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Post by rhyds on Sept 19, 2023 22:52:02 GMT 1
Ohh crap too risky I guess for a transplant And maybe not realistic ? Mother is 90 and has heart failure. She was released from hospital 17 months to come home and die after a 5 week stay. She fought it all well - but now there is too many complications... End game... So sorry to hear this chief, I'm sure I speak for us all when I say our thoughts are with you and your family at this difficult time.
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Sept 20, 2023 22:01:42 GMT 1
Post by Noberator on Sept 20, 2023 22:01:42 GMT 1
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Post by remmington on Sept 25, 2023 20:19:28 GMT 1
Dead on here - last post was mine - 48hrs ago. ---------- Are you all on the Mig Welding Forum - verbally sparring with the idiots with EV's...?
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Sept 25, 2023 20:49:45 GMT 1
Post by chippie on Sept 25, 2023 20:49:45 GMT 1
Hmm. Not me… I’m waiting on a phone call beckoning me….not good. Not got anything worthwhile posting I’m afraid..
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Sept 25, 2023 21:17:13 GMT 1
Post by remmington on Sept 25, 2023 21:17:13 GMT 1
Hmm. Not me… I’m waiting on a phone call beckoning me….not good. Not got anything worthwhile posting I’m afraid.. My life is a bit dull at the moment - I too got nothing interesting to add either. All abit of work and sleep and repeat for me at the moment
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Post by rhyds on Sept 25, 2023 21:37:15 GMT 1
Unfortunately I've been working on the site build from heck since Thursday
In short, its a basic network build. 3x cabinets in 3x buildings, bit of fibre between them, some network switches, some wireless access points and an internet connection for them to share out.
Of course, with this being a job I'm involved in, its just got to be full of stupid issues
First off, the internet connection has to be Starlink/satellite, because we can't get anything else on site. We order the dish/unit in, arrives in about 3 days. We order all the mounting kit, it doesn't arrive for over two weeks as it ships from California to Pembrokeshire...
In the mean time we find someone who's designed their own mount and has stock in the UK, and get that posted. Problem is that said mount is designed to go in to the end of a pipe, and none of the pipes/mounts we have on site will fit the mounting adaptor. Cue muggins here being sent to town with his Volvo and coming back with 2.4 metres of mild steel 1.5ins pipe for £10 to get the job done
Next problem? One of our cabinets is in the wrong place by half an inch, and doesn't clear a fridge thats going under it. So we shift that. Now the next problem is that while our cabinet is up, and all our kit is in place, there's no power sockets in place yet. The electricians tell me on Thursday its getting done Friday. On friday I'm told Monday.
Today I arrive on site, having driven 90 miles there to find while there is power to one cab, the other still doesn't have a mains socket. For some ungodly reason the electricians have read my request for a double 13A socket next to the cabinet as "put a fused spur on another wall above a water tank". I ask the electricians about chaning it to a socket and I get "Ah, can't do that. The boss has only put fire alarms kit in the van today, we don't have any sockets..."
As you may imagine, my response to this was both incredulous and very, very profane. In the end I went driving to CEF to buy a socket and offered to install it myself, but not on the wall. The look on the electrician's face made it clear he understood the implication and it got sorted.
Now all was left was to put a wireless access point upstairs in the hall. One problem, seems they decided to varnish/seal the whole of the hall floor in one go an hour after we got on site. Did they think of telling us this? No. Did it b*gger up my plans? Yes. Did we do the best we could? Yes we did.
Couple that with a 90 mile each way journey to site and you can guess that my disposition is somewhat less than sunny at the moment!
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Sept 25, 2023 21:37:24 GMT 1
Post by valhalla on Sept 25, 2023 21:37:24 GMT 1
I've had to have a few "quiet days" to get over a lingering cold, so have not been able to get much more of the projects moved onwards, let-alone photographed or narrated.
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Post by OldGit on Sept 25, 2023 21:43:42 GMT 1
I've got two weeks in North Yorkshire coming up with the current Mrs. & dogs, first week will be in a hotel, second week will be just me & one of the dogs (t'other one is 12, mostly blind & wholly deaf) wild camping, the Mrs., whilst her head is willing, her spine won't allow her to do any sort of distance (and having her Appndix removed ten days ago), so they'll be dropped off at another (cheaper!) hotel with gentle walks and a view of Whitby bay whilst me & the lunatic are on the hoof....
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Post by valhalla on Sept 25, 2023 21:54:01 GMT 1
Couple that with a 90 mile each way journey to site and you can guess that my disposition is somewhat less than sunny at the moment! I feel for you, I really do..... I've also had 2-out-of-2 of the last "IT fixes" go wrong in the last 48hours!
