[07:06] <daftykins> goooooood morning!
[07:40]  * zxm-pi_ peeks out from under summer duvet which was totally wrong for last nights winter temps...
[07:40] <daftykins> Murphy's law holding up there eh? :D
[07:40] <daftykins> would have remained warm if you didn't change it
[07:41] <zxm-pi_> all i had to do was reach out and flip on leccy blanket but not cold enough for that but just a little too chilly
[07:45] <luna> morning
[07:48] <zxm-pi_> somewhere out there is a big hot mug of tea... ::tries telekinesis to bring it closer::
[07:49] <daftykins> hi luna
[07:49] <daftykins> got to nip out to my friend's wife's art gallery today with my Sherlock hat on, to diagnose wobbly broadband
[18:38] <daftykins> well i'm not pleased with the first MikroTik router i was trying out, it's to blame for their connection dropping and generally driving them mad
[18:44] <zxm-pi_> wonky power?
[18:48] <daftykins> hrmm not sure on that one, whilst trying to debug the constant drops i swapped in another xDSL transceiver at which point it plain refused to authenticate, then when switching back to the last it refused as well
[18:48] <daftykins> factory reset and really basic config got it behaving, but i got word it failed again close to 5pm
[20:36] <zxm-pi_> i had an ap that misbehaved a lot till i put a surge protector on it. when it would fail after that it was because the surge protector had been removed for 'reasons'
[20:39] <daftykins> hrmm, i'll have to do some study on that one
[20:40] <daftykins> so much less convenient when you have to go there and muck around with these inconsistent ones :(
[20:42] <zxm-pi_> i hate intermittent problems. some take years to diagnose
[20:42] <zxm-pi_> and then you have to explain them multiple times to the same people because they forget
[20:43] <daftykins> :D
[20:43] <zxm-pi_> and/look up the notes on your psion to remember the exact sequence of events :-)
[20:44] <daftykins> \o/
[20:44] <daftykins> G U *beep*
[20:44] <daftykins> no, i added that - that's right :)
[20:45] <zxm-pi_> it still amazes me that in 1mb of rom they stuffed an entire os and apps that work so very well
[20:45] <daftykins> ooh i didn't know it was that small, holy moly
[20:46] <zxm-pi_> it cheats iirc. it runs the os from rom so that it doesn't occupy and waste ram.
[20:47] <daftykins> smart!
[20:47] <daftykins> reminds me of RiscOS on the Acorns
[20:48] <zxm-pi_> which means updates are just same software sitting in ram that is accessed before the rom version.
[20:48] <zxm-pi_> riscos. another micro os that was tiny and packed in a helluva lot