Recent content by buckykattnj

I use more hard drives for backup. And I avoid Windows... or at least FAT-based file systems, if I can... I use a program called FFS... Fast File Sync to mirror the changes to the backup on Windows computers. I used to also keep some of my systems on UPSes... but consumer-level UPSes are all...

Whenever people like to use the term "the Cloud", I remind them to replace that phrase with "Somebody else's computer"... and let them mull that over for a moment. My PC is always on and has an incoming VPN set up, so I essentially have my own "cloud"... but I still end up carrying a thumb...

Necromancing a long dead thread..... Has their ever been a follow-up concerning these remains? Who it was, what happened? BKNJ

We didn't usually have Spam... we preferred Treet in our family. I occasionally fry up some... but its not the same as it was when I was blissfully unaware of its content. BKNJ

SM, I also have long felt the 235-year age of the oak was pretty optimistic... and when I recently saw it was dead, I figured the activity at the park killed it. I never got around to seeing the tree up close... about how large was its trunk? I'm just curious how it compares to my yard's...

Somehow, I've missed this thread until now... sorry to dredge it back from the dead, but it seems the one thread like it. I love the photos that you have posted Jerseyman. Especially the Razzle Dazzle. Just curious, besides Island Beach Park and George Potts' Rancocas Park, what other...

S-M, I'm confused on a few points here... can you better define "some years ago"? I walked much of the area marked with the white arrow (modern Forty Wire at South River) about 25 years ago, and there was little sign that anything had been there in the past 50+ years. In fact, the only thing I...

As far as I know, its the same house. Many famous old houses end up going by more than one name, especially if multiple well known historical figures were involved. To me, it will always be the Walker Manson, as that's what I first saw it labelled as... and because I approached SJ history from...

Ah, cripes... completely forgot about those documents. Only thing that sucks is that these usually don't contain any reasoning as to why the changes are being made. Thanks. BKNJ

Very interesting. Very optimistic plans... but I suppose that how all these land company towns were. The siding is also interesting... it explains why RR Blvd and West Jersey Blvd widen out around it. Is there anything left of this station? Looking at all those tiny, tiny little plots of...

Slightly OT, I imagine, but thought I'd run it by you guys since I haven't found anything about it elsewhere... The boundary line between Gloucester and Camden counties, for the most part is Big Timber Creek and Great Egg Harbor Rivers... or more specifically, the South Branch Big Timber Creek...

So, roughly how wide would the WJSS cinder pile need to be to be double tracked? I'm assuming its 4' 8.5" gauge. I might need to go back there sometime soon and poke around. Looking at Eddie Fells diagram, it occurs to me that it never occurred to me that Main St. crosses the tracks in two...

Cool, S-M. Grew up on a property in BVT that stretched between Buena Vista Ave and the WJSS railroad. Always was curious just when US 40 was appropriated officially, as there where some deed notes concerning property being allocated in 1930. Rereading some of this thread, was the entire WJSS...

Well, I use Brooklyn to contrast with Brigantine and Buena... but the point remains, interference hurts your speed. It also seems to flake-out marginal equipment... i.e., makes them need to be rebooted more often. Interference in Brigantine is not as bad as Brooklyn, but you could feel the...

Not sure what context you mean... I use a ~12 year old Netgear 2.4g Wifi router in Buena, since it runs at speeds faster than cable, with virtually no interference. In Brigantine, my OTHER ~12 year old Netgear 2.4g recently died... so I'm now using a Netgear 802.11n router that was shelved...