin client with upgraded memory (8Gig) and better SSD
drive, that's mounted on the side of my desk. So at least this
time, it's a dedicated setup.

Welcome back and good luck.



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Hello Chronos, and welcome!

On 29 Jul 2022, Chronos said the following...

Afternoon Y'all. Just checking to make sure I'm getting out.

Yep! Got you here!

I swear getting back into the swing of things is rough, but I am slowly ge there. But this time, I'm running the board on a HP T610 thin client with upgraded memory (8Gig) and better SSD drive, that's mounted on the side of desk. So at least this time, it's a dedicated setup.

That's nice! I was also thinking of a thin client but settled for an Intel NUC. Tried a fanless Shuttle PC before that, but it got *very* hot (to the point of the SSD reporting errors to the error log, despite the temperature actually being within operating limits)...

I hope everyone is doing well and ttyl!

Yep, thanks! See you around!

Best regards
Zip

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Re: Test of Cloud Nine BBS
By: Dux to Chronos on Fri Jul 29 2022 06:34 pm

I see you... welcome back! I've got a 3 year old at home, not always easy to find time ;-)

You got that right!

I decided to skip running my own hardware, I use Digital Ocean's lowest tier server -- plenty of space and power for a board and they image the machine nightly, all for about $6/mo -- our electric rates are close to $0.30/kWh so any machine using more than ~30W would actually cost me more to host at home... old hardware is fun, but it sure isn't cheap to run sometimes!

Well, we already are a large tech family, which is mostly my fault, my wife works from home, etc... what's one more device to power! Kids are both gamers, my son does Twitch streaming, and I have all my retro stuff.

Chronos

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Re: Re: Test of Cloud Nine BBS
By: Zip to Chronos on Sat Jul 30 2022 06:57 am

That's nice! I was also thinking of a thin client but settled for an Intel NUC. Tried a fanless Shuttle PC before that, but it got *very* hot (to the point of the SSD reporting errors to the error log, despite the temperature actually being within operating limits)...

The HP thin client has done well for me. It started out as the arcade cabinet machine until I upgraded it. But I'm not going to complain, it was $40 USD on Ebay and I had the upgrade parts already. So now my arcade cabinet has an i3 as it's core, which is perfect to run all the retro stuff and some newer things too.

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Hello Chronos!

On 30 Jul 2022, Chronos said the following...

The HP thin client has done well for me. It started out as the arcade cabi chine until I upgraded it. But I'm not going to complain, it was $40 USD o
and I had the upgrade parts already. So now my arcade cabinet has an i3 a
core, which is perfect to run all the retro stuff and some newer things t

Yep, the i3 has a nice price/performance ratio. Got one in my NUC. :)

Best regards
Zip

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Zip wrote to Chronos <=-

I swear getting back into the swing of things is rough, but I am slowly ge there. But this time, I'm running the board on a HP T610 thin client with upgraded memory (8Gig) and better SSD drive, that's mounted on the side of desk. So at least this time, it's a dedicated setup.

That's nice! I was also thinking of a thin client but settled for
an Intel NUC. Tried a fanless Shuttle PC before that, but it got
*very* hot (to the point of the SSD reporting errors to the error
log, despite the temperature actually being within operating
limits)...

I've been pondering a NUC myself. Haven't looked into the specs yet,
but are some/all of them fan-cooled? Somehow I was thinking they were
fanless and would overheat. If it does have a fan, is it still very
quiet? Thanks for info.



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Re: Test of Cloud Nine BBS
By: Chronos to All on Fri Jul 29 2022 04:57 pm

It's been a while since I had to take down the board to focus more on the family stuff. But I think that was back in the v3.13 time range. I know I have a backup of the old bbs somewhere around here (hehe). But now, I have way more time on my hands as my kids are older. (They're now 20 and 14)

Welcome back!
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Re: Re: Test of Cloud Nine BBS
By: Gamgee to Zip on Sat Jul 30 2022 09:15 am

I've been pondering a NUC myself. Haven't looked into the specs yet,
but are some/all of them fan-cooled? Somehow I was thinking they were

I really love the NUCs. They do have a fan, but the fan doesn't come on unless it's under load. Then sometimes it can get a little loud. For the most part though, it sits quiet.

