[01:07] <davef> Another RMC mailbag.. still no Psion.
[01:25] <ball> Did you send him one to review?
[01:25] <davef> Not me, daftykins .. I think
[01:26] <ball> Ah.
[01:30] <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?
[01:33] <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. 
[01:34] <davef> But then this is an opportunity to go with FTTH
[01:35] <davef> Which means signing up to .. *shivers* dare I say it? ... *cringe* .. Bell.
[01:35] <ball> Yeahno.
[01:36] <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 ;-)
[01:37] <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
[01:38] <daftykins> Psion 3c
[01:38] <ball> I remember those
[01:38] <ball> brb
[01:39] <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
[01:40] <daftykins> i've been meaning to email him and ask just wtf it is
[01:40] <davef> https://i.redd.it/f8vu13p7yxzz.jpg
[01:42] <davef> It has both compact flash and SD card slots
[01:43] <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
[01:44] <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
[01:45] <davef> they were rare
[01:45] <davef> I think I got mine from Argos
[01:46] <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
[01:47] <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
[01:54] <penguin42> yeh I mean I've got shelves like that but...
[01:55] <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
[01:56] <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:
[01:57] <ball> Does that mean I should get rid of my SCSI cable collection?
[01:58] <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.
[01:59] <ball> daftykins: I've never sold anything on eBay
[02:00] <daftykins> ooh
[02:00] <daftykins> have some cat pics i had forgotten about: https://imgur.com/a/8D9kOsc
[02:01] <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
[02:03] <ball> Wow.
[02:04] <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 ;)
[02:06] <ball> At least it's going to a good home. :-)
[02:06] <penguin42> hmm
[02:10] <daftykins> xD
[02:11]  * penguin42 doesn't have a Jazz drive though
[02:17]  * ball <- more interested in Ditto and PocketZip than Jazz.
[02:21] <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.
[02:23] <daftykins> :D
[03:43]  * ball wanders off
[22:04] <daftykins> it's nearly Monday :O
[22:05] <zxmpi> engage silent mode... ::screws in red light bulb after unscrewing white light bulb::
[22:06]  * daftykins unplugs the phones
[22:06]  * zxmpi sets jaffa cakes to manual
[22:33] <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?"
[22:36] <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.
[22:38]  * ball goes back to deduping the family photo archive
[22:41] <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
[22:42] <ball> I think I started out with about 33,000 files.  Just 18,476 left to go...
[22:43] <ball> Plus probably 1,600 on my wife's phone.
[22:46] <ball> Those will need backing up, scaling, deleting and the low-res versions uploading to iPhoto
[22:49] <ball> 18,345...
[22:50] <daftykins> uploading? iPhoto was an old macOS viewer and library prog to my mind
[22:51] <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.
[22:52] <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
[22:53] <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
[23:10] <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.
[23:16] <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.)
[23:17] <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.
[23:20] <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
[23:22] <ball> brb
[23:23] <daftykins> i keep up with the enemy xD
[23:38] <ball> Heh.