MotoGP 2020

[george formby]

I have decided if I catch it I will drink a few bottles of Jim Beam. Lets see if this bitch virus can handle its booze

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Good call. I might get a case of Newcastle Brown Ale in, effectively chemotherapy. If I can survive the two day hangover anything I had will be toast or inconsequential compared to that pain.

Ah, problem. Need lots of toilet paper IIRC.

[Dadpole]

I am knocking back some Coronas in the hope the virus will not attack its own kind. That is my logic anyway.

[pritch]

Say to the wife am only thinking of your safety I be in spare room with PS4 for next 14 days

With reference to the fact that a lot of people are now working from home for the first time, a motorcycling journo with twenty years experience of working from home offered some important advice. "If you can't find your coffee cup - it's in the microwave."

[iYRe]

also, speaking as an IT professional who is part of the "pandemic planning team" at work.. be prepared for peoples internet shit to fall over.

[Autech]

also, speaking as an IT professional who is part of the "pandemic planning team" at work.. be prepared for peoples internet shit to fall over.

Ahhh, why?

Speaking as an IT professional outside of the loop...

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[iYRe]

A lot of places havent accounted for the additional bandwidth required, for a start. General usage of the internet has gone up 10% in the last few weeks. In Italy it has gone up 30% (not to mention usage patterns have changed from evening to day time)

Add to that peoples firewalls and routers that arent prepared for the additional load (throughput, sessions etc).

We've prepared a whole bunch of remote kit, and have a reasonable firewall, but we're not sure just exactly what will happen when a whole bunch of people connect at once, should be ok, but we havent been able to stress test it.

I know of a lot of places that have pretty budget equipment that might not work properly. Plus ISP's dont carry that much overhead - internationally anyway, domestic wont be so much problem, but still, you can imagine a large chunk of the population and their kids all home for 2 weeks..

[Autech]

A lot of places havent accounted for the additional bandwidth required, for a start. General usage of the internet has gone up 10% in the last few weeks. In Italy it has gone up 30% (not to mention usage patterns have changed from evening to day time)

Add to that peoples firewalls and routers that arent prepared for the additional load (throughput, sessions etc).

We've prepared a whole bunch of remote kit, and have a reasonable firewall, but we're not sure just exactly what will happen when a whole bunch of people connect at once, should be ok, but we havent been able to stress test it.

I know of a lot of places that have pretty budget equipment that might not work properly. Plus ISP's dont carry that much overhead - internationally anyway, domestic wont be so much problem, but still, you can imagine a large chunk of the population and their kids all home for 2 weeks..

Ahh I am with ya.

I am so used to working from a home office I hadn't thought about the difference of lots more people connecting remotely at once.

I'd say the load difference during the day from an ISP perspective shouldn't be too much more than in the evening when everyone is streaming Netflix and such, so long as they are doing work and not Netflixing as well as working...

The killer will be as you say at the business end, with the multiple places running shitty Huawei business routers sent by their ISP, expecting us to magically make their staff able to work from home through their shitty Huawei home routers. I have already had a few new companies requesting VPNs be set up so I wonder if that was what's behind it.

Going to be interesting!




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[iYRe]

Ahh I am with ya.

I am so used to working from a home office I hadn't thought about the difference of lots more people connecting remotely at once.

I'd say the load difference during the day from an ISP perspective shouldn't be too much more than in the evening when everyone is streaming Netflix and such, so long as they are doing work and not Netflixing as well as working...

The killer will be as you say at the business end, with the multiple places running shitty Huawei business routers sent by their ISP, expecting us to magically make their staff able to work from home through their shitty Huawei home routers. I have already had a few new companies requesting VPNs be set up so I wonder if that was what's behind it.

Going to be interesting!

Well, ISP's dont run much overhead, but then, probably only the smaller ones will be affected anyway.

Yeah, sure will be interesting

[pritch]

The killer will be as you say at the business end,

Monkey business? In the places where people have been confined to their homes it has been suggested that this will lead to a baby boom.

[iYRe]

Monkey business? In the places where people have been confined to their homes it has been suggested that this will lead to a baby boom.

And a lot of traffic to pornhub..

[Autech]

Monkey business? In the places where people have been confined to their homes it has been suggested that this will lead to a baby boom.

Fuck not another generation of boomers?

Good excuse to have a root though I guess.
Lets get Netflix introducing new content A S A P

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[Dadpole]

I am planning to watch last seasons races again. I need my fix...
Just as well I never restarted the $100 TAB game

[pritch]

Lets get Netflix introducing new content A S A P

I have a largish list to watch at the moment. The NY Times and others print lists of the best movies on Netflix, of course most of them are not available in NZ but some are. Could always pay for a VPN?

YouTube is s source of old movies. They try to charge for some but there is a lot of free stuff. I just watched one that impressed the Hell outa me when I was 10. It wasn't quite so impressive this time, but it was OK. When I was 10 I didn't notice that the medieval Englishmen had American accents.

[roogazza]

I am planning to watch last seasons races again. I need my fix...
Just as well I never restarted the $100 TAB game

From Adelaide in the mid eighties,for a few years, I copied GP's to VHS and sent them back to mates at the Wellington Motorcycle Center. Must make contact and see what happened to them ? Think they used to play them in the shop ?
Maybe convert them to CD if could find them?
Some great stuff in those days.

[Dadpole]

I had the same from a mate in Sydney. Early through to late Eighties. I had a boxful that seems to have evaporated when we moved as I can only find a couple now.