abarbarian Posted January 19 Share Posted January 19 1 hour ago, wa4chq said: Speaking of foreign classics, when I was in the UK for a few months back in 1985, I used to enjoy watching Selina Scott.... SELINA SCOTT lifts the lid on the behind-the-scenes antics of Britain's first early morning TV show Back then watching morning tv in the UK was new. Quote Some said it was degenerate and sinful to watch the box in the morning 'I did hate TV': Selina Scott on Trump, Prince Andrew, Frank Bough and the BBC Two very good articles on the lass. Naturally she is a Tyke. So were you degenerate and sinfully back then ??? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted January 19 Author Share Posted January 19 4 hours ago, wa4chq said: I saw Hell in the Pacific at the local cinema. Me, too.. .well, it was a drive-in movie theater, actually (1968). Three stations on TV? HA! Yeah, I remember them days, too. We had ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, and a couple independents (way high up on the UHF dial) that mostly sold crap. My mother called them the "mail order TV stations". 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted January 19 Author Share Posted January 19 15 hours ago, securitybreach said: I get but you aren't old regardless. It's all in the mind. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted January 19 Author Share Posted January 19 You are what you drink... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wa4chq Posted January 19 Share Posted January 19 1 hour ago, V.T. Eric Layton said: Me, too.. .well, it was a drive-in movie theater, actually (1968). Three stations on TV? HA! Yeah, I remember them days, too. We had ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, and a couple independents (way high up on the UHF dial) that mostly sold crap. My mother called them the "mail order TV stations". When I was a tyke, we had a Munson B/W TV set. I remember dad fiddling with the adjustments in the back while we were watching cartoons or the Stooges.....I'm not sure how many stations we were able to get....we were living just outside of Baltimore at the time. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted January 19 Author Share Posted January 19 My first television memory was the 25" B&W Zenith console in the living room. I still remember dad saying, "Don't sit too close to it, son. It's bad for you eyes.". HA! Those old consoles were nice pieces of furniture back then. Our world has gone to H3LL since that time. I remember changing the channels went CLUNK-CLUNK-CLUNK, and if I did it too fast, my father would yell out, "Not so d*mned fast, son, you''ll wear it out!" Another neat thing I remember about that old TV was when you turned it off, the screen would go black except for a tiny little white dot in the middle of the screen that took a minute or two more to disappear completely. That's always kinda' reminded me of what dying must be like... Ah... the memories. Oh, and another weird thing about getting old, @securitybreach, is the sudden, often uncontrollable urge to burst out in tears. No... I'm not kidding. It happens. Ask an old person. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wa4chq Posted January 19 Share Posted January 19 The white dot.....yep. And turning it on took a second or two. You could feel static when you put your hand near the screen. Or if you stood in water and put your hand in the back of the set, you'd feel foolish for spit second. Did you go to the grocery store or drug store....where ever they had the tube testers with you pop? Do you remember that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wa4chq Posted January 19 Share Posted January 19 I found this picture of mom adjusting our old TV. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted January 19 Author Share Posted January 19 29 minutes ago, wa4chq said: tube testers with you pop? Do you remember that? HAHAHA! Definitely. Actually, when I became the Service Manager or the Olson Electronics store here in Tampa in '83, we still had a tester in that store. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted January 19 Author Share Posted January 19 Is that li'l girlie up there a Bettie Page wannabee or the real thing? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bettie_Page 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wa4chq Posted January 19 Share Posted January 19 20 minutes ago, V.T. Eric Layton said: Is that li'l girlie up there a Bettie Page wannabee or the real thing? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bettie_Page She looks like a wannabee to me.....but still easy on the eyes with legs that don't quit. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted January 19 Author Share Posted January 19 And don't let anyone be telling you about how strict we are here at Scot's about staying on topic. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted January 19 Author Share Posted January 19 Changed to blue... 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted January 19 Share Posted January 19 2 hours ago, V.T. Eric Layton said: Ah... the memories. Oh, and another weird thing about getting old, @securitybreach, is the sudden, often uncontrollable urge to burst out in tears. No... I'm not kidding. It happens. Ask an old person. That's your eyes watering, not tears. They claim if you smoke a little plant, it helps with prevent the cataracts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted January 19 Author Share Posted January 19 > They claim if you smoke a little plant, it helps with prevent the cataracts Oooh, a beneficial side-effect. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymac46 Posted January 19 Share Posted January 19 On 1/18/2024 at 9:10 AM, abarbarian said: You missed the train Ray Eric is on 15 now https://slackware.pkgs.org/15.0/slackware-x86_64/inxi-3.3.12_1-noarch-1.txz.html 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunrat Posted January 20 Share Posted January 20 7 hours ago, wa4chq said: I found this picture of mom adjusting our old TV. I had one like that in my bedroom when I was a teenager. TV, I mean. I rewired it so I could run the sound through my stereo. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wa4chq Posted January 20 Share Posted January 20 8 hours ago, sunrat said: I had one like that in my bedroom when I was a teenager. TV, I mean. I rewired it so I could run the sound through my stereo. TV in the b-room as a teen? Lucky lad. And I bet after the rewire, she joined you! Again, lucky lad! