The good morning thread

[Felonious Crud]

Good luck to Mrs French, Phil. Well done on getting her doing the work while you flop around at home. Like those Columbian farmers, the men sit around on the hills chewing coca leaves while the women toil in the fields and home. Smart chaps. Mind you, coca leaves never did much for me. Tingley tongue is about the extent of it. Come to think of it, toiling never did much for Mrs Crud. Yet more proof that the only thing Columbian is this house is the coffee. And some troublesome customers, but that's a different matter entirely.

Oh, morning. Sunshine. Working from garden. Nice.

 

[MarkMas]

Morning all. It's going to be scorchio here today!

 

[2b1ask1]

Morning all, another day of admin and stuff at home.

Have fun all…

 

[GeoffCapes]

Morning all. In the office knackered after arranging a meeting for this afternoon with some chaps in Brazil.

They forget that they are 5 hours ahead and think it's perfectly acceptable for me to be arranging a meeting at 20 past midnight last night. Then Joseph comes in at 5am full of the joys of summer!

Gonna be a long day......

 

[2b1ask1]

Well I spent a bag on PC parts yesterday as my old 2013 build is/was chugging to a halt so decided it was time to upgrade. Duly arrived at 08.30 and Alex set about assembling it. Have only moved over the WiFi PCI card, water cooler and graphics card and have ventured into a 256gb SSD and an 8tb HDD, 32gb RAM and many cores on the processor running at 4.2ghz or something like that.

I have to say the migration of my Windows 10 and Office 365 was a doddle I’m gust starting to transfer many years of data though!

when this is all resolved the next investment will be in a NAS and armoured cabling to the garage. I figure if the house burns down the garage is unlikely to on the same day anyway. Also we can use the NAS for some state of the art cameras around the gaff.

 

[CatmanV2]

when this is all resolved the next investment will be in a NAS and armoured cabling to the garage. I figure if the house burns down the garage is unlikely to on the same day anyway. Also we can use the NAS for some state of the art cameras around the gaff.

How cold and what sort of temperature swings does your garage have?

C

 

[MrPea]

Morning rabble!
Some stuff today, followed by some other stuff. Maybe that'll include a ride on my old road bike now she's back up and running. I certainly hope that a bit of poets will be included.
HapPea Friday! xXx

 

[Andyk]

Good morning Mr Pea, morning all. Here comes the sun then…

 

[CatmanV2]

Morning, all. That London today. Waiting for this promised heatwave.

Have a great one, all

C

 

[philw696]

Good Morning Guys.
Beautiful morning here and loads to do.
Sad to see the devistation in Germany Belgium and the Netherlands.
Certainly don't want an electric vehicle with climate change.
Stay Safe all.

 

[zagatoes30]

Morning all, a bit jaded after an impromptu BBQ last night, there is something about sitting watching the sun going down with beer, wine and some freshly cooked BBQ food.

So good we might even do it again tonight

 

[2b1ask1]

How cold and what sort of temperature swings does your garage have?

C

Block built with a tiled roof but not heated; do you think this should be a consideration then Chris?

I don’t think it is overly extreme though, maybe - a few degrees to + 40 in the loft area.

Morning all, finishing the migration onto the new machine first then catching up with reports and quotes.

Have fun all…

 

[Felonious Crud]

Morning, all. Yes, the flooding in Germany, Belgium and so on is awful. The weather really is a bit bolloxed lately.

Yesterday I embarked on a heroic mission to repair a very leaky tail light. It involved an oven, lots of bad language, blood, head scratching and more bad language. A replacement will be delivered later today by a neighbour who happens to run my preferred local Aston dealership. That's not to say I've given up, I'm just accepting that the original part may never be quite the same again.

In other news, Friday, early finish and much to do before that. Best get cracking.

 

[conaero]

Morning.

if this heatwave thing is coming I may schedule an AC test at the workshop

 

[Oneball]

Morning all, going to work in flip flops today.

Morning, all. Yes, the flooding in Germany, Belgium and so on is awful. The weather really is a bit bolloxed lately.

Yesterday I embarked on a heroic mission to repair a very leaky tail light. It involved an oven, lots of bad language, blood, head scratching and more bad language. A replacement will be delivered later today by a neighbour who happens to run my preferred local Aston dealership. That's not to say I've given up, I'm just accepting that the original part may never be quite the same again.

In other news, Friday, early finish and much to do before that. Best get cracking.

Did you not get it warm enough, put it on something insulating rather than the grids and turn the heat up a little.

 

[CatmanV2]

Block built with a tiled roof but not heated; do you think this should be a consideration then Chris?

I don’t think it is overly extreme though, maybe - a few degrees to + 40 in the loft area.

Yeah, temperature swings are not great. Plus you run the risk of condensation on the circuits. SSDs would be bit of a better bet as they won't spin down (although you can normally stop that) but will be more costly.
Also fans dragging in dusty air all the time.

In short, and in the absence of other technical input, I wouldn't. It'll work but I would expect for a far shorter period of time than in a relatively stable environment. That may not be a concern given you'll have your master on the new PC, but your DVR stuff won't be.

Incremental backups to the cloud are probably what you want to be doing (as long as you've got nothing to worry about, and how likely is that?) or find a pal that can host another device for you and put a private cloud on that (perhaps reciprocate)

It is a challenge for sure.

C

 

[GeoffCapes]

Morning all. Office again for more of the usual.

Call to Brazil early this afternoon and then maybe one to Chile and then I'm off for the weekend.
BBQ for us tonight as well. And maybe a beer or two!

 

[2b1ask1]

Yeah, temperature swings are not great. Plus you run the risk of condensation on the circuits. SSDs would be bit of a better bet as they won't spin down (although you can normally stop that) but will be more costly.
Also fans dragging in dusty air all the time.

In short, and in the absence of other technical input, I wouldn't. It'll work but I would expect for a far shorter period of time than in a relatively stable environment. That may not be a concern given you'll have your master on the new PC, but your DVR stuff won't be.

Incremental backups to the cloud are probably what you want to be doing (as long as you've got nothing to worry about, and how likely is that?) or find a pal that can host another device for you and put a private cloud on that (perhaps reciprocate)

It is a challenge for sure.

C

Cheers Chris, I’m not too bothered by shortening disk life too much. I very aware however that not having a remote backup is just not good practice. As we are intending to move in a couple of years time it should only be a short term fix.

Anyway I’ve spent two hours so far today talking to a lovely Phillipino gal from Microsoft 365 support to establish my ‘lost diary’ is not on the cloud or anywhere else but on the old PC! As the inbox is around 16gb I’ve just cobbled the machine back together enough to fire it up and export it… just needs to keep working for a couple of hours!

 

[Felonious Crud]

Did you not get it warm enough, put it on something insulating rather than the grids and turn the heat up a little.

It's a fine line, Mr Ball. I think the heat was ok but the unit cooled down fast, so it was a bit of a heat, swear and repeat cycle. Also, some of the plastic on the unit is very brittle. And thin. Including the clips. Bad combination. Also, the outer part is very curved but straightens out either in the heat or as it cools, so getting it back together again could be as fraught as separating the two halves in the first place. My third issue was that the clear plastic has somehow gone cloudy during the process, quite different from its neighbour on the other side of the car.

It is now a project tail light.

PS - I forgot, the lens also warped. Odd as it was only in at 100C and only for 10 mins, which is the 'recommended' time and temp.

 

[CatmanV2]

Cheers Chris, I’m not too bothered by shortening disk life too much

Just be aware you'll likely not get a huge amount of warning, but a decent RAID should see you through

C