Hello Sean!
21 Mar 25 18:12, you wrote to me:
The pi4 had a the Elist s/w on it with a copy of the data
transferred via rsync as an when I had it turned on but as it was
never used I reloaded the latest version of ubuntu on it and sold
it on eBay last month.
I never knew you wanted to give up the elist system. I guess it is a
lot of hard work.
It is not so much that has to consider my age as will be 78 on 23 June.
The reason I took it on was the previous maintainer Ben died and only made available the Basic source code and not all the scripts etc so full of holes when trying to take it over. Second issue was it run on Mystic Win / Dos so that screwed up any ideas of a simple take over.
By putting the entire system under a small mbse system running it and a micro bbs system with a specific AKA it can be taken over by another who is prepared to be the back up maintainer. The Cobol source code along with the Cobol compiler etc, is all installed just in case any changes are needed but it
seems to be fairly bug free but that did not stop me finding one more but that one has been running for some months but hardly a show stopper - just
reporting that there was warnings issued (expiring) for an echo despite it being updated etc - Hopefully now fixed - providing there is not other code that skips the process of clearing such flags some were else that is not often run :).
Will consider doing the same for the Pi3 which is in a Geekgo?
metal casing with a 1 TB HDD and a laptop power adaptor to handle
extra power needs.
I tend to 3d print all my own cases as I have them in a rack.
I was slightly considering getting one to create some elements for a Boeing 737-800 to make up a flight deck but the one suggested to make the parts (no simple process anyway in order to cure and other processes after 3D printing was some 1200 pounds plus any of the elements needed for curing and dying / inking / laser, etc.
Cheaper just to buy the components as a working system apart from connecting to
a pc running one or more flight sim products.
Considered all this to save me spending 250 for 2 hours on a real simulator at Luton Airport.
Why well doing some flying even on a single engine a/c such as a Piper PA28 or a Cessna 152 etc seems to be charged by flying clubs at well over 200 per hour.
When I was a flying instructor I could hire a good twin that can cruse at 180 Kts as againt those at only 95.
This can be important if going off some where like France, Spain, Belgium etc yes Other than a brush up on skills, I did tend to go off a a trip - the last largish one was to Israel in a PA28-236 which took 20+ hours each way and that trip was to do to my brother-in-laws wedding at very short notice as I was able to get away from work and the BA cost was 1200 and money for fuel land & parking fees was well under that and No I did not really need the flying hours/
I have well north of 2,000 both VFR and IFR.
So the idea of creating a flight sim came to mind assuming I can find the spae to put it in a terraced house without installing a new shed in the garden -- too cold in winter let alone of working out how to install power from the
house or garage.
I will be ordering the Pi 5 soon so expect some weirdness from me :)
A pi5 or Pi500 ?
Very brave trying to run bbbs on it although under Linux will help.
I have looked at your setting for ARJ but that is exactly the same as set up here - the command to add a comment (such as the FILEGATE message) seem to be wrong but in any event I cannot make a secure envelope as against for Rar and Zip as I have keys for both of those although I did think I had one for arj - may be memory not working so well these days but cannot find a email etc for one anyway.
This next load of upgrades (last 10+ years ago methinks) is possibly overdue although the cost I had to really think about - just as well as I am selling off a lot of photographic kit as not being used via eBay.
Vincent
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