| brobostigon | morning boys and girls. | 07:02 |
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| zmoylan-pi | o/ | 07:09 |
| brobostigon | o/ | 07:10 |
| brobostigon | https://taylorworld.one/?q=node/5 some feedback please, :) | 09:01 |
| daftykins | good morn | 09:05 |
| brobostigon | morning daftykins | 09:05 |
| zmoylan-pi | i think the least relevant option on that poll is prominent location. 1) they cost 2) gamers are used to crossing dangerous obstacles to get to their destination :-) 3) quieter areas with less noise are better | 09:27 |
| brobostigon | i agree, but it seemed appropriate, to put it there as an option. | 09:28 |
| zmoylan-pi | i think access to parking and public transport is more important as gaming can involve transporting large amounts of gear and books | 09:31 |
| brobostigon | exactly, as thats partly what i meant by that question too, because the local bus station is about 5 mins away from a possible premises. | 09:32 |
| daftykins | my HDHomeRun arrived this morning, so i'm having fun with that :) tiny little box that takes your aerial freeview signal and pops it on the LAN for any compatible device to view live TV, of which there are many | 09:56 |
| daftykins | laptops, smartphones, tablets, games consoles, smart TVs | 09:56 |
| daftykins | not really for me as i loathe broadcast TV, but knowledge of it will be useful for clients | 09:56 |
| brobostigon | so oyu dont watch QI or HIGNFY? | 09:57 |
| daftykins | correct | 09:57 |
| brobostigon | i am almost dissapointed, maybe read private eye instead, as i do, :) | 09:58 |
| daftykins | it's only because i had the scaffolding on my house this past year that i got a roof aerial installed to be capable of this, to kind of add to the infrastructure of this house to add to resale value | 09:58 |
| daftykins | nah never seen it - more of a mainland thing i'm sure | 09:59 |
| brobostigon | ah, i see. | 09:59 |
| daftykins | maybe newsagents can source it, but i don't even know who covers town here | 09:59 |
| brobostigon | ok. | 10:01 |
| daftykins | silly question but is it a paid thing? | 10:01 |
| brobostigon | privaye eye is a newspaper/magazine that published every two weeks and costs £2. | 10:02 |
| daftykins | ah-ha, thanks | 10:03 |
| daftykins | haha just picked up a tonne of French channels, as is to be expected | 10:03 |
| daftykins | wow | 10:03 |
| brobostigon | :) | 10:04 |
| daftykins | here in town we have to point our antennas south-east to point toward a transmitter on Jersey for a signal, so no surprises it's also pointed toward France's northern coast | 10:04 |
| dwatkins | daftykins: what format does it save the videos on a NAS in? | 11:22 |
| daftykins | couldn't tell you off hand, as i won't be making use of PVR | 11:23 |
| daftykins | definitely see some talk of choice in codecs, MPEG2 and H.264 - but no idea on container | 11:23 |
| daftykins | you have to pay a subscription annually of ~£25 for guide data to use the PVR though | 11:24 |
| daftykins | looks like i'd have to have an account on their site for the settings app to show me more settings in that area | 11:24 |
| diddledan | daftykins: you might be able to get rowridge off the isle of wight, though I don't suppose they're propagating that far | 15:26 |
| daftykins | diddledan: heh that's a LOT more miles :) | 16:44 |
| diddledan | :-p | 16:44 |
| diddledan | back when we had analogue transmission we'd get subtle interference from french channels on the same frequency, but only during the summer. it was especially bad when Wimbledon was on | 16:45 |
| daftykins | oh same down here, only much stronger i imagine | 16:46 |
| daftykins | :D | 16:46 |
| diddledan | you'd get a ghost picture overlaid into the picture of the thing you wanted to watch. was weird effect. :-) | 16:46 |
| daftykins | sometimes you'd see a face ghost into sight and drift over sideways | 16:46 |
| daftykins | hehe amusing you had the same thing that far north | 16:47 |
| daftykins | i thought it was just the pesky blighters beaming out too high a power over the Channel | 16:47 |
