Community Coffee Break

Topics Discussed:

bp9
- Didn't get to show off any of his stuff :-)
- Misses falling asleep to the the sound of the surf
- Doesn't mind living further inland with all the hurricanes and tornadoes
- Is happy to let other people do the hunting, cleaning, and butchering LOL
- Enjoys roasting veggies (bell pepper, mushrooms, cucumber) in olive oil and balsamic vineger
- Figured out that a home-built high performance AMD Athlon machine is shutting down because the thermal paste between the processor and the heat sink has dried out
- Explains how internet provider modems expose any machine internal to your network, to the internet.

Sasha
- Gives us a great tour of her house now that Winter is starting to make itself felt.
- GORGEOUS views from her windows.
- Not many icebergs or growlers yet even though they are in iceberg alley
- We think a growler (smaller iceberg) took down the Titanic
- Lots of whales (and sharks)
- Hunting license needed for Moose
- No hunting license need for rabbits (because they breed like rabbits :-)
- No hunting license need for fish - 5 fish three times a week and David can get that in an hour.
- Makes soap in a crockpot -- let's hope she doesn't mix that one up with the food-cooking crockpot :-)
- The renovations for Winter have been moving along
- Nice new wood stove.
- Kitchen electrical issues fixed and plaster all replaced.
- Shows off her dinner for tonight -- veggie burger
- Is all "swiss chard"-ed out after getting a gift of two big loads of chard from a friend

Peter
- Likes to drop UK-local jokes
- Is still having issues with his ham radio antenna -- the winch that brings the tower up and down is broken.
- His new Amateur Radio HF/shortwave antenna: https://hamradiostore.co.uk/vibroplex-hf-allband-kw.html
- Calls veggie burgers "not real food"

Doug
- Has lost one of his kitties, leaving one still to keep him company.

Solbu
- Has been re-building new computers since at least one has a really noisy fan
- Runs his own mail server at the house and explains the issues that can arise from that.
- Had to enable a specific setting to allow other machines to send mail on his behalf -- if not, GMAIL would put all his email into Junk folders.
- It turns out you don't need an always-on connection since most mail servers will keep trying for five days by default before failing
- likes dumb phones, not smart phones
- His Dad was a very active ham radio operator 30 years ago and he relates the story of his ham radio antenna being destroyed by a snow-blower...!