| davef | Another RMC mailbag.. still no Psion. | 01:07 |
|---|---|---|
| ball | Did you send him one to review? | 01:25 |
| davef | Not me, daftykins .. I think | 01:25 |
| ball | Ah. | 01:26 |
| daftykins | yeah that was me, i've been pondering chasing it because that's months now with no response | 01:30 |
| ball | Was it a Psion II? | 01:30 |
| davef | I just looked at my ISPs moving form (I'm moving early June) and it still has the 'rona-19 questions that were being asked in the beginning. | 01:33 |
| davef | But then this is an opportunity to go with FTTH | 01:34 |
| davef | Which means signing up to .. *shivers* dare I say it? ... *cringe* .. Bell. | 01:35 |
| ball | Yeahno. | 01:35 |
| ball | Though I suppose technically Illinois Bell provide my local loop. | 01:36 |
| ball | ...but I pay Earthlink for the service. | 01:36 |
| davef | I'm talking Bell Canada | 01:36 |
| ball | Sure he was a Scotsman anyway ;-) | 01:36 |
| davef | But they are the only provider that can deliver GbE for the same price that I'm paying for 400/50 cable. | 01:37 |
| ball | Gigabit just plain isn't available here. | 01:37 |
| davef | The highest I can go is 3Gbps | 01:37 |
| ball | I think the most we can get is 45 Mbit/S | 01:37 |
| daftykins | Psion 3c | 01:38 |
| ball | I remember those | 01:38 |
| ball | brb | 01:38 |
| davef | I had some HP thing around the Psion era. | 01:39 |
| davef | Later on I had the OG Sharp Zarus linux PDA. I wish I still had that. | 01:39 |
| daftykins | hmm not familiar | 01:39 |
| daftykins | i've been meaning to email him and ask just wtf it is | 01:40 |
| davef | https://i.redd.it/f8vu13p7yxzz.jpg | 01:40 |
| davef | It has both compact flash and SD card slots | 01:42 |
| davef | I used a CF wifi adapter | 01:43 |
| daftykins | oh wow that's your pic? | 01:43 |
| davef | I wish | 01:43 |
| daftykins | oh yeah i already forgot you said you wish you held onto it | 01:43 |
| daftykins | alcohol may have been involved | 01:44 |
| davef | I don't remember what happened to it | 01:44 |
| daftykins | almost looks like Windows CE | 01:44 |
| davef | It ran some kind of QT based UI | 01:44 |
| daftykins | o0 | 01:44 |
| davef | But it was Linux | 01:44 |
| penguin42 | dont think I ever actually saw one | 01:44 |
| davef | they were rare | 01:45 |
| davef | I think I got mine from Argos | 01:45 |
| davef | And they didn't sell them for long | 01:46 |
| penguin42 | talking of old stuff; I just stumbled across https://stak.com/Clearance/Bargain?limit=100 | 01:46 |
| penguin42 | it looks like a small PC dealers which has a box of prehistoric crap | 01:47 |
| penguin42 | I mean, zip, jazz, dds, travan catridges, BNC T's, SCSI cabling | 01:47 |
| daftykins | lol wow this is like some old dinosaur listed their collection | 01:47 |
| penguin42 | yeh I mean I've got shelves like that but... | 01:54 |
| daftykins | i've got this client that i implemented a separate backup strategy for, to a pair of USB HDDs on the 1st and 15th of the month | 01:55 |
| daftykins | the other day she responds to the 1st of the month having failed - and refers to them as tapes xD | 01:56 |
| daftykins | i visited and found they don't even plug them in flat inside the network cabinet D: | 01:56 |
| ball | Does that mean I should get rid of my SCSI cable collection? | 01:57 |
| daftykins | depends if you want to strike it rich on ebay :) | 01:58 |
| penguin42 | ball: Is it worse than mine? | 01:58 |
| ball | penguin42: Possibly. | 01:58 |
| ball | daftykins: I've never sold anything on eBay | 01:59 |
| daftykins | ooh | 02:00 |
| daftykins | have some cat pics i had forgotten about: https://imgur.com/a/8D9kOsc | 02:00 |
| ball | That arm's the perfect width for the cat. | 02:01 |