| diddledan | aye, we're not even on the coast here at amazingstoke | 16:47 |
| daftykins | just replaced an old LGA775 era mobo with an intel coffeelake i3 board with onboard intel NIC, but the old 14.04 install doesn't support it - doh! | 16:47 |
| diddledan | we're on the horizontal parallel with London if that helps to visualise how far north we are | 16:48 |
| daftykins | ooh yes i've located you on google maps before and pointed with evil intent ;) | 16:48 |
| diddledan | eep, a 775.. that's core2? | 16:48 |
| daftykins | same socket, albeit Pentium dual core in that incarnation | 16:48 |
| diddledan | ee gads, even worse :-p | 16:49 |
| daftykins | did ok for file server duty :D | 16:49 |
| diddledan | I still have an AMD bulldozer | 16:49 |
| daftykins | i made huge efficiency gains dumping my core 2 | 16:49 |
| diddledan | that one where they claimed they had 8 real cores unlike intel's "fake cores via hyperthreading" but neglected to mention that they're crippled by each pair only having a single arithmatic unit | 16:50 |
| daftykins | xD | 16:53 |
| daftykins | "it felt like a good idea at the time" | 16:53 |
| diddledan | I'm interested to see how Intel responds in form of new CPU architecture to the spectre and meltdown shenanigans | 16:57 |
| daftykins | allegedly coffeelake already has re-designs, but i bet we won't see the end of it in the months to come | 16:58 |
| daftykins | ooh wow, how modern of me - i'm about to use a 64GB USB C flash drive to install 'buntu server | 16:59 |
| diddledan | the problem they have right now, I imagine, is they seemed really close to launching a new chip this year before the vuln was announced, and I wonder if they've had to postpone to redesign it | 16:59 |
| MattJ | "What's USB C?" :) | 16:59 |
| diddledan | "it's U.S.B., see?" | 16:59 |
| MattJ | Is it compatible with my Iomege Zip drive? | 16:59 |
| MattJ | *Iomega | 17:00 |
| diddledan | nah, those are parallel | 17:00 |
| diddledan | they plug into centronix | 17:00 |
| diddledan | you really want a SCSI 160 | 17:00 |
| diddledan | isn't it amazing that 20 years after USB arrived we still don't have proper "daisy chain"ing | 17:01 |
| diddledan | I want my money back! | 17:02 |
| daftykins | your zip drive suffered from the click of death years ago, killing all diskettes ;) | 17:02 |
| diddledan | would be interesting to know how much heritage we've lost because nobody can read zip disks any more meaning the data is irrecoverable | 17:03 |
| daftykins | and since i know subiquity sucks big time, i changed to another TTY and dd'd the first area of the OS disk so it appeared blank for the install scripts \o/ | 17:08 |
| daftykins | i only bought a USB C flash drive for funsies in the airport on my last trip back :D | 17:09 |
| daftykins | must admit this is the very first time i've used it in anger, beyond speed testing it | 17:09 |
| diddledan | and did it have any speed? | 17:24 |
| diddledan | if so, how many speeds? | 17:25 |
| diddledan | 3? | 17:25 |
| diddledan | 4? | 17:25 |
| diddledan | dare I say.. 5 speeds?! | 17:25 |
| dwatkins | internal ZIP drives (those in a 5.25" bay inside the machine) didn't suffer from click of death anywhere near as much, I gather. | 17:25 |
| daftykins | handy | 17:30 |
| daftykins | oh hello, big blister on a finger tip - wonder what caused that | 17:30 |
| diddledan | too much poking | 17:31 |
| daftykins | anywho, totally fresh 18.04 box all apt updated and now i'm slowly restoring services, so not bad | 17:31 |
| daftykins | you might find this amusing, in the room next to me is the son of the guy who wrote the Mr.Men books - who lives along the road | 17:38 |
| daftykins | i think the man himself isn't particularly well anymore | 17:38 |
| daftykins | ah no i'm mixing him up with the author of the Ipcress File who also lives along the road | 17:39 |
| daftykins | ok so the son kept it going, neat | 17:42 |
| zmoylan-pi | either way, you just call him sir... :-P | 18:16 |
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