DS220+ here so only two drives in it, but Seagate in SHR, silent from a couple of metres away. I was tinkering with Observium and that was writing SNMP data to it almost every second and it was noisy to the point of noticable all the tine due to the disc writes. Deleted that VM and its back to almost silent again.

Running Pi-Hole, SMB shares, time machine, cloud sync and a couple of VM’s for some virtual firewalls as part of my network/test lab.

Looked at upgrading the storage a few times for SHR, general wisdom appears to be swap a drive, and then wait for the array to rebuild, then swap the next drive.

I had 3 months over the summer of 2001, I got that bored I negotiated it down to 6 weeks in the end, sbut till a glorious six weeks most days in the  Clwyds on the uber MTB tech that was a Marin full suss back then.

My cadet days were a mix of the 303 and the SLR. 303 would batter your shoulder and give you terrors as a wimpy teen about shooting with it again. SLR kicked upwards, massive difference to the 303 saw some of my peers almost flipped on their backs after  firing kneeling. Tear gas at Shawbury was super snotty.

Second Blue Hylomar, even successfully used it to replace head gaskets in my nifty fifty two stroke days.

Organ donor in the UK by default, nice young healthy, well subject not being in deep into above, organs for deserving people to receive, make something good out of something you can’t really alter, no matter the laws/enforcement.

He’s played a blinder as far as  Nad is concerned “what else could I do luv (or insert pet word for Nad here) but resign, they wouldn’t even let my Dad get a gong” etc.. He doesn’t give a toss unless its a safe port in a storm, when Carrie finds out he’s been banging some blond behind her back.

What was sobering for me was an Aircraft museum in East Anglia that mostly consists of parts recovered from being trawled up in the North Sea or dug out where a plane has augered itself into the ground.

From tankfest you get a feeling for how bloody quick 60-70tons of machine can move with 1500+ horsepower. The Leo’s really are designed for speed, the C1/C2 are bruisers. All the T series are smaller but no quieter than the NATO tanks and having crawled over/in some of them, no comfort or ergonomics for the crews, 5ft5 with no space to move or stretch which must have an impact on how long a crew can remain inside buttoned up.

I come from a navy family, first generation not too serve, from the crap my Grandad and Great Uncles went thru, I’m glad I didn’t.

Bit of a nerd on them, been to Bovington a few times, once with a full on package where I got to climb inside/allover some WW2 tanks (Churchill, Pz4, M4 Fury etc) and talking with the restoration team all day.

Also my next door neighbour has recently finished getting his ex-RAF Regiment Scorpion road legal and is working towards his full UK road licence for a tracked AFV. He traded an Abbot SPG for it, and was considering a Centurion but couldn’t fit it in his yard.

Oh there’s been Tweets on the Leo tracks being repaired, but the video doesn’t really show the background well so can’t really confirm that it is the one pictured disabled.

All the news said as part of the Challenger MBT package being donated there were some of the ARV’s for them too. Wiki cites Ben Wallace.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenger_Armoured_Repair_and_Recovery_Vehicle

There’s a case of a Challenger having a charge explode in the breech, killing two but not all of the crew.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-44861558

So the round stowage can cope with quite an explosion even within the crew compartment.

I used to work with a guy who did his national service (Austrian) in a Leopard crew, the advice that they got was if a Leo got hit by a sabot round, the engineers would just hose out the remains of the crew, slap a patch on the hole and it would be back in service the same day. They preferred serving in the light tanks/IFV’s as they were taught speed and low observity were life and you had a better chance of surviving in one of those rather than a big slower unarmored Leo.

Hell hath no fury like a mad Nad scorned, is she going to fly off the handle dishing the dirt on everyone, is Boris doing some serious sweet talking now to make sure he’s not in any of the diatribes. Will she use Matt Hancocks ghostwriter?

FTTP runs over shared infrastructure, the only bit that most likely isn’t shared is the cable from the pole into your premises. From the pole back into the exchange, multiple customer services are carried over the same fibre pair and equipment.

Zen might only have a single customer in the area so couldn’t with any accuracy confirm/deny that you are the only one affected.  Only other way is if you are the first person on that particular fibre pair with its associated equipment.

As others have said your contact isn’t with BT Openreach, it’s with Zen so you should be continuing to give it to them both barrels.  Also for planned works BT would have advised ahead of time,  so Zen should have known if it was truly upgrade work,  also whatever it was it should have been minutes or an hours outage at most, not days.

Someone’s comms isn’t too good,  or there are porkies going on as someone doesn’t want to admit the true cause.

My sense of taste came fully back last week, almost exactly 18 months after having covid. I’d been able to taste things okay straight after it, but last week tastes were staying on my tongue for ages, and then it dawned on me that I was able to detect quite subtle flavours in things. It’s almost life tasting things for the first time.

Its getting more and more common on laptops with LPDDR5 RAM running at higher frequencies, they are trying to keep the board tracks as short as possible between the CPU and the RAM to keep the RAM stable at higher frequencies.

Love the FG’s deployed 1000’s of them on various SD-WAN solutions. But want mine to be just right before its deployed on the most critical network, also taking my time as Fortinet have have a bit of a torrid time over the last few months with lots of Critical vulns needing firmware updates.

I did have a Meraki MX64 doing security duties but it was a freebie from Meraki and I’d done the CMNA that long in the past, that despite renewals they wouldn’t give me any more free licences (on the MX, switch and AP’s)

Oh ps the router has a FTTC connection on it and the second is a Huawei 4g router.

Huawei is in router mode, plugged into a WAN port on the router/firewall running NAT.

Oddly enough I’ve got a similar setup. 4 node Orbi but in routed mode, internet router load sharing across two links. With pi hole running on docker on my NAS and a second pi hole on a pi.

