On-Line #23 12 февраля 1996

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user page - A day in the life of user Alex-BBS.

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   Greetings to all!


   Let's start first, I remember in ONLINE, wore a paper was 
entitled "One night in the life of Alex-BBS", after reading the 
article I thought that was bad, would do an article titled "One

night in the life of user Alex-BBS ". And here today have a 
reason for writing tekstuhi on this topic. 


   Let's start. I will say from the outset that the day today
(02/10/1996) a buggy. No, well, think for, I'm after the 
institute food in Inforkom, and I see that there has appeared a 
lot of new, inter alia: 17th spectrophone, and two rooms of a 
log ZX-FORMAT. Since spectrophone, frankly, I'm stuffed on 
edge, I decided to buy the ZX-FORMAT, looking at the price I do 
not I saw nothing unusual in it. In fact, 15 "pieces" in

Basically, not so much (especially since I'm still not all 
stepuhu drank per week), I reached into my pocket and, with a 
steep view, pulled out a thick bundle of ... no not baksov and 
pyatisotnikov (stepuhu give us semitone). Well ... counting the 
finance, which took not so much time, I found that I have 
exactly (!) 14.500 rubles, and no more wood.



   Dug all their hidden pockets, I realized that I flew
birdie oblominka since, except for the above amounts, I do not
was not a shisha. We had to buy spectrophone benefit worth it 
(of something) 10 oblique. I came home and within half an hour 
reading all what was it interesting, started thinking about the 
advisability of subsequent purchases of the journal, 
unnecessarily, that it is becoming less informative .... Yes, 
and money was sorry ... On this occasion I decided that an 
extra blank disc I did not hurt that I carried through the 
program Jemminy Commander 3.2, which was at this the same drive 
(in fairness it should be noted Zhemini that I still copied to 
another disk). But on this my misfortunes did not end there, as 
it turned out, this disc will throw me still a pretty pig.



   Next, and then goes the story of the very buggy in my life, 
modem night.



   So, somewhere in the 23.11 I started to call Alex-BBS, 10
minutes (or so) I got through there. Nothing boded
Pile calving, I threw directory A: looked it downloaded some 
tekstuh, then disconnect. Scanned texts, and suddenly Saw in 
the file a_nws008.W, that the disk B: is worth zero oh, very 
interesting and long-coveted "Gizmo." 


   Clicking on the Fast and the Furious, I dialed the number 
BBSki parallel downloading C-DOSku, good on the server for some 
reason no one was hanging, I downloaded a directory meteor 
second drive, said that I was necessary and pressed RECIVE, ... 
walked in the first file. It is true I have alerted the 
unstable relationship (usually I have with this server, simply 
link zae.is), but the file was rocking ...



   So Makarov, with errors by sector, I doper to 103 sectors. 
At the same time, even a lousy relationship ended, flooded 
mistakes, picking up the handset, I'm using the method of 
deduction established that parallel my server and climbed some 
personality, which is heart-rending wailing beckoning someone 
to the phone. Vengeful modem give that person to say anything 
sensible, and every cry posted squeak, the server also does not 
remain vnaklade, and sang my modem, except that it is yelled 
heart-rending and longer. 


   Patience is a man over and he gave me a surprise
the form of short beeps that are not my modem or a modem server
decipher and could not, how many did not try. I had to give up 
and waiting when the server is hung up, redial the number. 


   Skonnektilsya again and again began to rock ill-fated 
program that does not want to go into my possession. But ... 
relationship was without error, and I was calmed down ... 250. 
251. 252. 253. sector boomed drive ... and then drive 
SPEKTROFONovsky planted me the most-pig, which I have already 
spoken. Drive to sign on for a couple of tracks, after which 
the drive heads staged a race to the surface of the disk, 
positioning it at the 0th then on some other path, the truth is 
useless. 


   Then it dawned on me that the disc was protected by 
something ... Copy and it is understandable that the poor 
C-DOS, not adapted to record information on non-standard 
formatted disks. Here I has such anger that I foolishly 
zvezdanul to drive ... It is clear that the drive is not suited 
to work in extreme conditions and tutzhe glyukanulsya, which 
resulted in a nice effect, ran on the computer screen.



   I think you'll understand my reaction, because I was sitting 
at the computer For 40 minutes, 30 of them had been in touch 
with the server, but really nothing is downloaded. Until I 
build my technique (formatted SPEKTROFONovsky drive back to 
fasten loose wires from the computer), someone took the server. 


   Bearing in mind the shitty connection, I put a pause between 
the dialing equal to zero, and waited the result. Barely half a 
minute as server to free ... And then the fun begins, namely: a 
game called "somebody who will overtake" because another user 
also could not establish contact with BBSkoy and server 
interrupted relationship with him so as intensely as with-me, 
so that He, I, in turn, to reach someone, but at all stages 
konnekta break off ... At this point, as they say, who better 
to iron ... Better it was probably me, because I was still

able to liaise BBSkoy and finally (ie, not the end, and the
disc) could download something that I was right.


   On this night ended with my buggy, and I sincerely hope
that such a will never happen again.

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