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Bob’s about, operation was successful, big one next week.
Already there mate, we’ve been trying for years. Holding off “I told you so” as we warned her she’d probably end up in hospital. She’s not even an alcohol / drug fiend, her diet and weird time keeping are that bad.
Well that’s a lot bigger than I thought it would be. Size of that heatsink!
Looks like it’s got decent WiFi but my old argument is it just needs to be quicker than your ISP. Connectivity and coverage will be helped by the decent antenna but your Access Point is the important part of that relationship. WiFi 6 routers are getting more common / cheaper but don’t have XDsl modems. An £80 DrayTek Vigor 130 sorts that bit out, basically transparently turning XDsl into Ethernet.
I’m not sure about SSD RAID, as I understand it it’s a customised PCIe 4.0 alike using NVMe. Commercial PCIe 3.o x4 NVMe can hit 3.5Gbps (AData XPG series that I use) and if I’ve read it right PCIe 4 x4 is capable of 7Gbps. So 5.5Gbps of the PS5 can be easily achieved without RAID. I believe it’s the tight integration with the GDDR5 that is the special sauce for games and something to do with the 12 channels of the custom controller. The odd 835GB storage amount is down to the 12 channels apparently, but thanks to the fact that duplication can be a thing of the past, games storage will be much more efficient.
An impressive box though and from what I’ve read will revolutionise the way that games are developed due to that SSD / GDDR relationship. No more load screen waits and the ability to load GBs of textures in the time it takes to make your character do a 180. This is not just a speed boost update, it’s a total rethink of the whole gaming system.
Daughter back home after MRI scan showed stones are not lodged anywhere nasty, day surgery next week to have gall bladder removed. Drastic change of lifestyle and diet, long overdue, are on the cards.
Looking on FB it seems Bob is out of surgery but I’m not sure. Will keep an eye out.
She’s had an MRI scan, just waiting for the results. Looking less like a Simpson according to the Mrs – only 1 nominated person per day can visit and she needs her mum more than me. WatsApp for me and her bros / mates. She’ll be fine, I’m glad it’s come to a head as the GP has been useless.
Had a bit of a chat with Bob earlier:
Me: “If I’ve read it right you have an op tomorrow? All the best from everyone and see you when you’re back.”
Bob: “Yes the first of two. It’s really a rearrangement of stomas under anaesthetic. They are trying to find a way to reduce stomas to two. I have been complaining for days about pain down there. All I got was a quick look and “back in a bit” which never happened. Then a bag fell off an older, senior nurse gave everyone in sight a b********g before finding the problem, cleaning me thoroughly and getting a doc to stitch up the area where the leak came from. I am honestly exasperated with some of the nurses here. I have used the call button and waited 2 hours for a response. The contrast with my previous stay here in 2018, is marked. Thanks for the messages Dave, sometimes I am too ill to reply.”
I’ll keep an eye out, when he’s posting on FB again I’ll message. Might be a while.
It was part of my job 25 years+ ago as Regional Computer Manager (a brand new post for a new world) to stamp on this practice. Poacher turned Gamekeeper :whistle: but now we were moving from cheerful amateurs in (mostly) Finance to a PC on a third of desks in the new Regional Office. Within 3 years that was 100% as I believed in handing power to end users.
Things can soon move from a quick and dirty spreadsheet having VBA added to it to a line of business app if you didn’t watch out. It didn’t take long to know who would be likely to produce such things but rather than banning them (a useless activity) I encouraged them to tidy them up then I would submit the idea to be properly scoped and costed. Most gave up when faced with the rigours of even commentating their code, never mind documentation, but we did get one gem out of it.
In this case it looks like it was a quick lowest common denominator job; output CSV, load list into Excel. Probably automated so that it could be done quickly and had errors suppressed so that the warning of excess lines was never seen.
Clearly not even any sanity checking i.e. how many lines in in total, how many lines out in total. For that the developers of that bit must take the rap. Blaming it on the file format is no excuse, that should have been checked out before going into production.
I don’t know about you, but I thought this would all be done with a proper SQL database system. It seems not. CSV still keeps the world going round for data transfer but Excel as a production system? WTF?
The whole thing smacks of quick and dirty done on the cheap with real developers doing a CYA in the background. Big £££s to
the friends of the PMthe directors of the private companies hired though. I expect they will get a bonus out of it somehow too.The civil service are of course getting the blame but I’ll bet a proper enquiry would find a big CYA exercise there too when they saw what was coming. They are masters at it as they are an easy target for incompetent ministers.
