Well....I DO have a sore throat.....

Added a new 'bit of kit' to the system.

I needed a decent capacity [but small] external HD to go into the fire-safe as the third condom...to be sure to be sure to be sure...

So I got one of these.

We've come a long way when something about half the size of a 3.5" floppy can hold 1TB....

http://www.samsung.com/us/computer/memory-storage/MU-PS1T0B/AM

Yep, those Samsung externals are great gear, and a 1TB is on my shopping list for sometime later in 2016.  I figure something that small would be a perfect partner to go out and about with my HP 2-in-1.  Yeah, SD memory cards are okay for basic storage, but not so good for playing music and video... which can so help pass the time while waiting at the doctors/hospital, etc.  I do have a Toshiba 1TB portable HDD that does the job, but it sucks a lot of battery power and a Samsung poratable SSD would serve my needs so much better.

I've been looking at getting one for a while now, but being there's a shortage of storage space in here in the new place, I have some other 'gotta-gets' [wardrobes/cupboards, etc] before I can think about such things.  Never mind, they may have come down in price by the time I'm ready to buy.

Latest addition to the 'beast' is a modem/router that actually works.

Since setting it up a week or so ago it hasn't missed a beat...or rather hasn't lost connection and needed rebooting...as the old one did with monotonous regularity.

Jafo

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Latest addition to the 'beast' is a modem/router that actually works.

Since setting it up a week or so ago it hasn't missed a beat...or rather hasn't lost connection and needed rebooting...as the old one did with monotonous regularity.

 

My modem/router never misses a beat, either.  I wish that I could say the same for the Telstra connection outside, which is forever going on the blink and even cutting out altogether.  Although my current provider is iinet, the lines are Telstra's... and they're those fechen useless copper ones that are as old as Moses' great, great grandad.  Curently I'm geeting less than a 1/4 of the speed I'm paying for... and as for the landline, haven't been able to make or recieve a call for a week now.

This is a clear cut case as to why the Turnbull gov't should NOT be using copper frome the node when connecting the NBN to households/properties.  The copper network is antiquated, in some places it's over 50 years old, and has become far too unreliable and costly to repair.  And I'm not the only one locally who's having issues with phone and internet via Telstra's copper lines.  A mate who's a Telstra techie told me that the poor service/no service complaints around here are among the highest in SE Qld, that repairs are piecemeal efforts at best and no plans to upgrade to fibre-optic have been made thus far.... much less the NBN

I like where I'm living - both the house and the area/suburb - so I'd hate to have to move because the phone and internet service is piss poor. 

Damned Telstra, likes to charge premium prices but can't/won't provide a premium service.

Been abourt 2 weeks now and still no drop-outs or any other issues.

Kinda wish I'd got a new one sooner...

Jafo

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Been abourt 2 weeks now and still no drop-outs or any other issues.

Kinda wish I'd got a new one sooner...

Yeah, the Telstra suppied modems are crap, if that's what you had.  I got a free one when I signed up a while back, but I soon swapped it out for a Netgear unit I had. Not only was it more reliable/efficient, I got better speeds from it as well.  Now I have an iinet suppied one and it is very good... and will deliver the top speeds when the 'outside' network allows it.

Speaking of the 'outside' network, the techie came on Friday and sorta fixed it.  I'm still not getting full speed, but it's at least allowing me to load pages, download updates, etc, and stream Netflix.  Couldn't do all that before.  Yeah, he told me that there was a broken wire in the junction box outide, and that he'd done the best he was authorised to fix it.  He said that the copper wiring around here is so brittle and can break with just a creepy crawly walking over it, and that Telstra will not authorise any replacement wiring or components unless absolutley necessary.  All he could do was solder it back together and hope for the best.

And IF EVER the NBN gets here... that's what they'll be using to hook it up to properties now Turnbull effed everything up.  What a fechen joke!  He takes a perfectly good firbre optic network a bottlenecks it with copper to so-say save money.  What a fucken idiot.  As is evidenced by the antiquated copper network around here, there are no savings to be made.... techies don't come cheap and they're out here with monotonous regularity, not that Turnbull gives a rat's arse.

Wasn't a Telstra one.

Just as well, they're crap with a capital rubbish,

Yup, I'm starting to dislike Telstra as much as I dislike bankers and Microsoft/Windows 10... the POS that it is.

Now it's 2 months and STILL no issues.

I think I've rebooted the machine once in that time.....otherwise online 24/7/365.

Nearly 2 years since the build.....and I came to realize the old ASUS MW221u monitor has survived two system 'upgrades' and been serving 3 machines now for what seems like eons.  In fact the First rig I'd used it on was a P4-500.... that's how old.

Since then I've never really been able to actually tax a GTX-980.... not with a native res of 1680x1050....

So,

I decided it's about time I looked at a screen that was a little more than ye olde 22".

The new thing on the way is another ASUS....but this time running 2560x1440....27" at 165 hz with G-sync and all sorts of fun stuff not imagined when the MW was a fairly decent monitor.   It still works 24/7 but sometimes it gets all squirly and you have to 'turn-it-off-and-turn-it-on-again'.

So....this is the critter...

https://www.asus.com/au/Monitors/ROG-SWIFT-PG279Q/ 

...a PG279Q.

Finally my screen will be bigger than my computer case....

...

You built that monster and used a 1680x1050 piece of shit from the dark ages of LCD technology?  Priorities man, priorities...  I'd have gouged my eyes out years ago.

I was kinda staying faithful to the old one...cos it'd been good to me for so long.

The upside now is that I think I'm going to be gob-smacked by how much better the new one will be...

Seriously!  That POS is from an age when LCD's were still vastly inferior to my $800 CRT, it was still a pretty big step down when it died in 2008 and I had to replace it.

psychoak

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Seriously!  That POS is from an age when LCD's were still vastly inferior to my $800 CRT, it was still a pretty big step down when it died in 2008 and I had to replace it.

Yes....as I recall the reason I ended up with the MW221 was my CRT got harder and harder to see as the picture began to shrink....ultimately to a single dot...

At which stage if I'd only also had a Harley Davidson I would have had two excellent boat anchors...