[11:17] <daftykins> happy Saturday all \o
[12:16] <zxm-pi> o/
[12:25] <penguin42> yaaaawwwwnnnnn - my music player is playing Santana's Guajira which is certainly helping
[12:26] <daftykins> :D
[13:11]  * penguin42 looks at the way the fedora installer has built his lvm and hmm
[13:12] <penguin42> it's done small partition->md->lvm  rather than  big partition->lvm->lvm raid1
[13:17]  * penguin42 does unspeakable things with fdisk and pvmove
[13:58] <penguin42> seems to have worked; https://paste.centos.org/view/25deae25
[14:55] <penguin42> daftykins: What are your preferred flavours of ether card, and do you need any other PCI cards?
[15:06] <penguin42> daftykins: http://www.treblig.org/daveG/pcicards.jpg  one of those should do
[15:12] <zxm-pi> when i stored cards not in use. i use to attach a paperback sized piece of cardboard with a rubber band so that they were isolated from one another
[15:12] <zxm-pi> storing them loose them loose like that makes my ocd twitchy :-)
[15:14] <penguin42> that's probably fair; although probably better than a big pile; this is a convenient PSU box
[16:09] <daftykins> penguin42: any Intel Pro 10/100 or 3com 3C905-TX ones should be good
[16:10] <zxm-pi> 3c905-tx... there's a name i haven't seen in a long time...
[16:10] <daftykins> :)
[16:11] <zxm-pi> we used ne2000 compatible jobbies... i can still remember the dipswitches for irq5 base 320h :-)
[16:12] <daftykins> hehe
[16:30] <daftykins> just visited wealthy client's new HQ, none of the telephone DP is labelled :| https://i.imgur.com/HXYuXog.jpg
[16:33] <zxm-pi> labeling wires costs extra :-P
[16:34] <daftykins> means muggins here will be forced to pick up a tone generator and work out which cable runs to each room... if i can't convince the client to move to all IP phones
[16:44] <daftykins> opened up my backpack before heading out earlier and discovered a blueberry muffin i'd forgotten about :D what a great surprise
[16:45] <zxm-pi> someting similar happened once to me onsite. but all i found was a 3week old banana sandwich. i drank it anyway :-D
[16:45] <daftykins> xD
[17:00] <penguin42> daftykins: Any idea what the difference is between a 3c905c and a 3c905cx ?
[17:00] <daftykins> hmm let's have a look
[17:01] <penguin42> daftykins: and is i82550ey OK for Intel - I think that's a Pro/100s
[17:02] <penguin42> the 3c905cx looks about 5 years newer
[17:03] <daftykins> can't work anything out between the two 3coms from a cursory glance, looks like wikipedia has a snap of the intel - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Intel_PRO100_S.png
[17:04] <penguin42> yeh that's the Intel
[17:05] <daftykins> i wonder if it's got built-in support, because the intel download page seems to only speak of drivers for Linux and DOS
[17:07] <penguin42> e100's have been about since adam was a lad
[17:07] <daftykins> :D
[17:07] <daftykins> yeah i bet it's easy to get going in many situations, the intel
[17:08] <daftykins> do you have anything of that vintage to try them out in to verify they're alive at all? 
[17:12] <daftykins> i think the intel might win it
[17:15] <penguin42> just tested both on f34 on the machine I was using when this Ryzen died; f34 sees both and pings
[17:15] <daftykins> :D
[17:15] <penguin42> early i7 with one PCI slot
[17:15] <penguin42> [which hadn't been used in the 12 years I'd had it]
[17:15] <daftykins> xD
[17:15] <daftykins> sounds great, thanks for checking those out :)
[17:16] <daftykins> did you say his address looked complete, or is it worth my sending you a copy anyway just in case?
[17:19] <penguin42> please send me it
[17:22] <daftykins> sorted
[17:23] <penguin42> got it
[17:41]  * penguin42 redirects via configuring printer on newly reinstalled machine to be able to print the royal mails qr code postage
[17:41] <daftykins> ooh high tech 
[17:43] <penguin42> 1st time I've used it
[17:43] <penguin42> (the print stamp thing)
[17:44] <daftykins> mm, good alternative with things as they are
[17:52] <penguin42> right, I've bought books of standard stamps from the postoffice, but not done one of these before
[17:52] <penguin42> daftykins: OK, all jified up with label and stuff, I'll drop it in a postbox on Monday
[17:52] <daftykins> magic! thanks :)
[17:53] <daftykins> i best warn him of my evil plans now i suppose
[17:57] <penguin42> you're collecting a whole kit from dozens of people aren't you?
[17:59] <daftykins> lol, nah just hoping for some RAM from a pal in Canada eventually too, but really i have so much work on i don't have a chance to muck about with that Pentium III Dell
[17:59] <daftykins> ok time to put some food on
[18:00] <penguin42> oh, you should have said, I probably have some somewhere
[18:02] <penguin42> although I'd be less confident of finding that
[18:21] <daftykins> that's cool, he already did a lot of testing and what not - just waiting to bug him about it again :D
[19:49] <penguin42> daftykins: Righty, arctive liquid freezer ii 280 ordered
[19:50] <daftykins> air is fiiiiine ;)
[19:53] <penguin42> daftykins: Next week, we see the scientific experiment of difference in temp
[19:55] <daftykins> :D
[22:26] <daftykins> to bed!