Using Orbi in routed as I’ve got the Netgear/Bitdefender running which does regular host vuln scans and blocking of comprised links.

Going to replace the router with a Fortigate firewall I’m slowly configuring how I want, with Talos blocklists etc.

There were some issues in earlier versions of the Orbi firmware with DNS but I thought that was only affecting routed mode. Are you on the latest version as that’s been working a treat on mine.

Re the Auditors quitting, as there’s no muttering about breach of contract, is it that they were in fact donating their time and are no longer prepared to do it FOC, so the SNP are in fact struggling to find anyone willing to do it on the cheap, when things are a bit tight.

Working with another guy on a networking project at a v/large factory in Hemer Germany, all the locals were mullet wearing C&W fans and the engineers in our Dussledorf office joked it was the land that time forgot. I ended up in a B&B on a main road, completely empty apart from me, not even any staff. No food but just up the road was Fat Willys Schnitzel shack where they did 30cm burgers, or doubles if you were hungry, got back the B&B stuffed to the gills with barely cooked red meat and a lot of beer, followed by the sound of the traffic all night keeping me awake. The other guy ended up in a hotel near the centre of town and was gloating to me that he at least had a McD’s in walking distance, he went out for his food and witnessed a Police shootout at the McD’s, so ended up starved for the night. The next day at the customer site we agreed to get out of there ASAP and ended up doing our four days work in two marathon 18+ hour stints so we could escape back to civilisation.

I think there’s also a defenestration related performance contract clause for forum posts to consider too.

No doubt most of the revenues generated will be spent on projects in South Wales, with only a pittance coming back to North Wales.

Second MrSparkle, I’ve seen that trick done, I was bricking it at the time, but it didn’t go pop, more sort of a quiet umph and that was it.

Hey be thankful that it wasn’t me that tightened those wheel nuts!

Use Cloudflare as your DNS resolver, using the block malicious IP addresses for their servers

https://developers.cloudflare.com/1.1.1.1/setup/

Second what Simon says. Big advantage with the Plantronics is the noise cancelling that they do on the mic. My previous employer turned a nice quiet office into a large contact centre, with a handful of hot desks stuck in a corner, and I could have a decent call without anyone noticing the huge amount of background noise

If you have an Intel CPU based Synology NAS, getting Pi-Hole running is a five minute job. There’s an easy how-to on Mariushosting.com

When the M1 MBP first came out, I got one (13′ 16Gb 512Gb SSD) to replace my slowly dying 2014 13 MBP for productivity mainly.

Quite a revelation to say the least, the performance and battery life compared to my Windows Asus ROG Flow X13 (AMD 5900HS 16Gb) for Lightroom and Premier Pro, for a similar form factor and weight.

The later 14′ do look tasty, but hopefully this one will last just as long as my previous Intel MBP and the PowerPC MBP before that one.

Social media has a lot to blame here, recommend more of what you like, go down a rabbit hole and you’ll get more and more of the same.

As a 40+ years telecoms tech, 40+ years Radio Ham, 20+ working in a mobile company, the stuff I get to hear from the 5G tinfoil hat nuts and trying to explain to them what the reality is,, oh well they are the same bunch that protest against nuclear power, but end up getting more rads every year from their flights abroad.

Luma Fusion is an iPad/iPhone video editing app, that works dammed well on a M1/M2 Mac

Second MoreCash, shocked that it took till the second page for someone to mention it

Had a couple of the Garmin leather straps, each lasted a year till they fell apart, then I found this, 2 years later still going strong https://amzn.eu/dBjfQYN woven nylon

What was sobering for me was the Battle of Jutland section when I visited. There was a part of one ship on display that was found embedded in another ship miles away from the original ships catastrophic explosion. My grandfather was serving in the North sea fleet during the Great War, so feel damned lucky that he was boarding blockade runners rather than being in that action.

As a few have said Warrior is worth a visit as well as victory and the rose.

@Poopscoop ordered last Tuesday evening, arrived yesterday so well within the one to two weeks they are quoting for delivery.

And mine arrived today, impressed how easy the setup is on it. Currently downloading a few games and will be testing later.

Ordered one on Tuesday, got the on its way email yesterday.

Yay here, I’m not using the teams integration, but the user management, call routing and recording controls work well for me. Here’s their page on teams. https://www.yay.com/voice/integrations/microsoft-teams-direct-routing/

I found rtings.com a handy site for reviews on monitors/TV’s when I was shopping for a 4K 32″ monitor last year.

Going for an Intel CPU with a RAM upgrade is worth it in a Synology NAS, being able to run Docker or VM’s adds so much flexibility. I run Pi-Hole in Docker which helps with internet speed and security. Noting that depending on the CPU the Max RAM it can support.

I run Cloud Sync a little differently, my mobile devices sync to iCloud/Google directly, then Cloud Sync mirrors these back to the NAS, but with one difference I’ve set it up that if anything is deleted in the cloud it isn’t deleted on the NAS, so even if a cloud provider has finger trouble, I retain it all.

Have you set a hard limit on the share that you are using for time machine? If not you might find that the majority of your storage has gone to that. My DS220 4TB NAS was starting to look full and I was considering the disk upgrade, but I had a look at the sizes of all my shares where that was almost 2TB of time machine backups, oops. So a clear out and a limit on the size of that share, and I’m good to postpone that upgrade a while longer.

My memory is of my next door neighbor getting a mk1 shell and sticking a 3 litre v6 in the back of it along with rear wheel drive for autograss. I can remember him testing it in some tarmac and watching chunks of rubber fly off the tires due to the stupid amount of power it was putting out.