[09:56] <brobostigon> morning boys and girls.
[17:25] <SebthreeBQM10HD> hi
[17:29] <penguin42> ho
[17:44] <SebthreeBQM10HD> h
[19:07] <SebthreeBQM10HD> h
[19:42] <MooDoo> evening all
[19:43] <penguin42> Hey MooDoo
[19:43] <MooDoo> :)
[19:52] <SuperEngineer> weeeee!....stubborn sound fault resolved!
[19:52] <SuperEngineer> I had lost 1 channel of my externally powered stereo speakers...
[19:52] <penguin42> plug it in?
[19:52] <SuperEngineer> nope!
[19:52] <SuperEngineer> I ruled out software problem after findind same problem booting to ubuntu, ibuntu mate, solus and elementary [yes, I now have a quad boot sytem]..
[19:53] <SuperEngineer> I tried headphones in the pc socket and both chaneels worked.  Noe pc and s/w both ruled out...
[19:53] <SuperEngineer> tonight I decided it was a speakere prob and was about to swap the failed set with usb + 3.5mm set from redundant "quarentine pc"...
[19:54] <SuperEngineer> on physically removing primary of the externally powered speaker set something rather obvious was proved to be cause...
[19:54] <SuperEngineer> the 2 core stereo cable connecting the 2 speakers came out with primary speaker, nothing attached..
[19:55] <SuperEngineer> the rodent tooth marks in the cable were pretty obvious, problem resolved.  Not hardware, not software, but a RIF [rodent involed fault!]
[19:55] <penguin42> ah
[19:55] <SuperEngineer> ...expect to see links to pics of dead rodent on this channel if the sod ever tries it again!
[19:57] <SuperEngineer> Moral of this episode:  don't always blame s/w as cause of fault... check ya hardware thotoughly
[19:57] <SuperEngineer> ...and keep a baseball bat to hand [just in case]
[22:47] <daftykins> little bit concerned how long the above went on :P
[23:02] <penguin42> well, it's obvious the rodent has just taken out SuperEngineer's net connection....
[23:03] <daftykins> :D knew he'd gone
[23:44] <zmoylan-pi> he'll need to have insane reflexes to splat a rodent with a bat
[23:46] <penguin42> bat hit rat sat on hat?