| daftykins | goooood day gang | 13:13 |
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| daftykins | today's comedy IT is brought to you by a client of mine's database provider, who has a new VPN system as of today! | 13:14 |
| zxmpi | grumble grumble sips tea | 13:14 |
| daftykins | sadly, they appear to have chosen the subnet 192.168.1.x for the resources we need to reach at the other end... not a problem for me, but i imagine that will clash with many a home worker | 13:14 |
| daftykins | nevermind that i can't in fact reach said sources yet despite this Fortinet client connecting ok :D | 13:15 |
| zxmpi | so close and yet so far | 13:15 |
| daftykins | lol just got a reply "we had to change subnet because it caused problems for some home workers" d'oy | 13:19 |
| zxmpi | think of all the fun they missed out on trying to create bands within 192.168.1.x for each user and the hardware on their networks :-D | 13:20 |
| penguin42 | and that's why I don't use 192.168.1 at home | 13:21 |
| zxmpi | all my devices use 127.0.0.1! | 13:23 |
| penguin42 | home, home on the net... | 13:23 |
| zxmpi | where the dogs and the cat pics roam... | 13:24 |
| daftykins | :) | 13:34 |
| penguin42 | daftykins: Do you do undercover IT work? | 13:35 |
| zxmpi | ::raises glasses:: it is i, le daftykins :-P | 13:37 |
| daftykins | penguin42: does working in bed from my laptop count? ;) | 13:39 |
| penguin42 | daftykins: Not really, I need you to surreptitously fix all our local healthcare IT since they can't do it themselves | 13:40 |
| daftykins | lol | 13:40 |
| penguin42 | daftykins: All the main hospitals are on critical incident due to broken IT | 13:42 |
| penguin42 | daftykins: https://www.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk/news/nca-news/ongoing-it-issues-affecting-local-hospitals-oldham-bury-rochdale-and-nmgh | 13:42 |
| daftykins | yikes | 13:43 |
| penguin42 | daftykins: And, separately, our GP are switching providers, and said they'd be completely out 18-26th | 13:43 |
| penguin42 | daftykins: so can't reorder prescriptions form them directly or do anything really unless it's urgent/critical | 13:44 |
| penguin42 | daftykins: and note that was supposedly fixed on 26th, but they've not updated their website since to say what to do | 13:45 |
| daftykins | :( | 13:46 |
| daftykins | i bet working in healthcare is an exercise in frustration, tied down by red tape for every action | 13:48 |
| penguin42 | so, I'm happy to buy you the ballaclava | 13:48 |
| zxmpi | is it n95 compatible? :-P | 13:48 |
| penguin42 | for healthcare use, of course | 13:54 |
| daftykins | ooh i hadn't watched RMC's Apple IIe videos yet, he did an interesting job | 20:51 |
| daftykins | the place he got the ComactFlash adapter card from wants $95 USD for it though, ouch! | 20:51 |
| zxmpi | not worth the price to add cheap easy way to transfer files to from? | 21:12 |
| daftykins | just can't see the desire to exchange being that frequent | 21:13 |
| daftykins | vs. £50 for that one-off ROM on ebay from Ireland i linked the other day | 21:13 |
| daftykins | tough call! no idea what shipping would have been on top | 21:13 |
| zxmpi | i remember a lot of roms of that era been shipped in a jiffy bag in normal post stuck on polystyrene strip no expsnse spared :-) | 21:56 |
| daftykins | their site doesn't even say whereabouts they are though | 21:57 |
| daftykins | huh might be New Jersey, here's the item anyway - https://www.reactivemicro.com/product/reactivemicro-driveturbo-for-iie-and-iigs/ | 21:58 |
| zxmpi | i wonder if the compact flash drive would be faster than an original apple ii hard drive :-) | 21:59 |
| daftykins | they claim so! | 22:00 |
| zxmpi | i remember just how slow the hard drives were for amstrad pcs that came later. i think some of the super floppies i used were faster | 22:00 |
| zxmpi | i wonder if you can still get an ibm microdrive to put in the compact flash socket :-D | 22:02 |
| zxmpi | they were a chunky card. i seem to remember some who put them into psions saying it was a one off and unlikely to be able to be removed safely | 22:03 |
| daftykins | ooh-err | 22:03 |
| daftykins | RMC's video is motivating me to do a full PSU re-capping and also a full scrub up of the machine though, that'd be nice | 22:04 |
| daftykins | torn on further investment for the software side, rumour has it my mum threw out all the disks - certainly we can't find any | 22:04 |
| zxmpi | rebuilding an icon | 22:04 |
| zxmpi | likelyhood of disks from that era still readable after cooking and cooling in an attic for a few decades are slim? | 22:05 |
| daftykins | when i did the diagnostic, it did screech pretty concerningly from inside, made me wonder if the caps were straining xD | 22:05 |
| daftykins | well it was well insulated, the 2 in the drive were still reading | 22:05 |
| zxmpi | they really don't build them like they used too | 22:06 |
| daftykins | need to recap the drives as well really, plus lube up the motors like they did on RMC's videos | 22:06 |
| zxmpi | are the new capacitors better quality or are they going to need replacing in a few decades? | 22:07 |
| daftykins | just like all electrolytics, it depends how premium you go | 22:07 |
| daftykins | not sure how long those RIFAs i put in the PSU are meant to last | 22:08 |
| daftykins | might go back to the guy on ebay and ask if he knows | 22:08 |
| zxmpi | just i have heard of folk buying consumer routes and replacing cheap chinese caps with decent ones to give the hardware a longer lifespan | 22:08 |
| zxmpi | *routers | 22:08 |
| daftykins | ah right, well the originals i saw were fancy Nichicon ones | 22:09 |
| zxmpi | mind there are electronic monks who last i heard was rebuilding a commodore 64 they found that all the chips were rusted dead | 22:09 |
| daftykins | hah | 22:09 |
| zxmpi | and this is practice before they touch their amiga :-) | 22:10 |
| daftykins | yeah i don't much see a point to prolonging the life of consumer routers when the firmware is stale the day you buy it | 22:10 |
| zxmpi | i think it's a they hate throwing out hardware they know could still be used otherwise. mostly routers with alternate software running on it | 22:11 |
| daftykins | mmm, still junk at release :D | 22:12 |
| daftykins | well i best be off, late already... seems like all other peeps i'm working with are winding down so i won't have much to do for quite a while :O | 22:13 |
| zxmpi | o/ | 22:13 |
| daftykins | had i prepared better i could have had the caps ready to go on the Apple IIe so i could work on it over the holiday :) | 22:13 |
| daftykins | g'night! ttfn \o | 22:13 |
| * penguin42 hates to think what state my pile of machines is in; but I do need to try recapping my alarm clock | 23:07 | |
| penguin42 | it has display corruption issues: https://mastodon.org.uk/system/media_attachments/files/108/300/738/145/198/181/original/c6cfec3b50e316d8.mp4 | 23:08 |
| zxmpi | if you leave it as is it would make a great sci fi countdown timer for an alien race :-P | 23:27 |
| penguin42 | hehe | 23:32 |
| zxmpi | or a way to persecute yourself waking up with a hangover and wondering if you're still too blotto to read numbers :-P | 23:38 |
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