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RE: Karaoke & Sing-along around Campfires
Dogs are the worst critics....
:B
Mine would how on my Don McLean, bark on John Denver and cover his ears on Simon & Garfunkle.
Some day I'll hit the right note -- or singer.
Don't try Metallica....
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BobsYourUncle
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02/24/20 10:06pm |
RV Lifestyle
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RE: Karaoke & Sing-along around Campfires
Dogs are the worst critics....
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BobsYourUncle
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02/24/20 06:48pm |
RV Lifestyle
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RE: rv net logo change
I used to know the name of that guy on the logo but for the life of me I cannot remember now.
Wasn't it Moe, Curly or Larry?
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BobsYourUncle
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02/24/20 04:37pm |
General RVing Issues
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Don't Camp at Walmart
Browsing through the news on my laptop, as I do frequently to keep up with stuff, I came across the title of an article that got my attention.
Don't Camp at Walmart
Well, can't pass that up, so I clicked on the article.
It's really a good little short story. Check it out.
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BobsYourUncle
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02/23/20 10:09pm |
Public Lands, Boondocking and Dry Camping
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RE: Your Favorite Browser?
I divorced Internet Exploder many years ago in favor of FireFox. My fave, I still use it. It does everything I need it to.
I did , however, have a recent hiccup with it for my online banking. I run Kaspersky, it invokes a protected browser, my bank page was blank for about a week, it wouldn't load. I had to use my phone instead. It's fixed now.
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BobsYourUncle
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02/21/20 09:01pm |
Technology Corner
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RE: Need file repository for sharing large files
I've been quiet here the past few days.... I've been fiddle fooling around with an old toy.
One suggestion was literally within arms reach, sitting at my desk typing on my laptop.
Thank you STBRetired for the idea.
I had totally forgotten about my NAS unit. It has resided in the hutch of my desk for years. So I dragged it out, found the cables and such and plugged it in. It has been unplugged since I think early 2014, maybe longer, when I left the west coast. Used to run it on Win7.
I sorta remember back then that it was capable of hosting. I could send a link or something, people could grab a shared folder. Perfect.
So I plugged it into my Win10 machine, stuck an RJ45 into it and the router and fired it up.
Please enter your username and password. Uhhhh.... That was years ago... I have no idea what it is. Tried a few of my old ones I could remember but no cigar on that.
Did an OS reinstall, updated this and that, got into the thing.
Well, 7 year old technology, much is obsolete, safety protocols, certificates ad nauseum....
Finally got the thing so I could access it on my local network. Aha, thought I was away to the races. Nope! The internal apps that do various things are no longer in existence, nor are they supported.
Rats...
This is a wonderful little device, but it appears at this point I'm unable to do file sharing with it unless I can poke around and find a way to open a door to the internet with it.
I found out I need firmware something version 6, but that is only for newer devices. Can't put it on mine. I can go max ver 5.3.7 firmware...
Rats again...
It's a Netgear ReadyNAS Duo V2. I paid a fair chunk of change for it in 12 or 13, plus the 2 - 2tb drives I put in and set as a mirror RAID. This would be perfect if I can get it working the way I want.
Oh well, I forge ahead and I once again thank everyone for the input here. I'm not done with this NAS deal yet but may have to use it as a wheel chock or something.
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BobsYourUncle
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02/18/20 07:58pm |
Technology Corner
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RE: SWAY!
One too many wobbly pops causes sway too!
:B ;)
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BobsYourUncle
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02/17/20 10:08pm |
Towing
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RE: Would you plug in here.
Now there's a fire waiting to happen.....
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BobsYourUncle
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02/17/20 10:03pm |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Need file repository for sharing large files
Begs the question.
Why do you need 15 meg pictures?
Will you be printing posters?
I explained that in my last post here.
Large smart TV as the primary viewing display. Likely won't print them.
With all the modern day screen technology, sitting down sifting through picture albums is rapidly becoming a thing of the past.
As for the comment about Dropbox, I'm pretty sure they are very limited in the free version.
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BobsYourUncle
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02/16/20 09:28am |
Technology Corner
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RE: Need file repository for sharing large files
Again, more great input from all, thank you.
It isn't likely that any of us will be printing these pics. Maybe a select few will ever see the printer.
The primary recipients of my work are 2 brothers.
