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packing up, ready to hit the road to visit and terrorise the next victim, uh, client.

thursday morning, nice to see some sunshine.
updating veeam b&r CE to v12 on 4 sites today.

glad to be sitting inside. a cold front as come through and it's freezing. nothing like you northern guys get, nowhere near, but for down here, it's freezing.

think i've finally solved why i get fumes out the top of the catch can in the 4wd.
that took way too long.

@nadnerB am running 3rd party filters in it which aren't 100% the correct size, so this pushes that, which puts that out of alignment, next thing you know it's venting under the cap, hence leaking.

stinking diesel zorst fumes in the cab aint nice.

waking up, having breakfast, WFH today.
2 weeks until we head off to Cape York.

@nadnerB yep, we're hoping the humidity isn't too bad, it killed us the other year in west Arnhem Land.

Not been up there before, it's a little busier than we like, peoplewise, but it's gotta be seen, so we're going.

day 1 after 5 weeks off.
come back and wsus has gone berserk, got servers with MBs of free space left.

coming back gets harder each time, i really wonder why i come back some times.

dull basic sysadmin stuff on a sunny friday.

go hawks!

working on a saturday!

listening to David Nance

@dafyre ended up going with the VPS, can't always be sure the home pc will be on when i need it.

coffee #3, just waiting out the day, need beer.
listening to nick drake.

@RojoLoco WOOHOO, rock n roll, go Melbourne

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco WOOHOO, rock n roll, go Melbourne

The more of their stuff I hear, the more they are becoming my favorite band around.

Was in a green room on the weekend, turned around and who was looking at the back of my head but Stuart McKenzie ...

just saying hello and merry christmas or whatever it is to you at this time of year.

Here's something that me be of interest.

Found out that folks down here who use Star Link are assigned US based IP addresses.

Found this out coz when teachers go to log into their Department based authentication thing, they get rejected coz the IP address is not assigned to Australia / APAC etc etc.

Don't know if that is still going on?

@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo that's pretty funny.
Going to cause all sorts of fun and games for them.

Over here, all the public schools have a fibre connectionstandard. Not sure about the speed these days but they were all pretty well the same across the entire state.
No room for interesting alternative options like star link.

I would expect that some of them or at least the private schools out in the sticksbare now on NBN Skymuster.

Sorry, I wasn't very clear. It's home accounts with Star Link, all schools have fibre straight into Telstra corporate connection or whatever it's called now.

I'm thinking of getting Star Link, just wondering if it causes a problem accessing ABC iVew and SBS On Demand etc???? I wouldn't think it does, or if it did, I reckon it'd be fixed by now.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

We've been using Acer and Asus for a few years now and are SO much happier. Hardware costs a fraction as much and just works. Just bought another laptop this week, $299. Can't beat that. And staff is super happy with that gear.

We use alot of Acer gear in the schools I look after. The only problem we have with it physical. Cases come apart, screws fall out, keyboard keys pop off.

But that's with kids & staff using them who really don't give a rat's ass what happens to them.

They are pretty reliable and loaded with hardware.

I love the Lenovo keyboards though.