[12:50] <penguin42> right, cc's paid, meters read; I can go back to sleep for a month
[13:58] <zxmpi> see you in june o/
[15:38] <daftykins> :D
[16:26] <daftykins> https://youtu.be/ljjWeHmeVE8 - chanced upon this
[16:27] <penguin42> oh heck that guy, someone else pointed me at him
[16:29] <daftykins> seems to have a pretty amusing shtick, by chance that's right by Exeter where my pal lives too
[16:32] <zxmpi> i have to admit i'm suprised by the number of people i have seeing playing the piano in connolly train station in dublin. wouldn't have thought piano skills were still as much in vogue
[16:34] <daftykins> all ages too?
[16:34] <zxmpi> yup
[16:37] <daftykins> must have gone underground :D
[16:40] <daftykins> wow the second one i looked at is near another friend up in Worcester
[16:49] <daftykins> so here's what's in my future - https://i.imgur.com/svxgwrh.jpg
[16:49] <davef> I spy emergency coffee on standby
[16:49] <daftykins> heh i think the electrician left that there
[16:50] <daftykins> i called in help to trace down 5 of them that are totally unknown, can see from his note that he hasn't found them either
[16:50] <daftykins> the telephone DP is totally unlabelled too, although i see he very helpfully ripped off the label tops (why do people make things worse?)
[16:51] <penguin42> daftykins: What's that thing on the right?
[16:51] <daftykins> the box on the wall? a fibre patch panel - there's this car port right at the end of a long garden, so we had a contractor run fibre down there - £3k it cost
[16:52] <daftykins> some of the gear will go down there like NAS, home server, etc
[16:53] <daftykins> i've not touched fibre before so i'm having a lot of fun, here's the test setup - https://i.imgur.com/OgHGkph.jpg
[16:53] <penguin42> not seen those fibre connectors before
[16:53] <daftykins> the type? 'LC' so i've learnt
[16:53] <daftykins> grabbed the transceivers from fs.com for about £9 each
[16:54] <daftykins> so funny how official ones are £75+
[16:55] <penguin42> oh those things, yeh
[16:55] <daftykins> SFP modules
[16:56] <daftykins> we did retrieve one of the earlier PCengines APU1 AMD embedded pfSense machines with 3 NICs from Spain when he sold that, so i could set that up for the new place and get it all prepared, just have a totally flat network at the moment but i think some segmentation would be nice at the new place
[16:57] <penguin42> nod
[16:57] <penguin42> long long time since I did any fibre stuff
[16:57] <daftykins> weirdly our incumbent has totally forgotten about their 5G trial equipment seemingly, so we still have that - though they appear to have capped the service to 60/60 Mb now - download was hitting over 350 Mb originally
[16:58]  * zxmpi sends penguin42 a bushel of bran muffins :-P
[16:58]  * penguin42 farts
[16:58] <daftykins> hehe, i was half expecting that it would be like SPDIF TOSlink cables, that i could see a light shining out the end before plugging it in - but i just see nothing at all
[16:58] <penguin42> daftykins: Be careful depending which you have
[16:58] <daftykins> oh yeah i wasn't going to eyeball it regardless
[16:59] <penguin42> daftykins: Some are IR, so you can't see it, some are a bit high power so can be dangerous but theoretically are protected
[16:59] <daftykins> hmm maybe i should have waved the phone camera over an end, i think they say IR shows up on those
[17:00] <zxmpi> here's something to make you feel old :-) https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/ufdcs5/anyone_know_what_type_of_port_this_is_i_was/
[17:00] <davef> lol.. old school RJ11
[17:01] <daftykins> hah
[17:08] <davef> kids these days
[17:09] <daftykins> i had a meeting with one of these dentists the other day to talk about their telephony options, he didn't even recognise one of the 3 numbers they've been paying for for who knows how long
[17:09] <davef> but none of them know what a 10base5 vampire tap is.
[17:09] <davef> *bet
[17:09] <daftykins> amazes me when folks in business aren't just casting an eye over their bills once in a while and making sure they're not wasting money
[17:10] <penguin42> what happens if you called it?
[17:10] <zxmpi> it's an ancient scam to send bills to random companies and they will be paid. was done in 19th century aiui and was used against google successfully
[17:10] <daftykins> well i noticed years ago that you'll get a ring even when one is fully disconnected now, whereas back in the day there had to be a phone/device to ring, so it wouldn't teach anything
[17:11]  * penguin42 has had the opposite, not paying for something you're using for years and dont get cut off and rack up a massive bill
[17:11] <penguin42> because the bill was sent to the wrong place or never sent
[17:11] <daftykins> ouch
[17:12] <daftykins> the other weird thing i don't even know the term for - but their main line has 2 circuits(?) so they're paying double line rental on it, but i can see no evidence of there being any usefulness to this
[17:12] <daftykins> the guy seemed to think in time they might have >1 receptionist, but for now another handset just keeps ringing off to her side and annoys her xD
[17:12]  * penguin42 found out we were only paying for one of the 6 electric meters at the company (one phase of 2 3 phase taps); the others had been addressed to 'Nth Rsr'  which the landlord hadn't realised meant the North Riser
[17:13] <penguin42> took us months to convince the electric company what was going on, and we were drawing loads and it would wrap pretty regularly
[17:13] <daftykins> wow
[17:15] <daftykins> argh cat walked up to me and started sipping from my glass of water again... stealthy little blighter
[17:16] <zxmpi> trying to get the taste of licking their arse fur out of their mouth :-P
[17:17] <daftykins> could well be it
[17:17] <daftykins> she's started doing these funny things in her old age, she'll be 18 late this month
[17:18] <zxmpi> dodgy kidneys are a thing in older cats. they drink a lot more water
[17:19] <daftykins> yeah she's been checked, just seems to be a preference of hers so far
[17:24] <daftykins> "Dad's water is better than mine" ;)
[17:26] <zxmpi> if i'm not allowed any it must be better - every cat everywhen
[17:31] <daftykins> hehe
[17:31] <zxmpi> right time for daily walk o/
[17:32] <daftykins> enjoy!
