| brobostigon | morning boys and girls. | 09:16 |
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| zmoylan-pi | o/ | 09:36 |
| brobostigon | o/ | 09:36 |
| zmoylan-pi | heating is off, i've had a peek outside and most of the now outside seem gone. bare ground in lots of places... | 09:38 |
| brobostigon | now? has now been aborbed into a blackhole or something outside your window? lol. | 09:40 |
| brobostigon | absorbed* | 09:40 |
| zmoylan-pi | ireland as an low island with high rain falls has very good drainage... there will be flooding not where i am... | 09:57 |
| brobostigon | here neither. | 10:00 |
| daftykins | yay for it not raining today, so my 60/10 connection is stable at 10/3 | 19:36 |
| daftykins | oh yeah can't remember if i came in to say, the weather has ruined my phone line | 19:37 |
| penguin42 | was it 60/10 before? | 19:40 |
| daftykins | yep | 19:40 |
| daftykins | i think the snow sat on the connection box and then melted and rolled into it | 19:40 |
| penguin42 | it might resync itself back up as it dries out? | 19:44 |
| daftykins | nah it's screwed, huge noise on the line | 19:45 |
| penguin42 | oh that's much better; if the audio is bad you can tell them to come and fix it | 19:45 |
| daftykins | they're meant to be replacing it since it's war time age, the properties either side of me still have the ol' lead cables leading up to it | 19:45 |
| penguin42 | lead cables?! | 19:45 |
| daftykins | mmhmm | 19:46 |
| daftykins | war time! | 19:46 |
| daftykins | mines normal though | 19:46 |
| * penguin42 has heard of lead piping, but not lead cables | 19:46 | |
| daftykins | yeah i did that but i'm in a big queue for all the ones that the weather ruined | 19:46 |
| * penguin42 wonders if you go mad faster by watching stuff downloaded over lead cables | 19:46 | |
| penguin42 | nod | 19:46 |
| daftykins | basically the box has been swinging on the wall in front since we got it detached from my house and i painted the front, but the lad that was meant to arrange the ground being dug up for the lines to be replaced swanned off on holiday it would appear | 19:47 |
| daftykins | it's only staying stable today since it's not wet, heh | 19:50 |
| penguin42 | perhaps you should wrap a scarf around it? | 19:52 |
| daftykins | hehe, i don't own a ladder - it's at first floor level and my lane has a steep gradient so you couldn't use one without some kinda block under one leg | 19:53 |
| daftykins | i'd have gone up there, whipped the cover off, cleaned up my pair and wrapped a plastic bag around it otherwise | 19:53 |
| daftykins | i've got a few of the grease taps they use to join pairs together | 19:53 |
| penguin42 | sounds like you need someone with a landrover that you can stand on.... | 19:54 |
| daftykins | pedestrian only lane :) | 19:54 |
| penguin42 | horse? | 19:55 |
| daftykins | can't stand 'em! | 19:56 |
| penguin42 | can't say I've had enough contact with them to know | 19:56 |
| daftykins | apparently they're common and cheap to keep up there, but they're costly on the islands | 19:57 |
| zmoylan-pi | home made stilts... | 19:58 |
| * penguin42 wonders what you'll have to do to get BT etc to get to it if it's in such an inaccessible place; you can imagine it having to be a BT awkward-places team | 19:59 | |
| daftykins | we don't have BT here :) | 20:00 |
| zmoylan-pi | a guy on a bike with a ladder... does windows in his spare time... | 20:00 |
| penguin42 | daftykins: Fortunate | 20:00 |
| daftykins | they were pretty cool when i wanted to paint the house, came out same-day and took the box off the front and lashed it to the scaffold | 20:00 |
| daftykins | it's possible they might tell me to just deal with it and wait for the proper road dig up | 20:01 |
| penguin42 | hair-dryer on a long poll | 20:01 |
| daftykins | i did lean out the nearest window when i got up today to see if i could reach it xD not a chance | 20:03 |
| zmoylan-pi | i can smell darwain awards nomination... :-P | 20:03 |
| daftykins | naaah i know when i'm beaten | 20:04 |
| zmoylan-pi | it's not over till you're wrapped in 20ft of coax face down in a water butt... :-P | 20:09 |
| penguin42 | nah, coax is no good to get tangled in | 20:10 |
| zmoylan-pi | you'd think... :-) | 20:10 |
| daftykins | https://i.imgur.com/a4BGATo.jpg this is it btw | 20:11 |
| penguin42 | daftykins: Oh well.... | 20:12 |
| penguin42 | daftykins: You've obviously missed the trick of laying a ladder across from the neighbours | 20:12 |
| zmoylan-pi | it could have an accident so they have to replace it... | 20:12 |
| daftykins | it'd be one long ladder :D | 20:12 |
| daftykins | oh they're doing it anyway yeah, just they're not being too quick on making the arrangements | 20:13 |
| zmoylan-pi | put those hacking classes to good use and build a suspension bridge from ice lolly sticks across the gap... :-) | 20:13 |
| daftykins | allegedly all this bit does is join up with runs in the road, below - so they'll only replace the 3 metres up the wall | 20:13 |
| penguin42 | scary bits of wires and knots :-) | 20:13 |
| daftykins | can see all the neighbours lines look rubbish since we removed all the fixings from the front of my place to do the painting, though | 20:14 |
| daftykins | the scaffolders had nothing so i had to give them a bit of cat6 UTP to tether the box to the front of my place off a gutter bracket | 20:16 |
| penguin42 | cat6! The luxury! | 20:17 |
| penguin42 | I guess, your cats do get the cream | 20:17 |
| daftykins | :o | 20:20 |
| daftykins | ugh these products that are amazon prime members only | 20:25 |
| daftykins | even a keyboard o0 | 20:29 |
| zleap | you need to be careful with amazon you end up on prime without realising it , i did once, noticed and cancled straight away | 20:30 |
| daftykins | ah just buying some stuff for a client, looks like i can share his wifes prime membership with him so these items can be had :D | 20:31 |
| zleap | :) | 20:34 |
| daftykins | yep, that was easy | 20:35 |
| zmoylan-pi | ...too easy... ::cue ominous music:: | 20:37 |
| daftykins | i'll be nipping to London for their new flat soon, to go and set things up | 20:37 |
| daftykins | means i have to ship these things to there and not be a tax dodger for once! | 20:38 |
| zmoylan-pi | apple to release a $999 mac air this year... at that price it'll problably have 0 usb ports... :-) | 21:10 |
| zmoylan-pi | here's a lad to fix your external broadband box... :-) https://imgur.com/gallery/wA165 | 22:55 |
| daftykins | :D | 22:59 |
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