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Hello Gamgee!

On 30 Jul 2022, Gamgee said the following...

I've been pondering a NUC myself. Haven't looked into the specs yet,
but are some/all of them fan-cooled? Somehow I was thinking they were fanless and would overheat. If it does have a fan, is it still very quiet? Thanks for info.

I think all of them have fans, mine (a NUC7i3BNK) has one of these: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07YRTW8RL

Very quiet, and has been running 24/7 for 4 years now -- no replacement needed yet, but I have one on the shelf just in case. :)

The only downside is that you have to take apart the entire NUC to get to the CPU fan (or the CMOS Setup/BIOS battery)... Which includes disconnecting/reconnecting those miniature Wi-Fi antenna connectors etc.

Best regards
Zip

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Re: Re: Test of Cloud Nine BBS
By: Gamgee to Zip on Sat Jul 30 2022 09:15 am

I've been pondering a NUC myself. Haven't looked into the specs yet,
but are some/all of them fan-cooled? Somehow I was thinking they were fanless and would overheat. If it does have a fan, is it still very quiet? Thanks for info.

At a previous job I had, we had bought a bunch of NUCs for our automated build & test system for our team's software. We had those NUCs connected to a Jenkins build server, which would make nightly builds and run automated tests using the NUCs. They worked fairly well.

Nightfox

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Phigan wrote to Gamgee <=-

I've been pondering a NUC myself. Haven't looked into the specs yet,
but are some/all of them fan-cooled? Somehow I was thinking they were

I really love the NUCs. They do have a fan, but the fan doesn't
come on unless it's under load. Then sometimes it can get a
little loud. For the most part though, it sits quiet.

Okay, cool, thanks for the info!



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Zip wrote to Gamgee <=-

I've been pondering a NUC myself. Haven't looked into the specs yet,
but are some/all of them fan-cooled? Somehow I was thinking they were fanless and would overheat. If it does have a fan, is it still very quiet? Thanks for info.

I think all of them have fans, mine (a NUC7i3BNK) has one of
these: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07YRTW8RL

Very quiet, and has been running 24/7 for 4 years now -- no
replacement needed yet, but I have one on the shelf just in case.
:)

The only downside is that you have to take apart the entire NUC
to get to the CPU fan (or the CMOS Setup/BIOS battery)... Which
includes disconnecting/reconnecting those miniature Wi-Fi antenna connectors etc.

Okay that's great info, appreciate your reply!



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Nightfox wrote to Gamgee <=-

I've been pondering a NUC myself. Haven't looked into the specs yet,
but are some/all of them fan-cooled? Somehow I was thinking they were fanless and would overheat. If it does have a fan, is it still very
quiet? Thanks for info.

At a previous job I had, we had bought a bunch of NUCs for our
automated build & test system for our team's software. We had
those NUCs connected to a Jenkins build server, which would make
nightly builds and run automated tests using the NUCs. They
worked fairly well.

Good to hear, thanks!



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Hello Gamgee!

On 30 Jul 2022, Gamgee said the following...

Okay that's great info, appreciate your reply!

You're very welcome! :)

Best regards
Zip

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Re: Test of Cloud Nine BBS
By: Digital Man to Chronos on Sat Jul 30 2022 08:47 am

Welcome back!

Thanks!

By the way, I did find that backup... it was from 2004. It was the Time Machine BBS back then. This time, I named it after my first BBS back in 1995-96,

Chronos

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On 7/31/2022 08:53, Chronos wrote:

Re: Test of Cloud Nine BBS
By: Digital Man to Chronos on Sat Jul 30 2022 08:47 am

> Welcome back!

Thanks!

By the way, I did find that backup... it was from 2004. It was the Time Machine BBS back then. This time, I named it after my first BBS back in 1995-96,

Chronos

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Can't seem to access your board...

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Re: Re: Test of Cloud Nine BBS
By: dragon to Chronos on Mon Aug 01 2022 10:31 pm

Can't seem to access your board...

Hmmmmm..... The computer's firewall seem fine, but I'll check my router.

Thanks for letting me know!

