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    Sometimes Japanese rust is stronger than Chineesium steel...
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    Woah, De Ja Vu...
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    Vids of skids not loading. You know it's at about this point in time a YouTuber would have taken it to the drags, or on a 1500km road trip right?
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    The best part of my setup is, we only have two sites. Our head office where I'd put every thing has plenty of internet capacity. We're on a 200/200 dedicated fibre. Even better, there's only like 6 people in the office at most, and the other office has 2 people in it (likely 3 soon). The majority of our work is in a custom piece of software, as it is part of the backend of the system we provide to customers. For our arrangement, on prem would be wayyyyy easier, and a VPN tunnel site to site is easy for me to manage. Scaled at many many sites, or quite a few hundred employees it's starts getting a bit different for all people outside the head office. However, everything in the cloud becomes worse for the people who operated previously at the site that held the servers, as now they're at the mercy of their internet, and not GBPS internal network (f**k the idiots who hook a desktop PC up on WiFi or permanently sit at a desk using a laptop and don't go remotely with it). It really does come down to the business needs and structure as to what is best. For us, 365 is mainly being moved to for office apps, moving email from Google to Exchange, and setting up "Active directory". Otherwise we have a ticketing system with support that runs on our own cloud system, or the sales process sits in a CRM we pay for. My biggest push back for having most of the shit turned off and saying no when people want new shiney things is "that won't meet our security requirements, or efficiency gains, so all you're requesting is money spend to open us up to security issues, or to make our staff less efficient" Which is funny when one of our core values is "To do more, with less"
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    On the topic of 365 vs OnPrem. I'd love to have everything as OnPrem. They've made shit so much harder, and more confusing using 365! I have done IT as a tech, and in sales. I used to get told off a little for not doing what I had to (dropping the$$$) to get sales through quickly. Yep, my sales on a full overhaul of a customers site (servers, network gear, PCs, etc) may have taken an extra month to get completed, and about 2 hours more of my actual time, but the people giving me grief on not getting it done quickly also couldn't work out how my profit margins were always sooo good. I knew the value of what I sold, so sold it properly. Work also got told to jamm it squarely when they started doing tracking of every little things you did at work. There was no way I was ever going to entertain that idea for them. Thankfully in my current role, IT stuff is more one of those side roles I just do for the company. And the owner values me highly for it, and the engineering work I do. Which means I get rewarded pretty darn well
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    I'm glad you could confirm those Duncan! I couldn't remember if when I had my 044 in the 33 if I still had the standard fuel pressure reg, or my SARD reg in it.
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    Ill go with end of Jan. I think he wants his roof first...
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    Does the R32 FPCM slow the pump down at idle? If it does, what happens to your fuel pressure at idle if you give it constant 12V. My thoughts on fuel being the issue also won't explain the dash at the same time.
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    You know something we've all over looked? The fact he said "fuelled up, went to the shops, then came back out and it started doing this" Go get some fresh gas from a totally different servo, jerry rig a fuel pump, and run the new tank supply to the fuel input at the motor. There's every possibility you've got really shit fuel, thats possibly full of water etc.
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    Ha ha ha, so you're telling me I'll hate it forever? 😛 As we don't use it, and don't need it for ourselves, the only time I need to know it is supporting a client to get it running, as I do all of our client integration support. However building dashboards into Teams is interesting, and something I'll have to look at. We're presently moving over to 365 for exchange, giving all the office software to all staff, and ditch Skype for teams. Again, that's a me job right now too I've already set some automation from our CRM I to teams, just wanky shit someone wanted within the company to let everyone know when new sales occur. *Rolls eyes* just more stuff to distract other teams that already get distracted too easily 😐
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    Similar to a video I watched on YT recently. They were like "that sounded really weird..." They took it one step further though. They forgot to put cylinder 1 spark plug back in after checking timing.
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    Feel free to send a few $200 Firebirds over here, and a Corvette or too as well please. I'll send all my RB stuff I have left your way, and see if I can find you some RB30 blocks too. Oh, and send that 6L LS you've got too. Thanks! Yes, I am annoyed at how many cool awesome cars are in America stupidly cheap, and comparatively Australia wants billionaire money for a VN commodore that's rusted out...
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    What we're looking for will likely be 1-1.5mill, but the jump we've had in the value of this property having bought in early/mid COVID has been a blessing (though it did bump our initial price a bit). It seems though the rural around here hasn't moved anywhere near as much as suburban. The 1-5 acre places have, but not the really big places, and I only need to go 15-20 further out of the CBD from where I am. And heck, in peak hour, it's only a 40-50 minute drive to the actual CBD from where I am anyway. And thankfully, work is no where near the CBD either, as the traffic turns to shit, I take an exit, and pull into my works car park 😛 Plus side, I also do 10 hour days, 4 days a week, and take a 3 day weekend. Which means I normally skip afternoon peak (or only hit the tail end of it)
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    He put a cam in, but by the looks of it kept the torque curve where it is, but gave it more lift. IMO a smart choice for a daily driver.