| daftykins | :D | 02:01 |
| daftykins | she's gonna turn 18 soon | 02:01 |
| daftykins | i suppose then i'll have to fight the boys off | 02:01 |
| ball | Wow. | 02:03 |
| daftykins | omw i just spotted ultraviolet reactive rounded floppy cables on that page | 02:04 |
| ball | :-) | 02:04 |
| daftykins | hang on i've got penguin42's address, i'm buying the whole stock and shipping it to him ;) | 02:04 |
| ball | At least it's going to a good home. :-) | 02:06 |
| penguin42 | hmm | 02:06 |
| daftykins | xD | 02:10 |
| * penguin42 doesn't have a Jazz drive though | 02:11 | |
| * ball <- more interested in Ditto and PocketZip than Jazz. | 02:17 | |
| daftykins | he can't leave us like that! | 02:21 |
| ball | H's off to dig through his RS-232 cable bin to make sure no SCSI cables have crept in there. | 02:21 |
| daftykins | :D | 02:23 |
| * ball wanders off | 03:43 | |
| daftykins | it's nearly Monday :O | 22:04 |
| zxmpi | engage silent mode... ::screws in red light bulb after unscrewing white light bulb:: | 22:05 |
| * daftykins unplugs the phones | 22:06 | |
| * zxmpi sets jaffa cakes to manual | 22:06 | |
| ball | I once worked at a university where the student discussion board (running on OpenVMS) included a popular debate on "Jaffa Cakes: Cake or Biscuit?" | 22:33 |
| daftykins | heh | 22:36 |
| ball | I think the eventual conclusion was that they were cakes because they went hard if left over time (sacrelidge) whereas biscuits go soft. | 22:36 |
| * ball goes back to deduping the family photo archive | 22:38 | |
| daftykins | hmm feel like i saw a tech call in show where someone asked if there was software to do that, not sure the answers they gave | 22:41 |
| ball | I think I started out with about 33,000 files. Just 18,476 left to go... | 22:42 |
| ball | Plus probably 1,600 on my wife's phone. | 22:43 |
| ball | Those will need backing up, scaling, deleting and the low-res versions uploading to iPhoto | 22:46 |
| ball | 18,345... | 22:49 |
| daftykins | uploading? iPhoto was an old macOS viewer and library prog to my mind | 22:50 |
| daftykins | how come something isn't in place to back 'em up directly? | 22:51 |
| ball | iPhoto on MacOS seems to be a client for the photos part of iCloud. | 22:51 |
| ball | ...so I use it to pull out a handfull of photos for processing, delete them and upload the low-res versions. | 22:52 |
| ball | Her phone is supposed to automatically back up photos to iCloud but she has something like 8 GB of photos because she forgets to turn off "live images". | 22:52 |
| ball | brb | 22:52 |
| daftykins | it's barely a dollar a month or something for the 50GB tier with crApple, had to bump a client up to the next one of ~200GB the other day due to having too many pics | 22:53 |
| ball | I think that's what she's on now. Thought it was more expensive than that. | 23:10 |
| ball | I like having a local copy anyway. | 23:10 |
| ball | I should put them on a read-only share so that she can see them from her MacBook Air | 23:16 |
| ball | (for ordering prints, sharing online etc.) | 23:16 |
| daftykins | they renamed iPhoto long ago, must be an old model machine stuck on an EOL OS? | 23:17 |
| daftykins | run Nextcloud at home and set it up for auto photo upload :D | 23:17 |
| ball | No, I probably just didn't notice the name change. | 23:17 |
| ball | I would have looked at it but I moved across the room so that I could try Ubuntu in a VM on my own computer. | 23:20 |
| ball | ...and my computer doesn't run MacOS | 23:20 |
| ball | brb | 23:22 |
| daftykins | i keep up with the enemy xD | 23:23 |
| ball | Heh. | 23:38 |
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