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 From:  william (WILLIAMA)    14 Apr 2020 13:49 
 To:  koswix      29 of 76 
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My son runs Plex from a Pi 4 now. Works fine, even transcoding on the fly so he can watch stuff on his phone over t'internet. You probably know that the Pi 4 runs very hot, so it's definitely worth getting a decent active cooler . He's got one of these and the Pi seldom goes over 50C even flat out.

This bloke is doing the Pi 4 for £10 less than most places right now and if you're interested in auctions, there's a couple on ebay right now.
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 From:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)   14 Apr 2020 14:19 
 To:  william (WILLIAMA)       30 of 76 
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all my ISA cards, IDE cables, motherboard stand-offs and ancient memory modules in the attic

I've got boxes of the stuff piled on warehouse shelving surrounding me and threatening to collapse in a deadly avalanche.

Still, yesterday while hunting around for an old motherboard driver cd, nearly throwing my back out in the process, I stumbled upon a Yorkshire Penny  :-D

“a man gets struck by lightning and goes “zzzt”, Jason gets shot and dies and the submarine blows up.”
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 From:  ANT_THOMAS   14 Apr 2020 14:33 
 To:  william (WILLIAMA)       31 of 76 
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Think I had a very similar issue with PHP. Had all sorts of hassle trying to downgrade, or upgrade, or not use a certain version. Eventually worked somehow with a lot of checking logs which told me not a lot. And since I went to 16.04 (and not 18.04) I'm still a few years out of date and certain packages aren't available.

Probably would have been better to rebuild from scratch in hindsight. Which will be what I probably do when 16.04 goes end of life. No chance a past 14.04 install, which was a mess moving to 16.04 will survive the bump to 18.04.
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 From:  william (WILLIAMA)    14 Apr 2020 15:29 
 To:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)      32 of 76 
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What's one of them?
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 From:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)   14 Apr 2020 20:17 
 To:  william (WILLIAMA)       33 of 76 
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“a man gets struck by lightning and goes “zzzt”, Jason gets shot and dies and the submarine blows up.”

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 From:  william (WILLIAMA)    14 Apr 2020 20:20 
 To:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)      34 of 76 
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How odd. I wonder what they're associated with. The Yorkshire bank?
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 From:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)   14 Apr 2020 20:25 
 To:  william (WILLIAMA)       35 of 76 
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They're associated with one Steve Manthorp (& Co.).

https://twitter.com/manthorp/status/848447314083676161
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 From:  william (WILLIAMA)    14 Apr 2020 20:34 
 To:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)      36 of 76 
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Messrs Manthorp & Gulzar - how curious
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 From:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)   14 Apr 2020 20:51 
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Update on my lockdown diversion: this morning it would not boot, freezing mid-post, unresponsive to 3-finger salute. Thought I might have done something terrible by impatiently hot-plugging a ps/2 mouse yesterday. (the k9mm-v is usb-finicky).

I decided to try clearing the cmos. Shifting the sound card and some sata cables out of the way, I had just enough room to grasp the jumper (MrsD.'s cosmetic tweezers not up to the job). After it came back to life, I ran updates on Fedora 31, installed xfce desktop to it and turned my ministrations to xp, which was mysteriously ignored by the FC31 grub two -- it's now a subitem in the Windows 7 boot menu, listed as "fucking old windows" or words to that effect. The OS that dares not speak its name.

Where Win7 was running quite snappily yesterday immediately after the install, I found it sluggish, and messed around with the memory cache settings, which seems to have helped. No doubt Win7 wants a lot more ram than xp, but the mb is maxed out at 2G  :-( .

I did a brief trial run of Dead Island Riptide on it. It ran about as well as under xp on this old rig, which is to say not great, but playable. I need better headphones though.
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 From:  william (WILLIAMA)    14 Apr 2020 22:06 
 To:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)      38 of 76 
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Life, and old laptops, are like that sometimes
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 From:  Manthorp   15 Apr 2020 09:27 
 To:  william (WILLIAMA)       39 of 76 
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Still got a handful of them left, too.
"We all have flaws, and mine is being wicked."
James Thurber, The Thirteen Clocks 1951
 
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 From:  koswix   15 Apr 2020 09:53 
 To:  Lucy (X3N0PH0N)      40 of 76 
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Oh well that's better then. Always thought it was odd that the Pi3 added gigabit ethernet onto an already crowded bus.