One of my brothers is heavily into photography and does extensive photo editing of his work. He lives in Cabo Mexico and does a lot of wildlife photography there. He, like myself is picky about quality and detail.
Amongst the 3 of us, we have 12 children. They likely don't care as much about high quality as my one brother and I do. But if I am going to scan them, why not do hi res pics instead of low? High can be reduced, but low cannot be increased.
Most of us, including the kids, have large smart TVs. The viewing device of choice will mostly be showing them on these large screens. Therefore, the higher the quality, the better for seeing a 4 foot wide image. I ran a few on mine and I like the quality.
Unfortunately, my dedicated slide and film scanner is very old. In its day in the early 2000s it was $1200. new. Though obsolete now, it is still better quality than the cheap ones available today. It is a TWAIN driven scanner, technology no longer used. I bought VueScan, very good software, and they reverse engineer the TWAIN drivers to make them function with Windows 10. Scanner is a Canon Canoscan FS4000US. But it is painfully slowwwwwww. About an hour to scan 4 slides, once set up. About 1 hr, 20 min including setup, naming and saving files etc.
I don't buy cheap stuff to get me by. If I buy another it would be a professional grade unit. With quality, I maintain "You only cry once".
My dad's slides total approx 1200. I haven't counted them. My wonderful lady has about the same number of her fathers slides. And I have roughly 3000 of my own.
Not everyone is interested in viewing them, but I know my grandchildren would love to see Great Grandpas photographic record of European travels, along with Grandpas (myself) records of their own parents, and cousins, uncles, aunts when they were kids.
All this is why having an online stash for all to draw from makes the most sense. Yes, I could grab a bunch of thumb drives and hand them out. I'm a techno kind of guy and enjoy doing stuff like this.
Onedrive was mentioned. I have that myself, never use it. I think it came with my MS Office subscription, not sure. Perhaps I should look at that.
Still, I don't trust cloud storage. Not that there is any value to these pics other than family memories, but I still don't think anyone has any right or business to use them aside from those I give them to.
Thanks for the input.
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BobsYourUncle
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02/16/20 08:45am |
Technology Corner
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RE: Need file repository for sharing large files
Thanks for all the input and ideas everyone, and gdetrailer your long informative post too. Takes a while to write all this and I appreciate it all.
Just to clarify, I only want this for sharing purposes, not permanent storage. Family is all over the map, so I thought it would be easier to just email them all a link to download the stuff from a common location.
I always, always, did I say always? I always keep copies of copies of all my data. Pictures, tax records, personal info, everything has data redundancy. I have multiple portable drives in addition to my main computer with copies of the important stuff to keep.
And as mentioned above, I too have a NAS RAID setup for doing backups. I actually have 2 of them, both with mirror RAID. Hadn't thought about doing a file share via my NAS setup.... Mine are Dlink too. Totally forgot about using it to share files. Thank you for the reminder. Haven't been in them for a while, I'll have to relearn it.
None of my stuff is ever held solely in someone else's cloud location. I don't trust having my files out of my possession for the reasons many of you have mentioned. And I don't want it out there for others to grab anyways.
Maybe, as mentioned here, thumb drives and snail mail. One day I'll be dead and gone so I want this family history in the hands of all who want it.
I'd still rather have some way they can all just download it.
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BobsYourUncle
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02/15/20 10:39pm |
Technology Corner
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RE: Need file repository for sharing large files
Rough estimate of what you suggested would be in the 40-50 gig range. I can't see anyplace offering that for free. I imagine if you're wanting to put all that online, and secure storage, you're looking at a monthly/yearly fee. Also to consider, if you could find a "free" site, there would be no guarantee that your photos wouldn't be held hostage at some future date, ala PhotoBucket.
Of course you could always put them on a standalone server at your home and send out links to it. Of course the one-time cost will be there, but at least no monthly rental fee.
Good idea on the standalone server.
I used to have the "at home" server years ago. It was on a standard internet connection. I only hosted my own website for a TT rebuild, along with pics I posted here. But they established all kinds of blocks for that kind of thing. It would stop working, I would find a workaround with a port redirect or something, they would block it again and so on. I finally gave up my website.
Perhaps I should revisit that option. I like that. The extra computer is no issue, I can put something together easy enough. I'll have to check the ease of online access through my ISP.
I never have files on some cloud service only. I always have a copy on a local computer or external drive. I don't trust any of these services for the reasons mentioned here by yourself and others.