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wa4chq Posted January 20 Share Posted January 20 Most likely a Linux-based TV 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted January 20 Share Posted January 20 14 hours ago, securitybreach said: They claim if you smoke a little plant, it helps with prevent the cataracts Does not stop your eyesight degenerating though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted January 21 Author Share Posted January 21 Hmm... something interesting that may be the cause/effect of my recent inability to power down/reboot via graphical interface or CLI commands: Read the bit about "elogind" in the Slackware Announcements for v15.0: http://www.slackware.com/announce/15.0.php Also, read this interesting issue re: Suspend/Hibernate in Xfce that I found: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/654707/slackware-and-elogind-how-to-enable-suspend-and-hibernate-for-power-user I believe I'm going to have to investigate this further and possibly seek advice/assistance from a Slackware guru to get this straightened up on my system. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wa4chq Posted January 21 Share Posted January 21 On 1/19/2024 at 10:30 AM, abarbarian said: SELINA SCOTT lifts the lid on the behind-the-scenes antics of Britain's first early morning TV show Back then watching morning tv in the UK was new. 'I did hate TV': Selina Scott on Trump, Prince Andrew, Frank Bough and the BBC Two very good articles on the lass. Naturally she is a Tyke. So were you degenerate and sinfully back then ??? Yep....I was kinda like Eddie Haskell. I won't mention any Beaver jokes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted January 21 Author Share Posted January 21 Well, making a little progress here and there today... I realized that what I've been calling Suspend for years is actually Hibernate. How 'bout that? Anyway, using the commands on my Whisker Menu in Xfce, I'm able to Logout, Reboot and Hibernate, but not Shutdown. - Logout kills X and leaves me sitting at a command line. - Reboot does what it's supposed to do and reboots the system. - Hibernate actually "dumps to disk" and powers down like it's supposed to do. However, I cannot wake it with keyboard or mouse (enabled in BIOS), but only with the power button, and that's OK, but I understand that there is some bugaree going on in Slackware with this because the system cannot awaken the video card along with everything else, so some workarounds that I'm checking on now may have to be tweaked and twiddled. - Shutdown reboots the system, some fug buckery going on here. Well, I'll have to investigate further. Oh, and Shutdown (telinit 0) and rebooting (telinit 6) are still not functioning as root from the command line. It does all it's supposed to do to shutdown/reboot, but then just freezes the screen and that's that... no shutdown or reboot happens. ___ I finally got rsync to make a good backup on my secondary hard drive today. The last two attempts ended in errors because part way through the process the drive become unmounted and then rsync could not write to it during the procedure. I did a disk check and fsck it up good. Afterwards the rsync did its thing properly and left me a nice mirror image on /dev/sdb. YAY! ___ I miss ericsbane07 more and more each day. I didn't have all these challenging problems to solve in that machine. It was such a good machine. I'm sorry I beat it to death. Actually, to be fair this machine (ericsbane06) was a really good machine when I first built it and throughout the three or four yeas that I used it on a daily basis, so I shouldn't be complaining. ___ Oh, and no browser or tab crashes in Firefox since I reverted to 121.0 this morning. 1 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted January 21 Author Share Posted January 21 I'll be glad when my computering life returns to plain ol' everyday boring. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 29 minutes ago, V.T. Eric Layton said: I'll be glad when my computering life returns to plain ol' everyday boring. Where is the fun in that? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted January 23 Author Share Posted January 23 ALRIGHTY, THEN! I'M DONE. I'll be gone for a while, folks. This system with this recent in-situ upgrade to Slackware 15 has far, far too many bugaboos and issues for me to spend weeks chasing my tail to try and fix all of them. I'm just not going to do this. I've been at it for over a week now. TIRED. I'm going to WIPE the drive clean and install FRESH from DVD. It'll take me a few days after that to get everything set up to my liking. I HATE this. I really do. This will be my last try at this. If it comes out all buggy and screwed up again, I'll be tossing this box into the garbage bin where the last one went. You won't see me online again until I manage to come up with enough money to build a new system; that will be a couple years, though. I have other priorities like leaky roof and parked vehicles that will have to get taken care of first. YES, I'M WHIZZED OFF and DISGUSTED. See ya' later... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted January 23 Share Posted January 23 Good luck 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted January 24 Author Share Posted January 24 2205hrs EST -> I'm back up! Fresh clean Slackware 15 install on reformatted partition /dev/sda1. Software and kernels updated. All initial tweaks, setups, adjustments, re-installs of SBos and /opt apps done. All seems to be working fine at the moment. Tomorrow, I'll add my fonts and Xfce themes/icons. Of course the real test is going to be when I attempt to shutdown in a moment. I have a feeling that's still not going to work properly because after installing from the DVD I could not reboot properly. We'll see tomorrow. My feet are too swollen from sitting here so long today/tonight. G'night for now... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 7 hours ago, V.T. Eric Layton said: 2205hrs EST -> I'm back up! Fresh clean Slackware 15 install on reformatted partition /dev/sda1. Software and kernels updated. All initial tweaks, setups, adjustments, re-installs of SBos and /opt apps done. All seems to be working fine at the moment. Tomorrow, I'll add my fonts and Xfce themes/icons. Of course the real test is going to be when I attempt to shutdown in a moment. I have a feeling that's still not going to work properly because after installing from the DVD I could not reboot properly. We'll see tomorrow. My feet are too swollen from sitting here so long today/tonight. G'night for now... Good deal 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedon James Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 On 1/19/2024 at 6:16 PM, V.T. Eric Layton said: > They claim if you smoke a little plant, it helps with prevent the cataracts Oooh, a beneficial side-effect. aren't most of the "side effects" beneficial? 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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