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Post by Chris53 on Jul 18, 2016 12:10:37 GMT
My broadband connection started playing up a few days ago. I can get online at random times for about 15 minutes before the connection drops. It's been difficult trying to order stuff and look at my favourite donkey porn sites the past few days, and it's one of the reasons I haven't been here much. Engineer is calling tomorrow so I hope it gets fixed then.
I am biting the bullet and replacing my 5 and a bit year old computer that is just getting worse and worse at doing what I want. I think it's underpowered for my current needs so a new one is being built for me by Novatech in Porchester near where I live. I hope to have that up and running at the end of this week with any luck.
Anyone else about to upgrade any computer gear?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2016 15:13:56 GMT
My broadband connection started playing up a few days ago. I can get online at random times for about 15 minutes before the connection drops. It's been difficult trying to order stuff and look at my favourite donkey porn sites the past few days, and it's one of the reasons I haven't been here much. Engineer is calling tomorrow so I hope it gets fixed then. I am biting the bullet and replacing my 5 and a bit year old computer that is just getting worse and worse at doing what I want. I think it's underpowered for my current needs so a new one is being built for me by Novatech in Porchester near where I live. I hope to have that up and running at the end of this week with any luck. Anyone else about to upgrade any computer gear? I use a Macbook to upload/download to Internet. I browse with the iPad. Real work gets done with a Windows XP machine, mostly in DOS. That machine does not connect to anything except my backup drives.
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Post by Chris53 on Jul 18, 2016 20:48:09 GMT
My broadband connection started playing up a few days ago. I can get online at random times for about 15 minutes before the connection drops. It's been difficult trying to order stuff and look at my favourite donkey porn sites the past few days, and it's one of the reasons I haven't been here much. Engineer is calling tomorrow so I hope it gets fixed then. I am biting the bullet and replacing my 5 and a bit year old computer that is just getting worse and worse at doing what I want. I think it's underpowered for my current needs so a new one is being built for me by Novatech in Porchester near where I live. I hope to have that up and running at the end of this week with any luck. Anyone else about to upgrade any computer gear? I use a Macbook to upload/download to Internet. I browse with the iPad. Real work gets done with a Windows XP machine, mostly in DOS. That machine does not connect to anything except my backup drives. Wow Dale, what kind of DOS work do you do?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2016 0:33:44 GMT
I use a Macbook to upload/download to Internet. I browse with the iPad. Real work gets done with a Windows XP machine, mostly in DOS. That machine does not connect to anything except my backup drives. Wow Dale, what kind of DOS work do you do? I have about 200 utility programs that automate a lot of tasks. For one example, I can left-justify or right-justify all lines in a text file with one command, sort the lines in a file by up to 10 columns at once, insert, move and remove columns, search any collection of text files and return the results column-aligned for sorting, and many, many other things. I have a database compare utility that works with Pervasive SQL to return all differences between two databases in a set of text files, one for each database table. My encryption utility is far more secure than PGP etc., and it's open source in several languages. And so much more - text indexing (dictionary stuff), ..... I use a lot of that now because I can find and organize things far more quickly than people do with conventional tools. My website has all of that in several large zip files - database, utilities, encryption, and text management/indexing. If someone wanted to learn what's possible in programming, maintaining the same code in several languages, creating a true OOP code base that's not bound to a proprietary set of rules, etc. - I have that. But all of that is just one corner of my website. DOS is a command executor, so it inherently provides automation. A series of batch files and any number of command executables makes up a very efficient and secure computer system.
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Post by PinkFloyd on Jul 19, 2016 20:20:43 GMT
Bloody hell Dale, you lost me in the first sentence Chris, I did "upgrade" to a new machine and ending up selling it within a month and going back to my original computer. My original one, the one I am using now, has one fan, does everything it need to do "with ease", boots up in under 20 seconds (SSD drive) and is an absolute pleasure. The new one, my friend put it together, was a BEAST of a thing with 7 fans, water cooled processor.... the works. From day one it drove me MAD with all the fans whizzing and "revving up" at times, it was like sitting next to a fan heater on turbo mode! It was, apparently, fast and had tons of memory but the reality was..... it took longer to boot up, it was noisy, it sucked in dust like a hoover and blew out too much heat. I was seriously glad to see the back of it, sold it back to my friend for the price I had paid for it so no damage done in that department. Unless you are running a NASA server or into "gaming" you don't need anything like that. What are the specs of the new one you are getting? Best regards Mike. Dale, without appearing to be nosy, why are you working in DOS? top secret stuff?
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Post by PinkFloyd on Jul 19, 2016 20:25:34 GMT
I don't understand a word of that mate and do I need to understand it to access my e-mails?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2016 0:08:36 GMT
Bloody hell Dale, you lost me in the first sentence Without appearing to be nosy, why are you working in DOS? top secret stuff? Umm, I can neither confirm nor deny. But I can offer an important business principle: "There are an abundance of computer business tools/software on the market. Those persons and companies who select their tools carefully and test them thoroughly will have a serious business advantage over those who are not as careful and thorough. But -- those who write or compose/customize at least some of their tools will have an even bigger business advantage - overwhelming in some cases." But then, you already know the principle from your own work.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2016 0:12:52 GMT
I don't understand a word of that mate and do I need to understand it to access my e-mails? Reading and rerouting emails can be time-consuming, but finding what you need when you need it can be prohibitive in time required. So it really gets down to deciding how much time to spend organizing your data for later retrieval, and whether a given amount of time organizing pays for itself in the long run. In my case, it probably doesn't pay really, but I have found that having a wealth of data organized for immediate retrieval has been gratifying a lot of times.
