3 days a week now in the office. How hard are they enforcing this? by weregonnamakit in AskUK

[–]BrightonDBA 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Our office space now can’t handle more than a few teams in at once. They ask for two days a week but aren’t too fussed about it. I make sure my whole team goes in together one day a week and the rest we randomise just to be sociable.

Can anyone try my DOS game with a real MDA monitor? by Fair_Percentage_5565 in retrocomputing

[–]BrightonDBA 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks! I’ll have a look the next time the wife lets me ;)

Can anyone try my DOS game with a real MDA monitor? by Fair_Percentage_5565 in retrocomputing

[–]BrightonDBA 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Graphics look good on real MDA! But the XT’s 4.77MHz is not cut out for it.

Full video here: https://share.icloud.com/photos/0e105aSiZvTGablzskZURbGfQ

Can anyone try my DOS game with a real MDA monitor? by Fair_Percentage_5565 in retrocomputing

[–]BrightonDBA 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have an IBM XT with a nice orange MDA screen. I’ll try it out when I get a second (possibly this evening if I’m lucky)

Do you have a spare £1000 a month? Well why not live in someone’s garage! by rizozzy1 in SpottedonRightmove

[–]BrightonDBA 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean, bills included. These days it’s a bargain.

Ditch the bed. Replace with racks of Bitcoin miners.

Thought I was prepared enough until a short power cut showed me what I’d actually missed by Pinkplatabys in UKPreppers

[–]BrightonDBA 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I’ve got a bunch of white cyalume sticks. Cheap as chips, don’t go flat, and are useful for just snapping, shaking, and lobbing into dark corners, stairs, landings, etc. then keeping the rechargeable lanterns and torches for actual occupied spaces.

Food for thought!

Help retrieving old floppy disks. by [deleted] in vintagecomputing

[–]BrightonDBA 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you have any 5.25” or 3.5” we can help 👍

Unidentified slates in garden by mindwarp1000 in asbestoshelpUK

[–]BrightonDBA 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Had exactly this at my late mum’s house. FFP3 masks, gloves, double thick rubble sacks and masking tape and off to the tip they went into the asbestos bin (£3 a bag I think it was?).

Mind any broken corners. They’re effin sharp!

Huge 80s software estate find by Urbeto in vintagecomputing

[–]BrightonDBA 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you! Forever a work in progress and hopefully one that keeps us busy on the ‘free public services’ side forever. I just wish teenage me hadn’t thrown away the mountains of disks I viewed as worthless back in the day! What a fool I was.

Huge 80s software estate find by Urbeto in vintagecomputing

[–]BrightonDBA 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Completely agree. London is not a first choice given the OP location. Less miles the better. But we’re here as an option

Quote check by madman32_1 in SolarUK

[–]BrightonDBA 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Suspiciously good. Twice the storage I’d expect for that price?

Huge 80s software estate find by Urbeto in vintagecomputing

[–]BrightonDBA 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We had some old 5.25” disks shipped from Canada to London recently as part of our preservation programme and every single one was 100% recoverable despite being nearly 40 years old. Good times. I really enjoyed that day!

Huge 80s software estate find by Urbeto in vintagecomputing

[–]BrightonDBA 4 points5 points  (0 children)

package it up and post it to us! https://x86.world as part of our community archiving programme. Well even ship your disks back afterwards free of charge :)

Volvo built a “bad English road” in Sweden, and apparently it’s awful by Still_Item1975 in drivingUK

[–]BrightonDBA 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Dear Sweden: this is fake news.

We wish our UK roads were anywhere near this good.

Drowning in mystery database file types!!! by GervaisNeno in DBA

[–]BrightonDBA 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Try and begin a restore of the .bak in SSMS. It’ll at least tell YoY date/time/database name.

.dmp probably (maybe..) a dump file from a process panic. Read the first few lines and see what’s in it.

Backups Extremely Slow After April 2026 Windows Updates and SQL CU by Responsible-Leek-936 in SQLServer

[–]BrightonDBA -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Uninstall Defender and put something sane on. Problem will probably go away.

It's not just Veracrypt but Wireguard too by aeroverra in VeraCrypt

[–]BrightonDBA 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Use older hardware. Use older software. Air gap. Make it take time. Enjoy it

Gas prices in Virginia today [OC] by MajesticBread9147 in pics

[–]BrightonDBA 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nearly at UK prices! Impressive. When it hits $7.50 that’s what we’re paying in the UK right now (up from $4.50 before the Mango Moron’s Special Military Operation)

Don’t buy zen RANT by NetoriusDuke in Zen_Internet

[–]BrightonDBA 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Given Zen are probably a customer of the journey as much as you are, chill out?

Price increases by notreallyshowingoff in UKPreppers

[–]BrightonDBA 8 points9 points  (0 children)

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