[13:13] <daftykins> goooood day gang
[13:14] <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
[13:15] <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
[13:19] <daftykins> lol just got a reply "we had to change subnet because it caused problems for some home workers" d'oy
[13:20] <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
[13:21] <penguin42> and that's why I don't use 192.168.1 at home
[13:23] <zxmpi> all my devices use 127.0.0.1!
[13:23] <penguin42> home, home on the net...
[13:24] <zxmpi> where the dogs and the cat pics roam...
[13:34] <daftykins> :)
[13:35] <penguin42> daftykins: Do you do undercover IT work?
[13:37] <zxmpi> ::raises glasses:: it is i, le daftykins :-P
[13:39] <daftykins> penguin42: does working in bed from my laptop count? ;)
[13:40] <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
[13:42] <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
[13:43] <daftykins> yikes
[13:43] <penguin42> daftykins: And, separately, our GP are switching providers, and said they'd be completely out 18-26th
[13:44] <penguin42> daftykins: so can't reorder prescriptions form them directly or do anything really unless it's urgent/critical
[13:45] <penguin42> daftykins: and note that was supposedly fixed on 26th, but they've not updated their website since to say what to do
[13:46] <daftykins> :(
[13:48] <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
[13:54] <penguin42> for healthcare use, of course
[20:51] <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!
[21:12] <zxmpi> not worth the price to add cheap easy way to transfer files to from?
[21:13] <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
[21:56] <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 :-)
[21:57] <daftykins> their site doesn't even say whereabouts they are though
[21:58] <daftykins> huh might be New Jersey, here's the item anyway - https://www.reactivemicro.com/product/reactivemicro-driveturbo-for-iie-and-iigs/
[21:59] <zxmpi> i wonder if the compact flash drive would be faster than an original apple ii hard drive :-)
[22:00] <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
[22:02] <zxmpi> i wonder if you can still get an ibm microdrive to put in the compact flash socket :-D
[22:03] <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
[22:04] <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
[22:05] <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 
[22:06] <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
[22:07] <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
[22:08] <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
[22:09] <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
[22:10] <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
[22:11] <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
[22:12] <daftykins> mmm, still junk at release :D
[22:13] <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
[23:07]  * penguin42 hates to think what state my pile of machines is in; but I do need to try recapping my alarm clock
[23:08] <penguin42> it has display corruption issues: https://mastodon.org.uk/system/media_attachments/files/108/300/738/145/198/181/original/c6cfec3b50e316d8.mp4
[23:27] <zxmpi> if you leave it as is it would make a great sci fi countdown timer for an alien race :-P
[23:32] <penguin42> hehe
[23:38] <zxmpi> or a way to persecute yourself waking up with a hangover and wondering if you're still too blotto to read numbers :-P