BV> You're not wrong. I'm going to give my bloke at Burwood a "Dear
 BV> Bill", letter on Monday. He's getting stupid again and this
 BV> time, I'm giving him notice that I won't be looking after them
 BV> from the end of August.

  Again??

 BV> I'm sick of it. It's going to be hard kissing off someone who I
 BV> extract about $150k p.a. out of

  Give him the notice but leave the door open.

 BV> , but I've got foreign governments courting me at the moment,
 BV> so now is as good a time as any. Besides, Brenton's Retirement
 BV> Plan #7365 is close to a reality, so what the heck. 

  Courted by foreign governments...? Not the Russians! Paul will wet
his pants if you start programming for Boris.

 BV> Whatever, it didn't last long. He's back to his old tricks
 BV> again. We've lost some data which gets sent from another host
 BV> to us and he's gone ballistic. The part that really pisses me
 BV> off is that we have no way to check that we get everything and
 BV> the fucked system which is sending it has no way to ensure that
 BV> they send everything.

  The poor man is upset.

 BV> The fact that the sender tells me that they have other clients
 BV> who suspect data loss is irrelevant to them, it's still my
 BV> fault.

  Tell him that you get 90% of the data and nine out of ten ain't bad.

 BL> How about two separate ISA cards - one IDE cable each?

 BV> Que ? That doesn't really make sense. I've read elsewhere that
 BV> you've got it sorted out now anyway, so I won't bother with it.

  I wasn't thinking of me... mine's working like a trojan. If I can
run 2 CD's off this ISA card on 1E8/IRQ11, I could run another two off 
another ordinary ISA card set up to read 168/IRQ10.

 BL> And if I go out and buy another ISA card with the works and
 BL> modify it, it's odds on that the floppy won't disable (or
 BL> something), like my bloody VESA card stuffup. I get the feeling
 BL> that computers are a shambles...!

 BV> Hey, you're learning :)

  I fixed the fault in the old ISA card by resoldering the IDE pin
header and now everything works luvverly.

Regards,
Bob
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