#Geo conference
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Michael – how do I access the Geology conference with WINCIM? Thanks carl
Bauer
Carl – I have to defer that question to Doug or Jerry or anyone else
using WINCIM. I run Amigas using ACCESS! as a term prog. You can
prbably check any help reference in the software for assistance.
Hi, Carl–
Welcome to the forum!
We have spoken before of having practice mini-conferences before the
main geo conference (in this forum's room #8, Sunday January 9, at 1
pm Pacific time). If you would like to try conferencing in advance,
I stand ready to meet you in a conference room for a short while.
Does Thursday January 6 at 7 pm Pacific time sound reasonable? Is
anyone else interested in such a practice?
I use DOS CIM; I suspect the menus in WINCIM or MACCIM are similar.
When in the forum, in the menu bar at the top you will find an item
"Conference" at the right or second right position; click it for a
menu and find an item for something like "Enter Room"; choose from
the list room #8 (Geology). In DOSCIM this gives me two windows –
the upper one shows what everyone "says", the bottom one receives my
keystrokes and shows the line I am typing until I hit the [Enter]
key, at which time that line goes out to the conference, and I see it
disappear from the lower window while appearing in the upper window.
To limit your connect time charges, 300 baud (bps) is preferable as a modem
speed setting when conferencing. Most of your time will be spent reading,
thinking, and typing, which costs less when connected at 300 baud, and the
slowdown in appearances of one-line messages is not very significant.
Unfortunately, CIM (at least my 2.13 DOS version) is clumsy about changing the
speed setting – if you fiddle it in the "Settings" menu "Session" option dialog
box, you must exit CIM and restart it for the change to have an effect, and you
will have to remember to reverse the setting change after the conference.
Those who use conferences frequently may want to set up two configuration files
and use the option on the CIM command line when starting CIM to select among
them – a batch file or separate Windows Program Manager icon can be used to
automate this (assuming WINCIM is like DOSCIM in this matter).
–Doug
Doug – a wonderful idea to hold a practice session – 7:00pst is 8:00mst – I'll
be there, with several other local geologists. THANKS! Carl in
Breckenridge
Doug – once again many thanks for your message of December 25th. So
considerate of you to take time on Christmas Day tohelp me get easier access to
the Geology Forum. I am no fluent in this navigational intricacy and look
forward to the Practice Session of January 6th, 7:00pst. I don't know if I
mentioned to you that my primary discipline is Archaeology and of course the
role of mineralogy/geology in this field.
In any case I thank you again and wish you and your family an eventful and
exciting New Year. Carl
Hi, Carl–
Drawing others into being active here is my pleasure; more people makes this
place more interesting, drawing still more people, making it more interesting
to me as well. I look forward to when we get a significant fraction of the
rockhound world in one on-line place – that would be a formidable resource for
information.
It will be interesting to see if your mention of archaeology draws any
responses. You might want to post a message detailing your work in the subject
with a topic mentioning archaeo and see if it draws any other archaeologists
out of lurker-land. I expect you and the fossil collectors we already have
seen here will have a number of things to talk about, even if your fossils are
too young for them.
Found any interesting minerals while digging for bones? Do you throw them
away, or what?
–Doug
Doug – Very nice message on using these forums to get interdisciplinary
perspectives. We were told in our archaeo training that archaeology is
an"elite" science because it absolutely requires a fairly good understanding of
all the other earth sciences. I don' t like that word "elite" but it is so
that we must know some geography, geology, anthropology, paleontology and even
psychology/sociology to comprehend the social patterns of the people who
habitated the sites that are uncovered. If we encounter articulated human
remains, we must first determine race and age, only to decide whether this is a
murder victim of recent vintage or a native American, in which case the local
tribal council has to be notified. As you know, bones don't last very long in
most soil environments so are rarely of any paleo significance. Petrifieds are
only paleontological. The Ice Man was a very notable exception. Boy, that's an
interesting singular event in itself; how this guy and his tools surfaced just
as the glacier was receding and was discovered so opportunely before the
microorganisms could gobble the warm remains! But my wife and I are now retired
from all that – I was trained primarily in Southwest Cultures – so not digging
any more. Never did much digging, just surveying and cataloging.
Archaeologists spend much more time with the business of diagnosing and
cataloging than digging. Minerals while digging? The potential of minerals to
have been selected for tools, the indigineous/imported minerals, the cobble as
a handy tool, the recognition of utilized flakes, all this is related and
interesting. But what do you do so we might exchange specific interests? We can
maybe get into this on January 6th. Today we are going skiing, there is a
gorgeous new snow on the mountain, the Christmas crowds are dwindling and I
want to try out some demos to decide whether to go from 195 to 200. Carl