NKP guy(I look at that number and can't believe it actually applies to me.)
Same here - 73.
Larry Resident Microferroequinologist (at least at my house) Everyone goes home; Safety begins with you My Opinion. Standard Disclaimers Apply. No Expiration Date Come ride the rails with me! There's one thing about humility - the moment you think you've got it, you've lost it...
OWTX names that got let go
Now THAT we won't know until the post-Firecrown purchase publications show up with the new mastheads. There's names I HOPE I don't see.
For nostalgia's sake, I've picked up the June and July issues of MR in part to get the last one with the Kalmbach masthead - I have my father-in-laws first 10 to 12 volumes of MR along with a ragged June 1964 issue of MR that my parents bought for me.
Was a bit distressing to see how thin MR is getting, and also disconcerting to see the index of advertisers. OTOH, I'm seeing the same thing in a lot of other magazines.
Forum seems to be pretty snappy at the moment, though it is having a bit of a problem with page numbers on this thread.
Erik_MagWas a bit distressing to see how thin MR is getting, and also disconcerting to see the index of advertisers. OTOH, I'm seeing the same thing in a lot of other magazines.
It's a common phenomenon across pretty much all magazines, and a good many have given up the ghost entirely. A magazine that comes with my membership in an organization has gone entirely on-line. I haven't bothered to check it out since it did.
I remember you wrote that QST has gone on-line only after over 100 years of publication. The Internet Archive has collection of older QST issues, got a kick out of seeing a picture of Don Wallace (W6AM SK) in a mid 1920's issue as I had met him in person a few times and had a neighbor (W6ID also SK) who met him at a 1924 convention.
Reading a paper document is usually less stressful than reading on-line, though large 4k or 5k monitors plus gigabit fiber optic connection does make reading on-line a lot more tolerable.
Books still seem to be going strong, though books are much less focused on news than magazines.With websites, news can be delivered almost instantly, whereas a monthly magazine may have a month or more turnaround time.
69. Hired out with Southern Railway (Trainman) 1977.
SRy. became Norfolk Southern 1982.
Promoted to Locomotive Fireman 1984.
Promoted to Locomotive Engineer 1985.
Left NS 1997. 20 years service.
Saw reduction in train crew from up to 5 down to as few as 2.
Saw elimination of cabooses.
Saw Southern Railway join AMTRAK.
Began drawing Railroad Retirement 2022.
Got a different type error the afternoon of 6/25
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
BaltACD Got a different type error the afternoon of 6/25
Yes, Bizarro World
I have never seen a message like the one yesterday. Does IT have any idea? Suggest that if any of these items happen again a message on News Wire might be appropriate.
I got the same error over at least a 12 hour period - looked like some files were missing from the Windows server hosting the website, notably the ".dll" files needed for applications to run. Got a 504 error when trying to post a few hours ago.
Update: No 504 error when posting and response was quick.
Someone deleted or corrupted a key part of the Telligent software installation, perhaps when moving the servers out of the building that has to be vacated by July 15th.
Based on what Mr. Otte and others had said, I was worried 'this was the end' because Kalmbach had no way to reinstall the missing files. The site went from the DLL error to a by-now-normal 504, and since the site is back up I presume they were successful at restoring from backup.
During the outage I did a little research to see if a repository or organization had access to the missing files. It turns out that the current version of the successor package (Verint Community 13, current 2024) has a full suite of online videos on how to install, configure, and administer it -- just what Firecrown needs to use to assure compatibility with 'legacy' post information and other data. We can all use it, too, to understand what the forum software does and what options it can be set up to have.
https://community.telligent.com/p/all-documentation
Right now for me, the forum is responding faster than I can remember. Hope?
York1 John
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