Chronos

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Re: Re: Test of Cloud Nine BBS
By: dragon to Chronos on Mon Aug 01 2022 10:31 pm

Can't seem to access your board...

Should be fixed now. It was my router and a large brainfart. Forgot my port forwarding. Imagine that. LOL

Chronos

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Re: Re: Test of Cloud Nine BBS
By: Chronos to dragon on Tue Aug 02 2022 03:17 pm

Re: Re: Test of Cloud Nine BBS
By: dragon to Chronos on Mon Aug 01 2022 10:31 pm

Can't seem to access your board...

Hmmmmm..... The computer's firewall seem fine, but I'll check my router.

Thanks for letting me know!

Chronos

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On 7/30/22 07:15, Gamgee wrote:

I've been pondering a NUC myself. Haven't looked into the specs yet,
but are some/all of them fan-cooled? Somehow I was thinking they were fanless and would overheat. If it does have a fan, is it still very
quiet? Thanks for info.

NUC is a pretty wide range at this point... there are some lower power
fanless options, there are also larger options that go to a current I9
and support higher end RTX graphics cards.

I've been relatively fond of a few of the MinusForum products... mostly they're laptop designs in a small desktop form factor. Which is what
the NUCs are as well.

I've started using some of the small/light Intel based boxes
(aliexpress) for projects since the costs for the Raspberry Pi went
through the roof.. for a full system, it's not that much more than RPi
but quite a bit better performing. Kind of wonder if the RiscV options
will come to lower end as well.

My board is also on DigitalOcean, as another mentioned they were doing
as well. For me the hard things are time and motivation... been dealing
with a few personal issues, medical issues and work, and really just
don't have any motivation at all after that... I try to check into these message areas about once a week though.

I have so many mods in various states of done, or started, or just need
to be rewritten... I used to run a very heavily modified Synchronet
board, but don't like a lot of the structure, so haven't just put it
back as it is/was... but considering doing that then moving forward.
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On 7/30/22 14:44, Zip wrote:

I think all of them have fans, mine (a NUC7i3BNK) has one of these:

That's cool... I've got a MinisForum HX90 running most of my home stuff currently, a bit overkill really, but nice overall... idle is really low power.

My pfsense box is running an N6005, one of these also might be a decent option... haven't really tried it for BBS type use, but it outpaces an
RPi quite a lot... so may be worth considering.
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Tracker1 wrote to Gamgee <=-

I've been pondering a NUC myself. Haven't looked into the specs yet,
but are some/all of them fan-cooled? Somehow I was thinking they were fanless and would overheat. If it does have a fan, is it still very
quiet? Thanks for info.

NUC is a pretty wide range at this point... there are some lower
power fanless options, there are also larger options that go to a
current I9 and support higher end RTX graphics cards.

I've been relatively fond of a few of the MinusForum products...
mostly they're laptop designs in a small desktop form factor.
Which is what the NUCs are as well.

Okay, good to know. Didn't realize they went that high on specs.

I've started using some of the small/light Intel based boxes
(aliexpress) for projects since the costs for the Raspberry Pi
went through the roof.. for a full system, it's not that much
more than RPi but quite a bit better performing. Kind of wonder
if the RiscV options will come to lower end as well.

Agreed. I would likely be looking at the I3/I5 level of performance,
which is much higher than an RPi, for sure. Also keeps it in the x86
world rather than ARM, which can be a limiting factor for many things.
Thanks for the info.


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Tracker1 wrote to Zip <=-

I think all of them have fans, mine (a NUC7i3BNK) has one of these:

That's cool... I've got a MinisForum HX90 running most of my home
stuff currently, a bit overkill really, but nice overall... idle
is really low power.

Wow, hadn't previously heard of this MinisForum brand. Seem to be well-reviewed and widely available (Amazon). The UM350 model I see
there may be what I'm looking for... Thanks.



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Gamgee wrote to Tracker1 <=-

I think all of them have fans, mine (a NUC7i3BNK) has one of these:

That's cool... I've got a MinisForum HX90 running most of my home
stuff currently, a bit overkill really, but nice overall... idle
is really low power.

