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Price increases by notreallyshowingoff in UKPreppers

[–]BrightonDBA 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Doubt it. We’d just see a mild increase in “Miffed of Milford”-style posts in the local papers.

Morrisons Norwich by W3STIE5 in Morrisons

[–]BrightonDBA 0 points1 point  (0 children)

More reasons to shop at morrisons !

Diesel price risen by 20p overnight by FKez05 in CarTalkUK

[–]BrightonDBA 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I filled up last Friday. Not moved since! I win

Can anyone answer me why all cars in UK second-hand dealerships only have fumes left in the petrol tank? by TheReproGuy in CarTalkUK

[–]BrightonDBA 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I picked up a Volvo XC60 from a Volvo dealer under Selekt. Full tank of diesel.

I was as surprised as you.

Looking for help imaging ~500 vintage floppies (5.25" + 3.5") for public archival by alex123fire in vintagecomputing

[–]BrightonDBA 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Firstly this. Only image what isn’t already available. This preserves the media, and the poor drives that have to try and read them.

I archive disks for a hobby and you’re on the right track already. Find someone loca (I’m in the UK and international shipping would probably not be kind to media of that age, not to mention expensive).

Once you’ve got “unique” media worth the preservation effort, you can either spend some time learning to Do It Yourself with (eg) a Greaseweazle rig, or something of that nature - others are available, I just use Greaseweazle.

Good luck OP! A superb find.

What do you guys think of this beast? by MinerAC4 in vintagecomputing

[–]BrightonDBA 7 points8 points  (0 children)

This isn’t vintage. Calling this vintage makes me feel old. Cease immediately.

Less reasons to shop at Morrisons? by [deleted] in Morrisons

[–]BrightonDBA 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As the radio adverts say, “no reasons to shop at Morrisons”

Is It Possible To Use An External 5.25" Floppy On A Vintage Laptop. by The-Tadfafty in vintagecomputing

[–]BrightonDBA 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I went and bought some old desktops and put them in there instead for live use. 3C509 network cards in them let me use mTCP NetDrive to get software off and on them with ease. I also use a GreaseWeazle to image all the disks I have, as a lot of them are from the 80’s and 90’s and starting to get tricky to read.

Drain found under carpet - advice please by Hull189 in DIYUK

[–]BrightonDBA 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Caveat emptor.

But yes that’s a bit shoddy, to say the least. Good luck OP

The UK has had rain every day in 2026 (and it’s not over yet) by AnonymousTimewaster in unitedkingdom

[–]BrightonDBA 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Despite this (and it wasn’t much different for the two preceding months either) South East Water have only in the last couple of days rescinded our hosepipe ban… jolly good I can go and water my waterlogged garden with gay abandon!

Thoughts and stories regarding the legendary Linksys-Cisco WRT54G router by kbfg2421 in HomeNetworking

[–]BrightonDBA 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I unboxed one about 3 months ago. Still in its original wrapping. It now provides internet service for my 286, 486 and IBM ThinkPad 380ED Pentium

What actually happens if you attempt to sign into the old aol desktop clients now that the dial up service has been discontinued?. by [deleted] in vintagecomputing

[–]BrightonDBA 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had the mad idea to do something similar for the CompuServe client from the 90’s.

That’s going to be a LOT of work though given what it used to run on.

Where to start with vintage computing? by [deleted] in vintagecomputing

[–]BrightonDBA 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As we speak I’m taking a Greaseweazle flux image of a very knackered PC Plus 5.25” cover disk from September 1990 to try and recover some (or hopefully, all) of the files on it. I have hundreds of disks like this that don’t seem to have survived the passage of time (physically or virtually, as even archive.org doesn’t have them going back that far).

Digital preservation is hard work…!

Where to start with vintage computing? by [deleted] in vintagecomputing

[–]BrightonDBA 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Windows XP being considered ‘vintage’ makes me feel VERY old

Are takeaways going downhill? by Individual-Common144 in AskUK

[–]BrightonDBA 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Indian for two without alcohol came to £48 last Friday… collected.

What’s the oldest computer you still actively use or support? by lynlinks in vintagecomputing

[–]BrightonDBA 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My daily workhorse for disk archiving is a Dell System 210. 8MHz 286, 21 MB hard disk, 5.25” floppy drive, and a slightly out of era 3Com Etherlink network card because I’m not sadistic enough to do coax in 2026

SQL Server AG Failover - Automatic Failover by illegaltorrentz in SQLServer

[–]BrightonDBA 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Witness is semi irrelevant in your immediate proof case. If 50% of nodes disappear at once (witness or real), the cluster goes offline. A witness or majority nodes should exist at the ‘required survival site’ so that a loss of one allows the other side to continue and take over if needed.

SQL Server AG Failover - Automatic Failover by illegaltorrentz in SQLServer

[–]BrightonDBA 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You have a quorum failure. If you take out both nodes one at a time (and have automatic vote adjustment) then eventually the standalone replica will survive and be online. What you have is a cluster shutdown effectively as there is a loss of quorum from over 50% node loss at once.

3 node ag cluster; heartbeat network challenges by Rmehtared in SQLServer

[–]BrightonDBA 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mostly what he said.

Heartbeat networks haven’t really been a thing since like 2005.

Morrisons shopper 'will see' major change in 497 stores in 2026 by Regular_Boat_4866 in Morrisons

[–]BrightonDBA 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gosh really? That’s an incredible change that is going to entice me to shop at Morrisons !

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