@Burgi Ah, it could be worse; a few years ago I moved into a flat which was in the only building on the street which didn't have FTTC (this was earlier in the Openreach rollout days).
I then moved to a flat on one of the earliest streets in my city to get FTTC... and again the building wasn't cabled.
Ended up emailing the cablemystreet team at Virgin and they cabled the building up, and emailed ot let me know... two months after I left.
my last rental flat my landlady was on virgin media and had the capability of 100Mbps but she was on a zombie package and was restricted to 10Mbps and throttled to 1Mbps at peak times
Actually @burgi if you're in a MDU (implied by converted office) have you checked to see if Hyperoptic service your area? If you ask them nicely enough you might end up with a 1GBps service (and make me very green in turn)
@JourneymanGeek Turns out it was the RAM. Quick swap out and the laptop is good as new. HP are still sending me a replacement stick though. Can't be using up all my own stock ;)
@Burgi Kinda. Hyperoptic seem to actually do the cabling themselves if you can argue it's worth their while ("me and the residents of this building would totally use your gigabit service...")
@Burgi I awoke on Mon, 13 Feb 2017 20:53:43 GMT (that's about 6 days ago), got invoked 46 times, learned 7 commands, but forgotten 3 commands, teleported 37 goats
@bertieb Hard to say... VDSL2 would probably be alright, I'm something like 100m from the local silo. But what I really want is the originally-planned FTTP :(
They plan to reuse existing copper. Also, since we're on ADSL at the moment, VDSL would just be a modem swap. But, no, they had to pick HFC... so we're gonna have to figure out if the coax is still good.
@bertieb Eh. TBH, I think we would've done alright with the original plan. But that was proposed by the previous government, so of course the new one had to change it (they were opposed to it ... for the sake of being opposed).
Apparently the original plan "cost too much". So... they paused rollout for something like a year, spent a crapton on reinvestigating other tech, then bought a large amount of new copper to replace *some of * the shitty century-old stuff.
@Bob Ahh fair enough. I've been away from /. for much much longer than I was away from here, so my knowledge (such that it was) is way out of date. I suppose a government has to do something, even if it's 'blame the last lot / the other guys'.
Does indeed sound not far removed from situation here- promise of "world class" service → money given to (virtual) monopoly → only way promise could have been fulfilled as stated is if network magically came into existance with announcement
@Bob BT here have been experimenting with some ways of squeezing more out of the copper... will have a dig to see if I can find what I briefly came across the other day
@bertieb I think if they went ahead with the original plan, it could've gone alright. Yea, probably would've run over budget and been delayed, but not so much as it is now.
The change of plans seems to have caused most of the harm.
And now they're complaining that there aren't enough subscribers.
Oh. And the coax/cable runs off above-ground poles, while the ADSL/phone copper (and FTTP, if it were done) run underground. Guess which one's more likely to go down?
blah, for whatever reason, bVNC (Android VNC client) does not want to authenticate with my cloud desktop any more. I went so far as to generate new Ed25519 SSH keys. I had to pass the connection through ConnectBot, port-forward the VNC port (which is closed at the firewall level and accessible only via SSH), and tell bVNC to connect to the local port.
@Bob It's always tunneled over SSH. The problem is that the app's built-in VNC-over-SSH functionality keeps failing to authenticate using my SSH key. ConnectBot can, though, and is able to forward the remote ports to localhost so that the VNC client can connect to localhost to reach the server.
Again, the port would need to be opened to the Internet.
The VNC protocol only supports password authentication, and the password is sent in plaintext (unless, of course, it is wrapped in some other encryption protocol). Even with TLS, this is considerably weaker than the public-key authentication SSH supports.
VNC itself was never really designed to be secure. That's why most folks wrap it in SSH.
Hey HP, don't tell me my cartridge has ink, then "check" it for 10 minutes while secretly using the remaining ink before telling me "Oops! Your cartridge is empty!"... grumble grumble
@MichaelFrank ...the ink level indicators aren't all that accurate. I've had multiple cartridges run dry when the printer claims there's ~20% left. I actually pull out the cartridge and shake it to get an idea of how much ink is left.
@JourneymanGeek My current printer is whatever happens to be at the building I'm working at. This printer isn't mine, it's for a rep down country that is having trouble with their current one.
I had a user on chat go
O_O SO's topbar is all funky now
@JourneymanGeek would've been nice if, y'know, they asked for opinions on SE meta
Bob's one of my core users. Unlike me, Bob codes. Bob vaguely got caught by surprise by these changes. Bob even uses SO, and didn't know about it....
@Burgi Flagged (as abusive). The new top bar is horribad. It's too big. There is nothing to distinguish it from the content. Stuff is in the wrong place :/
SE will be doing this on the smaller sites eventually. And well, some of the issues people have with it feel feels a bit like
source:xkcd
It also actually takes up less vertical space and uses horizontal space better (It dosen't use more, but moves things around a bit. Feels bigger to me)
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I had a user on chat go
O_O SO's topbar is all funky now
@JourneymanGeek would've been nice if, y'know, they asked for opinions on SE meta
Bob's one of my core users. Unlike me, Bob codes. Bob vaguely got caught by surprise by these changes. Bob even uses SO, and didn't know about it....
