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| daftykins | happy Monday! | 11:27 |
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| daftykins | hrmm, sometimes i despair... arranged an 11am appointment with a client to handle their broadband upgrade, moving them from ADSL to VDSL today and their current router is not capable so told them they'd be offline | 11:34 |
| daftykins | guy texts me at 10am "we have no internet! i can't do any work! RAH RAH RAH!" | 11:34 |
| zxm-pi | you'll be down toot sweet with a bunch of ip packets in a bucket he can use | 11:35 |
| daftykins | :D | 11:35 |
| zxm-pi | pigeons are on back order | 11:35 |
| zxm-pi | or blow dust off the old modem you still have squirreled away and put them on dial up for a day or two. :-P | 11:38 |
| daftykins | hehe | 11:39 |
| daftykins | as much as i don't like the Draytek kit, it does seem pretty capable - it had a 'WAN2' LAN port so i took down a VDSL transceiver (Huawei HG612) and plugged it into the telephone line instead, then configured the Draytek to do the PPPoE auth using the new login on WAN2, easy peasy | 11:40 |
| daftykins | they're only getting 26 Mb sync on an area that should reach 100 Mb though, very very poor | 11:40 |
| daftykins | *in an area | 11:41 |
| zxm-pi | guy buys dell, doesn't know anything about pcs. isn't happy as it doesn't have things he thought were standard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR25BVBsuS0 | 11:41 |
| zxm-pi | wifi, ssd's | 11:41 |
| daftykins | that sounds like it might be painful viewing | 11:41 |
| daftykins | clients of mine always seem to think desktops will be WiFi capable | 11:42 |
| zxm-pi | it's kinda funny, but to be honest i see it as a self inflicted wound. i know nothing about cars, if i wanted to buy a car i'd have someone who does at my side | 11:42 |
| daftykins | indeedy | 11:43 |
| zxm-pi | and as rusty as my skills are atm i'd be double checking that it had hhd or ssd and that wifi and bt were included out of the box | 11:43 |
| daftykins | and then immediately forego them for a lovely network cable | 11:43 |
| zxm-pi | pretty much :-) | 11:43 |
| zxm-pi | if god had wanted us to use wifi, he wouldn't have given us coax :-D | 11:44 |
| daftykins | hehehe | 11:44 |
| zxm-pi | you never know when you'll want to abseil out the top story window to escape :-) | 11:47 |
| daftykins | ok i only made it a few seconds in, he admitted it was all his fault and then said he ordered "the top of the line XPS processor" | 11:48 |
| zxm-pi | dell advertising blurb at work | 11:49 |
| daftykins | nah XPS is just the range, so it's that guy being a bit derp | 11:49 |
| zxm-pi | whawe've all been there. what browser do you use? ms word! | 11:49 |
| daftykins | finest of all! | 11:50 |
| daftykins | one iMac obtained, cor it's slow as wading through molasses on the original 1TB 2.5" HDD | 15:26 |
| m0nkey_ | I've been trying to convince my parents to upgrade their computer, it's an old iMac from 2009. I did a memory upgrade on it a couple years ago, but now it's showing it's age. | 17:30 |
| daftykins | ah wow that's exactly the age one i am going to offer to replace with this one, previously did RAM + SSD but core 2 duo's are just far too rubbish now | 17:30 |
| m0nkey_ | The thing still works, so I can see their point about not changing what works. | 17:32 |
| m0nkey_ | My next visit, I'm taking my dad to a computer store to buy parts to build a new system. | 17:33 |
| daftykins | heh, EOL OS + unsafe online though | 17:33 |
| m0nkey_ | Is Novatech still around? lol | 17:33 |
| m0nkey_ | yup, they are | 17:36 |
| m0nkey_ | and god damn.. i thought PC components were expensive here.. boy, you guys have it rough | 17:37 |
| daftykins | what neck o' the woods are your folks in? | 17:37 |
| m0nkey_ | West Sussex | 17:37 |
| daftykins | ah yeah so that would be a nice close place, one of my pals from early IRC days + Uni time in Portsmouth worked at novatech for a bit | 17:37 |
| m0nkey_ | I used to work for IBM, had to visit North Harbour and that's how I learned about Novatech. | 17:39 |
| daftykins | if you have any old contacts there, have you asked them first-hand how the email migration is going? xD | 17:41 |
| m0nkey_ | buhahah | 17:41 |
| m0nkey_ | not well | 17:41 |
| m0nkey_ | i used to like the old Notes/Domino set-up. It worked well. | 17:42 |
| daftykins | never seen! | 17:42 |
| m0nkey_ | I used to run something called NotesBuddy, to avoid running the full Notes client because it was a pig. | 17:43 |
| m0nkey_ | Heh, and all the C4EB crap. | 17:43 |
| m0nkey_ | Had funky names for everything, including the network, which was called the "Power9" network | 17:45 |
| m0nkey_ | Which was basically the 9.0.0.0/8 subnet | 17:46 |
| daftykins | and woe be thee if you connected a system running a different microarch? :D | 17:46 |
| m0nkey_ | actually, they typically didn't care what was connected | 17:47 |
| m0nkey_ | because it was your responsibility to make sure it was safe to connect | 17:47 |
| m0nkey_ | may not be like that now | 17:47 |
| m0nkey_ | when I was there, they gave me a workstation and told me I could do whatever I want.. run Windows, Linux or even OS/2 at the time .. yeesh. | 17:48 |
| m0nkey_ | I just ran NT4 at the time, because that was what I was working with the most then.. mmm.. nation wide NT4 domain, PDC at the DC and BDCs at every site | 17:49 |
| m0nkey_ | you can imagine the fun each time we introduced a new BDC to an NT4 domain. It would force an election which would often cause the just promoted BDC which didn't have any login scripts set-up or anything would become the master browser lol | 17:50 |
| daftykins | always avoided domains personally :) all my clients are small enough that peer to peer is grand | 17:55 |
| m0nkey_ | IBM was smart enough not to run any kind of domain, NT or Novell NDS | 17:57 |
| m0nkey_ | but oh man, i miss the days of Novell NDS. pre-AD goodness. loved it | 17:57 |
| m0nkey_ | also.. | 17:57 |
| m0nkey_ | fire phasers 3 | 17:58 |
| m0nkey_ | *pew* *pew* *pew* lol | 17:58 |
| daftykins | 18:58 < m0nkey_> fire phasers 3 | 18:32 |
| daftykins | oops paste fail | 18:32 |
| daftykins | https://imgur.com/a/49HVF0u | 18:32 |
| daftykins | ah drat, ifixit won't sell to me anymore | 18:55 |
| zxm-pi | not british enough? | 19:04 |
| zxm-pi | that imac is quite clean for a 6yo computer | 19:05 |
| daftykins | there's a lot of dust in the fan there and on the PCBs | 19:05 |
| daftykins | yeah ifixit EU doesn't have Guernsey - and ifixit UK is refusing a local postcode | 19:05 |
| zxm-pi | don't you have a uk postal thingy that pretends to be british and then smuggles it to the islands under cloak of darkness? | 19:07 |
| daftykins | yeah but that'd double the cost of this kinda item | 19:08 |
| daftykins | hrmm ebay seems to have an identical one for 1/3rd the cost of ifixit https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/224509173987 | 19:08 |
| zxm-pi | right time for daily walk.... o/ | 19:09 |
| daftykins | enjoy! | 19:09 |
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