Wow, hadn't previously heard of this MinisForum brand. Seem to
be well-reviewed and widely available (Amazon). The UM350 model
I see there may be what I'm looking for... Thanks.

And........... it'll be here Tuesday. :-)



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On 8/7/22 13:04, Gamgee wrote:

That's cool... I've got a MinisForum HX90 running most of my home
stuff currently, a bit overkill really, but nice overall... idle
is really low power.

Wow, hadn't previously heard of this MinisForum brand. Seem to
be well-reviewed and widely available (Amazon). The UM350 model
I see there may be what I'm looking for... Thanks.

And........... it'll be here Tuesday. :-)

I literally laughed out loud at this one... I tend to be a bit like that
too sometimes. The 3550H in that should be relatively good... similar performance to a 4-8th gen i5.
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Tracker1 wrote to Gamgee <=-

That's cool... I've got a MinisForum HX90 running most of my home
stuff currently, a bit overkill really, but nice overall... idle
is really low power.

Wow, hadn't previously heard of this MinisForum brand. Seem to
be well-reviewed and widely available (Amazon). The UM350 model
I see there may be what I'm looking for... Thanks.

And........... it'll be here Tuesday. :-)

I literally laughed out loud at this one... I tend to be a bit
like that too sometimes. The 3550H in that should be relatively
good... similar performance to a 4-8th gen i5.

Yes, it seems very fast, it's quiet, it's small. Came with Windows 10
and offered to update to Win 11, so I did that just out of curiosity. I
must say that if I was a Windows user, I'd prefer the version 11.
Pretty slick looking to be honest. But anyway, shortly after that it
was wiped and now has MX Linux on it. :-)

I had a $100 Amazon gift card burning a hole in my pocket, so in the end
it only cost me $229 (Amazon had a $50 coupon active for it too). That
gets me a Ryzen 5, 16GB DDR4 RAM, a 512GB NVMe drive, 4 USB 3.x jacks, a
USB-C jack, HDMI and DP video ports, and a 2.5GB (?) ethernet jack.
Also has a space to add a 2.5" HD/SSD, so I added a 480GB SSD that I had around. Pretty nice little computer.


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On 8/12/22 05:30, Gamgee wrote:

I literally laughed out loud at this one... I tend to be a bit
like that too sometimes. The 3550H in that should be relatively
good... similar performance to a 4-8th gen i5.

Yes, it seems very fast, it's quiet, it's small. Came with Windows 10
and offered to update to Win 11, so I did that just out of curiosity. I
must say that if I was a Windows user, I'd prefer the version 11.
Pretty slick looking to be honest. But anyway, shortly after that it
was wiped and now has MX Linux on it. :-)

I had a $100 Amazon gift card burning a hole in my pocket, so in the end
it only cost me $229 (Amazon had a $50 coupon active for it too). That
gets me a Ryzen 5, 16GB DDR4 RAM, a 512GB NVMe drive, 4 USB 3.x jacks, a USB-C jack, HDMI and DP video ports, and a 2.5GB (?) ethernet jack.
Also has a space to add a 2.5" HD/SSD, so I added a 480GB SSD that I had around. Pretty nice little computer.

Glad you like it... been very happy with the newer mini pcs... I liked
the form factor for a while, but the couple I tried about 8 years ago
were not great. The new ones seem to be more than sufficient for
home-server and BBS use.
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Zip wrote to Chronos <=-

Welcome back!!!

@MSGID: <62E4BA48.17740.dove-sys@vert.synchro.net>
Hello Chronos, and welcome!

On 29 Jul 2022, Chronos said the following...

Afternoon Y'all. Just checking to make sure I'm getting out.

Yep! Got you here!

I swear getting back into the swing of things is rough, but I am slowly ge there. But this time, I'm running the board on a HP T610 thin client with upgraded memory (8Gig) and better SSD drive, that's mounted on the side of desk. So at least this time, it's a dedicated setup.

That's nice! I was also thinking of a thin client but settled for an
Intel NUC. Tried a fanless Shuttle PC before that, but it got *very*
hot (to the point of the SSD reporting errors to the error log, despite the temperature actually being within operating limits)...

I hope everyone is doing well and ttyl!

Yep, thanks! See you around!

Best regards
Zip

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