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brobostigonmorning06:10
daftykins\o08:04
brobostigono/08:09
zxmoypio/08:10
brobostigon\o08:11
daftykinsi've spotted quite the deal on a local classifieds site, a super fancy Q Acoustics 5.1 speaker set with stands etc for the fronts worth a grand, for £400 :O08:12
ChunkyzHi14:31
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zxmoypi=^..^=15:02
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* daftykins chuckles at the emergency call he just got 17:08
daftykinsthat new biz i've been exploring the setup of, they lost their server and their current firm said "you're not on contract so you'll have to wait"17:08
daftykinsi went up there, their server VM had mysteriously lost its' NIC...17:09
zxmoypihow do you lose a server. you leave it on the roof of your car with your starbucks coffee? :-P17:15
daftykins:D17:15
daftykinsbetter part is on bringing it back, it's now warning that in 8 days the free license of VMware ESXi will expire, then there'll be no more starting VMs17:15
zxmoypior is it like the novel server that was walled off for years and kept working but not novell and only lasted a few weeks...17:15
* m0nkey_ starts a petition to bring back Novell NetWare17:46
m0nkey_Bindary tree baby, yeah!17:46
zxmoypididn't every one like typing in pages and pages of dodgy sectors of hard drives before novell would touch them :-)17:55
zxmoypithat 200mb drive was a bargin. only 7 pages of dodgy sectors :-)18:23
daftykinsone per line, or a big grid of values?18:59
zxmoypii remember pages with 3-5 columns of numbers on them18:59
zxmoypi50 per column-ish. my boss saved a few pennies by finding the worst cheapest drives :-)19:00
zxmoypitill we started having him type them in and then suddenly half a page... :-)19:01
daftykinsi've just determined this client is on a 2012 system BIOS for their server which came out in 2012, 10 releases have been made since19:01
daftykinser, oops repetition on the 201219:01
daftykinsOS was EOL September 2018, VM's OS is EOL this October...19:01
zxmoypifreedos \o/19:02

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