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    PowerBI you say... I hate that Microsoft shit... Ha ha ha Have you ever done much coding to build a connector plugin for PowerBI? Most of the stuff I do at work through our API is all custom scripts, so easy peasy, but PowerBI prefers a custom connector, otherwise it's a pain the ass making a HTTPS endpoint due to all the variations we can have in our system. We have both API you can call, and web hook alerting. You can receive a post request from on specific events.
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    They're reliable. Like a patrol is. Each have their issues. The cruisers issue though wasn't it's fault for this failure. It was mine. I neglected maintenance and drove it for 2 years knowing the harmonic needed replacing. It's in the high 400k mark, on the factory harmonic. It did well. However, I have destroyed 2 gearboxes in it, and not through abuse (Hilux gearbox was used in the 105 cruiser, and then mine has an aftermarket turbo on the 4.2 1HZ diesel). That gearbox fails in factory spec, but add the extra torque from the turbo and it just strips the half spline on the 3/4 selector hub bit. It now has a "heavy duty" version in there, but even that has limited life. The front diff is a known weak spot if you load it hard in reverse. I have been stupid before, and didn't want to let a mate get me back for needing to pull the cruiser out (he has a Patrol... Yes... That feud... It's real) and for that, I won a stupid prize of a crown wheel looking like it's been using meth... That said, it sounds like a lot, but when we took it off road, we didn't play on the little iddy bitty tracks, we played on tracks that are cars. And I watched so many others when we said "Don't, your dual cab won't take that line..." Smash diffs, gearboxes, axles, and then the impact damage like cracked sumps, suspension arms, etc. I'd honestly like to replace the 105 with something more tailored to just towing, and maybe some dirt trails (thinking of getting a caravan in a few years). But there's nothing I can justify cost wise, or that I'd be happy towing with. There's just something to be said sitting in a vehicle as heavy, if not heavier than the trailer you want to tow. (Car trailer, and caravan). Also, we do want to move to more acreage, so some ground clearance and 4WD will be helpful for traversing through the property at times. I was browsing car sales last night for 200 series, but they're still just too expensive!
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    Will do.
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    This one starts, runs drives, fully registered and functional. It's actually a mate of mines GU, but it lives here, and I use it whenever I want. It's here to be my tow bitch, and he has another GU TD42 Wagon he drives instead. Unfortunately I neglected the 105 series and it spat the harmonic balancer backwards into the lower timing cover (it's all gears behind it) and now if you start it it pumps oil everywhere. It's part of the reason I'm doing huge cleanups down the back, to get the 105 down there, and pull the front of the motor apart.
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    What's your best deal to refinance my mortgage? 😛 I just want to be paying the banks the least in interest, so no fees, low interest, and either redraw available or 100% offset accounts...
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    I have one sitting in my front yard right now... GU, TD42. It's beside the 105Cruiser. I nearly said backyard, but then I looked up from the back deck and remembered I moved it back out the front last Thursday.
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    Microsoft is bringing one of the 3 Mile Island Nuclear Reactors online, PURELY to power their AI data centres... Imagine you need so much power you need a Nuclear Reactor to yourself!
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    What Toyo V12s from New Zealand specifically?
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    Oh do NOT get me started on god damn lazy programmers. Because resources are cheap, they spend their time aimed at building a product of wants, and not bothering with CPU in efficiencies, or memory leakage. Hence why my PC at work is constantly seeing Chrome using 4GB of RAM! And thats just for plain web browsers open. All the bullshit running in the back end of a browser for a single website is ludicrous. The amount of sites just sitting and watching if you're moving your mouse, and it's just a basic text website! Everyone with their Google analytics plugins. I bet most people have never even seen what most websites are doing these days in terms of computer resources, and network traffic when the website is just sitting dead idle! Internet got quicker? Just load more shit into the webpage. Makes me so damn angry! We've got a project I am getting started, to clean up our companies web program we make, as it retrieves a heap of data for display, and on most pages, is only using 50% of that data. So part of this is for speed (on a relatively quick site already) the other portion is to save us in how much we spend per month for bandwidth with cloud providers! All because no one thought, let's trim some data in our data requests through our API...
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    It's still a common term, in specific areas. Things like go kart engines, builders will talk about blueprinting, which is pretty much as above, where it's just built to the absolute best tolerance to extract that last poofteenth of a horsepower, in a heavily restricted engine build series. I've heard the term from motorbike racers too, especially 2 stroke, that seems to be the main group still using it really is 2 stroke engine guys
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    You know what's even funnier, is watching some Bogan bitch and moan about how the Chinese are ruining everything, and stealing jobs etc by stuff being made overseas, and then watch them flip out when you ask if they'll pay anymore for the same product, or even a better product made here. Then point out the above Idiocracy, and their brains nearly explode as they attempt to justify their own actions...
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