First one was to bork the repurposed Cisco ASA-5515-X unit that I bought to run pfSense, develop it to replace my Draytek Vigor which seems to be throttling the throughput on the internet connections. It was bought secondhand, and was running pfSense 2.6.0 just fine. Did I a) just build on this machine as-is, and start to get a decent router/firewall/DNS resolver working and ready to slot-in, or b) decide it would be a good idea to upgrade to 2.7.0 whilst the build was still young? Yes, I went for option b), which no longer boots far enough to give me a web-terminal, so I cannot see what is wrong.....and I don't have a console lead right now to plug into this thing to see where it is hanging-up (I suspect that 2.7.0 has been a fresh-enough upgrade to need a manual selection of port-allocations for WAN and LAN at the initial boot, like a new install......) so that has been put to one side whilst I lick my wounds and wait for a console lead (that's going to take ages to make "just work")
Then I thought I would try and repair a spare Lenovo ThinkPad L570 laptop. I bought it for spares, and in fairness, it did what the listing said it would do......not boot, no life, no nothing. Having decided, "They all do that, SIr!" and stripped it down to fix it, it now has reached the dizzy heights of doing.....just what it did several weeks ago. No boot, no life, no nothing. Except it has wasted just another bit of my life in the process. At least I'm not fit for normal duties, so less of a waste than it might have been.
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Sept 25, 2023 22:02:36 GMT 1
Post by rhyds on Sept 25, 2023 22:02:36 GMT 1
If I'd known you were stuck for a Cisco console lead I'd have bunged the USB one that's still sealed up in my laptop bag in the post to you. We've a load of 887s at the office we've taken out of service, but as these were ISP supplied I've not done any config work on them, and haven't had the patience to re-learn cisco IOS to set them up.
As for the draytek, funnily enough I've stuck a 2760 on this job I'm on, as it was the best balance for me between "cheap" and "has all the functions I need" to sit between a starlink dish and my site network. We're probably going to throw a Meraki MX67 on site once I get my boss to order it and our ISP runs its random number generator for a shipping date!
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Post by Rhubarb on Sept 25, 2023 22:22:32 GMT 1
I've got two weeks in North Yorkshire coming up with the current Mrs. & dogs, first week will be in a hotel, second week will be just me & one of the dogs (t'other one is 12, mostly blind & wholly deaf) wild camping, the Mrs., whilst her head is willing, her spine won't allow her to do any sort of distance (and having her Appndix removed ten days ago), so they'll be dropped off at another (cheaper!) hotel with gentle walks and a view of Whitby bay whilst me & the lunatic are on the hoof.... Rough old time for you both. Hope the Holiday makes things a bit better
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Post by Rhubarb on Sept 25, 2023 22:24:15 GMT 1
Dead on here - last post was mine - 48hrs ago. ---------- Are you all on the Mig Welding Forum - verbally sparring with the idiots with EV's...? Yep, it's too quiet. Arguing about EVs is getting dull. Don't know about anyone else but I need some fun!
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Sept 25, 2023 22:25:15 GMT 1
Post by Rhubarb on Sept 25, 2023 22:25:15 GMT 1
Unfortunately I've been working on the site build from heck since Thursday In short, its a basic network build. 3x cabinets in 3x buildings, bit of fibre between them, some network switches, some wireless access points and an internet connection for them to share out. Of course, with this being a job I'm involved in, its just got to be full of stupid issues First off, the internet connection has to be Starlink/satellite, because we can't get anything else on site. We order the dish/unit in, arrives in about 3 days. We order all the mounting kit, it doesn't arrive for over two weeks as it ships from California to Pembrokeshire... In the mean time we find someone who's designed their own mount and has stock in the UK, and get that posted. Problem is that said mount is designed to go in to the end of a pipe, and none of the pipes/mounts we have on site will fit the mounting adaptor. Cue muggins here being sent to town with his Volvo and coming back with 2.4 metres of mild steel 1.5ins pipe for £10 to get the job done Next problem? One of our cabinets is in the wrong place by half an inch, and doesn't clear a fridge thats going under it. So we shift that. Now the next problem is that while our cabinet is up, and all our kit is in place, there's no power sockets in place yet. The electricians tell me on Thursday its getting done Friday. On friday I'm told Monday. Today I arrive on site, having driven 90 miles there to find while there is power to one cab, the other still doesn't have a mains socket. For some ungodly reason the electricians have read my request for a double 13A socket next to the cabinet as "put a fused spur on another wall above a water tank". I ask the electricians about chaning it to a socket and I get "Ah, can't do that. The boss has only put fire alarms kit in the van today, we don't have any sockets..." As you may imagine, my response to this was both incredulous and very, very profane. In the end I went driving to CEF to buy a socket and offered to install it myself, but not on the wall. The look on the electrician's face made it clear he understood the implication and it got sorted. Now all was left was to put a wireless access point upstairs in the hall. One problem, seems they decided to varnish/seal the whole of the hall floor in one go an hour after we got on site. Did they think of telling us this? No. Did it b*gger up my plans? Yes. Did we do the best we could? Yes we did. Couple that with a 90 mile each way journey to site and you can guess that my disposition is somewhat less than sunny at the moment! No/poor communication and working with muppets, nice! Think of the dollar
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Post by rhyds on Sept 25, 2023 22:29:21 GMT 1
Salary job, so no extra money for the travel, but I did go all out when I picked my hotel for last week!
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Post by Rhubarb on Sept 25, 2023 22:31:21 GMT 1
Salary job, so no extra money for the travel, but I did go all out when I picked my hotel for last week! I hope you're not doing too much for them in your own Car?
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