Yes, using my pics for other than my own usage is something I want to control. Nothing to hide in them, but they are mine for my use. These cloud services claim privacy, but who knows....
In addition to my fathers slides, I have a bunch of my own slides I took when my kids were babies on through to adulthood. Might be easier to just put them on a stick and give it to them.
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BobsYourUncle
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02/15/20 02:10pm |
Technology Corner
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Need file repository for sharing large files
I am doing a project of digitizing my fathers old slides from the 60's during his 5 year Air Force posting to France.
Couple thousand slides of camping trips throughout Europe and England. We traveled extensively through France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Belgium, Holland, England and more.
I am making high quality scans to share these files with my family, so each image is 13 to 15 megs.
I am also making PowerPoint presentations of each tray of 50 slides. These run about 150 megs per file.
I need some kind of online repository to upload all this stuff to so I can send out links and passwords to the people I want to share this with.
It has to be able to be password protected, and have the option of viewing the available folders to choose what to download.
Being quite techno-savvy, I have an understanding of various file storage platforms and such.
With my Amazon Prime subscription, I have Amazon Photos. Although Dropbox is available, I have never used it. I think it is limited anyways. There is also Google Drive and similar.
A lot of these have limits on how much you can store. And I don't want to pay a monthly fee, not going there. Don't mind a one time shot to the wallet but aside from my Office 365, I refuse to do the rent your software thing.
I'm leaning towards my Amazon Photos included in my Prime membership, but haven't really researched it much. Gotta find out how far out it can be shared.
Any thoughts on something simple and basic to do as outlined above?
Thanks.
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BobsYourUncle
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02/15/20 11:58am |
Technology Corner
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RE: Nikola announces electric pickup truck
At least it looks good compared to that ugly thing Musk designed...
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400.000 thousand people who ordered Tesla truck would disagree.
:B
I wonder if Musk will cover eye surgery on a truck so ugly it can cause retina damage.....
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BobsYourUncle
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02/13/20 10:12pm |
Tow Vehicles
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RE: TT television
One thought on the cheap TV. Agreed, it is nothing special or made for RV use.
Ours is rather basic, but it has a built in DVD player. No need for a dedicated unit with wires dangling from the wall where the TV is mounted.
We buy a mittfull of the cheapo 5 dollar DVDs from WalMart, break out the popcorn or chips and beverage of choice, plug the movie into the side of the TV and sit there and enjoy.
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BobsYourUncle
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02/12/20 10:28pm |
Travel Trailers
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RE: Nikola announces electric pickup truck
At least it looks good compared to that ugly thing Musk designed...
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BobsYourUncle
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02/11/20 04:23pm |
Tow Vehicles
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RE: Find Past Postings ??
They had a server issue a few years ago where a large batch of posts were somehow "lost"
I too was looking for a specific thing I posted in the same era, and could not find it here no matter how I worded the search parameters.
I actually found what I was looking for by doing a Google search instead.
But you have to know the keywords of the post you want. I put in bobsyouruncle and a couple keywords of the post I was looking for and Voila!! There it was!
That works.
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BobsYourUncle
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02/10/20 12:56pm |
Forum Posting Help and Support
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RE: Cheap fix for muddy sites
I just take my shoes off....
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BobsYourUncle
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02/04/20 09:10am |
General RVing Issues
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RE: maybe add some heavy duty pressure treated lumber?
Do keep in mind that todays treated lumber is done with ACQ. (Alkaline Copper Quaternary)
It will conflict with metal, cause corrosion, rot out aluminum etc. I work with the stuff building things. It's nasty.
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BobsYourUncle
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01/31/20 01:51pm |
Truck Campers
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RE: Karaoke & Sing-along around Campfires
Last summer we were in a nice little CG near Fort QuAppelle Saskatchewan. Wonderful group of people right across from us, one came over and said they are having a social event tonight, we may hear some sounds. I smiled and said Have Fun!! He then invited us to come over and join them if we want. So nice.
A little later out came a guitar, and other instruments. On came the music and everyone was having a good time around the campfire.
Nice to hear and see that happening. We didn't join them but sat under the awning in our chairs enjoying the festivities. Everyone was polite, not rowdy and at a reasonable time they packed it up and respected quiet time.
I love stuff like that.
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BobsYourUncle
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01/31/20 01:39pm |
RV Lifestyle
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