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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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