I’ve messaged Bob.
Having our own mini crisis here, daughter has had on off “tummy trouble” for years. Things came to a head on Sunday and after a call to 111 they sent an ambulance. Admitted to Southmead Hospital for further investigation of A&E’s gall bladder and liver blood tests. Turns out it’s gallstones but it looks like some have escaped and they’re going to try and find them. She’s OK but in a lot of pain when the drugs wear off, nothing life threatening but turning everything upside down with worried grandparents etc.
Bob’s a bit down at the moment. Looks like the next op is on Wednesday to join some of his bowel back up, problem is the surgeon is openly musing in front of him about how tricky it’s going to be and he’s not sure how he’s going to do it.
I said to Bob its the sort of thing I do in front of customers when faced with a tricky situation. It drives my business partner wild (he’s the salesman type) and as he says you always find a way so why mention any issues? I think it’s actually a positive sign that the surgeon is going in with a proper plan and not just winging it (which is what my business partner does).
Any of you who have had a long hospital stay will know this is about the time you start a bit of despair and can’t see it ending, especially when there’s a big unknown coming around the corner and months ahead of recuperation. He’s feeling that there’s not much of Bob left, but I reminded him that “Bob” isn’t the mechanical bits he’s much more than that.
I will get back in touch with him on Tuesday, if not before, and wish him all the best. If any of you are on FB send him a friend request I’m sure he’ll be glad of it.
Wow, 100% more CPU power than the Z8350. I’m sure I’ve seen some laptops based on the N4100.
What’s the £?
It looks like the super spreading event was days ago, so he may be a lot further along than we think.
Apparently he wasn’t tested at the debate as he arrived late and was trusted under an honour system. His entourage kept to the rules to get in then blatantly ignored them when seated. Hopefully this is now coming across as the arrogance it was, I notice there’s a lot more mask wearing in public. The inner circle seem to be dropping like flies.
His pre debate meetings were held in a small room with no one wearing masks as he found it a personal insult. People still say the White House may be secure against weapons but it’s trivially easy to get through with a biological timebomb. You have to feel for the staff.
His supporters are just in total denial. Of course he isn’t going to get really ill, he has no co-morbidities and he’s not that old. FFS
That’s what they’re hoping then they can continue to shrug it off totally ignoring the death toll. But then the White House isn’t a trustworthy news source so we will probably never know unless he actually pops his clogs. Remember the spin around BoJo until he got admitted to hospital when it could no longer be denied how bad he was?
I did that with my old Digital Ocean OpenVPN server, works just fine.
Hoorah.
It was Drehza who first dipped his toe in the PiHole waters. I can’t stand being on a non filtered network now.
Nope, can’t think of anything practical.
Bob posted this on FB today.
Open C++ book.
Read first paragraph.
Goto End.
Close book.
Lie down in darkened room.
Not much! Bits and pieces here and there, no big money earning jobs.
I’ve got pulled into a project to get a church live streaming, an old colleague on the Carrier project helps out in the parish office. Problem is they only have an adsl line and even though it’s a suburb of Bristol, nowhere near as far out as me, there’s no FTTC and the 4G signal is pants. We’re hoping that Virgin can come up with something as they do have a presence in the local streets.
I have a $5 a month Digital Ocean OpenVPN server based on Ubuntu 18.04. I used to roll my own but you can now get one totally off the shelf in their marketplace. The OpenVPN server is free for two users and whilst roll your own doesn’t have any restrictions the proper commercial OpenVPN server takes the pain of user authentication files away. Just log into the server as the user with a browser and download a fully configured client, job done.
The $5 is for a single CPU 1Gb / 25GB SSD with 1TB of traffic per month and a fixed IP address, should be fine for most people. The only command line action required is an SSH log into the server (could be done with the DO console) and type “passwd openvpn” to set a password for your Access Server. After that it’s all through your browser as url/admin to do some user admin or url/user to get your client.
My server is in Telehouse London, but they have data centres all over the world. Less likely to attract attention than one of the commercial ones. With DO you only pay for the time you use your server, so if you decide after a day or two it’s not for you that’s all you pay for. I spin up and destroy Ubuntu servers for experimenting, it’s quicker than creating my own VM – literally 2 minutes – and costs next to nothing.
To get around some online banking issues via 4G (bloody Nat West) I needed to get the customer a VPN service in a hurry. 10 minutes later the server is created and the client installed and Nat West and customer happy.
I should mention the diagnostics are only for 4TB and larger. I see E-Buyer are putting SMR or CMR in their WD Red descriptions now.
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