A Million Thanks Kye. X Posting

[Wendy7]

Just want to mention that I had contacted Kye, prior to our new list, regarding the up & down status of his server/news group.

My postings were on Kye's request for testing which I initiated before Ray's List was set up. so the rest of my posts were just ongoing from there.

I mentioned that the group had disbanded & thanked him profusely for all his help. I thought that we could maybe keep Kye's Orchids news group as a back up but it certainly has it's ups & downs!!!

Anyway, a million thanks to Kye, appreciate everything you did for us. Cheers Wendy.

[Diana Kulaga]

Hear, hear! Kye did a job worthy of a saint. Please, all those who enter here, join us at the new list. The group hasn't disbanded, but has moved to greener pastures - together - and welcomes more orchid lovers to join us.

Cross posted to rgo and abpo.

My postings were on Kye's request for testing which I initiated before Ray's List was set up. so the rest of my posts were just ongoing from there.

I mentioned that the group had disbanded & thanked him profusely for all his help. I thought that we could maybe keep Kye's Orchids news group as a back up but it certainly has it's ups & downs!!!

Anyway, a million thanks to Kye, appreciate everything you did for us. Cheers Wendy.

[Steve]

Rec.gardens.orchids had been around "forever". I started there/here (just decided to cross post) in 1997. All of us, with the possible exception of a new reader or two, know that Kye is the one who set up alt.binaries.pictures.orchids so we all could show our pictures. Before that, we either had to post to a web site or use the existing group for general gardening pictures. Then, when nearly everyone lost the binary groups if not all news groups, Kye set up the server just for us. We owe him a lot.

A big round of applause to Kye and, if he has not already done so, I hope he signs up for the new e-mail based group and checks in to see us once in a while!

Steve in the Adirondacks PS Maybe Wendy should forward this all to Kye and provide him the link to sign up if need be.

Ray B wrote:

[jankey]

-stands and applauds-

--j_a

[Diana Kulaga]

Janet, are you going to come over to the new list?

Diana

[jankey]

i was on it for the weekend; it just about killed my mail program. (some very nice flowers though. :) since i don't have a computer and use my blackberry (shhhh don't tell the boss) i can't have that much email coming in to the little box, so i had to cancel.

i'm still hanging 'round with the 'geeks though; i see ray over there occasionally. ;)

--j_a

[pakrat]

You know... I was only thinking of the folks still on dialup when mentioning posting pictures on some place like flikr or shutterfly. But the same bandwidth limitations also apply to crackberries and other PDAs.

[jankey]

i was actually using the bberry browser to look at my web based email; it only let's me see about 10 messages at a time so it was just making the mail program harder to use. :(

--j_a

[jankey]

-giggle-

long story, but the issue is internet connectivity in the house. housemate needs to hog most of the bandwidth for his job (which is fine. no problem). cable company is claiming we need to rewire the house in order to get a clean enough signal to be able to use 2 computers and at least one tv. (right now we can use one tv (mine) and one computer (his) at the same time, after having sacrificed the proper number of root vegetables to the appropriate gods/goddesses and spinning in circles counterclockwise on one foot for 30 seconds under a quarter moon. whole other ritual for the full moon. no connectivity under no moon. ;-)

so i'm not going to get a machine until we have a good signal (we just can't face getting the (rented) house rewired at the moment. housemate, a technogeek, is threatening to get a wireless transmitter thingie), so 'til then, i'm a workplace user (only when i'm not busy, boss, really).

one of these days we'll join the 20th century and i'll get a mac, and maybe even a digital camera! :-)

--j_a

[pakrat]

Sounds like a load of hooey to me. If you can get one cable modem working, you can stick a consumer grade wireless router on it and connect every computer in the neighborhood to it. The reason I suggest a wireless router is that Best Buy sells them for slightly less than a router without wireless. It doesn't make any sense as the wireless routers have everything the wired routers have plus a radio transciever.

If the wiring and plumbing and neighbor's microwave oven kill off

802.11B/G(wireless)... Walmart sells 50foot ethernet cables for about $20. They're quite nice because you can still close the windows when you run the cable window to window to connect rooms :-).

I wouldn't rewire the entire house. I'd just disconnect the house wiring, run a length of coax from the cable interface box through the window to the room that the TV belongs in, and run an ethernet cable to each computer. I had to do it in 2006 when I started living in sin with the woman who is now my wife.

My roomates did it in 1995 to steal cable from the neighbors...