[17:35] <daftykins> hmm maybe i should do the same whilst there's still some light
[17:35] <daftykins> spend far too much time indoors
[19:40] <davef> Ugh, paged again. I've managed to rack up 13hrs of on-call this weekend.
[19:41] <davef> Did I say 13? .. nope.. that's just in the last 24hrs.. 20.25hrs racked up so far
[19:42] <daftykins> :O
[19:43] <daftykins> that much on fire?
[19:43] <davef> We're a company of 20,000 people
[19:43] <daftykins> aaah nice town walk, recycling taken and cat litter picked up \o/
[19:43] <daftykins> that's almost 1/3rd of Guernsey's population xD
[19:43] <davef> And I'm only one person making sure the source control servers don't shit themselves over the weekend
[19:44] <davef> The dev teams run a lot of their builds over the weekend, resulting in several TB of rotating data every hour and gotta keep disk space utilization in check. 
[19:45] <daftykins> ah damn
[19:45] <davef> One of our big commit instances paused because the logfiles volume was maxed out, and that has a cascade effect causing all edge and proxies attached to it to stop responding. Fun times.
[19:46] <daftykins> what happened to the alerts!
[19:46] <davef> I get the alerts sent to me
[19:47] <davef> Anyway, I increased the log space and kicked the log rotation from every 12hrs to 6
[19:47] <davef> That should save me from being called again today
[19:47] <davef> I've rotated the logs at least 3 times in the past 48hrs
[19:48] <daftykins> :D
[19:49] <davef> It's all money in the bank
[19:49] <davef> And I do the on-call every 9 weeks
[19:50] <daftykins> ah that's not so bad a frequency then
[19:50] <daftykins> i'm not used to having so many projects on in parallel across different clients, so my mind has seemingly been rebelling and just can't stand others little emergencies of late
[19:51] <daftykins> clients i've had for a long time know better than to call in the morning, but one tried to bug me for his M365 2FA token the other day at 9am, not knowing where it was stored
[20:16] <davef> And there we go, just like penguin42 -- my bills also paid for another month
[20:17] <daftykins> \o/
[20:17] <davef> Plus some extra to the other account, gotta pay for the first months rent on the new place this month for June. I move in approx 4 weeks.
[20:17] <daftykins> hmm think i still have some chores to do this eve
[20:17] <daftykins> ooh yeah i was just then wondering how long was left
[20:18] <davef> All chores are done, except the cat litter box. I usually do that before going to bed.
[20:18] <daftykins> mmm i need to handle another o' that, then sort the rubbish to take down the end of my lane 
[20:18] <daftykins> i can't do it early anymore as she seems to hang around the bag by the front door, sniffing it - and i fear she'll slice it open with a claw
[20:19] <davef> I quite literately leave the shittiest task 'till last 
[20:19] <daftykins> :D
[20:19] <davef> I think I might invest in one of them automatic litter boxes, or at least get the one you roll over to scoop it out.
[20:21] <daftykins> i figure anything expensive or mechanised would be snubbed hah, my little lady is decidedly low-tech
[20:21] <daftykins> "ooh a shoelace? gimme!"
[20:22] <davef> thinking about it, the mechanical one wouldn't be used. he's not so keen on anything that moves by itself or makes buzzing/whrrring noises.
[20:22] <daftykins> yeah can take a while to adjust
[20:22] <davef> it took him a couple months to get used to my roomba
[20:23] <daftykins> similarly i have one of those electronic cat flaps keyed to her implanted chip, she didn't trust the big loud click for a while from it unlocking
[20:23] <daftykins> hehe, a friend still uses his to scare his kids into bedtime
[21:09] <davef> Ugh, only 3 more hours of on-call.
[21:10] <zxmpi> time to put on seven samurai :-P
[21:10] <daftykins> i really enjoyed the kind of 'comeback' of that serial killer series, "Dexter" recently, wonder if the novels are any good - just found a copy of the first one at the local library
[21:11] <daftykins> all 8 are on ebay for £10 - £20, but postage could be a gamble
[23:22] <davef> Counting down the mins.. 38 to go
[23:23] <daftykins> oops and i still haven't cooked