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Post by Chris53 on Jul 20, 2016 8:51:19 GMT
Bloody hell Dale, you lost me in the first sentence Chris, I did "upgrade" to a new machine and ending up selling it within a month and going back to my original computer. My original one, the one I am using now, has one fan, does everything it need to do "with ease", boots up in under 20 seconds (SSD drive) and is an absolute pleasure. The new one, my friend put it together, was a BEAST of a thing with 7 fans, water cooled processor.... the works. From day one it drove me MAD with all the fans whizzing and "revving up" at times, it was like sitting next to a fan heater on turbo mode! It was, apparently, fast and had tons of memory but the reality was..... it took longer to boot up, it was noisy, it sucked in dust like a hoover and blew out too much heat. I was seriously glad to see the back of it, sold it back to my friend for the price I had paid for it so no damage done in that department. Unless you are running a NASA server or into "gaming" you don't need anything like that. What are the specs of the new one you are getting? Best regards Mike. Dale, without appearing to be nosy, why are you working in DOS? top secret stuff? Picked up the new one yesterday, just the one virtually silent fan in this one Mike. It's a quad core i5, 3.2GHz with 8GB Ram & a simple 1GB graphic card. It's so much better than the computer I had before but I am having some fun with some of my old apps, as this is 64 bit against the old machine's 32 bit. Still have the Internet woes here despite a visit from an Openreach engineer yesterday I've forgotten most of what I ever new about DOS. I don't like the horrible search thing that comes with Windows so I use a little fast search app called "Everything".
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Post by PinkFloyd on Jul 20, 2016 10:17:33 GMT
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Post by Chris53 on Jul 20, 2016 12:50:41 GMT
Mine has been like this since last Thursday. I see they fixed the problem reported about. Mine is still intermittent though.
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Post by PinkFloyd on Jul 20, 2016 21:40:57 GMT
Mine has been like this since last Thursday. I see they fixed the problem reported about. Mine is still intermittent though. It will be a high resistance fault Chris..... does your house have overhead lines feeding it? If so, it's a definite high resistance problem and BT need to renew the line that is feeding your house. Mike.
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Post by PinkFloyd on Jul 20, 2016 21:45:51 GMT
e-mail Gavin Paterson direct: gavin.e.patterson@bt.com he is the chairman of BT.
I e-mailed him two years ago and there was an engineer up on a pole the following day (I shit you not!):
Check out the e-mail I am about to send you for proof!
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Post by Chris53 on Jul 21, 2016 9:29:24 GMT
e-mail Gavin Paterson direct: gavin.e.patterson@bt.com he is the chairman of BT. I e-mailed him two years ago and there was an engineer up on a pole the following day (I shit you not!): Check out the e-mail I am about to send you for proof! Love the email Mike. Cabling here is all underground and they said that a card carrying up to 100 connections was "probably" at fault. Swapped to another card, worked fine while enginner was here (but then it worked fine between dropouts anyway), soon after he went it was back to dropping out. A Transmission Engineer was called out overnight (as the problem was too technical for an Openreach engineer), and he "reseated" the card. My guess is that means 'took it out and put it back in again'. No change here. Another engineer is due Monday. One problem I have is that I am with Sky but of course it's Openreach who maintain the network. I keep saying that as everything seems to test out it must be the hub. They are reluctant to change that and I see that I would probably be charged for it from what I see on forums. It said £69 on the original invoice which was no charge to me then. Must click "create post" befroe the poxy connection goes down again.
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Post by Chris53 on Jul 27, 2016 20:07:56 GMT
It's taken 12 days to sort out my intermittent Internet problem. BT won't talk to me because I'm a Sky customer and Sky cannot speak to BT engineers. So we went around in circles because despite the BT Engineer saying that a card in the distribution box needed replacing due to an intermittent fault, the "transmission engineer" isn't allowed to replace it unless he can witness a fault himself. It has been affecting a lot of people in my road but that didn't matter to BT. Sky have tried to escalate the issue with BT but BT would rather do things at a snails pace. Luckily a neighbour (who sounded even more pissed off than I was)and myself spoke to the transmission engineer who eventually saw sense and travelled to a nearby distribution box where there was a spare card and took it to replace the dodgy card in our box. Result Internet up for 4 and a half hours so far instead of 20 minutes a time if you could get the bloody thing working at all.
Because I was feeling cheesed off I decided to buy myself another pair of headphones to add to the arsenal. I now have a pair of AKG K712's to go with my 702's and My Grado 325e's which I don't like that much. The 712's are rather lovely and they aren't even burnt in yet.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2016 5:40:37 GMT
Because I was feeling cheesed off I decided to buy myself another pair of headphones to add to the arsenal. I now have a pair of AKG K712's to go with my 702's and My Grado 325e's which I don't like that much. The 712's are rather lovely and they aren't even burnt in yet. The K712 is a darn good headphone, occasionally available at a discount. If I were choosing one open-back and one closed-back headphone to take on the road, the K712 and K553 would be my top choices.
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