freddy333

As the gloom approaches, thinking it might be useful to have a date in the coming days, I switched over to my beater Monday afternoon

Yes, good luck on the hunt. You might consider searching ebay for 1 of the aftermarket bezels like this (almost an exact match with the 4th generation gen - sorry, but I do not recall seller's name, but I believe there was a thread about these bezels a couple of months ago)

Whoever wrote that knows as much about Newman Daytonas as the typical gen Rolex owner knows about his watch (nothing).

Beautiful (albeit a bit loud for my tastes) watch, but not a Paul Newman (Newmans are 62xx Valjoux-powered models with exotic dials made from the early 60s until the late 80s).

It does look like conditions will be very serious in DC, which, according to revised storm tracking, looks to be in the storm's direct path. They also just raised the expected wind levels from 50mph+ to 80mph-110mph+. Sustained winds at that level could be devastating to the area. Batten down your hatches & keep your flashlight nearby, it looks like DC may be in for a rough ride over the next 48 hours.

Wearing my pre-Comex Sub

Not mad, but possibly toying with fate. Either way, I would have the markers repainted (with paint, not lume), because aftermarket dials usually come from the factory with brightly glowing lume (a dead give-away of fakery).

Both look professional, but the other 1 looks like a Christmas card.

I think you need a more accurate bezel with that watch (compare the spacing of 110 to a gen or good franken ).

I would stick with white. Artificially colored lume rarely looks authentic to me. And make sure it either does not glow or glows very little & fades quickly.

You should send this out as your Christmas card this year. Beautiful.

Although I am not a fan of the metalized dials, I always enjoy seeing a Sub. It is & will always be a classic icon.

I would have begun checking with the postal carrier, daily, once the tracking system stalled for 2 weeks. If they are unable to locate the package within 24 hours, I would request they begin a formal trace, which will either locate the package or result in it being declared lost.

Ending the work week wearing my '67 214 with its period-correct Speidel Twist-O-Flex

You really have only 2 options (well, 3 if you include buying a new retaining ring) - 1. Use a thicker gauge crystal. Aftermarket/rep crystals tend to be thinner gauge than gens & most aftermarket cases are made to fit gen crystals so their retaining rings fit loosely over rep crystals. 2. Add a thin layer of epoxy around the inner circumference of the ring. When cured, you may need to sand it a bit to make it smooth so it properly seals the crystal against the inner case wall.

I will give that a try, but I have a few questions (I really used to know this stuff, but it has been years since I have worked in *nix) - 1. Does the fact that I am using atacontrol to form a RAID with the 2 hard drives change content of the command-line you posted above? Or, do I need to unmount the individual drives 1st, & just clone the primary drive? 2. What is the command to find the listing of drive names? I do not recognize /dev/sda or /dev/sdb?? Is it da? 3. What is the command to mount both the source & destination drives? And is if= the source & bs= the destination or vice-versa? Thank you.

Working @ 360Hz

Is there a software app (similar to Norton Ghost) that can create a bootable copy of a BSD Unix system onto a new/larger hard drive? I know that Ghost & similar utilities can do this with Windows systems & they can also image a BSD file system over to a new/larger hard drive, but, the last time I checked (several years ago), an imaged BSD drive is not bootable. I have an old web server running BSD 4.3 & Apache 1.3 composed of a pair of 80gig Western Digital IDE hard drives (installed via a SIL680 RAID card) configured as RAID1 via atacontrol. The hardware is several years old & currently running fine, but I want to migrate everything over to new, larger hard drives before a drive fails. Optionally, I would like to relocate to an entire new PC & use the motherboard's built-in RAID software to configure the RAID so I can eliminate the SIL680 card, which is handling the RAID now. However, the last time I migrated to new drives, you had to install BSD from scratch & then migrate the old data over to the drives. Unfortunately, at that time, there were no utilities that were able to make a bootable copy of a BSD filesystem & I am hoping that that has changed.

Always buy the seller...............

Not quite there yet, but we have certainly come a long way.

Most members only check the for sale sections when they are selling or searching for something. If the seller is a long-time member of VRF, you might ask him for provenance.

If it is of recent vintage, it cannot be genuine. It looks very good, but it does not look 50 years old.