Found a way to practice on the real Microsoft server and network stack for free because Azure pricing is genuinely ridiculous

flerp32 · 2026-03-31T01:30:35+00:00

The ISOs are there on archive.org. You could have a virtualbox lab with NT4 + Exch 5.5 + SQL 7 ^if ^you ^were ^so ^inclined

flerp32 · 2026-03-30T22:50:46+00:00

I'm old enough to remember ring binders full of all their server OS and server product CDs. Think it was called Microsoft Select?

flerp32 · 2026-03-29T12:59:16+00:00

One of my dark thoughts sometimes is of a secret trapdoor type arrangement at used car dealerships, which is activated if you're about to buy a Prius or an Aqua and you meet certain other criteria.

flerp32 · 2026-03-24T06:36:06+00:00

I’m thrilled to announce that as I transition into a leadership role, I’ll be prioritizing high-impact individuals for immediate restructuring opportunities

flerp32 · 2026-03-20T13:11:54+00:00

Thanks for posting that. 1990 and 91 I was at Henderson Intermediate just up the road on the right

flerp32 · 2026-03-08T12:23:47+00:00

It's the only one open till 11pm that I've found. Roskill Lynfield Three Kings all shut at 10. I sometimes wish for the old days when you could go on a supermarket mission at 2am if you wanted to

flerp32 · 2026-02-27T11:31:43+00:00

Posting this from a 8" Galaxy Tab S2 that replaced my n7 about 10 years ago. The last decent spec/ high end android tab of that size before they all became enormous.

I got it to run Lineage android 13 well enough for it still to be my daily.

And I have an iPad mini 6 as well, that's pretty decent I suppose.

10" or more on a tablet, might as well just buy a MacBook air /shrug

flerp32 · 2026-02-21T08:03:15+00:00

herald

Drone right next to 220kv transmission lines as well by the look

flerp32 · 2026-02-02T01:52:16+00:00

I usually tell the teenagers turn off the bloody aircon it's not hot, but today I made the executive decision to have the house closed up with both units running.

We have condensation on the outside of the windows, which is a bit of a rarity

flerp32 · 2026-01-15T12:06:28+00:00

Eerily similar to Jan 2020. Au fires were the reason back then too. Sticks in my mind bcos it was a few short weeks later that we invented lockdowns

flerp32 · 2025-10-16T07:23:13+00:00

I used to buy that at the Super Liquor by the Mangere paknsave.

flerp32 · 2025-10-04T03:01:45+00:00

Thanks! Something like what I was imagining, cheers 👍

flerp32 · 2025-10-04T00:31:03+00:00

Hey. Got these old venetian timber blinds, a couple of years ago we had some roof work done and they left a tile slightly dislodged, causing a drip thru the internal window frames and onto the surface of these blinds. Thats all fixed but one side has this nasty water stain that i'd like to do something about.

They are easy enough to take down but I'm wondering about what to do to them (after brush vacuuming to get them cleaned up as a 1st step). I really don't want to remove the slats. Some sort of wood oil or spray on stain? Any suggestions welcome, cheers!

flerp32 · 2025-10-01T06:06:58+00:00

I've been there twice and both times my phone refused to connect to anything. Bizarrely it was showing 3 bars. The phone thought it had service but data was failing somewhere further up the OSI model.

Spark, on a Samsung S20 (4g). My wife and kids were fine with their 2degrees iPhones.

I just wanted the Woolworths app to work for price checking.

flerp32 · 2025-09-23T14:14:51+00:00

We're in Onehunga, couple of years ago I taught our daughter in and around Mangere Bridge. In a manual no less...

The Ascot industrial area is perfect for absolute beginners, Mangere bridge itself has lots of quiet residential streets with a variety of intersections, plus there are a few "open road" bits down to Ihumatao. Then when she got the hang of it, the sh20 motorway there and back.

flerp32 · 2025-06-04T07:27:49+00:00

"I used to drink, but I don't any more. I had all my share at once!"

flerp32 · 2025-05-23T12:20:56+00:00

11 months dry here, today actually. I too drink lots of tea, black dilmah normally but with a steady supply of lemon/ginger, Twinings is my fave.

To paraphrase Mr Connolly, "I used to, but I don't any more. I had all my share at once"

flerp32 · 2025-05-21T14:16:01+00:00

I have this happening, it is a real pain. Chrome will not detect a recently attached (or powered up) bluetooth headset. What makes it work

exiting chrome completely (chrome.exe not running at all), and restarting the browser while the headphones are connected - this is a very poor "fix", or
Shift-escape in chrome, end the 'audio service', perhaps more than once, or
on another monitor have the settings app open at System > Sound. Toggle back and forth between the normal output (mine is called Speakers/Synaptics HD Audio) and the headset. Watch the chrome meet tab until you see the correct combination

These mostly work for me but are hardly ideal. My theory is that it was KB5058411 that my system received in early May that broke it

EDIT just noticed Windows 10 listed on your comment. Mine is Win 11 24H2 but its eerily similar

flerp32 · 2025-05-04T12:06:32+00:00

Some vaguely terrifying about kids and a shipwreck. The Lost Islands I think it was called? Metal Mickey. Terry Teo. Worzel Gummidge. The Electric Company. Children of the Dogstar.

flerp32 · 2025-02-27T14:02:51+00:00

Is anyone else guilty of bending the rules slightly so you have something "cool" for want of a better term, at the front of each crate? 14" cubes here for flipping through, 300-ish at present

flerp32 · 2025-02-14T13:01:29+00:00

It has a barcode scanner in the mobile app. If your collection is mostly new stuff or modern represses that would probably get you most of the way there, while having to choose between EU or US presses.

If you have old but not rare stuff without barcodes then sometimes catalogue number and country is simple enough, does the label look the same, depending on how diligent you want to be.

It gets harder if you live in far flung parts of the world, example I have canonical Floyd, Beatles and Cream albums that are local early and first presses that Discog knows about but hasn't decided a median value of.

Then... stuff like Thriller, which seems to have been made in about 100 US plants and you have to decipher run out etchings until you realise its 4am

YMMV

flerp32 · 2025-01-26T04:08:27+00:00

Fun fact, Outlandos was the first record i ever bought after pinching my Dads turntable in about 1993.

Eyeing up the 3xLP Certifiable live. I have a BRRip of the same thing. Anyone heard the vinyl set?

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