Kind of stupidly amazing how much processing they've crammed into these ARM SoCs. I mean I'm considering replacing a quad core Xeon tower with something a bit bigger than a credit card >.<

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 From:  koswix   15 Apr 2020 09:58 
 To:  william (WILLIAMA)       41 of 76 
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I'll have a look at that. Still kinda want to resurrect the proper server, but if it's totally dead I'll remove the motherboard etc. and put a Pi4 in an IBM tower case  :'-D 

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 From:  william (WILLIAMA)    15 Apr 2020 12:01 
 To:  Manthorp      42 of 76 
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It all comes back to me now 41886.1
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 From:  william (WILLIAMA)    15 Apr 2020 12:03 
 To:  koswix      43 of 76 
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A proper MAN'S solution. None of this snowflake, nouvelle cuisine, coronavirus-catching, miniature nonsense.
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 From:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)   15 Apr 2020 14:32 
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I've about chalked up the Win7 experiment as a fail, due to 1) jim# likely won't pass activattion in 30-days -- though there's a hack to extend that a couple of times, and 2) the hardware's too sucky for it anyway, certainly for Steam games. Which is, after all, why I built a new one.

So I went back into xp and installed my store-bought dvd of Ghost Recon AW2 and fired that up. It plays pretty well at 1920x1080/medium settings, but could be improved with further tweaks. Game play, graphics etc. hold up pretty well for a 2007 release, plus there's a vast library of mods, including some awesome user-made missions, guns and whatnot. I've got most of it squirrelled away on disk(s), somewhere.

I think this is my best bet for gaming on the old PC.
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 From:  Lucy (X3N0PH0N)   15 Apr 2020 16:24 
 To:  koswix      45 of 76 
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Yeah it's nuts. If I didn't game I could probably get by with one of these things as my main PC these days.
 
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 From:  Serg (NUKKLEAR)   23 Apr 2020 10:01 
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I gave up on fiddling around; took my spare HP Microserver N54L (I have two - don't ask), bunged in two 12TB drives (shucked from WD Elements), a 2TB WD Black that I hadn't been using for ages, added unRAID and Bob's your awkward relative. Does everything fine, on the lookout for the 12TB WD Elements to drop in price again.
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 From:  ANT_THOMAS   23 Apr 2020 10:07 
 To:  Serg (NUKKLEAR)      47 of 76 
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Is unRAID the one that costs? (but is probably worth it?)
How much were the 12TB drives when you got them?
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 From:  william (WILLIAMA)    24 Apr 2020 12:01 
 To:  ANT_THOMAS      48 of 76 
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As an aside, I am falling out of love with ebay again. They seemed to be getting their act together for a few years, but things like removing their email contact addresses and pushing users into their automated routes are reducing my confidence in them. Ordered a Pi 4 cooler. It arrived very late (OK lets say that was the Covid 19 effect even though it wasn't actually posted until after the due-by date) and was a completely different model and type to what I ordered. So I started a return process. Great - it generates a reply paid label, But I noticed that there was a name and a street, but no house number. So I think maybe it's a well known business premises, or a tiny street without numbers. It certainly looked like somebody's name rather than a business name, so I checked on Google Streetview. It's a very long suburban road with, as far as I can see, no business premises at all. 

Back to ebay. Well, here I find that with a return in progress, the only option is to sent a note to the seller - no way of contacting ebay. So I do that. I say, I'm doing a return - is this  address on the label right or should there be a house number?

Fabulous. The seller replies completely ignoring my question. Send me a photo of what you received. I'll sort it out - only less articulate than that. 

By now, I don't want it "sorted out". I want a refund as I'm entitled to because I've bought a cheaper replacement that arrives tomorrow. I don't want to wait another month for a replacement I no longer need. I just want to know his house number - or that the address is correct.

And all of this would have been avoided if only ebay was reachable.
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