[07:13] morning [10:19] morning boys and girls. [14:38] Morning brobostigon [14:38] how are you doing [14:39] afternoon knightwise, alittle on the cold sign, my eczema could be better, and you? [14:39] side* [16:04] Doing ok , looking for a simple solution to backup my files to my inlaws [16:04] had google cloud storage for a year with my chromebook and that trail is running out [16:08] :) :( [16:09] I have a synology nas with this private cloud dropbox like client [16:09] think i'll run that on a remote machine, plop it over there and run local backups [16:10] looks like the simplest solution. [16:10] If I can run mate on my old netbook i'll be able to pull that off [16:10] i use owncloud on my server for that same job. [16:10] :) [16:10] yeah , but I dont have a static ip [16:11] dyndns? [16:11] never syncs up right, plus I would like to have as few open ports on my router as i can [16:11] ah ok, i havent ever used dyndns. [16:16] I guess I also could use owncloud and some owncloud clients but since i have the synology system running anyway.... [16:16] and i use it quite a lot for our company [16:17] :) [16:39] I have mum on Syncthing [16:40] Std. Dega-dup backup to a synced folder, linked to my NAS [16:41] beer o'clock, :) [16:42] awilkins: remote ? [16:42] knightwise, Yup, Syncthing pretty much handles tunnel punching [16:43] Haven't had to fiddle with DNS or port routing [16:43] You just have to copy a big ID value from one to the other [16:43] so ... files on my nas , syncthing on my home server and syncthing on my remote machine ? [16:43] Syncthing where the files are [16:44] Accessible anyway [16:44] If your NAS is too dumb to run syncthing, run it on the sevrer [16:44] Mine has a package of Syncthing (ASUSTOR) [16:44] ah ok [16:44] gonna see if there is one for synology [16:45] there is one but its a little buggy , so i might be better off running it on my server [16:46] upside is I can run in on a raspberry pi [16:46] I like it. Even has an Android build, I'd use it for transferring comic files to my tablet to read. [16:47] hmmm.. starting to sound more and more interesting ! [16:48] If I didn't have close to 10GB of files in Dropbox I'd probably just use that exclusively [16:49] I had mum on Copy.com for cloud backups but they went belly-up [16:49] It needs a wee taskbar applet [16:49] awilkins: does it store those comics offline on your tablet ? [16:49] knightwise, Yup [16:50] ok , gonna give it a try [16:50] Probably good for managing your music collection too [16:50] I wonder how it deals with symlinks [16:51] * awilkins wonders if you can symlink a bunch of music into a synced folder and have it transferred to your phone [16:51] * knightwise *eyes twinkle* [16:53] My partner works for a music college and they have to transfer audition recordings from China to their file server [16:53] They always have a load of problems because of crap wifi and L-class users [16:54] I said they should use this because it can resume broken connections. Dunno if it tunnels through the great firewall though. [16:54] But def. easy to use [16:55] Just set it up to sync a folder and say to user "Drop file in folder. File go to cloud. Ug." [17:38] at least no one submits their music in word doc files i suppose... :-P [17:47] I call that "cloud bouncing" [17:47] allows you to do stuff offline (or on a wonky connection) and "bounce" it up to the cloud whenever you have a good connection [18:31] i sometimes wish someone made a more accessible whisper net like the original kindle had... a low transfer rate, cheap, in the background network... [18:46] popey: you around [19:39] or asquare! [19:40] evening all \o [19:40] o/ [19:57] * zmoylan-pi remembers to pack generic toblerone for tomorrows game... [19:57] trapezoid instead of triangular [19:57] :D [19:58] i've not finished the one i acquired the other day! [19:58] full tobler or tobler-lite [19:59] i think it says 360g on the side and doesn't seem to have large flat sections, so i might be ok [19:59] * penguin42 seems to have done particularly well on the discount-chocolate acquisition this year; I've got a truly silly amount [19:59] otherwise the shop will get a drive by tobleroning [19:59] ah no it is a shrunk one, doesn't seem all that bad though [20:00] i wouldn't mind if they had just reduced the size but to keep the same size box seems deceptive [20:04] yip [20:05] zmoylan-pi: Yeh [20:05] one benefit to the gap is you have further space to push them over to have them snap cleanly :D [20:06] they always snapped cleanly for me [20:06] unless they were the giant ones and had been in the freezer when they sometimes needed to be bounced off furniture [20:06] :> [20:07] when i get a chocolate orange i roll them down the steps past the cat [20:08] * zmoylan-pi wonders what shapes the generic chocolate oranges come in... pineapple? :-) [20:09] ask Terry [20:15] hi [23:02] ikonia: hello [23:03] ikonia: also, I got a second bluetooth 8bitdo controller for xmas, so now can do two player games. Played 20 levels of 2 player Gauntlet in MAME with my 13 year old daughter :) [23:04] popey: just got mine working, I thought I'd share the 50 minute shame of trying to get it to blue tooth pair and not understand why it couldn't see the device [23:04] heh [23:04] I'd plugged the SD card into my pi2 rather than pi3, so no inbuilt bluetooth, wasted 50 minutes of shame [23:04] hahaha :D [23:04] excellent [23:05] put the sd in the pi3, 3 seconds later, 4 8bitdo controllers paired [23:05] idiot [23:05] XD [23:05] 4! [23:05] nice [23:05] which ones did you get? [23:05] 6 actually, only 4 