[GreenKeys] The ITTY Outage - - -

[George B. Hutchison]

GreenKeyers and ITTY Wordsmiths.

Things are winding down from a couple of weeks of hectic work trying 
to make a few shekels.

Got back into the radio room and found a  message from General 
Tillson that ITTY was down.

Found some interesting things.

First, there were fourteen instances of RTTYApp running at the same 
time. Probably could have fried an egg on the processor.

RTTYApp is the name of the workhorse that ITTY operates from. It's 
origin dates back to about 1999 when we were doing teletype news 
broadcasts, and is the brainchild of Bill Bytheway, K7TTY, the 
fellow who used to be the "kid who lives down the block"  when I 
moved to Santa Clara in 1968. I owe him dearly, as he has the "JUJU" 
needed to make my brain farts happen.

Second, there were two extra files in the RTTYApp folder that the 
origins of which are mysterious and did not make any sense, but were 
seen by the program as a "must do or you will be shot" type of 
thing. It dutifully did them, or tried, anyway, and the program was 
off into never-never land.

Eliminated the extra files and finally the system started chugging 
along just fine. A simple case of getting the annoying people out of 
the theater so you can watch the movie undisturbed.

Anyway, thought y'all might want to know what happened, and that it 
are fixed.

Paula and I wish everyone a very HAPPY THANKSGIVING, and hope that 
whatever delights served on your tables today result in big, happy 
smiles for all.

The best to you from

George & Paula Hutchison

Sequim, WA USA