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