paired [23:05] flexiondotorg got the ones with dual analogs [23:05] blimey [23:06] got 2 x nes 30 pro, 1 x sfc, 1 x snes, and 2 of the arcade stick ones [23:06] i have the SNES30 and SFC30 so I can tell player 1 from player 2 [23:06] really liked them so went in hard [23:06] awesome [23:06] had much time to play? [23:06] playing snes games needed the snes controller, the nes 30 pro was for generic stuff and the arcade stuff for sf2 /mk etc [23:06] not much to be honest, starting this week, [23:06] really enjoyed what I have played though [23:07] re-completed super mario world at %100 [23:07] that brough back my youth [23:07] finally got it hooked into the main TV/sound system [23:07] it's shockingly good for what it is [23:07] Yeah [23:07] I know flexiondotorg has done some fettling to get the nice backgrounds and old style tv effects [23:07] I didn't do that on mine [23:08] I've not got all the artwork or stuff setup yet [23:08] going to sort that when I've got the game layout nice [23:09] http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Framemeister-N-XRGB-Mini-Upscaler-Unit-DP3913547-From-Japan-/181327242059 [23:09] those things have gone up in price like crazy [23:10] good lord [23:10] $800 ! [23:10] I managed to get the pi to put out the right res for the screen, so I can play R-Type on a big telly with decent sound now :) [23:10] happy days [23:11] I need to check the res on mine, I'm %99 it's right [23:12] i never had a *NES [23:12] me either [23:13] didnt have any consoles really. [23:13] i had a lot of gameboy accessories mind you :D over the top light, battery pack... [23:13] well, we had some odd orange thing under the telly in the 1970s/80s [23:13] o0 [23:13] then a game boy much later [23:13] that's fruit, sir :D [23:13] lemme find a pic, it's mad [23:13] daftykins: I remember all those gameboy things, I had them, the magnigier, etc [23:14] battery pack [23:14] :D [23:14] http://www.old-computers.com/Museum/computer.asp?st=3&c=933 [23:14] that kind of thing [23:14] i think you stole that from Blake's 7, popey :> [23:14] http://www.playerschoicegames.com/hanimex7771.JPG [23:14] haha [23:15] it had 4 games, Tennis, Doubles, squash and .. practice i think [23:15] like pong at home [23:15] was bloody awful, but all we had in 1980 or so [23:16] :> [23:16] had one of those in late 70s, one with a gun though [23:16] get you! [23:17] I found a boxed one on ebay a while back and was tempted [23:17] force the kids to play it as punishment [23:18] *pew* *pew* *pew* http://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/9dc26b84742f00841a40244d3c3241bf-650-80.jpg [23:18] "Dad we're gaming but we're not even remotely having fun!" [23:19] "how long must we do this? ;_; " [23:19] they were incredible fun as long as you had a human opponent. one player it was very boring [23:19] humans are sneaky [23:19] damn them! [23:19] I recently played Nemesis (classic shoot em up) in MAME, and it has a warm up for 40 seconds before it starts, Sam said "did games really do this when you were young!?" I said yes, and he said "I feel sorry for you" [23:20] zmoylan-pi: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/binatone-tv-master-4-plus-2-and-gun-/322373820593?hash=item4b0efa20b1:g:yKgAAOSwB09YFiMs [23:20] re-live the.. uh.. magic [23:20] warm up? like it goes easy on you? [23:20] we waited 5 minutes to load games in my day and we glad of it!!! (gave me time to do my homework :-P ) [23:21] haha [23:21] that binatone is the exact make and model... thank you popey [23:22] :) [23:22] heh [23:22] * daftykins does the wobbly lines to let zmoylan-pi have a flashback [23:22] to make it harder i used to use a mirror on wall opposite to tv... [23:22] no, warmup as in the physical components need to warm up [23:22] like valves [23:22] ooooh i see [23:22] perfect timing, bluetooth just broke on all my 8bitdo devices [23:22] it's just lost all the devices [23:22] odd [23:22] reboot? [23:22] ikonia: now Christmas really begins [23:23] just dont it [23:23] daftykins: just sat down to really enjoy it [23:23] popey: nah, reboot did nothing, can't even see them at the OS level, I'll investigate [23:23] :S [23:23] comedy gold, after claiming sucess [23:23] yeah, sorry about that :D [23:24] comedy gold, after claiming sucess [23:24] oops [23:24] nah it was worth saying twice [23:24] sorry, buffer there [23:33] i just discovered that there's a leak on the sealant around my shower tray, so my shower has been running through the floorboards and onto the ceiling below, then onto the floor there [23:33] kinda wished it was the soil pipe leaking so i could go the insurance route [23:36] i'm told you get blamed for the lack of maintenance if it's just sealant leaking, so you can't try insurance :< [23:38] actually it can be really hard to find the leak; we spent a few months trying to stop mine leaking [23:39] oof [23:40] ah well i can see a black line where the tray meets the tile, the shower head was spraying onto there so i saw the drip drip... then i ran it again and aimed it away closer to the door, no drip drip [23:43] could really do with redoing that room [23:48] or install a sonic shower to eliminate leaks... :-P [23:50] ^_^ [23:52] inventor of kinder suprise dies... [23:53] was that a surprise? [23:53] heart attack on receiving own invention for Christmas? [23:55] he also helped invention of ferrero rocher so i hope a few ambassadors attend the funeral... :-P [23:56] only the really badly dubbed ones! [23:57] the toys used to be great in the 80s with pull back motors and tiny meccano sets but current ones are awful